Ready to Rumble? Keep calm and decolonize
MUSIC RISING by Bruce Mason Indigenous/Aboriginal /First Nations/Inuit art is one of the most exciting creative forces in Canada and on our endangered Earth. At once a Renaissance Revival and…
Reinventing your life
UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw Perhaps your life has not gone as planned. Perhaps it did,…
BC Book Awards
Celebrating the year’s brightest & best Publishing is obsessed with “winners,” but I’ve always thought literary prizes are earned while winners are for lotteries. Still, awards recognize writers, endangered in…
Visionary artists Alex and Allyson Grey
An interview by Jacob Steele Jacob Steele: What do you see as the visionary artist’s role, and what do you seek to communicate about life in relation to the polarities…
A triumphant soundtrack for our times
For the greater part of 82 years, Leonard Cohen wrote, recorded and performed a sometimes bleak, sometimes joyful, soundtrack of our times. Even from his deathbed. Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) by…
Toad People World Premiere
Presented by the Wilderness Committee www.wildernesscommittee.org » Wednesday, November 30, 6:30-9PM At SFU Woodward’s, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver Tickets $10 – order at toadpeople.brownpapertickets.com What does it take to…
More at VIFF
From Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary Human. Photo courtesy of viff.org Showing October 10 (VIFF at the Centre) and October 12 (Vancouver Playhouse).
mesmerizing and unconventional
by Robert Alstead
• Koneline: Our Land Beautiful, by local filmmaker Nettie Wild, takes a fresh, even-handed approach to a heated subject: resource development in BC’s Northwest wilderness. The hereditary land of the Tahltan First Nation has been dubbed the “Serengeti of the North.” Now, the land is being opened up to mining companies for its rich gold and copper resources. Wild’s approach allows many individuals to share their different knowledge and experience of the area – whether it be the geologist’s expertise on rock formations or the aboriginal student sharing his disappearing dialect – and builds a mosaic of impressions.
Docs at the Vancouver International Film Festival
by Robert Alstead • If the events of Cold War documentary Command and Control hadn’t actually happened, you might think it was made up. On September 18, 1980, a PTS…
Green technology pioneers pave but seldom save
by Gary Magwood • Environmentalist, inventor, thinker, visionary, and part-time hustler, Roger Walsh has dabbled in various forms of green technology for over 40 years. Small-scale solar and wind power…
Playing for Change
One world, one voice, one day MUSIC RISING by Bruce Mason • Without fail, the Playing For Change website makes me feel good. Most often it gives me…