Music/Art Waste has come and gone, leaving Vancouver sweaty and ready for next year's festival. Entirely volunteer run, the festival returns annually and repeatedly outdoes itself, no doubt with thanks to the incredible minds at the helm, but also Vancouver's vibrant and growing art and music scenes.
Read MoreFilm writer Sarah Bakke takes to the Cinematheque and delights in six films by French director Agnès Varda, each more assured than the last. "I have since changed my take on what it means to be a woman inspired by art and beauty," says Bakke, "and I don’t think I’ll stick to the meandering nymphet as created by men in film." We're lookin' at you, Godard.
Read MoreWe're really excited for Chris Dammeyer and Sean Evan's show coming up on June 3rd at Index Gallery! Inspired by music festivals like New Forms in Vancouver and Mutek in Montreal, the duo’s goal is to create a one-off manipulation of the performance space within which the viewer resides and to reconfigure what one expects from a typical electronic music performance.
Read MoreCatch Jourdan Tymkow and OURO Collective's interactive performance show at Vivo Media Arts Centre on May 28, 2016: Visceral Murmurs is an intersubjective experience with issues relating to migration, identity, and belonging.
Read MoreWe 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.
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