Barbara Tomasic is an award-winning theatre director whose career has hopscotched across Canada, leaving a trail of dazzling productions and probably a few confused airport staff in her wake. Known for her ability to collaborate […]
Carylann Loeppky is a Vancouver-(born and bred) based painter whose career spans more than three decades. Before dedicating herself fully to painting, she worked as an art director in graphic design and multimedia, creating album […]
Vancouver artist Hal Riso prizes paradox. His best-known works, immaculate assemblies of coils, curves, and rod-like forms, hover in Zen-like composure, yet that balance remains unstable. Blink, and another presence pushes through: motile, unsettling, erotically […]
If you know Idan Cohen, you know two things: his wardrobe is fabulously modest (two outfits, total), and his imagination is anything but. Born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Idan grew up with […]
Claire Anderson’s explorations of feminine power, identity, addiction and trauma are distilled through the feminist art movement. Claire’s intention at first glance is seemingly quiet, muted, and calm in presence, but this is the deception […]
The last name Ha comes from the popular Chinese last name “Ho.” This simple change of one letter is symbolic of the history of events that created millions of Chinese-Vietnamese refugees and their harrowing stories. […]
Junie Désil is my partner and my best friend. She has committed herself to three values that shape her life and work: fairness, kindness, and thoroughness. From the time she was a child, she would […]
Local icon Steffanie Davis is an actor, singer, body inclusivity advocate and all-around baddie. When she is not roaming Commercial Drive in search of exquisite coffee or the perfect cocktail, she can be found on […]
In a moment when ecosystems are unravelling and wildfires reshape the land, artist and activist Kyle Scheurmann asks us to look closer. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1988, Scheurmann completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts […]
Brishkay Ahmed is my best friend. She is an acclaimed Canadian filmmaker who wears many hats as a writer, director, and producer. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been shown on both screen and stage. […]
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