Examining what ‘We’re all mad here’ means through a 2019 lens, the show presents familiar characters in a new way, broken down to explore what living and loving with mental illness looks like, dealing with wisdom you weren’t ready to gain, and when and how people should take responsibility for their choices.
Read More“My practice is really trying to de-stereotype Ukraine and Eastern European countries. I try to look at a different point of Ukrainian life and society and try to breakdown structures. A lot of photographers from the West go to any Third World country and look at it with an exploitative gaze. There are people trying to live their lives in these places. It always made me mad to see this type of artwork.”
Read MoreIf you mixed Japanese owarai, bouffon clowning, feminist rage, pop music and millennial hardship together, then held the result up to a funhouse mirror of Japanese stereotypes, the result would be close. But My Name is Sumiko refuses to be categorized or defined
Read More“As humans we really can’t re-experience somatosensory sensations. It’s as if your brain creates this natural defense mechanism so you aren’t able to re-experience physical pain.” Through an interdimensional science experiment, Dusty Foot Production’s Red Glimmer looks at what might happen if our brains could do the same thing for emotional pain.
Read MoreTucked away on Pandora Street, surrounded by breweries, East Vancouver’s new DIY space is an artist-run organization dedicated to providing resources for art-curious communities.
Read More“From VLAFF as a whole, I hope people take away that we as a festival, are a work-in-progress. I don’t want to perpetuate the assumption as a Latinx organization that it’s smooth sailing in any sort of way. We are very different people in our team, we don’t all hold one particular political perspective. In a way, the films we present are a lens into our conversations, differences, and similarities.”
Read MoreNinety years after the classic ballet was first danced in Vancouver, a new technology-driven @giselle will have its world premier at the Vancouver Playhouse from September 5-7.
The blue cabin will grace the foreshore of False Creek as of August 25, and the 2019-2020 programming year will see four residencies by Indigenous artists from Turtle Island and Australia. The theme of the year, Skeins: Weaving on the Foreshore, focuses on Coast Salish weaving practices.
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.
