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At Gallery 881, Vapes & Butts looks at tobacco smoking through an artist’s lens

Michelle Leone Huisman used a 19th-century printing technique to create her vivid images of the things that smokers discard

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 5, 2026Gallery 881

United Voices Choir masters major Mozart and Schubert Masses, May 9 and 10

The ensemble, which specializes in large-scale works, tackles both the monumental and the lyrical in two concerts

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithMay 5, 2026United Voices Choir

Opera West joins forces with UBC Opera to present grand finale for 100th-anniversary celebrations, May 30

Special concert featuring soprano Simone Osborne and bass-baritone Gordon Bintner celebrates the legacy of the UBC Old Auditorium

MUSICStir VancouverMay 5, 2026Partner Content, Opera West Society, UBC Opera, UBC

The Cultch’s 2026-27 season promises Greek gods, chemical romance, and dances with puppets

Highlights include the premiere of a new musical by Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille, the annual East Van Panto, and the return of Ronnie Burkett’s Daisy Theatre

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithMay 4, 2026THE CULTCH

Ziyian Kwan and Alvin Erasga Tolentino win top B.C. dance artist prizes

The Dance Centre announces Lola Award and Isadora Award for Vancouver choreographers

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 4, 2026DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre, THE DANCE CENTRE

Music review: Beautiful Violence captures Joan of Arc’s existential horrors

Local duo’s live score to Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 historical drama employed drones and dissonance to evocative effect

MUSIC, SCREENJanet SmithMay 4, 2026Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Martin Harley brings his intoxicating slide-guitar sound to CapU on May 10

The Welsh singer-songwriter and Weissenborn master has a long history of playing unusual—and sometimes record-setting—gigs

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 4, 2026Blueshore at CapU

Emily Carr University spotlights the first graduating class of its next century at The Show 2026, from May 13 to 27

Annual exhibition features more than 400 emerging artists and designers in one of Vancouver’s largest free public art events

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 4, 2026Partner Content, Emily Carr University, ECUAD

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 pieces that celebrate rising choral composers at Chor Leoni's The Big Roar

From Miranda Currie’s world premiere “Pass on the teachings” to a work with Bollywood rhythms, two-day choir fest celebrates fresh, diverse voices

MUSICStir VancouverMay 2, 2026CHOR LEONI, Chor Leoni

With FOR GLASS, Ballet BC dancers push and succumb to live string quartet’s rhythms

Star choreographic duo Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber return with a full-evening premiere that draws on the emotional layers in Philip Glass’s music—and in the company members themselves

Western Front hosts Rosamunde Bordo's Magic Show, May 2 to July 25

Interdisciplinary works act as talismans, drawing on found postcards addressed to a woman named Denise

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 1, 2026Partner Content, Western Front

Canada and the U.S. seek choral harmony at Tapestry International Festival

Vancouver’s own Elektra hosts adult treble choirs from Nova Scotia, Illinois, and California in this triennial celebration

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithMay 1, 2026Elektra, choral music

Art Vancouver 2026 unites exhibitors exploring identity, material, and contemporary experience, May 28 to 31

Fair celebrates its 10th edition this year at the Vancouver Convention Centre, with local and international artists

ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverMay 1, 2026Partner Content, Art Vancouver

Itai Erdal’s Soldiers of Tomorrow confronts personal past in Israeli army, at The Cultch from May 6 to 10

Theatre artist’s innovative one-man show mixes memoir and history lesson, with live music by Syrian-born musician Emad Armoush

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 30, 2026THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Itai Erdal

VSO brings full forces to the Orpheum for Mahler’s monumental Third Symphony, May 29 and 30

Music director Otto Tausk is at the podium for this concert, which features mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb and the Vancouver Bach Choir

MUSICStir VancouverApril 30, 2026Partner Content, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Otto Tausk

In bold new show Glitch, Some Assembly Theatre taps into anxieties of youth consumed by online life

Long-time company writer and director Valerie Methot talks about her rich creative collaboration with young people who are struggling with the fallout of addiction to phones

Indian Summer Festival unveils first 2026 programming, spanning comedy and music

Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa, Rashmeet Kaur, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and Modern Biology at event that runs July 9 to 19

FESTS, MUSIC, COMEDY, READJanet SmithApril 30, 2026Indian Summer Festival, Summer 2026

Vancouver Civic Theatres caps this season’s Silent Movie Mondays series with The Lodger, May 25

Koos van Nieuwkoop plays the historic Wurlitzer organ live to Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 thriller

SCREENStir VancouverApril 30, 2026Partner Content, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Buena Vista Social Club’s Eliades Ochoa brings his never-ending tour to the Chan, May 9

At the age of 79, the veteran Cuban performer shows no signs of slowing down, declaring that “a troubadour never retires”

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithApril 29, 2026Chan Centre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

A Voynich Manifesto probes the unsolved mysteries of a medieval manuscript

In Terri Hron’s Vancouver New Music show, performers Mind of a Snail, SJ Kirsch, and Viviane Houle improvise on themes including nature and the roots of capitalism

MUSICJanet SmithApril 29, 2026VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

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