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Stir Q&A: At Bard on the Beach, Measure for Measure costumes channel '70s-disco and '90s-rave styles

Designer Alaia Hamer shares some of the fantastical influences that helped bring a 1600s Shakespeare show into the present

Stop Making Sense brings the "Big Suit"-era Talking Heads to Deckchair Cinema, July 11

“Burning Down the House”, “Psycho Killer”, and more hits get iconic performances in recently remastered film at The Polygon Gallery

Suzie Ungerleider evolves beyond her “creaky old whisky-soaked” Americana roots, at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Former Oh Susannah singer-songwriter no longer sets foot onstage intent on slaying dragons

FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithJuly 8, 2024Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Summer 2024

Ballet BC announces $2 million donation to its Dancer Investment Fund

Founders’ Council member Jane McLennan’s gift gives dancers salary increases and unprecedented 52-week contracts over 10 years

DANCEJanet SmithJuly 6, 2024Ballet BC, BALLET BC

Vancouver celebrates centenary of the birth of renowned late architect Arthur Erickson with a year of programming

The Erickson family and the Arthur Erickson Foundation announce AE100, 12 months of films, exhibits, lectures, and more, launching July 7

ART & DESIGN, NEWSGuest UserJuly 5, 2024Arthur Erickson, architecture

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra offers free outdoor concert with Symphony in the Park, July 13

With compositions ranging from those by Mozart to John Williams, the family-friendly event takes place at Deer Lake Park

High art and fine dining as Whistler’s Audain Art Museum hosts 2024 Artist Dinner Series, July 12 and 26 and August 9 and 23

Guests get an exclusive tour of Tom Thomson: North Star exhibition followed by an al fresco dinner on-site by Fairmont Chateau Whistler

ART & DESIGN, CULINARY, WHAT'S STIRRINGGuest UserJuly 5, 2024Audain Art Museum, dining, Whistler

Kevin House: The Roadside Museum of the Mind rounds up meticulously handmade miniatures and off-kilter imagery

Opening at East Van’s Outsiders and Others gallery on July 6, exhibit features sculptures crafted to look like timeworn found objects

UBC Theatre and Film announces 2024-25 season

Three of the city’s most respected directors to helm The Very Book Indeed, The Arsonists, and The Last of the Pelican Daughters

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithJuly 4, 2024UBC Theatre, Fay Nass

Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre hosts lively music-filled Brazilian Summer Night, July 6

Brazil’s Alberto Salgado to headline celebratory evening featuring fellow música popular brasileira artists Celso Machado, Amphibioux, and Sara Magal

At Theatre Under the Stars, School of Rock puts an ambitious spin on wannabe rockstar Dewey Finn

Production directed by Tracey Power stars lead actor Colin Sheen, accompanied by a talented ensemble cast and students from the School of Rock Vancouver

Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 events to catch at West Coast Modern Week

A kickoff party, film screening, architecture lecture, and concert are all part of the annual celebration of West Coast Modernism

Vancouver mourns the death of dan bau virtuoso Bic Hoang, a "standout musician with a standout instrument and a big smile"

The local artist was the first woman to play the koni, a traditional Vietnamese instrument typically reserved for men

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithJuly 3, 2024Bic Hoang, VICO, VSO School of Music

The Dance Centre announces Company 605 co-artistic directors and Margaret Grenier as 2024 winners of Lola Award and Isadora Award

Lisa Mariko Gelley and Josh Martin receive $10,000 biennial prize, while Dancers of Damelahamid artistic director wins $5,000 annual award

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 bands to search out at Khatsahlano Street Party

From History of Gunpowder’s “freak out orchestra” to Amanda Sum’s intimate confessionals: five acts worth a place on your West 4th schedule

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverJuly 3, 2024Khatsahlano Street Party, Summer 2024

Kokoro Dance hosts 30th annual Wreck Beach Butoh performance workshop, July 8 to 21

Registration is now open for two-week-long Japanese dance experience taught by legendary artists Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi

DANCEStir VancouverJuly 3, 2024Partner Content, Kokoro Dance, Wreck Beach Butoh, butoh, Summer 2024

Stir Q&A: CATS director Ashley Wright talks '80s Lycra and the depth of dramaturgy in Theatre Under the Stars show

Eternally popular show by Andrew Lloyd Webber will run from July 5 to August 23 at the Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park

THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverJuly 3, 2024Theatre Under the Stars, Summer 2024, Stir Q&A, TUTS

Amanda Sum performs new EP for the first time in suite-release concert at The Cultch, July 4

does it make me naive if i’ve never been part of something where i’ve meant more to them than they did to me? compiles 18 short movements in ode to a failing love life

MUSICJanet SmithJuly 2, 2024the Cultch, Amanda Sum, Summer 2024