Tonight on Are You Aware, host Fleur Cooper interviews Co Founder and Head Farmer Camil Dumont and Co Founder William Valley from Inner City Farms. Listen in from 6:30 p.m. to hear how they are turning residential spaces into thriving farms. You can’t get any more local than that!
Members from the Maker community have come together to form Maker Foundation,a non-profit society aimed at curating Maker events. And now they’re bringing their talents to Vancouver!
This exciting event, which will take place June 1st and 2nd at the the PNE forums, is a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness. They are of Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage thinkers of all ages and backgrounds.
It is a show-and-tell style event which showcases many cool creations from Makers from all over, so make sure to check it out! You’ll be amazed to see the fascinating cool displays that the Makers have in store!
Thousands of vinyl records for sale! Discover treasures and stock up on cheap classics!
Check out the Vinyl Records Fair during the long weekend of may for two days of vinyl-spinning DJs, food. prizes, discounts and great deals on tons of vinyl records.
Featuring a different group of vendors each day – with all new collections, all new deals and all new vinyl records.
All Ages are welcome to join! The event also includes more than 40 Vendors over two days, and features great music by The Knights of the Turntable!
Go to www.VinylRecordFair.com or find them on Facebook for more information.
Next Music From Tokyo is back after sold out shows at the Biltmore cabaret and the Waldorf. The event will be on Wednesday May 22nd at The Rickshaw Theatre 254 Hastings. Advance tickets only 10 dollars at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon, Highlife records or on line www.Ticketweb.ca
The bands always put an excellent and unique show. This edition we are super excited to see Mouse on the Keys and shoegaze band Kinoko Teikoku. Chi-na is coming back by popular demand. Harafromhell which is one of the newest bands in the Japanese scene
Next Music from Tokyo is a non-profit, tour transporting the audience on a virtual trip to a gig in Tokyo’s underground live house scene. Their goal is to curate the best concert the audience has ever seen by featuring Japanese bands that play with a degree of skill, creativity.
Tonight on the Arts Report, Maegan brings you an interview with April Butler and Gillian Hrankowski, directors of the emotionally raw roller coaster ride Father Figures, screening at DOXA Saturday May 11, 7:15 at the VanCity theatre.
Listen to the full interview with April and Gillian.
Then, in a very special treat, the Trokia Collective presents Cherynobyl: The Opera will be live in studio speaking about and PERFORMING this daring production, which takes interviews by resettlers, survivors and heros as it’s script.
Chernobyl: The Opera previewed at Hive 2: the New Bees (Hive 3 coming soon!) where this reporter saw it and was captivated by this odd song cycle.
Performers: singers Jessica Hood, Kevin Lee, Steffi Munshaw, Chu-Lynne Ng, Gina Readman, Manuela Sosa, Benjamin Stone; cellist Clara Shandler; accordionist Elliot Vaughan; Concept and Direction: Aliya Griffin
Then stick around for UBC Arts On Air with Ira Nadel, who talks to Adam Frank about Gertrude Stein. Frank is part of the team behind Radio Free Stein, ep. 1 of which aired last week on Arts Project and occurred at the Western Front, Friday May 3.
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival, sponsored by CiTR, is on now, running May 3-12, 2013.
If you for some crazy reason missed them, you can check out on air reviews of The Horse Palace and Joe Papp in Five Acts at the beginning of the Arts Report April 24, Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children (May 11) on the Arts Report May 1 , and East Hastings Pharmacy on Stranded #105.
And below you’ll find, you lucky duck you, reviews of Occupy: the Movie (pictured) which is powerful and screens May 11; BackBone: Vancouver Experimental Cinema from 1967-1981 which requires a high vocabulary and screens May 12; and Boredom, which screens May 4 but is terrible.
Beginning this Friday May 3rd and continuing on until May 12th, CiTR is proud to sponsor the 12th Annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
It all starts this Friday 7pm at the Playhouse with Occupy the Movie.
For a full schedule, including links to film descriptions, locations, screening times, and more – check out their website.
Make sure to come out and support this wonderful festival, that brings Vancouver some of the best documentaries from around the world, Canada and even some from our own backyard.
Listen to the Arts Report (Wed 5pm) and other programs for reviews and previews.
James Connell attended Ballet BC’s Giselle April 25th at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Gay men cannot fall for women. This is a well known fact, just like all wives are good housekeepers and husbands love football more than opera. Therefore you can imagine the surprise when Albrecht (Connor Gnam), the hero of BC Ballet’s Giselle, turned his attention away from his powerful male lover and towards that awkward portrayal of femininity Giselle (Alexis Fletcher). The opening scene got it right, exploring the raw worship of masculinity as our hero embraces his male lover Hilarion (Gilbert Small), as it ought to be between a man and another man. It did not last long however, for from out of the corps de ballet comes Giselle with all of her disregard for order and her almost pathetically sympathetic nature, who turns the head of our hero and in doing so throws our order into conflict.
Today on the show, reviews DOXA 2013 films Horse Palace and Joe Papp in Five Acts and two in studio guests:
The Vancouver International Burlesque Festival is back May 2-4th, and Tranny Zukko will be on the show to talk about his breakout boylesque career, his troupe Dirty Vanities, and the festival.
Plus, Ines Ortner directs and designs Hamletmachine (April 25-27) for her UBC MFA thesis – the show is free and it is sold out so this is your chance to get a taste of this unique event.
Based on the play by Heiner Muller, Ortner has created a visually arresting interpretation through costuming, using innovative materials and illumination.
[Photos courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/hamletmach]
Arts Reporter Ben Lumley attended Astrolabe Musik Theatre’s Sex Lives of Vegetables on April 20, 2013.
The evening began with Governor General Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier relating how she was inspired to write The Sex Lives of Vegetables. One day as she was baking a sweet potato, the vegetable split, exposing a sensuous orange flesh. After that the poet began probing the sex lives of other vegetables such as cauliflower, tomatoes and carrots (thrusting into, fucking the earth).
VanDusen Gardens was more than an appropriate setting: undulating rooftops and organic looking stained concrete, a spectacle of rolling wooden roof slats leading up to a central round skylight. Small artful bouquets of eggplants and other produce were on display throughout the performance space. Created by Elaine Savoie of Hornby Island, they were bursting with colour and vitality.
The evening’s events began in the foyer, with the audience surrounding a trio of musicians who played in front of the floral arrangement. The first performance was a world premiere of the piece “Eve, to Adam” by Leila Lustig. The mellifluous clarinet of AK Coope filled the large room. Heather Pawsey sang the lyrics which, while in English, were hard to decipher; lyrics in a program would have ensured the poetry wasn’t lost.
After this first piece the concert continued in the “Great Hall.” Though “Great” may be an overstatement, the room made do as a performance space with folding chairs and cables hanging from the ceiling. The room boasted a complete wall of glass overlooking the garden, and provided fine acoustics.
I couldn’t see pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwassa from where I was sitting, but my companion remarked that Iwassa’s fingers were dancing on the keys and it certainly sounded so.
After intermission Crozier read from her book of poetry The Sex Lives of Vegetables. After Crozier read, the musicians performed them to music composed by Leslie Uyeda.
The most successful musical adaptations were the theatrical renditions sang by Heather Pawsey. The music was beautiful throughout, though it was hard to top Corzier’s expressive reading.
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