Author: vanlovesart

The 42nd Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) presented a cornucopia of Canadian, Indigenous and International cinema from September 28 to October 8, 2023. The thoughtfully curated list consisting of movies, documentaries, short films and live events had local cinephiles spoiled

Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with Carnegie Community Centre and a number of community partners, the 20th Annual Heart of the City Festival had over 100 projects and events taking place in and around Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighborhood from October

Award-winning playwright Pippa Mackie has arrived at The Cultch’s Historic Theater with a brand new production titled “Hurricane Mona”. The play uses elements of drama and absurd humor mixed in with some real climate talk and ecological emotions. Aiding her

With her ninth novel, “Silver Nitrate,” Silvia Moreno-Garcia has cemented her reputation as one of the most prolific contemporary novelists of our time. The novel follows lifelong friends, Montserrat and Tristán. The duo finds themselves confronted by Nazi occultism worked

In his latest novel, “The Double Life of Benson Yu,” Vancouver writer, Kevin Chong, uses deeply inventive narrative methods to understand the stories we tell ourselves to process trauma. As a young boy growing up in 1980s Chinatown, Benson finds himself all alone after

“Sculpting the Giant ” documents the 28-year long process of Indonesian sculptor Nyoman Nuarta’s dream of completing the Garuda Wisnu Kencana (aka GWK), a 122-meter tall statue in Bali, Indonesia.  Originally hired to document the statue’s construction for archival purposes,

Trigger Warning: This review mentions a person’s experience with PTSD as a result of sexual assault.  “I Used to be Funny” follows Sam Cowell (played by Rachel Sennott), a comedian in Toronto who balances her income as an au pair