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Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 works worth catching at the Dancing on the Edge festival

Studies in math and an industrial fan are just some of the unexpected touches on the event’s mixed programs

DANCEStir VancouverJune 6, 2025Dancing on the Edge, Summer 2025

Indie-folk duos hit the Main Stage at this year's Vancouver Folk Music Festival, July 18 to 20

Offerings range from the intimate acoustic sound of Victoria’s Ocie Elliott to the acclaimed North Carolina pair Watchhouse

Cirque du Soleil’s CRYSTAL melds acrobatics and ice sports in its final tour, at the Pacific Coliseum to June 8

Multimedia rink show gets its glide on when it mixes surreal imagery with innovative skating and high-flying choreography

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJune 5, 2025Cirque du Soleil, Spring 2025

Film reviews: From claustrophobic horror to kayaking calamity, VSFF delivers big impact with small format

At the 15th annual event, here are six titles festival director Duncan Carr calls “a full experience in the briefest amount of time”

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJune 5, 2025Vancouver Short Film Festival, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Rick Maddocks’s Blue Horse Opera brings a spaghetti western song cycle to the Pi Theatre stage

Inspired by Spanish desert and old Italian soundtracks, the writer and composer calls on a creative group of friends to help realize his multidisciplinary vision

MUSICJanet SmithJune 5, 2025Pi theatre, Pi Theatre, Vancouver Opera, Rick Maddocks

Innovative blues artist Corey Harris performs at BlueShore at CapU, June 26

American singer-guitarist infuses the genre with reggae, soul. and West African influences

MUSICStir VancouverJune 5, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Summer 2025

Stir Q&A: Me + Her writer-star Michelle Addison talks motherhood and letting go

In new film at Vancouver Short Film Festival, the well-known influencer and stylist digs movingly into what it means to raise a teen girl these days

World premiere of long-lost Soviet-era symphony among 2025 PRISMA Festival highlights, June 16 to 28

Arthur Arnold conducts Alexander Mosolov’s Symphony No. 3, a brooding yet joyful work with a storied history

FESTS, MUSICStir VancouverJune 4, 2025Partner Content, PRISMA Festival, Summer 2025

Pacific Theatre announces departure from historic Chalmers building due to structural issues

Company to pause programming starting January 2026 while the Holy Trinity Anglican Church fixes water damage and mould in the 1912 site

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithJune 3, 2025Pacific Theatre, Chalmers Presbyterian Church

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 performers and painters to seek out among the flowers and trees at Arts in the Garden

This final edition of North Van Arts’ long-running annual event features engaging music and glowing images, all in serene outdoor settings

ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverJune 3, 2025Arts in the Garden, Homepage feature

Artist and curator Tania Willard named to shortlist for 2025 Sobey Art Award

Six finalists are up for Canada’s largest award for contemporary visual arts

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 3, 2025Sobey Art Award, Tania Willard

The Work of Repair: Redress and Repatriation at the Museum of Vancouver opens June 20

Exhibition digs into the institution’s efforts towards decolonization and connection with Indigenous communities

ART & DESIGN, CULTUREStir VancouverJune 3, 2025Partner Content, Museum of Vancouver, Summer 2025

Vancouver’s Dora Prieto and Jess Goldman win RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

Annual prize presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada carries $10,000 for each recipient, along with access to skill development and mentorship opportunities

READJanet SmithJune 3, 2025Writers' Trust of Canada

Stir Q&A: Tushrik Fredericks and Rebecca Margolick talk trust and spirituality at Dancing on the Edge

Intimate duet to begin with no end explores the artists’ respective religions with care and intensity

Vancouver New Music unveils 2025-26 season featuring American musician JJJJJerome Ellis, Bali DJ Barbara Pleaser, and more

Shows range across disciplines, from the Australian dance-and-drumming offering Manifesto to the roundtable discussion Listening as Activism

MUSICJanet SmithJune 2, 2025VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music

Vancouver Chamber Choir travels from the Bard to South African poetry in Sonnets by the Sea

A world premiere from Johannesburg-based composer Thuthuka Sibisi is on the program, with Christopher Gaze as master of ceremonies

MUSICJanet SmithJune 2, 2025Vancouver Chamber Choir, Shakespeare

Firestarters crackles with work by Indigenous artists who defy categorization, at Fazakas Gallery to July 26

Audie Murray and Zoe Ann Cardinal Cire wield everything from glass beads to firewood and cast-iron pans in an exhibit that ignites new ways of seeing

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJune 1, 2025Fazakas Gallery, Summer 2025

Colin Mochrie reflects on his Vancouver roots ahead of return to Improv Centre

Molly Ringwald movies, ham waffles at Bino’s, D.O.A. concerts, and that night Dubya killed onstage: comedy star recalls highlights in a colourful career

COMEDYJanet SmithMay 30, 2025Colin Mochrie, The Improv Centre, Spring 2025