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Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival lets area residents tell their own stories

Savannah Walling and Terry Hunter, who founded the fest 21 years ago, are handing over the reins after this year

Music review: With a talented cast of singers and actors, Die Fledermaus offers evening of unserious fun

Adaptation of Strauss’s beloved operetta opens Vancouver Opera’s 65th season with cheeky adapted dialogue and musical delights

Artist Geoffrey James's Canadian Photographs captures fast-changing spaces, coast to coast

Launching new book at the Polygon Gallery, Canadian photographer has an eye for unchecked development and elusive nature

ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithOctober 26, 2024Figure 1 Publishing, Geoffrey James, POLYGON, Polygon Gallery, POLYGON GALLERY

Urban Ink's fifth-annual TRANSFORM Festival spotlights Indigenous artists, November 6 to 9

Cabaret-style festival co-curated by Corey Payette and Heather Redfern features an electrifying fusion of theatre, music, drag, circus, and more

Dance reviews: A hallucinatory house of mirrors and a trip to sultry Buenos Aires tango halls

At The Cultch, Tentacle Tribe gets kaleidoscopically inventive; at the Playhouse, a masterful live band accompanies a show that roots out the soul of Argentina’s beloved art form

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 25, 2024DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE

Vicky Chow plays Philip Glass’s Piano Études at the Anvil Theatre, November 23

Vancouver-raised, New York-based artist’s 2022 recording of the works was praised by Glass himself as “a highly dynamic and expressive performance”

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 25, 2024Partner Content, Anvil Theatre, Vicky Chow, Philip Glass

Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival celebrates Day of the Dead, November 1

La Llorona is an evening of puppetry, music, dance, and a Mexican folk tale

FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonOctober 25, 2024Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

Film to drag, Vancouver arts organizations celebrate Halloween and Day of the Dead

There’s music, dance, theatre, and more in honour of October 31 and November 2

Stir Q&A: Monkey on a Stick filmmaker talks about his exposé of historic Hare Krishna corruption

Boldly pushing the documentary form, Vancouver director tracks a story that involved guns, drugs, money laundering, child abuse, and even murder

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 24, 2024VIFF, VIFF Centre, documentary

Canada’s dance community calls on federal government to increase funding to the arts

As part of the Canadian Arts Coalition’s national call to action, the Canadian Dance Assembly has launched an advocacy campaign

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 24, 2024Canadian Assembly of Dance, New Works, funding, Canadian Dance Assembly

DanceHouse stages Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things), November 22 and 23

Through visceral synchronized rhythms, the full-length work challenges mandatory conformity and cohesion

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 24, 2024Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Compagnie Catherine Gaudet

Passionate and feisty Ariel Quartet returns to the Vancouver Playhouse on October 29

Friends of Chamber Music concert features well-loved works by Ravel and Beethoven, alongside a contemporary piece by Israeli composer Matan Porat

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 24, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, ariel q, chamber music

Eastside Culture Crawl officially launches 28th-annual festival with Take Flight fundraiser

An online Silent Auction and the ever-popular Art Roulette offer vital support to the festival while celebrating Eastside artists

Ukraine's Kommuna Lux tours exuberant "Odesa gangsta folk" to the Chutzpah! Festival

Group melds folk traditions, klezmer music, and urban energy into a unique style as it raises money for Ukraine’s humanitarian and military efforts

Saxophonist Brodie West's music is full of quiet surprises

The artist’s quintet comes to the Ironworks on November 2, as part of the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society’s IronFest V weekend

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 23, 2024Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Free-spirited Blue Moon Marquee’s wide travels take duo to New Orleans

Appearing at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, Vancouver Island pair fuels its blues and folk with curiosity and joie de vivre

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 23, 2024Kay Meek Arts Centre, Blue Moon Marquee

Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week launches fifth edition, November 20 to 23

Showcase at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre unites Indigenous designers from across Turtle Island for runway shows and an Artisan Market

ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, FASHIONStir VancouverOctober 23, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week

The Prop Master’s Dream, a fusion opera, pays tribute to a unique soul

Vancouver Cantonese Opera production at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival honours the late Wah-Kwan Gwan

Gene Kelly: A Life in Music comes to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, November 15 and 16

Show written and hosted by Patricia Ward Kelly features scenes from the American icon’s most beloved films set to a live symphony

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 23, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Gene Kelly

Krystle Dos Santos’s BLAK celebrates notable Black Canadian women in music and beyond

Representation is at the core of the artist’s new cabaret-style show

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 23, 2024Krystle Dos Santos, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Black, Homepage feature

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