The holiday season is upon us and, while it might be a bit too early (for most) to start setting up your own trees and lights, it’s not too early to start enjoying some of the more budget friendly festivities around town. So I’ve compiled a little list of fun student budget friendly events happening…
Flavia Chan is a graduate of Emily Carr University, now attending classes in BCIT’s Marketing program. Her artwork is at once haunting and beautiful. She draws the sadness inspired in her work from real life experiences, but finds her creative characters a much more comfortable outlet than depictions of real people. Every one of her unique characters — from her painstakingly…
If you picked up December’s issue of Link, you probably read Mitchell Flann’s story about SantArchy – the annual “parade” of unruly Santas that take the streets of Vancouver by storm every year on Dec. 13th. Filling pubs, riding the sky train, handing out candies or engaging in public spankings they’re a spectacle to behold –…
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life,” Pablo Picasso once said. Residents of the Lower Mainland are surrounded by local art in their daily routines: on SkyTrain platforms, downtown street corners, and on the walls of numerous coffee shops. Burnaby Art Gallery found a new way to share art in…
Canadian artist shares his sources of inspiration with the audience at the Vancouver Art Gallery Canadian contemporary artist Ian Wallace has a degree in art history and loves Jean Luc Goddard’s avant-garde films and concrete poems. Informed description of his work features terms like “neoplasticism” and “deconstruction of a painting”. In other words, Wallace represents…