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Jacques Lacombe becomes Vancouver Opera's new music director

Canadian maestro conducted last season’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and has conducted at symphonies and opera houses around the globe

MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithOctober 10, 2023VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 mixed-media artists to check out at this year's North Shore Art Crawl

From floral resin goddesses to magazine collages, annual North Van Arts event features diverse roster of more than 150 creatives at 69 venues

ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 10, 2023North Shore Art Crawl, North Van Arts

Arts Umbrella hosts annual Splash art auction fundraiser in-person and online, October 21

Full 2023 collection can be viewed at the Pendulum Gallery Exhibition until October 19

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverOctober 10, 2023Partner Content, Arts Umbrella

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts delivers classic horror cinema at In Praise of Nightmares, October 27

Evening features silent shorts Un Chien Andalou (1929) and Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 10, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Theatre review: Studio 58's The Tempest finds fresh energy, and hope, atop a garbage heap

Directed by Diana Donnelly, the show addresses climate themes and weaves in contemporary alt-rock and pop songs

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 10, 2023Studio 58, Shakespeare, Homepage feature

Surrey Art Gallery presents an online artist talk for all roses sleep (inviolate light), October 19

Multisensory video installation by artists Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski follows a bee’s journey

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverOctober 9, 2023Partner Content, Surrey Art Gallery

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

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