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On Nov. 5, the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre will welcome the Re-Enactors, an award-winning heritage performance group that showcases many of Surrey’s early settlers from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The performance`s main character, Zennosuke Inouye, was a Surrey business man, World War I veteran and the only Japanese-Canadian war veteran…
The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre (VLACC) presents Club Habana: An Evening of Cuban Jazz at the Vancouver Playhouse (Nov. 4). The event run by artistic director Danais Yera brings together, among others, trumpetist Miguelito Valdés and Grammy-award-winning saxophonist Alfred Thompson for a musical evening of Cuban and jazz music fusion. Miguelito Valdés knew he…
Felix Böck wants to give used chopsticks a second life. He founded a company named ChopValue that takes used chopsticks and turns them into woodwork items such as coasters, tables and shelves. When Böck was six, he carved hiking sticks for tourists in the Alps. Since then, he has been closely connected to wood. He…
He calls himself The Light Chaser. “I call myself the light chaser because I chase the lights in landscapes – sunsets, sunrises, any source of light elements,” says Frannz Morzo, Vancouver-based landscape photographer. New kid on the block Together with his parents and siblings, Morzo immigrated to Canada from the Philippines when he was 15…
Film has always been used as a mean of expression. In Polish culture, the medium serves as a window to the past as well as a means to explore contemporary life in Poland. Vancouver Polish Film Festival (VPFF) returns (Oct. 21–23) with a selection of ten unique films. Co-presented by Simon Fraser University’s Woodward’s Cultural…
The Richmond Art Gallery is hosting an art exhibition this month, featuring works tackling issues of cultural conflation and mixed identities. Many of the works by Vancouver-based artists Diyan Achjadi and Shawn Hunt have never been shown before on the West Coast. “While very different in the way they look, their work shares features in…
The Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble will perform a public reading at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum on Oct. 15. Facilitated by Alan Lau and directed by Jirong Huang, the performance will feature pieces from four Canadian composers commissioned for the event, which will be followed by a discussion on the pieces themselves and on perceptions…
Eric Chu, film design guest of honour at the upcoming Vancouver’s Premier Science Fiction, Fantasy and Games Convention (VCON), will be talking about his experience working onBattlestar Galactica as well participating in a group panel about a new project, the SF puppet show Gerry Anderson’s Firestorm. The VCON convention will be held at Surrey’s Sheraton…
The Access to Media Education Society (AMES) was created 20 years ago with the goal of providing access to media training and technology for people grossly misrepresented or invisible in mainstream media. On Sept. 22, they celebrate two decades of learning and change at the AMES 20th Anniversary AGM. AMES runs a multitude of programs…
Photographer Brendan O’Leary’s upcoming exhibition Golden Eagle Bayan Ulgii will be at the Leigh Square Community Arts Village in Port Coquitlam and will feature 20 digital prints on canvas. The exhibition will also showcase other highlights of Bayan-Ulgii such as the celebration of Kazakh traditions. The show runs from Sept. 29–Oct. 31. An excerpt from…
Upon returning to Iran after a decade, Langer was astonished to see the rapid change the country had undergone. What stood out most to him was the change in attitude as well as recently built infrastructure. As part of SFU’s Saturday Forum, Peter Langer will give a free virtual tour of Iran on Oct. 1.…
Mashregh will be performing selections from their debut album, Bird Dance, at the Blueshore Centre on Oct. 1. Vancouver-based Persian Flamenco singer Farnaz Ohadi leads the ensemble, bringing together Persian poetry and flamenco dance and guitar as a means of conveying Ohadi’s journey of challenges and empowerment. Bringing together Farsi and flamenco Born and raised…
Pooneh Alizadeh has been chosen as one of the ambassadors for this year`s Culture Days and will be teaching a dance workshop as her Culture Days activity. BC Culture Days run from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. Alizadeh has been engaged in dance since she was five years old and since then, her passion for…
