WITH THE 2026 PROVINCIAL election well under way, local organizations are urging the incoming government to support and strengthen B.C.’s arts, culture, and heritage sector. Representing more than 188 ...

MULTITALENTED CREE-DENE artist Sherryl Sewepagaham will soon see the premiere of her “mîyonakwan askîy (Beautiful Land)”, a new choral composition for the Vancouver Cantata Singers. The composer, who ...

Wootten, who passed away last year, launched the venue in 1973 and will also have a new creation fund in his name ...

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT just released a report on the consultation phase of its 2026 budget—and while several of the arts and culture sector’s priorities were mentioned, few were adopted as official ...

YOU CAN TAKE the boy out of journalism, but you can’t take the journalism out of the boy. When Stir connects with Toronto-based singer-songwriter Aysanabee, he happens to be on vacation in Oakland, ...

THE VANCOUVER CULTURAL PRECINCT has unveiled an expanded vision for four new performing-arts venues in the city’s downtown. In an announcement today at VIFF Centre, the hub would include a 400-seat ...

It is arguably the most indelible image in 1997’s The Sweet Hereafter—a movie so packed with haunting scenes that it is regularly named one of the top 10 Canadian films ever made. A tiny toddler lies ...

NINA SIMONE, ALICE Cooper, Adam Driver—these are just a few of the well-known names who, like writer and performer Ins Choi, grew up as preacher’s kids (or PKs for short). They’re also artists who ...

VANCOUVER ARTIST STEVEN SHEARER—whose expansive visual world spans everything from ’70s fanzines to PVC pipe and the never-ending stream of amateur photography on the internet—is the 2026 recipient of ...

THIS ISN’T THE FIRST attempt to rescue Caligula from its blighted reputation but it’s surely the most heroic. Spearheaded by film historian Thomas Negovan, the “Ultimate Cut”, screening in new ...

SOPRANO ALEXANDRA BAIRD’S “eight-year-old princess self” would have been thrilled that she’s starring in the title role of UBC Opera’s production of Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon (that’s “Cinderella” in ...

PROMINENT ISRAELI-CANADIAN Vancouver photographer Dina Goldstein, who gained international attention with her “Fallen Princesses” and “In the Dollhouse” series of tableaus, says she was shocked when ...