Author: vanlovesart

The world premiere of the documentary Frida Kahlo at VIFF unsurprisingly adds little to the gargantuan body of work on Frida. In fact, the parts that were left out of the documentary become the most revealing elements in a film which otherwise

  The Giller Prize-Winning Writer on Craft, “Reproduction”, Academia, Workshopping, and His Pandemic-Edition Creative Process   I never understood why critics sometimes describe books as “devastating” but after reading Ian William’s “Reproduction,” I get why. The book is, at once,

As the Artistic Director of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), Anoushka Ratnarajah never imagined being faced with a task like this. Now in it’s 32nd year, the Festival has had to reinvent itself in the face of a pandemic

It has been a long time since I read “Romeo and Juliet” or watched the much-loved Claire Danes and Leonardo Dicaprio movie. What I remembered was young romance, two fighting families and distraught, unnecessary deaths. However, we barely needed a

I had no idea what to expect from “Le NoShow Vancouver” right up to the moment it started. I sat in the audience wondering “Is it a comedy? Is it improvised?”, then thought it couldn’t be improvised because there were

At first glance, a theatre show with a secret location may seem like an exclusionary practice rather than a way to build community. However, after descending into the theatre space, and entering the strange, slightly uncomfortable, but always thought-provoking world