Cuban music stars poised to ignite the Vancouver stage
Azúcar Negra, a widely popular Cuban timba band, will bring their vibrant beats to the first ever Vancouver Cuban Music Festival.| …
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October 6 2014 selected Reconnection
Québécoise artist Danaé Brissonnet is in front of her mural, Reconnection. She’s painting it on the Moss St. side of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV). The mural was part of the Puppets…
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September 22 2014 Economy Bamboo: a sustainable alternative to the concrete jungle?
Strong, fast-growing and widely distributed, bamboo is an attractive, yet underdeveloped material that could prove valuable to the construction industry, according to UBC researcher Felix Böck. …
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September 22 2014 Columns Who has the right to this city? Proposal to tax empty condos in Vancouver is part of an overdue debate
In the 2008 municipal election, Gregor Robertson swept into the Mayor’s office on a promise to eliminate homelessness in Vancouver.
The issue was the centrepiece of his campaign, even though …
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September 22 2014 Community Nikkei Museum ponders identity and future
On Sept. 27, the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre will bring together artists and cultural figures to honour and explore Nikkei identity during a time of immense change.
“What are we?”…
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September 22 2014 Art Artists make a plea for conservation
Picture a world where the world is luscious and green, a place where our ecosystem thrived and our wildlife existed harmoniously and wandered freely. Using art as a tool, this is the world that the …
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September 8 2014 Local Explorer Wade Davis starts UBC stint with talk on world cultures
Wade Davis trades his explore’s hat for a professor’s tweed jacket at UBC | Photo by Martin Dee
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September 8 2014 Columns Why has Vancouver’s ‘progressive’ Mayor been so quiet about the BC teachers’ strike?
Instead of going to back-to-school this month, BC students and parents are getting a lesson in class struggle. They are the collateral damage of Premier Christy Clark’s BC Liberal government and …
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September 8 2014 Community A new era of open education
Receiving individual course credits or a certificate from Yale, Cambridge or Harvard for free and without even leaving home is now possible. The growing trend of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) …
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September 8 2014 selected Transformational encounter
Two worlds are meeting here: one from BC and one from Brazil. Both represent transformations; both are totems of a kind.
On the left is the work of Clarence Mills, an accomplished artist from Haida …