Arts

For Ballet Victoria (BV) artistic and executive director Paul Destrooper, opening BV’s season with an original interpretation of Frankenstein was a no-brainer.  “This is the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel,” Destrooper explains. “And I think it’s kind of fun that, also, she was the first female writer to start a whole genre with essentially […]

For actress and playwright Nicolle Nattrass, the journey to motherhood was not a simple one. “It was quite a journey,” says Nattrass, “because I always said if I don’t have a child by the time that I’m 40 then that’s okay, because I had lots of kids in my life. You know, ‘happy auntie,’ and […]

Until Saturday, October 27 Get your creep on! The only thing creepier than classic horror movies is classic horror movies in a historical castle. Craigdarroch Castle is launching Classics at Craigdarroch Movie Series on Thursday and Saturday nights at 6 pm throughout October. The movie list includes Dracula, Frankenstein, House on Haunted Hill, and more. […]

Social justice meets opera with Pacific Opera Victoria (POV)’s contemporary production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, which may just challenge your perceptions of the human condition. Bogotá-raised multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Monica Hernandez has joined with director Wim Trompert and designer Nancy Bryant to create an on-set memorial to resistance and freedom fighters that is “extraordinarily expressive,” […]

Since he was a little kid—stumbling over his dad’s old college guitar in the basement and teaching himself to play it with Bob Dylan songbooks—music has played a vital role in Toronto singer/songwriter Ben Kunder’s life.  “We always had music in the house; we had a pretty expansive record collection, and [my dad] always took […]

Portland-based transdisciplinary artist and poet Demian DinéYazhi´ is making a space for queer Indigenous people within the art world, but it’s proving to be a hard task. “I think for a while I had a really difficult time having pride in my identity because it was tied so much to this border town [Gallup, New […]

Slash Living the Dream (Snakepit/Roadrunner records) 4/5 Slash does not need to rely on a reunion with Guns n’ Roses to be one of the best guitarists to ever live; he’s doing just fine on his own. In his third collaboration with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, he proves once again that his rock songs […]