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The inaugural Vancouver Turkish Film Festival (VTFF) is capitalizing on an extraordinary year that at once celebrated the centennial of Turkish cinema, as well as delivered an unprecedented calibre of recognition and the highest number of films ever made in an industry that merges eastern and western aesthetics. “Turkey has [always] been a bridge between…
True to its mandate to display work that examines the relationship between contemporary art theory and practice, Artspeak, a non-profit artist run centre in Vancouver, is currently featuring Seurat and Friends, an exhibit which comments on the complex dynamic between art and labour. Georges-Pierre Seurat was a seminal French post-impressionist painter whose signature pointilist method…
Coastal City Ballet (CCB) will open its 2014-2015 season with Don Quixote’s Dream and Mixed Repertoire, a creatively diverse performance that is a testament to the uniqueness of CCB’s artistic vision. The versatility of the program is also a symbol of the company’s commitment to keeping ballet alive on the Vancouver dance scene – a…
The inaugural Vancouver Cuban Music Festival (Oct. 16–19) will bring to our city some of that country’s most influential music stars, and will allow the local audiences to be immersed into, as well as educated and seduced by Cuban culture. The festival, which will take place on Granville Island, is organized by the Island of…
The interaction between Jewish and Muslim cultures is an internationally relevant and controversial issue that many artists find challenging to address. However, Sum Theatre’s Joel Bernbaum and Kayvon Kelly, co-creators and stars of My Rabbi, a play that will feature at the Firehall Arts Centre October 7-18, personalize this large-scale issue by placing it in…
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993, an exhibition running at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC until Nov.30, provides a unique look at the fledgling creative origins of the celebrated and controversial Chinese conceptual artist. Weiwei is equally known for his diverse artistic output and for his commitment to greater freedom of…
Canada has a vibrant comedy scene whose face, both nationally and here in Vancouver, is changing to include an increasing number of comedians from minority communities: …
100 Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground, an event presenting the life and work of the 13th century Sufi poet and mystic Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose writing is often interpreted as promoting the notion that we are all inter-connected, sets the tone for the fourth annual Indian Summer Festival, July 3–12.
Play, Fall, Rest, Dance, an art installation currently running at Vancouver’s grunt gallery until July 5th, is poised to defy the notion that good art is necessarily the product of structured creative efforts of adults.
It is no secret that Vancouver is a multicultural city that fuses many different traditions in all facets of life. When it comes to food, however, fusion has emerged as a trendy term that many use without fully exploring its complexity.
The Cuban Revolution marked a turning point in the nation’s history because of its efforts to improve the social inequalities within the country.
The 10th annual Vancouver City of Bhangra festival (May 29–June 7) is more than a celebration of folk music and dance from the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan: it is a living metaphor for cross-cultural collaboration, diversity and inclusion, upheld by more than 300 performers, 17 events and over 15,000 anticipated local and international…
Cyrilika Slavic Chamber Choir is a unique new addition to Vancouver’s music scene where both amateur choir music and Slavic heritage are minority subcultures at present.
