Event Category Archives: Featured Arts Culture

Every Kind of Love

EVERY KIND OF LOVE features performances from students and community artists that are dedicated to discussing and representing queer love, trans love, 2-Spirit love, Black love, Indigenous love, and radical-self love.

Operatic Redress: The Appropriation of Indigenous Song in the Opera Louis Riel

Join Stó:lō scholar Dr. Dylan Robinson as he discusses his collaboration with the National Arts Centre and Canadian Opera Company to commission a new work to replace a misappropriated Nisga’a song in Harry Somers’ Louis Riel. Dr. Robinson will be joined by Ian Cusson, composer of the new aria, “Dodo, mon tout petit.” The talk […]

MenstruART

MenstruART will explore issues in menstrual equity through interactive and performance arts combining creative expression with menstrual act ivism to foster an inclusive and comfortable atmosphere for our community to learn in a unique way. Come learn about menstrual equity through : • Art pieces and installations • Performances • Interactive activity stations (including a […]

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. By Alice Birch.

A non-linear, post-modern, manifesto, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch (2014) reacts ferociously to different aspects of life as a woman: sex, marriage, work, family responsibility etc. Radically critiquing our oppression of the feminine voice and body, each self-contained episode connects thematically, not through tiny steps, but through a rioting race of deconstructing language, symbols and institutions.* […]

Ridge

Through direct storytelling, verbatim theatre, and live music, slam poet and musician Brendan McLeod takes us back to the historic WWI Vimy Ridge battle in a visceral work that honours the memory of Canadian soldiers while taking a searing look at the futility of war. Beyond Words Series