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Vancouver Chamber Choir's Sacred & Profane pairs choral classics with modern works, March 8 and 15
Vancouver Chamber Choir's Sacred & Profane pairs choral classics with modern works, March 8 and 15

Choir to perform program featuring Benjamin Britten’s Sacred and Profane in Vancouver and Abbotsford

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MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 21, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Spring 2024
Vancouver International Wine Festival travels to Italy: 5 expert picks from the Tasting Room
Vancouver International Wine Festival travels to Italy: 5 expert picks from the Tasting Room

Whether it’s wine from lesser-known regions in Campania or Umbria, or favourites like Nebbiolos and Barberas, get ready for a dose of dolce vita

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CULINARY, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 21, 2024Vancouver International Wine Festival, wine, Homepage feature
Michael van den Bos hosts Screwball Express film studies course at VIFF Centre, March 18 to April 29
Michael van den Bos hosts Screwball Express film studies course at VIFF Centre, March 18 to April 29

Film scholar introduces six Screwball Comedy films to audiences with talks about the genre and its most famous artists

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SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 21, 2024Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre, Spring 2024
Venus Envy—The House of Venus Story makes West Coast premiere with live Wiggle 30 show, February 25 at the Rio Theatre
Venus Envy—The House of Venus Story makes West Coast premiere with live Wiggle 30 show, February 25 at the Rio Theatre

Michael Venus’s film about the rise of DIY drag celebration meets performances by Synthia Kiss, Peter Breeze, Symone Says, and more

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SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2024Rio Theatre, The Rio Theatre, drag, LGBTQ+, Pride
Celebrate International Women’s Day with Sister Jazz Orchestra and Dee Daniels on March 8
Celebrate International Women’s Day with Sister Jazz Orchestra and Dee Daniels on March 8

BlueShore at CapU presents gospel-jazz vocalist and all-woman big band at the Kay Meek Arts Centre

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MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 20, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU, Kay Meek Arts Centre, Spring 2024
Theatre review: Every Brilliant Thing engages its audience in innovative ways
Theatre review: Every Brilliant Thing engages its audience in innovative ways

At the Arts Club, solo performer Naomi Wright adeptly offers a lighthearted route into heavier subject matter

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THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2024Arts Club Theatre, Naomi Wright, Homepage feature
Friends of Chamber Music presents Poland's Karol Szymanowski Quartet on March 12
Friends of Chamber Music presents Poland's Karol Szymanowski Quartet on March 12

Concert celebrating group’s 25th anniversary features works by Haydn, Schoenberg, Mendelssohn, and Szymanowski

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MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 20, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Spring 2024
Film review: Morally complex mystery Lucy Grizzli Sophie opens Rendez-Vous French Film Festival
Film review: Morally complex mystery Lucy Grizzli Sophie opens Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

In the movie based on critically lauded Quebec play La Meute, two people form an unlikely bond in a remote B&B

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SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2024Homepage feature, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, Visions Ouest, VISIONS OUEST, Quebec
Four free and low-cost shows take place at 24th annual Vancouver International Dance Festival
Four free and low-cost shows take place at 24th annual Vancouver International Dance Festival

Audiences can check out Modus Operandi, Ferenc Fehér, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, and VIDF Jazz Jams from February 25 to March 9

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DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 19, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver International Dance Festival, VIDF, Modus Operandi, Spring 2024
Vieux Farka Touré brings timeless Malian guitar music to the York Theatre, February 23
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

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MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2024BlueShore at CapU
Comedian Che Durena reflects on his fast rise, from bartending to shelter resident to TikTok star
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

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COMEDY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 17, 2024JFL Vancouver, Just for Laughs Vancouver
Rendez-Vous French Film Festival launches 30th-anniversary edition, February 24 to March 8
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

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FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 16, 2024Partner Content, Visions Ouest Productions, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival
 Vancouver Art Gallery unveils 2024 exhibition calendar, spanning posters, zines, and a new force in painting
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

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ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 16, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery, Spring 2024
At BlueShore at CapU, soul dynamo Dawn Pemberton fronts jazz ensemble Kenté, March 1
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

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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
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

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FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 16, 2024KDocsFF, KDOCSFF, KPU
Marina Hasselberg's cello music takes on new dimensions at Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival
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

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MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024Marina Hasselberg, cello, Lobe Studio, Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival
Singer-songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé centres herself through dreamlike song
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

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MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024Coastal Jazz & Blues Society
Leonard Slatkin conducts Spanish Adventures: Don Quixote at the VSO, March 8 to 10
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

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MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 15, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Spring 2024
Matriarchs Uprising Festival showcases Indigenous contemporary-dance excellence, February 19 to 25
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

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DANCE, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024Matriarchs Uprising, O.Dela Arts, The Dance Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Morrow, Raven Spirit Dance, DANCE CENTRE
Dance artist Elle Sofe Sara draws on Sámiland roots in Vástádus eana – The answer is land
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

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DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Dancers of Damelahamid, Sami, Indigenous People, Indigenous, Homepage feature, Vancouver Civic Theatres
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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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