Culture Queue provides a monthly overview of the best in arts and culture, so you can mark your calendar before the late-night IKB grinds begin. This edition will focus on the month of September, with events divided into film, visual arts, theatre, music and community.
Osaka holds seven career titles and spent 25 weeks as the No. 1 player in 2019. She’s an absolute beast — but Kat Jayme’s new documentary reveals a different side of the tennis star.
It’s been just over a year since a motion drew upwards of 30 speakers into a Vancouver City Council meeting, where they attempted to capture — in under three minutes each — the conditions forcing arts institutions to close their doors and artists to leave the city at an alarming rate.
Through the story of a girl-turned-fish and her fight against pipeline expansion, author Willie Poll and illustrator Emily Graceanna Pearson inspire young readers to protect the land they live on.
When I first moved to Vancouver, I, alongside a couple thousand other first-year students, filled our group chats with the same question weekend after weekend: what are we doing tonight?
My great-grandmother didn’t care about her macros and still made food my mother extols. Where did the “meal” go?
My seat is rumbling with a low thrum before the film even starts. The chair lurches and tilts along with whatever's happening on screen, so even the Universal logo is accompanied by a mechanical shudder.
I was having the worst migraine of my life, quickly accumulating empty Triptan packaging in the middle of July, and I was going to an outdoor music festival, hoping to see as many bands as my five-hour window would allow.
Mount Pleasant’s City Centre Motor Hotel, now the City Centre Artist Lodge, housed the One More Life Gallery and the fifth annual STICKY show this past weekend. The space was small, and the close-set walls were populated with sticky notes in grid-like patterns, each with unique illustrations.
As the air thickens with heat and once-grey Vancouver blossoms into vibrant greens, it becomes clear that summer is upon us. I love nature as much as the next person, but there is nothing as cathartic as bawling my eyes out in a half-empty theatre in the middle of June.
As people bustled to their seats, music by some of Latin America’s eminent songwriters played softly in the Chan Shun Concert Hall in preparation for musician Natalia Lafourcade’s arrival.
I had never truly seen the inside of The Birdhouse before. I saw the venue in a different light on June 18 at Skátne.
UBC is undeniably one of the most scenic campuses in Canada. As the summer months approach, this picturesque setting is often borrowed by the motion picture industry, being transformed into fictional campuses for films like Fifty Shades of Grey and She’s the Man.
The WISE Hall, an unassuming brown structure in a quiet area of East Van, was the new home of this year’s iteration of a long-standing independent music festival.
On May 28, UBC’s Neville Scarfe Building was brimming with excitement, filled with a crowd of chattering, energetic children.