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Living on Shared Territory: The 13th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

September 25, 2016
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The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival has been celebrating Vancouver’s Downtown communities for 13 years now. This year the Festival returns to showcase the rich cultural history of an iconic neighbourhood, on Wednesday, October 26 going all the way

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Win 2 Tickets To A Glam Evening of Networking With Canadian Women in PR at The Pan Pacific!

September 20, 2016September 21, 2016
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Canadian Women in Public Relations (CWPR) has been bringing together leading business women who strive for excellence in the field of public relations at sophisticated soirees on many occasions now. Their initiatives for empowering women in public relations and media

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Fringe 2016 Review: Space Hippo, In The Blue Of Evening and Does Not Play Well With Others

September 18, 2016September 18, 2016
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This batch comprises of the Fringe’s most unusual of offerings. Read on to find out more! Space Hippo You’ve heard the name at the end of every show, on top of every list of Fringe recommendations and be the subject

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Fringe 2016 Review: Curious Contagious

September 16, 2016
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  Usually, Shaily Kamble is The Vancouver Arts Review’s behind the scenes, tech guru, but this week she tried her hand at a theatre review by attending her first ever Fringe Festival. Shaily is a software developer and a visual

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Fringe 2016 Review: Not Enough

September 15, 2016September 15, 2016
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As all Fringe performers will tell you at the end of their show: the best way to promote Fringe shows is by word of mouth. So we searched the far corners of this usually rainy but nowadays, uncharacteristically sunny city

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Fringe Review 2016: Badmatch and Aux.la.more

September 15, 2016
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We are mid-way through the Fringe week and crossing off shows on our list with excited fervour by the day. These one-hour theatre projects are more addictive than salted peanuts. Here are two more shows that wooed us in the last couple

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Fringe 2016 Reviews: Perpetual Wednesday, Happiness, and The Lion, The Bitch & The Wardrobe

September 13, 2016September 13, 2016
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Lovers of theatre, the arts, silliness, and just downright weirdness, rejoice for the Fringe Festival is back in Vancouver for its 32nd season! And what a season it is. With over a 100 shows staged across Granville Island and East

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