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Stir Q&A: Mireille Lebel and Rachel Fenlon dish on new dance-opera meld Pierrot entre 3 lunes

Vancouver team that includes Ne.Sans Opera and Dance reimagines the clown in Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire at Festival d’opéra de Québec

DANCE, OPERA, MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 29, 2025opera, Mireille Lebel, Rachel Fenlon, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, Idan Cohen

Brazil’s The Best Mother in the World set to open Vancouver Latin American Film Festival

Running September 4 to 14, celebration also includes Canada Looks South and Mexico Today series, New Directors Competition, and much more

Times Reflection brings Indigenous Filipinx music and folk-noir banjo to Vines Art Festival, August 7

Ghostly Hounds, Babette Santos, and Ricardo are among the artists performing at free Pandora Park event

FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 28, 2025Vines Art Festival, Vines Art Society, Summer 2025

The Cinematheque’s annual Film Noir series explores the genre’s shadowy margins

The big-city sins of Sweet Smell of Success mingle with the small-town nightmares of Moonrise in this year’s darkly adventurous lineup

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 28, 2025The Cinematheque, Summer 2025

Lumière, l’aventure continue celebrates the birth of cinema in Paris, July 29 at Alliance Française Vancouver

Documentary restores more than a hundred shorts by the legendary Lumière Brothers, in Visions Ouest presentation

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithJuly 25, 2025Visions Ouest, VISIONS OUEST, Alliance Francaise

Amid urgent calls from more than 40 arts community members, Vancouver votes for "watered-down" motion for cultural sustainability

“If we don’t act now, we risk losing a vital part of this city’s identity,” said Bard on the Beach’s Christopher Gaze, echoing calls by other Vancouver festivals and artists

NEWSJanet SmithJuly 24, 2025Vancouver City Council

In Silk Strings, musical cultures fuse through deep history of imperial courts and ancient poetry

Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival and the Sound of Dragon Society join forces to play on Chinese-European musical exchange that is centuries old

MUSICJanet SmithJuly 24, 2025Early Music Vancouver, Sound of Dragon

Onibana Taiko pumps Japanese tradition full of riot grrrl aesthetics at the Powell Street Festival

Taiko artists Noriko Kobayashi and E. Kage reflect on punk-rock roots and gender expression

FESTS, CULTURE, MUSICJanet SmithJuly 23, 2025Powell Street Festival, Summer 2025, taiko, Onibana Taiko

For soprano Magali Simard-Galdès, early music performance and sustainability work go hand in hand

Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival’s artist-in-residence interprets Bach, Schubert, and Mozart—and hosts a panel on how to bring environmentally sound practices to performing arts

Elektra unveils 2025-26 season led by new artistic director Cassie Luftspring

Offerings include a Christmas concert with emerging artists, a climate change–centred program, and the triennial Tapestry International Festival

MUSICJanet SmithJuly 23, 2025Elektra, ELEKTRA, Elektra Women's Choir

Des jours meilleurs takes women in rehab on the drive of their lives, at Alliance Française on July 23

Copresented with Visions Ouest, new comedy mixes unvarnished look at alcoholism with desert adventure

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 22, 2025Visions Ouest, VISIONS OUEST, Alliance Francaise, Summer 2025

Alexander Weimann plays “O Canada”–infused piano classics in True North Variations, July 27

Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival concert coincides with the release of a new CD

Vancouver City Council motion calls for “urgent investment” in local arts and culture sector

In the motion set for July 23, recommendations to address funding and space shortfalls include setting a $40,000 minimum for operating grants and establishing a Festivals Vancouver Fund

NEWS, CULTUREJanet SmithJuly 21, 2025Vancouver City Council, arts funding

Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs announces 95th season, opening with a Phantom of the Opera silent-movie score

Among the other highlights are the annual Christmas With the Bach Choir, Behind the Keys, and SpringSong

MUSICJanet SmithJuly 21, 2025Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Vancouver Bach Choir

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 acts to get you moving at the Mission Folk Music Festival

Tio Chorinho and Flávia Nascimento’s vibrant Brazilian rhythms, Shpilkis’s brass-driven klezmer, Julian Taylor’s soulful voice, and more

Season 2 of Killjoy Comedy subverts the status quo with laughs, starting July 25

Created by Vancouver’s Shana Myara, docuseries available for streaming on OUTtv.com highlights racialized and queer comedians

SCREEN, COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 18, 2025Killjoy Comedy, Summer 2025

To a Land Unknown takes a timely look at what happens when people have nothing left to lose, at VIFF Centre from July 18 to 24

Filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel’s compelling portrait of two Palestinian refugees trying to escape hardscrabble limbo in an unrecognizable Athens

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 17, 2025VIFF, VIFF Centre

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 happenings to check out at the Eastside Arts Festival’s all-day MacLean Park party

From an indie garage-pop concert by Twin River to a plant pot–decorating workshop, here are just a few of the free offerings in store

Theatre review: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] takes pleasingly panicked tour of the Bard’s canon

As if haunted by centuries of hits and flops, the three figures in this Bard on the Beach comedy take jabs at the self-consciousness and shaky footing of being an actor

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 17, 2025Bard on the Beach, Summer 2025