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Ten Days at TIFF 2026: Red Carpets, Rapturous Crowds, and the Films Worth Remembering

We just spent an action-packed 10 days at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), full of great (and not so great) films, red carpets, celebrities, and pure crowd energy. It is always great to see the city out in full force to celebrate cinema and art collectively. Our journey this year included our first ever...

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Club Les Carrés: Where Scarves Become Stories

Guests filled a room at The Liberty Distillery on Granville Island, many with a silk scarf tied at the neck, looped over a shoulder or folded carefully into a bag. It was there that Vancouver designer and architect Tina Dhillon introduced Club Les Carrés, a new digital destination built around one of fashion’s most enduring...

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Kostuik Gallery Celebrates ‘Against The Grain’ With Artists in Attendance

Kostuik Gallery‘s fall season opened with the launch of Against the Grain, a duo exhibition celebrating the work of sculptors Marianne Lovink and Katja Zubkova. Guests attended the Yaletown gallery for an evening that brought together longtime collectors, first-time visitors, and a noticeably diverse crowd drawn by the exhibition’s central idea: two women, two very...

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Vancouver Opera Opens 2026–2027 Season With Puccini’s Tosca

Vancouver Opera opens its 2026–2027 season with Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, a gripping thriller of passion, politics, and betrayal set against the turmoil of Rome, circa 1800. Under the baton of Vancouver Opera Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the stage direction of Brenna Corner, Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Victoria, this acclaimed co-production with Pacific Opera...

PRESS RELEASE: Folio.YVR Issue 43 Leads with Holborn’s Skyline-Redefining Georgia + Abbott Tower, Chanel, Chaumet & Chan Hon Goh

[Press Release Originally Published on EINPresswire.com] VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, September 14, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine announces the release of Issue 43, led by Holborn’s newly approved Georgia + Abbott development, a 315-metre hotel tower designed by Henriquez Partners Architects under Principal Gregory Henriquez that will stand as the tallest structure in Western Canada. The...

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VIFF 2026 Preview: Homegrown Storytellers Anchor Vancouver’s 45th Festival

Forty-five years after its founding, what has kept the Vancouver International Film Festival essential to the country’s screen culture? This year’s edition, an eleven-day gathering of narrative, documentary, and short-form cinema running from October 1 to 11, 2026, offers a compelling case. Organizers anticipate an audience of 110,000 attendees across more than 160 features, alongside...

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A Veteran and a Rising Talent Share the Walls at Kostuik Gallery

A forty-year career meets a two-year one, and somehow it works. This September, Kostuik Gallery, located on the cusp of Yaletown, opens Against the Grain, pairing sculptors Marianne Lovink and Katja Zubkova in a duo exhibition running September 17 through October 11. The two artists sit at opposite ends of a career timeline, and both...

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TIFF 2026 Preview: From Musk to Murdoch, the Films Setting the Agenda

It is that time again: as the leaves turn brown, Hollywood decamps up north for the Toronto International Film Festival. After last year’s 50th anniversary, TIFF continues to bring the star power to Canada. The 2026 lineup seems to hearken TIFF’s future, with a heavy emphasis on international and provocative filmmaking. Not for nothing is...

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Phyllis & Shelby Lui Mark Twenty Years

Family, close friends, and associates gathered at the West Vancouver home of Phyllis and Shelby Lui to celebrate a milestone twenty years of marriage. Guests were requested to arrive in Cote D’Azur-inspired summer whites and pastels and were welcomed by a flower-crowned golf cart that carried them up the driveway to a marquee “20” station,...

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Luigi Ronchi: The Quiet Power Behind Vancouver’s Most Transformational Gifts

For more than a decade, Luigi Ronchi, CFRE, has built a career on a simple but rare gift: the ability to make people feel truly understood. As a Transformational Giving Advisor at VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, he works alongside some of British Columbia’s most committed philanthropists to advance a landmark campaign shaping the future...