I have known Maryam Babaei all my life. We grew up in the same neighbourhood in Tehran, immigrated to Canada at roughly the same time, and went to the same university. She studied English Literature […]
A career as a band teacher. That was Carrie’s dream when she was an aspiring young flute player, studying first at the University of Mary in North Dakota, and then as a music education student […]
Maia Beresford (she/her) is a Vancouver-based actor, singer, dancer, and musician who holds a Diploma in Musical Theatre from Capilano University and a Bachelor of Performing Arts Degree from Douglas College. She has worked with […]
Yukiko Adachi is a local illustrator creating whimsical pieces with unmistakable authenticity. Her Instagram showcases this, documenting her life from pregnancy in the midst of a global lockdown to a first-time pandemic parent to a […]
I first met Léa Taranto at UBC in 2014 when we took an undergraduate workshop together in fiction. We bonded immediately over our shared Sino-diaspora heritage and love of speculative fiction. Since then, over the […]
Melanie Papalia, born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, has been a natural performer since she could walk and talk. From an early age, she was staging mini dance recitals for family and crafting homemade commercials […]
Richard Wolfe is a Vancouver-based theatre director and dramaturg who has directed, developed and produced a wide variety of live art in a wild selection of venues, often in sticky circumstances (and that doesn’t only […]
Alexis Fletcher grew up in the Comox Valley, tumbling between dance, gymnastics, musical theatre, and horseback riding. But everything clicked when she joined the youth company Dancestreams—at 14, she knew dance was it. She pursued […]
I met Tom Wayman in the early 1980s when he was teaching English and writing at David Thompson University Centre in Nelson. DTUC (1979-84), a joint venture between UVic and Selkirk College, was the provincial […]
Karen Marki has loved art her entire life, but her many years of working in the non-profit sector in both San Francisco and Vancouver postponed her desire to paint. Little did she know that the […]
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