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All things azure, as Vancouver Cantata Singers perform BLUE, February 18 at the Annex

Webern, Górecki, and a premiere by Marcel Bergmann, plus more meditations on the serene hue

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2024Vancouver Cantata Singers, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts Meow Meow: Pandemonium on March 2

Led by conductor Nicholas Buc, international siren and comedienne extraordinaire Meow Meow performs Piazzolla tangos, Brel, and Radiohead

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 13, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO

BC films Seagrass and Satan Wants You receive honours at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards

BlackBerry, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, and To Kill a Tiger also receive nods for best in Canadian film

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2024VIFF

Elektra Women's Choir celebrates International Women’s Day with At the Spring Dawn, March 10

Program features works by Cree-Dene composer Sherryl Sewepagaham, Ukrainian composer Iryna Aleksiychuk, and more

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 13, 2024Partner Content, Elektra Women's Choir

Celebrate LOVE MONTH at The Improv Centre with a variety of February Valentine's Day events

Check out Gal-entine’s Day on February 13, and even some shows for those who hate V-day with a passion

WHAT'S STIRRING, COMEDYJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2024The Improv Centre, Valentine's Day

Ballet BC presents NOW from March 7 to 9 in Vancouver, celebrating West Coast women creators

Program that lands on International Women’s Day includes return of Crystal Pite’s The Statement along with two highly anticipated world premieres

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2024Partner Content, Ballet BC

Theatre review: Juliet: A Revenge Comedy hits the sweet spot between witty fun and deeper insights on Shakespeare

Slapstick, sound effects, and female characters upending their fates

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2024THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Monster Theatre

Justin Adams and Mauro Durante perform unique worldbeat music at BlueShore at CapU, February 28

Guitarist for Robert Plant and peerless Italian multi-instrumentalist mesmerize audiences with synergistic playing

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Review: Vancouver Opera's Don Pasquale takes an entertaining trip to stylized retro Rome

Flowing bel canto music meets a production full of comedic stage business, side characters, and cat figurines

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2024Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen's dreamlike tribute still holds poetic magic, at the Firehall Arts Centre

Tracey Power and Steven Charles’s sung-through musical, first staged in 2012, returns with its inventive staging and intimate interpretations of Cohen’s songs

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2024FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Newly opened Richmond Cultural Centre Annex to provide city with expanded arts-and-culture space

Revitalized building features a pottery studio, History Lab for Richmond Museum, artist-exhibition space, and more

NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024City of Richmond, Richmond Cultural Centre Annex, Richmond Museum

Vancouver Chamber Choir focuses on hope in War & Peace concert

Program features aspiring artists from VCC’s Conductors’ Symposium

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir

Vancouver International Dance Festival presents solo works by Conan Amok and Tony Chong, March 6 to 9

Amok showcases butoh work The Folds, while Chong dances Le Collectif RNTF’s multidisciplinary piece Invisible 无形

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 9, 2024Partner Content, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Vancouver Opera announces 2024-25 65th-anniversary season with groovy '60s look

Die Fledermaus, Flight, and Madama Butterfly are on the roster

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

Local improvisers journey through South African styles at Jazz at the Bolt

Clarinet master François Houle and friends explore the radical sounds of 1960s Cape Town and Johannesburg, at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts event

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024Jazz at the Bolt, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Francois Houle, jazz

At Just For Laughs Vancouver, Andrea Jin's "eccentric" family still provides endless amounts of comedy gold

The Shanghai-born, Vancouver-raised standup will tape her first special at the Biltmore, as her career continues to take off in L.A.

COMEDY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024Andrea Jin, JFL Vancouver, Just for Laughs, Homepage feature

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is a beautifully offbeat take on teen-vampire genre, February 9

In stylish film hitting la Tournée Québec Cinéma at Studio 16, standout star Sara Montpetit plays a bloodsucker who hates the idea of killing

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2024Rendez-Vous French Film Festval, VISIONS OUEST

Pianist Timo Andres blends Ellington with an array of American classical pieces, at Music on Main

Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, and other works sit easily with “Duke”’s, as Month of Tuesdays launches

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2024Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN

In What You Won’t Do For Love, David Suzuki and Tara Cullis consider love's role in environmental activism

Why Not Theatre co-artistic directors Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes delve into origins and meaning of play presented by Vancouver Civic Theatres

Sea shanties set sail as La Nef's Seán Dagher joins Chor Leoni

The vocalist and cittern player applies early-music scholarship to ancient songs of the sailor’s life

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2024Chor Leoni, CHOR LEONI, Homepage feature

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