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DanceHouse presents Le Patin Libre’s exhilarating ice-dance show Murmuration, March 20 to 23

Inspired by the mesmerizing flight patterns of bird flocks, the work makes its Vancouver premiere in partnership with Canada Dance Ice Theatre

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 19, 2025Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Spring 2025

Theatre review: Primary Trust finds simple wisdom in small-town life

Andrew Broderick leads a versatile cast through Eboni Booth’s quietly endearing play

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company, eboni booth, Andrew Broderick, Spring 2025

Czech Republic's Pavel Haas Quartet returns to Friends of Chamber Music in concert, March 16

Renowned musicians to play compositions by Martinů, Korngold, and Dvořák

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 18, 2025Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Spring 2025

The Slocan Ramblers hit Kay Meek Arts Centre, February 22 and 23

The Toronto-based band is a leader in today’s bluegrass music scene

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2025Kay Meek Arts Centre

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss win 2024 VIVA Awards

Both artists recognized for addressing land, politics, and economies

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2025Shadbolt Foundation, VIVA Awards, Indigenous artists

Indigenous dance artist Lara Kramer’s Gorgeous Tongue makes Vancouver comeback at Matriarchs Uprising, February 21

The solo for Jeanette Kotowich addresses the choreographer’s mixed Oji-Cree and Mennonite ancestry

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 shows to put on your radar for Just for Laughs VANCOUVER's second week

Amanda Montell’s rowdy Big Magical Cult Show, Ashley Gavin’s unmatched crowd work, and local standup stars at the Vancouver Art Gallery bistro

COMEDY, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 17, 2025Just for Laughs Vancouver

At Western Front, Fish Tail unfolds as an epistolary narrative, February 20

The one-woman performance and installation is by Montreal’s Marie Ségolène Brault

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 16, 2025Western Front

Théâtre la Seizième presents a staged reading of À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou, February 21 and 22

Sébastien David directs Michel Tremblay’s tragic play as part of the ÉCHO(S) series

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2025Theatre la Seizieme, Théâtre la Seizième, French theatre, French

Snowboarder-BASE jumper Alenka Mali helps Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival leap into action

At The Spirit of Adventure opening event, the film “The Beginning” captures the Squamish resident’s record-breaking feat at Goat Ridge

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2025VIMFF, Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival

Theatre review: Women of the Fur Trade is a clever, anarchic take on Canadian history

Every performance, under Donna Spencer’s breezy direction, is consistently funny and fully realized

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, Donna Spencer, Homepage feature

Emerging artists take centre stage in Burnaby Lyric Opera's Le Nozze di Figaro

Music director Richard Epp dives into details on Mozart’s score in the comedic opera coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Inner Mongolia's Anda Union brings Indigenous throat singing to Vancouver, March 14

Caravan World Rhythms presents the nine-member ensemble, which evokes the beauty of Mongolian grasslands through haunting harmonies and vibrant strings

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 14, 2025Partner Content, Caravan World Rhythms, Spring 2025

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 events to check out at the 40th annual JCC Jewish Book Festival

The 2025 fest journeys from searing personal memoirs to hilariously neurotic short stories to a cookbook about modern Jewish cuisine

FESTS, READStir VancouverFebruary 14, 2025JCC Jewish Book Festival, Jewish Book Festival, Jewish Community Centre

Norway’s tenThing Brass Ensemble digs deeper than sunny pops tunes

Trumpet virtuoso Tine Thing Helseth leads the ebullient all-female group

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2025Vancouver Recital Society

Kara-Lis Coverdale stretches perceptions of pipe-organ music

The Ontario-based electronic artist makes a return to the mighty instrument at Vancouver New Music

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2025Vancouver New Music

Jerome Yoo's Mongrels explores immigrant experience through surreal imagery

Korean-born, B.C.-raised filmmaker’s Maple Ridge-shot first feature centres around a Korean family struggling with grief

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2025VIFF, VIFF Centre

Vancouver New Music presents Parallel 07: Martin Howse, March 15

U.K. artist and experimentalist to host a three-day workshop followed by a collaborative public presentation

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 13, 2025Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music, Spring 2025

Sankofa Danzafro envisions a society without racism in The City of Others (La Ciudad de los Otros)

The Afro-Colombian dance company headed by Rafael Palacios combines contemporary movement with traditional forms

A world premiere, Indigenous satire and musical, and more as The Cultch presents four March offerings

Tickets are now on sale for Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer, How to Disappear Completely, Children of God, and Beauty and The Beast: My Life

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2025Partner Content, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Spring 2025

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