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Dance review: Ebnflōh Dance Company playfully flips the tables on witness and witnessed

In hip-hop-charged La Probabilité du Néant, the company and its DJ build restless crowd scenes and lock eyes with the audience

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 8, 2023DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Arts Umbrella Dance Company shakes things up like a snowglobe in Mixed Nuts, December 15 to 17

The company’s version of Nutcracker is entirely its own

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonDecember 8, 2023Arts Umbrella, Nutcracker, Mixed Nuts

Music on Main’s Music for the Winter Solstice celebrates stillness

With pianists Robyn Jacob and Rachel Iwaasa, and more, ninth edition of popular winter concert offers a chance to pause and reflect

MUSICJanet SmithDecember 7, 2023Music on Main, Holiday 2023

Glossy fruit and ghostly dresses, as Gathie Falk: Revelations looks back on art that uplifts the ordinary

In vivid retrospective at Audain Art Museum, themes of mortality hover beneath the visual splendour

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithDecember 7, 2023Audain Art Museum, Gathie Falk, Whistler, Homepage feature

At Gateway Theatre, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella boasts modern twists

Director Johnna Wright says this belle of the ball has agency

HOLIDAY23, THEATREGail JohnsonDecember 7, 2023Cinderella, Gateway Theatre, musical, Holiday 2023, Homepage feature

Vancouver composer-violinist Cameron Wilson gets serious in Christmas With Chor Leoni

The artist’s “A Midnight Clear” has its world premiere at singing lions’ 2023 seasonal concert

MUSICGail JohnsonDecember 7, 2023Chor Leoni, Christmas, Holiday 2023

Vancouver Cantata Singers fete the holidays with 20th annual Christmas Reprise, December 23

Matinee and evening shows feature winter favourites, from Miles Ramsay’s It Came Upon a Midnight Clear to Jocelyn Morlock’s Io, Io!

MUSICStir VancouverDecember 6, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers, Holiday 2023

Musica intima brings In Winter’s House to Kay Meek Arts Centre, December 14

The Juno-nominated vocal ensemble performs mixed program celebrating winter solstice

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonDecember 6, 2023musica intima, Holiday 2023

Vancouver Erhu Quartet epitomizes the spirit of intercultural music-making

The musicians are creating a kind of cultural fusion in the Sound of Dragon Society event

MUSICJanet SmithDecember 5, 2023Sound of Dragon, erhu, Vancouver Civic Theatres

TELUS STORYHIVE announces first-ever Video Podcast program, encouraging aspiring podcasters to apply

Platform for sharing important community stories offers $12,000 in production funding, customized online training sessions, and more

SCREENStir VancouverDecember 5, 2023Partner Content, TELUS STORYHIVE

Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Nutcracker dances onto the Centre for Performing Arts stage, December 7 to 10

A Canadian theme distinguishes Vancouver’s only professional production of the timeless classic

DANCEGail JohnsonDecember 5, 2023Ballet BC, Nutcracker, Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Theatre review: The Gingerbread Men: A Holiday Cabaret delights with four-part harmonies

Brennan Cuff, Brandyn Eddy, Jer Lowe, and Jeffrey Victor serenade the audience with holiday favourites

Film review: Raging Grace mixes horror scares with tale of Filipinx domestic worker and her daughter

Paris Zarcilla’s genre-masher mixes Gothic frights with biting social commentary in a story haunted by the ghosts of colonialism

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 4, 2023Rio Theatre

Vancouver Chamber Choir presents Christmas by Candlelight on December 22

Second annual holiday tradition offers a heightened listening experience in the dimly lit Pacific Spirit United Church

MUSICStir VancouverDecember 4, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Holiday 2023

In Metro Theatre's annual holiday panto Sinbad!, James T. Walker directs and plays the dame, December 7 to January 1

Production written by Ellie King features laughter and dramatics aboard the SS Leaky Lucy

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithDecember 4, 2023Metro Theatre, Holiday 2023

VAM Symphony Orchestra: How the Grinch Stole Christmas hits the Orpheum and Kay Meek Arts Centre, December 10 and 17

The festive concert also features Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonDecember 4, 2023VAM, Vancouver Academy of Music, Grinch, Holiday 2023

Nancy Tam moults translucent skins from dawn till dusk in ...wreckage upon wreckage..., December 2 and 3

A Wake of Vultures interdisciplinary show presented by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre explores themes of the past and future

ART & DESIGN, THEATREJanet SmithDecember 2, 2023Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, A Wake of Vultures

Bowen Island-based feature Re: Uniting marks Canadian premiere at Whistler Film Festival on December 3, online starting December 4

Picturesque 25-year reunion between old college friends brings up nostalgia as a sombre secret lurks in the background

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithDecember 1, 2023Whistler Film Festival

Montreal’s Ebnflōh explores the bystander effect through language of hip-hop

In its B.C. debut at the Dance Centre, Spicey Landé’s new La Probabilité du Néant takes fierce street form into urgent psychological terrain

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 1, 2023The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

BC Achievement Foundation announces call for nominations for 21st annual Community Award till January 31, 2024

Title recognizes dedication and service of British Columbians making significant community contributions

CULTUREStir VancouverDecember 1, 2023Partner Content, BC Achievement Foundation

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