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Nicolas Ellis conducts the VSO in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 & Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, January 26 to 28

Performances also feature new work by Kelly-Marie Murphy inspired by light overcoming darkness

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 10, 2024Partner Content, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Capture Photography Festival unveils 26 Selected Exhibitions for 2024 event, April 1 to 30

Diverse and visually striking, this year’s lineup features works by Ian Wallace, Ho Tam, Sarah Anne Johnson, and more

NEWS, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2024Capture Photography Festival

Vancouver Chamber Choir hosts annual youth event Horizons on January 27

Performance features company’s post-secondary choir Focus, a guest youth choir, and winning works from 2023 Young Composers’ Competition

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 10, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg explores gender identity in PANTS

The dancer-actor-comedian employs movement and a fierce sense of humour to get at serious subjects

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 10, 2024Firehall Arts Centre, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, dance, Homepage feature

Tibetan spiritual singer Yungchen Lhamo performs the BlueShore at CapU, January 25

Entrancing vocalist has collaborated with artists among the likes of Bono, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, and Annie Lennox

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 9, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

With Returns, Nellie Gossen stitches together a 30-day performance around fashion labour, waste, and retail

As part of PuSh Festival at Scotiabank Dance Centre, performers disassemble clothing items, sew them into ever-shifting sculptural pieces, and then return them to original forms

Dine Out Vancouver Festival returns for 2024, January 17 to February 4

Bookings are now open for close to 400 restaurants, the biggest turnout to date

Friends of Chamber Music present the Goldmund Quartet in Vancouver debut, January 30

Young Munich-based ensemble has made a name for itself as a leading string quartet of the new generation

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 9, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Iconic Breathless helps kick off The Cinematheque's 2024 salute to New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, starting January 12

The groundbreaking, still effortlessly cool film joins Godard’s final works in opening night for JLG Forever

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2024The Cinematheque

Vancouver pianist Corey Hamm reflects on a Ligeti-filled holiday

Musician performs entire, complex Concerto for Piano and Orchestra as part of a Turning Point Ensemble concert with conductor Fabián Panisello.

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2024Turning Point Ensemble, Corey Hamm

The Runner and Dear Laila invite critical engagement at this year's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

One piece highlights a dilemma between impulse and socially imposed morals, while the other offers perspective on forced displacement

Elinor Frey takes a deep dive into Bach's Cello Suites at Early Music Vancouver's new LUMEN Festival

Seattle-born, Montreal-based string star takes a fresh approach to the masterworks

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 5, 2024EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts hosts UBC Opera's Cendrillon, February 1 to 4

Guest conductor Gordon Gerrard leads a classic fairy tale-inspired performance of Jules Massenet’s 1899 French work

Vancouver Art Gallery appoints Jillian Christmas as inaugural poet-in-residence

Award-winning Afro-Caribbean-Canadian multidisciplinary artist has previously worked with the Vancouver Writers Fest and Verses Festival of Words

ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithJanuary 5, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery

Pianist Talisa Blackman leads Vetta Chamber Music concert Music of the Heart, January 26 to 29

Toronto-based artist will be joined by cellist Zoltan Rozsnyai and violinist Joan Blackman for two romantic trios

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 4, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

In mind-bending trio Dog Rising, Clara Furey explores contactless shocks and hypnotic repetition

Plastic orchid factory presentation features an electro-immersive soundtrack and red-tinged lighting

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 4, 2024plastic orchid factory, Roundhouse Community Centre

Massey Theatre presents Ballet Jörgen’s Anne of Green Gables – The Ballet, February 10

Lively, heartfelt production based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel features original choreography by Bengt Jörgen

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 4, 2024Partner Content, Massey Theatre, Ballet Jorgen

Rooted Here: Woven from the Land offers first look at new Vancouver Art Gallery building's copper cladding, to May 12

Show celebrates work of Coast Salish weavers qʷənat, Angela George, Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George, Skwetsimeltxw Willard “Buddy” Joseph, and Qwasen, Debra Sparrow

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 4, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery, Debra Sparrow, VAG