Destroy Vancouver: Where the Noise Is
words by Celesse McCarthy photographs by Alan Derksen The piano is puckered with fingerprints. The crowd is made up of fellow Jazz Fest musicians and the luminescent public. The purveyors are tamed and titillated. Even as they seat, they are immediately engaged in the space – as a species. Two pages of sheet music adorn […]
Summer BBQ Fiesta of Music at The Media Club
Four Local Bands Rock the Excitement of a Pacific Coast Summer
Words by Lucia Misch Pics by Faber Neifer Walking through the zealous warmth of Saturday night towards the Summer BBQ Fiesta at the Media Club, it was impossible to miss the mass of BC Place, sitting like an engorged anemone one block south of the much smaller venue. Rumbling cheers of white noise burst intermittently […]
Community Unity Celebration
The launch of a new, outdoor and inclusive event in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside aims to build community "by defeating and challenging the legacy of isolation and segregation by creating space in the outdoors for cultural sharing"
Photos by Alan Derksen We acknowledge that Vancouver is located on unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples. On Friday afternoon from 11am-4pm, an ambitious project held it’s inaugural event in the Downtown Eastside. The Community Unity Celebration is a community-initiated, community-led group that aims to strengthen Vancouver’s DTES by coming together to […]
Interview With Barbara Adler, Extravagant Signals Series Curator
The co-creator of Vancouver's newest and most diverse art & performance series discusses peacocks, toeholds, and the fitness of the local creative communities
Words by Hailey McCloskey and Ash Tanasiychuk Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk Once you’ve become versatile in talent, active in contribution, and well respected by your art communities, where do you go from there? In what other ways can your talents, hard work and passion be built upon and fed back into community? — Barbara Adler, […]
Peak Performance Project 2013 Launch Party
Annual band competition kicks off at Fortune Sound Club with performances by The Boom Booms, Dear Rouge, and Dominique Fricot
The 2013 edition of the Peak Performance Project officially launched this week and VANDOCUMENT was invited to document the action. Our sharpshooter Sheng Ho mixed with the crowds at Fortune Sound Club and shot this gallery, encompassing the entire night, from The Top 20 Announcement, through performances by Dominique Fricot, Dear Rouge, and The Boom […]
Music and Movement Mondays
A weekly collaboration of always changing dancers, musicians and locations, Ben Brown's experiment in cross-discipline dialogue is the stepping stone for Shapes In Sound
Written by Shalon W-H and Ash Tanasiychuk Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk and Yvonne Chew A unique series of evening events featuring a variety of multidisciplinary arts – Extravagant Signals – is about to launch into its inaugural year (June 15-22 2013). To prepare, Vandocument’s Shalon and Ash got a sneak preview of the improv music […]