This is the story of how an 800-year-old, two-and-a-half-meter wide red cedar— one of the oldest and largest of the ancient giants found in Vancouver Island’s Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park— was illegally harvested. Poached.
Read MoreHello May, so glad to see you! And we’re equally glad that photographer Birthe Piontek is our Featured Artist this month. ”The first lyric heard on May’s Featured Artist playlist speaks of knowing and loving someone in tandem, one leading effortlessly into the other. {This] lovely sentiment could very easily be applied to the work of photographer Birthe Piontek. To know her photographs is to love them.”
Read More“No Fun Radio serves that need—for community, and for building the culture of the city.”
Read MoreSeven hundred is, on average, the number of kids that fill the high school gymnasiums Coyote has been speaking at for over 10 years, working to free students from a culture of bullying, homophobia, and transphobia. One hour is how long their show, “Ivan in Schools”, generally lasts.
Read MoreBirthe Piontek is an exceptionally adroit visual artist, whose work visualizes the complexities of identity and memory. Her work has been exhibited internationally at many private and public collections, and appeared in renowned publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, Wired, and The New Yorker.
Read MoreCrickets was me feeling through the tumultuous times we’re living in. The whole time I was writing, it was like I was casting a spell to not be fucked with. Feeling through deeply painful topics like gaslighting, resource extraction, depression, environmental and social injustices and then building up the sound so that it felt like a vindicating and empowering space.
Read More“If the space is there, women will take it. We wanted to do Glitter Ball so that other people can get that space—because everyone deserves it.”
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.
