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SHOWSTORM: An interview with Etchos

Noeka Nimmervoll August 6, 2025

On August 6, Vancouver-based Filipino artist Etchos will debut SHOWSTORM at the Vancouver Black Library, accompanied by Couch Jams. The project is a live multimedia performance of Etchos’ new extended play (EP), performed alongside a screening of an original four-episode miniseries. SHOWSTORM is a crowdfunded project centering themes of immigration, growth, and survival, from a passionate artist sharing her journey and growth with people in hopes that it speaks to them too. This event and the series are set to be vibrant experiences full of memories — ones to be remembered, and ones to be made. The Peak sat down…

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SFU artists bend reality in Report on the Thing exhibit

Katie Walkley July 24, 2025

From July 3–26, the Audain Gallery is displaying six SFU artists’ works inspired by Clarice Lispector’s short postmodern text, Report on the Thing (1974). Her story questions the way we define categories and split things that are part of a…

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Two Black femme-presenting people are crouched in what looks like a grassy front yard, with only their backsides visible. Both have dynamic disco-esque outfits on, one with hair rollers holding up their hair, and the other with a top knot and traditional hat.
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Photography exhibition tour challenges the colonial gaze

Nercya Kalino February 27, 2023

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic is The Polygon Gallery’s latest exhibit, from February 24 to May 14. It’s part of an ongoing photography exhibition tour curated by SFU Masters alum and curator Elliott Ramsey, whose non-binary and…

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Unraveling stories of “dreamers and changemakers” at the Xicanx exhibition

Pranjali J Mann and Yelin Gemma Lee June 27, 2022

Content warning: mentions of racialized violence against Latinx folks, El Paso mass shooting, undocumented status, systemic racism  The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) on the UBC Vancouver campus displays art as a powerful form of activism and sociopolitical critique. The Xicanx:…

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Talking Stick Festival invites you to learn from Turtle Island’s groundbreaking artists

Sara Wong June 20, 2022

Talking Stick Festival (TSF) is about Indigenous artists coming together to present their work as a community.  Since the TSF’s introduction 21 years ago, it has been known as “North America’s premier Indigenous arts and culture festival.”  This year’s TSF…

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Need to Know, Need to Go: June 12–18

Yelin Gemma Lee June 13, 2022

Summer Repertory Festival / Ensemble Theatre Company From June 15–July 2, come enjoy Ensemble Theatre Company’s (ETC) Summer Repertory Festival on Granville Island! They feature two thrilling productions: Marjorie Prime and Pass Over. Marjorie Prime follows an 85 year old…

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