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Read More“Any time you’re talking about sex work, there are always going to be people who have eyebrows raised. Knowing there were filmmakers out there, specifically Indigenous filmmakers, who were taking these risks, I was like, there’s no reason why I shouldn’t at least try to do this.”
Read More“In the past three or four years, talking to Buffy Sainte-Marie and really digging very intensely into her discography and songbook has led me to just letting that be a sort of invitation—not for me in particular, but an invitation to think about my place in all of it.”
Read MoreSeeing work like Hir “is so important because it can open things up for people…anyone who is going through any of these things, any kind of exposure helps them understand more.”
Read MoreVanPodFest runs from November 8th-10th, hosting numerous free (!) and ticketed panel discussions, workshops, and live shows in celebration of the medium. Here are a couple events we’ve scoped out.
Read More“I literally just think it needed someone to come along and be like, “you should start a podcast festival, right?”
Read MoreWith a thing as complex as sexuality, it is work like INCOGNITO MODE that argues not for answers, but for an ever-important, respectful dialogue: dialogue that isn’t afraid to challenge, but is also unafraid of being open to differing perspectives in our ever changing landscape of sexual representation.
Read More“It’s all about bridging the gap, about humanizing stories and allowing people to feel connected with people that they feel at odds with, that they feel different from, maybe a little bit afraid of as well.”
Read MoreLeah Nelson and Sarah Leavitt shows us the labour of love, loss, and life in striking film Tangles at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2026.
In Experiments in a Failed Repair, an art exhibition that deconstructs and decolonises the monumentalisation of violence, Ghinwa Yassine challenges viewers to confront human violence through the rubble and remains of homes destroyed by war—and to imagine the lives that once existed within them.
Writer Brett Nelson reviews 'The Effect,' the latest production from The Cultch that explores the chemical nature of love and grapples with depression.
In this review of Frequencies: A Novel, Sophie Ganic’s debut, we explore a chilling blend of dystopian science fiction and feminist horror. Set in the aftermath of a deadly global outbreak, the novel examines isolation, psychological unraveling and past trauma.
Jill Goranson and Kelsi James presents Burn Blue, a multidisciplinary performance, at the 2026 Vancouver Fringe Festival, exploring water, memory, migration and colonisation, and the meaning of home through dance, music, poetry, and puppetry.
