“I first saw Spinal Tap on a tour bus when I was 17. We were driving across the U.S. on tour and our tour manager popped it into the DVD player. Needless to say, it blew my tiny teen brain.”
”As inspired by Senchenko’s image, this month’s mix is one part smooth, one part lo-fi fuzz; a leisurely stroll through the last moments of summer, and an embrace of fall’s rough edges.“ Take a listen!
“I first saw Spinal Tap on a tour bus when I was 17. We were driving across the U.S. on tour and our tour manager popped it into the DVD player. Needless to say, it blew my tiny teen brain.”
”As inspired by Senchenko’s image, this month’s mix is one part smooth, one part lo-fi fuzz; a leisurely stroll through the last moments of summer, and an embrace of fall’s rough edges.“ Take a listen!
Are artificially intelligent robots independent beings, capable of feeling pain and love? Do they deserve equal or lesser rights to humans, or no rights at all? In this choose-your-own-adventure play AI Love You asks audiences to contemplate the ethics of AI-human relationships, and decide the fate of a robot.
What do you do when your new girlfriend accuses you of having Borderline Personality Disorder? Coming to Vancouver Fringe Festival from San Francisco, Borderline A**hole by Julie Gieseke is a darkly funny comedy that examines the complex dynamics of identity, mental health, and romantic relationships.
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.
“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.”
If 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
“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.
Tucked 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.
“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.”
Ninety 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.
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