Simon Yee
Articles by Simon Yee
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January 11 2021 Events The Electric Company Theatre poses the question: “How do you engage”. | Photo courtesy of Electric Company Theatre
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Finding positivity in an exceptionally difficult year
December 7 2020 Cover StoryThe global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has swept the world has changed everything. With over one million worldwide deaths, ushering in the worst global economic crisis since the Great …
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December 7 2020 EventsThis has been a trying year for cultural activities. The last cultural calendar of the year should and would be full of Christmas, New Year and other holiday festivals and events for the whole …
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November 23 2020 Events Chez Vous: Christmas is Elektra Women’s Choir gift to you. | Photo courtesy of Elektra Women’s Choir
Not only is it …
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November 2 2020 Events The Diwali Festival is going virtual. | Photo courtesy of Diwali Fest
The nights will be colder and darker this month – …
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October 19 2020 Events We Are the Clouds by Estonian artists Varvara and Mar | Photo by SITE Photograph
Because of the ongoing second wave of …
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October 5 2020 EventsCanada’s second wave of coronavirus is here and we definitely need to buckle down and stay the course with social distancing, just as we did in the spring. Check out the many events and festivals …
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September 21 2020 EventsI hope you all had as great a summer as you could in the spectre of the coronavirus. With the passing of the Autumnal Equinox, fall 2020 is finally here – and like the spring and summer, many …
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August 31 2020 Events Market Scene by Pieter Aertsen (1569) is one of the artworks on exhibit in A Bitesize History of Food in Art.
The beginning …
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August 17 2020 EventsI hope everyone has been staying safe and healthy over the summer break. Despite the ongoing global pandemic and the threat of a COVID spike, many places around the city have been endeavouring to …