On March 9th, the BCIT Marketing Association (BCITMA) held their annual fashion fundraiser, this year putting a spotlight on gender and diversity, by featuring drag models for a show you had to see to believe. Read all about the event, and hear from organizers Karl Chen and Jennifer Wu in the March edition of LINK…
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…
Red Sparrow weaves the tale of a ballerina turned Russian spy (Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games) who falls in love in with an American agent (Joel Edgerton, Bright) and considers becoming a double agent. This film holds nothing back in showing how far Dominika, Lawrence’s character, will go to complete a mission as a Sparrow,…
Looking to tap your feet to a funky beat? Sip a drink with a creative crowd? Divulge in moving art with a human element? Look no further, as the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) is back from March 1 to March 24 2018! Internationally acclaimed artists and local favourites bring excitingly enriching performances and workshops all over the city! Link…
illustrations eda aktas The #MeToo movement unofficially began in October 2017 when actor Alyssa Milano tweeted: “If all women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me Too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” Since then, we’ve seen an avalanche of sexual violence disclosures hit…
photos max huang Michael Lim made a name for himself as a well-known Filipino Jiu-jitsu competitor before he was diagnosed with a disease that attacked his spine and shattered his dreams of ever becoming World Champion. Today, Michael battles for new dreams, co-founding a health business in the Philippines, while studying in BCIT’s Marketing Management…
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…
3% is Netflix’s first venture into a Portuguese-language original series, and the second non-English show to grace their platform. The dystopian series enters a future where there is a strict separation between elite (those on the Offshore) and those who live in poverty (on the Inland). Every year, all 20 year olds from the Inland…
The Post is a film that places a spotlight on the journalists of the Washington Post and New York Times who published the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study on the United States involvement in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The historical drama follows the first female newspaper publisher, played by Meryl Streep, alongside her trusted…
My friend is a huge fan of Guillermo del Toro’s work, especially with the classic Pan’s Labyrinth. So she naturally had really high expectations. I just wanted to see a unique creepy film. Both of us left more than a little bit disappointed. If anything, we actually left laughing; shocked and amused by just how…
An Exit 22 Company production. Adapted for the stage by Rick Elise Music by Wayne Barker Based on the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson For those of you who were desperate for a little backstory to Peter Pan, look no further. Peter and the Star Catchers is a play based off of the…
The Mountain of SGaana, an award-winning short film based on a Haida story, weaves a magical tale of a woman who goes on an adventure to save her loved one who was captured by a killer whale and taken to the supernatural world. Christopher Auchter, director of The Mountain of SGaana, gave an insightful interview…