“A journey through decolonization, and into Indigenous Futurism, where the land’s future is a cyclic return to its past […] The experience was eight minutes long, and yet its imagining of a different future and the poignancy of the message had an effect that many could not have if they took hours.”
Read More“Their notes fade in and out of the collective voice like waves…as the three perform, it is evident that they are unique parts of an allied whole: all front women and equally backing band.”
Read MoreThe horrors of ANTHROPOCENE are very real, but so are the glimmers of hope. We are, as the filmmakers insist, all implicated, but we are also capable of enacting positive change.
Read MoreThe Museum of Forgotten Triumphs is both sharply specific to the Bosnian experience and universal in its themes, making it impressively versatile and a necessary film to watch. Something in the film will speak to you.
Read More“I got really into the idea of witnessing what landscape can tell us about human history, and how people have utilized, abused, or taken the land they live on for granted.”
Read MoreWhile EULOGY certainly gestures towards the past, each piece of this collection is decidedly of the moment, seasonless, and eternally cool.
Read MoreGrandi does not aim to set trends, but to celebrate the classics.
Read MoreThe line was long to get into Havana Theatre, a small venue beneath Vancouver’s temporarily vacant Havana restaurant. One by one the crowd turned away from the bustling energy of Commercial Drive and into a dark hallway adorned with a staircase, a portal that led to an intimate room. Dimly lit and tempered comfortably high. Patrick Watson filled the air as we anticipated the start of A Sad-Ass Cabaret.
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.
