The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is proud to present the Vancouver debut of Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21. American conductor Hugh Wolff wields the baton for these three performances that also feature Ravel's lush, brilliantly orchestrated Valses nobles et sentimentales and La Valse.

The darling of the Metropolitan Opera and beloved worldwide, breathtaking Korean soprano Sumi Jo makes her triumphant return to Vancouver on January 21st at the Orpheum. Sumi Jo's debut performance with the VSO two years ago was an extraordinary success, with thunderous standing ovations and the audience clamoring for more.

Here we are – 2008 is upon us, and after a little break, the orchestra rings in the New Year with seven great performances. January may not be as busy as usual for the Symphony, but every concert offers something exciting for Lower Mainland audiences.

Vancouver Aquarium opened two exhibits in its newest gallery, the Canaccord Capital Exploration Gallery.

A video showing a man being tasered to death at Vancouver International Airport, which was named the best North American airport, has been released to the media.

The Vancouver Aquarium unveiled new marmoset and bat exhibits in the Graham Amazon Gallery. The Aquarium is home to two different species of marmosets. Sesame, a four-year-old male, is a pygmy marmoset while Cindy, a three-year-old female, is a common marmoset.

The complication of family travel has just been eased with the start of a new Vancouver based company called Petite Passengers Baby Equipment Rentals. Family travel just got a whole lot easier...

Ballet British Columbia is set to tour this fall taking ballet 'on the road' to eight communities in BC, Alberta, and the Yukon.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is the only Canadian venue to present Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, the first comprehensive solo exhibition of the artist's work in North America. One of the most unique American artists of the past two decades, Zittel explores contemporary Western society by drawing on elements of architecture, geography and consumer culture to illuminate the underpinnings of modern domestic life.

The Vancouver Art Gallery will present the most comprehensive showing of European painting and sculpture in Canada with the exhibition Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. On view through September 16, 2007, the exhibition includes paintings by such masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Seurat and van Gogh, representing the largest showing of European art ever presented in Vancouver.

In order to maintain the integrity of the artwork, officials at the Vancouver Art Gallery will remove the insects and reptiles contained in Huang Yong Ping's sculpture, Theater of the World rather than comply with a new BC SPCA order to make further modifications.

Perhaps it was just a matter of sympathy, but tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, in 2002 during a major Alaskan earthquake. Geoscientists at the University of Washington have found clear evidence that the two events were related.