Downward Facing Fringe stretches out to September 16

Jennica Grienke, co-artistic and managing director of Carousel Theatre, leads free classes

Vancouver Fringe Festival presents Downward Facing Fringe September 12 at 10 am, September 13 at 11 am, September 14 at 11 am, September 15 at 11 am, and September 16 at 10 am at Lot 55 Activation Space, Granville Island

HERE’S PUTTING A new twist on things: Vancouver Fringe Festival is offering Downward Facing Fringe.

The free stretch sessions are led by Jennica Grienke, co-artistic and managing director of Carousel Theatre for Young People. Not only is she a dedicated theatre maker; she’s also a certified yoga instructor.

The focus is on building strength and flexibility while having fun. Participants are asked to bring a yoga mat and to register in advance. Due to limited availability, people will go right to a wait list then with confirmations to follow shortly after on a first-come-first-served basis.

Festival Membership is not required to participate.

To see what you can take in after your sun salutations, see Stir’s related Fringe coverage.

Articles

Urban Ink hosts the sixth annual TRANSFORM Festival at the Vancouver Playhouse starting November 6

Presented in collaboration with The Cultch, multidisciplinary event features an all-star lineup of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists

Jen Sookfong Lee's The Hunger We Pass Down confronts intergenerational trauma and the insatiable desire for survival

Ahead of her appearance at Vancouver Writers Fest, author talks horror, motherhood, and the power of female rage

Chutzpah! Festival launches 25th edition with The Flame, Lenny Bruce tribute, and more, November 12 to 23

Offerings at the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre also include Take This Waltz and 8 Gays of Channukah - The Musical

Stir Cheat Sheet: Cory Doctorow to Mona Awad, 5 highlights of this year’s Vancouver Writers Fest

Readings and discussions focus on women’s perspectives on horror writing, and how to find your inner dinosaur in a world of chickens

For guest curator Canisia Lubrin, Vancouver Writers Fest proves a respite from the heaviness of the world

Author of forthcoming elegy The World After Rain looks at writers’ roles in times of crisis

Vancouver New Music’s Whispered Folds festival delves into sounds from the other side

Interdisciplinary artists Parmela Attariwala and Erin Gee take very different approaches to exploring the afterlife through their work

Small File Media Festival brings experimental shorts to the big screen

The Cinematheque program proves that digital filmmaking has a future beyond artificial intelligence

Music on Main explores the future of sound with biennial Modulus Festival, November 7 to 10

Offerings range from the world premiere of Hildegard Westerkamp’s cinematic tone poem Klavierklang to the multidisciplinary project Resonant Transmutations

National Film Board doubles down on defining what it means to be Canadian for an “elbows up” era

Attending VIFF, NFB chair Suzanne Guèvremont has a new strategic plan that strives to reach out to the next generation

VIFF documentaries sketch in the history of B.C. art icons

The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes reveals quiet life of a master who avoided spotlight; The Art of Adventure tracks a young Robert Bateman’s journey with Bristol Foster across the world in a Land Rover

Stir Q&A: At Have a Senior Moment Festival, Home depicts an elderly woman with agency

Playwright Melody Anderson draws on her own grandmother’s experience with a home invasion in a staged reading presented by Western Gold Theatre

Vancouver-area arts organizations mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2025

Powwow dancers, concerts, films, and hands-on art as programming at several local venues takes place on and around September 30

Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 outdoor events to explore at this year's Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival

Song cycles, lantern processions, and tea gardens, as event highlights the natural beauty and ecological importance of Renfrew Ravine and Still Creek

At VIFF, Ava Maria Safai's Foreigner blends teen-angst horror with the immigrant experience

High-school hell meets a literal demon in the North Vancouver writer-director’s partly autobiographical feature

Dub producer Mad Professor remains an analogue soul in a digital world

The artist also known as Neil Fraser will revisit his work with Massive Attack in a VIFF Live show at the Chan Centre

Flamenco Rosario celebrates 35 years with international guests at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, September 27

Event at the Vancouver Playhouse includes Barcelona-born singer José “El Cachito” Díaz and magnetic Sevillian dancer-choreographer Macarena López.

Vancouver New Music celebrates sonic exploration at Whispered Folds, October 16 to 18

Annual VNM Festival features performances by Émilie Payeur, Cecilia Lopez, Erin Gee, JJJJJerome Ellis, and more

VLACC presents annual Latin Expressions festival of arts and culture throughout October

Eight events are on offer, including the premiere of Yaimel Lopez’s animated short film “Vessels” and a Community Milonga in partnership with DanceHouse

Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor on deck as Bard on the Beach announces summer of 2026 programming

Goblin:Oedipus and Antigone set to hit the Douglas Campbell Theatre next season

Palabra Flamenco blends spoken poetry and age-old Iberian art form at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

Poet Garth Martens says the Victoria-based troupe’s performances are a visceral and intimate conversation between words, music, and dance

Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival unveils 22nd edition spanning Day of the Dead shadow puppetry, Mayor of Oz, and more

Also in store at the celebration running from October 31 to November 8 is SHELTER, an exhibition featuring works by 30 marginalized artists

Comedian Modi, a Take This Waltz remount, and more as Chutzpah! Festival marks milestone 25th year

Other offerings span extravagant 8 Gays of Channukah – The Musical and stylistically diverse Shtetl Cabaret

Vancouver Writers Fest launches with Oh, Canada!: The Alma Lee Opening Night Event, October 20

Evening features Canadian authors in sequential talks about the country’s current issues and rapidly shifting landscape

Deerlady brings volume, vulnerability to this year’s Come Toward the Fire festival

Acclaimed guitar-and-bass duo blends whisper-soft passages with lush sonic swells and a deeply personal investigation of violence endured by Indigenous cultures