Meet Hunter Bergen, a second-year BCIT Architecture student, and the founder and visionary behind Project Plant Your Future. Her environmental initiative aims to educate people around protecting and preserving forests, through a website and blog where she also allows people to send in personal notes she then writes onto handmade biodegradable paper, and plants with…
Staging a beloved and classic work of theatre such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is no easy task. For some theatregoers, they may feel as though they’ve seen it all before. For some, it might simply remind them of their Grade 8 English syllabus. Exit 22 Company Productions’ Director Bob Frazer is a veteran…
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has occurred annually in Vancouver for the last 14 years, celebrating theatre, dance, music, film, and multimedia arts. This year’s Main Stage shows feature the works of groundbreaking artists from around the world, and to kick it off on January 16th, was Some Hope For the Bastards, a music-dance…
Thank you to the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival for inviting LINK magazine writers out to see this year’s films Never Steady, Never Still dir. Kathleen Hepburn The constant throughout the film is honesty, in every aspect. Kathleen Hepburn’s Never Steady, Never Still is a film about isolation, feeling isolated from the environment, and from…
I had the pleasure of attending a show earlier this month at the Biltmore Cabaret, which was one of the host venues of Vancouver’s new Westward Music Festival. The headline act was grandson who grew up in Toronto as Jordan Benjamin. Benjamin started university in Montreal, then dropped out in 2013 when the opportunity to pursue music full…