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Violist David Harding joins Vetta Chamber Music for its season-opening concert

The artist felt at home the first time he played the viola at age 16

MUSICGuest UserSeptember 23, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, David Harding, Joan Blackman, Jeffrey Ryan

West Vancouver Memorial Library names Sam Lynch as inaugural Sound Artist in Residence

Award-winning local singer-songwriter to host several free programs and workshops at the library’s state-of-the-art Recording Studio during her term

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 23, 2024Partner Content, West Vancouver Memorial Library, Sam Lynch

Dance review: Agrimony melds indie concert, movement, and masks into spellbinding new hybrid

Sophie Dow and Laura Reznek’s meld of live music and dance created a warm, dreamlike experience

DANCEJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2024DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre, Sophie Dow, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Much Ado About Nothing and The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival announces 2025 season

The 36th annual program also includes The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] (Again) and The Dark Lady

THEATREGuest UserSeptember 23, 2024Bard on the Beach, Shakespeare

Nineteen-year-old Canadian pianist Kevin Chen balances works by his favourite composers

Chopin and Liszt are on the program at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, as the internationally acclaimed musician makes his Vancouver debut

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2024Kay Meek Arts Centre, Kevin Chen, Piano, piano, Homepage feature

The Cinematheque hosts Swiss filmmaker Fabrice Aragno as part of JLG Forever series, October 10 and 11

Jean-Luc Godard’s principal collaborator introduces Vancouver audiences to Godard’s final film Scénarios, along with Goodbye to Language

SCREENStir VancouverSeptember 22, 2024Partner Content, The CInematheque, The Cinematheque

Vancouver New Music's PROPULSION festival spotlights visionary emerging artists, October 17 to 19

Curators Kendra Place, Anju Singh, and Reylinn present a futuristic lineup of sonic performers in copresentation with VIVO Media Arts Centre

VIFF opener Ari's Theme brings lifelong dream to fruition, with live-performed score

Vancouver Island’s Ari Kinarthy wrote the score and stars in a screening event that memorializes his life

Soul-gospel singer Khari Wendell McClelland performs at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, October 18

Detroit-born, Vancouver-based artist integrates early African American rhythms and folklore with contemporary sounds and stories

Dance review: Co.ERASGA's What on EARTH spans climate-change cheerleading and volcanic eruptions

Ensemble works by Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Naishi Wang, and Alvin Collantes premiere in a captivating program dedicated to environmental stewardship

Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade pays homage to the Pacific Northwest, October 21 at BlueShore at CapU

California-based violinist and composer performs her new double album which evokes “a charged relationship to the natural world”

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 20, 2024Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Jenny Scheinman

Stir Q&A: New Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Laura Hawley on choral music, community, and collaboration

The ensemble will perform Hawley’s The Arrow and the Song at its epic season-opening concert

MUSICGuest UserSeptember 20, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, Laura Hawley

ANOHNI and the Johnsons open 27th season of Chan Centre Presents programming, October 5

Singer-songwriter’s first Vancouver concert in 15 years features tracks off her latest studio album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

Dance review: Wheezing robotic accordions and whirling shawls, as Èbe pushes definitions of flamenco

Montreal's Sarah Bronsard creates striking visual poetry at the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 19, 2024Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, flamenco, Flamenco Rosario

Gordon Smith Gallery unveils comic-inspired exhibition Playhouse, September 20, 2024 to February 27, 2025

Curated by Annie Canto and Amelia Epp, works by more than 20 Canadian artists offer a transformative viewing of vivid stories and characters

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverSeptember 19, 2024Partner Content, Gordon Smith Gallery

Gospel music to flamenco, the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival returns for its 21st year

Co-founders Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling announce their retirement after Vancouver Moving Theatre’s 2024-25 season

Vancouver Opera opens 65th-anniversary season with Die Fledermaus, October 26 to November 3

Director Ashlie Corcoran and conductor Jacques Lacombe helm spectacular production of Johann Strauss II’s 1960s-set comic operetta

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 19, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Opera, Ashlie Corcoran, Jacques Lacombe

Vines Art Festival's Heather Lamoureux wins Canada Council for the Arts' John Hobday Award in Arts Management

Prize, shared with Calgary’s Toyin Lafenwa Oladele, provides leadership mentoring and $10,000

FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 19, 2024Vines Art Festival, Heather Lamoureux, Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts

At Studio 58, Baggage navigates the emotional weight of failed relationships, October 3 to 13

Play written by Sarah Segal-Lazar centres a cynical character in her 20s as she tries to start a new relationship amid the personified baggage of her exes

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 18, 2024Partner Content, Studio 58, Langara, Langara College

Koulounisation takes a personal look at the French occupation of Algeria

Running at Théâtre la Seizième, new play by French-Algerian artist Salim Djaferi goes beyond the history books

THEATREGuest UserSeptember 18, 2024Theatre la Seizieme

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