Hannah Bellamy
Atwood’s Pauline honours First Nations writer
May 20, 2014Pauline Johnson was a writer who has often been left out of the canon, but as a performer and vocal First Nations woman, she had an exceptional career for her time. Her work returns to the stage in City Opera Vancouver’s Pauline, a chamber opera written by Margaret Atwood and composed by Tobin Stokes. Pauline is set in the last weeks of the writer’s life — she is dying of breast cancer. As she is treated with morphine and obscene early 20th century surgeries, the show moves in and out of her consciousness to examine her life through her dual…
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Play House: celebrating the work of Daniel Evan White
November 4, 2013Play House, the first retrospective of Vancouver-based modernist architect Daniel Evan White, opened this month at the Museum of Vancouver. White designed public buildings, pre-fabricated cabins, modest houses, new housing prototypes, and some of the most unique residences in Vancouver…
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Rainier Provisions provides
March 5, 2013By Hannah Bellamy Image courtesy of Scout Magazine When I paid my first visit to Rainier Provisions, located at the corner of Cordova and Carrall, it had only been open a week and a half. For now the restaurant exclusively…
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Beyond survival
November 13, 2012If Canadian literature is to survive, it needs to develop a strong national presence. By Hannah Bellamy Photos by Connor Stefanison Canadian literature is approached with almost as much diversity as the nation itself. For some, Canadian literature means the…
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