We talked to Jamie Smith, Michael Schwartz, and Zoe Mackoff de Miranda about the upcoming collaboration between Kafka’s and the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Art Rental and Sales program. Their exhibit at ROVE, a biannual art walk in Mount Pleasant, promises to be spectacular.
Read MoreThe collective started as a house jam and developed into a multimedia jam that included projections and paintings. The whole thing was simply meant to be a safe space for interdisciplinary creative exploration and experimentation—not necessarily with an end goal or even meant to make sense. This would eventually turn into weekly Boiler Room-type live broadcasts, which would bring together people across various groups in Vancouver every Wednesday night. From here, a community started building and the Chapel Sound Collective was born.
Read More“They warned me about poetry,” she told the audience. There was no need to elaborate, everyone knows that no one reads poetry anymore. But on this Wednesday night at the Gallery Gachet in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, every seat in the room was full.
Read MoreJenna Mazur reviews In a Vaulted Room at the Art Beatus gallery. As part of the 2016 Capture Photography Festival, the exhibit features works by two students from Vancouver's own SFU.
Read MorePatrick Kyle's most recent graphic Don’t Come in Here captures all of the strange, disorienting, and sometimes hallucinogenic realities of apartment living—realities we in Vancouver have come to know and love (or at least tolerate). We called up the artist to ask him all about Don’t Come in Here, old school printing techniques, and his upcoming event at Vancouver’s own Lucky’s Comics on May 19, 2016.
Read MoreWhat disappointed me most is that the show didn’t live up to its promises of being alternative or subversive. I appreciated the diversity of body types and skin colour but aside from that the show lacked anything radical. Much of what took place happened in the name of subverting the status quo for laughs.
Read MoreIf you thought your teenage experience was bad, well, you've got another thing coming. I Dare You is an independent short film about growing up in a small town and all the unexpected horrors that can come with it.
Read More"Yeah, cauterized. Whatever. Anyways. So crazy.” You know you've heard that person, you may have even been that person. This week's POBE tackles the loud, hot, and obnoxious.
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.
