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Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra's Summer Concert Series has a few surprises in store

Conductor Janna Sailor talks about a programme of music that’s so new even the conductor hasn’t heard it yet

MUSICJanet SmithJune 22, 2023VICO, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Summer 2023, Janna Sailor

Indigenous festival ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl (Come Toward the Fire) releases 2023 lineup, with headliners Black Belt Eagle Scout and Reservation Dogs’ composer Mato Wayuhi

Second annual celebration of Indigenous culture, creativity, and community is a presentation of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and Musqueam

West Coast Modernism celebrated in new exhibition featuring works by two local greats at West Vancouver Art Museum

Order From Chaos: B.C. Binning and Jane Adams illustrates how the work of the former inspired the latter

As part of Vancouver Art Gallery's Fashion Fictions, Indigenous creations reach couture heights

Guest curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe spotlights designers who are taking painstaking traditional techniques into the future of fashion

ART & DESIGN, FASHIONJanet SmithJune 21, 2023Vancouver Art Gallery, fashion, Indigenous art

Indigenous music and culture in the spotlight at massive 2 Rivers Remix Music Feast LIVE

With more than 40 leading Indigenous artists and acts, the three-day fest by 2 Rivers Remix Society has a theme of Bring the Children Home

MUSIC, FESTSGail JohnsonJune 21, 20232 Rivers Remix Society, Indigenous, Summer 2023, Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Theatre review: Bard on the Beach's playful hit As You Like It returns in fine, crowd-pleasing form

Committed comic performances, rainbow-hued ‘60s sets, and smoothly integrated Beatles songs make for a fun evening of Shakespeare

THEATREJanet SmithJune 20, 2023Bard on the Beach, Summer 2023, Shakespeare

Epic musical discovery awaits at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, July 14 to 16

Lineup of over 40 artists features L.A. band Las Cafeteras’s Afro-Mexican rhythm-influenced folk

FESTS, MUSICStir VancouverJune 20, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Stir Q&A: Dance artist Natalie LeFebvre Gnam draws from interviews from 23 artists in The Door Project

Multidisciplinary work incorporates bird song, club beats, Tyvek, rocks, and more at Left of Main

DANCEJanet SmithJune 20, 2023plastic orchid factory, Summer 2023

Ballet BC’s MOMENTUM Gala returns for 2023, June 24

Dance, music, food, and more are all part of the fundraising bash at Rocky Mountaineer Station

DANCEGail JohnsonJune 19, 2023Ballet BC

In Reconciling, playwright Yvette Nolan invites viewers to experience what it's like to go unheard, in 360 degrees

Boca del Lupo produces theatre artist’s first experiment in VR, a trip to relationship “therapy” inspired by Indigenous struggle

THEATREJanet SmithJune 19, 2023Yvette Nolan, Indigenous, Summer 2023, Boca del Lupo, BOCA DEL LUPO, VR

Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra hosts summer concert series June 27 and July 1, 7, 8

Four-part saga spotlights global instrumentals of Indian sitar, Persian ney, Chinese sheng, and more

MUSICStir VancouverJune 19, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra

Stir Pairing: Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2023 meets La Fabrique St-George Winery

Concerts at the urban winery are part of the fest’s Club Series, which features several other cool venues

Stir Bedside Table: Vancouver chef Zach Poole

The culinary leader of Strathcona’s V.V. Tapas Lounge talks Vanguardians, Anthony Bourdain, and why he’ll never write his autobiography

READ, CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 19, 2023Stir Bedside Table, books, Summer 2023

Vancouver’s Juno-nominated Ostara Project champions women in jazz

The all-female collective headed by basist Jodi Proznick and pianist Amanda Tosoff performs at Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Brilliance Gala auctions works by Artists for Kids founders Gordon Smith, Bill Reid, and Jack Shadbolt

Inaugural event raises $470,959 for the arts-education charity

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithJune 18, 2023Gordon Smith, Briliiance Gala, Artists for Kids

Spain's Sumrrá takes piano trio into striking new terrain at Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Galician band’s gifted musicians welcome all influences for a singular sound

Talking Stick and Queer Arts fests celebrate with daylong Indigiqueer events, June 18

Virago Nation, Joshua Whitehead, and more in a three-event lineup

With Love in Exile, musicians Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily conjure their own shimmering, time-stretching universe

Performing at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the New York City trio has bonded “accidentally” through virtuosity and empathy

Pura Fe details the Indigenous roots of rock and jazz in a series of Vancouver appearances

The singer, songwriter, activist, and educator sings, speaks, and screens Rumble here, at Talking Stick, the Jazz Fest, and VIFF Centre

Queer Arts Festival 2023: Bharatanatyam dance artist Sujit Vaidya celebrates brown queerness

Breathe In the Fragrance is the performer-choreographer’s erotic new gender-ambiguous fantasy

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