‘Beat Nation’ Brings Skateboard and Hip Hop Culture to the Vancouver Art Gallery
Beat Nation is an exhibition of 27 aboriginal artists from every region of North America.
Tag Archives: Arts & Culture
In more than a decade of reporting, I have written about and photographed numerous arts and cultural events, festivals and personalities.
From music, film and gallery features, to artist profiles, and textile fibre and fashion showcases, my work has been published in the Georgia Straight, Xtra, THIS Magazine, The Tyee, Windspeaker, Vancouver Observer, and Gulf Islands Driftwood.
Below are some samples from my arts and culture portfolio.
Memory engineering pioneer Elizabeth Loftus charts course for Inception-style mind control
After 44 years of ground-breaking research on how human memory works, inception is precisely the area that memory expert Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is pioneering today.
Vancouver’s arts and culture bleeding out in “steady migration”, warn city creatives
Underneath the vibrant, diverse surface of a thriving arts and culture scene, Vancouver faces a loss of its brightest painters, dancers, designers, makers and performers to greener pastures. VO investigates how rising real estate prices are crunching our city’s artists.
Top 8 Vancouver Day Trips: Shopping Trip in Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia offers travellers and vacationers great shopping opportunities, from book stores and tea shops, to ancient rainforest within an hour’s drive of the city limits.
National Geographic explorer Wade Davis on Enbridge, First Nations and mining
Speaking out on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and mining near his home, the author of Sacred Headwaters spoke with VO on nature, industry and First Nations.
Vancouver writer and former revolutionary Carmen Aguirre wins CBC Canada Reads prize
Acclaimed Vancouver playwright – and former Chilean revolutionary – Carmen Aguirre was awarded the CBC Canada Reads prize, only a week after being called a “terrorist” for her book, Something Fierce.
Snowboarding and skiing on the North Shore a thrilling Vancouver nightlife experience
West Vancouver’s Cypress mountain shimmers on the horizon nightly, offering one thing Whistler doesn’t: late hours and excellent night skiing and boarding.
Chinese New Year: food shopping in Chinatown’s most popular grocery store
The lunar new year on Monday saw thousands of Vancouverites welcoming the Year of the Dragon, but today Chinatown has settled down.
Stevie Cameron on the high stakes in Missing Women Inquiry’s final round
Much is riding on the The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. Reputations. Money. Possibly even careers. Award-winning author Stevie Cameron discusses the proceedings.
Feist, Bon Iver, Radiohead: Best indie albums of 2011
Like “alternative” in the 90s, “indie” is an ill-defined genre overall, but one with a thriving Vancouver scene. VO reviews some of the best albums of the year.
David P Ball 