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Pippa Mackie’s “Hurricane Mona” Counters Climate Anxiety with Radical Humor

November 29, 2023
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Award-winning playwright Pippa Mackie has arrived at The Cultch’s Historic Theater with a brand new production titled “Hurricane Mona”. The play uses elements of drama and absurd humor mixed in with some real climate talk and ecological emotions. Aiding her

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talks About Film, Genre, Writing, and her New Novel, “Silver Nitrate”

October 21, 2023
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With her ninth novel, “Silver Nitrate,” Silvia Moreno-Garcia has cemented her reputation as one of the most prolific contemporary novelists of our time. The novel follows lifelong friends, Montserrat and Tristán. The duo finds themselves confronted by Nazi occultism worked

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Kevin Chong’s Students Ask the Writer About his Giller Prize Shortlisted Novel “The Double Life of Benson Yu”

October 17, 2023October 17, 2023
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In his latest novel, “The Double Life of Benson Yu,” Vancouver writer, Kevin Chong, uses deeply inventive narrative methods to understand the stories we tell ourselves to process trauma. As a young boy growing up in 1980s Chinatown, Benson finds himself all alone after

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VIFF 2023: Sculpting the Giant

October 13, 2023
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“Sculpting the Giant ” documents the 28-year long process of Indonesian sculptor Nyoman Nuarta’s dream of completing the Garuda Wisnu Kencana (aka GWK), a 122-meter tall statue in Bali, Indonesia.  Originally hired to document the statue’s construction for archival purposes,

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VIFF 2023: I Used to be Funny

October 13, 2023
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Trigger Warning: This review mentions a person’s experience with PTSD as a result of sexual assault.  “I Used to be Funny” follows Sam Cowell (played by Rachel Sennott), a comedian in Toronto who balances her income as an au pair

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VIFF Live: 32 Sounds

October 13, 2023
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The 2023 Edition of Vancouver International Film Festival ran from September 28 to October 8. VIFF Live was a series of events curated to platform artists who sought to expand beyond the cinematic experience. The most anticipated event of this

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VIFF Live: Machine Folklore Fails to Impress

October 13, 2023October 13, 2023
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The 2023 Edition of Vancouver International Film Festival ran from September 28 to October 8. VIFF Live was a series of events curated to platform artists who sought to expand beyond the cinematic experience.  The first event at VIFF Live,

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