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Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) have helped structure the marine ecosystem along the coast from California to Alaska for decades, being integral to both ocean health and Indigenous culture in British Columbia. However, their population has been fast declining since the late ‘90s, as a shrinking salmon population, multiplying shipping traffic and ambient underwater noise…
As the rising cost of food continues to affect Canadian residents, university students—like those attending UBC—are some of the hardest hit, having to navigate substantial demands on both time and money. Amid both rising usage of the Alma Mater Society (AMS) food bank at the school and inflation driving up food prices across the country…
Following in the footsteps of other film festivals that have moved online, the seventh annual Vancouver Turkish Film festival (VTFF) will run virtually this year from Dec. 16 to 21. It will showcase four award-winning features and ten shorts alongside some insightful Q&A sessions with directors and actors. Copresenting the festival with SFU Woodward’s Cultural…
History has value as long as it remains alive in people’s hearts, souls, minds and educational systems. It otherwise remains buried under the notes and papers of historians, in libraries, and in national and international archives. While it remains unclear whether this portrait belongs to the former or the latter, it does seem to awaken…
Norman Verano has been pleased by the impact his exhibit of Inuit drawings is having on visitors. “I think a lot of people were really quite astonished to see these drawings. Many people were not aware they existed and were taken aback by the kinds of things people shared back then,” says Vorano, Agnes Curator…
Merging Lakota traditions with so-called Western influences, while using a powerful “mix, meld and mash” approach, Claxton addresses the oppressive legacies of colonialism by critiquing representations of Indigenous people that circulate in art, literature and popular culture. Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube opens to the public on Oct. 27, 2018 and will be on view…
The Vancouver Art Gallery will be unveiling Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, the first Canadian exhibition devoted to the work of Guo Pei, China’s preeminent couturière. This mid-career survey features more than forty complete looks from Guo Pei’s most iconic runways from 2006 to 2017. In her theatrical, extravagant creations, Guo Pei combines contemporary aesthetics, production…
The traditional stage that was created in the 1950s becomes new again in the twenty-first century in the Beijing People’s Art Theatre production of Lao She’s Teahouse. The epic drama of Chinese culture, history and politics runs Nov. 10 -11 at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts. “Teahouse is the pinnacle of Chinese theater.…
Local Vancouver author Houchang Zargarpour’s upcoming essay Human Rights and Spirituality, has been acknowledged by Harvard, Stanford, U.B.C. and Columbia, and touches on twelve main human rights. Zargarpour will be speaking about Human Rights and Spirituality at the West Vancouver Memorial Library on Jan. 27. “Spiritual and moral foundations of human rights” is the message…
Precious little boy… you sleep so peacefully… wearing your best clothes to go to Europe where you would find a whole lot of toys to play with…and these tiny little shoes allowing you to gambol on that European soil that would welcome you and allow you to feel safe, far from the war, the bombs…
This year’s Vancouver Queer film festival offers some unexpected stories; from a gay Filipino boy working in an unfamiliar culture to the true story of Power-ful voices from today’s diverse and multitalented youth performers.
This Monday, June 17, was an important day for Brazilian democracy.
The Source celebrated 14 years of building bridges between communities on June 2. Thanks to our valuable team for their hard work.
