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Luciana Freire D’Anunciação’s multiscreen video installation Becoming explores the cyclical nature of life
Luciana Freire D’Anunciação’s multiscreen video installation Becoming explores the cyclical nature of life

Canadian-Brazilian interdisciplinary artist brings together film and dance in a work that can be enjoyed from different angles at the Roundhouse

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DANCEJanet SmithMay 27, 2025THE DANCE CENTRE, The Dance CEntre, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Roundhouse Community Centre, Luciana Freire D’Anunciação
The Cinematheque spotlights Robert Bresson in Secret Laws of the Cinematograph, to July 2
The Cinematheque spotlights Robert Bresson in Secret Laws of the Cinematograph, to July 2

Series includes all 13 of the French director’s films, including A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Au hasard Balthazar, and more

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SCREENStir VancouverMay 27, 2025Partner Content, The CInematheque, The Cinematheque, Spring 2025, Summer 2025
World premieres journey through truth and illusion at the Annex, May 31
World premieres journey through truth and illusion at the Annex, May 31

Astrolabe Musik Theatre presents Farshid Samandari’s The Greater Sea and Gheorghi Arnaoudov’s Notes of the Phantom Woman

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 26, 2025Astrolabe Musik Theatre, Vancouver Civic Theatres
Theatre review: Michelle Thrush channels her Inner Elder with imaginative storytelling
Theatre review: Michelle Thrush channels her Inner Elder with imaginative storytelling

At the Firehall Arts Centre, Cree theatre artist journeys through her childhood memories, incorporating cheeky crowd work

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 26, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, Michelle Thrush
Otani Workshop’s Monsters in My Head transcends cuteness at the VAG
Otani Workshop’s Monsters in My Head transcends cuteness at the VAG

In Japanese ceramicist and painter Shigeru Otani’s work, adorable bunnies and sea monsters tell deeper truths

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ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 26, 2025Vancouver Art Gallery, SPRING 2025, Hp, Summer 2025
Star pianist Bruce Liu explores tension between elegance and risk with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Star pianist Bruce Liu explores tension between elegance and risk with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Fuelled by curiosity and spontaneity, the acclaimed performer looks beyond the Chopin repertoire that made his name

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 26, 2025Spring 2025, SPRING 2025, Bruce Liu, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO
New book Sea of Islands showcases UBC Museum of Anthropology's Oceanic collection
New book Sea of Islands showcases UBC Museum of Anthropology's Oceanic collection

Release by Figure 1 Publishing and MOA features more than 250 photographs alongside text by museum curator Carol E. Mayer

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READStir VancouverMay 26, 2025Partner Content, Figure 1 Publishing, Museum of Anthropology, MOA, BC books
Luminarium's glow-in-the-dark juggling lights up the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, May 27 to June 1
Luminarium's glow-in-the-dark juggling lights up the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, May 27 to June 1

All-ages show by Cause & Effect Circus incorporates high-level skills, inventive lighting, and fun sound effects

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FESTS, THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 24, 2025Vancouver Internationl Children's Festival, circus, Cause & Effect Circus
Dance review: A bold survey of contemporary movement at Arts Umbrella Season Finale
Dance review: A bold survey of contemporary movement at Arts Umbrella Season Finale

Marco Goecke, Crystal Pite, Sharon Eyal, and Fernando Magadan provide a whirlwind of short work for tomorrow’s next dance stars

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DANCEJanet SmithMay 23, 2025Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, Crystal Pite, Fernando Hernando Magadan, Itai Erdal
The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & The Art of Survival digs beneath Art Deco painter’s glossy surfaces
The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & The Art of Survival digs beneath Art Deco painter’s glossy surfaces

Julie Rubio’s extensive new documentary, making its local debut at the VIFF Centre, reveals a trailblazing woman who was an outsider on several counts

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ART & DESIGN, SCREENJanet SmithMay 23, 2025VIFF Centre, Vancouver International Film Festival
Renegade Arts Co premieres apocalyptic rock musical Back From the Dead, June 11 to 28
Renegade Arts Co premieres apocalyptic rock musical Back From the Dead, June 11 to 28

Justin Anthony directs the show about a group of survivors navigating the aftermath of a cataclysmic event

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THEATREStir VancouverMay 23, 2025Partner Content, Renegade Arts Co, Summer 2025
Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresensky is a rebel with a cause
Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresensky is a rebel with a cause

A guest of the Vancouver Chopin Society, the veteran musician risked it all to stand up against tyranny

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 23, 2025Vancouver Chopin Society, Spring 2025
Tremors Festival artists crack open the mystery of dreams, both conscious and unconscious
Tremors Festival artists crack open the mystery of dreams, both conscious and unconscious

Howard Dai’s Dream Machine pulls inspiration from Taiwanese game shows, while Paige Louter’s Nod acknowledges chronic fatigue

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FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Tremors Festival, RUMBLE THEATRE, Rumble Theatre, Progress Lab 1422, Progress Lab, Howard Dai, Paige Louter
Stir Q&A: Srutika Sabu embodies a South Asian uncle in drag-king clown show at the rEvolver Festival
Stir Q&A: Srutika Sabu embodies a South Asian uncle in drag-king clown show at the rEvolver Festival

1 Santosh Santosh 2 Go touches on the model minority myth with hilarity and heart

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THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithMay 22, 2025rEvolver Festival, Srutika Sabu, the Cultch, Upintheair Theatre, THE CULTCH
Theatre review: Meeting addresses sex and love addicts' desires with radical empathy
Theatre review: Meeting addresses sex and love addicts' desires with radical empathy

Set in Pacific Theatre’s activity room, play by Katherine Gauthier leans into realism with depth of character and lasting intensity

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Pacific Theatre, Neworld Theatre, Spring 2025
Graham Clark stages 24-hour marathon of laughs to raise funds for Filipino BC, May 23

At Little Mountain Gallery, an array of comedians will work around the clock writing jokes for the standup artist

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COMEDYJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Graham Clark, Little Mountain Gallery, Lapu Lapu
More than 60 artists to perform on West 4th Avenue as Khatsahlano Street Party announces 2025 lineup
More than 60 artists to perform on West 4th Avenue as Khatsahlano Street Party announces 2025 lineup

Alt-rock band Meltt, D.O.A. frontman Joe Keithley, and singer-songwriter Ché Aimee Dorval are among the Burrard Stage highlights

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FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Khatsahlano Street Party, Kitsilano
Mary Ancheta’s MAQkestra performs the music of Betty Davis at BlueShore at CapU, June 21
Mary Ancheta’s MAQkestra performs the music of Betty Davis at BlueShore at CapU, June 21

Stellar local musicians play seminal, sassy funk in North Shore Jazz presentation as part of Vancouver International Jazz Festival

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MUSICStir VancouverMay 22, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Mary Ancheta, North Shore Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Summer 2025
Toby Thompson's poetry takes jazz-infused solo at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival
Toby Thompson's poetry takes jazz-infused solo at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival

In renowned one-man show I Wish I Was a Mountain, the award-winning British poet leans on rhythm of deep musical influences

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MUSIC, FESTS, READJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Vancouver International Children's Festival, Spring 2025, SPRING 2025
Annie Briard: Refracted Fields is now on view at Surrey Art Gallery's offsite UrbanScreen venue
Annie Briard: Refracted Fields is now on view at Surrey Art Gallery's offsite UrbanScreen venue

Kaleidoscopic projection reveals natural elements, from the grand vistas of the Coast Mountains to close-up images of roadside plants

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ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 21, 2025Partner Content, surrey art gallery, SURREY ART GALLERY, Surrey Art Gallery
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The Horseradish Theatre stages the quirky Slavic-accented comedy Number 13, December 18 to 21. 

When a Prime Minister’s assistant’s romantic hotel rendez-vous is interrupted, a host of hilariously chaotic misunderstandings ensue. 

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DanceHouse and The Cultch present an extraordinary work of circus/dance, the North American premiere of Recirquel’s otherworldly Paradisum. 

Directed and choreographed by Bence Vági, Paradisum explores the new possibilities of
 

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