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An exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery explores the multitude of ways community space is used and reflects on its history. The soundscape project, by collaborators Phinder Dulai, Carmen Papalia and Andrew Lee, is an audiovisual exploration of the Grove, a forest in Newton, Surrey. Papalia was invited to work on the soundscape project by…
The Roku Shichi Taiko group, one of Vancouver’s only youth taiko groups, will be performing at Minoru Park for the Richmond World Maritime Festival (Sept. 5). Elementary school teacher Doug Masuhara originally started the group based out of Admiral Seymour Elementary School, where he was teaching at the time. Now ten years later, Roku Shichi…
The 27th annual Dancing on the Edge Festival will take place from July 2 to 11 at various venues in Vancouver. The festival features contemporary dance performances from over 20 dance companies. Colleen Lanki, artistic director of TomoeArts, is set to debut her performance of Weaver Woman, a retelling of a classic Chinese folk tale…
The next time you’re at the Richmond Library, pause for a moment and enjoy yourself on the rooftop garden. Now in its fourth year, the rooftop garden at the Richmond Library/Cultural Centre is primed to be a vibrant community space. According to Judy Lo, cultural centre supervisor, volunteers at the Richmond Garden Club look after…
Recent Art Institute of Vancouver graduate Zong Peng was one of 12 young fashion designers chosen to be featured in the Art Institutes fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2015. After graduating from high school, Peng says that he felt lost and unsure of what his post-secondary plans were. He became interested in the…
Yayoi Hirano’s talk at the Nikkei National Museum will discuss her research and experience travelling through Japan to study the Japanese performing arts that came before Kabuki. Hirano was born and raised in Japan and studied the mime dance form at a theatre university. After graduating, Hirano continued her studies outside of Japan. Her experiences…
Produced out of a studio at UBC’s student union building, the CiTR radio station (101.9FM) was created as an outlet for students to discuss life on campus and local news around the university. Today, the CiTR hosts over 90 diverse music and talk programs that represent different voices in the community. According to Brenda Grunau,…
Once again, literature with an Italian focus will be recognized at the 15th F. G. Bressani Awards ceremony. In the spirit of literary expression, the biennial literary prize was established to recognize Italian Canadian writers and other authors who have taken an interest in Italian culture. Anna Ciampolini Foschi helped establish the prize in 1986…
If you are looking for a place to purchase a diverse range of Italian food and products, look no further than Il Mercato, Vancouver’s first Italian farmer’s market. Brimming with a host of Italian themed vendors as well as other local vendors, the market will have something to tantalize your taste buds. Wendy Hainstock, coordinator…
Failure of communication is the theme of the Access Gallery’s newest exhibit, Far Away So Close Part One. Six emerging Canadian artists will be featured in the exhibit including Erdem Taşdelen, whose piece The Conduit explores the subjective nature of meaning in handwriting analysis. The exhibit aims to explore the way that meaning is interpreted…
When searching for a cookbook, one does not usually find an accompaniment of survival stories along with the recipes. Raisa Stone, author of Baba’s Kitchen: Ukrainian Soul Food, offers just that. With humour and anecdotes laced throughout the recipes, Stone sheds light on survivors of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. As a child growing up…
What do crushed coke cans and clay pigs have in common? A place in Gu Xiong’s exhibition titled Gu Xiong: A Journey Exposed, a series of installations at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.
Salt gets sprinkled on food to add flavour, and on May 31 a dash of salt will be added to art in Randy Lee Cutler’s video screening of her Salt Walks project.
