Category Arts & Culture

After #metoo, what now?

Alley Theatre, in partnership with Good Night Out Vancouver, presents the world première of a multi-perspective, docu-theatre dance creation entitled #whatnow, Oct. 28-Nov. 7, at the Russian Hall, as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. After…

Playing with words, and more

image - The Whirl of Words book cover

Think you’re not a puzzle person? Think again. “We solve puzzles of every sort, every day. They show up in so many of our life choices – in our decision-making, in our development of human relationships, in time-management, and so…

Impactful works at Chutzpah!

photo - After COVID-19 hit, The Eichmann Project – Terminal 1 evolved into a per- formance directed to a camera

After COVID-19 hit, The Eichmann Project – Terminal 1 evolved into a per- formance directed to a camera. (photo from Pathos-Mathos Company) Art has many facets, forms and reasons for being. As much as it can be an escape from…

Working at residential school

photo - St. Michael’s Residential School in 2013, Alert Bay, B.C.

St. Michael’s Residential School in 2013, Alert Bay, B.C. (Courtesy Hans Tammemagi, from the book St. Michael’s Residential School: Lament & Legacy) In 1970, Nancy Dyson and her husband, Dan Rubenstein, worked for a short time at the Alert Bay…

Nature-inspired artist

image - "Silver Marsh" by Monica Gewurz

Two of artist Monica Gewurz’s paintings – “Silver Marsh” (above) and “Dawn II” – are featured in the exhibition of the Nature Trust of British Columbia’s Artist of the Year Award. “Silver Marsh” was inspired by a sunset at Addington…

Correcting historical record

Jonas Noreika, who was executed by the Soviets in 1947, has been revered in his native Lithuania and by its expatriate community as a national hero and an anti-communist patriot. This vaunted hero, however, has come under intense scrutiny of…

Highlighting social goodness

photo - The Nov. 1 online event Finding Grounds for Goodness includes the première presentation of Finding Grounds for Goodness in the Downtown Eastside, which was created during last year’s Heart of the City Festival

The Nov. 1 online event Finding Grounds for Goodness includes the première presentation of Finding Grounds for Goodness in the Downtown Eastside, which was created during last year’s Heart of the City Festival. (photo from Jumblies Theatre) This year’s Downtown Eastside Heart…

Jewish take on bomb

photo - Philippe Tlokinski stars in Adventures of a Mathematician

Philippe Tlokinski stars in Adventures of a Mathematician. (photo from Samuel Goldwyn Films) Forgotten your calculus? Simple geometry is more than sufficient to follow the triangular saga of Polish-Jewish brainiac Stanislaw Ulam from the cloistered classrooms of Harvard to Robert…

Creating life in face of death

image - A still from the feature film Charlotte, about artist Charlotte Salomon

A still from the feature film Charlotte, about artist Charlotte Salomon. The creative drive that some people have astounds me. In about a year-and-a-half, as the Holocaust closed in on her – and her family’s history of depression became known…

A special open house

photo - Highlights of the Scotiabank Dance Centre’s 20th anniversary celebration include a performance on the outside wall of the building by aerial dance company Aeriosa

Highlights of the Scotiabank Dance Centre’s 20th anniversary celebration include a performance on the outside wall of the building by aerial dance company Aeriosa. (photo by Louise Cecil) Scotiabank Dance Centre celebrates its 20th anniversary on Oct. 2 with a…