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City Hires Artists for Graffiti Mural Projects Around Town
A few years ago, seeing someone spray-painting in a back alley would have drawn dirty stares if anyone bothered batting an eye at all.
But that was...
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cosmo_girl |
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A glimpse of Hope in the Downtown Eastside...
I ve been following the Hope in Shadows Project for more than a month now, and I ve been truly touched by the stories that have been shared ...
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dan-froidevaux |
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Evergreen Summer Arts Camp video
A musical introduction to a week of arts and drama with children and youth, at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam....
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jediyves |
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Mad Pride: What Does it All Mean?
Madness is celebrated right here in Vancouver at our very own, Gallery Gachet. But what is mad? And how can doing art help you if you are a little cuc...
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fitzy |
active:3 hours 38 min ago |
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VAG Set to 'Sport' a New Locale
Six months after going public with plans to relocate to the former bus-depot site behind the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the Vancouver Art Gallery has be...
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hippe_gal |
active:18 hours 24 min ago |
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Need Wood? Fallen city trees to get new life
Every year the City of Vancouver cuts up hundreds of trees for firewood or feeds them into a wood chipper -- much of it exotic hardwood that is keenly...
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Nag_Champa |
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Final two Bill Reid art pieces have been recovered
VANCOUVER -- Investigators have recovered the final two Bill Reid artworks stolen from the UBC Museum of Anthropology back in May.
Police say recen...
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MintyPop |
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Art Society Proposes Gastown Drive In Theatre
Downtown parkades at non-peak hours can be lonely and dismal places.
Now a new non-profit society wants to transform one of those parkades into a p...
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politix_pete |
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Police on lookout for B.C. tagger
Look out Canada, there's a dangerous man on the loose, considered to be armed and devious. It's great to live in a country where the police have noth...
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Nag_Champa |
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BRAVE ART: from the streets to the galleries
BRAVE ART features contemporary street art from paintings to skateboards and gives the stuffy art scene a new wave of energy...
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Kristin |
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ART WINS! Why cocaine lost out last Saturday night.
The creators of the Cheaper Show are sure your dollars are better spent on art than drugs. Find out why almost 3000 people agreed. They braved 3 hour ...
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dan-froidevaux |
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$50K Reward for Stolen Haida Art
The University of B.C. is offering $50,000 for the safe recovery of 12 pieces by famed Haida artist Bill Reid stolen this weekend from the Museum of A...
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hippe_gal |
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Vancouver Artist Wraps Herself in Art
Many of us live out our defining stories without being able to articulate them. That's why we look to artists: to conjure meaning out of raw experie...
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hippe_gal |
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Brazen thieves steal Bill Reid art worth millions from UBC Museum of Anthropology
Heist of gold objects occurred late Friday, early Saturday. Thieves have taken art worth millions from the Bill Reid Collection at the University of ...
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travelbug |
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Stone Songs: A Collaboration
This piece follows two artists, Suzanne Northcott and Betty Spackman, over a period of 4 months as they collaborate to produce a series of paintings f...
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wendy-bancroft |
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From the Outside In: Butoh Dance
The Kokoro Dance Company makes Wreck Beach and the Downtown Eastside their stage as they perform mesmerizing displays of focus and agility during th...
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E_Morrison |
active:3 days 19 hours ago |
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I Love Horses
At nine years of age, Triana is selling her own artwork to earn money to buy a horse.
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angela-chih |
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Some of Bill Reid's Stolen Pieces Found in Burnaby Home
Some of Haida artist Bill Reid's stolen artwork has been recovered, but police refused to disclose how many pieces were found and what led them to the...
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hippe_gal |
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Giddy-up, pardner, time to head for Calgary, Canada's cultural capital
Anyone who thinks the arrival of an upside- down church from Vancouver will put Calgary on the global cultural stage must believe in miracles.
And ...
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travelbug |
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Bear Repellant Used as Decoy in Art Heist
The thief or thieves who broke into a B.C. museum last week and walked off with $2-million in gold artworks wore gas masks and used bear spray, CBC Ne...
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politix_pete |
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New VAG Exhibit Brings Out Your Inner Cartoon
Of the following, which is least likely to be shown in an art gallery:
- Characters such as Dumbo the Elephant, Akira and Super Mario
- Video ga...
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hippe_gal |
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Vancouver Losing Possibly its Most Unique PIece of Art
From the Vancouver Sun
It was announced today (Monday, June 2) the mischievous outdoor sculpture is heading on a lease to Calgary's Glenbow Museu...
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Shane_B |
active:5 days 16 hours ago |
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Performance on Carrall Street this Tuesday
Art on Carrall - literally about Carrall Street. This is the kind of thing I've been thinking about for years, and now it looks like Althea Thauberger...
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Carrall Street Journal |
active:9 weeks 3 days ago |
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Arts and public need
Heard that Harper made major cuts to arts programs but never really looked into what and why. The Globe and Mail wrote today: .government spokespeo...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
active:10 weeks 4 days ago |
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Visual Art: : Photography by Eydis S. Luna Einarsdottir
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Commercial Drive Live! |
active:34 weeks 17 hours ago |
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Special Event: Eastside Culture Crawl 2007
It's almost time for the 11th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl, and we're participating once again. It's so great to be part of such a huge studio open h...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
active:1 year 4 weeks ago |
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City Strike Grinds On
Carrall Street has been kept relatively clean by volunteers, the United We Can folks, and as a result the whole place doesn't look too bad, or seem to...
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Carrall Street Journal |
active:1 year 9 weeks ago |
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Giuliani, Meet Balthus: Trying to Root Out 'Pornography' [ma.gnolia]
He was in his own affairs inconsistent and hypocritical. As an artist, he was a brilliant, painstaking technician whose strange fairy...
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Creative Reworking of the Old Telus Box
This Telus box near the bus stop on Carrall and Cordova has been a real eyesore and a problem in the area, as in the past it was a place where dealers...
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Carrall Street Journal |
active:1 year 14 weeks ago |
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Electro-Acoustic at ACCESS on Carrall Tonight
Check out the electro-acoustic improv tonight, (Thursday July 26th) at ACCESS artist run centre on 206 Carrall Street. featuringATTN: DIAMOND SHOPPE...
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Carrall Street Journal |
active:1 year 18 weeks ago |
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What's Happening in Vancouver?
Wondering what to do this weekend? Check out VanCal, a great new site from the prolific Rosie!Check out her new listing of free and near-free Vancouve...
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Carrall Street Journal |
active:1 year 19 weeks ago |
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Special Event: Artful Sundays at Brit
Now in its 3rd year, Artful Sundays is an outdoor, multimedia, visul arts market, through the Britannia Community Centre in Napier Square (Napier at C...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
active:1 year 20 weeks ago |
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1067: Vancouver Underground Jazz Spot (on Granville)
It's been a while since a culture-related or Vancouver-related post so I thought I'd muse a little about 1067 . 1067, prosaically named after its...
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Funcouver |
active:1 year 25 weeks ago |
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Arcade Fire Live Video from Sasquatch Music Festival 2007, Gorge Amphitheatre
As promised, I will slowly leak videos and photos that my friends and I took at Sasquatch a week ago (May 26-27, 2007). Here's the first installment -...
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Funcouver |
active:1 year 25 weeks ago |
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2007 Sasquatch Festival @ the Gorge Amphitheatre, WA - Day 1 (Saturday). Manu Chao, Arcade Fire, Bjork
[PHOTOS/VIDEOS to follow]As promised, here is a breakdown of the recent festival roadtrip from Vancouver to The Gorge in Washington State. It was a gr...
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Funcouver |
active:1 year 26 weeks ago |
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Another Great Clip from Manu Chao Concert in Vancouver
I found another video clip from the Manu Chao concert I went to [my earlier video and clip can be found right here]. This one is from someone on YouTu...
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Funcouver |
active:1 year 26 weeks ago |
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Behind the Pennsylvania Hotel
Construction and restoration are going on inside the Pennsylvania Hotel right now. A worker in the alley behind the hotelJust across from the action,...
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Carrall Street Journal |
active:1 year 38 weeks ago |
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Sharing or Silos?
When it comes to events and public programs on Carrall Street, the diverse communities linked by the new greenway will have a bit of a challenge. Do t...
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Carrall Street Journal |
active:1 year 39 weeks ago |
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