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Cuisine meets musical in Partir un jour, at Alliance Française on August 14

Visions Ouest presents the Cannes opener about a star chef who reconnects with her earthy, truck-stop roots

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 11, 2025Alliance Francaise Vancouver, Visions Ouest, VISIONS OUEST

The Play That Goes Wrong brings farcical mishaps to Granville Island, August 13 to 30

Black Box Theatre Co. presents the production that has garnered wide acclaim since its 2012 premiere in London

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithAugust 9, 2025Black Box Theatre Co., Waterfront Theatre

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival celebrates landmarks with audacious, inclusive program, August 12 to 15

This year’s lineup features bold birthday tributes, not only to groundbreaking artists such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, but also to the festival itself

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 8, 2025Blueridge Chamber Music Festival

Firehall Arts Centre announces 2025-26 season of Canadian works, including world premieres of Tracey Power’s House of Folk and Marlene Ginader’s Canadian Psycho

More offerings include Hiromoto Ida’s Vacant Lot and Between Breaths, a play about a whale conservationist

Sudan, Remember Us gives a ground-level view of youth uprising, at VIFF Centre to August 22

Street cameras capture the hope and art of young protesters in Khartoum in a revolution the world forgot

R;Link’s musical tale of hockey and war honours moments of cross-cultural connection

In the 2024-25 Korea-Canada Year of Cultural Exchanges, production at BlueShore at CapU sings and speaks in many languages about historical turning point

THEATREJanet SmithAugust 7, 2025Blueshore at CapU, Korea, Summer 2025, BlueShore at CapU

Jonathan Larson’s musical masterpiece RENT comes to Metro Theatre, September 5 to 20

Heartfelt story portrays struggling artists living under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York

THEATREStir VancouverAugust 7, 2025Partner Content, Metro Theatre

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