5 Designers To See This VFW F/W 2019
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Expect no less than a local 17-year old returning for her second season this Vancouver Fashion Week March 18 to 24, which has always highlighted the talent of emerging designers.
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FLEXIBLE: The life of a professional contortionist
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“I feel like I’m a much more grand and exciting performer when I’m interesting to look at as well…I like the anonymity of not being myself, which gives me the freedom to really break free and do the things that I really want to or try new things.”
Read MoreGrowing Room Event Guide: Resilient Words
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With over 100 authors and artists participating in the 2019 Growing Room Festival, your calendar is bound to fill up quickly! To get you started, here are five events centred on topics relating to resilience and mental health, each of which promises to leave audiences empowered to pursue their creativity against any odds.
Read MoreThird Time's the Charm: Growing Room Triples Its Length and Impact
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“I think the one thread that connects all of us, whether we’re writers or not, is the need to share a story.”
Read MoreA Mixed Playlist Inspired By: Katie and Paul
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Sure, it’s been a cold February. But if you run a hot shower and let the steam spill out into your apartment, carve a honeydew melon into cubes, and pretend your electric heater is the hot summer sun, it might as well be June. Look no further than Katie and Paul’s piece, Paradise Found, for visual inspiration. Better yet, study its lush colour and tropical imagery while listening to the warm sounds of this Featured Artist mix. You’ll be basking in heat and light quicker than you can say ‘cactus flower’.
Read MoreBRIGHT LIGHTS NO CITY: George Gorton on the death trap of creativity
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“My company Loud specializes in doing integration between video and lighting for live performances as well as activations for advertising. We blend reality and people’s interactions into a live performance. We build a lot of the systems ourselves and we only use control systems, which means we don’t run the lighting specifically, but we have the computers to run them.“
Read MoreYing Yun (英云) - Danced to Perfection
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These dancers are in their prime, and their physical capabilities are on full display. At times, a soloist will bend and rotate a limb to hyperextended angles, as if discovering just how mobile they really are.
Read MoreSkin of The City: Learning to Skateboard as an Adult
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And maybe the whole city is a different place for everyone who’s ever skateboarded through it. Maybe I’m only just starting to see something that was always just beneath the surface. A world is opened up, like in so many of my favourite books when I was young: through the wardrobe, the looking glass, the tollbooth and into this new-old place, this parallel universe.
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