Dorothy Woodend

Vancouver

Culture Editor at The Tyee

Culture Editor for The Tyee

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Articles

An Action Movie? In This Political Climate?

6 days ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

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An Action Movie? In This Political Climate?

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Dorothy Woodend

12 hours agoMax Just Quietly Added the Most Terrifying Experimental Sci-Fi Movie Of The Decade2073 blends contemporary footage with a dystopian narrative to tell a harrowing cautionary tale. Asif Kapadia's 2073 received little attention when it …5 hours agoMan Who Beat and Killed Minor, 16, Sent Mom Pics as he Tortured the Girl for a Week Before Her Death.
In Rural Canada, CBC Brought Us the World

1 week ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

If you grew up in rural Canada, you’re probably very familiar with the CBC. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Recharge Your Passion for Climate Crisis Action Join ’Cúagilákv Jess Housty and John Vaillant for a Climate Readers’ Retreat on Cortes Island. Get Ready! DOXA Returns This SpringThe documentary film fest shines on with movies that make sense of the moment.
The Time Is Now for Canadian Film. Six Movies Light the Way

1 week ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

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Is There Hope for America? Heather Cox Richardson Thinks So

2 weeks ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

Since 2019, American historian and author Heather Cox Richardson has written almost daily essays about the state of the U.S. Her newsletter, Letters from an American, has grown into a grassroots phenomenon. More than 1.5 million readers are turning to Richardson to make sense of an increasingly chaotic, uncertain world.
Four Films to Help the World Make Sense

3 weeks ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

I used to joke with a friend of mine that whenever a given subject would come up, we would answer in unison, “Oh yes, I saw a documentary about that.” Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners The Tyee is Hiring a Director of Operations Come join our growing non-profit newsroom. Apply by April 12 We had both spent years in the non-fiction trenches programming documentaries for film festivals.
Beauty, Wonder and Hope: Belle Spirale Rocks the Vancouver Dance Fest

1 month ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

How to translate the abstract into the real is rarely a straightforward process, no matter the creative discipline. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners See Judy Collins Live in Concert The folk music legend visits the Massey Theatre for a special evening of song on March 30. This is particularly evident in contemporary dance. Without the explanatory scaffolding of words and images, how does dance communicate weighty issues like climate change?
‘There Is an Urgency to These Conversations’

1 month ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

Elizabeth Sankey’s documentary Witches was not what I expected. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners See Judy Collins Live in Concert The folk music legend visits the Massey Theatre for a special evening of song on March 30. From the title and the U.K. filmmaker’s previous work like her 2019 documentary Romantic Comedy, I thought Witches would be a film essay that tackled an aspect of popular culture with Sankey’s trademark wit and humour.
Witness the Energy, Wit and Beauty of Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s Art

1 month ago | thetyee.ca | Dorothy Woodend

On three counts I am an outsider: in matters of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the sense of not having become the sort of respectably married professional my parents might have hoped for... Such a position gives me a feeling of having very little to lose. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners See Judy Collins Live in Concert The folk music legend visits the Massey Theatre for a special evening of song on March 30.
The Pleasures of Piloting a Ferry in Vancouver’s False Creek

1 month ago | montecristomagazine.com | Andrew Fleming |Dorothy Woodend

People regularly tell me I have the best job in the world. Presumably bus drivers don’t often hear this, even though the gig is essentially the same—moving passengers safely from one place to another. But I have an advantage: the transportation I provide is via water. And there are days, when I have the boat to myself and the wind in my hair sailing toward a spectacular sunset, when I have to agree.