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SHOWSTORM: An interview with Etchos
August 6, 2025By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer 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…
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SFU artists bend reality in Report on the Thing exhibit
July 24, 2025By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate 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…
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Photography exhibition tour challenges the colonial gaze
February 27, 2023By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer 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…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: Black Edition
July 17, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Arts & Culture Editor The Black and African community are coming out to connect and play this summer with these amazing summer festivals. With so much going on this summer, there is surely something for every…
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Unraveling stories of “dreamers and changemakers” at the Xicanx exhibition
June 27, 2022By: Pranjali J Mann, Staff Writer and Yelin Gemma Lee, Arts & Culture Editor 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…
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Talking Stick Festival invites you to learn from Turtle Island’s groundbreaking artists
June 20, 2022By: Sara Wong, Peak Associate 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…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: June 12–18
June 13, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Arts & Culture Editor 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.…
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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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Need to Know, Need to Go from November 2 to 8
November 3, 2020By: Charlene Aviles, Peak Associate c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | Helping Each Other | ch’áwatway | Museum of Vancouver | September 16 to December 9 | $10 for adults or free for individuals self-identifying as Indigenous The c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | Helping Each Other |…
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