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Arts Features

Getting a buzz at SWARM

By Janet Smith
From food-can pyramids to candid self-portraits, the ever-growing art event in Mount Pleasant, Gastown, and Commercial Drive is a hive of activity.
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Impressionist show in Seattle retrains the eye

By Ken Eisner
Going to a major new exhibition south of the border gives a timely reminder of what made Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet great.
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Oily tales flow at Vancouver International Fringe Festival

By Colin Thomas
Fringe circuit favourites and political shows Doppelganger and Crude Love encourage us to pause and examine the suffering and devastation that our dependence on oil causes.
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Film Noir musicals meet Euro-punk parodies at Fringe Festival

By Jessica Werb
With a lineup of 68 groups giving more than 500 performances, from the Dada-esque to the therapeutic, the 24th annual Vancouver International Fringe Festival is as likely to move audiences to tears as it is to make them bust a gut laughing.
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Native artifacts go digital at UBC

By Jessica Werb
The Museum of Anthropology’s groundbreaking new Internet research hub will link its collection of Pacific Northwest objects with other Pacific Northwest collections in museums around the world.
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Bruce Emmett puts skateboarders in the frame

By John Lucas
On display at the Jeffrey Boone Gallery, the White Rock–based painter’s recent impressionistic portraits depict local skaters, but leave the actual skateboards out of the picture.
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Photographer finds home with Taiwanese squatters

By Robin Laurence
The Treasure Hill Tea + Photo Project documents Wei-Li Yeh's two-month artist residency in a disputed, semi-derelict neighbourhood and the process of establishing an arts centre in the community.
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Artistic postcards from the new Japan

By Janet Smith and Robin Laurence
As part of this weekend's Powell Street Festival, curator Aya Takada has brought in works from the world’s most exciting youth culture, such as manga-influenced illustrations of superbabies and musclebound monsters by Toru Morooka.
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Artistic postcards from the new Japan

By Janet Smith and Robin Laurence
As part of this weekend's Powell Street Festival, curator Aya Takada has brought in works from the world’s most exciting youth culture, such as manga-influenced illustrations of superbabies and musclebound monsters by Toru Morooka.
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Homophobia Kills reveals chronicle of hate

By Jessica Werb
Local artist Mary Taylor has spent thousands of hours researching more than 250 victims of heinous, incomprehensible acts of violence for a searing installation at the Pride in Art Festival.
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Suburbs beckon B.C. arts lovers

By Jessica Werb
Vancouver isn’t the only hot spot this summer. With all of the activity taking place across the region, from North Vancouver’s Party-at-the-Pier to White Rock’s Spirit of the Sea Festival, you're spoilt for choice.
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Playhouse Theatre Company first among equals at 2008 Jessie Awards

By Colin Thomas
At the 26th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, which took place on Monday night at the Commodore Ballroom, the prizes in the large-theatre category were distributed democratically or oddly, depending on your point of view.
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All the city's a stage

By Jessica Werb
There's something for every culture vulture this summer. Take your pick from aerial performers at Dancing on the Edge to operatic virtuosos at Festival Vancouver, or Polynesian hula dancers at All Over the Map.
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Bridges That Unite exhibit reveals hope for developing world

By Jessica Werb
A circle of chairs and a flip chart: are these the key to addressing poverty in the developing world? Absolutely, according to Bridges That Unite, a travelling exhibition at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre until Sunday (June 22), which uses photographs, text, video, and interactive Web-based tools to explore Canada’s role in international development.
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Sleuthing revives lost film of First Nations life by Edward Curtis

By Gudrun Will
Since 1915, nobody has seen the original cut of Edward Curtis’s feature film In the Land of the Head Hunters. Shot on the Pacific Northwest coast in the early 20th century by the famous “Indian” photographer, it starred Kwakwaka’wakw actors in a fictional take on precontact life.
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Ambition lives in Townsville

By Kathleen Oliver
The characters in Anita Rochon's play, part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, are paralyzed by apathy, which she uses to simultaneously mock the creative impulse and celebrate its redemptive power.
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Romeo and Juliet meet again in the Downtown Eastside streets

By Colin Thomas
The actors in A Downtown Eastside Romeo and Juliet are clearly learning a lot from their director, Gina Bastone, who is one of Vancouver’s favourite clowns.
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Earth Day: It’s easy celebrating green

By Jessica Werb
Starving polar bears, fatal hurricanes, droughts: the news about climate change is rarely uplifting. Even the most dedicated crusader runs the risk of fatigue when faced with the task of trying to do right by our planet.
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State of the Arts

By Brian Lynch and Jessica Werb
Three leading figures in the arts community give their views on a city at a cultural crossroads.
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State of the Arts

By Brian Lynch and Jessica Werb
Three leading figures in the arts community give their views on a city at a cultural crossroads.
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Spring Arts picks: Peter Pan, air guitar, and an avant-garde evening of sex toys

By Janet Smith
Critics' Picks
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Kiran Ahluwalia celebrates poetry and passion

By Tony Montague
Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia wants her husband, Rez Abbasi, to get his artistic due. After last year’s release of her third album, Wanderlust, the media focused almost exclusively on the more exotic new elements in the music, such as the use of Portuguese fado musicians on three tracks and the trancelike Saharan groove of “Teray Darsan”. But they overlooked the contribution of her guitarist spouse, whose influence on the recording is everywhere.
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Josh Epstein's songs from the edge

By Colin Thomas
Josh Epstein is a rising musical-comedy star, but he won’t perform in his latest project, Edges: A Song Cycle. Instead, he’s producing it, and he says it’s the scariest career move he has ever made.
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Songs from the edge

By Colin Thomas
The Chutzpah! Festival opens up the Facebook generation’s anxious heart with Edges: A Song Cycle
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Ballet B.C's John Alleyne reboots the soul with The Four Seasons

By Janet Smith
John Alleyne hadn’t taken a vacation in four years, but that wasn’t the only reason he found himself stuck in a hole of deep emotional darkness last year. Aside from the daily pressures of keeping a major arts organization relevant in a world of funding constraints and attention-challenged audiences, he’d recently lost both of his parents.
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