Hip-hop in the digital age
Curated by Mark V. Campbell, Still Tho: Aesthetic Survival in Hip-Hop’s Visual Art, an exhibition presented by the Canada Council for the Arts features artwork by 13 cross disciplinary artists …
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April 25 2022 Culture Sharing stories, down the generations
Tsimshian artist and storyteller Roy Henry Vickers weaves a beautiful and simplistic tale inspired by his childhood in the Indigenous village of Kitkatla through Ben the Sea Lion, a children’s …
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April 25 2022 Art Xicanx: merging social movements’ history and political artivism with dreams and trailblazing
Merging social movements’ history and political artivism begins with dreams and the willingness to change. For the first time in Canada, 33 Xicanx artists are being showcased at UBC’s Museum of …
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April 25 2022 Culture An experiment in optimism
The importance of valuing young people, by addressing their hidden fears, is an idea Valerie Methot, executive director at Some Assembly Theatre company, supports. Methot, who overcame being an …
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Denise and Stefano live parallel lives as they are forced to sacrifice human qualities to survive in a place that is controlled by the one per cent. The characters in Lampedusa create a friendship…
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April 25 2022 Culture Dance and poetry meet to narrate the internment and dispossession of Japanese-Canadians
Kunji Mark Ikeda uses family stories and artistic expression to navigate challenging life experiences in Sansei: The Storyteller at the Chan Centre Apr. 28–29. The show follows Ikeda as he …
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April 11 2022 Art SuperNova - Intergalactic personas and character studies to discuss and provoke the authenticity of culture
Hosted by the grunt gallery, Canadian-Iranian visual artist Rah’s new show suggests discussions that, acting as parody, essentialize qualities that validate ethnicized and racialized experiences …
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April 11 2022 Culture Bad Parents A modern take on parenting
Parenting is like figuring out a puzzle in the play Bad Parents, says performers Raugi Yu and Josette Jorge. Bad Parents reveals the real story of parenting and does not hide behind rose colored …
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March 21 2022 Culture Skoden’s beacon of reconciliation
Photo courtesy of Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
For three days, the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF) will be celebrating Indigenous filmmakers across Canada while also promoting SFU’s …
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March 21 2022 Culture Kidd Pivot’s Revisor - Adapting a Russian farce on power and corruption
A low-level clerk arrives at a remote government complex where all the officials mistake him as a high-ranking inspector. Since they all have secrets that they fear being exposed, they do everything…