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. […]
Darrell Dennis is a proud Secwepemc filmmaker from the Adams Lake Indian Band in the interior of British Columbia. He started his career as an actor, but after becoming disillusioned with the clichéd Indigenous roles […]
My husband, Bill Koch, grew up in rural Montana. As a child, he was preoccupied with books and ball sports. He dreamed of a career in writing and edited his high school newspaper. However, working […]
To know Tess Degenstein is to be obsessed with her. She somehow seamlessly straddles the line between absolute artistic integrity and complete playful buffoon. Any project she’s involved in turns to gold—and I’d know, because […]
Madeleine Suddaby was born and raised in Vancouver. She is a graduate of Capilano University’s Musical Theatre Program and Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ Professional Training program. She has performed on stages across the country, notably in […]
A lifelong lover of storytelling, Rachel Drance started performing in Vancouver at a young age. After spending her youth on stages around the city, such at Theatre Under the Stars and Gateway Theatre, Rachel moved […]
Christine Breakell-Lee is a mixed-media artist based in Vancouver, BC, and the founder and creative director of Unified, a fashion-forward line of everyday soft accessories. Her abstract paintings are characterized by an exuberant mix of […]
Music has always been more than a hobby for Liam Aldous—it’s been his whole world since he was two years old and commandeered his dad’s iPod. By the time he was three, he could recite […]
Eric Louie has always been an artist. From early childhood, he had an eye for form, which our parents encouraged, sending him to art lessons at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Growing up, I can remember […]
When Candice Weber immigrated to Canada in 2016, she brought with her the two best things about the U.S.: her mom’s green pea and ham soup recipe, and treating the arts like the snack aisle […]
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