Writing by VANDOCUMENT

Written documentation by VANDOCUMENT

 Kaylin Metchie

Dance Yourself Away

Dance Yourself Away

EPIC presented by SFU dance undergrads

Words by Kaylin Metchie Edited by Elysse Cheadle EPIC – SFU Student Dance Show The cavernous Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU is a formidable arena. Its expanse highlights your smallness, while its dark walls envelope you like a hug from a long lost loved one. Tonight, the space is warm, buzzing with […]

 Andi Icaza-Largaespada

Home Dream Home: a Corporeal and Ethereal Location as Art

Home Dream Home: a Corporeal and Ethereal Location as Art

Interview + Photographs by Andi Icaza-Largaespada On the evening of November 28th, Access Gallery held the opening of Catherine Pulkinghorn’s exhibition Home Dream Home, curated by Shaun Dacey. Home Dream Home is a process-based dialogue on the construction of Home as space for shelter and lifestyle, and the real estate market’s simultaneous toll on socioeconomic […]

 Justin Ramsey

Heartbeat of the Drum

Heartbeat of the Drum

The Heart of the City Festival at SFU Woodward’s

Written by Justin Ramsey & Photography by Ravi Gill The first day of November did not disappoint. The sun shone clear in the grey-blue sky; and despite the almost-wintry nip in the air, the trees held fast to their fall colours. The night was equally pleasant; Halloween hangovers kept the sidewalks of Gastown unusually quiet—a change […]

 Dillon Ramsey

National Stolen Treasures

National Stolen Treasures

Dylan Robinson discusses art music's indigenous inclusions

Written by Dillon Ramsey Photography by Ash Tanasiychuk Go into any of Canada’s “great” museums and you will more than likely come face to face with collections of First Nations artefacts acquired by means that could be called questionable at best. Indeed, colonial Canada has long made a point of stockpiling the ceremonials of its […]

 Nicole Dumas

HWY Is. 1, Moniker Press, Genero at Field Contemporary

HWY Is. 1, Moniker Press, Genero at Field Contemporary

Sonic Weaving/A Collection of Shadows

Words by Nicole Dumas Photos by Jon Vincent With the electric hum of busses behind, I enter Field Contemporary. Guests fill the cozy gallery and group together in monochromatic ensembles as if curated to match the artwork. People relax into revelations about desires for community and collaboration – a number of essays and books are […]

 Brit Bachmann

Canzine Time

Canzine Time

Vancouver’s least predictable literary festival

Words by Brit Bachmann + Photos by Harley Spade Canzine West happens around the same time every year, coinciding with the first frost. T-shirt clad vendors keep piles of winter jackets, sweaters and scarves under their tables. Canzine 2014 is no different. Attendees rush into the main foyer of SFU Woodwards with foggy glasses and […]

 Sarah Faye Bernstein

SOFAR Sounds Comes to Vancouver

SOFAR Sounds Comes to Vancouver

songs from a room

Words and Photography by Sarah Faye Bernstein On November 17th, I had the ultimate pleasure of attending my first sofar sounds show in Vancouver. What started as a small, by donation live music show in an apartment in London, “songs from a room” has exploded globally, and now Vancouver’s got our own branch happening! The […]

 Dillon Ramsey

Dynamo Duos

Dynamo Duos

Wrong Wave 2014 concludes at SFU's World Art Centre

Written by Dillon Ramsey Photography by Sheng Ho Wrong Wave 2014 is wrapping up tonight at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre in SFU Woodward’s. This venue is very different from the first two instalments of the festival, which were featured at the Fox Cabaret on October 16 and Western Front on October 17. Perhaps […]

 Jen Kennedy

Hands in the Air for Dralms

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 […]

 Brit Bachmann

The Field Trip Revisited

The Field Trip Revisited

An art lover’s journey into the peripheries

Words by Brit Bachmann + Photography by Sheng Ho The initial gathering of our Field Trip group is almost too reminiscent of awkward school days. Slowly and cautiously, people funnel into the foyer just outside the Audain Gallery. It isn’t until the animated Andrea Creamer of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement extends a loud […]

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