3 Poems by Harrison Wade
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A series of three poems by Harrison Wade, including: September 1 for Sarah, And then One Day we Stopped, and Old Leo Tolstoy’s Picture. Featuring an illustration by Pamella (Olive) Pinard.
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In Place, Make Space: Home is An Ever-Shifting Place
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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.
Read MoreVancouver International Women in Film Festival Review: Esther and Sai Tells the Story of Immigration and Homesickness Through Food
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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.
Read Moremanchester by Tasheal Gill
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i saw manchester when i closed my eyes: velvet sofas, drowning bluffs, a sunset clouded by emotions.
i’m no stranger to stumbling down unfamiliar streets and daydreaming at midnight. it’s become a haven.
at 16, i was all knowing, no worship.
i studied god at the bottom of my glass and said my prayers between each panting breath. maybe i look back too often, i’m not sure.
Read MoreARTIVISM: A Photo Series of Queering the Arts
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It’s often hard to see formal institutions like universities as places that could hold space for the celebration of Queer and BIPOC arts. But even within these institutions, we can see a shining shift towards highlighting voices of underrepresented groups.
The UBC club Exposure intends to do just that. The student-led organization looks to build a conscious, creative community and accomplished exactly that through a month-long event called ARTIVISM: Queering the Self.
This series, directed by Bianca Santana, was a festival of creative resistance that explored ways of being in the digital era. Through student performances, webinars, parties, art exhibitions, drag shows and more, ARTIVISM showcased diverse activist art practices and dialogue
Read MoreCosmic Forecast March 2022
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March is a bridge month. We end the astrological year in Pisces and transition to Aries on the Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara. Pisces is the elder of the zodiac while Aries is the newborn. March is the place where these two touch and intermingle, inviting us to experience the wisdom of old age right alongside a sense of childhood wonder.
Read MoreThe Golden Section challenges the conventions of hair
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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.
Read MoreAshnola’s Granular Ice - A Photo Series
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Ashnola’s Granular Ice (2021) by Esteban Pérez is a sound composition based on photographs used as scores. The work attempts to interpret images of complex soundwaves present in an ice layer into a sound piece
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