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Chutzpah! Festival launches 24th edition with Ukrainian klezmer stars, a 1938-set ode to censored cabaret, and more

This year’s lineup ranges from comedy by Juno Award–winner Jacob Samuel to a dance world premiere by Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick

FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 18, 2024chutzpah! festival, Chutzpah! Festival, Chutzpah Festival

Rebecca Belmore wins $100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts

Presenting the Anishinaabe artist with the award at today’s ceremony, Scott Watson described her as “one of not just Canada’s, but her generation’s most important artists”

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 17, 2024Rebecca Belmore, Audain Foundation, Homepage feature

The Biting School premieres Empty-Handed at the Firehall Arts Centre, October 2 to 5

Contemporary dance piece choreographed by Arash Khakpour immerses viewers in themes of darkness, deception, and greed

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 17, 2024Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre, The Biting School

Lovers’ Wind revisits late French filmmaker’s footage of Iran at Western Front, to November 23

Toronto-based artists Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko collaborate on a multi-channel video installation

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGuest UserSeptember 17, 2024Western Front

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