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Arts

Come Toward the Fire Festival Opens Up a World of Musqueam Art

The Chan Centre hosts a yearly festival of Indigenous music and arts.

At the Chan Centre This March, Three Indigenous Artists Perform Music Steeped in a Complex Past

Leonard Sumner, Elisapie, and Moe Clark perform in the Decolonize the Chan series.

Bing Thom architecture. Surrey Library

Design

From UBC’s Chan Centre to Surrey’s City Library, Architect Bing Thom Blended Community with Place

Bing Thom brought Vancouver-inspired design to international attention.

Impact

Jane Goodall

Doctor Hope.

We may have gained brilliance, she says, “but we’ve lost wisdom.”

Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester

Arts

Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester

Old-school glamour.

Bringing the golden era of 1920s Berlin music halls back to life.

Arts

China Philharmonic Orchestra

On tour and a mission.

Maestro Long Yu, who co-founded the orchestra, continues in his role as artistic director and principal conductor.

MONTE Blog: Cecile McLorin

Arts

Cécile McLorin Salvant

World class jazz.

“Although audiences are a little different in different parts of the world, I feel that jazz speaks to everyone, no matter where they are.”

Arts

Aislinn Hunter

Words in motion.

Putting movement to her words gave Hunter a “whole new way of understanding some of the themes in my own work: themes of loss, of discovery, of understanding alternative realities.”

Alexander Weimann cropped

Arts

Alexander Weimann

Keeping score.

For the last few years, the conductor and newcomer to Vancouver has been on a mission to unite the best Canadian classical musicians through early music performances.