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Remembering the Future marks 50 years of arts and activism—for Chile, and for VLACC's Carmen Rodríguez

Performers celebrate Latin American music, poetry, and art, as the onetime dissident remembers their integral role in resistance

Sembène 100 series screens at The Cinematheque from October 12 to 24

Collection of films by Senegalese writer-director Ousmane Sembène oppose conformity

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 8, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

Sho Sho Esquiro hosts a curator tour of Pushing Boundaries 2023: Our Home on Native Land, October 14

At North Van Arts exhibition, Indigenous fashion designer’s works make powerful statements about Canada’s history of systemic flaws

ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 6, 2023North Van Arts

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

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

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

ART & DESIGN, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 6, 2023Surrey Art Gallery, Homepage feature

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

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society

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

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

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

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, MascallDance, Anvil Theatre

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

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

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

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Andrew Balfour

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

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 5, 2023The Cinematheque, The Biting School

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

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

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

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithOctober 4, 2023Whistler Film Festival, WFF2023, Whistler

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

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 4, 2023Partner Content, New Works

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

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