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 […]
The Work In Dreams
Contemporary dance lights up the Firehall
It is possible to perceive something that isn’t actually there. Choreographers, dancers and composers create a production with many interpretations. I am sitting in the Firehall Arts Centre theatre, about mid row, my eyes relaxed on the gravitational pull of an empty stage. The new contemporary dance performance “Things Near and Far” has not yet […]
West Coast Transmissions
Cameron McLellan explores the space between graphite lines and our homeland
Words and photos by Jen Kennedy I hop into Robert Lynds Gallery out of a very dark and wet January night. The room is packed wall to wall with merrymaking people, who have been celebrating for some hours the opening of Cameron McLellan’s latest series West Coast Transmissions. The exhibition invite encourages the viewer to […]
Hands in the Air for Dralms
Travel to the heart of Vancouver to find brilliance in a local emerging band
Words and photos by Jen Kennedy The recent performance of the local Vancouver band Dralms was one of its last live shows before entering the studio to start recording its first full-length album. The show was held beneath the facade of mountainous ocean and glass-towered serenity of Vancouver, in the layered and complex streets called […]
Celebrations of Change
Tuning in at the Queer Arts Festival
Words and photos by Jen Kennedy On August 1, I attended the Queer Arts Festival’s “I Sing the Body Electric: Walt Whitman & the Beat Generation.” It is only one of the many performances out of three weeks of shows and workshops celebrating queer arts, culture and history through dance, music, theatre, literature, workshops, and […]
Revenge of the Art Show
Art inspired by movies released in 1984
Written and photos by Jen Kennedy It sounded cool. I like cool. I like doing something social and out of the ordinary. So I go up the steps on this chilly Friday evening into the Hot Art Wet City Gallery. It’s warm; the walls are full of iconic imagery and rehashed impressions of films from […]