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Vancouver Civic Theatres launches 2025-26 National Geographic Live season, October 15
Vancouver Civic Theatres launches 2025-26 National Geographic Live season, October 15

Tree canopy ecologist Nalini Nadkarni leads audiences up into the clouds to see the fascinating world of Costa Rican branches with From Roots to Canopy

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SCREEN, THEATREStir VancouverOctober 2, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Civic Theatres, VCT, National Geographic
Martin Sexton pares Beatles classics down to the essentials for his Abbey Road Show, October 7
Martin Sexton pares Beatles classics down to the essentials for his Abbey Road Show, October 7

The Fab Four’s most-celebrated album was a formative influence on the veteran American singer-songwriter who’s headed to the BlueShore at CapU

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MUSICStir VancouverOctober 2, 2025Martin Sexton, Blueshore at CapU
Vancouver Cantata Singers opens the 2025-26 season with In Paradisum, November 1
Vancouver Cantata Singers opens the 2025-26 season with In Paradisum, November 1

Program revolving around Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor explores the multifaceted concept of paradise

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MUSICStir VancouverOctober 2, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers
Drummer Ches Smith plays 21st-century fusion with his band Clone Row
Drummer Ches Smith plays 21st-century fusion with his band Clone Row

The improvisation-heavy jazz quartet melds Afrocentric rhythms with electronically warped electric guitars

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MUSICStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, jazz
VIFF 2025 reviews: Influencer-culture takedowns, sword-and-sorcery reboots, family tragedies, and more
VIFF 2025 reviews: Influencer-culture takedowns, sword-and-sorcery reboots, family tragedies, and more

Quick takes on Dracula, Idiotka, Akashi, and Ma—Cry of Silence, plus documentaries about one family’s scattered heritage and the true cost of global capitalism

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SCREENStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, Homepage feature
Ballet BC opens 2025-26 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with TRILOGY, November 6 to 8
Ballet BC opens 2025-26 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with TRILOGY, November 6 to 8

Triple bill includes return of global sensation BOLERO X, Medhi Walerski’s SWAY, and world premiere from Italy’s Sofia Nappi

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DANCEStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025Partner Content, Ballet BC, BALLET BC
Upintheair Theatre and What Lab take a quantum leap with The Array: Less Than Zero
Upintheair Theatre and What Lab take a quantum leap with The Array: Less Than Zero

The three-night showcase explores science-fiction themes through experimental performances

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THEATREStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025Upintheair Theatre, Theatre
VIFF documentaries sketch in the history of B.C. art icons
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

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FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithOctober 1, 2025EJ Hughes, Robert Bateman, VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, Homepage feature
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
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark captures the inner turmoil of a man zeroed in on revenge. 

In a DanceHouse presentation, Guillaume Côté and Robert Lepage stage their tightly paced adaptation of Shakespeare’s story. 

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Top-notch cast assembles for staged reading of The Stranger at PAL Studio Theatre, March 13 to 15. 

Based on an early Agatha Christie story, the play focuses on a woman’s impulsive marriage to a charming mystery man. 

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Pyper retells folk tales to explore our relationship with AI and algorithms. 

Cyborg teenagers struggle with the same fears about technology that their human counterparts do in this visually spare, idea-charged production by UBC Theatre.

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Party atmosphere of Danceboy celebrates self-discovery and the joys of Bollywood. 

Multifaceted theatremakers Munish Sharma and Gavan Cheema bring an eight-year-long project to completion by working beyond stage conventions.

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Brahms X Radiohead finds common ground between classical music and alternative rock. 

Composer and conductor Steve Hackman has no fear of crossing stylistic boundaries. Read more at Stir. 

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