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August 17 2020 Culture Healing through dance
When Lorelei Williams began using dance as a form of demonstration,she didn’t realize how healing it would be. | Photo courtesy of …
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August 17 2020 Culture Celeigh Cardinal: singer, songwriter, storyteller, artist
Ceiligh Cardinal champions Indigenous musical representation | Photo by Megan Kemshead
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July 6 2020 Art A golden voice – one man’s legacy
Portrait of Bill Reid, c.1976. Painting by Chris Hopkins in 2005. | Photo courtesy of the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast …
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July 6 2020 Culture Vancouver Queer Film Festival - Breaking Fast portrays love and joy as an act of resistance
VQFF’s Closing Gala Film, Breaking Fast by Mike Mosallam, delivers an intelligent rom-com that portrays love and joy as an act of …
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July 6 2020 Culture Layers of identity: On/Me hits the bookshelves
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July 6 2020 Culture Red Phone: A safe and immersive theatre experience
The theatre company Boca del Lupo, blurs the line between audience and performer in their upcoming performance.
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July 6 2020 Culture Nêhiyawak – Indigenous trio dismantles colonial conceptions
Amiskwaciy (Edmonton)-based trio ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ (nêhiyawak) has been nominated for Best Indigenous Artist or Group in the 2020 Juno Awards for their debut full-length album nipiy. Kris …
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June 22 2020 Art Dragon Hoops: A graphic novel about life, family and high school
In need of comic relief? Just in time for the summer, Gene Luen Yang has recently released his first non-fiction graphic novel, Dragon Hoops. This past March, Yang, whose workshop at the Vancouver …
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June 22 2020 Culture Supermarket clerks and the human imagination
Danilo, in My Darling Supermarket. | Photo courtesy of DOXA
In our lives, we do some activities so automatically that we do…