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Film review: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer collects the bizarre and revealing moments of an unorthodox career
Film review: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer collects the bizarre and revealing moments of an unorthodox career

A-list interviewees, rapturous film clips, and reflections from an auteur who’s travelled from Peruvian jungles to Antarctic snowscapes

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SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 19, 2024Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF
Invoking an Alchemy of Transformation: Gabrielle Martin talks curating with care at this year's PuSh Festival
Invoking an Alchemy of Transformation: Gabrielle Martin talks curating with care at this year's PuSh Festival

In a statement ahead of the festival, director of programming reflects on compiling “works that share a sense of cultural urgency”

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DANCE, THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 18, 2024Partner Content, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, PuSh Festival
With Inheritances, Adam Tendler mines fraught father-son relationship through piano
With Inheritances, Adam Tendler mines fraught father-son relationship through piano

Music on Main and PuSh Festival present moving solo concert that began with a surprise envelope of cash and a desire to process loss

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MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2024Homepage feature, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, PuSh Festival
Vancouver Civic Theatres presents David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in What You Won’t Do For Love, February 13 to 17
Vancouver Civic Theatres presents David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in What You Won’t Do For Love, February 13 to 17

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, renowned environmentalists and longtime couple mark their theatrical debut in a celebration of love, partnership, and the planet

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THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 18, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Civic Theatres, David Suzuki Foundation
Vancouver's Improv Centre launches THE HEAT—An International Improv Comedy Showcase
Vancouver's Improv Centre launches THE HEAT—An International Improv Comedy Showcase

Los Angeles troupe Glass Clown joins ensembles from Canada, England, the U.S., and the Philippines in inaugural festival

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COMEDYGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2024The Improv Centre, improv, comedy
Vetta Chamber Music gets unabashedly romantic in Music of the Heart
Vetta Chamber Music gets unabashedly romantic in Music of the Heart

The organization’s upcoming piano-focused concert is all about emotion

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MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, piano
BlueShore at CapU hosts Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz in concert, February 2
BlueShore at CapU hosts Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz in concert, February 2

Grammy-nominated jazz singer McGarry and guitarist Ganz team up for a jazz-pop repertoire from the ’60s and ’70s

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MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU
Armed with a big, 1950s Gibson, Australia's Minnie Marks brings new energy to International Guitar Night
Armed with a big, 1950s Gibson, Australia's Minnie Marks brings new energy to International Guitar Night

On her first North American tour, Australia’s rousing singer and propulsive electric guitarist draws on Down Under blues and follows her heart

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MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2024International Guitar Night, blues, Massey Theatre, The Massey, Homepage feature
Vancouver Opera presents classic comic opera Don Pasquale, February 10, 15, and 18
Vancouver Opera presents classic comic opera Don Pasquale, February 10, 15, and 18

Gaetano Donizetti’s beloved show stars Gregory Dahl as Don Pasquale, and features production by acclaimed duo Barbe & Doucet

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OPERAStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Opera
Gravity & Other Myths' The Mirror pushes the limits of human endurance
Gravity & Other Myths' The Mirror pushes the limits of human endurance

Australian company draws on circus arts and dance for its high-flying work soon having its North American premiere in Vancouver

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DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2024DanceHouse, dance, Homepage feature
Hold On Let Go performances disrupt conventions, push forms—and put unexpected objects at centre stage
Hold On Let Go performances disrupt conventions, push forms—and put unexpected objects at centre stage

Theatre Replacement and Company 605’s renamed and ever-growing series gathers experimental works at Russian Hall

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DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024Theatre Replacement, Company 605, Maiko Yamamoto
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts Black Panther in Concert, February 9 and 10
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts Black Panther in Concert, February 9 and 10

Audiences can see Ludwig Göransson’s Oscar-winning Marvel Studios film score performed live to picture

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MUSIC, SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 16, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO
Montréal’s Compagnie Virginie Brunelle headlines just-announced 2024 Vancouver International Dance Festival
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

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DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024Kokoro Dance, Vancouver International Dance Festival, VIDF, Vancouver Civic Theatre, Vancouver Civic Theatres
Han Finckel Setzer Trio returns to Vancouver in Friends of Chamber Music concert, February 6
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

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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
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

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DANCE, MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024TomoeArts
Anvil Theatre showcases Hannah Moscovitch’s Bunny, February 8 to 18
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

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THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 15, 2024Partner Content, Anvil Theatre
Paper becomes a playground in Pli, at the PuSh Festival
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

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DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 15, 2024PuSh Festival, Chutzpah! Festival, circus, Homepage feature
Romania's Tangaj Collective explores "choreomania" and microbiology at the Scotiabank Dance Centre
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

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DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2024PuSh Festival, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre, Homepage feature
Calendar Girls spotlights middle-aged women in a heartwarming true story
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

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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
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

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MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Bach Choir
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The Horseradish Theatre stages the quirky Slavic-accented comedy Number 13, December 18 to 21. 

When a Prime Minister’s assistant’s romantic hotel rendez-vous is interrupted, a host of hilariously chaotic misunderstandings ensue. 

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DanceHouse and The Cultch present an extraordinary work of circus/dance, the North American premiere of Recirquel’s otherworldly Paradisum. 

Directed and choreographed by Bence Vági, Paradisum explores the new possibilities of
 

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