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From Jan. 16 to Apr. 17, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery will present Lalakenis/All Directions: A Journey of Truth and Unity, an exhibition paying tribute to Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw chief Beau Dick’s journey. Along with friends and family, he made the journey to Parliament Hill to perform a copper shield breaking ceremony, marking a ruptured…
Ann Shin’s op doc, My Enemy, My Brother, is a story about Zahed and Najah, two former enemies in the Iraq and Iran war. After Zahed found Najah injured in a bunker during a raid, he risked his own life to save him. Years after the separation, both men miraculously found each other in Vancouver,…
“Confronting one’s own demise” is the premise of choreographer and dancer Nacera Belaza’s performance in her work Le Temps scellé. The performance is being presented at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival from Jan. 27 to Jan. 29. Le Temps scellé was originally commissioned by the Festival d’Avignon in France in 2009. “I had to…
Creating folk music for children is important for award-winning Vancouver-based artist Ginalina. Including her four young children in her creative process is also important for the singer, who considers them the source of her inspiration. “We hum songs over snack time together. We go to the recording studio together. We work through album design layout…
Elinor Barr, a researcher on Scandinavian immigration to Canada, launched last month a comprehensive new historical book at Vancouver’s Scandinavian Community Centre. Swedes in Canada: Invisible Immigrants is the first comprehensive overview of Swedish-Canadian history. Born in Ignace, Ontario to Swedish parents, Barr, 82, lived in Port Arthur and Fort William, where she worked as…
December 10 marks International Human Rights Day. In light of this upcoming event, Audrey Siegl, a Musqueam First Nations member, reflects on local human rights challenges in Vancouver and her role in shining a spotlight on these issues. A menu of words easily describes who Siegl is: Anti-poverty activist. Feminist. Artist. Role model. These words…
Can beauty be found in revolution? Tyler Russell, curator of Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, says yes, it can. Centre A hosted an afternoon discussion on Dec. 5 in response to Abounaddara. The Right to the Image, an exhibition and conference put on by the Vera List Centre for Art and…
The Read Me a Story exhibition at the Roundhouse Community Centre will showcase books with 1,200 folktales and fairy tales from 120 countries. Thirty story murals created by a diverse array of artists will bring some of these tales to life. Read Me a Story is being presented by the Soka Gakkai International Association of…
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC is celebrating Taiwanese culture with (In)visible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art. Since its doors opened on Nov. 20, the exhibit has showcased the works of seven contemporary Taiwanese artists and will run until April 3 of next year. New to the role of curator for the…
When two film artists put their heads together, it produces a ‘franken-baby.’ In a project entitled The Pit: A Study in Horror, seven artists deconstruct the horror genre and explore the creation of the uncanny space as part of New Westminster’s New Media Gallery that features The Scary. “When we were brainstorming, the idea of…
The mural of an elderly Asian woman standing beside a car, with crows behind her, on the corner of Hastings and Jackson in Vancouver, is one of Vanessa Lowe’s well-known works. In her latest project A Tree Grows in Chinatown, Lowe uses text and old family photographs to tell a story of her mother’s earlier…
True to its traditions of song and poetry, in association with the Vancouver Welsh Society, the Welsh community will once again be presenting the Vancouver Men’s Welsh Choir performing “Sounds of Christmas.” The performance will include traditional carols and other holiday songs. This event is being held on Dec. 8 at the Surrey Arts Centre…
The spit was the key. That part of the puzzle was what two University of British Columbia graduate students needed to solve their project: recreating and documenting pre-European painting techniques used by First Nations to make traditional wood finishing. Doctoral candidate, Jun Lee, and master’s student, Vinicius Lube, used saliva chewed with fresh salmon roe…
