The permission to belong
The streets are silent, but a rare morning breeze is bringing the smells of spring right to my window. Vancouver is in lockdown, but its cherry trees are in bloom, and the soil of its many millions …
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May 4 2020 Columns World Collage Day 2020: “Collage is intuitive”
In 2018, Kolaj Magazine initiated World Collage Day, an international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. We invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate…
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April 20 2020 Columns Embracing traditions, food, art and history from around the world
It’s been six months since I moved to Vancouver, and life in this metropolis is a major contrast to the quaint towns and small cities I’ve been living in over the past 10 years. Ethnic …
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April 20 2020 Columns Floripa, Brazil: my first taste of South America
When I think of Brazil, I imagine beautiful beaches, amazing barbequed meat, rain forests and sunshine. Last year I had the opportunity to stop imagining these things and truly experience them on my …
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April 6 2020 Columns Finding a multilingual home
This is a multicultural and multi-ethnic haven where people from everywhere intertwine in a safe and peaceful manner. Walking the streets, it is possible to hear languages coming from every country …
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April 6 2020 Columns The glory of the Eternal City – Rome
Rome is known to many as the Eternal City. It has lasted for centuries and continues to stand tall even today. Over the holidays in December/January, I went on a mini-Euro adventure that included …
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March 23 2020 Columns Somewhere new is not something I am looking for
I have never had the skin tightening feeling of growing out of a space, of packing a suitcase and finding my somewhere new. Vancouver is my perpetual somewhere new, a community transient, fluid and …
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March 23 2020 Columns Echos from Brazil
The Covid-19 pandemic has required efforts worldwide to contain the increase in the number of cases and death. In Brazil, it has not been different. The largest country from South America has, until …
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March 23 2020 Columns A Parisian New Year
The Arc de Triomphe lights up during the winter holidays. | Photo by Kristy Dockstader
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March 2 2020 Columns From the Amazon to Canada to find a more sustainable life
I come from Manaus, a hot and rainy city located in the heart of the Amazonian jungle. I decided to move, looking for a more sustainable life. This might sound a little paradoxical at first, but it …