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Menteuse builds a chaotically funny multiverse out of little white lies, August 20 at Alliance Française

People-pleasing goes haywire as Visions Ouest presents the sequel to the hit Quebec comedy Menteur

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 19, 2025VISIONS OUEST, Visions Ouest, Alliance Francaise, Summer

Belle Spirale Dance Projects announces 2025-26 season that reaches from Kelowna to Spain

Highlights include a new piece by Wen Wei Wang, a commission for Ballet BC Annex, and the return of The Dance Deck in summer 2026

Vancouver Latin American Film Festival launches three brand-new series, September 4 to 14

Opening with The Best Mother in the World, the fest features diverse titles as part of Vanguardias, Migraciones, and Mexico Today

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverAugust 18, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, VLAFF

Theatre review: Black Box Theatre Co.'s The Play That Goes Wrong gets the chaos right

At the Waterfront, actors embrace mishaps while set pieces are programmed to go awry on cue

THEATREJanet SmithAugust 16, 2025Black Box Theatre Co.

On Granville Island, 221A makes shortlist to turn former Emily Carr building into an arts and innovation hub

Nonprofit’s proposal for the 125,000-square-foot building revolves around a concept by Musqueam weaver Debra Sparrow

NEWS, CULTUREJanet SmithAugust 15, 2025granville island, Granville Island, 221A, CMHC, Emily Carr University

Nebula Performances stages powerful opera La tragédie de Carmen, August 28 to September 7

Company’s first full-scale production is presented as part of The Chee Series

MUSICStir VancouverAugust 14, 2025Partner Content, Nebula Performances

In Maker + Mother, artists explore the tension between creative identity and motherhood

Parker Street Gallery exhibition features works by 10 artists, including co-curators Felicia Fraser and Emiko Mizukami

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithAugust 14, 2025Parker Street Gallery, Felicia Fraser

Vancouver Queer Film Festival unveils September program of 100 films, under new artistic director Mary Galloway

Local documentary A Place Where I Belong makes world premiere, while Starwalker musical movie makes its Vancouver debut

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithAugust 14, 2025Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Out on Screen

All Over the Map brings capoeira moves, traditional Nahuatl songs, and more to Granville Island, August 17

Part two of New Works series highlights artists Sudhesna Mohapatra, Judith Colibrí, Ysadora Dias, and Punit & James

DANCEJanet SmithAugust 13, 2025New Works, All Over the Map, Summer 2025

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 acts performing at Music on Main’s sun-speckled Summer Pop-Up Concerts

Mount Pleasant Park performers include M’Girl, the 240 Northern Percussion Ensemble, and pianists Bogdan Dulu and Forest Benson

MUSICStir VancouverAugust 12, 2025Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Summer 2025

The 2025 Polygon Award in First Nations Art goes to Rebecca Baker-Grenier and Gordon Dick

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun receives Award of Distinction, while Kari Morgan earns Emerging Artist award

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithAugust 12, 2025BC Achievement Foundation, Indigenous art, Indigenous

Turning 100, Oscar Peterson’s brilliance fills live music and film at VIFF Centre, August 16

As part of VIFF Live series, a performance by all-star jazz ensemble Triology sets up screening of two films powered by music of a Canadian legend

MUSIC, SCREENJanet SmithAugust 12, 2025Oscar Peterson, VIFF Centre

Sarah Slean, John Boutté, and more to play BlueShore at CapU’s just-announced fall season

More offerings include tributes to the Beatles and Lucinda Williams, Chet Doxas w/ CapU Jazz Ensembles, and Gord Grdina’s Ru’ya

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