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As part of Chinese New Year celebrations, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden launches the exhibition Gathering: Chinese New Year Folk Art by Chinese artist Gao Jing. Her art, which is considered innovative compared to classical Chinese New Year paintings, depicts traditions before and during Chinese New Year. This is the first time that…
Creativity and impressive stage presence brings California Guitar Trio (CGT) and Montreal Guitar Trio (MG3) to the Shadbolt Centre Feb.13.. The Canadian sextet will be combining their talents with a variety of styles, strings and musical affinities. CGT tends to favour a range of folk and progressive rock vibes; while MG3’s wide range of style…
Hardeep Singh Sahota, a seasoned bhangra dancer, is making his debut at Dances for a Small Stage 33: the valentine’s edition, a performance series that showcases new and established dance professionals. The show will be hosted at the ANZA Club in Mount Pleasant from Feb. 11–14, where Sahota hopes to share his love for bhangra…
Vancouver’s Tibetans will celebrate Losar, their culture’s New Year, Feb. 8. This year, the Kagyu Kunkhyab Chuling Centre will celebrate Losar with a series of different traditions, including meditation sessions and special Protector Mahakala ceremonies to ring in the Tibetan New Year. Lobsang Tenzin calls himself a dharma believer and teacher who’s immersed in Vancouver’s…
Chanel Blouin, museum assistant at the Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia, is launching the online exhibit, New Ways of Living: Jewish Architects in Vancouver, 1955–1975. The exhibit features Vancouver residential landmarks designed and built by Jewish architects in the postwar years in order to recognize their work and pay tribute to those architects…
Vancouver-based artist Dana Claxton explores the life of Indigenous people in her artwork. Her new exhibition Made To Be Ready, which can be seen at SFU’s Audain Gallery, focuses on four selected video and photograph works depicting Indigenous women and cultural belongings. The exhibition consists of two lightboxes, or fireboxes, as the artist calls them,…
Honduras-based musician Aurelio will be performing various styles of Garifuna music, an integral part of the coastal Garifuna culture, on Jan. 31 at St. James Hall. While the songs are his own, Aurelio seeks to display and share the sound of his culture rather than his own voice as an individual. Hailing from Honduras, Aurelio…
When Lawrence Le Lam heard the story of his father, Lami Lam, a legendary DJ called Blue Jet who played banned anti-war rock and roll music in Taiwan in the 1970s, he thought it would be a great idea for a film. The result was a 16 minute short film entitled The Blue Jet that…
It’s all about the tough stuff, or Huff stuff, for playwright and performer Cliff Cardinal. Solvent abuse, sexual abuse and suicide are featured in his second play Huff, a story about what he feels young First Nations are going through. But Cardinal wants to let the audience have their own interpretation. “I think that First…
Toronto-based soprano Neema Bickersteth performs Century Song, a hybrid work of film, song and dance that explores the identities and roles experienced by a woman throughout the 20th century, in an effort to “inform one’s own identity” as it links to the past. The performance will be held at the Cultch theatre from Feb. 2…
Anthropologies Imaginaires, an avant-garde experimental vocal show by musician Gabriel Dharmoo, was awarded Best International Production at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival in 2015, and is now being presented at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival from Feb. 1–2. “Anthropologies Imaginaires is a live art and vocal performance,” says Dharmoo, composer, improviser and researcher of ethnomusicology.…
There is a strong Scottish presence in British Columbia. In fact, roughly 15 per cent of British Columbians are of Scottish descent according to Darryl Carracher, general manager of Vancouver’s Scottish Cultural Centre. From the very start of the 20th century and into the 1960s, there was a large number of Scots settling in Vancouver.…
The newly appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey, Renée Saklikar, incorporates her poet practice of place and community to connect people living in Surrey. “Being a Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey is both terrifying and wonderful all at the same time,” says Renée Saklikar. Saklikar, a local author, won the 2014…
