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Epic masterpieces to brand-new music, Vancouver Chamber Choir announces 2024-25 season

Highlights include Figure humaine by Francis Poulenc as well as world premieres

MUSICGuest UserSeptember 6, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, Kari Turunen

Gateway Theatre mounts Moonlight Magic: Mid-Autumn Celebration, September 14

Family-friendly festivities include a concert starring Filipino mezzo-soprano Renee Fajardo

WHAT'S STIRRING, FESTSGuest UserSeptember 6, 2024Gateway Theatre, Mid-Autumn Festival

Mexican tenor Javier Camarena makes Canadian debut with Opera West Society, October 3

Singer Behind the Song series presentation in collaboration with UBC Opera will also feature an exclusive interview and masterclass

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 5, 2024Partner Content, Opera West Society

Indigenous singer-songwriter Celeigh Cardinal traces grief and redemption in new album

Ahead of her Come Toward the Fire festival performance, the JUNO award-winner shares how writing her latest album, Boundless Possibilities, helped her heal from loss and trauma

North Shore Art Crawl launches its 14th-annual weekend of artistic exploration, October 4 to 6

Free three-day festival offers visitors an insider’s look into the practices of more than 300 artists across North Vancouver and West Vancouver

ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverSeptember 5, 2024Partner Content, North Van Arts, North Shore Art Crawl

Stir Q&A: Andalusian-born flamenco sensation Marco Flores dives into his art form’s “endless search”

Dancer premieres Rayuela, an electrifying conversation between dancer, guitarist, and singer, at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 5, 2024Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, flamenco, Homepage feature

Vancouver Chamber Choir launches 54th season with Figure humaine, September 27

Lineup features works by Johannes Brahms, UBC music student Joanne S. Na, and the choir’s new composer-in-residence Laura Hawley

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 4, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

In Fields of Presence, director Jorge Lozano has an impressionistic “conversation” with his late daughter

Faced with tragedy, Colombian-Canadian film and video artist builds a haunting collage about two indivisible spirits at Vancouver Latin American Film Festival

SCREEN, FESTSAdrian MackSeptember 4, 2024Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Jorge Lozano, Breanna Lozano

Surrey Art Gallery presents the fall opening of Jagdeep Raina: Ghosts In The Fields, September 21

Solo interdisciplinary exhibition depicts 1970s and ’80s farmworker movements with stop-motion animation, black-and-white drawings, hand-stitched quilts, and poetry

Ballet BC artists take to the stage and beyond in Take Form, September 6 and 7

Event sees eight new creations entirely choreographed, produced, and performed by eight of the company’s dancers

DANCEGuest UserSeptember 3, 2024Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Medhi Walerski

Vetta Chamber Music opens its 2024-25 season with Liminal Spaces, September 27 to 30

On the program that explores interconnected forces are works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Jeffrey Ryan

$1-million endowment transforms Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize into Canada’s largest award for emerging artists

Five shortlisted artists vying for the $25,000 prize announced

ART & DESIGNGuest UserSeptember 3, 2024The Polygon Gallery, photography

Stir Q&A: Mexican filmmaker Ángeles Cruz on grief, silence, and reappearing at Vancouver Latin American Film Festival

The creative force behind Valentina or the Serenity delves into mourning through the perspective of a young girl

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 3, 2024VLAFF, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Homepage feature

From Malcolm Gladwell to Jane Urquhart, Vancouver Writers Fest gives sneak peek at 2024 lineup

More than 120 international and local writers will appear in over 85 events in festival running October 21 to 27

FESTS, READGuest UserSeptember 3, 2024Vancouver Writers Fest

New Fates Festival champions femme and nonbinary theatre artists

Inaugural event is a project of Promethean Theatre in collaboration with the Arts Club Theatre Company’s youth committee and features three new comedies

FESTS, THEATREGuest UserSeptember 3, 2024Promethean Theatre, Arts Club Theatre Company, femme, nonbinary, Fates Festival

Sound the Alarm tours Andrew Lloyd Webber's hits to Metro Vancouver in Music of the Night, October 12 to 20

B.C. tour visits 18 cities (six local) with favourites from the musical-theatre icon’s greatest shows, spanning Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, and beyond

MUSIC, THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024Partner Content, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, CATS

Self-accompanying soprano Rachel Fenlon marks her Vancouver Recital Society debut with Schubert’s Winterreise

UBC Opera alum has been gaining international acclaim for her immersive interpretations and double talent

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024rachel fenlon, Schubert, Winterreise, Liede, Soprano, piano, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY

Small Town Artillery Collective plays Firehall Arts Centre courtyard, September 7 and 8

The violin- and trumpet-powered rock ’n’ roll band is the project of brothers Tom and Derek van Deursen

READ, WHAT'S STIRRINGGuest UserAugust 31, 2024The Polygon Gallery, books

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Dallas Yellowfly’s Qwalena: The Wild Woman Who Steals Children, September 27

Theatrical performance creates awareness of the intergenerational impacts of residential schools with a blend of storytelling and multimedia components