Early Dreams: Epics for a New World at West Vancouver’s Kay Meek Centre

Early Music Vancouver’s concerts are reliable exercises in time-travelling, but the local institution’s next offering crosses continental and cultural boundaries as well.

LAFA & Artists perform at the Vancouver International Dance Festival

The troupe’s program includes a striking piece in silhouette (Single Room) and an aching ode to grief (Lament).

Music in Exile presents once banned works at the Norman Rothstein Theatre

Toronto’s ARC Ensemble, the artists-in-residence at the Royal Conservatory of Music, have made it their goal to promote the music of composers whose lives and work were affected by fascism.

Sound of the Ocean at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts

In Sound of the Ocean, the troupe blends martial arts, Chinese opera, and traditional drumming into a highly physical, theatrical show on the theme of water.

HIVE 3 at the Centre for Digital Media

If you want to check out the best of the best in Vancouver theatre, you can’t afford to miss HIVE 3.

Elephant Wake at the Cultch

Here are three big reasons you need to check out Elephant Wake, Saskatchewan playwright Joey Tremblay’s haunting tale about a defunct Francophone Prairie village.

Rick: The Rick Hansen Story at the Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage

He’s the Man in Motion, a larger-than-life Canadian hero, but playwright Dennis Foon tries to uncover the more personal story of the Williams Lake teen athlete who went on a camping trip that forever changed his life and that of the best friend who was with him.

Vancouver International Dance Festival delivers Dis/(sol/ve)r and Rankefod

The Vancouver International Dance Festival really gets into gear next week with two shows that couldn’t be more different.

Jason Froese: Epilogues at the Jeffrey Boone Gallery

In a culture obsessed with size, speed, and spectacle, Jason Froese has done a nifty job of translating huge moving images into small, still ones.

Gallery crawl

Four must-see visual arts shows on this spring (it's almost spring, right?).

Salsa Explosion at the Westin Bayshore

Awhopping 2,500 dancers from 18 countries are converging on Vancouver from March 4 to 7, and the forecast is hot, hot, hot.

Kaori Kasai's Monchan at Blim

The paintings and prints of illustrator and artist Kaori Kasai feature a complicated, albeit cute, little character named Monchan, whose name comes from the Japanese term for monster and the suffix used to denote endearment.

Odysseus Chaoticus at the Norman Rothstein Theatre

This is Homer like you never knew him, and no, we’re not talking about The Simpsons.

Quantum Bhangra rocks the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

They’re billing it as the “biggest, baddest bhangra mashup” of the season, and that’s good enough for us.

Carded art trade at Jacana Gallery

Last year’s inaugural Carded event had people frantically trading miniature local and international art pieces—printed baseball-card style—like it was two minutes to closing at the New York Stock Exchange.