Mount Pleasant on the Rize: Arts Factory
A rundown of CAC funding in Mount Pleasant, and the construction of Elia Kirby's Arts Factory
Words by Brit Bachmann Edited by Christopher Millin A wave of arts funding is breaking over the Mount Pleasant area, substantiating its status as one of Vancouver’s most vibrant and experimental artist hubs. On June 11th Vancouver City Council unanimously voted in favour of allocating $4.5 million to select arts organizations in Mount Pleasant in […]
SPATIAL POETICS XIII: WeMix
Vancouver’s thirteen-year tradition of artistic mash-up plays to a packed house at The Western Front.
This marks the 13th consecutive year of Spatial Poetics, a celebration of cross-disciplinary artistic collaboration that heralds the beginning of the annual Powell Street Festival. For more than a decade, this event has mashed-up local artists of diverse interests, approaches, and specializations to create new works based on the adventure inherent in the seemingly happenstance […]
Glancing inward to expand outward
A review/interview of Human Theatre Collective’s CAEZR: 33 Cuts
Words by Kaylin Metchie The sun was high in the sky as my boyfriend and I walked up the hill to The Cultch. It was the second time I had been there that week, and I was eager to satisfy my experimental/contemporary theatre itch. No matter whether you like or hate a play at the […]
Hostile Comforts
A Reflection on the opening night of LOOMINGS; or THE WHALE
Words by Elysse Cheadle Photos by Dan Borzillo Edited by Kaylin Metchie Pandora’s Box Studios – a rehearsal studio with top of the line acoustic engineering and soundproofing in each of their 18 rooms – is nestled on a rather beige, unassuming corner of Pandora Street and Victoria Drive. I arrive a little too early […]
Sweet Heart: The way that love transforms us
Featuring Dancer/Choreographer Areli Moran and Multi-Instrumentalist Ben Brown, Sweet Heart fuses live music and movement
Photos – Sheng Ho Text – sweetheartpage.wordpress.com Sweet Heart is a piece about the ways that love transforms us. Featuring Dancer/Choreographer Areli Moran and Multi-Instrumentalist Ben Brown, Sweet Heart fuses live music and movement. Moran and Brown create a raw chemistry evoking Moran’s most intimate experiences with past lovers. There is an immediate rapport felt through the […]
Hot Choir in the City: The Kingsgate Chorus and Mount Pleasant Regional Institute of Sound
Jenny Ritter’s Rock & Roll choral groups [give a concert] [throw a party] at the Biltmore.
The Kingsgate Chorus and Mount Pleasant Regional Institute of Sound (MPRIS – and pronounced “Empress”), Jenny Ritter’s two excellent choral groups, represent a fresh departure within Vancouver’s burgeoning community choir scene. They perform a tightly arranged repertoire of pop music covers, not the typical choral catalogue of recycled religious hymns, slave songs, civil rights anthems, […]
Exuberant Hues: Ben Skinner Colours Back Gallery Project
Like many art galleries, Back Gallery Project has a generous display window at the front of the building. While not an unusual architectural feature, this window always seems a little special. It is a large, open portal on a particularly blank stretch of East Hastings, illuminating the otherwise forgettable streetscape in ways far more astonishing […]
Hullabaloo
Photos by Kendra Archer Hullabaloo is a youth poetry festival. 16 school teams composed of over 80 youth poets from all over British Columbia come together to complete in slams, participate in workshops, see great feature poets and connect with other writers. — Hullabaloo image gallery – photos by Kendra Archer
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 […]
In The Loop: Musician Chersea Talks LAUNCH Festival
Written by Dillon Ramsey Edited by Christopher Millin Photos of Chersea’s 2013 LAUNCH Fest performance by Ash Tanasiychuk Anyone who hasn’t watched a “loop artist” at work is missing out. “Looping is basically a form of live DJing,” summarises local singer-songwriter Chersea, whose unique technique of manipulating live music through electronic equipment won her the […]