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Music review: VSO evening of new music premieres rewarded with enthusiastic standing O

Alongside new work by Torontonian Linda Catlin Smith, the program included works by American new-music legends John Adams, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass

MUSICJanet SmithDecember 9, 2024Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Otto Tausk

Stir Q&A: Violin virtuoso Timothy Chooi sounds off on Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

The renowned musician performs the classic piece with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on December 14 and 15

MUSICGail JohnsonDecember 9, 2024Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Holiday 2024

Vancouver musicians pay tribute to the late Bic Hoang in White Lotus Calling

The December 13 concert features 13 acts, all of whom were inspired by Hoang’s musicality and personality

MUSICJanet SmithDecember 6, 2024VICO, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Bic Hoang, Randy Raine-Reusch

Vancouver Fringe Festival receives $520,000 investment from Canadian Heritage

Earlier this year, a successful 40th anniversary fundraiser helped pull the organization out of financial uncertainty

THEATREJanet SmithDecember 6, 2024Vancouver Fringe Festival, Granville Island

Arts Umbrella brings Mixed Nuts back to the Playhouse for 2024, December 13 to 15

The annual show is a highlight on the seasonal cultural calendar

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 6, 2024Arts Umbrella, Mixed Nuts

Burnaby's Karen Zalamea wins the 2025 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award out of Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

The local artist explores issues of identity, culture, and memory through photography

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithDecember 6, 2024Banff Centre, photography

A WONDERHEADS Christmas Carol tells the story of Scrooge's redemption with whimsical masks and puppetry

Kate Braidwood and Andrew Phoenix’s holiday favourite reinvents the classic Charles Dickens novel as a physical-theatre show

THEATREJanet SmithDecember 5, 2024Holiday 2024, WONDERHEADS

Film review: La Cocina captures the chaos, broken dreams, and camaraderie of a Times Square kitchen

Energetically shot new film explores profound—and timely—issues around undocumented immigrants and class divisions in America

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 5, 2024VIFF, VIFF Centre

Soloists bring artistic expression to Handel's Messiah in Vancouver Bach Choir concert

Tenor Spencer Britten, alto Nicholas Burns, soprano Caitlin Wood, and bass Jonathon Adams perform with members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra

MUSICJanet SmithDecember 5, 2024Messiah, Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Vancouver Bach Choir, Holiday 2024

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

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