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HOLD ON LET GO unveils lineup for 15th-annual experimental arts festival

Performing-arts series produced by Theatre Replacement and Company 605 spans a live cake tasting, an ode to an Indigenous matriarch, and beyond

Have Bow Will Travel takes audiences on a sonic tour around the globe with five bowed string instruments

The concert by Sound of Dragon Society and Crossbridge Strings features the Indonesian rebab, Chinese erhu, Persian kamancheh, and the European violin and upright bass

MUSICJanet SmithDecember 5, 2024Sound of Dragon, Homepage feature

Vancouver International Black Film Festival shines a light on Black artists

Fabienne Colas launched her self-titled foundation to mount Black film festivals all across Canada

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithDecember 5, 2024Vancouver International Black Film Festival

Direct Theatre Collective's MONSTER debuts as a full-length musical, December 6 and 7

Vancouver Fringe Festival presents the show about Medusa, one of mythology’s most misunderstood figures

Theatre Cares Vancouver comes to an end

The organization had been raising funds and awareness for those living with HIV/AIDS since 1991

THEATREJanet SmithDecember 4, 2024Theatre Cares Vancouver

Film reviews: At Whistler Film Festival, eco-warriors and women in film

Fairy Creek and Resident Orca follow impassioned fights, while NiiMisSak: Sisters In Film celebrates Indigenous impacts onscreen

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 4, 2024Whistler Film Festival, Whistler, Jules Koostachin

Josh Epstein returns to Gateway Theatre to direct Oliver! after starring in musical as a young actor

Timeless adaptation of Charles Dickens novel follows a young orphan who dreams of finding a family

THEATREJanet SmithDecember 4, 2024Gateway Theatre, Holiday 2024, Josh Epstein, Homepage feature

Je viendrai moins souvent (I will come less often) explores a woman’s relationship with her grandmother experiencing dementia

Playwright-actor Camille Paré-Poirier uses recordings of the pair’s conversations in her new play coming to Théâtre la Seizième

THEATREJanet SmithDecember 4, 2024Theatre La Seizieme, Theatre la Seizieme

Vancouver Art Gallery abandons design for new building, severing relationship with Swiss architectural firm

Amid surging construction costs, CEO and executive director Anthony Kiendl has announced the VAG is now exploring new options

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithDecember 3, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery

Trailblazing B.C. artist Anna Banana remembered for energized, subversive legacy

Mail art and performance-art pioneer’s works will live on at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery collection at UBC

DanceHouse and The Cultch present Circa's Duck Pond, January 22 to 25

Exhilarating show reimagines Swan Lake as a cheeky acrobatic spectacle in B.C. premiere at the Vancouver Playhouse

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 3, 2024Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Circa

Jerry Seinfeld to perform at Just for Laughs VANCOUVER

Festival set to run February 13 to 23

COMEDYJanet SmithDecember 3, 2024Just for Laughs Vancouver

From doo wop to jazz, The Gingerbread Men: A(nother) Holiday Cabaret pays tribute to Christmas classics

“Jingle Bell Rock”, “Holly Jolly Christmas”, and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” are among the festive tunes the crooners crank out

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithDecember 3, 2024Arts Club Theatre Company, Holiday 2024

Juno-nominated Reflections on Crooked Walking returns to the Firehall Arts Centre to December 22

Donna Spencer directs Ann Mortifee’s family musical

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 2, 2024Firehall Arts Centre, Ann Mortifee

Cantare Super Orchestram brings an early-music-infused Handel’s Messiah to Vancouver

Music director Paula DeWit leads newly rebranded ensemble and vocalists of Belle Voci in an intimate take on holiday mainstay

Vancouver International Dance Festival announces 2025 programming

With 25 performances, it’s the first event under the new leadership of Deanna Peters and Victor Tran

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 facts about the Takács Quartet as it celebrates golden anniversary

Friends of Chamber Music hosts the accomplished group at the Vancouver Playhouse

MUSICStir VancouverDecember 2, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, Takacs Quartet

Local artist Amanda Sum makes her Music on Main debut in Music for the Winter Solstice

The theatre artist and singer-songwriter joins pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, violinist Karen Gerbrecht, and cellist Olivia Blander in the beloved annual seasonal concert