Contests

Garden Plots – Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens By Shelley Boyd “A path-breaking study of the domestic garden in Canadian literature.”   Canadian literature

Spirits are lifted, hearts are mended, and love is sought and won at the What You Will Hotel and Spa. It’s 1913 and in the pampered

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (Hosted by Sara Bynoe): John Hughes’ film about a “righteous dude” (Matthew Broderick) whose determination to have a day off from school

This June, the Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) presents its anticipated SONGFIRE Festival, a month-long celebration of the wondrous pairing of poetry and song, highlighting

OLD BOY (Hosted by Jacques Lalonde): Park Chan-Wook’s 2004 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner OLDBOY is a thrilling story of an average man who is

The Eli Young Band—four musicians who met during their college days in Texas—is now 11 years into a career built on touring without a single

Radix Theatre launches their 25th season with the world premiere of Slowpoke from June 11-15, 2013 at The Russian Hall in Vancouver. The powerful work

Co-produced by Astrolabe Musik Theatre and the Britannia Mine Museum, NEWmatica is a riveting, site-specific, and interdisciplinary concert of new music and modern tap dance,

  The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (directed by W.D. Richter and starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Lloyd;

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (directed by Tim Burton and starring Pee-Wee Herman, Phil Hartman) Hosted by Paul Anthony – “When eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen

Photo by Ricardo Trabulsi World-traveling singer Lila Downs dramatically fuses traditional Mexican music with blues, jazz, soul and even klezmer music in her original compositions.

Composer and musician Simon Shaheen has done more for bringing Arab music to the West than anyone else in recent memory. The Call: Songs of