Noche de rábanos: Digging to the root of Oaxaca’s Christmas radish festival
Ever heard of radishes the weight and size of a watermelon? In one Mexican city, carving them is a holiday tradition.
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.
A Grinch’s survival guide for holiday haters
What if it just ISN’T the most wonderful time of the year?
#Attawapiskat housing crisis heats up, from Parliament Hill to Twitter
While B.C. indigenous leaders protest in Ottawa, applauding Attawapiskat chief, Vancouver ‘twittivists’ took the Native housing fight online.
Pecha Kucha a simmering saucepan of food, art and ideas
A chocolate train station. A feared food critic. A guerrilla gastronomer. Pecha Kucha Volume 19 straddled the worlds of design, eating and art.
#VanElxn: Confronting Vision’s ‘Creative City’: Evictions, gentrification, developers
The Left Coast Post looks beyond the election: can you back Vision Vancouver and not back gentrification?
Political hip-hop parlays on the election battle
Hip-hop isn’t your usual electoral terrain, but this week we parlayed with three rappers who want to get out the vote
Occupy Vancouver: Geography of a ‘modern agora’
It’s been exactly a month since Occupy Vancouver began. With the city heading to court tomorrow hoping to evict the campers, we map out what occupiers have built in a month
Passive negligence of the arts no longer an option, says Vision Vancouver
Party has renewed its promise to create new artists’ spaces and ease bylaw and zoning rules. But with costs rising, will it make a difference for artists?
Xposed
After a five-month hiatus, Fag Fridays packed its new venue, The Helm, on Fri, Oct 7. DJ Adam Dreaddy kept the energy high and the crowd moving, including one dancer who was literally swinging from the rafters only metres from the turntables
Georgia Straight: Genie-winner Velcrow Ripper at VIFF
Award-winning director Velcrow Ripper’s new film premiered this week at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
David P Ball 