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Surreal bodies and antlered monsters as NFB films hit SIGGRAPH 2025’s cutting-edge Computer Animation Festival

NFB’s “Corpus and the Wandering” and “Inkwo for When the Starving Return” take a spotlight at international conference hosted in Vancouver

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 6, 2025NFB, National Film Board, Siggraph, animation

More screenings and venues, as Vancouver International Film Festival offers first peek at programming

Radu Jude’s Dracula, Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and Hong Sang-soo’s What Does That Nature Say to You are among offerings unveiled as Artist & Industry Passes set to go on sale

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 6, 2025VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

The Comic Singh performs slick Punjabi standup at the Monsoon Festival, August 16

Manpreet Singh keeps it clean with family-friendly set at the Surrey Arts Centre

COMEDYJanet SmithAugust 6, 2025Monsoon Festival, Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts, Summer 2025

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival announces 35th edition, September 20 to 28

From short film “SOIS” to fiery masterclasses and a flamenco-infused take on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, there’s plenty in the lineup

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithAugust 6, 2025Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, Flamenco Rosario

Vancouver-born Forgiveness draws standing O’s at Stratford Festival

Local creative team, including playwright-actor Hiro Kanagawa, drives ambitious production about Japanese imternment

Elemental Nourishment caps this year’s Vines Art Festival with a full day of outdoor offerings, August 16

Performers at Trout Lake Park include Sam Chimes, Siobhan Barker, and Ashley Chodat

FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithAugust 5, 2025Vines Art Festival, Summer 2025

Arts Club Theatre Company hosts uproarious Improv Night With Colin Mochrie & Friends, August 8 and 9

Denalda Williams, Gary Jones, Jeff Gladstone, Rod Crawford, and Veena Sood join the Canadian legend onstage

COMEDYJanet SmithAugust 1, 2025Colin Mochrie, Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club, Summer 2025

Microcosmos Quartet performs alongside young artists at 11th annual Kessler Academy concert, August 10

Music on Main presentation also features renowned English tenor soloist Charles Daniels

At the Monsoon Festival, Kenyan-born actor Nimet Kanji reads play excerpts from her storied career

This installment of salon series includes Anosh Irani’s Bombay Black, Munish Sharma’s Mrs. Singh and Me, and NYC–set period piece The Heiress

A History of Motown brings the party back to the Firehall Arts Centre, August 6 to 17

Krystle Dos Santos and crew revive hits by Aretha Franklin, the Supremes, and more, while interweaving the stories behind the music

Vines Art Festival gains a fresh perspective with incoming co-artistic director

Working with founder Heather Lamoureux, Manuel Ax Strain aims to make the legacy of the land a major focus of the annual event

FESTSJanet SmithJuly 30, 2025Vines Art Festival, Summer 2025

Film review: Make Me Famous travels back to 1980s East Village to rediscover artist Edward Brezinski

Documentary screening at VIFF Centre uncovers a driven artist, and immerses viewer in an art scene that included Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring

SCREEN, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJuly 30, 2025VIFF Centre, Edward Brezinski, Painters

Shrek kicks off outdoor Sunset Cinema series hosted by Vancouver Civic Theatres, August 6

Other free screenings in store this month include The Wild Robot, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Mean Girls

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 29, 2025Vancouver Civic Theatres, Sunset Cinema, Summer 2025

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