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Art Spiegelman draws on his experience
KRAZY! at Vancouver Art Gallery stretches visual vocabulary
SFU grads get edgy at Pulse
Vancouver Museum revived by Movers and Shapers
Liz Magor explores our poisonous pleasures
No Exit’s fresh hell is diabolically inventive
Sisters dance fiery flamenco in Mis Hermanas
Masterful variations by Marie Chouinard
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Artists make Creative City Conversation

By Jessica Werb
Members of Vancouver’s arts community spent the afternoon of May 12 at the Vancouver Playhouse, taking part in the City of Vancouver’s Creative City Conversation 2008, a forum on arts and culture strategies.
Multimedia

Art Spiegelman draws on his experience

By Ken Eisner
The legendary comics creator and cocurator of the forthcoming KRAZY! multimedia show, says we live in a culture that’s forgetting how to work hard for meaning.
Multimedia

KRAZY! at Vancouver Art Gallery stretches visual vocabulary

By Robin Laurence
Are you wondering about where to place KRAZY!, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s big summer show? Curious about how to situate an exhibition of popular culture within the context of a “high art” institution? For starters, chuck out notions of high and low and kill the terms popular culture and mass media. Think, instead, of visual culture, the swirling mass of images that bombards us daily.
Multimedia

KRAZY! corrals pop culture

By Shawn Conner
There are a number of reasons to be excited about the Vancouver Art Gallery’s upcoming KRAZY! exhibit. The show opens next Saturday (May 17) and features more than 600 pieces of work, drawn from comics, anime, cartoons, and video games.
Dance

SFU grads get edgy at Pulse

By Janet Smith
From the outset, the trio of pieces on the Dance Centre’s latest Pulse series program seem to have nothing in common. A performer tapes himself into a cardboard box and then rolls around. Dancers push themselves to physical extremes to embody gluttony. And a quartet moves with modern grace to Arvo Pärt’s haunting music.
Comedy

James Campbell plays up to his audience at Vancouver kids fest

By Colin Thomas
Billed as the world’s only standup comedian for children, Campbell says he won't treat his young fans any different from himself at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival.
Multimedia

Liz Magor explores our poisonous pleasures

By Robin Laurence
Liz Magor: MOUTH: FULL
Theatre

No Exit’s fresh hell is diabolically inventive

By Colin Thomas
A sophisticated new take on Jean-Paul Sartre’s faded classic projects huge yet intimate images.
Arts Choices

Vancouver Bach Choir closes season with Last Night of the Proms

The sun may have set on the empire, but the music rolls on. At 8 p.m. this Friday (May 9), the Vancouver Bach Choir will shake the Orpheum’s rafters with its season-closing Last Night of the Proms, inspired by the yearly concert at the Albert Hall in London, England. The program features traditional Brit hits such as Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory—all meant to stir up decorous forms of rowdiness in the boater-hatted audience, who will twirl noisemakers and throw streamers.
Arts Choices

Lorita Leung Chinese Dance Company and Moving Dragon collaborate

The time-honoured meets the cutting-edge as the Lorita Leung Chinese Dance Company and Moving Dragon collaborate on two afternoon dance performances—one at 2 p.m., the other at 4 p.m.—this Sunday (May 11) at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Through Lorita Leung’s classical perspectives and Moving Dragon’s contemporary attack, the show will trace out a kind of summary of Chinese dance’s long evolution. Go to www.newworks.ca/ for more.
Arts Choices

9th annual Asian Comedy Night

It promises to be a battle unlike any other. With names like 5-Spice, Lick the Wax Tadpole, and Disoriental, nine teams will square off in the ninth annual Asian Comedy Night, titled Sketchoff!#%!! Etch-Your-Sketch 2! on Friday and Saturday (May 9 and 10) at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Friday night, a panel of celebrity judges including eTalk reporter and gossip blogger Lainy Lui, MuchMusic host Lauren Toyota, and Dragon Boys actor Edmond Wong will choose the Vancouver Rice Bowl winner.
Dance

Marie Chouinard conjures stunning tour de force

By Alexander Varty
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