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Personal experience ignited the imagination of writer/director Tim Carlson for Foreign Radical, a play with an interactive set up similar to a murder mystery. Thirty audience members, split into four quadrants to gather information, are exposed to real-life prejudices and privacy invasions. Foreign Radical will be appearing at Studio 1398 from Feb. 6–11. “Online, on…
How do we define ourselves? By our accomplishments? Our jobs? Our families? Or just what we remember? These are the questions Diane Brown asks us to ask ourselves as director of the play You Will Remember Me (from the play Tu te souviendras de moi by François Archambault, translated by Bobby Theodore) showing at the…
Award-winning artist Katie Cheung’s new exhibit Beyond Nature II opens Feb. 3 at the Art Beatus Gallery with a showing that features mixed media and acrylic on canvas paintings. Born in Hong Kong, Cheung received her formal art education at Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art & Design after making Vancouver her home.…
Colombian-born, Toronto-based Lido Pimienta will be performing on Feb. 4 at the Fox Cabaret as part of the PuSh festival music series. Pimienta’s music bases itself in indie and electronic pop, fusing it with Afro-Colombian influences and style with the goal of bringing a nuanced and personal kind of protest poetry to the masses. Message…
Theatre Replacement’s Town Choir will open on Jan. 22 at the Woodward’s Atrium as part of the 2017 PuSh Festival. Town Choir is the newest iteration of the group’s Town Criers project, where everyday or potentially mundane observations are presented as newsworthy, with the writers potentially hundreds of kilometers away from the performance. Town Criers…
Erdem Taşdelen takes society’s obsession with titles and gives it an abrupt shake. In the upcoming exhibitions, running from Jan. 13–Mar.17 at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Wild Child and The Quantified Self Poems redress our preoccupation with labeling. “The two projects are conflated in some ways,” says Taşdelen. Wild Child Always curious, the Emily…
Tunics of the Changing Tide, a painting by First Nations artist Marianne Nicolson, has transformed the Dzawada̱’enux̱w Nation’s history and story into artwork. Nicolson’s work will be exhibited at the Walter C.Koerner Library at UBC from Jan. 13– Apr. 9. In the summer of 1980, at the age of eleven, Nicolson moved to Kingcome Inlet…
Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson, the duo behind Mere Phantoms, use paper cut-outs to create miniature cities. Handheld lights are shone upon the paper structures to bring the shadows to life on the blank walls of the room. Their exhibition, Three Cities: Prayer and Protest, will be on display at the Grunt Gallery from Jan.…
Organized by the Canada Indonesia Diaspora Society (CIDS), the LANSIA Oral History Project grew from a community’s hope to preserve the stories of their elder generation. Launched in May 2016, the project aims to interview 25 Canadian-Indonesian elders who emigrated between the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The stories about their long journey from…
Together with many Japanese and Japanese-Canadian households and community groups, the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Auxiliary in Burnaby will hold an event near the start of the New Year: the annual tradition of Mochitsuki, or rice pounding, to make mochi or rice cakes from steamed sweet rice. Frank Kamiya, a semi-retired architect and…
How does it feel to interact with someone who isn’t actually there? This question arose while viewing and engaging with the current Surrey Art Gallery exhibit Rencontres Imaginaires by Scenocosme. The larger-than-life public art installation exhibits on the UrbanScreen outside Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre every evening. Scenocosme are two artists otherwise known as Gregory Lasserre…
What to do while waiting at a red light? Some listen to music, others simply stand there, but Mohammad Reza Atashzad, watercolour artist and art instructor, is different – he can finish a painting before the light turns green. “Watercolour painting is very spontaneous; I can draw it very quickly,” says Atashzad. Born in Esfahan,…
Anthropology professor and curator Jennifer Kramer kicked off the Layers of Influence exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC on Nov. 17, 2016. The textile exhibition displays cloths from various cultures – Tibetan robes to Indian saris – and runs until Apr. 9, 2017. “There’s a combination of pure, aesthetic appreciation,” Kramer says.…
