Arts & Culture

Incite Poetry Bash
When: Wednesday April 28 2021
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Where: Virtual event
Cost: Free

The Poetry Bash is part of Incite, a free series of the Vancouver Writers Fest.
Topping off National Poetry Month is our annual Incite Poetry Bash! Join us for an evening of six thrilling poetry readings, hosted by Can’t Lit podcast co-host and author Dina Del Bucchia. 
Featuring Tenille Campbell (Nedi Nezu: Good Medicine; Arsenal Pulp Press), Mary Germaine (Congratulations, Rhododendrons; House of Anansi), Dallas Hunt (Creeland; Nightwood Editions), Jen Sookfong Lee (The Shadow List; Wolsak and Wynn), Rebecca Salazar (Sulphur Tongue; Penguin Random House Canada) and Terence Young (Smithereens; Harbour Publishing), this will be an evening of evocation, intimacy and joy.

Free Monthly Poetry Series

Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique opportunity to celebrate poetry and is held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

The raison d'être of Lunch Poems is to invite and welcome everyone to enjoy poetry in a relaxed and casual atmosphere, whether you are new to poetry or have had a long romance with it. We invite you to join us to lunch on words and feed your soul—just bring your curiosity, open mind and love of words.

Sign up for the Lunch Poems @ SFU email list to receive news about upcoming events.

Capture Photography Festival - April 2 - 30 2021

In the photo on above, from the Selected Exhibition program, @TomHsu’s 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳 is his first solo exhibition at @macaulayfineart which includes photographs shot on 35-mm film of intimate moments captured between friends and acquaintances over the past three summers in Vancouver. Hsu is known for his investigation of bodies and the way they intersect and interact both with each other and the space in which they exist. His poetic images in this exhibition seek to capture the whimsy, mutual care, and curious play between him and those around him.⁠
Capture Photography Festival is devoted to presenting the most compelling lens-based art from local and international artists.

Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival. Annually in April, lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver as part of the Exhibition Program, alongside an extensive Public Art Program, a youth-oriented Learning Program, and an Events Program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events.
 
Capture strives to support compelling and diverse lens-based practices, with a focus on critical and challenging work, while nurturing emerging talent.

Virtual Trips

See, discover and learn through the eyes of a local. Join a live-streamed tour, from places around the world.

Book weeks ahead of time, or log on and see what tours are happening right now, and join in.

Free - tips encouraged.
A sample screen-grab below.

Scenes of Isolation

Scenes of isolation profiles a range of Vancouver shows and artworks that best express this pandemic.
 
Here are a few of the most affecting works to explore the unique experience of 2020’s pandemic purgatory—or to find an uplifting way to transcend it. Together they form an unforgettable archive of a surreal time.

Theatre In Video

Online access to hundreds of the world’s most important plays, documentaries, interviews, and instructional materials in more than 800 hours of streaming video.

All you need is a Vancouver Public Library card!

MEC Free Documentary Series


​From riding across Canada from coast to coast to coast on a fixed gear bicycle, to ticking off a truly unique bucket list, watch three Canadian adventurers share their own lived experiences with wild spaces. Created by three of Canada’s leading documentary filmmakers, these raw, genuine portraits explore how the outdoors inspires and challenges us, dialing in to personal triumphs and incredible feats.

Covid 19 Call for Submissions: Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture
Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture gives artists with disabilities a voice. They are are committed to supporting and promoting artists in every discipline, with all disabilities.

In coronavirus times, they are looking for literary, visual or performative artistic submissions from disability identified artists in the community. These works will investigate the creative process in this time of isolation, economic and health precariousness, and social uncertainty.

To submit you need to be a member; memberships for those on a fixed income is $10; some 'by donation' memberships are available for those unable to pay.

Selected writers/artists will be paid $100 for one blog post.

We Live Here: West End Audio Tour for Covid 19 Times

Whether you'd like to walk this 1 1/2 hour audio tour or listen to the sections from home, these interesting stories about the West End told by various Vancouverites are worth your time.

Acorn TV

Do you have a Vancouver Public Library library card? Access Acorn TV - a streaming service that offers world-class mysteries, dramas, comedies, and documentaries from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada and beyond.
It includes hard-to-find gems, timeless classics, and newly discovered favorites.

Learn Languages for Free with Mango Languages

Access over 70 self-paced language learning courses and dialects, with your Vancouver library card.

​Learners are introduced to vocabulary, cultural insights, grammar and more. The courses are delivered by native speakers.
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Sign up for a Mango profile so you can track your progress & continue where you left off.
Or use “Mango as a guest” to access the resource.

Read Magazines from Around the World


​If you have a Vancouver library card, you can access magazines from around the world - on your computer or on your phone.

Magazines on the Libby App
You can now read digital magazines on-the-go with the Libby app. Tip for power users: use the "read the articles" mode to easily view individual articles.

E-Books from the Library with No Waitlist

Some libraries have pick-ups available for holds on actual books. But if you'd like to read now and are open to e-books, the Vancouver Public Library has created a list with some of their most popular e-books that are available now with no waiting list.

Great Canadian Short Films

The National Film Board of Canada has a long history of award winning shorts.  These are a great source of our history and superb entertainment. 

Please click the links below to go directly to those films, or click the button to go to the NFB site and choose your own. 

  • The McGarrigle Sisters, “Log Driver’s Waltz”
  • “Remember Africville”, the little-known account of one of Nova Scotia’s independent black settlements
  • “Supreme Law”, an interactive story of Canada told from perspectives of those who have historically been underrepresented

CBC Canadian Videos

​National Arts Centre
​National Arts Centre (website/Facebook)
​Stream free theatre, dance, music, storytelling, talks and workshops as part of #CanadaPerforms.

Dancing  Alone, Together
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​A CENTRAL RESOURCE FOR THE DIGITAL DANCE WORLD
DESIGNED FOR THIS UNPRECEDENTED TIME OF ISOLATION

These classes are free or by donation and the website includes videos on dance from around the world

Virtual Museum Tours

Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch (Video)
Be sure to also check out our Music & Movies events.
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