Arts

Challenging audiences with relevant issues, the Great Works Theatre Festival features two plays presented in collaboration through Puente Theatre and Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre that will be performed at the Belfry Theatre. The plays on offer are a modern retelling of Blood Wedding, originally by Federico Garcia Lorca, and a classic rendition of David Hirson’s […]

Völur/Cares Breathless Spirit (Batke Records) 4.5/5 Close your eyes and let Toronto-based experimental doom metal band Völur and solo sound artist Cares take you on a fantastic adventure with collaborative effort Breathless Spirit.  The album is musical storytelling at its best—most of the narrative beats are told with carefully crafted classical and metal. Listening to […]

Allo Darlin’ Bright Nights (Slumberland Records) 2/5 On a warm, windy afternoon in 2012 I lay on unattended grass listening to acoustic Jens Lekman and Cat Power, determining my 10-year plan. It was this young woman who believed sporting a carefully teased bob as a career-barista would be most fulfilling. By now, then, I’d be […]

The Royal BC Museum’s Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change exhibit centres on protest music throughout the decades, boasting a wide range of paraphernalia—from Neil Young’s harmonica to the jacket of Public Enemy’s Chuck D. The goal of the exhibit is to illustrate how music functions as a catalyst for social change and […]