Jake McGrail
Articles by Jake McGrail
A back-alley and a chicken shop inspire playwright
May 20 2019 Culture Derek Chan, co-artistic director of rice & beans theatre. | Photo courtesy of Brenda Nicole Kent and Jules Le Masson
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Comics open to everyone
May 6 2019 Culture Isabella Laird, VanCAF director | Photo by David Cowling
The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (VanCAF) is back for its eighth …
Orchestrating an African cultural tour
February 4 2019 CultureISSAMBA, a 90-minute show filled with African music and dance, will be touring Vancouver and Vancouver Island Feb. 14–23.
Produced by the Victoria African and Caribbean Cultural Society …
Echoes from Chechnya
January 21 2019 ArtA still of the People of No Consequence video, Aslan Gaisumov, 2016. | Photo courtesy the artist, Emalin, London and Galerie Zink, …
First Nations’ past meets present in multimedia works
January 7 2019 Art Hexsa’a_m: To Be Here Always challenges the western concept of art and culture | Photo courtesy of Belkin Art Gallery
The …
Good Tidings! A Christmas gospel special
December 10 2018 CultureThis December, for the 15th consecutive year, the Good Noise …
Towards a utopian vision
November 19 2018 InternationalThe Institute for Humanities at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and its affiliated publication Contours Journal will be hosting Utopian Spaces, a free conference organized and led by SFU graduate …
Play explores the proliferation of thought monsters
October 8 2018 Culture Manami Hara. | Photo by Emily Cooper.
A play written for a younger audience, but with content everyone can relate to, So, How…
Brotherly relationship
September 24 2018 Culture Photo by Sepehr Samimi
Directed and performed by Aryo and Arash Khakpour, Cain and Abel is a
physical, movement-heavy …
Ethnic identity in writing
September 10 2018 CommunityWith eleven featured authors, LiterASIAN is the biggest celebration of Asian Canadian writing in the city. The festival runs Sept. 21–23 and will provide an array of stories, styles and events, …