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Vieux Farka Touré brings timeless Malian guitar music to the York Theatre, February 23

Virtuoso performs tracks off his two 2022 albums, including Khruangbin collab Ali, an homage to his late father Ali Farka Touré

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2024BlueShore at CapU

Comedian Che Durena reflects on his fast rise, from bartending to shelter resident to TikTok star

Appearing at Just for Laughs Vancouver, Port Coquitlam-raised standup talks sex, vices, and the importance of craft

COMEDY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 17, 2024JFL Vancouver, Just for Laughs Vancouver

Rendez-Vous French Film Festival launches 30th-anniversary edition, February 24 to March 8

Two-part lineup hosted by Visions Ouest Productions features over 60 titles, including Haitian director Henri Pardo’s partly autobiographical film KANAVAL

Vancouver Art Gallery unveils 2024 exhibition calendar, spanning posters, zines, and a new force in painting

Lawrence Weiner’s poster archive, a colour-coordinated ode to monochrome, the first career survey on Dominican-American painter Firelei Báez, and more

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 16, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery, Spring 2024

At BlueShore at CapU, soul dynamo Dawn Pemberton fronts jazz ensemble Kenté, March 1

Pemberton’s speciality is vintage soul, while CapU group Kenté’s forte is grooves

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 16, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Film reviews: At KDocsFF, fuel for discussion in documentaries that look at body biases, homeless encampments, and farm protests

Your Fat Friend, Someone Lives Here, Rails, Jails & Trolleys, and The Price of Truth

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 16, 2024KDocsFF, KDOCSFF, KPU

Marina Hasselberg's cello music takes on new dimensions at Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival

Ruby Singh’s Vox Infold choir will also play in concerts that conjure 4-D, omnidirectional sound environments

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024Marina Hasselberg, cello, Lobe Studio, Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival

Singer-songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé centres herself through dreamlike song

Coastal Jazz presents the Montreal star whose new Our Roots Run Deep dives ever further into her mesmerizing search for self

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Leonard Slatkin conducts Spanish Adventures: Don Quixote at the VSO, March 8 to 10

Renowned conductor leads Vancouver Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Henry Shapard and principal violist Hung-Wei Huang

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 15, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Spring 2024

Matriarchs Uprising Festival showcases Indigenous contemporary-dance excellence, February 19 to 25

Annual festival features all-women lineup with performances from Raven Spirit Dance, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Louise Pōtiki Bryant, and more

Dance artist Elle Sofe Sara draws on Sámiland roots in Vástádus eana – The answer is land

The choreographer who spends her summers reindeer herding with her family creates a piece that integrates joiking, megaphones, and proud red hats

Théâtre la Seizième hosts French philosophical show Malaise dans la civilisation, March 7 to 9

Presentation with Pi Theatre features four people who encounter improbable situations and mundane accidents

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 15, 2024Partner Content, Theatre la Seizieme, Pi theatre, Spring 2024

At KDocsFF, "Neurodivergent" takes a playful, personal look inside the ADHD mind

Documentary filmmaker Afton Quast Saler turned a camera on herself and her family to explore why she and other women are so often underdiagnosed

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2024KDOCSFF, KDocsFF, KPU, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF, Homepage feature

Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, March 3

Kay Meek Competition-winning pianist Merett Khamis takes the lead in concert conducted by Ian Parker

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 14, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Academy of Music

Theatre review: Bunny's journey down the rabbit hole of female desire is well worth taking

Emma Slipp and Lucy McNulty find complex layers in The Search Party’s story of self discovery and the struggle against society’s sexual norms

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2024The Search Party, Emma Slipp, Anvil Centre

Gateway Theatre presents Jasmine Chen's Jade Circle in Mandarin and English, March 6 to 17

Multidisciplinary storytelling performance is a deeply personal exploration of identity, connection, and the power of language

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 14, 2024Partner Content, Gateway Theatre

Emerging Artists of Ballet BC and New Coast Players come together for Absence; Creation, February 17

Ballet by Jack Campbell and Antony Knight makes its world premiere at Arts Umbrella

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

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