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The White Rock waterfront will be lit up with lanterns when the Second Annual Moon Festival arrives this September. For three days, music, arts, food and dancing will be on hand for the celebration. The festival is the brainchild of Erik Stepura, who proposed the idea to the city council. “We’re partnering with the Chinese…
This year’s Vancouver Queer film festival offers some unexpected stories; from a gay Filipino boy working in an unfamiliar culture to the true story of Power-ful voices from today’s diverse and multitalented youth performers.
The 2014 Surrey Fusion Festival will take place on July 19 and 20, and this year Nigeria will be one of six new Cultural Pavilions among the 38 to be showcased at the festival.
Experience the culture of the Caribbean without having to buy a plane ticket.
Local artist and Emily Carr University instructor Vjeko Sager believes art is an external and ineffable idea comprehended through an immersion of spiritual sensations and the artist is a performer who is responsible for the translation of those sensations.
This July, a place famous for its natural hot springs will welcome international music performances.
The 2014 Indian Summer Festival’s Artpolitik: Culture and the Graphic Novel brings Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas to Vancouver on July 9, along with Indian graphic artist Orijit Sen and architect David Wong, to discuss their work and the storytelling power of the graphic novel.
100 Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground, an event presenting the life and work of the 13th century Sufi poet and mystic Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose writing is often interpreted as promoting the notion that we are all inter-connected, sets the tone for the fourth annual Indian Summer Festival, July 3–12.
On July 5–6, come to downtown Vancouver for a two-day Latin American party at Carnaval del Sol. Experience Latino culture with music, food and more.
The 19th annual Scandinavian Midsummer Festival will be held on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre on June 21–22, as well as an Ember Skies Dance for patrons 19 years of age and older on June 20.
Art is given a supportive hand as new immigrants find ways to express cultural identity. On May 3rd, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) launched the Explore ASIAN festival. The festival started with an opening ceremony introducing the “So This Is Canada!” art exhibit. With approximately 200 people in attendance at the International Art…
The 10th annual Vancouver City of Bhangra festival (May 29–June 7) is more than a celebration of folk music and dance from the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan: it is a living metaphor for cross-cultural collaboration, diversity and inclusion, upheld by more than 300 performers, 17 events and over 15,000 anticipated local and international…
The inaugural Sound of the Dragon Music Festival is set to redefine Chinese music, and showcase Vancouver’s musical culture identity.
