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In fateful times, Alfredo Santa Ana's music draws on deeper meanings of day-to-day life
In fateful times, Alfredo Santa Ana's music draws on deeper meanings of day-to-day life

As part of Music on Main series, the Mexican Canadian composer’s luminous works respond to current chaos and ancient ties to the natural world

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MUSICJanet SmithApril 2, 2025Alfredo Santa Ana, MUSIC ON MAIN, Music on Main, Spring 2025
DEAD DRONE's comedic take on technology and apocalypse is serious business
DEAD DRONE's comedic take on technology and apocalypse is serious business

Combining live action, music, video, and puppetry, Upintheair Theatre offers a darkly funny vision of collapse that features strange insect hybrids and familiar human flaws

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THEATREJanet SmithApril 2, 2025Theatre, Upintheair Theatre, Russian Hall, Spring 2025
Vetta Chamber Music caps the season with Grand Finale Viennois, May 2 to 5
Vetta Chamber Music caps the season with Grand Finale Viennois, May 2 to 5

Joan Blackman shares the stage with eight all-star musicians for a program of works by Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert

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MUSICStir VancouverApril 2, 2025Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Spring 2025
Sundar Prize Film Festival opener Paper Flowers ensures the sun never sets on Shalin Shah's legacy
Sundar Prize Film Festival opener Paper Flowers ensures the sun never sets on Shalin Shah's legacy

Director Mahesh Pailoor and producer Asit Vyas tell the impactful true story of a young man diagnosed with terminal cancer

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SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithApril 1, 2025Sundar Prize Film Festival, Spring 2025, Homepage feature
Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade and Canadian author Louise Penny headline the Chan Centre's 2025-26 season
Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade and Canadian author Louise Penny headline the Chan Centre's 2025-26 season

Most decorated female Latin Grammy winner in history and mind behind the beloved Chief Inspector Gamache series will appear in Vancouver this fall

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MUSICJanet SmithApril 1, 2025Chan Centre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, CHAN CENTRE
Saxophonist-composer Immanuel Wilkins and the Lutosławski Quartet to hit Vancouver International Jazz Festival
Saxophonist-composer Immanuel Wilkins and the Lutosławski Quartet to hit Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Coastal Jazz also announced the second year of the New Improvisers Studio

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MUSICJanet SmithApril 1, 2025Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Western Front
Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, and much more as VSO unveils 150-plus concerts for 2025-26 season
Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, and much more as VSO unveils 150-plus concerts for 2025-26 season

Summer concerts return to Vancouver parks, plus the new year includes Steve Hackman’s epic synthesis of Radiohead’s seminal OK Computer with Brahms’s First Symphony

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MUSICJanet SmithApril 1, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Taiwan's Hung Dance, Australia's Stephanie Lake Company, and more as DanceHouse unveils 2025-26 season
Taiwan's Hung Dance, Australia's Stephanie Lake Company, and more as DanceHouse unveils 2025-26 season

Offerings also include Hungary’s circus-dance company Recirquel, as well as Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté’s visually striking take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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DANCEJanet SmithApril 1, 2025DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Vancouver Civic Theatres
Elektra closes Morna Edmundson's final season with Legacy, May 25 and 31
Elektra closes Morna Edmundson's final season with Legacy, May 25 and 31

Vancouver concert is nearly sold out, but great seats are still up for grabs in Surrey

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MUSICStir VancouverApril 1, 2025Partner Content, Elektra, ELEKTRA, Elektra Women's Choir, Spring 2025
Theatre Review: Anosh Irani’s Behind the Moon captures the dreams and disillusionment of immigrant life
Theatre Review: Anosh Irani’s Behind the Moon captures the dreams and disillusionment of immigrant life

A trio of strong actors make sure some of the most understated moments wind up being the most poignant in this Touchstone Theatre production

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THEATREJanet SmithMarch 31, 2025Touchstone Theatre, Spring 2025
Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Sakura Days Japan Fair 2025
Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Sakura Days Japan Fair 2025

The anchor program of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival features everything from sake tastings to taiko-drumming demonstrations

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FESTSStir VancouverMarch 31, 2025Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Spring 2025
Z·inc Artist Collective's A Tangled Thicket opens at Surrey Art Gallery, April 5
Z·inc Artist Collective's A Tangled Thicket opens at Surrey Art Gallery, April 5

Paintings and handcrafted installations by four Surrey artists revolve around the intersection of nature and humanity

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ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMarch 31, 2025Partner Content, surrey art gallery, SURREY ART GALLERY, Surrey Art Gallery, Spring 2025
Theatre review: Beauty and the Beast: My Life balances raucous panto and poignant personal reflection
Theatre review: Beauty and the Beast: My Life balances raucous panto and poignant personal reflection

Niall McNeil’s new play draws on his love of Disney’s fairy-tale flick and his life as an artist with Down Syndrome

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THEATREJanet SmithMarch 30, 2025THE CULTCH, The Cultch
Vancouver Writers Fest founder Alma Lee remembered for putting city “on the literary map”
Vancouver Writers Fest founder Alma Lee remembered for putting city “on the literary map”

The founding executive director of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Writers Development Trust was also founding president of Music on Main

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BOOKS, READ, NEWSJanet SmithMarch 30, 2025Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Vancouver Writers Fest, Alma Lee
Cantare Super Orchestram performs Baroque instrument-infused selections from Bach's Passions, April 5
Cantare Super Orchestram performs Baroque instrument-infused selections from Bach's Passions, April 5

Also on the program at Holy Rosary Cathedral is Benevoli’s Missa Tu Es Petrus

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MUSICJanet SmithMarch 28, 2025Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra, CSO, Cantare Super Orchestram, Spring 2025
Le Ren returns home with new sense of joy in musical connections
Le Ren returns home with new sense of joy in musical connections

Raised on bluegrass and the warmth of her Bowen Island community, the Montreal-based folksinger comes full circle with songs about close emotional bonds

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MUSICJanet SmithMarch 28, 2025Kay Meek, Kay Meek Arts Centre, Spring 2025
At the Capture Photography Festival, Lindsay McIntyre's Tuktuit illuminates lost links to ancestral knowledge and natural world, to September 7
At the Capture Photography Festival, Lindsay McIntyre's Tuktuit illuminates lost links to ancestral knowledge and natural world, to September 7

The filmmaker responds to colonial and industrial pressures with handcrafted practices that call out to her Inuit heritage

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ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 27, 2025Capture Photography Festival, Capture, Contemporary Art Gallery, Spring 2025
Soprano Melody Courage sings a choral cry for peace in Britten's War Requiem
Soprano Melody Courage sings a choral cry for peace in Britten's War Requiem

Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs presents the emotional composition with text by English soldier and war poet Wilfred Owen

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MUSICJanet SmithMarch 27, 2025Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Vancouver Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten, Melody Courage, Spring 2025
DOXA Documentary Film Festival announces opening and closing night films for 2025 edition
DOXA Documentary Film Festival announces opening and closing night films for 2025 edition

In Aisha’s Story, a Palestinian matriarch uses food for generational healing, while Saints and Warriors follows a Haida basketball team

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SCREENJanet SmithMarch 27, 2025DOXA Documentary Film Festival, DOXA, Spring 2025
Emma Lancaster named new executive director of Eastside Arts Society
Emma Lancaster named new executive director of Eastside Arts Society

Longtime Vancouver arts professional will oversee Eastside Culture Crawl, with Esther Rausenberg moving into new role as artistic director

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ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithMarch 27, 2025Eastside Culture Crawl, Eastside Arts Society, Esther Rausenberg
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Early Music Vancouver aims to make Handel’s beloved Messiah feel both fresh and familiar. 

Pacific Baroque Orchestra conductor Alexander Weimann says the German-English composer’s oratorio is never the same piece twice. 

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