Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Stevie Thomas

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Stevie Thomas

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Megan Bridge

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Megan Bridge

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

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In Place, Make Space: Home is An Ever-Shifting Place

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In Place, Make Space: Home is An Ever-Shifting Place

What happens when home strays from the concept we learned and imagined as children? Local artists Amelia Earhart and Elena Imari Hoh explore this question and the ways that a seemingly simple concept, “home,” is complicated and distorted for mixed children of diaspora. Yet, their recent exhibition, In Place, Make Space, at Slice of Life offers home as something we find and embrace in memories, connections with people, and even foreign places; they celebrate home through the intangible and as something we actively form, rather than something we can lose.

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Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Review: Esther and Sai Tells the Story of Immigration and Homesickness Through Food

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Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Review: Esther and Sai Tells the Story of Immigration and Homesickness Through Food

Esther and Sai presents an unlikely antagonist for a film: mac and cheese. Yet, in a short film about the discomfort, loneliness, and homesickness of migrating to a new country, mac and cheese is actually a perfect analogy of the unfamiliarity of North American foods—and attitudes—to newcomers.

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The Golden Section challenges the conventions of hair

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The Golden Section challenges the conventions of hair

Around 2020, I moved to a new apartment far away from my local hair store, into a new neighbourhood with no Black hair stores nearby. As I searched for adequate hair supplies for my fro’, I was led to online shopping. In this pursuit, I found a Black hair store in Alberta that had everything I needed: wigs, weaves, and hair masks of all kinds. Upon receiving my goods, within the crammed packages of hair, there was a skin lightening soap bar. I quickly threw the soapbox away.

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How Indigenous Artists and Knowledge Keepers are using lens-based media to navigate conversations of care and action

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How Indigenous Artists and Knowledge Keepers are using lens-based media to navigate conversations of care and action

In a time of climate disasters, humanitarian crises, racial injustices, reconciliation failures, economic downturn, and political theatre, Response: Soft Action asks us to pause and reflect on conversations about care, ideas of home, explorations of identity and belonging, and how that can translate into action/activism.

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