It’ll be fun, yeah. It’ll be a fine time.
Photos from the July edition of East Van's favourite monthly evening of storytelling and otherwise.
Have you been to Fine? Probably! There’re regular lineups to get into this hot monthly evening of storytelling and otherwise. VANDOC photographer Xinyue Liu squeezed into the packed Lido on a warm July’s evening to capture these sweet shots. July’s Fine featured Carleigh Baker, Emily Davidson, Ola Dada, Taran J. Kootenhayoo, and Aidan Chafe With […]
Vancouver Art Book Fair 2018
A glimpse of what to expect at the seventh annual Art Book Fair
As media sponsor for Vancouver Art Book Fair 2018, VABF’s Helen Wong and Megan Low contributed the following piece to give you a taste of this year’s fair. We’ll see you there! /// You probably know the Vancouver Art Book Fair (VABF) from the various iterations of tote bags seen around the city. If you’re […]
Hullabaloo: More For Everyone
The 3rd and final day of the youth stream of Verses Festival of Words
Hullabaloo 2017 wrapped up yesterday with its most poetry-packed schedule yet. Young writers participating in the festival, which is the youth stream of Verses Festival of Words, started the day by taking two of four possible workshops from professional poets and performers. The workshops included everything from methods for maintaining good vocal health to tips […]
Teetering Too Close to Cliffs
Hullabaloo Day 2, All Star Slams at The Rio Theatre
Hullabaloo’s second day got going with two All Star Slams at The Rio Theatre, which brought champion spoken word artists Rabbit Richards, Dana ID Matthews, and Charlie Petch together from across the country to compete for a discerning audience of students and teachers. Next, the festival served a heaping helping of BC’s finest youth poetry […]
The Alchemy of Feeling Into Words
Day 1 of Hullabaloo at Verses Festival of Words, 2017
What do the phases “Breakdown Babes,” “Mad But Rad,” “Gibberish and the Hootenannies,” “Mediocre at Best,” “What Would Bert and Ernie’s Legs Look Like?,” and “The 2013 Bocce Championship Runners Up” have in common? If your answer is that they’re what six of the sixteen teams in Hullabaloo, BC’s youth poetry festival, have christened themselves, […]
Sawdust Collector is Kicking Up Some Seriously Cool Stuff
Weekly performance series curated by Barbara Adler, Cole Schmidt and James Meger with frequent help from Debra Jean Creelman, Megan Stewart and Kyla Gardiner
VANDOC: Sawdust Collector started Sept 2016, correct? What does the name mean? Sawdust Collector: Yes, our first show was in September, only about a month and a half after we first decided to work together and join the Gold Saucer collective. At the end of February, we’ll have been running weekly shows for 6 months. […]
Rivulets
Video, Words and Photos by: Jen Kennedy I arrived at a secret location in Chinatown to see three linked plays. The stories confront the look of madness or survival in a world at its absolute end. The series was called Rivulets, but the plays had their own subtitles and were separate distinct vignettes, all set […]
Like Us. Vancouver Art Book Fair Delivers Much More
Zines. Books. Mags. Sales. Talks. Swag. Tarot readings and paying off student loans. Plus an elevator handstand performance.
Photography by Lukas Engelhardt Free and open to the public, VA/BF is the only international art book fair in Canada and one of only two on the West Coast. In 2015 the event is anticipated to attract nearly 5,000 visitors from across the Greater Vancouver Area and beyond. Presented by Project Space, VA/BF is a […]
Invisible City: a secret theatrical adventure in a public space
Popcorn Galaxies' urban audio project, documented by the audience and the artists.
Word collage by Keely O’Brien with assistance of audience members, Liis Valjaots, Marc Castellini, D.D. Kugler and Megan Stewart. Photos by Christian Vistan. Assembling on a downtown Vancouver street corner, ten audience members at a time are greeted by Popcorn Galaxies‘ co-artistic directors, June Fukumura and Keely O’Brien (yours truly). On this corner there’s a […]
8minuteswith: Jamie Taylor and Sarah Faye Bernstein of The Jamie & Sarah Experience Project
8minuteswith – podcast series Hosted by Angela Ferreira Introduction by Elliot Vaughan A place to historicize conversation, with Vancouver artists, about their artistic practice. Interview 1 – March 14, 2015 Jamie Taylor and Sarah Faye Bernstein of The Jamie & Sarah Experience Project Angela Ferreira asks Jamie & Sarah questions about how they met, how […]