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4 weeks ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |Charlie Smith

When multimedia artist, ethonobotanist, and educator T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss was in her late 20s, she struggled to find local Indigenous people represented in Vancouver’s cultural landscape. She is a Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó꞉lō, Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiian), Irish-Métis, and Swiss curator, as well as a wool and cedar root weaver, beekeeper, and new media artist. “I would hear people say, ‘Oh, is your art Haida?’ ” Wyss recalls in a phone interview with Pancouver.

1 month ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |David Suzuki

Pancouver primarily focuses on underrepresented artists. However, it also publishes a column by David Suzuki to advance education about critical issues, including this one about the importance of casting a vote. It’s election time in Canada. All elections are important, but the April 28 election comes at a critical time.

1 month ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |Charlie Smith

Anyone who has spent time in India during Holi has witnessed or experienced being splashed with a kaleidoscope of colours. In this spring festival, people of all ages celebrate the victory of goodness over evil. Part of the fun involves pasting one another with brilliant powders known as gulal or abir, which are often mixed with water. It’s joyous and visually psychedelic.

1 month ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |Charlie Smith

In a world rife with religious communalism and racial silos, Indian classical dancer and choreographer Gaurav Bhatti wants to remind us of our common humanity. In his new full-length Kathak dance piece, Bulleh Shah: Seeker of Light, he draws inspiration from an 18th-century Sufi poet from Punjab. In 1680, Bulleh Shah was born as Sayyid Abdullāh Shāh Qādrī in what is now Pakistan’s province of Punjab. He gained fame as the “Poet of the People” for speaking out against powerful institutions.

1 month ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |Charlie Smith

A former long-time resident Vancouver will launch her debut novel on UBC’s Point Grey campus. Diasporic writer Otoniya J. Okot Bitek begins We, the Kindling with three friends in their late 20s—Miriam, Helen, and Maggie—whose childhoods were torn asunder in northern Uganda. The trio managed to survive being held by the Lord’s Resistance Army, whose internationally notorious leader, Josephy Kony, recruited child soldiers.