THE WEST COAST BOOK Prize Society has just announced this year’s shortlist for the Vancouver Book Award. Since 1989, the annual $3,000 prize has recognized books in any genre that add to public ...

The local French-language theatre company will present everything from a live video game to an emotionally intense two-hander ...

THE IDEA THAT everything has a spirit is a theory at the core of a number of belief systems, including Japan’s animistic Shinto religion, Buddhist and Taoist philosophies, and Indigenous and shamanic ...

THE VANCOUVER MURAL FESTIVAL officially ended in 2024 after nine years, but it certainly left its mark on the city, both literally and figuratively. As Stir reported, the fest’s organizers said in a ...

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 ...

THE WEATHER WAS looking iffy earlier on Friday, but the outdoor-concert gods decided to smile upon the first day of the 2026 Vancouver Folk Music Festival. It was a damn-near perfect evening, the ...

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 ’90s smash-hits Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, starring Whoopi Goldberg, had a little bit of everything and a whole lot of heart. It’s no wonder they became enduring classics of ...

Bard on the Beach opens the Douglas Campbell Theatre with a bold, contemporary adaptation of Antigone, running from June 30 to September 18. Sophocles’s classical Greek tragedy has been adapted by ...

THE CHAN CENTRE for the Performing Arts today dropped details of some of the performances and events that it will present as part of its 2026–27 season, including a tribute to a jazz legend, ...