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Christmas with the Bach Choir delivers holiday magic with over 500 voices, December 1

Singers from the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs unite with musicians in this annual performance of charming seasonal selections

Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall is a multimedia love story for the age of AI

Part puppet show, part film screening, and part concert, the show lets attendees in on its creation

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 4, 2024Kid Koala, puppetry, Homepage feature

Little Chamber Music honours Canada's veterans in Remembered Aloud, November 11

At Mountain View Cemetery, musica intima and the Vancouver Bach Choir join forces with local brass players to perform a Phrase of Remembrance

The Cultch presents Theatre Replacement's East Van Panto: Robin Hood, November 20 to January 5

In annual holiday show directed by Anita Rochon, Robin Hood must save East Van from the rich and powerful when all city parks are suddenly privatized

Chor Leoni’s Shadows Into Dawn travels from trauma of war to hope and healing

On Remembrance Day, composer-in-residence Marie-Claire Saindon contributes new piece that tells of finding light in darkness

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 4, 2024Chor Leoni, Marie-Claire Saindon, Remembrance Day, Erick Lichte

VIFF presents Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, November 8 to 17

London’s National Gallery hosts the U.K.’s biggest-ever exhibition honouring Vincent van Gogh, one of history’s most beloved artists

SCREENStir VancouverNovember 2, 2024Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre, Van Gogh

Applications open for Louise Bentall Biennial Award for Emerging B.C. Choreographers

The 2025 prize is worth $10,000 to research, develop, or produce new work

Western Front presents Chipo Chipaziwa in Slipping Into Slipping Away, November 14 to 16

Artist-in-residence stages a performance that plays with power dynamics to mark the launch of her new book My Mother My Home

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 1, 2024Partner Content, Western Front, Chipo Chipaziwa

Life of intrepid explorer brought to life in Tom Crean—Discovering Antarctica, November 7 to 24

Subtitled Heroic Tales of Scott, Crean & Shackleton, the solo show by Aidan Dooley has won some major awards

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithNovember 1, 2024Western Gold Theatre, CelticFest

In immersive theatre experience The Last Resort, a cruise ship sets sail to the Bermuda Triangle in 1971

Fairlith Harvey drew on her experiences as a funeral attendant in creating the experiential work

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 1, 2024Dreamqueen Collective, At the Waldorf, immersive, Homepage feature

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