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Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates 20th edition, March 27 to April 17

Milestone season features expanded celebrations, new traditions, and citywide gatherings under pink canopies

FESTSStir VancouverMarch 13, 2026Partner Content, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

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

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 12, 2026Western Gold Theatre, Agatha Christie

Western Front presents Karen Ng's improvised concert Backwards Blue, March 26

Toronto-based artist is known for her prowess as a saxophonist and creative music collaborations

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 12, 2026Partner Content, Western Front

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

Composer and conductor Steve Hackman has no fear of crossing stylistic boundaries

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 12, 2026Homepage feature, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO

Cascade Peaks ChamberFest announces a world premiere for its inaugural vocal ensemble program

At a July 20 concert, faculty lead Mark Vuorinen directs Where Wildness Lives by renowned B.C. composer Imant Raminsh

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

In Fall(se) Circ(us), dancers embrace cycles of frenzied work and relatable exhaustion

At the Roundhouse, Little Room Productions’ inaugural piece draws on choreographer Isak Enquist’s lifelong experience in martial arts

Indigenous science-fiction film Slash/Back screens at the Shadbolt Centre, March 27

When an alien invasion threatens a remote town in Nunavut, three teenage girls must save the day

At The Polygon Gallery, Photolithics presents a decade of Tania Willard on an epic scale

The large, provocative works in the Secwépemc artist’s biggest solo exhibition to date mesh with uniquely luminous spaces

Franklinland takes an irreverent look at one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

Actor Brian Markinson says Lloyd Suh’s script takes artistic liberties with the life of Benjamin Franklin

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 10, 2026Arts Club Theatre Company

Bansuri player Lara Wong and flamenco guitarist Melón Jiménez cultivate otherworldly sounds at the Kay Meek, March 19 to 21

Tracks off the pair’s Juno-nominated 2024 album Confluencias trace the music traditions of Spain and India

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 10, 2026Kay Meek Arts Centre, Kay Meek

Vancouver Opera stages Giacomo Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème, April 25 to May 3

Music director emeritus Jonathan Darlington returns to conduct this Parisian love story tested by the bittersweet passage of time

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 10, 2026Partner Content, Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA

$At Vancouver Greek Film Festival, visual innovation throws light on social fracture$

At Vancouver Greek Film Festival, visual innovation throws light on social fracture

In series at The Cinematheque, vintage home-movie glow of Kyuka: Before Summer’s End and hallucinatory shades of Harvest reveal tension and crisis beneath domestic and communal surfaces

Legendary Inuk artist Susan Aglukark and throat-singing duo PIQSIQ perform at the Chan Centre, April 12

Award-winning artists reclaim Arctic sounds with soaring vocals

Theatre review: Fears about motherhood infuse poetic, darkly humorous Liste des enfants dévorés par les loups

With warped sitcom rhythms, Caroline Bélisle’s new play brings together two old friends to contend with contemporary ambivalence about bringing children into the world

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 9, 2026Theatre la Seizieme, Théâtre la Seizième

Film review: Moi qui t’aimais explores troubled passion between star couple Signoret and Montand

Diane Kurys’s gossipy, subtly performed biopic portrays the last years of a legendary relationship rife with destructive compulsions

SUBA Trio creates inspiring musical unity from Africa’s sublime sources

Although from different points on the map, pianist Omar Sosa, kora player Seckou Keita, and percussionist Gustavo Ovalles realized through improvisation that they were attuned to one another

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 6, 2026Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Renowned choreographer Noam Gagnon performs a deeply personal solo live-scored by Stefan Smulovitz, March 11 to 14

The piece by Vision Impure, called being, comes to KW Studios courtesy of Kokoro Dance Theatre Society

DANCEStir VancouverMarch 6, 2026Partner Content, Kokoro Dance

Vancouver filmmaker Emma Higgins and actor Kate Hallett upend teen horror in Sweetness

Drawing major buzz for the way it plays with genre, the story of a misguided superfan boasts maximalist visual touches, hits of dark humour, and a considerable amount of heart

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 5, 2026Emma Higgins