“From VLAFF as a whole, I hope people take away that we as a festival, are a work-in-progress. I don’t want to perpetuate the assumption as a Latinx organization that it’s smooth sailing in any sort of way. We are very different people in our team, we don’t all hold one particular political perspective. In a way, the films we present are a lens into our conversations, differences, and similarities.”
Read MoreThe blue cabin will grace the foreshore of False Creek as of August 25, and the 2019-2020 programming year will see four residencies by Indigenous artists from Turtle Island and Australia. The theme of the year, Skeins: Weaving on the Foreshore, focuses on Coast Salish weaving practices.
Read More“I grew up with drag queens and it fascinated me for anyone to be able to go outside, be totally different, and be themselves, and be strong about it, with their heels on, walking tall. I always admired that. I always considered that to be a superhero feature, because superheroes always change their outfits and take on a different persona. I always equated the two in a lot of ways. The idea of gender being a performance is a really bold statement that I admire in drag queens as well.”
Read MoreWhat does it mean to create a culture, break down the existing structures of power in order to create the world we want to exist in? Who are the creators of culture, and who is culture created for?
These are the questions that drive the annual CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Arts Symposium, a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary and intersectional electronic art and music initiative.
Read More“Nature is something you have to sculpt yourself around. You can’t control it. You have to live with it and merge with nature. It becomes part of who you are.“
Read MoreThe National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival are partnering to launch a call for Indigenous voice artists to apply for this year's $50,000 Digital Project Prize. Application deadline is August 24, 2019
Read MoreThe jazz festival is here! It can be overwhelming to flick through the full lineup - we’re making it easier! Here’s a list of five must-see shows, in no particular order.
Read MoreEveryone on TV gets “the talk.” Usually it’s a stumbling, awkward, five-minute well of comedy that has been returned to so many times, it’s drier than the bird vagina in the metaphor the fictional parents use when talking to their fictional kids about sex.
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