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Acadian rhythms set to fill 2024 Festival du Bois, March 8 to 10 in Maillardville

Francophone celebration marks 35 years with Podorythmie, Vishtèn Connexions, La Famille LeBlanc, and more

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2024Festival du Bois, Maillardville

Ballet Jörgen brings a beloved Canadian classic to life with Anne of Green Gables – The Ballet

Choreographer Bengt Jörgen breathes new life into Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel with an original ballet starring Hannah Mae Cruddas as Anne

DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 5, 2024Ballet Jorgen, Massey Theatre

At Just For Laughs VANCOUVER, Wanda Sykes, Patti Harrison, and more talented female comedians take the stage

Western Canada’s biggest comedy festival features a lineup of over 70 performers this year

COMEDYStir VancouverFebruary 4, 2024Partner Content, JFL Vancouver, Just for Laughs Vancouver

Dance review: In Les SUBS' Pli, paper is a jumpsuit, a tug-of-war rope, and a vessel for the seemingly impossible

At PuSh Festival, artists play off themes of strength and fragility by using paper for aerial stunts

A polyamorous birthday party, gangsta grannies, and more as Advance Theatre Festival hosts live-reading series February 5 to 9

At Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Tricia Trinh curates plays that centre new voices around gender and culture

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 4, 2024Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Ruby Slippers Theatre

Western Front hosts Paul Chiyokten Wagner and Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang, February 17

Concert features music from Coast Salish flutist-drummer Wagner, and ethereal cross-cultural sounds from duo Kenney and Kang

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 3, 2024Partner Content, Western Front

The Flame: Lunar New Year Edition marks inaugural show in Richmond, February 10

Storytelling series features true tales told by Once Upon a Time’s Beverley Elliott, drag artist Maiden China, and more

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 3, 2024Gateway Theatre

Barbe and Doucet dig into the decadent details of 1960s Rome for Vancouver Opera's Don Pasquale

Think kitschy pensiones, Technicolor hues, sheets on laundry lines, and toxic-green cats as the Montreal duo brings its latest vision to the stage

MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithFebruary 3, 2024Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Barbe et Doucet

Surrey Art Gallery hosts Winter Opening of un/tangling, un/covering, un/doing, February 9

Group exhibition threads personal stories on the multi-faceted meanings of hair

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverFebruary 2, 2024Partner Content, Surrey Art Gallery

Indian Summer Arts Society appoints Alisha Lettman as this year's Culture Lab: Artist as Healer

Project to provide the community-engaged artist, herbalist, and vocalist with funding to explore relationships between traditional healing and the natural world

NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2024Indian Summer Arts Society, Indian Summer Festival

Hannah Moscovitch’s sex-positive play Bunny gets a remount at the Anvil Theatre, February 8 to 18

Directed by Mindy Parfitt of The Search Party, production follows an intelligent woman engaging in intimacy without shame

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2024Anvil Theatre, The Search Party

Vancouver Chamber Choir artistic director Kari Turunen leads six young conductors in War & Peace, February 16

Concert concludes company’s 44th annual five-day Conductors’ Symposium

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 2, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Theatre review: Powerful performances and music as Choir Boy examines how society shapes young lives

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s compelling, boys’-school-set play poses important questions

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2024Arts Club Theatre, Homepage feature, Arts Club Theatre Company

Québécois folk band Le Vent du Nord plays a BlueShore at CapU concert, February 18

Joyful group of multi-instrumentalists is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a tour

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 1, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

A guide to celebrating Black History Month 2024 through the arts

Events throughout February range from concerts to art exhibitions

ART & DESIGN, SCREEN, MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2024Black History Month, Black Arts Centre, Homepage feature

Fourth annual Jazz at the Bolt festival comes to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, February 17 and 18

Event founded by Cory Weeds brings together musicians from New York City, Houston, Phoenix, Toronto, and Vancouver this year

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 1, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Jazz @ The Bolt

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 interesting facts about Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen's heartfelt theatrical hit

The Firehall Arts Centre’s fan-favourite production returns to Vancouver in celebration of more than 300 performances

MUSIC, THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 1, 2024Firehall Arts Centre, Leonard Cohen, Homepage feature

Music review: Goldmund Quartet delivers precision and expressivity in droves, at Friends of Chamber Music concert

In Haydn to Borodin, Munich fab four display impeccable intonation and a seemingly extrasensory connection with one another

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2024Goldmund Quartet, Friends of Chamber Music, Vancouver Civic Theatres

West Vancouver Memorial Library hosts Tech Talk with Witness Blanket Artist Carey Newman, February 8

Indigenous artist explores his process, including new initiative to collect sound artifacts and infusion of technology into art

Han Finckel Setzer Trio's "Schubert addicts" revel in the composer's profound emotion in Friends of Chamber Music concert

Piano trios are artistic mirror images: one full of springtime joy, the other brooding and internal

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