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April 28 2014 Culture Centre A Gallery considers the sites of a changing Chinatown
Centre A Gallery is fairly new to the Chinatown neighbourhood, having opened on East Georgia Street in May 2013. Its location within a rapidly transforming Chinatown has prompted the gallery to …
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April 28 2014 Culture Shared Slavic soul: Cyrilika choir debuts on the Vancouver stage
Cyrilika Slavic Chamber Choir is excited to offer it eclectic mix of ethnic and spiritual music at their debut concert on May 8 | Photo …
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April 22 2014 Culture A modern Turkish tradition: The International Children’s Festival
Buket Sendemir with her son Niall. | Photo by Atila KeteneThe Vancouver Turks are celebrating this year’s children’s …
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April 7 2014 Culture Workshop shares Coast Salish song and drumming
Russell Wallace and company sing and play hand drums. | Photo courtesy of SFU Woodward’sFor the past year and a half, SFU …
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April 7 2014 Culture Japanese consulate celebrates 125 years with theatre for the ages
Yamai Tsunao in Hagoromo | Photo Courtesy of Tomoe ArtsJapanese people and culture have been a part of Vancouver for a long …
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April 7 2014 Culture Spoken magic: festival celebrates poetry as performance
Janice Lee aims to give her audiences positive vibes while feeding their critical skills.|Photo by Mat McCarthy, courtesy of Verses …
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March 17 2014 Art The Tattoo – Two Histories
Sonada tattooing one of her creations | Images of Hidalgo’s snake designsTattoo art, in the last decade, has gained much …
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March 17 2014 Art Carrying on the Cloud Art tradition
Candace Thayer-Coe is one of the rare artists in Vancouver who specializes in the traditional art of Turkish paper marbling. The Italian Cultural Centre is currently presenting The Bookbinder’s …
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March 17 2014 Art Blazing the trail: celebrating the pioneers in indigenous printmaking
Kenojuak Ashevak’s Sun Owl (1963, stonecut on paper) depicts an animal that is symbolically important to the Inuit. | Photo by Scott …