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Some Assembly Theatre Company’s Our Last Tree tackles climate anxiety and the need for connection — Stir

VALERIE METHOT KNEW that her next play would be centred around climate change after hearing from anxious youth who fear for the state of our planet. Celebrating its 25th year, Some Assembly Theatre Company soon presents the resulting play, Our Last Tree, at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre’s performance hall.Written and directed by Methot, the work takes place in the near future, following an apocalyptic storm brought on by climate change. When a spirit guide cuts a deal with...
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Inverso Productions' LIFT festival brings generations together through dance — Stir

EVEN AT AGE 78, professional dancer Savannah Walling out-danced preteens at a New Year’s party. “There were all these 11-, 12-, 13-year-old girls who all joined and were all improvising together, spinning around in the room together, and then they got tired and stopped,” recounts her partner and fellow dancer Terry Hunter. “But Savannah kept on going. It was just the most extraordinary thing.”Walling, Hunter, and Claudia Moore are three of the artists performing in Inverso Productions’ first int...
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Absurdist at heart, Here We Go faces life's final act with humour and sense of beauty — Stir

DIRECTOR KATHRYN BRACHT INVITES the audience to reconsider the process of aging and dying, and even to find beauty in it, through Western Gold Theatre’s production of Here We Go. Written by Caryl Churchill, Here We Go travels through three main concepts: aging, dying, and death. The triptych-like play has three scenes—the first employing dialogue, the second focused on monologue, and the third acted out in silence. In the first section of the play, characters talk to one another at a funeral rec...
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At The Dance Centre's Open Stage, Punit Singh's SubHuman investigates self-perception — Stir

AFTER A YEAR AND a half of movement research, choreography, and introspection, Vancouver’s Punit Singh created a 30-minute dance-theatre piece titled SubHuman, breaking free of a limiting mindset in the process. An excerpt from the full-length work will be presented in The Dance Centre’s Open Stage program, alongside other pieces by Amok Project, Kara Wiebe (La Picante), and Krystal Tsai. This is the fifth edition of Open Stage, a space where dance artists at any stage in their career are free t...
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Luciana Freire D’Anunciação’s multiscreen video installation Becoming explores the cyclical nature of life — Stir

EACH VIEWER OF Luciana Freire D’Anunciação’s art installation Becoming will have a unique experience, depending on where they are standing during the exhibition.Presented as a multi-screen video installation, the work involves poetry, movement, and sound. D’Anunciação collaborated with the Roundhouse Community Dancers to create the piece through structured improvisation and writing prompts. The four screens of Becoming work in conversation with one another. D’Anunciação says that although Becomi...
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Bad Muse Collective's Love You Wrong Time crushes stereotypes with comedy, May 1 to 11 — Stir

BAD MUSE COLLECTIVE’S Love You Wrong Time, created and performed by Maddie Bautista and Deanna H. Choi, uses interactive comedy to tackle the fetishization of Asian women, incorporating everything from standup and satire to storytelling and bar games, while interweaving music throughout. A battle cry opposing injustice and mass violence against Asian femmes, the show is part of the Warrior Festival, a series centred around resistance, identity, and politics through acting, movement, and comedy....
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Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour thrives on countryside settings — Stir

Raeanne Schachter, an emerging artist who sits on the tour’s board of directors and will show sculptures and paintings during the event, says there’s a wide variety of art locations spread across both Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. She says the event is affectionately known as “the little country cousin to the Eastside Cultural Crawl.”“Each setting where the artists are located is so unique from each other, so visitors will find themselves surrounded by a blueberry field at one tour, or they’ll b...
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Artist studios and sacred spaces among the stops at this year’s Doors Open Richmond — Stir

GINA PAGE, AN artist and long-time participant in Doors Open Richmond, loves taking part in the event because of the effect her art has on those who view it. “I meet people who used to do artwork a long time ago or went to art school but haven't done anything, and they seem to get all inspired, so that’s always great,” Page says.She is participating in the 18th annual edition of Doors Open Richmond, presented by the Richmond Museum and taking place over two days in June at more than 50 sites, in...
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Graham Clark stages 24-hour marathon of laughs to raise funds for Filipino BC, May 23 — Stir

CALL IT A LAUGH MARATHON: East Van “hero of hilarity” Graham Clark is preparing himself for the 24-Hours of Stand-Up show at Little Mountain Gallery, donating part of the proceeds to Filipino BC following the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party tragedy. Presented by Little Mountain Gallery, Clark’s 24-Hours of Stand-Up will find him alone working through day and night, with minimal bathroom breaks. He’ll perform jokes by comics from across the city, and beyond, as they write around the clock.The JUNO-nomi...
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Disco-charged Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat stars Argel Monte De Ramos, to June 8 at Metro Theatre — Stir

FILIPINO-CANADIAN ARTIST Argel Monte De Ramos is taking the lead in Metro Theatre’s disco-charged production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. A versatile performer and singer-songwriter, De Ramos got his start performing in his church choir. From there, he’s worked his way into musical theatre, with companies like Theatre Under the Stars and the Arts Club. De Ramos was nominated for Pop Artist of the Year and received the Excellence Award by a BIPOC Artist at the Fraser Valley M...
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Hong Kong Exile tunes into celestial stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 15 — Stir

AS PART OF A SERIES of Asian Heritage Month programming, the Vancouver Art Gallery is hosting the world premiere of Hong Kong Exile’s HEAVEN FM. The Vancouver troupe’s performance fuses dance, theatre, and multimedia. HEAVEN FM follows an expedition of five artists, equipped with headlamps and small radios, who travel toward the cusp of the universe and use their low-tech gear to listen in on stories from beyond our world. The work grapples with themes of loss, magic, and joy mashed together wit...
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Screenings, stairway dance installations, and more, as city celebrates International Dance Day, April 29 — Stir

APRIL 29 IS INTERNATIONAL Dance Day, and this year Vancouver has a range of events on offer, from workshops and live performances to films.New Works Dance and the Vancouver Public Library are hosting free screenings of short dance films followed by a conversation guided by Company 605 artistic directors Josh Martin and Lisa Mariko Gelley. The event will showcase short dance films, including Anya Allegra Saugstad’s Mountains, Company 605 and Brian Johnson’s Inheritor Recordings, Satya Mari’s Lost...
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Dance artist Kaili Che wins Louise Bentall Biennial Award for Emerging British Columbia Choreographers — Stir

KAILI CHE IS THIS year’s winner of the Louise Bentall Biennial Award for Emerging British Columbia Choreographers, presented and awarded by The Hawthorne Foundation and DanceHouse. The Louise Bentall Biennial Award, announced last night at DanceHouse’s presentation of Peeping Tom’s Diptych at the Vancouver Playhouse, commemorates the late, longtime board member of DanceHouse, social justice advocate, and supporter of the performing arts in the Lower Mainland. It supports the winning artist with...
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MSU organizes “Status For All” rally in alongside other migrant organizations

On September 17, Migrant Students United (MSU) at UBC rallied alongside Sulong UBC, MSU at SFU, Migrante BC, Committee for Domestics' Workers and Caregivers’ Rights and Gabriela BC for “Status for All” in front of the Canada Border Services Agency building.The event began with a series of chants saying “Health Care for All Now,” “Stop Deportation Now” and “Landed Status Now.”The Vancouver rally coincided with sister rallies occurring all across Canada to fight for migrant justice. The “Status fo...
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Ukrainian Student Union leads rally marking one year of Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Ukrainian Student Union (USU) held a rally on campus in solidarity with Ukraine on Monday, three days after the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year.The event started outside the UBC Bookstore at 12 p.m. with speeches by student representatives of the USU, followed by a moment of silence. Students and other participants then marched to the Engineering Cairn chanting slogans like “UBC for Ukraine” and “Stand with Ukraine.”According to a USU post on Instagram, the...