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The Improv Centre dives into deception in Betrayers

New show created by Allen Morrison is based on the hit reality-TV series The Traitors

COMEDYGuest UserSeptember 17, 2024The Improv Centre, TIC, improv, Homepage feature

Newly published book Taizo Yamamoto: Carts, Hedges, Lions details Vancouver's urban landscape

Through intricate graphite drawings, Vancouver architect Taizo Yamamoto analyzes how seemingly mundane objects speak to the city’s omnipresent issues

READStir VancouverSeptember 17, 2024Partner Content, Figure 1 Publishing

88 Strings combines Chinese, Persian, and Western plucked instruments at Pyatt Hall on September 20

Debut concert by the powerful new ensemble features world premieres and melodious classics

MUSICGuest UserSeptember 17, 2024VICO, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, 88 Strings

Film review: A Mother Apart unpacks a painful legacy of abandonment at Vancouver Queer Film Festival

NFB documentary traces a spoken-word poet's complex relationship with the woman who left her as a child in Jamaica

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 16, 2024NFB, National Film Board, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, VQFF, LGBTQ+

Renowned Indigenous artists Jeremy Dutcher and Alanis Obomsawin perform at the Chan Centre, October 4

Wolastoqiyik tenor-composer and Abenaki filmmaker-musician deliver an intimate two-part concert presented in partnership with VIFF and the Vancouver Art Gallery

Elektra Women's Choir rebrands as Elektra

The new name reflects the ensemble’s commitment to inclusion and embraces gender neutrality

MUSICGuest UserSeptember 16, 2024Elektra Women's Choir, Elektra, Morna Edmundson

VLACC celebrates Latin American Heritage Month with Latin Expressions series, October 5 to 26

Headlined by Polaris Music Prize–winning Colombian Canadian artist Lido Pimienta, program spans film, visual arts, dance, literary, and music events

Vancouver International Dance Festival names Deanna Peters and Victor Vân Tran as new codirectors

Annual fest’s founders, Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi, step down from leadership roles after more than two decades

Teen Angst sees performers read from their old journals and diaries at the Shadbolt, September 21

The comedy revisits cast members’ hormone-fuelled puberty-era days

COMEDYGuest UserSeptember 15, 2024Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

A Studio Quivering in Readiness highlights B.C. artists at Burnaby Art Gallery to November 24

Works by Gordon Smith, Bill Reid, Roy Kiyooka, Toni Onley, and eight others are displayed in new exhibition, all donated by late collector Harry Locke

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 14, 2024Burnaby Art Gallery, Gordon Smith, Bill Reid, Roy Kiyooka, Toni Onley, BC art

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts mesmerizing jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, October 11

In a copresentation by Cellar Music Group, Pelt and his four-piece band play experimental songs off his latest record, Tomorrow’s Another Day

Theatre review: Jersey Boys has smooth moves, authentic grit, and style for miles

At Arts Club’s Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, Julie Tomaino helms a honed production that hits all the high notes of the Four Seasons story

THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 13, 2024Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre

Lovers' Wind investigates the late Albert Lamorisse's final film, at Western Front to November 23

Artists Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko use video installation to honour French filmmaker who died in 1970 by helicopter crash in Iran

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverSeptember 13, 2024Partner Content, Western Front

Qwalena: The Wild Woman Who Steals Children addresses the ongoing impacts of the Indian Act

The titular character in the show by 3 Crows Productions represents government agents who removed Indigenous kids from their homes to attend residential school

Singer-guitarist Nano Stern, leader of new-wave Chilean folk, plays the BlueShore at CapU on October 10

Maestro mesmerizes audiences with soulful lyrics and virtuosity on Spanish and electric guitars, piano, violin, and Andean and Nordic flutes

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 12, 2024Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Nano Stern

In multidisciplinary work Agrimony, a traditional flower remedy inspires artists to dissolve their masks

Dancer Sophie Dow and musician Laura Reznek join forces for a free-flowing work performed in intricate papier-mâché masks

DANCEJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024The Dance Centre, Sophie Dow, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Pacific Baroque Orchestra tackles music director’s new arrangement of Goldberg Variations

Alexander Weimann’s fresh take on Bach’s “apex” of Baroque keyboard music is set to open Early Music Vancouver season

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver, Bach

Théâtre la Seizième presents Salim Djaferi’s theatrical documentary Koulounisation, September 25

Franco-Algerian artist investigates his understanding of colonization by unravelling the thorny story of the French occupation of Algeria

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra opens season with cinematic interpretation of Stravinsky’s The Firebird

Director Lucas van Woerkum will edit and adapt his film to the orchestra’s performance in real-time, in program that includes Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Morlock’s Night, Herself

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Classical music, Otto, Lucas van Woerkum