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Nominations now open for the Polygon Award in First Nations Art and the Applied Art + Design Award

Presented by BC Achievement Foundation, distinctions recognize local creative prowess

ART & DESIGN, NEWSStir VancouverJune 1, 2023Partner Content, BC Achievement Foundation

Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival 2023 launches with gender-diverse group exhibition

bumfuzzled monachopsis: innerspace out is the 11-day fest’s curated show for 2023

National Indigenous History Month 2023 is being celebrated through the arts

On the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, several public events are taking place throughout June

Annual PRISMA Festival and Academy returns to Powell River from June 12 to 24

Event lineup includes ferry sail-symphony combination, music by the sea, kid’s fun fair, and more

FESTS, MUSICStir VancouverMay 31, 2023Partner Content, PRISMA Festival

Stir Bedside Table: The Improv Centre's Jalen Saip

The Vanouver comedy company’s artistic director and performer talks Emma, Bossypants, and being “kinda funny…in a weird way”

Dancers begin collaboration with writers in Dance West Network’s Re-centering/Margins Creative Residency

Creative processes of Ana Sosa, Sidney Chuckas, and Mohammed Rashead will be explored in an essay booklet

DANCEStir VancouverMay 31, 2023Partner Content, Dance West Network

Bones of Crows launches in movie theatres across Canada, starting June 2

Dene/Métis writer-producer Marie Clements’s film is inspired by a Cree matriarch’s true life story

Kokoro Dance packs June calendar with a collab with Vancouver Inter-Arts Collective and Jazz Jams

The butoh company headed by Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget offers movement and music performances

Australia's Briefs Factory brings drag, burlesque, and circus to the Vancouver stage

The genre-defying, gender-bending company’s Dirty Laundry is loaded with punk energy

THEATREGail JohnsonMay 31, 2023Zee Zee Theatre, The Cultch, drag, burlesque, circus, comedy, Homepage feature, Summer 2023

Stir Cheat Sheet: Unexpected love and laughs in four flicks at the Vancouver Short Film Festival

Woman Meets Girl and Stay put new spins on romance, while Not For Us and Damn Supper send up horror genre

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 30, 2023VSFF, Vancouver Short Film Festival, Spring 2023, Homepage feature

Upcoming Boca del Lupo show features two immersive VR pieces from June 21 to 24

Karen Hines’s Pochsy at the Airport Hotel makes a comeback, and Yvette Nolan’s Reconciling premieres

SCREEN, THEATREStir VancouverMay 30, 2023Partner Content, Boca del Lupo

Pianist-composer Jean-Michel Blais takes audiences on a musical trip

Montreal’s conservatory-trained star journeys fluidly through pop, minimalism, and classical styles

MUSICJanet SmithMay 30, 2023MRG Concerts, Jean-Michel Blais, piano

Theatre review: Happy Valley unleashes punk-fuelled frustration on Hong Kong chaos

Derek Chan blends projections, politics, and music across genres in tribute to the home country he can’t return to

THEATRE, CULTUREJanet SmithMay 30, 2023FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Derek Chan

Vancouver's Northern Bars turn Nanaimo bars into a culinary art

France has macarons, and now Canada has an artful version of the classic triple-layer treat made by Michelle Avelena and Samuel Hartono

CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 30, 2023Northern Bars, Vancouver food, Spring 2023

Vancouver's Universal Gospel Choir unites in the healing power of music

The 70-member multi-faith ensemble’s Soulstice Concert: How I Got Over celebrates the human ability to rise to challenges

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 30, 2023Universal Gospel Choir, concerts, Spring 2023

Review: rEvolver Festival's Duality and A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Canada explore identity in innovative ways

Engaging shows employ everything from juggling to two chairs to explore complexity of identity

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithMay 29, 2023rEvolver Festival, Upintheair Theatre

Vancouver chef Meeru Dhalwala joins CreativeMornings at SFU Woodward's, June 2

The author and activist will speak to the global series’ June theme of “reverie”

Theatre review: Renegade Arts Co's Spring Awakening brings musical's emotional journey up-close-and-personal

In intimate The Shop Theatre, strong performances and creative touches bring story of adolescence in late-19th-century Germany to vivid life

THEATREJanet SmithMay 29, 2023Renegade Arts Co, Spring 2023, Homepage feature

Talking Stick Festival 2023 launches National Indigenous History Month on the West Coast

Full Circle: First Nations Performance’s month-long celebration features music, film, theatre, visual arts, and more

VIFF showcases Dutch documentary White Balls on Walls from June 7 to 11

Film by Sarah Vos follows Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’s battle for artistic diversity

SCREENStir VancouverMay 29, 2023Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre

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