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Music on Main highlights Canadian composers at Classical Road to the Junos, February 25

Program hosted by Paolo Pietropaolo features zheng player Dailin Hsieh, flutist Paolo Bortolussi, cellist Jonathan Lo, and pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2025Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, CBC, Junos, Juno Awards, Jocelyn Morlock, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival returns for 2025, its most ambitious year yet

The fest features multiple events for all ages celebrating the city’s blooms

Open letter to provincial government calls for renewal of BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund

Local arts and culture organizations say “the clock is ticking” as they await answers from Premier David Eby and Spencer Chandra Herbert

FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2025BCFFE, BC Fairs, Spencer Chandra Herbert

Sundar Prize Film Festival announces 2025 edition, April 10 to 13

Second-annual event opens with Mahesh Pailoor’s Paper Flowers and closes with Enrique Vázquez’s Firma Aquí (Sign Here)

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 19, 2025Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival, Spring 2025

Comedian Kumail Nanjiani appears at Just for Laughs VANCOUVER, February 22

The artist got his big break on The Big Sick

COMEDY, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2025Just for Laughs Vancouver, Just For Laughs Vancouver

Can I Get a Witness? and Sugarcane join B.C. winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards

A Real Pain’s Jesse Eisenberg and Anora’s Sean Baker among international award-winners to send in acceptance videos for event at VIFF Centre

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2025VIFF Centre, VFCC

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

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