Bitter Orientals – where love & advocacy coincide
Love Intersections is a media arts collective which is comprised of queer artists of colour. Artists who are a part of the collective are dedicated to using their passion for art to challenge …
Community
Featured Articles
-
January 24 2022 Community -
January 10 2022 Community The Buddhist New Year - A time of peace and reflection
“The Buddhist New Year is a day to remind people about gratitude and appreciation,” says Reverend Aoki, minister for the Vancouver Buddhist Temple. This year, Jan 18 marks the Buddhist New Year …
-
November 22 2021 Community Indigenizing The Museum of Vancouver
The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) is one of the country’s largest and oldest civic history museums, with a long history dating back to the late nineteenth century.
Today if one visits the museum, …
-
November 8 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight: The Indo-Fijian story in the Lower Mainland
The Indo-Fijians: Surrey’s Pocket of Paradise, the largely untold story of the Indo-Fijian community in the Lower Mainland is open to the public at the Museum of Surrey. The exhibit, created …
More from Community
-
November 8 2021 Community Racial bullying in schools – a grim picture
An estimated 58 per cent of Canadian youth (12–18 years old) declare they have seen kids bullied based on their race or ethnicity at school, according to an August 2021 survey data, in partnership…
-
November 8 2021 Community Challenging the status quo: Inequities in a pandemic
A better world has at its foundation the return to values learned in childhood, says academic-activist Manjeet Birk, PhD.
“These values are interconnected to larger issues of social justice, …
-
October 25 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - Turkish Republic Day celebrations, Turkish-Canadian friendship and art
The Turkish-Canadian Society is releasing a video program online on Oct. 29 to celebrate the Turkish-Canadian Friendship and the Turkish Republic Day, an annual holiday that is celebrated by Turkish…
-
October 4 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - Sonya Lalli – a writer breaks from conventions
Canadian-born author of Indian heritage Sonya Lalli is this year’s Richmond’s writer-in-residence. She writes novels aimed at diverse groups, and in her novels, she covers topics like …
-
September 20 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - Sovereign Elevations: artful engineering
With bold strokes of colour, a touch of perspective and her expertise of visualization, Vancouver-based artist, author and engineer Kiranjot Kaur is redefining artistic mediums and celebrating Sikh …
-
August 30 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight: A dream come true
It was all a dream – literally. Rebecca Lyon was in the middle of pursuing her PhD in Indigenous studies when she had a dream about a jacket, unlike any she had ever worn.
“One of our …