Gary Thandi, founder and executive director of Moving Forward Family Services, describes it as a “fragmented and individualistic system of care,” established by a 20th century system that fails to ...

The Verses Festival of Words is back for its 15th year, running April 10 to 20 at Chill X Studio. This year’s theme, “Amplify,” speaks to the heart of what the festival has always done best—creating ...

Set during the height of the AIDS crisis, Casey and Diana is a moving tribute to courage, compassion and community in the face of unimaginable loss. This acclaimed play, penned by award-winning ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter.You can’t catch a bus in Vancouver without tripping over a struggling indie musician trying to ...

While Kim’s was partly based on Choi’s time spent working at convenience stores, Son of a Preacher Man is an even more explicit dig into his past—his father and grandfather were both pastors and he ...

Canada’s largest spoken word festival returns, including the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam finals. Upintheair premieres a dark comedy centred on environmental collapse and digital takeover.

Vancouver’s second-best-known emo band caps off its first tour with a hometown show. The Vancouver psychedelic-pop conglomeration decides to call it quits with a final show. The k-pop boy band returns ...

Most of my sluggish feelings disappear when I go for a walk. I have to force myself out. It can be rainy, sunny, windy, night, day... it does NOT matter. As long as I walk outside, I feel incredible!!

As revered as the music has been over the decades, the true power of Motown, suggests Vancouver’s Krystle Dos Santos, is the way it helped reshape the fabric of America. “Motown started in 1959,” says ...

Dorval is a genre-bender, mixing in folk, soul and hip-hop influences with an alt-rock swagger and her striking vocals. Our own Mike Usinger was rocked by a recent single of Dorval’s. Plus, according ...

Join Graham Clark- ("Constantly hilarious" -Vulture) and his funniest friends for a night of laughs, trivia, prizes and laughs. Plus a pledge to you is that you will be home in bed by 10:30 pm!

It’s time to take chances, run risks and keep our performers on their toes! In Twist of Fate our hilarious hosts will constantly stir the pot—adding points, spinning challenge wheels, swapping teams, ...