Parviz Tanavoli – a retrospective
Heritage and progress: national artistic identity or heavily influenced by Westernization. Parviz Tanavoli, recognized as the only Iranian artist to fully capture the duality and interplay of …
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June 26 2023 Art MOTHLIKE/silvery-blue - Celebrating nature with artist Amy-Claire Huestis
Protecting biodiversity in ecological areas currently under threat, due to human development and expansion, is an important focus for artist Amy-Claire Huestis and her collaborators. Huestis …
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June 26 2023 Culture The Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Festival is coming to town with an extensive program
The Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Festival, organized by the Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society, will take place this year over the Canada Day weekend from June 30 to July 8 in Downtown Vancouver.…
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June 12 2023 Culture Vancouver and Toronto are facing similar cultural challenges
The Toronto mayoral election will take place on June 26. Many of the cultural debates that have arisen in the current mayoral race in Canada’s largest city also reverberate here on the Wes Coast. …
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June 12 2023 Art A travelling exhibition of beast and other creatures
People have been telling stories about mythical beings for thousands of years. These legends, sometimes inspired by oral legends, fossils or living animals, withstand the test of time and continue …
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May 29 2023 Art The hybrid spaces of Fashion Fictions
Fashion Fictions, an innovative exhibition, explores the liminal spaces between oppositional, and at times, contradictory ideas. Running from May 27 to Oct. 9 at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) the …
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May 29 2023 Culture Blues at heart
The Steve Kozak Band is bringing the blues to Blue Frog Studios in White Rock, June 3 with special guest Sherman ‘Tank’ Doucette.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Kozak and his band will be …
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May 29 2023 Culture Polyphony takes to the stage
To be uncompromising with showcasing culture, and to have honest explorations of themselves is what rice & beans theatre want from artists when developing their art form. The first-ever …
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May 8 2023 Culture Aerosia, a feat of vertical dance performance
Artistic director Julia Taffe’s Vancouver-based Aeriosa Dance Society merges elements of vertical dance and rock climbing in the theatrical work New Artists and Approaches in Vertical Dance, part…
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May 8 2023 Culture ExplorAsian – books, conversation and music
Dishonesty, dark humor, deadly consequences…The thin line between representation and exploitation is the theme explored in Rebecca F. Kuang’s latest book Yellowface.
Kuang, a …