Ravi Gill

A Supreme Celebration at Western Front

A Supreme Celebration at Western Front

Three day event of expression, collaboration and improvisation culminates in a six-hour expression Coltrane’s Love Supreme poem

Photography by Ravi Gill 50 years after legendary saxophonist/composer/creative pioneer John Coltrane released “A Love Supreme,” the Vancouver-based New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW) invited Le Nouveau Jazz Libre de Québec (NJLQ) from Montréal for a multi-day event. Thurs Feb 19 A free improvisation workshop led by Vancouver’s Lisa Cay Miller and members of the NJLQ […]

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Ola Volo at Make / Solo Show Opening Reception

Ola Volo at Make / Solo Show Opening Reception

Photodocumentation by Ravi Gill Artist Ola Volo has shot into the stratosphere with her playful landscapes, murals, and magazine covers. Filled with enticingly rubbery characters — from human-like through to anthropomorphic foxes, dragons, and horses — Volo’s freshly unique visual style has captured the attention of clients (Hootsuite, Vancouver Folk Fest, and Lululemon among the […]

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Sofar / Yaletown

Sofar / Yaletown

Yaletown Loft + Four Bands + 100 or more people easily = Sofar

Photos by Ravi Gill Text by Darragh Amelia In 2009, a group of individuals frustrated by the increasingly commodified live music scene decided to host three artists in their tiny North London flat. They invited a selected audience of true music lovers to join in on the experience. After that show, those people went and […]

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Reuse, Recycle, Reverberate

Reuse, Recycle, Reverberate

Society's consumerist, materialistic culture dynamically explored in dance/music/sewing collaboration

Vancouver dance artist Kelly McInnes has teamed with musician Ben Brown and international musical sewing artist Lisa Simpson to create Mine Agente, an unique piece “which explores and magnifies our society’s consumerist, materialistic culture using what we wear as the main focus.” McInnes has been working on ‘mine‘ in different capacities for the past two […]

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Crystal Swells Album Release @ The Railway Club

Crystal Swells Album Release @ The Railway Club

Snail Productions presents one stage / four bands rocking out at the historic Railway Club

Photos and words by Ravi Gill First photography assignment for Vandocument.com / Saturday April 19, location — Railway Club, Vancouver. Live music by local bands —- Crystal Swells / Ty Collins / Grizzly Bones / The Pretty’s. Hopped on my bike and got to the Railway Club at 8pm, had a beer to relax and […]

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Duality: An Art Experiment

Duality: An Art Experiment

Local photographer Shannyn Higgins pairs Vancouver artists in art show and book launch at East Van Studios

Photography by Ravi Gill Text from Duality’s press release Duality is an art experiment that binds a passage of words into two different narratives. Art, music and literature can have an intrinsic influence on how we see the world. Individuals hear music and see art differently. Based on our emotions, experiences and individuality, the narrative […]