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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.
The Psalters: Unsanitary Allegiance
In a Christian music scene dominated by catchy tunes, poppy fluff imitating hit radio, and a cookie-cutter message of personal salvation, the Psalters are something else completely – a ragged band of misfits seeking ways out of what they call “Empire,” comparing today’s economic and political realities with Rome
What in the world is this wanderlust?: Nitpicking the travel bug
BEIRUT, LEBANON – Every year, thousands of Canadian youth travel abroad, many of them immediately before or after college. What is it that drives us middle-class kids overseas?
Dumpster Diving: Garbage Spirituality
A glimpse into the rituals of modern urban hunter-gatherers
Conference reflects on the value of food
Almost 15 per cent of Canadians worry thev will not have enough to eat–what Statistics Canada calls “food insecurity”
Hymn-writers on the road
For some of the modern church’s most prolific songwriters, it is on the emotional level that spiritual music affects us most deeply.
Cookies & free condoms: The other Christians on campus
While many campus Christian groups preach salvation, many chaplaincies attract students also interested in working for social change — what used to be known in Canada as the social gospel
Harry Manx: A cloud ready to rain music
In the quiet moments between songs, the audience sighed almost audibly with wonder at Harry Manx’s unique blend of slide guitar blues and milleniums-old Indian ragas
Festival a feast high in fibre
Tomorrow’s Traditions, a fibre festival organized by the Gulf Islands Spinning Mill to promote natural fleeces, brought out the collective wisdom of the island’s active textile industry, with everything from sheep-dog trials and farm tours to a fashion show and knit-in
Crowe: Rich Performance at ‘second home’ Salt Spring
As Allison Crowe’s riveting Salt Spring performance came to a close last Sunday, there was an almost-tangible feeling that this was something special.
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