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This year, bring your dancing shoes for a special celebration of the Black History Month. On Sunday the 15th, the February edition of Dance Allsorts expands the discussion by presenting a mixed program of Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Brazilian dance tradition. It is an occasion for the Source Newspaper to meet two of Vancouver’s leading dance collectives…
Elsie Paul, an elder of the Sliammon (ɬaʔamin) people of the northern Sunshine Coast, will launch her new book Written as I Remember It Feb. 24 at the Vancouver Public Library. Paul, one of the last surviving speakers of her mother tongue, will be joined by her collaborators Paige Raibmon and granddaughter Harmony Johnson. With…
Maiko Behr’s February workshop at the Nikkei Centre will explore the historical, philosophical and aesthetic influences of Zen on the development and practice of the tea ceremony. Behr, a long time tea practitioner is a certified instructor in the Omotesenke tradition of chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony. She will present a slide lecture and discuss…
Fans of Brazilian rhythms will be treated to an evening of the country’s sensual music at Capilano University. On Jan. 30, vocal ensemble NiteCap will perform Brazilian jazz hits of the last decades. “[NiteCap] is made up of about eight or nine vocalists and a rhythm section. All of the vocalists have their own microphone,”…
Purple potato and sake. Yes, these are the new hot chocolate flavours created for the 5th annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival, on until Feb. 13. This 30 day event is hosted in 24 cafés throughout the city, as well as in Burnaby and North Vancouver. A walking map on the event’s website shows you the…
What does fantasy mean to you? That’s what a university research team is hoping to find out. Ernest Mathijs, professor of film studies at the University of British Columbia, is helping to coordinate a study of The Hobbit film trilogy in order to investigate international cultural attitudes toward J.R.R. Tolkien’s book, Peter Jackson’s adaptations, and…
The Instant Coffee Collective (ICC) brings its uniquely quirky aesthetic to the Nikkei National Museum archives, unwrapping old stories and creating a stage for new discoveries of Japanese Canadian history. Magic hour is that time of day when the sun sits below the horizon, and offers a brief period of soft light that takes the…
Produced out of a studio at UBC’s student union building, the CiTR radio station (101.9FM) was created as an outlet for students to discuss life on campus and local news around the university. Today, the CiTR hosts over 90 diverse music and talk programs that represent different voices in the community. According to Brenda Grunau,…
Sharing Our Stories, an exhibit at the North Vancouver Museum and Archives (NVMA), features the stories and objects of 12 Iranians living on the North Shore. Recognizing the large presence of the Iranian community, the NVMA’s assistant director, Shirley Sutherland, and her colleagues formed an advisory committee to investigate how the members of the Iranian…
The inaugural Vancouver Turkish Film Festival (VTFF) is capitalizing on an extraordinary year that at once celebrated the centennial of Turkish cinema, as well as delivered an unprecedented calibre of recognition and the highest number of films ever made in an industry that merges eastern and western aesthetics. “Turkey has [always] been a bridge between…
In his latest exhibition, Crossed, Vancouver-based artist Ahmad Tabrizi shares a unique form of portraiture and visual poetry, where the complexities of language, expression and identity overlap with the experiences and memories of a political refugee. “The work is about political memory and experiences, but it is not just political,” says Tabrizi, “It is about…
Unveiled just before the Christmas holiday, a public sculpture in the shape of an “F”, created by the world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, sits on a lawn in Harbour Green Park at the north end of Bute Street. The work, enigmatically titled F Grass, has left many people guessing at what it means.…
Everyone has secrets, and some people have shared theirs anonymously through an online forum as part of a project called PostSecret. Three actors based in British Columbia will be telling these secrets on stage: Kahlil Ashanti, Nicolle Nattrass and Ming Hudson. PostSecret: The Show aims at engaging the audience through a crowd-sourced narrative of stories…
