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Vancouver Chamber Choir opens 53rd season with Mosaic, September 22

Concert features four world premieres and introduces composer-in-residence Andrew Balfour

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 11, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Theatre reviews: Sultry tango, orange puppets, and orca laments—a first look at Vancouver Fringe Festival shows

Peaches: The Play!’s cutting social critique; Tango in the Dark’s mad dancing skills, and more

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 10, 2023Vancouver Fringe Festival

Isaac Gasangwa fuses traditional Rwandese dance and modern street style in The African Dream

The 10-dancer piece shares Gasangwa’s story of living in the aftermath of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide

DANCE, CULTUREJanet SmithSeptember 8, 2023The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE, Afrobeats Van

Marc Atkinson Trio and Cameron Wilson play the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, September 22

Evening features West Coast-inspired acoustic guitar, violin, and fiddle

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 8, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Black Belt Eagle Scout reconnects with Coast Salish homelands at Come Toward the Fire

Headlining Chan Centre festival, singer-songwriter Katherine Paul melds Indigenous traditions and Pacific Northwest grunge influences

MUSIC, CULTUREJanet SmithSeptember 8, 2023Homepage feature, Indigenous, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, CHAN CENTRE

Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House celebrates Vancouver's dance scene, September 16

Annual event offers wide range of dance classes and premiere of new work, Isaac Gasangwa’s The African Dream

DANCEStir VancouverSeptember 7, 2023Partner Content, The Dance Centre

Matthew Ariaratnam's "tones to melt and heal hardened hearts" takes to two wheels, September 9

Participants can join a bike ride that diffuses healing sounds collected from artists across the country and U.S.

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 6, 2023The Only Animal, climate change

Early Music Vancouver brings Handel's Apollo e Dafne to the stage, September 15

Solos from soprano Jacqueline Woodley and baritone Tyler Duncan characterize the concert

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 6, 2023Partner Content, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVEr

Vancouver International Film Festival announces full program for September 28 to October 8

Opening with Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves and closing with Tran Anh Hùng’s The Pot-au-Feu, it’s a year of complexity and striking imagery

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 6, 2023VIFF, VIFF 2023

Twelfth Night and Hamlet, as Bard on the Beach announces 2024 season

Rebecca Northan to direct The Comedy of Errors and Jiv Parasram to helm Measure for Measure on Howard Family Stage

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 6, 2023Bard on the Beach

Rising piano star Jaeden Izik-Dzurko comes full circle at the Vancouver Recital Society

Salmon Arm-raised talent recalls long commutes down the Coquihalla to pursue his art—and catch VRS Sunday matinees

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 6, 2023Vancouver Recital Society, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Théâtre la Seizième unveils 2023-2024 programming for 49th season

A political Franco-Haitian choral piece, Shakespeare for kids with a feminist twist, and more in all-French show lineup

THEATRE, NEWSStir VancouverSeptember 6, 2023Partner Content, Theatre la Seizieme

Premieres and partnerships with local arts organizations as Elektra Women's Choir unveils 2023-24 season

Holst’s The Planets with the VSO, concerts with the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, and more

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 5, 2023Elektra Women's Choir, ELEKTRA

Stir Q&A: Playwright Jarred Stephen Meek digs into painful family history for A Life Sentence

Vancouver Fringe Festival play draws on his mother’s abuse by her father, and explores ideas of justice and healing

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 5, 2023Vancouver Fringe Festival, Studio 58, Homepage feature

Little Shop of Horrors delivers a bloodthirsty plant and '60s Motown-style songs, September 7 to October 8

Arts Club Theatre Company thriller-comedy musical is based on the cult favourite 1986 film by Roger Corman

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 5, 2023Arts Club Theatre

Donny McCaslin, David Bowie's band leader, plays BlueShore at CapU September 24

The visionary saxophonist behind Bowie’s Blackstar brings his jazz-rock quartet to the stage

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 5, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

At VLAFF, Edgardo Moreno's The Firefly Project grapples with living between the Chile of memory and present-day Canada

Multimedia storytelling meets live performance and film screening

MUSIC, FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 5, 2023VLAFF, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Chile

DanceHouse showcases Compañía Rocío Molina's anarchist flamenco, September 27 to 30

Long-awaited performance of Fallen from Heaven (Caída del Cielo) takes place at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

Orgasms, mythology, and more in feminist shows at this year's Vancouver Fringe Festival

MONSTER, The Holy O, and PUFFY HAIR centre female-identifying leads in comedic yet refreshingly vulnerable productions

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 1, 2023Vancouver Fringe Festival, Homepage feature

Film reviews: Cumbia to camgirls, a look at 3 Vancouver Latin American Film Festival offerings

Peru’s La Danza de los Mirlos, Mexico’s Love and Mathematics, and Brazil’s Rule 34

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithAugust 31, 2023Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, VLAFF, Homepage feature

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