Category Arts & Culture

Different perspectives

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Figurative art usually concentrates on the subject matter: flowers, landscapes, portraits, still life. But the current group show at the Zack Gallery, Size Matters, focuses on size as the main vehicle of its esthetics. The subject matter becomes not unimportant…

Bard’s varied play mix

photo - Bard on the Beach’s production of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor is an adaptation set at a recreation centre in a Vancouver suburb, where the women’s soccer team has just won the local championship

Bard on the Beach’s production of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor is an adaptation set at a recreation centre in a Vancouver suburb, where the women’s soccer team has just won the local championship. (photo by Emily Cooper) World Cup…

Sokoloff releases new album

photo - Recorded in Nashville, Carol Sokoloff’s latest album, Change in the Weather, went live on several streaming platforms in late May and the CD was launched to a packed house at the Coda in Victoria on May 30

Recorded in Nashville, Carol Sokoloff’s latest album, Change in the Weather, went live on several streaming platforms in late May and the CD was launched to a packed house at the Coda in Victoria on May 30. (photo from Carol…

Defying expectations

The story of Aloha Wanderwell, an early 20th-century adventurer raised in Qualicum Beach, BC, the first woman to drive around the world – at age 18 – is captured by Victoria Jewish community member Laurel Corona in her newly released…

Lifting people’s spirits

photo - Lone Tratt’s solo exhibition, There’s a Crack in Everything, which was inspired by the lyrics of Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem,” is at Zack Gallery until Aug. 10

Lone Tratt’s solo exhibition, There’s a Crack in Everything, which was inspired by the lyrics of Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem,” is at Zack Gallery until Aug. 10. (photo from Lone Tratt) Lone Tratt’s current show at the Zack Gallery, There’s…

All right in what goes wrong

photo - Zander Eke, Ben Elliott, Scott Bellis, Genevieve Fleming and Andrew McNee in The Play That Goes Wrong, playing at Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage until Aug. 16

Zander Eke, Ben Elliott, Scott Bellis, Genevieve Fleming and Andrew McNee in The Play That Goes Wrong, playing at Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage until Aug. 16. (photo from Moonrider Productions) Collapsing sets, misplaced props, missed cues, forgotten lines, unconscious…

Nuns & mermaids at TUTS

photo - Theatre Under the Stars opened July 7 with Sister Act, starring Kat Reynolds, which alternates nights with Disney’s The Little Mermaid, starring Madison Simms, until Aug. 22 at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl

Theatre Under the Stars opened July 7 with Sister Act, starring Kat Reynolds, which alternates nights with Disney’s The Little Mermaid, starring Madison Simms, until Aug. 22 at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl. (photo by Emily Cooper) This summer, Theatre Under…

Music a family tradition

photo - Rebecca Sichon will perform a set at the Mission Folk Music Festival on July 26. She, her father Boris Sichon, DIVKA and Nastasia Y share the stage earlier that day as well

Rebecca Sichon will perform a set at the Mission Folk Music Festival on July 26. She, her father Boris Sichon, DIVKA and Nastasia Y share the stage earlier that day as well. (photo by Sara De Ledesma) Ukrainian-Canadian jazz, soul…

Musical to warm heart

In Newfoundland, if you’re not from the island, you’ve “come from away.” On Sept. 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks in New York, the United States shut down its airspace. As a result, 38 planes – carrying 7,000 passengers –…

Deceit, desire & the divine

In Seattle, hours after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, two FBI agents knock on Monty’s door, asking questions about his Afghan partner, who has seemingly disappeared. How much does Monty really know about Jamal? What does he know about himself?…