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VIFF documentaries sketch in the history of B.C. art icons

The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes reveals quiet life of a master who avoided spotlight; The Art of Adventure tracks a young Robert Bateman’s journey with Bristol Foster across the world in a Land Rover

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

CULTURE, MUSICEmily LythOctober 1, 2025Gateway Theatre

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

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

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

SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2025NFB, National Film Board, Tina Ouellette

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

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

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

THEATRE, FESTSEmily LythSeptember 29, 2025Have a Senior Moment Festival, Western Gold Theatre

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

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2025Vancouver Chamber Choir

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

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

Janet SmithSeptember 26, 2025

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

VSO musicians on strike for first time in orchestra's 107-year history

Several concerts over the weekend will not go ahead

MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

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

DANCEEmily LythSeptember 26, 2025Circa, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch

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

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

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

SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2025Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF, Homepage feature

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

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

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

FESTSStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2025Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival

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

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

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

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

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

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 25, 2025Partner Content, CTORA Theatre

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