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Renee Fajardo sings Disney tunes at Gateway Theatre's To the Moon: Mid-Autumn Celebration, October 5
Renee Fajardo sings Disney tunes at Gateway Theatre's To the Moon: Mid-Autumn Celebration, October 5

Celebratory event also includes a lantern-making workshop and complimentary mooncakes

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CULTURE, MUSICEmily LythOctober 1, 2025Gateway Theatre
Theatre review: Women of the Fur Trade slyly shifts from museum realism to irreverent counter-history
Theatre review: Women of the Fur Trade slyly shifts from museum realism to irreverent counter-history

Touchstone Theatre/Western Canada Theatre Company remount, a strong cast, set, and singular script craft entertaining, female-centred satire

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THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 30, 2025Western Canada Theatre Company, Touchstone Theatre, UBC Theatre, Frederic Wood Theatre, NAC Indigenous Theatre
Vancouver Bach Choir performs a live Phantom of the Opera score at Silent Movie Mondays: A Special Edition, October 27
Vancouver Bach Choir performs a live Phantom of the Opera score at Silent Movie Mondays: A Special Edition, October 27

Centenary screening features live music by seven-piece orchestra and 80-person choir, with Michael Dirk on Wurlitzer organ

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MUSIC, SCREENStir VancouverSeptember 30, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Vancouver Bach Choir, Leslie Dala, Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs
National Film Board names Tina Ouellette executive producer of Western Documentary Unit
National Film Board names Tina Ouellette executive producer of Western Documentary Unit

Film veteran steps into the role as Shirley Vercruysse begins her retirement after an 11-year term

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SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2025NFB, National Film Board, Tina Ouellette
Vancouver Art Gallery announces Formline Architecture + Urbanism and KPMB Architects to envision new structure
Vancouver Art Gallery announces Formline Architecture + Urbanism and KPMB Architects to envision new structure

Specific design proposals expected in 2026; Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron’s original plan had been discarded in December

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ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2025Vancouver Art Gallery, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
Stir Q&A: At Have a Senior Moment Festival, Home depicts an elderly woman with agency
Stir Q&A: At Have a Senior Moment Festival, Home depicts an elderly woman with agency

Playwright Melody Anderson draws on her own grandmother’s experience with a home invasion in a staged reading presented by Western Gold Theatre

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THEATRE, FESTSEmily LythSeptember 29, 2025Have a Senior Moment Festival, Western Gold Theatre
Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Stuart Beatch aims to uplift
Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Stuart Beatch aims to uplift

The Edmonton-based artist thrives on collaboration and keeps a stack of poetry books within arm’s reach

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MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2025Vancouver Chamber Choir
Whistler Writers Festival pairs vibrant literary discovery with charming forest views, October 30 to November 2
Whistler Writers Festival pairs vibrant literary discovery with charming forest views, October 30 to November 2

Events range from book talks to writing masterclasses, featuring such authors as Antonio Michael Downing, Susan Juby, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and more

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READ, CULTURAL TOURISMStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2025Partner Content, Tourism Whistler, Whistler Writers Festival, Whistler
Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards are back after a two-year-plus pause
Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards are back after a two-year-plus pause

Among other shifts, the November 3 ceremony will hand out prizes for companies of three sizes: large, medium, and small

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Janet SmithSeptember 26, 2025
B.C. artist Brian Jungen wins $100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts
B.C. artist Brian Jungen wins $100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts

He’s made his name reimagining everyday objects, including reconstructing Nike Air Jordan sneakers to resemble Northwest Coast Indigenous masks

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ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2025Brian Jungen, Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain Foundation, Audain Art Museum, Homepage feature
VSO musicians on strike for first time in orchestra's 107-year history
VSO musicians on strike for first time in orchestra's 107-year history

Several concerts over the weekend will not go ahead

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MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Circa's acrobats run as a pack in raw, animalistic Wolf
Circa's acrobats run as a pack in raw, animalistic Wolf

Presented here by The Cultch, the Australian company’s piece is packed to the brim with ferocity and carnal energy

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DANCEEmily LythSeptember 26, 2025Circa, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch
Vancouver-area arts organizations mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2025
Vancouver-area arts organizations mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2025

Powwow dancers, concerts, films, and hands-on art as programming at several local venues takes place on and around September 30

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FESTSStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2025National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous, Pacific Theatre, MOA
At VIFF, Treasure of the Rice Terraces takes local filmmaker high into the clouds of the Philippines
At VIFF, Treasure of the Rice Terraces takes local filmmaker high into the clouds of the Philippines

Kent Donguines’s new documentary journeys to Buscalan, where ancient Kalinga hand-tapped tattooing is thriving again

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SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2025Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF, Homepage feature
Vancouver Chamber Choir's True North honours the beauty of northern climates, October 24
Vancouver Chamber Choir's True North honours the beauty of northern climates, October 24

Program features works by Nico Muhly, R. Murray Schafer, Veljo Tormis, and composer-in-residence Stuart Beatch

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MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir
Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 outdoor events to explore at this year's Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 outdoor events to explore at this year's Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival

Song cycles, lantern processions, and tea gardens, as event highlights the natural beauty and ecological importance of Renfrew Ravine and Still Creek

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FESTSStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2025Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
Outside Mullingar explores love in the Irish Midlands, to October 18
Outside Mullingar explores love in the Irish Midlands, to October 18

A shy farmer struggles to save his inheritance in in Honeybee Productions’ rendition of John Patrick Shanley’s romantic comedy

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THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGStir VancouverSeptember 25, 2025Jericho Arts Centre, Theatre
At VIFF, Ava Maria Safai's Foreigner blends teen-angst horror with the immigrant experience
At VIFF, Ava Maria Safai's Foreigner blends teen-angst horror with the immigrant experience

High-school hell meets a literal demon in the North Vancouver writer-director’s partly autobiographical feature

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SCREEN, FESTSAdrian MackSeptember 25, 2025Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF
CTORA Theatre stages Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, October 24 to November 9
CTORA Theatre stages Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, October 24 to November 9

Creative team includes director Chris Lam, musical director Peter Abando, and choreographer Nicole Rose Bond

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THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 25, 2025Partner Content, CTORA Theatre
Sarah Slean cultivates challenging but fruitful love affair with chamber music
Sarah Slean cultivates challenging but fruitful love affair with chamber music

The classically trained singer-songwriter and pianist is heading to the West Coast for a pair of shows with Black Dog String Quartet, at BlueShore at CapU and the Shadbolt

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MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 25, 2025Sarah Slean, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Blueshore at CapU, Homepage feature
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When Tony learns of his wife’s affair, his jealousy takes a lethal turn. He concocts the perfect murder, devises an alibi, and waits
Cosí fan tutte gets a vintage-Canadian refresh under director Robert Herriot @vancouveropera. 

The Winnipeg artist brings experience as a tenor to a Mozart opera reimagined in a 1930s Rockies resort, complete with Mounties and log drivers.
In The Brutal Joy, Justine A. Chambers channels the overwhelming beauty of Black living. 

With staging that evokes a Chicago jazz bar, the Dance Centre and PuSh Festival co-presentation draws on matrilineal fashion and line dancing. 

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