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The Philippine Music and Dance Workshop, hosted by the Multicultural Helping House Society’s 55+ers outreach in Richmond, is one of the thousands of free interactive activities offered across Canada for the Culture Days weekend. Marilou Yodogawa, 55+er’s coordinator, says the highlight of last year’s Philippine music and dance event was tinikling, a familiar dance performed…
Unmasked, an event being held at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden on Sept. 27, will offer audiences a look behind the curtains at the make-up process of Peking Opera. The demonstration will be followed by performances of Murder of a Concubine, and Princess Shuang Yang starring William Lau, Mr. Wang, Catherine Li and…
In their latest creative project, Music Temple, Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie take their love of nature and a desire to communicate on many levels to transcend the expectations of standard art forms. “Enough people talk about themselves. I want to speak about nature,” says Honda. The multimedia project, where neither sound nor visual installations…
This July, a place famous for its natural hot springs will welcome international music performances.
Edgar Muenala, an Ecuadorian pan flute player, composer and songwriter pursues his passion by creating a fusion of traditional Ecuadorian tunes with Asian, Western and other South American music.
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.
The inaugural Sound of the Dragon Music Festival is set to redefine Chinese music, and showcase Vancouver’s musical culture identity.
Cyrilika Slavic Chamber Choir is a unique new addition to Vancouver’s music scene where both amateur choir music and Slavic heritage are minority subcultures at present.
For the past year and a half, SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts has been the site of Coast Salish singing and drumming workshops. The workshops, which are free and open to the public, invite participants to experience and share First Nations music in an accessible community space. Originally held at SFU’s Burnaby campus,…
Since the economic recession of 2008 hit Ireland, increasing numbers of Irish youth have been drawn by the promise of B.C.’s mountains, beaches, and jobs, creating a vibrant Irish community in Vancouver. Seven members of this community came together in 2010 and 2011 to form the Vagabonds, a band that combines modern rock with Celtic…
Renowned Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek, 62, has composed over a hundred songs on a variety of different themes.
Playing music in one’s first language is a way for immigrant communities to keep their cultural identities alive.
The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is a professional concert orchestra made up of 24 core roster musicians from various ethnic backgrounds and musical traditions, from European to Indian to African and everything in between. The orchestra’s goal is to provide…
