"We both had experiences where I’d go into a music store or a video store when I was younger and I was really excited about something. I’d bring it up to the counter and I’d be vibrating with excitement cause it was that cool and then I’d just get a ton of shade. We were like “I don’t wanna replicate that experience.” We wanna try to do something different and we try to be low-key."
Read MoreMembers of the European Union (we're looking at you, United Kingdom) presented a two week-long film festival at the Cinematheque, screening some of their best and boldest. As with any festival, some were hits and some were misses—film writer Liam Siemens reviews.
Read MorePennylane Shen’s apartment represents her well: it's warm, artful, lively, and colourful. Antiques, taxidermy, and mixed media works by her friends filled the brick walls; a clever digital image of fire in the fireplace, and a birdcage with a ceramic Mao candle that stands imprisoned within.
Read More“The film asks us to pay attention, to listen, to watch everything as it unfolds. All of these moments matter. All of these people matter. To pay them attention is to care.” Gianfranco Rosi's Fire at Sea came to VIFF only a few weeks ago, but has already garnered wide acclaim. Writer Kerria Gray muses on why this documentary is as affecting as it is.
Read MoreAs part of Vancouver's Diwali Fest, Anusree Roy's award winning play, Brothel #9, puts the grittier aspects of human struggle and resilience on stage, front and centre. Skillfully written and directed, with the outstanding talent of its players, this production is one to know about. Ljudmila Petrovic reviews.
Read MoreIn a time when positivity and lightness of being are in danger of becoming scarce, it seems Tracey Power's Miss Shakespeare reaches us with necessary intention. Writer Sagal Kahin reflects on the immeasurable value of women's voices, and on the weight of this message as told by Power's pertinent production.
Read More“The greatest gift of art, whether that’s literature or painting or dance, is to be able to show people a glimpse of themselves.”
Read More“I say point blank that I didn’t necessarily learn anything. I wanted to push against that trope, especially in memoir, which is ‘I wrote this because I am a different person now that I was before and this journey has taken me to some grand place.’ Well, not necessarily, sometimes we just do things and we don’t get any further ahead, we don’t get any wiser. Maybe it’s not inspiring, but it might be true.”
Read MoreAfter a long period of rough astrological weather, November’s astrology forecast invites us to move from introspection to action. Now is the time to embrace chance and reconnect with our truth.
Leah 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.
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.
