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Cultural Spotlight:Working the Green Chain. Celebrating Coquitlam’s South Asian heritage
June 21 2021 CommunityWorking the Green Chain
Tannis Koskela, heritage assistant at the Mackin House Museum in Coquitlam, hopes people will become more aware that the South Asian community is almost as old as the …
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Shapeshifters: the intersection between art and identity
June 21 2021 Art“For the last 37 years, I’ve shapeshifted in many ways and am finally, for the first time, acting on those strengths,” says Jag Nagra.
Nagra is the featured artist for the Indian Summer …
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Contribution - Apology to Italian Canadians will help community heal
June 21 2021 ColumnsCanada is home to approximately 1.6 million Canadians of Italian descent. For more than a century, thousands of Italians – including my parents – have chosen Canada as their new home; a safe …
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Ripple effect: Mental wellness during COVID-19 lockdown
June 21 2021 CultureBreakwater, written by playwright Valerie Methot and a youth group from Some Assembly Theatre Company, follows six youth who face the effects of isolation and mental health struggles from a symbolic…
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Dialogues with wounded hearts: is it possible to transcend pain through art?
June 21 2021 CulturePhoto courtesy of Indian Summer Fest
The pandemic offers people the opportunity to heal the inner landscape of the human soul, says Anosh Irani, a Vancouver-based author. Irani addresses the …
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Vox.Infold – music as a 4D experience of space and dimension
June 21 2021 CultureCo-presented by the Coastal Jazz Festival, the Indian Summer Festival and Lobe Studio, Vox.Infold is a special music project that transforms enchanting vocals into an immersive sound experience with…
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Cultural Calendar
June 21 2021 EventsThe summer is finally here and with B.C. moving to step two of the B.C. Restart Plan, we are able to travel around the province recreationally! So feel free to go out, travel and enjoy the natural …
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Learning how to co-exist - Anti-Asian prejudice is theme of UBC’s national forum
June 7 2021 Cover StoryPhoto courtesy of UBC
“I was about ten years old, and I looked at myself in the mirror in my parent’s bedroom, questioning: Why was I born Chinese? I remember feeling alone and ugly because …
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For Your Interest: Instagram. Real Influence. Real Reach.
June 7 2021 ColumnsImage: RCA. Instagram logo, Weblx. Instagram Follow, Vexels.
Grid: Camelia, Mhh Shin. Dj Gear, Stephanie Kilgast. Drills and Cameras, Brian Boucheron.
Streets, Pedro Krum. Smiley Basketball, YNAP. … -
A Tree Grows in Trout Lake
June 7 2021 ColumnsEight years ago early in June, news and images of hundreds of thousands of people crossing the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul between Asia and Europe went viral. A simple environmental sit-in, also …