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This year’s Ebb and Flow exhibit at the North Vancouver Community Arts Council features artist Tony Yin Tak Chu’s drawing installation inspired by the Chinese pictograph for water. The theme of the exhibit is enhanced by four other artists – Carole Arnston, Sylvia Bayley, Tracey Tarling and Michal Tkachenko – whose paintings are encouraged…
Music groups Orkestar Slivovica and Ventanas will perform at Seven Dining Lounge on April 1. Featuring a full brass band, Toronto-based ensemble Ventanas has teamed up with the Slivovica Social Club to celebrate the cultural history of the Balkans, Spain and the Mediterranean. The performance will combine sounds from traditional trans-Mediterranean and Balkan music with a…
As the head of the Vancouver Turkish Film Festival Selection Committee, Eylem Sonmez has assembled an intriguing selection of Turkish movies with the help of the Turkish Canadian Society. All proceeds go the Turkish Canadian Society and all the people involved in the festival work for free. When Sonmez was growing up in Istanbul, her…
The Sepik River in Papua New Guinea is home to the Iatmul people, an indigenous community of over 400,000 people whose cultural identity, economy, and way of life is threatened by impending mining operations. In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man: Contemporary Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea will be the first exhibit…
Neworld Theatre founder Camyar Chai will be returning to the stage this month to co-direct Doost (Friend). As part of its’ 20th anniversary celebration, Neworld Theatre will be showcasing three presentations at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (The Cultch). Doost explores the mystical traditions of Sufism through music, poetry and dance. Chai explains that Sufism…
The Vancouver Web Fest, now on its third year, showcases creative web content from all over the world. On March 18, the three-day event will screen Canadian and international work from 16 different countries with a variety of workshops, talks and keynote speakers. The festival begins with a number of workshops taking place on Friday,…
Years after his first exhibition at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, photographer Zebulon Zang returns to the same site to display No Name Creek. His personal project examines his city at its earliest uninhabited form to give a sense of familiarity and the changes he witnessed. Zang says the story behind the name of…
The 27th annual Festival du Bois will be hosted by the francophone Coquitlam community of Maillardville. The festival seeks to share and celebrate French Canadian arts and culture through food, visual arts, and musical talents, including Maillardville-based Alouest. Festivalgoers can enjoy the event from Mar. 4–6. “We identify ourselves as the Maillardville band wherever we…
Itai Erdal’s play, A Very Narrow Bridge, explores the immigrant experience in Canada from a Jewish perspective. The playwright’s own immigration story helped to illustrate the questions that arise and challenges that are faced by many new people. The play has its world premiere at this year’s Chutzpah! Festival in Vancouver. “It’s funny. It’s the…
New Work & Kubrick Études, a premiere piece for piano and turntables paired with an earlier work for piano and glitch (film and soundtrack), will be presented by Vancouver New Music at The Annex on Mar. 12. The performance features composer Nicole Lizée on electronics and film manipulation, New York City-based turntablist Paolo Kapunan aka…
Laura Wee Láy Láq, an accomplished potter and ceramic artist, will be presenting at the Surrey Art Gallery as part of the Thursday Artist Talk series (Mar. 3) where she will share her unique technique and love for working with clay. With roots in the Stó:lō Nation, Wee Láy Láq’s art is steeped in tradition…
When filmmaker Charles Mudede read Russian novels, one key question stuck with him – the question of morality, a predominant theme in this type of literature he studied. Today, he is merging political philosophy and film to engage people to think about the nature of human morality. On Feb. 18, Mudede will lead, The Cinema…
Memory and a child’s perspective are the focus of the Things on the Shoreline exhibit (Feb. 13–Apr. 16) presented by artist Cindy Mochizuki, the Access Gallery, the students of Lord Strathcona Elementary School and the Vancouver Japanese Language School. Mochizuki is a local Vancouver visual artist, and a large contributor to the collaborative project. “I’m…
