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Djamila Ibrahim, launches things are good now, nine fiction short stories that explore the lives of people affected by immigration. Ibrahim emigrated from Ethiopia with her parents and five siblings when she was a teenager. Her experience taught her what it means to “fit into the in-between worlds,” where a person feels connected by place, language…
With her first-ever Canadian performance, Norwegian-Sami artist Stina Therese Lorås Hessaa brings her world premiere to this year’s Coastal First Nations Dance Festival from Feb. 27–Mar. 4. Known as a dancer, performer, playwright and theatre director, 41-year-old Hessaa comes to Vancouver from Trondheim, Norway. Her work has toured stages and festivals in countries all around…
“I’ve witnessed first-hand the ability of music to bring people out of where they’re trapped and to bring people together,” says Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky. Lertzman-Lepofsky and Jessica Heaven are the creative directors behind HEARTBEAT, a musical event that aims to bring people from diverse communities together to spark conversation. “Simply put, the event is a concert of…
Love: Part One a stage reading, will be presented by the Dorothy Somerset Studio at the University of British Columbia (UBC) on February 9. The play is part of the Enacting Culture/s series, a series of talks, performances and screenings looking to expand the awareness of students and the wider community to previously untapped or undervalued art…
pataSola Dance, a local dance company, will be performing Metamorphosis Butoh at the Shadbolt Centre from Feb. 21 to Feb. 24. Choreographed by Gustavo Collini in collaboration with pataSola Dance co-founders Eduardo Meneses and Salomé Nieto, the piece derives its name from the Japanese genre of dance, butoh, as well as the subject the performance’s main themes:…
2017, Canada’s 150th birthday, also marked the 75th anniversary of Canada’s Japanese Internment. Kelty Miyoshi McKinnon, a fourth generation Japanese-Canadian, felt compelled to bring the stories told by her grandparents and great-grandparents back to the forefront. With Keri Latimer, the two Japanese-Canadian artists will present Beta Vulgaris: The Sugar Beet Projects, an art installation followed by…
The PuSh Festival is underway, and with it comes the opportunity to see a vast array of original multi-disciplinary performances. One of the main stage shows at this year’s festival is The Eternal Tides, a mixture of dance and music that brings culture and customs from Taiwan across the ocean to Vancouver. The Eternal Tides marks the…
Presentation House Theatre (PHT) and Mexico’s famed Marionetas de la Esquina present the Canadian premiere of Amaranta Leyva’s whimsical and enchanting puppet show, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, at Presentation House Theatre from Jan. 25–Feb. 4. “I want people to see the story, feel the story and think about what the story is giving them,” says Leyva. Leyva…
Western Front’s sound installation series, the-possible-impossible-thing-of-sound, continues with an installation (Feb 2–10) and performance (Feb 8) of composer Juliet Palmer’s Inside Us, which explores the rhythm, sound, and experience of the body. This will be followed by a talk from artist and academic Salomé Voegelin who explores the potential of sound in conceiving new ideas and ways…
The Youth Assembly, a one-day performing arts conference run by and made for youth, is returning to this year’s PuSh Festival. The Assembly will also be one of the final meetings for this year’s PuSh Youth Academy, a smaller group that for the last two months has regularly met up to see shows, listen to…
This month the Surrey Art Gallery will showcase an art collection featuring Indigenous Indian art rarely seen in North America. Curated by Drs. Aurogeeta Das and David Szanton with assistance from curating consultant Jeffrey Wechsler, the exhibition’s stop at the Surrey Art Gallery is the only one in Canada. The exhibition runs Jan. 20–Mar. 25.…
When Derya and Dilara Akay found out they could work together on an art project that has personal significance to them, they jumped on the opportunity. “We live on different continents and with this project we wanted to spend time together and learn from each other in the light of collaborating as artist aside from…
Midtwenties Theatre Society, a recent addition to the Vancouver theatre community, will be premiering their first original production, Above the Hospital, on Jan. 12 at the Red Gate Revue Stage at Granville Island. Beau Han Bridge, the play’s writer and director, has always been an active member of the arts and theatre community but feels that…
