Category Arts & Culture

Music from the New Wilderness at the Cultch

This February, the Cultch, in partnership with Western Front New Music, is presenting a unique show, Music from the New Wilderness, curated by D.B. Boyko. This original performance incorporates archival wax cylinder recordings from the Okanagan, recent field recordings from…

Odd Couple still works

photo - Andrew McNee as Oscar Madison and Robery Maloney as Felix Ungar

Andrew McNee as Oscar Madison and Robery Maloney as Felix Ungar. (photo by David Cooper) In his program notes, artistic managing director Bill Millerd recalls the Arts Club Theatre Company’s 1967 production of The Odd Couple. In those days, the…

Films offer glance at Bedouin life

image - A still from the movie Voices from El Sayed.

A still from the movie Voices from El Sayed. When one is a Bedouin living in southern Israel, ironies seem to multiply with regularity. Two relatively recent Israeli-made films bring this incongruous life into sharp focus. In the first, Voices…

Holocaust survivor Peter Gary’s oratorio

photo - Peter Gary

Peter Gary (photo from Peter Gary) April is a month of miracles for Peter Gary. An April baby, he was born in Poland in 1924, where he first developed his love – and talent – for playing music and composition.…

Darcy Mann is VAG featured artist

image - Darcy Mann's Poplars

“Poplars” by Darcy Mann. The Vancouver Art Gallery’s Art Rental and Sales space is not yet a well-known feature, but the nonprofit program has been quietly promoting emerging and mid-career Canadian artists on the gallery’s main floor. According to the…

Profeti della Quinta brings Salomone Rossi to life

photo - Profeti della Quinta by Susanna Drescher

Profeti della Quinta is at Vancouver Playhouse on Feb. 2. (photo by Susanna Drescher) The documentary Hebreo: The Search for Salomone Rossi (Joseph Rochlitz, 2012) introduced last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival audiences to Profeti della Quinta, a Switzerland-based Renaissance and…

Metro Theatre’s Deathtrap macabre, fun

photo - Deathtrap cast by Tracy Lynn Chernaske

Left to right: Melanie Preston, Drew Taylor, James Behenna, Don Briard and Deborah Tom, in Deathtrap at Metro Theatre. (photo by Tracy Lynn-Chernaske) If you like rollercoaster rides, then Metro Theatre’s staging of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap as part of its 51st season…

Michael Abelman art bright, optimistic

photo - Michael Abelman by Olga Livshin

Michael Abelman’s show runs at the Zack until Feb. 16. (photo by Olga Livshin) A day before Michael Abelman’s art show opened, someone wandered into the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, looked around, and exclaimed: “How nice. Spring has arrived!”…