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Abraham Oghobase: Life of Mine explores mining legacies across Africa, to July 30

Nigerian-born Toronto-based artist looks at the impacts of the colonial practice through visual montages

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonMay 12, 2023The Polygon, Spring 2023, African

Music review: Amanda Sum's New Age Attitudes has devastating details beneath its quirky surface

Vancouver singer explores simple pleasures and awkward truths

MUSICJanet SmithMay 12, 2023The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Theatre Replacement

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily play the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 26

Hosted by Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, the Vancouver Playhouse concert celebrates trio’s debut album

Tenor Isaiah Bell probes the depths of desire, rejection in The Book of My Shames

Rooted in opera, the live music-theatre hybrid features everything from cabaret to spoken word

MUSIC, THEATREGail JohnsonMay 12, 2023City Opera Vancouver, Isaiah Bell, opera

Astrolabe Musik Theatre brings opera, dance, and German folk tale together in Into the Little Hill

Working with Idan Cohen and Leslie Dala, Heather Pawsey is finally ready to see composer George Benjamin’s reimagining of Pied Piper hit stage

The Polygon Gallery honours Asian Heritage Month with Maternal Instinct, May 18

Event featuring local Asian-Canadian artists combines short films, live reading, and dance performance

SCREEN, DANCE, ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 11, 2023Partner Content, The Polygon Gallery

Stir Pairing: Mother’s Day 2023

The annual Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour meets three B.C. wines

CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 11, 2023

Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces 2023 lineup for July 14 to 16 event

Calexico, Ferron, Joachim Cooder, Joe Henry, and Albert Lee among this year’s musical acts

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonMay 11, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival

New Vancouver public artwork by Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson unveiled

A Rock Divided was commissioned by esteemed architect Kengo Kuma for new Alberni building, which will also house new Japanese restaurant

ART & DESIGN, CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 11, 2023Kengo Kuma, public art, downtown Vancouver

Vancouver's Tremors Festival turns live performance into an art party

Think of it as going to a punk show in a basement and seeing new, experimental, burgeoning works

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonMay 11, 2023Rumble Theatre, Tremors Festival, Spring 2023, Homepage feature

Vancouver Men’s Chorus brings Sizzlin’ Summer to Granville Island from June 9 to 17

Cheerful concert series celebrates pride, nostalgia, and the return of warm weather fun

MUSICStir VancouverMay 11, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Men's Chorus

A cavalcade of conductors at Vancouver Bach Choir's SummerSing!, May 14 at the Chan

The annual departure into jazz and rock choral arrangements is a fun celebration of the season

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 10, 2023Vancouver Bach Choir, Spring 2023

Kasandra Flamenco performs ROJO Y SOMBRA at the Shadbolt Centre, May 26 and 27

Fiery dance piece combines contemporary, flamenco, guitar music, and red silks

DANCEStir VancouverMay 10, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Stir Bedside Table: Vancouver chef Robert Belcham

The restaurateur and hospitality mentor talks about how a lifetime of reading has opened pathways to new thinking

Indian Summer Festival announces Shabazz Palaces and Sarathy Korwar concert, as well as Nova Bhattacharya dance performance

July shows are the first unveiled for fest’s 13th annual installment

FESTS, MUSIC, DANCEJanet SmithMay 10, 2023Indian Summer Festival

Surrey Art Gallery presents Masi Medicine: Joyful Nourishment event May 13

Emerging artists-in-residence share dance, poetry, and music as part of exhibition on view to June 18

ART & DESIGN, CULTUREStir VancouverMay 10, 2023Partner Content, Surrey Art Gallery, Spring 2023

Aeriosa's vertical dance brings together Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and hearing audiences, May 18

The company soars to new heights by teaming up with Deaf theatre artist Landon Krentz

Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival announces 2023 lineup

It’s an otherworldly journey for the fest’s 16th year, with the theme of Queers in Space

ART & DESIGN, FESTSGail JohnsonMay 9, 2023QAF, Queer Arts Festival, Indigequeer, Virago

The Vancouver Bach Choir presents the Bergmann Piano Duo and Fringe Percussion, May 27

On the concert program are Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms

MUSICStir VancouverMay 9, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Bach Choir

Stir Q&A: Israel's Roy Assaf lets dance speak profoundly for itself, at Ballet BC's WAVE/S double bill

“For many years now I have been, with great difficulty, trying to answer the questions of journalists about my work”

DANCEJanet SmithMay 9, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2023, Vancouver Civic Theatres

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