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Friends of Chamber Music fan-favourite Han Finckel Setzer Trio returns to the Vancouver stage, February 18

The distinguished musicians will perform Haydn’s Piano Trio in A major, Beethoven’s Piano Trio in G major, and Dvořák’s Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2025Friends of Chamber Music, Han Finckel Setzer Trio

Yves Lambert et le Grand Orchestre, LeFLOFRANCO, Kutapira, and more perform at Festival du Bois, March 7 to 9

This year’s event features a diverse lineup of artists from Quebec, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, and B.C.

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2025Partner Content, Festival du Bois, Yves Lambert, Spring 2025

Stir Q&A: Sri Lankan-born, Toronto-based visual artist Rajni Perera sounds off on science fiction, mutation, and past lives

Surrey Art Gallery is launching its 50th anniversary with the touring exhibition Rajni Perera: Futures

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2025Surrey Art Gallery, Homepage feature, Spring 2025

Comedian Brian Simpson taps radical honesty and provokes all sides at Just for Laughs VANCOUVER

A background that includes work as an electronics technician, a stint as a Marine, and a childhood in foster care has helped shape the standup’s unique and irreverent take on the world

COMEDYJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2025Homepage feature, Just for Laughs, Just for Laughs Vancouver

Vancouver Bach Children's Choirs perform SpringSong: Flora & Fauna, March 11

Pacific Spirit United Church concert features songs about nature, including “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, Handel and J.S. Bach arias, and more

At Matriarchs Uprising, TOA III draws inspiration from Māori martial arts

Having its world premiere at the fest, the work merges the ancestral knowledge of mau rākau with contemporary dance

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2025Matriarchs Uprising, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Kim Kennedy Austin takes a handcrafted approach to social commentary in Booster Club at Burnaby Art Gallery

The artist’s work draws equal inspiration from Sinclair Lewis’s 1920s novels and ’90s dystopian sci-fi flicks

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2025Burnaby Art Gallery, Kim Kennedy Austin, Spring 2025

Metro Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, March 1 to 22

After last season’s hit The Mousetrap, a new adaptation of a thrilling masterpiece by the queen of mystery hits the stage

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 11, 2025Partner Content, Metro Theatre, Spring 2025

Vancouver International Wine Festival 2025 set to spotlight 121 wineries from 15 countries

Top picks from Napa Sauvignon Blanc to Columbia Valley Merlot, plus advice for hitting an international assortment at this year’s Bard on the Beach fundraiser

CULINARY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2025Vancouver International Wine Festival, wine

Visions Ouest hosts 31st-annual Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, February 26 to March 7

Program opens with Charles Aznavour biopic Monsieur Aznavour and closes with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tribute Saint-Exupéry

Otosan makes a local comeback at Gateway Theatre, February 17 to 22

The puppetry show was a hit at last year’s Vancouver International Children’s Festival

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2025Gateway Theatre, The Little Onion Puppet Co

Vancouver Chamber Choir celebrates the return of spring with Into Light, March 7

Program features works by composer-in-residence laura hawley, Nico Muhly, Alex Freeman, Matthew Whittall, and Tarik O’Regan

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Spring 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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