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Dance review: Love in all its complexity at Ballet BC’s season-closing DUSK

Powerful dancing across the board in Medhi Walerski’s striking Last light; Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s straight-from-the-heart Obsidian; and Marco Goecke’s vibrating Woke Up Blind

DANCEJanet SmithMay 9, 2025BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2025

Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs closes its season with SummerSing!, May 13

Beatles songs and Broadway hits are on the program featuring performers of all ages

Shayna Goldberg steps into new role as Chutzpah! Festival's artistic managing director

The transition follows her departure from Music on Main, where she served as artistic planning and operations manager for seven years

Queering Cinema series brings five form-pushing features to the VIFF Centre, May 15 to June 12

Moonlight, Tehran: City of Love, and more explore themes of loneliness, belonging, and desire in program curated by Fay Nass

SCREENStir VancouverMay 9, 2025Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre, Spring 2025

Book review: Rodney DeCroo's Night Moves focuses on the passing mysteries of city's sidewalks

With this gritty collection of street photographs, the Vancouver songwriter, poet, and playwright opens a new chapter in his hard-won life as an artist

ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithMay 9, 2025Rodney DeCroo, Anvil Press, Homepage feature

In Meeting, sex and love addicts engage in tough conversations about trauma and abuse

Playwright Katherine Gauthier’s fly-on-the-wall production at Pacific Theatre follows five people in a group therapy session as they exchange intimate thoughts

With the VSO’s Coastal Soundscapes, Naomi Woo brings a study in contrasts to the Annex

In the latest installment of the VSO at the Annex series, the conductor and pianist hopes the eclectic program will take some of the intimidation factor out of new music

MUSICJanet SmithMay 8, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Spring 2025

Vancouver Cultural Precinct group eyes new performing-arts halls sharing proposed Vancouver Art Gallery site

City council throws support behind feasibility study’s call for world-class mid-size venue and recital hall

Bruce Liu joins the VSO for Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, May 30 to June 1

Paris-born, Montreal-raised pianist won the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw

MUSICStir VancouverMay 8, 2025Partner Content, Bruce Liu, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

The Cultch unveils 2025-26 season packed with physical feats, big local premieres, and East Van Panto: West Van Story

Wild treadmill antics, nostalgic-’90s circus, and new work by the likes of Corey Payette, Carmen Aguirre, Anais West, Veda Hille, and Maiko Yamamoto

Hong Kong Exile tunes into celestial stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 15

As part of Asian Heritage Month, the gallery’s first performers-in-residence use old-school radios and headlamps in a new piece that fuses dance, multimedia, and theatre

West Coast Modern Week reveals programming for 2025 edition, July 8 to 13

A home tour of five West Vancouver residences, a film screening of Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between The Lines, and much more on offer

At the Vancouver Art Gallery, Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar chronicles the destruction of a century-old dam

In Capture Photography Festival presentation, moving-image installation shows a bird’s-eye view of Klamath River restoration

Love and monsters stalk the backwoods of Kourtney Roy's macabre Kryptic

Ahead of a special live-scored screening, the renowned photographer and director reflects on “liminal spaces” and gore-filled supernatural encounters

Theatre review: The Frontliners' trio finds urgent nuance in the stress and grind of crisis

Zahida Rahemtulla’s new play reflects three versions of what it meant to hold things together during the 2016 refugee resettlement initiative

THEATREJanet SmithMay 6, 2025FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Spring 2025

Eric Cheung receives Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award, while Vanessa Goodman wins Isadora Award

The Dance Centre prizes carry $5,000 in funding for each artist

Absurdist at heart, Here We Go faces life's final act with humour and sense of beauty

Western Gold Theatre finds unique paths through the mysteries of Caryl Churchill’s innovative play on aging and dying

THEATREJanet SmithMay 6, 2025Western Gold Theatre, Spring 2025, Caryl Churchill

Vancouver Art Gallery's immersive late-night Art Party returns for another edition, May 24

Highly anticipated event features a festive atmosphere and performances in celebration of Asian Heritage Month

Toronto’s SlowPitchSound tells stories through his sci-fi turntablism

At Vancouver New Music, Cheldon Paterson’s uncategorizable music fuses his love for nature with his taste for obscure sound

At The Dance Centre's Open Stage, Punit Singh's SubHuman investigates self-perception

Fifth edition of uncurated program provides a welcoming space for artist’s first dance-theatre piece

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