By Rachel Silver Maddock In an age of unending video content through Instagram, TikTok and ever-increasing streaming platforms, F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement) is carving out space for a slower, more refined approach to making film art. The annual international festival commissions youth (ages 15-25) and emerging artists (25+) to make short films over a
By Kristen Lawson Louis Riel was considered a traitor by the Canadian government, which hanged him on November 16, 1885 for his role in the North-West Resistance.Yet he remains a symbol of strength and resilience to the Métis people, who consider him a hero for fighting to protect their lands. Vancouver’s Compaignie V’ni Dansi is
By Barbara Quick The Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina became a writer at the age of 46, when — against all odds as someone who only learned English as an adult — she penned a richly detailed, wonderfully written memoir for the English-speaking world: Theatre Street, first published in London in 1931. I sought out the