For the past 30 years, UBC has partnered with the Vancouver School Board in growing the New Shoots program. Each year, Masters of Fine Arts students in the Creative Writing Program at UBC become mentors to Vancouver School Board students and teach the craft of creative writing both in the classroom and after-school clubs. These wonderful pieces are then published in an annual anthology.
Read MoreHoole, or, as her four and a half thousand Instagram followers know her, @missconniehoole, specializes in photographing hyper-hued confectionary. Her photos come off like a psychedelic case of the munchies, all bright colours and hypnotic patterns, and will be on display this month at Brainstaion in Yaletown.
Read MoreUnfortunately, there was one issue with his tribute: the subject wasn’t dead yet. They wouldn’t be dead for a while either.
Read MoreFirst held in 1994, the Music, and Art Waste festival purports itself as a multi-venue, affordable and accessible stage for variations of different artistic mediums and expressions. Originally borne out of retaliation against the heavily commercialized and corporate-backed New Music West festival, Music and Art Waste provided a safe, non-profit, alternative space for music and art lovers of Vancouver. Predominantly volunteer run, this amalgamation of music, visual art, comedy, and local culture quickly expanded into an integral part of the Vancouver subculture scene. Twenty-two years later, Music and Art Waste has proved itself here to stay.
Read MoreMusic/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 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.
