Down The River: Vancouver Indie Heavyweights The Belle Game, Bear Mountain, and Dralms (plus Toronto’s The Darcys) Pour It On
Four Canadian Bands Rock The Vogue In One High Energy Night
Photography by Christopher Edmonstone This was a blockbuster night for indie rock fans at Vancouver’s Vogue Theatre. Not surprisingly, it was completely sold out. How’s this for some stats: 4 bands on 1 bill 3 of 4 are Vancouver bands (the 4th is Toronto’s The Darcys) All 4 bands are celebrating new albums (or at […]
Edward Burtynsky: Water – Artist Talk and Book Signing @ Langara College
Renowned Canadian Photographer underpins Capture Photo Festival’s successful inaugural year and offers an insight into his expansive new work, Water
Written by Adam Stenhouse Photos by Jon Vincent Edward Burtynsky. Even if you don’t know his name, you most likely know his photographs. In the last decade he has become a household name and a go-to for the coffee table book collection. As part of Capture Photo Festival’s inaugural, and deceptively heavyweight line-up, Burtynsky spoke […]
Snooze Fest Blasts Vancouver’s Sleepy Disposition
Wake up! To a brand new 4 day electronic / noise / experimental music fest
Snooze Fest: Perhaps a stab at everyone trying to out-hype everyone else in the promo of the “next big event,” Snooze Fest‘s event write ups signed off with: (;￣O￣）*yawn* But from what we heard (& see in Jon Vincent‘s superb photos), the fest was anything but a yawner. These are artists to sit up & […]
Publishing Ain’t Dead, And Project Space Proves It
Second Annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair brings the goods to the Vancouver Art Gallery
On the 1st weekend of October 2013, Project Space held it’s 2nd Art/Book Fair, “a two-day festival of artists’ publishing that features nearly one hundred local, national and international publishers of books, magazines, zines, printed ephemera and digital or other experimental forms of publication, as well as on-site programs, performances and installations.” It was entirely […]
Clear Out The Garage! It’s Time For A House Concert
Phantoms Again, Lewis & Clark, and Graham Bannerman play to an evening backyard gathering
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk Well, we thought it was the end of summer… — The lack of support for small, indie venues is still a very real problem in Vancouver. And although the City needs to listen to the needs of our artists, performers, youth, and creative supporters, until that happens, creative and inspiring people […]
Squeezebox Talent: Accordion Noir Festival’s Dance Party & Rebel Bellows
Local and international musicians light up The Russian Hall
Photos by Faber Neifer and Jon Vincent Mid-September 2013 brought another edition of the exciting Accordion Noir Festival to Vancouver. The first without Geoff Berner (read Jack Garton’s short chat with Berner), Barbara Adler and Jack Garton organized a series of evening events at The Russian Hall, including the Accordion Dance Party and Rebel Bellows. […]
Performing Process
Project CPR 4.0 explores practice in choreography
Words by Alicia McLean Photos and video by Ash Tanasiychuk “A process is a process is a process, it falls into itself,” explains Claire French, the organizer of Project CPR (Choreographic Practice and Research), which is a choreographic lab for movement research that is now in its fourth year. As French explains, choreographers need to […]
Shout Back Festival 2013
Words by Adrienne LaBelle Photos by Hayley Gauvin and Ash Tanasiychuk Vancouver is a city in need of a lot of things, but affordable and accessible space seems to be one of the hardest to come by. To take on the task of arranging a 4-day festival that is completely all-ages and physically accessible, is […]
24-Hr Drawing Party @ Project Space
A personal reflection by organizer and participant Margarete Hernandez
Words by Margarete Hernandez Photos by Sheng Ho and Margarete Hernandez Remember when we were children, and pencils and crayons were our basic tools for expression, and how easy it was to talk and play with other children while finger-painting on a crafts table or making castles in a sandbox? I had a lot of […]
Don’t Stop Playing: Preview of a Brief Encounters Pairing
The first ever collaboration between Karen Jamieson, contemporary dancer, and Nathaniel Justiniano, bouffon
Photos and words by Ash Tanasiychuk What’s the expression? “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing” (thanks George Bernard Shaw, that’s a good one). Sunshine and laughter. Claps of hands and stomps of feet. Smiles of play and bulges of… ogre lumps?! The Dance Centre, Davie St, […]