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VIFF and VSO School of Music showcase pianist James Carson's Cabin Music, November 9

Event features Carson’s self-directed documentary at the VIFF Centre, followed by a live piano concert at Pyatt Hall

SCREEN, MUSICStir VancouverOctober 31, 2023Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre

Belle Spirale Dance Projects' KIN navigates intergenerational memory at the STAND Festival, November 2

Piece directed by Alexis Fletcher highlights the partnerwork and emotion of Brazilian dancers Juan Duarte and Lazaro Silva

Vancouver New Music presents Diné composer Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass, November 18

Pulitzer Prize-winning piece creates space for historically unsung voices

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 31, 2023Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Nlaka'pamux artist Nadine Spence’s 13 Moons Around the Lake brings travelling message chests and other works to Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

Project continues the multiyear Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey, featuring art from multiple First Nations

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 30, 2023Bill Reid Gallery, Northwest Coast Art

South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, November 19

Pianist-composer is joined by Cleave Guyton on flute, piccolo, and saxophone, plus Noah Jackson on bass and cello

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 30, 2023Partner Content, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Music review: Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason lives up to all the hype—and more.

At VRS, star finds exquisite tone in a thoughtfully curated program, and gives local young cellists bragging rights for years to come

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 30, 2023Vancouver Recital Society, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY, Sheku

Corporeal Imago inverts traditional circus dance with the return of aerial fusion piece Throe, November 3 and 4

Aerial rope choreography and emotive contemporary dance form the basis of post-apocalyptic work by Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 30, 2023Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Corporeal Imageo

The Polygon Gallery's Art Auction 2023, featuring 22 original artworks, is on now until November 8

Pieces donated to support the gallery’s programming range in estimated value from $1,250 to $30,000

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverOctober 30, 2023Partner Content, The Polygon Gallery

Dance review: The Impossible Has Already Happened conjures melting glaciers and climate change through projected imagery and fluid movement

MascallDance-Footnote New Zealand Dance coproduction takes a gentle, humanistic, and dreamlike approach to global warming

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 30, 2023MascallDance, Jennifer Mascall, climate change, Anvil Centre, Anvil Theatre

Klezmer master Michael Winograd's dedicated research allows him to bridge 21st century and distant ancestors

Appearing with the Honorable Mentshn and Socalled at the Chutzpah! Festival, clarinet virtuoso approaches his work as a “repairer of chains”

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 29, 2023Michael Winograd, Chutzpah! Festival, klezmer

Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing offers dialogue and guidance amid the urgent climate crisis

Artists Lara Aysal and Rosemary Georgeson lead a Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival workshop based on conversations with Elders, activists, and academics

Dance review: By turns cerebral and funny, Kidd Pivot's Assembly Hall plays elaborate games

In Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s world premiere, ancient stories and unruly humans can’t be contained

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 28, 2023DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Kidd Pivot, Crystal Pite

Ballet BC's 50-dancer BOLERO X becomes an act of unity and humanity in the face of division and inhumanity

Israeli choreographer and Batsheva alumnus Shahar Binyamini grabs the last ticket out to bring Vancouver his epic work set to Ravel’s masterpiece

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 27, 2023Ballet BC, BALLET BC, ballet, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

Three films by Japanese director Somai Shinji screen at The Cinematheque, November 4 to 13

Masterful lineup includes P.P. Rider (1983), Typhoon Club (1985), and Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1982)

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 27, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

In Hopeful Monster, Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly create eerie abstraction at Music on Main’s Modulus Festival

Pianist and multi-instrumentalist’s album collaboration wields a supernatural sound using digital processing, among other techniques

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 27, 2023Music on Main, Modulus Festival

Godzilla vs Hedorah emerges as a fan favourite amid the Cinematheque's glorious ode to the King of Kaiju

The atomic lizard suffers a critical wounding from an organism made entirely of pollution in a monster marathon made for Halloween

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 27, 2023The Cinematheque, Godzilla

Frank Theatre's Fay Nass is drawn to How Black Mothers Say I Love You's look at immigrants' experience and their family dynamics

Trey Anthony play follows Jamaican mother’s complicated reunion with her daughters, after years of working abroad

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 27, 2023THE CULTCH, Frank Theatre, the frank theatre company, Fay Nass, LGBTQ+, Homepage feature

Ballet BC presents Royal Winnipeg Ballet in holiday favourite Nutcracker, December 7 to 10

Enchanted story set to Tchaikovsky score features Canadian elements, from snowy pond hockey to a Parliament Hill battle

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 27, 2023Partner Content, Ballet BC, Holiday 2023

Elektra Women's Choir shares holiday warmth at Chez Nous: Christmas with Elektra, December 2 and 3

Concerts in Vancouver and South Surrey feature both original works and classic holiday melodies, including Joni Mitchell’s River

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 26, 2023Partner Content, Elektra Women's Choir, Holiday 2023

Dog Man: The Musical brings a canine crime-fighter to the Massey Theatre, October 28 and 29

Production is based off author-illustrator Dav Pilkey’s beloved comic book series

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithOctober 26, 2023Massey Theatre

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