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The mural of an elderly Asian woman standing beside a car, with crows behind her, on the corner of Hastings and Jackson in Vancouver, is one of Vanessa Lowe’s well-known works. In her latest project A Tree Grows in Chinatown, Lowe uses text and old family photographs to tell a story of her mother’s earlier…
The spit was the key. That part of the puzzle was what two University of British Columbia graduate students needed to solve their project: recreating and documenting pre-European painting techniques used by First Nations to make traditional wood finishing. Doctoral candidate, Jun Lee, and master’s student, Vinicius Lube, used saliva chewed with fresh salmon roe…
Creating art as a vehicle for communication to help transcend boundaries is the focus of the contemporary art exhibition presented by local Ismaili Muslim artists in Yaletown’s Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (Nov. 23–Dec. 1). The show, Odyssey: Past Meets Present, features 15 artists who explore, in their art works, how their past influences…
An established photographer who focuses on the concept of Zen, David Young is a contributing artist in the current District Foyer Gallery exhibition, alongside artist Frances Solar. Young’s love of nature was enforced by a childhood spent in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where he was influenced by his surroundings. Since obtaining his first camera at…
Pangaea Arts (Canada) and ArtStage SAN (예술무대산) (Korea) present 상자Sangja (Boxes), showing Nov. 19 to 21, 2015 at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby: a performance art project combining puppetry, music and physical theatre, delving into themes of identity, diversity, culture, race, families and the boxes in which we put ourselves and others. Symbolizing…
Kaija Rautiainen, a long-time weaver and native of Finland, is one of the artists who will be returning to the Eastside Culture Crawl to showcase her work. She will also be taking part in this year’s juried exhibition Hanging by a Thread, at The Cultch theatre, which explores the infinite possibilities of thread as a…
Engaged art raises awareness, brings a hidden reality to light, and then snatches it from oblivion to make it part of the collective memory: this is the vision of artist Sayeh Sarfaraz. Her drawings will be presented in her latest exhibition, Génération Sacrifiée (sacrificed generation), at grunt Gallery in Vancouver. Sarfaraz was born in Shiraz,…
Pushing Boundaries is an Aboriginal art exhibition put on by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council at the CityScape Community Art Space that shines light on up and coming First Nations artists. From across the lower mainland, 16 artists come together to contribute artwork of a cultural, traditional and contemporary mix. Janice Toulouse and Kelli…
A group of photographers, known simply as the Group of Five, will be exhibiting their photos at the Yaletown Roundhouse (Oct. 20–29). The “Melody of Light and Colour” exhibition explores the interplay of light in photography. All originally from Hong Kong, the group is comprised of older adults and members: Jonathan Lau, Ben Chan, Yui…
The Museum of Vancouver’s upcoming exhibit, Arctic Adaptations, on display from Oct. 8 to Dec. 13, explores the history and socio-cultural effects of modernization on the Inuit people in Nunavut through the medium of modern architecture. The exhibit initially opened in 2014 at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition to mark the 15th anniversary of…
A digital storytelling workshop, Underwater Chinatown, is stirring the waters and capturing what floats to the surface. Cinevolution hopes Underwater Chinatown will open up new dialogues between newcomer communities and the established Chinese-Canadian community through a creative exploration of the symbolic meaning of Chinatown. The free event runs Sept. 26 and is already filled to…
From Sept. 25–27, Kasturi Guha will be showcasing her Indian hand woven textiles at Port Moody’s Inlet Theatre as part of the sixth annual Culture Days weekend. Kasturi Guha, a fashion designer, first came to Canada as a graphic designer and retail manager before perusing her passion in Indian weaving. “When I was in marketing,…
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…
