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Montréal’s Compagnie Virginie Brunelle headlines just-announced 2024 Vancouver International Dance Festival

Running February 25 to March 9, Kokoro Dance event also features FakeKnot’s whip, Ferenc Fehér’s Disco Boys, Tony Chong’s Invisible, and more

Han Finckel Setzer Trio returns to Vancouver in Friends of Chamber Music concert, February 6

Cellist David Finckel, pianist Wu Han, and violinist Philip Setzer perform Schubert’s first and second Piano Trios

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 16, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

TomoeArts closes the curtain with program commemorating legacy of late artistic director Colleen Lanki, January 20

Fifteen Years of Dream features performances by company’s closest collaborators over its 15-year run, in honour of Japanese classical dance master Lanki

DANCE, MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024TomoeArts

Anvil Theatre showcases Hannah Moscovitch’s Bunny, February 8 to 18

Love story subversion produced by The Search Party has won four Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards

THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 15, 2024Partner Content, Anvil Theatre

Paper becomes a playground in Pli, at the PuSh Festival

The copresentation with Chutzpah! Festival sees paper used as an aerial rope, a dance partner, and more

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 15, 2024PuSh Festival, Chutzpah! Festival, circus, Homepage feature

Romania's Tangaj Collective explores "choreomania" and microbiology at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

Ramanenjana takes a witty look back at a real mass-dance event in Madagascar, while BLOT – Body Line of Thought cultivates real bacteria

Calendar Girls spotlights middle-aged women in a heartwarming true story

At the Kay Meek Arts Centre, Leather and Lace Theatre production tells of women who pose for nude calendar to raise money for local hospital

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2024Kay Meek Arts Centre, Leather and Lace Theatre, Homepage feature

Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs present annual Behind the Keys fundraiser, February 9

Conductor-pianist Leslie Dala and tenor Asitha Tennekoon perform a Valentine’s Day program with wine, chocolate, and optional charcuterie

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Bach Choir

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival cancels Israel-set The Runner after Palestinian artist's input

Basel Zaraa had pledged to withdraw Dear Laila from PuSh if other play stayed on program

FESTS, NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2024PuSh Festival

KDocsFF unveils documentary lineup for 10th anniversary social-justice fest, February 21 to 25

Under the theme of "Journeys in Solidarity”, fest screens 19 films on everything from homeless tent encampments to transgender comedians to the fight for freedom of speech in Russia

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2024KDocsFF, VIFF

Canadian folk singer David Francey plays the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, January 26

Scotland-born artist is a three-time Juno Award-winner, among other accolades

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Dear Laila re-creates home in a Palestinian refugee camp at the PuSh Festival

Artist Basel Zaraa wants audiences to see how displacement affects people’s everyday lives

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