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B.C. septet Naadaleela fuses music from ancient cultures at BlueShore at CapU, October 21
B.C. septet Naadaleela fuses music from ancient cultures at BlueShore at CapU, October 21

Group’s music time-travels along the Silk Road with Persian, Indian, Chinese, and Taiwanese influences

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MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU
In Swapnaa Tamhane: No Surface is Neutral, sweeping textiles and handmade khadi paper resist colonial history in India
In Swapnaa Tamhane: No Surface is Neutral, sweeping textiles and handmade khadi paper resist colonial history in India

Montreal-based artist Tamhane works directly with block-printers and carvers in Kutch, India to craft her pieces

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ART & DESIGN, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 6, 2023Surrey Art Gallery, Homepage feature
Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays a Vancouver Chopin Society concert, October 21
Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays a Vancouver Chopin Society concert, October 21

Ukrainian talent to perform Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, plus works by Haydn and Chopin

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MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society
Radical System Art's Shay Kuebler wins Barney Commissioning Prize from Portland's White Bird
Radical System Art's Shay Kuebler wins Barney Commissioning Prize from Portland's White Bird

Choreographer to create new project called Ghost Scripts with $15,000 prize from respected American contemporary-dance presenter

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DANCEJanet SmithOctober 5, 2023Shay Kuebler, Radical System Art, White Bird, contemporary dance
Mascall Dance's The Impossible Has Already Happened marks Canadian premiere at Anvil Theatre, October 27
Mascall Dance's The Impossible Has Already Happened marks Canadian premiere at Anvil Theatre, October 27

Co-production with Footnote New Zealand Dance brings together two nation’s stories of water amid a global climate crisis

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DANCEStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, MascallDance, Anvil Theatre
Playwright Pedro Chamale draws on experiences growing up in Northern Interior for Peace Country
Playwright Pedro Chamale draws on experiences growing up in Northern Interior for Peace Country

Summer jobs in mines and mills have given theatre artist and climate activist unique empathy for those working in the carbon economy

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THEATREJanet SmithOctober 5, 2023rice and beans theatre, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Homepage feature
Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Andrew Balfour conducts Waawaa-Steewak, October 20
Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Andrew Balfour conducts Waawaa-Steewak, October 20

Balfour’s Cree heritage-inspired piece is accompanied by Manuel de Sumaya’s De lamentatione Jeremiae, and Gerónimo Gonzales’s Lamentación de Jeremías

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MUSICStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Andrew Balfour
Society is the murderer in new film Suddenly Slaughter at The Cinematheque, October 10
Society is the murderer in new film Suddenly Slaughter at The Cinematheque, October 10

Work by The Biting School’s Aryo and Arash Khakpour incorporates a previous dance-and-theatre production of the same name

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SCREENJanet SmithOctober 5, 2023The Cinematheque, The Biting School
North Shore Art Crawl 2023 features over 150 artists, October 13 to 15
North Shore Art Crawl 2023 features over 150 artists, October 13 to 15

Free in-person and online event is held at 69 venues across the North Shore

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ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, North Van Arts, North Shore Art Crawl
B.C. filmmakers take the spotlight as Whistler International Film Festival unveils first batch of titles
B.C. filmmakers take the spotlight as Whistler International Film Festival unveils first batch of titles

Live event November 29 to December 3 features three locally directed world premieres, including Bruce Sweeney’s She Talks to Strangers

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FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithOctober 4, 2023Whistler Film Festival, WFF2023, Whistler
New Works launches full month of community-centred dance workshops in October
New Works launches full month of community-centred dance workshops in October

Highlights include Dancing Through the Decades: A Day of Community Workshops on October 21, and the In Practice workshop series

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DANCEStir VancouverOctober 4, 2023Partner Content, New Works
BC Achievement Foundation announces recipients of this year's Polygon Award in First Nations Art
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

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ART & DESIGN, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 4, 2023BC Achievement Foundation
Friends of Chamber Music hosts the Mandelring Quartet from Germany, October 29
Friends of Chamber Music hosts the Mandelring Quartet from Germany, October 29

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

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MUSICStir VancouverOctober 4, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music
Max Wyman's The Compassionate Imagination among finalists for Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
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”

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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
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

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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
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

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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
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

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MUSICJanet SmithOctober 3, 2023Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society
Vancouver New Music presents Vox Organi festival, October 19 to 21
Vancouver New Music presents Vox Organi festival, October 19 to 21

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

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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
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)

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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
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

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THEATREStir VancouverOctober 2, 2023Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre
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DanceHouse and The Cultch present an extraordinary work of circus/dance, the North American premiere of Recirquel’s otherworldly Paradisum. 

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