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At Ballet BC, Crystal Pite grapples with shadow figures in Frontier's Vancouver premiere

On the DAWN program, the renowned choreographer reimagines a work whose black-hooded puppeteers embody the unknown

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 31, 2024Crystal Pite, BALLET BC

Vancouver New Music celebrates 50th anniversary at All Yesterday's Parties, November 23

Free open house at VIVO Media Arts Centre features live performances by Matthew Ariaratnam, Andromeda Monk, Sapphire Haze, and Anju Singh

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 31, 2024Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music

Stir Q&A: At fifth annual TRANSFORM Festival, Corey Payette honours Indigenous artistry

Festival co-curated with The Cultch’s Heather Redfern features the workshop premiere of Payette’s musical On Native Land, plus a new choral composition

FESTS, MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithOctober 31, 2024Corey Payette, Transform Festival, Indigenous, Urban Ink Theatre, Chor Leoni

Bahauddin Dagar plays rudra veena at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, November 23

Performing alongside pakhavaj artist Tejas Tope, Dagar explores the virtuosity of dhrupad, India’s oldest-surviving classical style

New documentary about Arthur Erickson looks at the legend's professional and personal lives

Subtitled Beauty Between the Lines, the film by Danny Berish and Ryan Mah digs deeper than the architect’s portfolio

In Kin, AJ Simmons and Kelty McKerracher navigate queering the art of flamenco

Performance at Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival sees artists break away from traditional gendered movements and costumes

Film review: Harmonium Symphonique–Histoires sans paroles blends the orchestral and surreal into sheer uplift

White rabbits and Magritte clouds, as Visions Ouest presents film of Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s epic and affecting multimedia performance

MUSIC, SCREENJanet SmithOctober 30, 2024VISIONS OUEST, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

Vancouver Recital Society’s Brahms Fest offers double serving of rich music on November 3

Castalian String Quartet, violist Timothy Ridout, cellist Zlatomir Fung, and pianists Angela Cheng and Benjamin Hochman will perform two concerts in one day at the Vancouver Playhouse

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 30, 2024Brahms, chamber music, Vancouver Rec, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents In the Belly of the Carp, November 28 to 30

Innovative show created by Rodney DeCroo, Samantha Pawliuk, and David Bloom melds music, theatre, and poetry inside a giant fish

Path of Miracles unites Vancouver Chamber Choir with dancers from Belle Spirale Dance Projects

The a cappella work by Joby Talbot is meant to be seen and heard

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Tan Dun’s epic Buddha Passion

Conductor-composer to lead Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canadian premiere of his sweeping mix of Western and Asian traditions, November 8 and 9

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 29, 2024Tan Dun, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Homepage feature

Early Music Vancouver hosts U.K. artists Iestyn Davies and Fretwork in Lamento, November 26

Renowned countertenor and Renaissance viol consort play a German Baroque programme based on the latter group’s Signum Classics album

Eastside Culture Crawl launches preview exhibition, October 29 to November 29

This year’s multi-venue show is based on the theme of “green”

Elektra fetes the holidays with The Light of Hope Returning, November 30 and December 1

Shawn Kirchner’s exhilarating folk oratorio blends familiar and new carols in an immersive multidisciplinary exploration of winter mysteries

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 29, 2024Partner Content, Elektra, ELEKTRA, Holiday 2024

Flat Earth Society Orchestra creates rich counterpoint of high art and low comedy

Surrealism is a major influence on the Belgian big band coming to Vancouver courtesy Music on Main

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 28, 2024Music on Main, Flat Earth Society Orchestra

The Cinematheque launches 27th-annual European Union Film Festival, November 14 to 28

Featuring film offerings from all 27 European Union members, festival opens with Hungary’s Some Birds and closes with Ukraine’s The Hardest Hour

Hunting Matthew Nichols and Kryptic among B.C. contingent as Whistler Film Festival unveils Canadian entries

They’ll be competing in juried Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at event December 4 to 8

SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 28, 2024Whistler Film Festival, Whistler, Canadian film

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

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