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Tenor Jeremy Dutcher revives the songs of his Maliseet ancestors at the Queer Arts Festival

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BJM to bring contemporary-dance ode to Leonard Cohen here on November 22

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Vancouver choreographer Wen Wei Wang set to take helm of Ballet Edmonton

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ARTS STORIES

Saudi artist seeks to bring cultures together with installation Paradise Has Many Gates

Saudi Arabia is one of the largest social-media markets in the Middle East, and almost immediately, pictures of Ajlan Gharem’s work went viral.

David Milne retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery makes for brilliant tribute

Eclipsed in his time by the Group of Seven, Milne is now recognized as one of our nation’s leading 20th-century painters.

Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts) brings artist Paul Wong's story to multimedia life at the Queer Arts Festival

Playwright Lesley Ewen uses standins to explore the fallout from the art provocateur's 1977 breakout Murder Research, and the aching loss of his creative partner soon after.

Tovey Centre for Music named for outgoing VSO maestro and his wife

Bramwell Tovey, who just conducted his last concert at music director here, helped establish the music-education hub.

Vines Arts Festival unveils eco-activated programming for fourth annual fest August 8 to 18

The main event at Trout Lake on August 18 features everything from spoken-word and rap to Onibana Taiko and a repurposed-material installation by Art Is Land Network

Slime immerses you in a vivid underwater world

Shizuka Kai’s brilliant set, prop, and puppet design bring everything to vivid life, but the play sometimes slips on its own subject matter.

Bard on the Beach's moving Macbeth is bloody good

Season launches with a stylish and strongly acted rendition of the Scottish play.

City proclaims July as Dancing on the Edge Festival Month

The festival will be celebrating its 30th anniversary from July 5 to 14.

Fender: The Golden Age strikes a chord for guitar-obsessed dads on Father's Day

What to buy this man, given that you don’t have a spare nine grand for the mid-’60s Epiphone Casino he keeps banging on about?

B.C. government creates fund for respectful workplace training in arts industry

British Columbia arts organizations looking to combat workplace harassment and discrimination can now apply for a cash boost from the B.C

Tenor Jeremy Dutcher revives the songs of his Maliseet ancestors at the Queer Arts Festival

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