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Spring in Vancouver Calls for Puccini: La Bohème Takes the Stage

Springtime in Vancouver is made for evenings like this. Vancouver Opera is closing its 2025–2026 season with five performances of Giacomo Puccini‘s beloved La Bohème at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and the buzz is entirely justified — it is already the fastest-selling show in Vancouver Opera‘s history, on pace to sell out all five nights....

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Where Ballet Lives and Breathes: Vancouver’s Newest Company Takes the Stage

Vancouver has never lacked ambition. What it has lacked, for too long, is a professional ballet company willing to claim the city as its permanent home and build something worthy of it. Ballet Vancouver has arrived to do precisely that. Founded in 2025 and rooted in a mandate to restore and revitalise the city’s access...

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Angela Grossmann: Restoring Forgotten Lives and Reclaiming the Female Form Across Four Decades

One does not arrive at Angela Grossmann’s studio by accident. The journey winds through hallways that shift from carpet to hardwood, up a step, down another, around corners that feel almost provisional, until an open door reveals her unmistakable red lipstick and welcoming smile. Dressed in a paint-marked smock and practical shoes, she stands wholly...

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East Meets West in Red Lacquer: The Firenze Fazioli Through Georgy Manterola’s Touch

Spring has arrived in Vancouver, and with it came a Fazioli moment we simply could not resist. Shot by Michelle Diamond, the Firenze photoshoot captured pianist Georgy Manterola in full bloom, repping the season in flowing florals and crimson heels that echoed the piano’s radiant finish. The result was equal parts romance, artistry, and unapologetic...

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Entering Emily Carr’s World through Prescription with PaRx Initiative

There are few artists whose work feels inseparable from the land itself. Emily Carr is one of them. Her forests feel dense and alive, her coastlines expansive yet intimate, and her paintings continue to shape how we understand British Columbia’s natural identity. With That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature, the Vancouver...

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Natalie Myles Art Consultancy: A New Chapter for Vancouver’s Art and Design Community

Vancouver’s creative landscape welcomed a refined new presence with the official launch of Natalie Myles Art Consultancy, introduced through an intimate, invitation-only evening that brought together art, design, and thoughtful dialogue. Hosted by Monte Clark Gallery in collaboration with Livingspace Interiors, the event reflected the calibre and clarity that define Natalie’s approach to art advisory....

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Paradisum Brings an Otherworldly Vision of Movement, Myth, and Resilience to Vancouver

In a cultural moment defined by uncertainty, live performance offers something increasingly rare: a shared, human experience that transcends language, borders, and headlines. This January, Vancouver audiences are invited to gather in support of the arts for an extraordinary event as DanceHouse and The Cultch present the North American premiere of Recirquel’s Paradisum at the...

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Suite X: Douglas Coupland Adds Flair to Fairmont Pacific Rim

Fairmont Pacific Rim unveiled Suite X, a one-of-a-kind concept created in collaboration with acclaimed Canadian visual artist and author Douglas Coupland, alongside the hotel’s co-owner and developers, Westbank and Peterson. Inspired by Coupland’s iconic novel Generation X, the suite paid homage to the demographic that redefined identity, technology, and culture. A Living Gallery Experience Suite...

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Brendan Lee Satish Tang: Crafting Culture Through Clay & Collision

Step into a room with Brendan Lee Satish Tang’s work and you are immediately pulled into a collision of histories, cultures, and visual languages. Represented in Vancouver by Gallery Jones, Tang’s ceramic practice feels less like a single narrative and more like an ongoing remix — layered, restless, and deeply engaged with the contradictions of...

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The Butterfly: Where Art, Design, and Sound Take Flight

Bathed in soft light that drifts through glass and curve, the Butterfly Piano rests like a living sculpture at the heart of The Butterfly building. Its polished surface mirrors the rippling architecture that surrounds it, while the air hums with quiet reverence. The lobby feels alive — an orchestration of light, space, and intention —...