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Vancouver Cantata Singers hosts season finale Amy Beach’s Grand Mass in E-flat major, April 27

Large-scale choral and orchestral work which premiered in 1892 was the first of its kind by a female American composer

MUSICStir VancouverApril 11, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers

BC and Yukon Book Prizes unveil 2024 shortlist, spanning names like Darrel J. McLeod, Emelia Symington-Fedy, Naomi Klein, and Helen Knott

Awards across fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and more to be announced September 28

READJanet SmithApril 11, 2024BC and Yukon Book Prizes, West Coast Book Prize Society

Tausk Conducts Shostakovich & Adams with violinist Paul Huang at the VSO, April 26 and 27

Musicians perform Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, John Adams’s Harmonielehre, and Ryan Kelly’s Earth, Beloved with Elektra Women’s Choir

MUSICStir VancouverApril 10, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Otto Tausk, Spring 2024

Blondie, Burton Cummings, Blue Rodeo, Barenaked Ladies, and more as PNE unveils its Summer Night Concert lineup for 2024

Roster also includes Ludacris, Flo Rida, and I Love the 90’s Tour featuring Vanilla Ice

MUSICJanet SmithApril 10, 2024PNE, Pacific National Exhibition, Summer 2024

Bard on the Beach returns for 35th season from June 11 to September 21 in Vanier Park

Diana Donnelly’s take on Twelfth Night opens the season, which also features Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, and Measure for Measure

THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverApril 10, 2024Partner Content, Bard on the Beach

In Sexy Laundry, director Diana Donnelly unpacks intimacy and longevity in long-term relationships

Arts Club Theatre Company stages Michele Riml’s international-hit play about a couple seeking to rekindle their sex life 25 years into marriage

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts musical act Amai Kuda et Les Bois on April 26

Toronto-based performers have collaborated with the likes of Joel Plaskett, Kellylee Evans, Sarah Slean, and M-1 of Dead Prez

MUSICStir VancouverApril 9, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Spring 2024

In This Is How We Got Here, playwright Keith Barker reflects on moving forward after unfathomable loss

Firehall Arts Centre presentation centres a close-knit family relearning how to coexist in the wake of trauma±

THEATREEmily LythApril 9, 2024Firehall Arts Centre, Keith Barker, Spring 2024

Dance//Novella’s reality-shifting Night is the Mother premieres at Scotiabank Dance Centre, April 25

Company’s latest work explores the power of dreams in Discover Dance! noon performance

DANCEStir VancouverApril 9, 2024Partner Content, The Dance Centre, Spring 2024

Abigail Lapell explores love from all angles through song, tracing elation to heartache

Coming to the BlueShore at CapU, singer-songwriter performs ethereal folk ballads from new album Anniversary

MUSICJanet SmithApril 9, 2024Homepage feature, BlueShore at CapU, Spring 2024

I KNOW YOUR SECRET premieres with Some Assembly Theatre Company, May 1 to 4

Valerie Methot’s psychological thriller navigates the dangers of social media with a creative team of diverse youth and artists

THEATREStir VancouverApril 8, 2024Partner Content, Some Assembly Theatre, Spring 2024

Theatre review: Parifam takes an enigmatic look at repression and self-expression

Atmospheric new play at The Cultch about two women in exile from Iran revolves around duality and secrets

Vancouver Chopin Society Hosts Legendary Pianist Yefim Bronfman on April 16

Tashkent, Soviet Union-born musician’s concert is presented in tandem with a Bruce Liu show on May 19 for a double-bill discount

MUSICStir VancouverApril 8, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society, Spring 2024

Stir Q&A: Director Barbara Tomasic offers clues to Ken Ludwig's comical Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Multitasking characters and carefully choreographed mayhem at the Gateway Theatre

THEATREJanet SmithApril 8, 2024Gateway Theatre, Spring 2023

Theatre Under the Stars announces CATS and School of Rock for summer season, July 5 to August 24

Two-show subscription pack tickets now on sale for outdoor performances at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithApril 5, 2024TUTS, Theatre Under the Stars

Annual Sakura Days Japan Fair celebrates spring at Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, April 13 and 14

Premium sake sampling, children’s J-pop dancing, samurai sword performances, and more at weekend event

Anvil Theatre hosts Raine Hamilton String Trio in acoustic chamber-folk concert, May 4

Winnipeg, Manitoba-based singer-songwriter Hamilton plays violin and guitar, accompanied by a cellist and upright bassist

MUSICStir VancouverApril 5, 2024Partner Content, Anvil Theatre, Spring 2024

Heartbreak and perseverance behind the scenes as multidisciplinary Over the Ridge returns in new form

The Fugitives’ Brendan McLeod returns to Vimy Ridge musical-storytelling, this time with dance by Jacob Williams—an artist who knows what it is to suffer

MUSIC, DANCEJanet SmithApril 5, 2024Massey Theatre, Spring 2024

Chor Leoni officially drops “men's choir” from its title, as it prepares for The Big Roar fest

Artistic director Erick Lichte says the move ties into choral singing as an act of empathy

MUSICJanet SmithApril 5, 2024Chor Leoni, CHOR LEONI, SPRING 2024, Spring 2024, Erick Lichte

Takao Tanabe: Printmaker launches at Surrey Art Gallery with an Opening Reception, April 13

Exhibition features over 60 prints by renowned Canadian artist Takao Tanabe, dating from 1948 to 2023

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverApril 5, 2024Partner Content, Surrey Art Gallery, Spring 2024

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