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Local artist and Emily Carr University instructor Vjeko Sager believes art is an external and ineffable idea comprehended through an immersion of spiritual sensations and the artist is a performer who is responsible for the translation of those sensations.
This July, a place famous for its natural hot springs will welcome international music performances.
The 2014 Indian Summer Festival’s Artpolitik: Culture and the Graphic Novel brings Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas to Vancouver on July 9, along with Indian graphic artist Orijit Sen and architect David Wong, to discuss their work and the storytelling power of the graphic novel.
Edgar Muenala, an Ecuadorian pan flute player, composer and songwriter pursues his passion by creating a fusion of traditional Ecuadorian tunes with Asian, Western and other South American music.
Claiming Space: Voices for Urban Aboriginal Youth, a new art exhibit at the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), showcases the work of young, indigenous artists who bravely seek not only to tell the truth about Canadian history, …
100 Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground, an event presenting the life and work of the 13th century Sufi poet and mystic Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose writing is often interpreted as promoting the notion that we are all inter-connected, sets the tone for the fourth annual Indian Summer Festival, July 3–12.
What do crushed coke cans and clay pigs have in common? A place in Gu Xiong’s exhibition titled Gu Xiong: A Journey Exposed, a series of installations at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.
On July 5–6, come to downtown Vancouver for a two-day Latin American party at Carnaval del Sol. Experience Latino culture with music, food and more.
Through their joint exhibition Attachments, showing at the Richmond Art Gallery from June 27 to Aug. 17, Lucie Chan and Marigold Santos raise discussions on identity, …
Self-destruction and addiction, cultural disorientation and alienation: these are the stories of NGS (Native Girl Syndrome), a contemporary dance creation by Montreal-based choreographer Lara Kramer.
The 19th annual Scandinavian Midsummer Festival will be held on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre on June 21–22, as well as an Ember Skies Dance for patrons 19 years of age and older on June 20.
Play, Fall, Rest, Dance, an art installation currently running at Vancouver’s grunt gallery until July 5th, is poised to defy the notion that good art is necessarily the product of structured creative efforts of adults.
For local artist Todd Giihlgiigaa DeVries, his story is a web of many different experiences: a tumultuous childhood, the search for identity, reuniting with his birth mother, becoming a cedar weaver and finding a place to call home.
