Spatial Poetics in Photographs
The thirteenth iteration - "WeMix" - is captured beautifully by Alisha Weng
Recently, Mark Jacobs reviewed Spatial Poetics XIII for VANDOCUMENT (Read the full review here: “SPATIAL POETICS XIII: WeMix. Vancouver’s thirteen-year tradition of artistic mash-up plays to a packed house at The Western Front.”). Photographs were supplied by their PR, which we are grateful for. VANDOC’s ace photog Alisha Weng also shot, and her gallery is […]
Lights, Tech, Action!
The annual event that uniquely brings together a range of tech-based creative pursuits, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire's 2014 edition took off at PNE Forum
Photos by Alisha Weng Descriptive text on the participating makers sourced from makerfaire.ca — Photographer Alisha Weng captured these keys shots: Camera Buildings: Tiny Houses and Small Spaces Building tiny houses and small spaces in Vancouver, Camera Buildings is a startup created to redefine housing. By focusing on sustainability and good design, Camera Buildings tiny […]
LAUNCH Festival Continues to Celebrate Vancouver’s Emerging Professional Artists
In its second year, LAUNCH reveals 10 new artists & acts, from dance and music to film and performance
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk LAUNCH Festival! is an interdisciplinary performance & mentorship showcase of Vancouver’s professional emerging artists. 2014 was the Festival’s second year. Presented by 149 Arts Society, which “dedicates itself to arts programming that is provocative in nature, and that serves to engage, challenge and inform.” The society’s name is “inspired by Woodward’s […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Wide Perspective: Filmmaker Rami Katz Talks LAUNCH Festival
written by Justin Ramsey edited by Faber Neifer Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk “I love Vancouver,” states Rami Katz affirmatively. “I love the landscape and the environment here—it’s just a beautiful place to live.” This is quite the declaration, given today’s quintessentially-Vancouver weather: grey, chilly, and drizzly, even on a Sunday morning in late May. Nevertheless, […]
Feeling Visions: Choreographer Julianne Chapple Talks LAUNCH Festival
Written by Justin Ramsey Edited by Kaylin Metchie Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk I am sitting in Kafka’s, a charming café in Vancouver’s fashionable Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, enjoying a fabulously foamy London fog. The white walls are decorated with art, and the large front windows fill the spacious room with a pale, natural light. At 9:53, […]