Firehall Arts Centre
Yellow Fever brings old school detective films back to Firehall Arts Centre
June 13, 2022By: Kelly Chia, Humour Editor Content warning: anti-Asian racism Yellow Fever is Firehall Arts Centre’s dedication to the film noir era and Japanese Canadian experiences on Powell Street. It stars Hiro Kanagawa as the cynical but charming private eye, Sam Shikaze, investigating the disappearance of the Cherry Blossom Queen. Narrating the story, Shikaze contends with racism post-World War II. The play stayed generally true to the original version written by playwright Rick Shiomi but deviated in the beginning, connecting racism facing Asian Canadians then and now. Set in the 1970s, director Donna Spencer writes in the program that this play was…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May 28–June 12
May 23, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Arts & Culture Editor Yellow Fever — A Powell St. Mystery Closing off Asian Heritage Month with a bang, Firehall Arts Centre hosts a radio play production of the “award-winning comic mystery” Yellow Fever by…
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Frank Warren wants to know, what’s your secret?
January 26, 2015Everyone has secrets, and millions have felt compelled to write one of their own on a homemade postcard and anonymously send it to Frank Warren. Warren is the founder of PostSecret, a hugely successful blog that began as a community…
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Kayak is political and personal
January 14, 2015Some people are so insufferably righteous that you can’t stand them. You know the type: in a way you admire them, but those feelings are quickly overcome with the urge to slap them in their fair-trade-buying, bicycle-riding, self-satisfied faces. That’s…
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Denise Clarke presents a new solo show
October 30, 2014Denise Clarke is an accomplished, respected contemporary dance artist who is a member of the Order of Canada. Over the course of her career she has been involved in all kinds of productions, but this show is personal. Clarke entered…
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