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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 4h

"What comes across most throughout Tolentino’s masterfully delivered performance is that caring for the land is ultimately a labour of love." A look at Co.ERASGA's latest work, a collaboration with three standout Indigenous choreographers:
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Dance review: From mourning to solace, Eternal Gestures honours emotions we feel for the land — Stir

Co.ERASGA’s Alvin Erasga Tolentino performs three solos by Indigenous choreographers Starr Muranko, Margaret Grenier, and Michelle Olson

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 23h

"Literature can in fact clarify things, and can push us toward deepening our understanding of the world and each other," says Canisia Lubrin, who has curated four events at this year's Vancouver Writers Fest.

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For guest curator Canisia Lubrin, Vancouver Writers Fest proves a respite from the heaviness of the world — Stir

Author of forthcoming elegy The World After Rain looks at writers’ roles in times of crisis

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 1d

Le Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver is proud to present an unforgettable evening as part of Coup de coeur francophone!

Quebec's rising indie-pop duo, Bibi Club and folk-alternative performer Étienne Fletcher, play October 24.

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 1d

"Even now, after 42 years of climbing trees, I get the same sense of excitement and wonder," Nalini Nadkarni tells Stir. She'll be hosting a National Geographic Live event called From Roots to Canopy on October 15, presented by Vancouver Civic Theatres.

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Stir Q&A: Tree canopy ecologist Nalini Nadkarni gives ground-bound humans a look at lush life forms above our heads — Stir

Her National Geographic Live event From Roots to Canopy lands in the Lower Mainland care of Vancouver Civic Theatres

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UBC Opera celebrates the Old Auditorium’s first 100 years on October 14!

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The 'Old Aud' has played host to notable names including Eleanor Roosevelt and Dylan Thomas.

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UBC Opera celebrates the Old Auditorium’s first 100 years on October 14 — Stir

Saved from demolition in the late ’90s, the venerable concert hall has played host to notable names including Eleanor Roosevelt and Dylan Thomas

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 1d

"Here was an artist who was a master at her craft, of photography, who was also a revolutionary and who was trying to reconcile her artistic practice with her revolutionary commitment": Stir speaks to Carmen Aguirre about Fire Never Dies:
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Carmen Aguirre tells a multifaceted story of art and resistance in Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project — Stir

At the Cultch, theatre artist employs episodic structure, photo projections, and an array of styles to capture the early 20th century’s complicated photographer and activist

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 2d

“There’s a lot of these rubbing, grinding, very brass-like sounds:" Artists speak about the wild array of sounds filling Vancouver New Music's upcoming Whispered Folds festival.
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Vancouver New Music’s Whispered Folds festival delves into sounds from the other side — Stir

Interdisciplinary artists Parmela Attariwala and Erin Gee take very different approaches to exploring the afterlife through their work

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 2d

I Know What You Did Last Weekend is a hilarious and over-the-top homage to the iconic 1997 cult classic (and 2025 reboot), I Know What You Did Last Summer – with an improvised twist.

Now on at The Improv Centre until November!

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 2d

It's "supposed to be a reaction against AI technology that still embraces the digital, showing that there’s a way forward...that isn’t this hyper-consuming exploitative AI tech". Stir looks at the Small File Media Festival, coming to @thecinematheque.bsky.social
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Small File Media Festival brings experimental shorts to the big screen — Stir

The Cinematheque program proves that digital filmmaking has a future beyond artificial intelligence

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 3d

Veteran performer is an actor, a singer-songwriter, and a multi-instrumentalist—but first and foremost, he’s a storyteller

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Guy Davis brings the healing power of the blues to the Shadbolt Centre on October 10 — Stir

The veteran performer is an actor, a singer-songwriter, and a multi-instrumentalist—but first and foremost, he’s a storyteller

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 3d

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Kate Hamill’s Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson puts a feminist spin on the iconic duo — Stir

Despite the play’s modern twist, fans of Arthur Conan Doyle will find plenty of familiar nods to the source material

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 3d

Mistaken identities and physical gags abound in Metro Theatre's British-style farce Lend Me a Tenor. Read more about the show—which is full of infectious energy and wildly entertaining performances from the actors—in our review:

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Theatre review: Metro Theatre's pitch-perfect Lend Me a Tenor hits all the right notes — Stir

A louche opera star brings comedic chaos to a Cleveland hotel in Ken Ludwig’s Tony Award winner

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 4d

Théâtre la Seizième presents Cispersonnages en quête d’auteurice, a French show with English surtitles, in partnership with Neworld Theatre at Arts Umbrella from October 30 to November 1. Tickets and more details:
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Théâtre la Seizième examines ethical principles in Cispersonnages en quête d’auteurice, October 30 to November 1 — Stir

No-holds-barred comedy offers insights into the legitimacy of artists appropriating the experiences of others in their work

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 4d

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With picket lines gone, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concerts set to resume October 10 with Saint-Saëns' Third Violin Concerto — Stir

With the help of a mediator, the musicians and the VSO Society have come to a tentative agreement

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 4d

Jericho Arts Centre’s production deals with grief, grievances, and lives unlived, but the dramedy remains surprisingly buoyant
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Theatre review: Outside Mullingar is a gently restrained tale of two Irish families — Stir

Jericho Arts Centre’s production deals with grief, grievances, and lives unlived, but the dramedy remains surprisingly buoyant

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 5d

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Music review: Mad Professor brought earth-shaking dub bass to the Chan Centre — Stir

The British producer was joined by Vancouver visual artist Saghi Ehteshamzadeh for a show that went beyond the expected Massive Attack hits

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 6d

Rather than attempting to re-create the studio magic of Abbey Road, the veteran American singer-songwriter Martin Sexton pares the songs back to the essentials and delivers them with only his soulful, lived-in voice and his signature fingerstyle acoustic guitar.
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Martin Sexton pares Beatles classics down to the essentials for his Abbey Road Show, October 7 — Stir

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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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 7d

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National Film Board doubles down on defining what it means to be Canadian for an “elbows up” era — Stir

Attending VIFF, NFB chair Suzanne Guèvremont has a new strategic plan that strives to reach out to the next generation

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 8d

"The work's been really quite a gift," Co.ERASGA's Alvin Erasga Tolentino says of Eternal Gestures, a collaboration with Indigenous choreographers Starr Muranko, Margaret Grenier, and Michelle Olson. It premieres at The Dance Centre on October 9 and 10.

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In Eternal Gestures, Alvin Erasga Tolentino embodies multifaceted relationships to the land — Stir

Co.ERASGA world premiere features commissions by three Indigenous women choreographers: Starr Muranko, Margaret Grenier, and Michelle Olson

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 8d

The Firehall Arts Centre is presenting Anne Plamondon Productions’ Myokine, a piece that explores the connection between movement, hope, urgency, and resilience, from October 30 to November 1.

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Firehall Arts Centre stages profound dance-driven piece Myokine, October 30 to November 1 — Stir

Work by Anne Plamondon Productions is centred on the molecules released by the muscles during physical effort

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 8d

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Drummer Ches Smith plays 21st-century fusion with his band Clone Row — Stir

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

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 8d

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Review: Circa's Wolf kicks acrobatics into artful hyperspeed — Stir

At the intimate York Theatre, honed Aussie performers mix feral energy with a new level of circus sophistication

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 9d

Vancouver Civic Theatres (VCT) announces its 2025-26 National Geographic Live season, the renowned touring speaker series that brings to life the awe-inspiring stories of explorers and industry trailblazers.

Full details and tickets in the story link:
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Vancouver Civic Theatres launches 2025-26 National Geographic Live season, October 15 — Stir

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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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 9d

To mark today's opening of @viffest.bsky.social, here's a whack of capsule reviews—from moving personal stories about migration to anarchic vampire free-for-alls:
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VIFF 2025 reviews: Influencer-culture takedowns, sword-and-sorcery reboots, family tragedies, and more — Stir

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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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 9d

Now in its fifth iteration, The Array this year focuses on the paradoxical existence of negative time in the quantum world, and its connection to our understanding of the past, present, and future. We speak to a co-curator here:
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Upintheair Theatre and What Lab take a quantum leap with The Array: Less Than Zero — Stir

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

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