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Marking the Infinite: Contemporary aboriginal women artists from Australia
October 22 2018 ArtMarking the Infinite will make its Canadian debut at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in November. The show seeks to celebrate and preserve Indigenous knowledge, languages and traditions through…
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Speaking volumes with one act
October 22 2018 CultureCast of The Ones We Leave Behind | Photo courtesy of Donna Yamamoto
In the upcoming theatre production The Ones We Leave … -
Art with an alternative perspective
October 22 2018 CulturePhoto by Richard Davenport, taken at Transform 2017.
Javaad Alipoor, writer, co-director and lead performer, brings The … -
A polar bear’s life
October 22 2018 CultureBoy visits Kut.| Photo courtesy of Julia Kwan.Filmmaker, Julia Kwan explores themes of aging and the abandonment of the …
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Cultural Calendar
October 22 2018 Events“Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble!” Once again, the spine-chilling, hair-raising, heart-pounding Halloween season has returned, and there are plenty of …
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Writers Fest Finding home
October 8 2018 Cover Story
Vancouver’s yearly Writers Festival is known for its display of promising young talent who can transport their readers to far off places. Some places can be paradise, others… a war-torn … -
Bem vindo à Vancouver
October 8 2018 VerbatimDo you know what a Brazil nut is called in Brazil? A nut. Why am I mentioning this silly joke? Well, we Latinas don’t call ourselves “Latinas” before moving out of South America. We usually …
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Vikings in Vancouver
October 8 2018 CommunityPhoto courtesy of the Scandinavian Cultural Society
Leif Erikson’s legendary voyage from Iceland to North America around … -
How children can make silenced voices heard
October 8 2018 LocalUBC Public Scholars Award recipient Claudia Diaz worked as a manager of social education programs in Chilean inner city schools before moving to Canada for graduate school, including a PhD in …
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The humour revolution
October 8 2018 Community“A dad asks his son: ‘Son, when you grow up who do you think you want to marry?’ The boy goes, ‘I want to marry Granny, she loves me the most!’ The dad says, ‘you can’t marry Granny, …