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Dance//Novella's Emerging Artist Program is in residence at The Polygon Gallery, to January 30

Twelve emerging dance artists choreograph and perform a group piece guided by the theme of “shifting identities”

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2025Dance Novella, The Polygon Gallery, The Polygon, The Dance Centre

Film review: Monsieur Aznavour takes a sweeping trip through the early days of chanson

Romantic locales, witty repartee, and entrancing music in biopic about “France’s Frank Sinatra”

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2025Visions Ouest, Visions Ouest Productions, VISIONS OUEST, Alliance Francaise

Schumann Quartet plays a Friends of Chamber Music concert on February 11

Youthful German ensemble features brothers Erik, Ken, and Mark Schumann, along with Veit Hertenstein

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 14, 2025Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Schumann Quartet

Friends of Chamber Music mourns the loss of Eric Wilson

The volunteer board president was 97 years old

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2025Friends of Chamber Music

Ruby Slippers Theatre premieres Abi Padilla's Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla., February 6 to 16

Heartwarming, hilarious play is presented in association with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Presentation House Theatre, and Blackout Art Society

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts rising conductor Karl Hirzer in Land of Winter, January 16

The up-and-coming artist is former associate conductor with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

All That Remains explores wounded relationship between body and environment, at the PuSh Festival

Italian-born, Denmark-based dance artist Mirko Guido opens event with hybrid of movement, sculptures, and sound performance

BlueShore at CapU hosts dance and music party Celebrate Africa! on January 31

Performers include local ensemble Adanu Habobo, dancer-drummer Kwashie Kuwor, marimba master Kurai Mubaiwa, and more

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Adanu Habobo

Jewish Book Festival prologue event features two renowned authors, January 19

Maya Arad and Eshkol Nevo will discuss their latest works

READ, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025Jewish Book Festival

Sons documentary looks at masculinity and what it means to raise a male child in today’s world

New NFB release by Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker Justin Simms raises many questions about parenting in the era of Donald Trump and Andrew Tate

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025NFB, National Film Board, documentary

Théâtre la Seizième presents immersive show De glace, January 31 to February 2

Production by L’eau du bain theatre company follows the friendship of two young girls in an endless Norwegian winter

Film review: The Brutalist takes an epic look at art, trauma, and the American Dream

Transfixing acting and big ideas as film tracks an architect-refugee trying to rebuild in the U.S.

SCREEN, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025Cineplex

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 facts about pianist-conductor and rising star Vanessa Benelli Mosell

Italian artist joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Schubert’s Third Symphony and other works

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 10, 2025Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO

Fight director Jonathan Hawley Purvis talks swashbuckling sword battles in The Three Musketeers

Based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas, Arts Club Theatre Company and Citadel Theatre coproduction is full of heroism, passion, and adventure

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 9, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club, Homepage feature

Boca del Lupo presents Lasa Ng Imperyo at the PuSh Festival, January 30 to February 8

Tagalog play translated, adapted, and performed by Carmela Sison investigates the effects of global imperialism on food preparation

Vancouver's Tracey Friesen remembered for long-standing commitment to social and environmental justice

The former executive producer at the National Film Board of Canada believed in the power of documentary filmmaking to drive social change

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 9, 2025NFB, National Film Board, Whistler Film Festival

Vancouver Chamber Choir presents East / West 동과서 on January 25

Program sets music from guest conductor Hyejung Jun’s native Korea side by side with Western compositions

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 9, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Sumptuous colours and discussions of death, as Almodóvar's The Room Next Door opens January 10

Subplot tangents and heightened acting as Spanish auteur takes stylized work in a more sombre direction

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2025Tilda Swinton

Sequentia’s Benjamin Bagby takes a modern approach to Gregorius—the Holy Sinner

Early Music Vancouver’s presentation of the work features accompaniment on the Romanesque harp

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2025Early Music Vancouver, Benjamin Bagby

Massey Theatre brings Ballet Jörgen’s Sleeping Beauty to the stage, February 8

Choreographer Bengt Jörgen reimagines the timeless fairy tale set to Tchaikovsky’s original 1890 score

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 8, 2025Partner Content, Massey Theatre, Ballet Jorgen

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