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Chor Leoni sets sail with Montreal folk ensemble La Nef in The Return Voyage, February 16 and 17

Following sold-out 2020 concert, acclaimed ensembles reunite to dive deeper into rich repertoire of sea shanties

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2024Partner Content, CHOR LEONI, La Nef

Theatre review: Mean Girls' witty teen comedy makes a "fetch" mix with song-and-dance spectacle

Energized Broadway Across Canada musical heightens the storytelling and deepens the characterizations

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 24, 2024Broadway Across Canada, Mean Girls, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Germany's Goldmund Quartet ahead of its Vancouver debut

In a Friends of Chamber Music concert, the four musicians will play works by Haydn, Borodin, and Beethoven

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 24, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, chamber music

Shabaka Hutchings and Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble play the Chan Centre, February 21

Saxophonist-flutist Shabaka is leading the British jazz renaissance, while El’Zabar and ensemble are commemorating a 50-year milestone

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 24, 2024Partner Content, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Review: With humour and honesty, Rakesh Sukesh's because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) digs into complexities of discrimination and immigration

Free-associative stories and dance stitched loosely together to match ginormous sari tapestry that unfurls in Indian Summer Festival/PuSh Festival/The Cultch show

Vancouver International Dance Festival presents Catherine Gaudet’s Se dissoudre, February 28 to March 2

Solo danced by Marie-Philippe Santerre explores sensations of dissolving and solitude

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 23, 2024Partner Content, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Master carver Carey Newman's monumental Witness Blanket tours to the West Vancouver Memorial Library

Artist of Kwakwak’awakw, Coast Salish, and settler descent reflects on impact of large-scale work featuring nearly 900 reclaimed residential-school items

KDocsFF opens with documentary Julia Scotti: Funny That Way, plus live stand-up comedy, February 21

Film directed by Susan Sandler follows titular transgender comedian’s triumphant comeback

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 23, 2024Partner Content, KDocsFF

In Bizarre Love Triangle, Vancouver Academy of Music chamber players explore relationship between three 1800s composers, January 28

Program of vigour and yearning features compositions by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 22, 2024Vancouver Academy of Music

Advance Theatre Festival: Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage showcases five new works from February 5 to 9

Event produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre with Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada centres BIPOC artistry

Christ Church Cathedral Choir performs Evensong for Candlemas to celebrate 135th birthday, January 28

Concert marks a major feast day with choral works by Holst, Lang, and more

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 22, 2024Christ Church Cathedral

604 Podcast Network marks one-year anniversary with new titles in comedy, music, and more

What started out as Comedy Here Often? Podcast Network now boasts more than 18 shows as the form continues to surge in B.C.

PODCASTSGail JohnsonJanuary 22, 2024604 Podcast Networks, podcasts

Studio 58 presents Sondheim’s fairy tale musical Into the Woods, February 1 to 18

Langara College’s professional theatre training program hosts show full of iconic characters, from Little Red Riding Hood to Cinderella

THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 22, 2024Partner Content, Studio 58

Youths take the spotlight in Vancouver Chamber Choir’s Horizons, January 27

Up-and-coming talents are featured in mixed concert program

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 22, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, youth

Tibetan singer-songwriter Yungchen Lhamo makes musical mantras as an offering of peace

U.S.-based artist draws on everything from thousand-year-old chants to brass bell vibrations and stirring North African beats

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 21, 2024BlueShore at CapU, Tibet

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Paul Pigat and the Smoking Jackets, February 4

Genre-bending Vancouver guitarist joined by six-piece band in cabaret-style show

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 19, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

The Zone of Interest employs cool detachment to depict chilling banality of evil, opening January 19

Jonathan Glazer’s unsettling film follows Hedwig and Rudolf Höss during the Second World War

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 19, 2024Zone of Interest, Holocaust

Belgium-based Indian dancer Rakesh Sukesh draws upon a personal encounter of racism, January 22 to 24

Artist’s Indian Summer Festival/PuSh Festival solo because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) was a close collaboration with award-winning Vancouver playwright Marcus Youssef