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Ten musicians re-imagine Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited album at Kay Meek Arts Centre, October 13 and 14

Co-presented with BlueShore at CapU, the concert features songs such as “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Desolation Row”

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU, Kay Meek Arts Centre

Arts organizations honour National Day for Truth and Reconciliation across the region

Storytelling, a live carving demonstration, and a theatre performance are among some of the ways people can reflect upon Indigenous history

Shake the Earth: Tap & Taiko features at the Chan Centre's Inspired at the Chan series, October 22

Uzume Taiko drummers and Vancouver Tap Dance Society percussive dancers celebrate rhythm on stage

MUSIC, DANCEStir VancouverSeptember 28, 2023Partner Content, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Dance review: Spanish flamenco sensation Rocío Molina thrills a crowd and bares her soul with Caída del Cielo

Hypnotic serenity, adrenaline highs, pummelling feet, and piercing stares

Mozart's The Magic Flute opens Vancouver Opera's 2023-24 season, October 21, 26, 28 and 29

Production directed by Ashlie Corcoran features Grammy Award-winning soprano Audrey Luna as the Queen of the Night

OPERAStir VancouverSeptember 28, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Opera

Audiences help solve the case in Stage Fright 2: Murder at the Disco at The Improv Centre, opening September 29

1970s-inspired interactive murder mystery follows the same format as last year’s hit Stage Fright: Murder at the Improv

THEATRE, COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 28, 2023The Improv Centre

Three artfully scary VIFF films that explore the nightmare of adolescence

My Animal blends poetic horror and hockey; Bitten is a dark and gorgeously shot fairy tale; Octopus Skin finds fear in an eccentric family

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 28, 2023Vancouver International Film Festival, Horror

Zemlinsky Quartet opens Friends of Chamber Music's 76th season, October 17

Czech ensemble to play three string quartets from Germaine Tailleferre, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 27, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Stir Q&A: PIANOFORTE captures all the agony and ecstasy backstage at the renowned Chopin Piano Competition

Filmmaker Jakub Piątek’s compelling new documentary follows a handful of charismatic young keyboard stars through the world’s most prestigious classical-music contest

MUSIC, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2023VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

North Van Arts presents Pushing Boundaries 2023: Our Home on Native Land, September 29 to November 4

Biennial exhibition showcases emerging First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverSeptember 27, 2023Partner Content, North Van Arts

At VIFF, I'm Just Here for the Riot takes a nuanced look at the fallout of the Stanley Cup mayhem of 2011

Kat Jayme and Asia Youngman’s new documentary humanizes figures who met with social-media-fed vigilantism and snitching

SCREENAdrian MackSeptember 27, 2023VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF 2023, Homepage feature

Vancouver Writers Fest event Cli-Fi: Fiction for our Times takes place on Granville Island, October 19

Discussion moderated by Claudia Casper features climate-fiction authors Christine Lai, Andrew F. Sullivan, and Catherine Leroux

BOOKS, FESTSStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Writers Fest

On the new album Electritradition, Emad Armoush's Duos project explores exile, community, and how to live in a war-torn world

Syrian-born singer and musician performs otherworldly duets with Jesse Zubot, François Houle, Marina Hasselberg, Kenton Loewen, and JP Carter

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2023Emad Armoush, Tyrant Studios, Marina Hasselberg, Jesse Zubot

Studio 58 launches its 58th season with a twist on Shakespeare's The Tempest, October 5 to 22

Director Diana Donnelly’s climate change-centred show takes place on a deserted island made of garbage

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2023Partner Content, Studio 58

Dana Claxton wins prestigious $100,000 Audain Prize for Visual Art

The Vancouver-based Hunkpapa Lakota artist works across film, photography, video, performance, sculpture, and installation

Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke play BlueShore at CapU, October 10

Grammy-nominated vocalist and Herbie Hancock’s guitarist perform tracks off their new album Lean In

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 25, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Flamencubana blends cultural rhythms with Jafelin and Flor de Caña, September 29

At Kay Meek Arts Centre, singer and ensemble fuse flamenco with Cuban sounds

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 25, 2023Kay Meek Arts Centre, Flor de Cana

Season memberships for DanceHouse One's 2023-24 programming are available now

Perks of being a member include complimentary tickets, access to pre-show events, and more

DANCEStir VancouverSeptember 25, 2023Partner Content, DanceHouse

BC and Yukon Book Prizes reveal this year's selection of prize winners and award recipients

Titles include Billy-Ray Belcourt’s queer Indigenous fiction work A Minor Chorus, Karen Bakker’s The Sounds of Life, and more

READEmily LythSeptember 24, 2023BC and Yukon Book Prizes

Violin star Karen Gomyo joins the VSO with Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, September 29 and October 1

The Tokyo-born Canadian sensation will tackle a work that juxtaposes lyrical sensitivity with a breakneck final movement

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2023VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

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