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The end of June is both an overwhelming and exciting time for local concertgoers, with over 1,800 musicians converging on our concert halls and clubs as part of the annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival (June 22-July2).

Much Ado About Nothing At Bard on the Beach until September 23, 2017 Tickets from $21at bardonthebeach.org / 604-739-0559 If you’re looking for a fresh take on Much Ado About Nothing, director John Murphy is your man.

Discovering social justice in Hebrew Scripture

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? A poem by Nancy Pretto.

Get your art on! This year’s lineup for the Queer Arts Festival (June 17-29) includes a wide variety of engagements for visual arts, dance, theatre, music and spoken-word enthusiasts on the theme of two-spirit and indigenous identity.

Art is a vital form of communication. That’s what multidisciplinary artist Raven John holds to be true in the works she creates, be it buttons, pendants, films or paintings.

Poor dad. He got sacked from his job at the calendar factory because he took a couple of days off. Better cheer him up with a trip to the Improv Centre on Father’s Day, where there’s no guarantee the one-liners will be that bad.

When an earthquake and tsunami devastated Indonesia and Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, killing 280,000 people and displacing millions, Vancouverite Jenny Mitchell watched the aftermath on television like countless others around the world: in a

Environmental artist Sharon Kallis subscribes to a "one-mile-diet" approach to sourcing her art supplies. It's a hyper-local vision that has seen her weave shoes from plant stalks, grow flax and spin it into linen, and weave rope from nettle fibres.

As I was on Galiano Island waiting for the ferry to take me back to Swartz Bay on Sunday afternoon, I watched a woman with a flat of flowers going from car to car.