Features
To Sing Over the Silencing
“It is a vibrant, caring, and tight-knit community. This is the story of resilience told in 100 Block Rock.” “Each of us has been given…
Downtown Eastside
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Nardwuar The Human Serviette Presents… 04 December 2020 Broadcast Preview
Whoa Dad! It’s a three hour NARDstravaganza featuring Aquakultre (Halifax), Intelligence Service (Vancouver), Itchy Self (Montreal), Jiffy Marx (Vancouver), King Khan (Berlin), Hanna Lev (London),…
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Bepi Crespan Presents… 24 November 2020 Broadcast Preview
CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tuesday morning’s show features…
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Nardwuar The Human Serviette Presents… 20 November 2020 Broadcast Preview
Whoa Dad! It’s a three hour NARDstravaganza featuring Cribs (UK), Les Chouettes (Montreal), Mahones (Kingston), Evan Shay (Montreal), Suitesixteen (Victoria), plus new local music from…
Features
12th Annual Oppenheimer Park Art Show
I was greeted by a sculpture of a miniature baby man with a fashionable baby pink headband and what looks (to me) like a lucha…
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Hexistential Festival’s Elusive Backstory
Looking at Hexistential’s website, it’s pretty hard to find much information on the festival other than this year’s line-up and where to get tickets. But…
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Reverse-Gentrifying the Neighbourhood: Red Gate Relocates To Main Street
Vancouver’s iconic Red Gate lives to see another day – signing the lease on an “essentially perfect” Main Street location!
Under Review
DOXA 2018: The Rankin File
Sitting on a stool against a black backdrop on the eve of the 1986 mayoral election, a calm and confident Harry Rankin looks into the camera: “I don’t have any doubts of what I’m doing, I don’t have any doubts that the direction I’m taking is correct, I don’t have any doubts about how I could win an election if I set out to do it, and I don’t have any doubts of how I intend to win an election if I’m going to win it.”
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Super Cool Tuesdays
“Look, people in the Downtown Eastside can enjoy the arts and I think that more people should try and bring it into the community.”
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Gentricide
“The term gentricide is impossible to tether to a single definition, a single cause, or a single consequence…”