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A delicate balance: listening to music of the East with Western ears
September 7 2015 CultureIan Widgery offers provocative, unusual soungs.| Photo courtesy of Ian Widgery.Music producer Ian Widgery has come a long …
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Cultural Calendar
September 7 2015 EventsIt’s September now, and just because summer is leaving doesn’t mean that there is any shortage of fun events to go to! From dance to film to theatre, September will be a blast with all of these …
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As Above, So Below
September 7 2015 selectedHere we view the reconstruction of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s (VAG’s) membrane on Georgia St. It is part of the on-going maintenance we have seen around other parts of the gallery, as well as …
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Almond orange bizcocho with honey lavender yoghurt
September 7 2015 Recipe by Selma Van HalderSpain is one of those countries I wish were closer to Canada, now that I’ve made the big move across the pond. For a young Dutch girl, travelling to the south of Spain is a complete culture shock …
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Embracing cultural diversity with Vancouver’s international students
August 24 2015 Cover StoryFrom left to right: Daniel Mundeva, SFU Masters student; Felix Böck, PhD candidate at UBC; Yimei Li, Masters student at UBC. | Photo …
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“Multiculturalism is new to me”
August 24 2015 ColumnsBorn in Zimbabwe to a white family in the 1980s, I was kept mostly separate from native, black Zimbabweans – albeit less so than a generation before. As I grew up and attended a racially integrated…
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Immigration and integration at heart of the Polish Cultural Festival
August 24 2015 CulturePhoto by Malgorzata KowalczukMetro Vancouver’s Polish community will be holding its third annual Polish Cultural Festival…
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Explore Trois-Rivières
August 24 2015 ColumnsFrom June 28 to July 31, I participated in the Explore program at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières. I studied French in an immersion environment with a no-English rule, where you risk …
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Enthusiastic youth take on Tagalog language initiative
August 24 2015 CommunityJames Infante, a fourth-year political science student at the University of British Columbia, recently organized a rally at the celebration of Philippine Independence Day at Slocan Park to campaign …
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Earthquake shakes up debate on fracking in B.C.
August 24 2015 ColumnsLast week a 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Fort St. John in northeastern B.C., just a few kilometres from a fracking site operated by Progress Energy. The company was forced to halt operations …