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Performers and audience find bigger, brighter, braver selves in kids’ show Parents Are a Drag
Performers and audience find bigger, brighter, braver selves in kids’ show Parents Are a Drag

Carousel Theatre for Young People brings back a hit celebration of drag that juggles song, education, dress-up, and play

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THEATREJanet SmithNovember 12, 2025Carousel Theatre for Young People
Film reviews: European Union Film Festival 2025 travels through folk superstition, trauma, and comedy
Film reviews: European Union Film Festival 2025 travels through folk superstition, trauma, and comedy

Criss-crossing the map from the Lithuanian countryside to a painful Maltese dinner party, this year’s program provokes both chills and laughs

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SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 12, 2025The Cinematheque, EUFF
John Reischman and the Jaybirds play the Anvil Theatre, December 7
John Reischman and the Jaybirds play the Anvil Theatre, December 7

Eponymous mandolinist’s band delivers a bluegrass sound that blends original songs with old-time Appalachian music

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MUSICStir VancouverNovember 12, 2025Partner Content, Anvil Theatre
Nicolas Altstaedt and Thomas Dunford restring classics by Marais and Bach, November 16
Nicolas Altstaedt and Thomas Dunford restring classics by Marais and Bach, November 16

Performance by acclaimed cello-and-lute duo for Vancouver Recital Society is poised to bring bold energy to landmarks of Baroque music

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MUSICJanet SmithNovember 12, 2025VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY, early music, baroque
Theatre review: Frozen’s wintry spell carries the magic of the Disney original
Theatre review: Frozen’s wintry spell carries the magic of the Disney original

With sparkling effects and powerful performances, the Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of the beloved musical captures imaginations of young audience members

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THEATREJanet SmithNovember 12, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company, Homepage feature, Holiday 2025
Music on Main hosts annual holiday concert Music for the Winter Solstice, December 10 and 11
Music on Main hosts annual holiday concert Music for the Winter Solstice, December 10 and 11

Event at Heritage Hall features vocalist-violinist Caroline Shaw, vocalist Danni Lee Parpan, percussionist Julia Chien, and pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa

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MUSICStir VancouverNovember 12, 2025Partner Content, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Music On Main, Holiday 2025
More than 80 artists take part in Eastside Culture Crawl preview exhibit PASSION REASON IDIOCY, to November 30
More than 80 artists take part in Eastside Culture Crawl preview exhibit PASSION REASON IDIOCY, to November 30

Pieces ranging from sculptures to paintings are on display at The Cultch’s Historic Theatre, Alternative Creations Gallery, and Pendulum Gallery

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ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithNovember 10, 2025Eastside Culture Crawl, Eastside Arts, Eastside Arts Society, Eastside Arts District, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, Pendulum Gallery
Theatre review: The Effect packs powerful doses of dark humour and difficult truth
Theatre review: The Effect packs powerful doses of dark humour and difficult truth

Rumble Theatre and ITSAZOO’s sleek production of an unsettling, uncanny drama by Lucy Prebble explores our choices in a pharmaceutical-driven world

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THEATREJanet SmithNovember 10, 2025RUMBLE THEATRE, ITSAZOO Productions
Julian Taylor and Logan Staats share powerful songs and stories at BlueShore at CapU, November 27
Julian Taylor and Logan Staats share powerful songs and stories at BlueShore at CapU, November 27

Canadian artists, who both share Mohawk ancestry, write music with truth and soul

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MUSICStir VancouverNovember 10, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts
Theatre review: Festive warmth fills witty Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Theatre review: Festive warmth fills witty Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

With Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, Metro Theatre offers a Pride and Prejudice sequel in which a long-overlooked member of one of literature’s most famous families finds love

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THEATREJanet SmithNovember 10, 2025Metro Theatre
Burnaby Art Gallery hosts Marika Swan ƛ̓upinup: A Circle Strong Enough to Carry Both Sides, November 14 to January 25
Burnaby Art Gallery hosts Marika Swan ƛ̓upinup: A Circle Strong Enough to Carry Both Sides, November 14 to January 25

Artist’s first solo exhibition features woodblock printmaking informed by the rich traditions of her Nuu-chah-nulth lineage

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ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 10, 2025Partner Content, Burnaby Art Gallery
Stir Q&A: At the Chutzpah! Festival, Australian duo’s Common Place taps into the magic of partnerwork
Stir Q&A: At the Chutzpah! Festival, Australian duo’s Common Place taps into the magic of partnerwork

Dancers Omer Backley-Astrachan and Jana Castillo explore the importance of connection and trust

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DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 10, 2025chutzpah! festival, Chutzpah! Festival, Chutzpah Festival
Eastside Arts Society and the Audain Foundation begin three-year partnership
Eastside Arts Society and the Audain Foundation begin three-year partnership

Foundation is the Presenting Partner of the Eastside Culture Crawl from 2025 to 2027

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ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 10, 2025Partner Content, Eastside Arts Society, Eastside Culture Crawl, Audain Foundation, Audain
Dance review: Stunning group work drives Ballet BC’s high-energy TRILOGY
Dance review: Stunning group work drives Ballet BC’s high-energy TRILOGY

Company looks sharp across opening program of eclectic, full-throttle LILA, mysterious SWAY, and epic BOLERO X

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DANCEJanet SmithNovember 9, 2025BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, Vancouver Civic Theatres
 B.C. artist Tania Willard wins 2025 Sobey Art Award
B.C. artist Tania Willard wins 2025 Sobey Art Award

Rooted in Secwépemc knowledge, Willard’s work sits in collections at the Vancouver Art Gallery and elsewhere

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ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithNovember 8, 2025Tania Willard
Sparks fly as harpist Rita Costanzi joins Vetta Chamber Music’s return to Schafer’s chamber-music masterpiece, Theseus
Sparks fly as harpist Rita Costanzi joins Vetta Chamber Music’s return to Schafer’s chamber-music masterpiece, Theseus

At Stirrings, strings piece explores rich contemporary territory, alongside classical Borodin and Debussy

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MUSICJanet SmithNovember 7, 2025Vetta Chamber Music, Rita Costanzi
Created with survivor testimonials, The Mush Hole tells the truth about Canada’s longest-running residential school
Created with survivor testimonials, The Mush Hole tells the truth about Canada’s longest-running residential school

Renowned Indigenous choreographer Santee Smith brings her haunting yet hopeful piece to The Cultch and Urban Ink’s TRANSFORM Festival

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DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 7, 2025the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Urban Ink Theatre, Transform Festival, Santee Smith
The Cinematheque hosts 28th annual European Union Film Festival, November 13 to 26
The Cinematheque hosts 28th annual European Union Film Festival, November 13 to 26

Titles include Denmark’s The Land of Short Sentences, Ukraine solidarity screening Porcelain War, and more

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SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverNovember 7, 2025Partner Content, The CInematheque, The Cinematheque, EUFF, European Union Film Festival
Beauty and brutality intermix in Polygon Gallery’s new show Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932-1945)
Beauty and brutality intermix in Polygon Gallery’s new show Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932-1945)

Trailblazer shot everything from fashion in front of bombed-out buildings to the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald

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ART & DESIGNJanet SmithNovember 6, 2025POLYGON GALLERY, Polygon Gallery, Lee Miller, Homepage feature
Goh Ballet's The Nutcracker brings magic and merriment to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, December 18 to 21
Goh Ballet's The Nutcracker brings magic and merriment to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, December 18 to 21

Presented by RBC, production features more than 250 performers and a live Tchaikovsky score played by members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra

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DANCEStir VancouverNovember 6, 2025Partner Content, Goh Ballet, Nutcracker, Holiday 2025
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Portrayals of the classic novel’s famously lively siblings shine brightest when all four are together onstage, capturing love for one another in quiet gestures.⁠
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Nutcracker inhabits a snow-dusted Canada, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, December 12 to 14. 

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With fresh adaptation (a) Winter’s Tale, two well-known theatre talents launch The Ecstasy @theecstasytheatreco. 

Colleen Wheeler and Moya O’Connell have gathered a crack team of actors for micro-sized Shakespearean shows at the City Cen
Early Music Vancouver aims to make Handel’s beloved Messiah feel both fresh and familiar. 

Pacific Baroque Orchestra conductor Alexander Weimann says the German-English composer’s oratorio is never the same piece twice. 

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