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      <image:caption>Carols, ballet, and cocktails are on offer at this year’s CandyTown.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-23</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-15</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-29</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/be-water-hong-kong-project</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-17</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-16</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/talking-stick-festival-dancing-with-our-ancestors</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-29</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/vancouver-art-gallery-spring-forward-auction</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-17</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Ken Nakano of Victoria’s Inn at Laurel Point is among the B.C. chefs participating in the 2021 Spot Prawn Festival.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-18</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-18</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/realwheels-theatre-artistic-director-tomas-mureika</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-18</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/revolver-festival-2021</loc>
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      <image:caption>Daniel Martin and Dave Mott, co-artistic producers at Upintheair Theatre, knew they wanted to do something different for 2021.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chloe Payne, who has a background in physical theatre, was blown away immediately by the potential of VR.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Talaysay Tours’ Talking Totems Indigenous Art Tour goes into detail about the significance of individual elements of the Stanley Park totem poles. Photo by Talaysay Tours</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Talking Totems Indigenous Art Tour includes information about Susan Point’s People Amongst the People. Photo by City of Vancouver</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-25</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Cat Toren’s HUMAN KIND appears in the jazz fest’s free streamed program. Photo by Angela Fama</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-21</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/miradas-alternas-polygon-gallery</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-21</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-21</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-22</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/boba-run-vancouver</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-21</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Boba Run owner Christine Alu is bringing a taste of Korean to the popular tea-based drinks that were born in Taiwan. Photos by Richard Won</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-20</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-20</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-18</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-18</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/musica-intima-ding-dong-carols</loc>
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      <image:caption>Kira Fondse has a background in opera and musical theatre.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-01-29</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-18</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2022-01-19</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-15</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-15</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-13</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-12</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-17</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-12</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/pathetic-fallacy-rumble-theatre-sponsored</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-12</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/global-soundscapes-hasselberg-tung-qa</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-13</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Erhu player Lan Tung hails from Taiwan and cellist Marina Hasselberg comes from Portugal, but in Vancouver they’ve found a way for their musical worlds to meet. They’re seen here in their new music video for Global Soundscapes.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/mixed-up-streaming-review</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-13</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-11</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-14</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>A new date will be announced for Re-Space, a collaborative performance among Ballet BC, the Polygon Gallery, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nehiyo (Cree) mixed-blood actor, improvisor, and writer Todd Houseman watched his dad, Indigenous comedian Howie Miller, tackle racism on-stage.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/paul-morstad-hatch-winery</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-09-30</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Azores Aquatic Club by Paul Morstad</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/masayoshi-baba</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-09-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Omakase sushi restaurant Masayoshi, owned and operated by chef Masayoshi Baba, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Photos by Leila Kwok</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/ed-archie-noisecat</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-09-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Ed Archie NoiseCat graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 1986, then left B.C. to build his career. Photo by SLCC/Logan Swayze</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>ThunderWhorl, 2019, Limited Edition Kiln Cast Lead Crystal, 16.75” diametre, $10,000. Photo by Wendy McEahern</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Salmon King, 2016, Steel, hand-painted. 32”W x 48”H , $5,400. Photo by Ed Archie NoiseCat.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Articles - With Sqātsza7 Tmicw – Father Land, artist Ed Archie NoiseCat comes home</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bear Mother Moon Mask, 2018, Alder, Abalone &amp; Bone, 11.6”W x 11.9”H x 3”D, $11,500. Photo by Wendy McEahern</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In the Wake of the Whale, 2019, Limited Edition Fused Glass, 19.25”W x 23.75”H x 0.3”D, $5,500. Photo by Wendy McEahern</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Salmon Run Bracelet, Cast Sterling Silver, 15 links, length is 7.25 “L, 1.75” wide, $3500. Photo by Hilary Wallace Brelsford</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NoiseCat didn’t always have permission to use his traditional family name. Photo by Gail Johnson</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Articles - With Sqātsza7 Tmicw – Father Land, artist Ed Archie NoiseCat comes home</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ed Archie NoiseCat (left) spent time mentoring Lil’Wat Nation member Redmond Andrews, a cultural ambassador at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, as part of his time in Whistler recently. Photo by Gail Johnson</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/zsuzsi-gartner</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-09-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The Beguiling author Zsuzsi Gartner has long strived to balance tragedy and comedy in her fierce fiction. Photo by Imogene Broberg-Hull.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Articles - Stir Q&amp;amp;A: Zsuzsi Gartner writes with brutal honesty, devastating humour in debut novel, The Beguiling</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/hotel-zed-book-tofino</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-09-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>ʔiisaak in the Garden is a collaboration by Gisele Martin of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation; Ian Gill, a former reporter for CBC TV who covered the Clayoquot Sound uprising; and Joanna Streetly, Tofino’s inaugural Poet Laureate.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hotel Zed Tofino is situated on a protected and critical wetland zone for migratory birds. Photo courtesy Hotel Zed Tofino</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Articles - New book from Hotel Zed Tofino keeps the story and spirit of the Clayoquot Sound uprising alive</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of these things is not like the others: Hotel Zed Tofino has a 1970s theme complete with a wood-panelled station-wagon shuttle. Photo courtesy Hotel Zed Tofino</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/wineries-that-emphasize-art</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-09-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Contemporary Chinese sculptor Wu Ching Ju’s monumental sculpture Pro Terra et Natura (For the Earth and Nature) greets visitors to Phantom Creek Estates in the South Okanagan. Photo courtesy Phantom Creek Estates</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Articles - 6 B.C. wineries that art lovers can't miss - Poached pear</image:title>
      <image:caption>On display at Ex Nihilo Vineyards’ Creatio Gallery is Kelowna artist Debra Martin’s acrylic floral painting The Garden Grows Busy.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f10a7f0e4041a480cbbf0be/1600370067208-IO8XP8IMC8HJNDRUFTTY/Feast+of+the+Fields+painting+has+vivid+colours.</image:loc>
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      <image:caption>Liquidity Wines commissioned Jeff Burgess’s Feast of the Fields. Photo courtesy Liquidity Wines</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f10a7f0e4041a480cbbf0be/1600370409662-C9Y86BNDCYYTSPUT97VC/Mission+Hill_Henry+Moore+sculpture_photo+credit+Mission+Hill+Family+Estate.JPG</image:loc>
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      <image:caption>Henry Moore’s 1922 sculpture Mother and Child was placed at Mission Hill Family Estate Winery in 2016. Photo courtesy Mission Hill Family Estate.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f10a7f0e4041a480cbbf0be/1600371737747-C3R438Z5J448R5W2UB9W/Nk_Mip_Credit+Linda+Anderson+paints+wildlife.</image:loc>
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      <image:caption>Self-taught artist Linda Anderson, a member of the Osoyoos Indian Band, has several pieces on display at Nk’Mip Winery, which also has images of her paintings on some of its labels. Pictured here is a male calliope hummingbird that visited her yard last summer. Photo courtesy Linda Anderson.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>British stone sculptor Emily Young carved Helios, which is on display at Phantom Creek Estates, out of Giallo de Sienna marble. Her grandmother was Kathleen Scott, a colleague of Auguste Rodin. Photo courtesy Phantom Creek Estates.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tahltan Tlingit master carver Dempsey Bob started carving in 1969. Some of his animated masks are on view at Kelowna’s Tantalus Vineyards. Photo courtesy Tantalus Vineyards</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/balletbc-new-dancers</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-09-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Brandon Lee Alley and Livona Ellis return to Ballet BC this season, while Tokyo-born Rena Narumi makes her debut.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.createastir.ca/articles/4-things-transform-cabaret-festival</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-12-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Articles - 4 boundary-breaking shows at the Transform Cabaret Festival, September 24 to October 3</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Darlings have been redefining virtual performance since COVID hit, and now they’re ready to show their stuff.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Articles - 4 boundary-breaking shows at the Transform Cabaret Festival, September 24 to October 3</image:title>
      <image:caption>Peach Cobblah.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Articles - 4 boundary-breaking shows at the Transform Cabaret Festival, September 24 to October 3</image:title>
      <image:caption>Candy Palmater.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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