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inReview: Identity – Ancestral Memory

Structured as a tribute to the multimedia artist Roy Kiyooka (1926-1994), a man who fearlessly re-created his world through the honesty of his imagination, Identity pays homage to Kiyooka most obviously through its largesse, its richness of visuals, sounds and movements.

Identity – Ancestral Memory

Identity — Ancestral Memory, a work by Yayoi Theatre Movement, celebrates the life and poetry of Roy Kiyooka. A fusion of two dance forms,...

A Dream of Cranes

On March 12, one day after the devastating earthquake, I had a dream-—a dream of thousands of different coloured origami cranes floating and gently...

Ganbare Japan! a benefit concert for Japan

The concert will kick off with internationally-acclaimed pianist and Vancouver native Jon Kimura Parker who returns to Vancouver for this special engagement. Together with over forty members of the Grammy award-winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, he will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 27, K.595. Rounding out the first half of the show will be three member of Vancouver Opera–Erin Wall, David Pomeroy and Kinza Tyrrell–who are guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of our necks with a selection from La Traviata.

Taikotroniks – Beyond Taiko

Amidst the pulsing rhythms of the drums at Taikotroniks, you might be surprised to also find a generous helping of blips, whirs, and other...

Remembering Kobe

A woman ran up the stairs, I live on the second floor, screaming, “Please help me!” She was out-of-control, so I had to shake her to get her into some sense of reality. I brought her into my apartment in the doorway, wrapped my arms around her telling her, “Gambatte.” She was delivering the early morning paper and had left her children alone at home. Then when the shaking stopped, we went outside, it was pitch black.