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Music review: Artful staging heightens Flight’s sense of airport limbo

Music review: Artful staging heightens Flight’s sense of airport limbo

Vancouver Opera production balances heart and absurd humour, with a third act that gets full liftoff

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2025VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

At Bach Ties the Knot, German soprano Dorothee Mields explores the Baroque master's wedding music

At Bach Ties the Knot, German soprano Dorothee Mields explores the Baroque master's wedding music

Early Music Vancouver program with Pacific Baroque Orchestra includes a “Fictive Wedding Cantata” that she’s painstakingly compiled from the composer’s lesser-known works

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2025Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. dives into wild mix of immigrant dramedy, wartime recollection, and musical interludes

Theatre review: Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. dives into wild mix of immigrant dramedy, wartime recollection, and musical interludes

Cast finds both humour and heart in Ruby Slippers premiere by playwright Abi Padilla

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2025Ruby Slippers Theatre, Blackout Art Society, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Presentation House Theatre

National Geographic Live's Wild Wolves of Yellowstone offers intimate insight into pack existence

National Geographic Live's Wild Wolves of Yellowstone offers intimate insight into pack existence

At the Orpheum, biologist Doug Smith shares stories from reintroducing the animals back into the national park and observing their complex behaviours

SCREEN, STAGEJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2025National Geographic, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Homepage feature

Nominations for all BC Achievement awards are now open until February 15

Nominations for all BC Achievement awards are now open until February 15

Programs include the Community Award, BC Reconciliation Award, Indigenous Business Award, Polygon Award, and Sam Carter Award

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2025Partner Content, BC Achievement Foundation

Dance reviews: Explorations of identity take striking, and sometimes radical, form on local stages

Dance reviews: Explorations of identity take striking, and sometimes radical, form on local stages

At the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Daina Ashbee’s We learned a lot at our own funeral takes an unblinking, unsettling look at the death of the self; surreal studies make big impacts at Small Stage

DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2025Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Dances for a Small Stage, PuSh Festival

BIG BANG Festival delivers live music to local kids

BIG BANG Festival delivers live music to local kids

Music on Main and the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre bring the Belgian celebration of sound for young audiences to Vancouver

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2025Music on Main, Roundhouse Community Centre, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, children, BIG BANG Festival, Homepage feature

Vetta Chamber Music presents the Four Jays live in concert, March 7 to 10

Vetta Chamber Music presents the Four Jays live in concert, March 7 to 10

Joan Blackman, Jane Hayes, Julia Nolan, and Jodi Proznick play impressionist, 20th-century, jazz, and tango works

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2025Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Spring 2025

Actor Andrew Broderick forges connections in Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust

Actor Andrew Broderick forges connections in Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust

In the Arts Club production, his recently laid-off and all-too-relatable character Kenneth learns to face a world he’s long avoided

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2025The Arts Club, Pulitzer, Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club

Vancouver music scene celebrates Valentine's Day with romantic concerts

Vancouver music scene celebrates Valentine's Day with romantic concerts

Offerings from the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, the VSO, Early Music Vancouver, and more take place on February 14 and 15

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2025Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Vancouver Bach Choir, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Shadbolt Centre, Jazz at the Bolt, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVEr, EMV, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Chan Centre, CHan Centre for the Performing Arts

Arts groups push for the reinstatement of the BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund

Arts groups push for the reinstatement of the BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund

The Province, which has provided nearly $80 million since 2021, is reviewing the program, while fests warn of challenges and cutbacks if it’s lost

NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025PuSh Festival, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Mission Folk Music Festival

Seamus Blake, Feven Kidane, the Ha Siblings, and more grace the stage at Jazz at the Bolt

Seamus Blake, Feven Kidane, the Ha Siblings, and more grace the stage at Jazz at the Bolt

This year’s festival features an electric range of revival shows

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025Jazz at the Bolt, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Feven Kidane, Seamus Blake

The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! series features SHIAMAK Vancouver, February 27

The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! series features SHIAMAK Vancouver, February 27

Company blends exuberant Bollywood dance with jazz, funk, folk, and modern influences

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 6, 2025Partner Content, The Dance Centre, SHIAMAK Vancouver, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Theatre review: Wonderful Joe’s eccentric puppet characters fight the forces of gentrification

Theatre review: Wonderful Joe’s eccentric puppet characters fight the forces of gentrification

With a more melancholy undercurrent behind the biting laughs, Ronnie Burkett’s latest show gives voice to the marginalized and the misunderstood

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Ronnie Burkett

Women of the Fur Trade cheekily shifts historical accounts to tell women’s stories of the Red River Resistance

Women of the Fur Trade cheekily shifts historical accounts to tell women’s stories of the Red River Resistance

Frances Koncan’s play looks at the fur trade through the perspectives of a Métis woman, a First Nations woman, and a settler woman

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, Indigenous, Donna Spencer

The Improv Centre goes straight to the heart during LOVE MONTH

The Improv Centre goes straight to the heart during LOVE MONTH

Valentine’s Day and the month of February have plenty in store for lovers looking for a laugh

COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025TIC, The Improv Centre, improv, Valentine's Day

Chor Leoni brings PopCappella 3D to the Rio Theatre, March 7 to 9

Chor Leoni brings PopCappella 3D to the Rio Theatre, March 7 to 9

Program blends pop-music choral arrangements with immersive 3D visuals

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 6, 2025Partner Content, Chor Leoni, CHOR LEONI, Rio Theatre, Spring 2025

Film review: Dark and light combine as Ababouiné looks back on 1950s struggle for secular Quebec

Film review: Dark and light combine as Ababouiné looks back on 1950s struggle for secular Quebec

Opening La Tournée Québec Cinéma, nostalgic comedy mixes with church abuse of power in a Montreal neighbourhood

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 5, 2025Visions Ouest, VISIONS OUEST, Alliance Francaise, Alliance Francaise Vancouver

Manuel Axel Strain taps childlike wonder and Indigenous knowledge at the Polygon Gallery

Manuel Axel Strain taps childlike wonder and Indigenous knowledge at the Polygon Gallery

Family photos, pictographs, and landscapes interweave in xʷəlməxʷ child

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 5, 2025POLYGON, Polygon Gallery, Indigenous, Spring 2025

Ballet BC presents ZENITH at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, March 6 to 8

Ballet BC presents ZENITH at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, March 6 to 8

Monumental triple bill sees the return of Johan Inger’s PASSING along with world premieres from Fernando Hernando Magadan and Andrea Peña

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 5, 2025Partner Content, Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Spring 2025