A&E Reviews

Film

Close to You is a film about transgender adulthood, about the hometown you’ve grown out of, and about the people that grew up without you. Co-...

Parallel Mothers is a Spanish-language drama by famed writer-director Pedro Almodóvar, who continues his streak of engaging female leads with his...

Jan Miller Corran’s film, Along Came Wanda, is about Mary Beth and Wanda, two women with distinctly different personalities. Mary Beth is shown to...

Salt in My Soul documents the life of Mallory Smith, who is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age three. Throughout her 25 years of life, Mallory...

When I was a little girl, I didn’t have a perception of what bodily changes are. I was a skinny, energetic kid who couldn’t care less. One time at...

Music

On the evening of March 6th at the Fox Cabaret Laetitia Sadier presented her recently released album Rooting For Love and some other solo work....

The 1975 have returned once again to embark on a tour of their very best. After releasing their latest record “Being Funny in a Foreign Language...

Del Water Gap are a shining example of the resurgence of glittering indie-pop in the last decade. They are the solo project of Brooklyn singer-...

Eloise is a singer-songwriter from London who writes, in her own words, “miserable songs about love”. Eloise’s...

Post-Punk revivalists Shame released their third album, Food for Worms, in February this year through Dead Oceans records, home to other post-rock...

Dance

The opening night of Ballet BC's "Grace Symmetry" on February 20, 2014 buzzed with first night excitement and anticipation, as two new dance and...

The audiences at the January 30th performance of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Romeo & Juliet, choreographed by Rudi van Dantzig with...

As the lights come up on a threadbare stage,

a wooden chair awaits its dance partner

an upright bass awaits the dance

and a...

Becoming Burlesque is a two-month intensive workshop whereby our newbies go beyond simple striptease and learn the basics: from movement, to...

It makes me want to feel, and move, and stretch. It shows me the richness of being female:  to hold and abandon, to intimidate and lead, to fall...

Theatre

Styled as a club-ready country girl from the early 2000’s, complete with big hair and loud mouth, the charismatic Tabby, played by Emma Slipp,...

What better way to spend the depressing end of Summer than at an improv show on Granville Island?

Running from awning to awning under and...

Literary Arts

It used to be tradition — entire communities coming together and learning from the stories that boasted centuries in age, sometimes millennia....

Way back, when the mullet was KING, teenaged photographer Julian David Stone was documenting the 1980’s Rock scene, by sneaking his camera into...

CJSF sponsors the Verses Festival of Words on now until April 12. Verses celebrates the transformative power of words – written, spoken or sung....

How many dead Elvises does it take to make one good story? Mesopotamia by Arthur Nersesian Reviewed by Gerilee McBride is available through...

Visual Arts

She fills up the room completly just with her presence, it is almost magical : Alanis Obomsawin.

I was really impressed when I saw her for...

Nestled within Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden, Paul Wong's Suk-Fong Nay Ho Mah (2019) immediately exudes a warm intimacy. The exhibition's opening on...

What do you get when you take a clown away from the circus? That seems to be the question that Camille Boitel wanted to pose, if not to answer...

International is supposed to be a key word here. Unfortunately, the festival lacked diversity with the prevalence Japanese and Chinese national...

OMG! The second installment of OMG Art Bar happened last Saturday, July 6th at the On MainGallery. Paul Wong, the Artistic Director of the space...

Other

Renfrew–Collingwood doesn’t exactly stand out. Kitsilano has beaches and cyclists. Downtown is a forest of glass. Mount Pleasant feels where all...

 This was my very first ever Fan Expo, and not only was it my first expo, it was the first time I ever had the absolute pleasure of pinning on my...

On Saturday, February 13, CJSF will celebrate World Radio Day by premiering eight documentaries funded by its Making Time for Radio Project grant...

CJSF 90.1FM is Calling for Proposals to fund four radio documentaries in the first of four funding rounds; Deadline for applications is August...

CJSF Pride Programming Marathon 2015

Tune in Wednesday August 5th for the CJSF 90.1 FM LGBTQ Pride Programming Marathon from 6am to...