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Holding up a protest sign which reads “Save Chinatown,” a group of Chinese people stand in the middle of a Vancouver street. This is one of a hundred black-and-white images from the current exhibition Jim Wong-Chu Photographs 1973-1981: People, Place, Politics, held until Oct. 18 at Centre A Gallery. The exhibition reveals the history of…
The inaugural Vancouver Cuban Music Festival (Oct. 16–19) will bring to our city some of that country’s most influential music stars, and will allow the local audiences to be immersed into, as well as educated and seduced by Cuban culture. The festival, which will take place on Granville Island, is organized by the Island of…
Moody/Amiri, a duo appearing in the Cap Roots Series at North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre on Oct. 17, bring together an unusual combination of instruments: the santur and the viola. The santur, played by Iranian-born Amir Amiri, is a 72 string dulcimer used in Persian classical music played with a variety of lightweight hammers. It…
The graceful movements of Hawaiian dance will be evoking cultural identity and healing the presentation of Aloha Polynesia. Hawaiian dance teacher, Paddy Kauhane was born in Honolulu, Hawaii with both Canadian and Hawaiian heritage. After her parents’ divorce, Kauhane relocated to Canada with her mom at a young age. In Canada, she grew up feeling…
Picture a world where the world is luscious and green, a place where our ecosystem thrived and our wildlife existed harmoniously and wandered freely. Using art as a tool, this is the world that the organization Artists for Conservation strives to achieve. The annual Artists for Conservation Festival is to be held Sept. 27–Oct. 5…
Turbulence, a movie about the love between father and daughter, examines the deeper psychological element of the yearning for acceptance and validation at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Actors Kamal Yamolky, Camillia Mahal and director Soran Mardookhi want to break from stereotypical expectations by studying the relationships we have with others and the impact…
The Philippine Music and Dance Workshop, hosted by the Multicultural Helping House Society’s 55+ers outreach in Richmond, is one of the thousands of free interactive activities offered across Canada for the Culture Days weekend. Marilou Yodogawa, 55+er’s coordinator, says the highlight of last year’s Philippine music and dance event was tinikling, a familiar dance performed…
Words and abstract art work together to show a movement of thought and imagination translated into image at the Contemporary Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, Jürgen Partenheimer: The Archive – The Raven Diaries, running until Nov. 9. The exhibit features around 20 of the 30 drawings, paintings, and written textual diaries created by Jürgen Partenheimer, Emily…
When it comes to ideas and art, the canvas has an important role. This is why Vancouver’s Project Space was created to give artists the opportunity to broadcast and display their work to the community. Since 2012, Project Space has hosted their annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair, inviting artists to showcase their work and the audience…
The interaction between Jewish and Muslim cultures is an internationally relevant and controversial issue that many artists find challenging to address. However, Sum Theatre’s Joel Bernbaum and Kayvon Kelly, co-creators and stars of My Rabbi, a play that will feature at the Firehall Arts Centre October 7-18, personalize this large-scale issue by placing it in…
Failure of communication is the theme of the Access Gallery’s newest exhibit, Far Away So Close Part One. Six emerging Canadian artists will be featured in the exhibit including Erdem Taşdelen, whose piece The Conduit explores the subjective nature of meaning in handwriting analysis. The exhibit aims to explore the way that meaning is interpreted…
Karen Santos’ newest mixed media abstract art exhibit, Silence Lifted, emerged from a harrowing experience. As an opera singer, with starring roles such as Pamina in The Magic Flute and Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief among her accomplishments, Santos explains that a vocal injury provoked this exhibit. “As language was stripped from…
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993, an exhibition running at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC until Nov.30, provides a unique look at the fledgling creative origins of the celebrated and controversial Chinese conceptual artist. Weiwei is equally known for his diverse artistic output and for his commitment to greater freedom of…
