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The Sojourners close this year's Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, November 10

Juno Award-winning group weaves doo-wop, R&B, country, and blues with themes of social justice and human dignity

Director Ashlie Corcoran takes Vancouver Opera’s Die Fledermaus to the Swinging Sixties

The 65th-season opener features a witty new script by Mark Crawford and a Sweet Charity-worthy array of colourful retro costumes

THEATRE, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 22, 2024Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Ashlie Corcoran, Homepage feature

Sundar Prize Film Festival welcomes applicants for Filmmaker Mentorship Program

Canada-wide opportunity connects aspiring filmmakers with established industry professionals

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 22, 2024Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival, Sher Vancouver

Griefwalker conjures a haunting live soundtrack for FW Murnau’s devilish classic Faust

In this classic of German expressionism screening at the Shadbolt, “Every frame is like an album cover,” says the postrock band’s Simon Dobbs

SCREEN, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 21, 2024Griefwalker, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread traces four decades of a Haida haute couture trailblazer

Appearing at Vancouver Writers Fest, the designer talks about a 40-year career that set the stage for today’s explosion of Indigenous fashion

The Last Night at the Cabaret Yitesh comes to the Chutzpah! Festival, November 9 and 10

Michael Wex’s uproarious show combines 1930s cabaret songs, original comedy sketches, Yiddish adaptations of international hits, and vaudeville classics

Dancer Nate Yaffe unmasks his vulnerability and sheds constraints in faith hole

Presented by plastic orchard factory, the solo is performed partly in the nude

DANCEGuest UserOctober 21, 2024plastic orchid factory

Marc Garneau unpacks memoir A Most Extraordinary Ride at BlueShore at CapU, November 18

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and first Canadian to go into space talks about his awe-inspiring life trajectory

Heather Ogden performs as Vancouver Ballet Society hosts For the Love of Dance fundraiser, October 26

Benefit at Scotiabank Dance Centre features the principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada

Drew Hayden Taylor chats about his latest thriller at the Vancouver Writers Fest, October 26

In Cold, Ojibway author tells the humour-laced story of two women left stranded after a tragic plane crash

READJanet SmithOctober 21, 2024Vancouver Writers Fest, Canadian writers, Drew Hayden Taylor

Jeremy Ledbetter brings cosmopolitan pianistic palette to the Shadbolt

The trio leader has fully integrated Latin and Caribbean sounds into his approach

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 21, 2024Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Jeremy Ledbetter Trio, jazz, piano, homepage feature

Vancouver Cantata Singers join forces with Stʼatʼimc-Lil’wat composer Russell Wallace

Concert program Rest includes two new choral arrangements of the artist’s songs among other diverse works

MUSICGail JohnsonOctober 21, 2024Vancouver Cantata Singers, Russell Wallace

Music review: Vancouver Bach Choir opens its season with program to soothe and move the soul

Evening featuring Fauré’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms offered moments of stunning beauty and clashing dissonance

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 20, 2024Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Vancouver Bach Choir, choral music

Tan Dun conducts his epic choral work Buddha Passion at the VSO, November 8 and 9

Award-winning artist’s piece inspired by Chinese and Sanskrit texts tells of six stories from the life of the Buddha, and of a prince’s path to enlightenment

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 18, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO

L.A.-based screenwriter Yulin Kuang serves romance with a dash of realism in debut novel

Ahead of Vancouver Writers Fest event, author delves into resurgence of rom coms and the importance of stories that feel “true to life”

READJanet SmithOctober 18, 2024Vancouver Writers Fest, Yulin Kuang, books

Vetta Chamber Music honours nature's stories in Land and Sea, November 15 to 18

Featured works include “The Raven Conspiracy” by Yellowknife’s Carmen Braden and “Seasons of the Sea” by Rosemary Georgeson and Jeffrey Ryan

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 18, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

La Fonte Musica goes to hell and back in a concert inspired by Dante's Commedia, at Early Music Vancouver

The pandemic sent Italian lute virtuoso Michele Pasotti looking back at the poets of the Black Plague—and the way Ars Nova music provided relief

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 17, 2024Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Dante, La Fonte Musica, lute

Massey Theatre presents Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall, November 15 and 16

Magical stage adaptation of graphic novel features over 20 miniature sets performed, filmed, and projected in real time to a live score

MUSIC, THEATREStir VancouverOctober 17, 2024Partner Content, Massey Theatre, Kid Koala

With Social Tango, Buenos Aires's Agustina Videla brings milonga magic to the stage

With projections and a live band, the show celebrates the inclusivity of Argentina’s essential dance form

Review: Music of the Night's ode to Lloyd Webber is as polished as a Phantom chandelier

Soprano Caitlin Wood, tenor Caulin Moore among the standouts in a production that shows the power of songs in musicals from Evita to Sunset Boulevard

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithOctober 17, 2024Music of the Night, Sound the Alarm, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre

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