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BC Achievement Foundation announces recipients of this year's Polygon Award in First Nations Art

Xwalacktun (Rick Harry) receives Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement

ART & DESIGN, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 4, 2023BC Achievement Foundation

Friends of Chamber Music hosts the Mandelring Quartet from Germany, October 29

Acclaimed ensemble performs Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Ligeti in 40th-anniversary concert

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 4, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Max Wyman's The Compassionate Imagination among finalists for Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

Nonfiction book praised for “deep insights into how and why arts and cultural funding is vital to safeguarding Canada’s present and future”

READJanet SmithOctober 4, 2023Max Wyman, Writers' Trust of Canada

Upintheair Theatre presents The Array: An Exquisitely Sensitive Machine at What Lab, October 26 to 28

Lineup features The Library Performance Collective, Jarin Schexnider, Tamar Zehava Tabori, and Upintheair Theatre

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 4, 2023Partner Content, Upintheair Theatre

HERE opens Ballet BC's new season with two world premieres and a returning favourite, November 2 to 4

Program features William Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure, Shahar Binyamini’s BOLERO X, and a new creation by Stephen Shropshire

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 3, 2023Partner Content, Ballet BC

Wynton Marsalis reflects on the way time flies, as Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plays a program full of his work

Fifteen musicians at the peak of their profession help arrange their decidedly nostalgia-free bandleader’s four decades of music

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 3, 2023Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Vancouver New Music presents Vox Organi festival, October 19 to 21

Three-day lineup features unusual and unexpected music for pipe organ

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 3, 2023Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Corey Payette's musical theatre production Les Filles du Roi transforms into a film at VIFF, October 5 and 8

Full-length feature details the arrival of French settlers in present-day Montreal in English, French, and Kanien’kéha (Mohawk)

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 3, 2023VIFF, VIFF 2023, Urban Ink Theatre

Pedro Chamale’s Peace Country kicks off Firehall Arts Centre's 2023-24 season, October 12 to 22

Production by rice & beans theatre address climate change from the perspective of northern communities

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 2, 2023Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre

At Sam Green's 32 Sounds, audiences use headphones to fully experience the live documentary's sonic world

Narrating live at VIFF, the filmmaker explores the physics and metaphysics of sound

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 2, 2023VIFF 2023, Vancouver International Film Festival

Jenny Judge's phase transition evocatively explores passage of time, at the Craft Council of BC Gallery

Paint drops and travels down threads, spools, and buttons in work inspired by an elderly mother’s decline

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 2, 2023Craft Council of BC

Marc Ribot’s trio Ceramic Dog unleashes dissonant punk-rock jazz at Blueshore at CapU, October 16

Audiences can expect music that transcends boundaries from the group’s new album Connections

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 2, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Theatre review: Fairview lulls audiences into a sense of security before pulling the rug out in provocative and hilarious ways

White, liberal, social-media virtue signallers beware: The Search Party play has you in its sights

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 2, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch, The Search Party, Homepage feature

Vancouver Bach Choir kicks off season with two masterworks by Mozart & Haydn, at the Orpheum on October 7

Coronation Mass and Nelson Mass were written barely two decades apart

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 1, 2023Vancouver Bach Choir

Film reviews: Two B.C.-shot standouts, Ken Loach's latest, and more from VIFF

Wild Goat Surf carves out a new kind of coming-of-age tale; Seagrass summons ghosts of history; plus The Old Oak, Rapture, and much more

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2023VIFF, VIFF 2023, Vancouver International Film Festival, Homepage feature

Latin Expressions series celebrates Latin American Heritage Month with events throughout October

Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre-hosted lineup spans a Chilean VIFF premiere, dance workshops, and beyond

CULTUREStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, VLACC

National Ballet of Ukraine set to bring Canadian tour to Vancouver from February 5 to 7

Production Nadiya Ukraine represents hope in a time of war, with excerpts from Le Corsaire and Don Quixote

DANCE, CULTUREJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2023National Ballet of Ukraine

Stir Q&A: VIFF short Master of the House calls Michelin-star restaurant Kissa Tanto its backdrop

Director Dylan Maranda talks chaotic cinematography, family history, and meeting chef Joël Watanabe for his food-critic-centred narrative

CULINARY, SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2023VIFF, VIFF 2023

Hiromi's four-piece virtuoso band Sonicwonder delivers electronic-infused jazz at the Chan Centre

Japan-born jazz pianist upends tradition with synthesizer textures and effects pedals on debut album

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2023Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

At VIFF, Logan Red Crow shows ups and downs of bareback horse relay racing in Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun

Documentary shows young Siksika woman’s journey competing in the dangerous male-dominated sport with the love and support of her family

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2023VIFF, VIFF 2023

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