“This was an undeniably talented group. They deserve opportunities to perform. And, they deserve to perform to a room that’s more than a quarter full, mostly with loved ones, especially on their opening night. Opera may not being dying, but if we don’t give it a chance, it might just.”
Read MoreFrom trash rocks and spray painted cardboard boxes to meticulous and pristine paintings and deeply dynamic photography, the Seattle Art Fair is full of works that will first infuriate and then soothe you. In the middle of its second year exhibition, the Seattle Art Fair has grown in size, style, and is undoubtedly going to make a serious impression on the North American art world.
Read More"The barrage of specific De Palma style and story-telling was both exciting and tedious at every turn. Some films were cheesier than I remembered, some just as risqué. But this divide between schlock and refinement is what, I think, defines De Palma as a filmmaker. He is all at once a Hitchcock-ian traditionalist, a technical wiz, and a so-bad-its-good supreme-o."
Read More"Fast forward 12 years and pride weekend now means back-to-back nights at the Cobalt, 3AM pepperoni pizzas we can't take back, and fleeting glances of our Prime Minister through packed audiences at the pride parade. Regardless of the shift in activities, one thing remains unchanged in Vancouver, for the most part, we are safe. We are also lucky assholes."
Read MoreIt's rare to meet someone with as much charisma and experience as Laurice; innovator of early punk, master of dance and disco, explorer of all rock and roll/pop stylings. If you haven't heard his music already, you're in for a real treat. "Could I account for all of the twists and turns that Laurice’s career has taken, in just one short interview? Probably not. But triumph is found in the trying." The man himself will be playing a show at the Emerald this Friday, August 5. For heaven's sake, do yourself a favour and be there.
Read MoreWe're happy to give our readers an early bird peek at this year's Vancouver Queer Film Festival line-up, starting with our partner film, Arianna. Writer Hannah Bellamy takes a close look at this poignant and imperative film about youth, independence, and self-realization. Make sure to catch the film at VQFF on August 20!
Read MoreApril Thompson, after an internship at the Frick Collection in New York and an undergrad in Australia, booked a vacation to Vancouver. “I got here and thought, this place is just like a Jeff Wall photograph.” After years of curiosity, she knew it was time to stay. Thompson cancelled her return ticket and sunk her teeth into the Critical and Curatorial Studies Master’s program at UBC, soon coming to the realization that the Vancouver School is not what it at first had seemed.
Read MoreOn July 14th, Burrard Arts Foundation opened two new exhibitions, one featuring their spring artist in residence, Laura Piasta, and another housing the in-gallery component of the inaugural Vancouver Mural Festival. Piasta’s show, A Definite Volume But No Fixed State, is expertly curated within the gallery and give a the impression of an alien interior design. The ink works are mounted like paintings and layered with iridescent shimmer. The murals in miniature provide a snapshot of the styles of working Vancouver artists and represent a kind of contemporary Vancouver School of art.
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.
