Arts Features

Saudi artist seeks to bring cultures together with installation Paradise Has Many Gates

Saudi Arabia is one of the largest social-media markets in the Middle East, and almost immediately, pictures of Ajlan Gharem’s work went viral.

Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts) brings artist Paul Wong's story to multimedia life at the Queer Arts Festival

Playwright Lesley Ewen uses standins to explore the fallout from the art provocateur's 1977 breakout Murder Research, and the aching loss of his creative partner soon after.

Slime listens to what animals have to say

In the new play, 100 animals, scientists, and seven young translators gather to debate the future of an insatiable creature taking over the seas

With interactive Spatial Poetics, artists reflect on painful chapter of Japanese-Canadian history

Once Lost brings performance, documentary filmmaking, ceramics, and history together for a new perspective on the story of the Lost Fleet.

Summer arts festivals 2018: With murals, movement, and gong music, the season gets its art on

For Vancouver, Shakespeare on the beach, plein-air competitions, and gallery walks have become as essential to summer as beer and barbecues.

Bard on the Beach brings the Beatles to a '60s-set As You Like It

"All You Need Is Love" has worked its way into this rendition of the pastoral comedy, and so have 24 other Beatles hits.

Queer Arts Festival artistic director SD Holman selects highlights

It’s been 10 years since the festival began in Vancouver, but it hasn’t lost any of its provocativeness or bite.

Tenor Jeremy Dutcher revives the songs of his Maliseet ancestors at the Queer Arts Festival

His new album is a startling and often haunting mix of operatic singing and ancient Indigenous songs.

Persian musician Hamin Honari opens new doors at Global Soundscapes Festival

According to the Iranian-born percussionist, the biggest joy of life in Canada is “the opportunity to learn from other people”.

At South Granville ArtWalk, Susannah Montague sculpts dark and fragile fantasies in clay

Look closely at the Elissa Cristall Gallery artist, and you'll find skulles, disembodied limbs, and barnacles poking out from the perfectly carved flowers.

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Arts Features

Saudi artist seeks to bring cultures together with installation Paradise Has Many Gates

Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts) brings artist Paul Wong's story to multimedia life at the Queer Arts Festival

Slime listens to what animals have to say

With interactive Spatial Poetics, artists reflect on painful chapter of Japanese-Canadian history

Summer arts festivals 2018: With murals, movement, and gong music, the season gets its art on

Bard on the Beach brings the Beatles to a '60s-set As You Like It

Queer Arts Festival artistic director SD Holman selects highlights

Tenor Jeremy Dutcher revives the songs of his Maliseet ancestors at the Queer Arts Festival

Persian musician Hamin Honari opens new doors at Global Soundscapes Festival

At South Granville ArtWalk, Susannah Montague sculpts dark and fragile fantasies in clay

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