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Drawing it up at the Vancouver Draw Down
If you’re having a hankering to unleash your inner visual artist, or to collaborate with others artistically, or just to get out and learn something new, you’d better mark Saturday, June 15 in your...
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Hive: the New Bees 3 (Chapel Arts, June 11-14)
The buzz is back! Following on the heels of the successful New Bees 2, Resounding Scream Theatre‘s Catherine Ballachey and Stephanie Henderson have once again corralled almost a dozen emerging theatre...
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I Never Had My Gatsby/Salinger/Bohemian Moment
People with whom I’ve discussed certain works of English literature have probably heard me say that “I’m just not all that into ‘angry young man’ fiction.” I will often follow up by complaining that...
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Rachel Lebowitz and Anakana Schofield on taking 10 years to write one book
Last Thursday my fiction professor David Chariandy decided to take us on an impromptu field trip to the Rhizome Cafe to hear Vancouver-to-Halifax transplant Rachel Lebowitz read from Cottonopolis, her...
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Emily of New Moon vs. Anne of Green Gables
Spoiler alert–Emily wins. Sorry Anne fans, but if Anne Shirley is the boisterous poster child for all that is sunny and sentimental about L. M. Montgomery’s Prince Edward Island, Emily Starr is the...
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A Story about a Story about Vancouver
Swing set in the old ‘hood. The other night I visited an old friend I hadn’t seen in a little while (no particular reason for this gap in our social calls, just busy summers for the both of us), and...
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Ruby Sparks: A Refreshingly Quirky Film about the Cliche “Quirky Girl”
You all know the story: Intelligent Boy-Man has talent but no direction. Intelligent Boy-Man has either no relationship or meaningless ones. Along comes the Quirky Girl. She’s Different. She’s an...
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Yes, it’s raining, get off your lazy butt
It’s sweater weather! And it’s going to rain/is raining! Which means, of course, that all you want to do is snuggle up inside with a book, a cup of tea, maybe a pot of chili, and stay there until May....
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Ridiculously Fun: Fighting Chance Productions’ Rocky Horror Show
If you’re still a “Rocky Virgin”, it might be time to pop your theatrical cherry with Fighting Chance Productions‘ season opener, the cult classic Rocky Horror Show, playing at the Jericho Arts Centre...
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Dear English Paper: Go Write Yourself
Dear English Paper, I’ve been avoiding you, and I’m sorry. In a way, this is all my fault. I took my first undergraduate English literature course when I was 18 years old and now, nine years later, I...
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“Corporations in our Heads”: the human event of the season
Artistic Director David Diamond. Photo credit: Tim Matheson Technically, Theatre for Living (formerly Headlines Theatre) is a “theatre” company and therefore ostensibly makes “art”, but if you are...
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I need to stop looking at things on the internet
Internet wallpaper from fecoo.com This is probably a hypocritical statement for a blogger, but it’s true: I need to stop looking at things posted on the internet. If you, like me, have a smartphone...
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OMG, I
This post is late in coming, and the reason for this is that I have spent the majority of the past week watching the film series of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (and related material) instead...
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The Cruelest Song I’ve Never Heard
When I was in grade seven, my English class undertook a formidable Poetry Unit. Our anthology for this particular unit was filled with what I now understand were very good poems, by William Carlos...
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Nifty Reads: “Tuesdays with Morrie”
There is a small stack of books in the lunchroom at my office topped by a paper sign that says “Free” (it used to be a larger stack but it seems people, myself included, have been taking advantage of...
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“Nothing But Sky” Delivers Nothing But Promise
From now until March 2, The Only Animal invites you to step into the world of their latest production, Nothing But Sky–a comic-book world of heroes and villains, lovers and underdogs, flesh and ink....
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My Rights to Write (and What)
Broadly speaking, at least here in fairly progressive, egalitarian-ish, freedom-of-speech-y Canada, my right to write just about whatever I want, however I want, is not in dispute. Which is great for...
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The Troika Collective Presents Belarusian Dream Theater Vancouver
Poster design by Liam Griffin On Tuesday, March 25, The Troika Collective, in association with Ensemble Free Theater Norway (EFTN), will present the Vancouver iteration of the Belarusian Dream Theater...
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Dancing Monkey Presents: “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me”
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: an Irishman, an Englishman, and an American are chained to a wall– No, this is not the set-up for some lame stereotypical joke, but the premise for Frank McGuinness’...
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“Ghosts in Baghdad” and the Vulnerabilities of Heritage
Sarah May Redmond (Malika) and Alec Willows (Khalil). Photo: Tim Matheson What would you do to protect your life’s work? Your country’s heritage? When does an object stop being a “thing” and become a...
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