Vancouver city council needs to know this month whether the Vancouver Art Gallery will be moving ahead with plans to relocate to the inner False Creek harbour.

Artists in the 190 Prior Street studios (formerly 901 Main Street) are seeking new digs after being unable to secure a lease with their landlord, Amacon.

Starting tomorrow (June 19), the Downtown Eastside will be filled with music, film, and stories, as the three-day Eastside Stories: The People, The Voices event kicks off.

The Arts Club Theatre Company has announced that its production of Les Misérables is the highest-selling production in its 46-year history.

Staff at the Vancouver International Readers & Writers Festival and the Plawrights Theatre Centre turned up at work on June 9 morning to find they had been victims of a break-in.

From Stanley Park dances to Annie and Alice, summer arts fare spans the theatrical, the multicultural, and the whimsical.

In a city where living quarters seem to be shrinking year after year, it’s surprising to note that many residents aren’t making full use of their space.

The final refurbishment work on Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre looks set to begin this summer.

Vancouver city council approved city staff recommendations on June 11 that decrease the footprint of W2 in the Woodward’s building.

Whatever Madge wants, Madge gets.

Carole James announced her official opposition shadow cabinet on June 11, re-appointing Spencer Herbert, MLA for Vancouver-West End, as critic for tourism, culture, and the arts.

Despite assurances from its board and management staff, Ballet British Columbia, whose artistic director departed last week, faces numerous hurdles as it struggles to pull together a 2009–10 season.

As council prepares to deliver a verdict on the space allocation in the Woodward’s project for W2, SFU’s undergraduate student body has come out swinging against city staff recommendations that threaten to remove the arts hub’s coffee shop and effectively cut its space in half.

John Alleyne’s departure from Ballet B.C. was necessary for the company to move forward artistically, Graeme Barrit, board chair and president, told the Straight by phone today.

Five B.C. First Nations artists have been awarded the third annual B.C. Creative Achievement Awards for Aboriginal Art.

A year ago, I wrote a short Arts Note about the seismic instability in the proposed new Vancouver Art Gallery site in False Creek.

Andrew Wilhelm-Boyles, acting executive director of Ballet B.C., says the departure of the company's artistic director John Alleyne has not put its 2009-2010 season in jeopardy.

After 16 years leading Ballet B.C., artistic director John Alleyne will not be returning to the company for the 2009/2010 season.

Vancouver city council has given the thumbs up to adding a professional artist to its urban design panel. On June 2, councillors approved amendments to the panel’s by-laws that expand its membership from 12 to 13 to make way for an artist. The change is part of the recommendations laid out in the city’s new Cultural Facilities Priorities Plan.

With Velo-City, Propellor Design and the Museum of Vancouver pay tribute to the weird and wonderful world of local cycling.

The Vancouver art world of the 1960s has been revived on-line, thanks to a partnership between UBC’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the grunt gallery, funded by a $268,878 Canadian Heritage grant.

Summer styles for tiny tots and moms-to-be.

On June 1, Burnaby City Council gave its blessing to a $150,00 public-art project to be funded using gaming money.

A Canada Council for the Arts–organized delegation of aboriginal curators heading to the Venice Biennale this week includes no West Coast representatives.

Jumping on the YouTube contest bandwagon, Vancouver Opera has launched an international online animation contest through the video-hosting site.

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Phoenix Chamber Choir took on a challenging a task, programming the Canadian premiere of contemporary British composer Joby Talbot’s hourlong a cappella choral work Path of Miracles as its season ender.

The Vancouver East Cultural Centre’s executive director Heather Redfern has been awarded the third annual Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award.

You gotta hand it to Sacha Baron Cohen—he knows no boundaries.

In Jennifer Baichwal's latest documentary, Act of God, an exploration of the phenomenon of being hit by lightning, Baichwal’s philosophical leanings come boldly to the fore.

This weekend, the National Ballet of Canada is bidding farewell to principal dancer Chan Hon Goh after a 20-year career with the company. Goh, 40, is making her final appearance as the lead in the classical masterpiece Giselle this Sunday [May 31] in Toronto, where her departure is being greeted with a mixture of tears and adulation.

Colleagues and friends of world-renowned architect Arthur Erickson, who died on May 20 at the age of 84, say it’s time to complete his vision for the Museum of Anthropology and fill a permanent reflecting pool on the ocean-facing side of the structure.

After 22 years as co-conductor of Elektra Women’s Choir, Diane Loomer will step down from the podium this weekend and hand over the reins to co-conductor Morna Edmundson, with whom she founded the ensemble.

The 2009 Vancouver Early Music Festival has released tickets to its eight-concert series running July 26 to August 16 at various venues throughout the city.

Project grants from the North Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs go before council meetings at the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver tonight (May 25).

Vancouver City Council approved $208,300 in Celebration Grants to 36 organizations and $75,000 in one-time supplemental grants to 17 of arts and cultural organizations on May 21.

New research by the Canadian Conference of the Arts reveals that in the current economic climate, only the province of B.C. has made cuts to arts and culture budgets.

As the global architecture community mourns the passing of Vancouver’s “concrete poet” Arthur Erickson on May 20 at age 84, his final contribution has yet to be unveiled.

Vancouver's long-running Powell Street Festival, which normally takes place in Oppenheimer Park, is being relocated to Woodland Park this summer.

The 2009 DOXA Documentary Film Festival puts ethics under the lens, exploring power, exploitation, and bad intentions.

Max Reimer has firmly cemented his presence on the local scene with the release of the finalists in the 27th Annual Jessie Richardson Awards.

There are five days left for the public to vote for their favourite Grange Prize finalist. This year, Vancouver-based artist Jin-me Yoon is one of four finalists for the $50,000 award.

A research proposal entitled Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of HIV/AIDS is attempting to drastically increase access to highly active antiretroviral therapy among vulnerable communities in B.C.

A research proposal entitled Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of HIV/AIDS is attempting to drastically increase access to highly active antiretroviral therapy among vulnerable communities in B.C.

So there you are, staring at the empty patch in your yard or the nondescript space on your balcony, thinking it's time to add some life to the scene. Where do you start?

Artists in the 190 Prior Street studios (formerly 901 Main) may be forced to leave the building as early as June 1 due to an unexpected rent increase.

The executive director of W2 Community Media Arts Society, a collective of Downtown Eastside arts organizations to be located in the Woodward’s development, says the project is at risk of being crippled by an escalating common-area fee.

In tougher times, a little help from Brooklyn-cool beanbag chairs, multitasking gadgets, and swivelling futuristic sofas might be the ticket.

Yo-Yo Ma, in addition to being one of the world’s greatest living musical artists, is an endlessly likable, affable fellow with a sense of humour to boot

B.C. artist Michael Nicoll Yaghulanaas has nabbed a gold prize at the Independent Publishers Book Awards in the Story Teller of the Year category, for his book Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment.

As the May 12 provincial election draws near, members of the province’s arts community are expressing dismay, confusion, and cynicism regarding the leading parties’ platforms.