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Spontaneous Shakespeare Company brings back hit show Breaking Bard, January 3

At the Little Mountain Gallery, improvisers draw on Shakespeare plays to craft an all-new tragedy

Consuming arts and culture is good for people’s health, new research finds

A study out of the U.K. has found that taking in the arts boosts people’s well-being and saves society money

CULTUREJanet SmithDecember 27, 2024mental health, health and well-being

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day events for Vancouver arts lovers

Pantos, waltzes, and stage musicals are just a few of the ways for culture vultures to ring in 2025

So Surreal: Behind the Masks searches for ceremonial pieces, at VIFF Centre to January 8

Part detective story, part art-history rethink, documentary travels from B.C.and Alaska to Paris to find stunning Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Yup’ik works that influenced Surrealists

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 26, 2024VIFF Centre, VIFF, Indigenous artists, Indigenous

VSO rings in 2025 with Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert, January 1

Annual tradition to feature soprano Mónika Fischl and tenor Martin Piskorski with the Strauss Symphony of Canada, conducted by Imre Kollár

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 24, 2024VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Holiday 2024, Salute to Vienna

Tennis triangles and Bhutanese comedy: VIFF Centre kicks off Best of 2024 series, Boxing Day to January 2

Challengers and The Monk and the Gun kick off holiday big-screen series

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 23, 2024VIFF, VIFF Centre, Vancouver International Film Festival

Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman one of three winners of the 2024-25 Chrystal Dance Prize—Projects

The director of Action at a Distance joins Ballet Edmonton and Eric Cheung in receiving the honour and cash award

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 23, 2024Vanessa Goodman, Action at a Distance, Chrystal Dance Prize

Nikkei Mochitsuki 2024 celebrates a year-end Japanese tradition, December 29

The annual event invites people to take in the traditions, flavours, and entertainment of rice pounding

CULINARY, CULTURE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 22, 2024Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre

From the Southwestern desert to candy-hued France, two glorious restorations hit the Cinematheque, to January 14

Thelma & Louise and Umbrellas of Cherbourg are part of the theatre’s Essential Big Screen 2024 series

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 20, 2024The Cinematheque

Surrey Art Gallery’s UrbanScreen returns with Nicolas Sassoon's mesmerizing pixel animations

The colourful artworks with sound capture the movement of water, light, wind, and air from seven key geographic sites in the city

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithDecember 20, 2024Surrey Art Gallery

Theatre director Bobby Garcia remembered for the mark he made on stage in Vancouver, the Philippines, and across Asia

The UBC Masters alumnus and Philippines stage leader helmed the Arts Club’s Million Dollar Quartet, Beneath Springhill, and Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithDecember 19, 2024Arts Club Theatre Company, Bobby Garcia

Multiple Realities gives a compelling look at subversion and surveillance behind the Iron Curtain

Alternately chilling and humorous, experimental art from the Eastern Bloc spans installations, photography, and eerie ice blocks at Vancouver Art Gallery

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithDecember 18, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery, Homepage feature

Metro Theatre stages Norm Foster's Sinners, January 24 to February 15

Chaotic farce by Canada’s most-produced playwright follows a furniture-store owner caught in a compromising position

THEATREStir VancouverDecember 18, 2024Partner Content, Metro Theatre

Vancouver’s Morna Edmundson, Stan Douglas, and Ryan Reynolds appointed to the Order of Canada

Other members of the local arts community to be named include Emily Carr University president emeritus Ron Burnett and guitarist-educator Donald Alder