Arts & Culture

The upcoming Canadian Folk Music Awards, taking place this weekend, will bring musicians from across Canada as nominees in 19 different categories such as “Traditional Singer of the Year,” “Aboriginal Artist of the Year”...

Sound art: what’s that? Whether you know or not, send + receive’s director crys cole believes, “Some people have an idea that since they may not know much about sound art, or s +...

1,000 B.C. Mezzezeh woke up to the buzzing alarm of the mosquitoes dancing by his ears. Lethargically, he rolled off his bed. Today he didn’t feel like a kata: a ruler of the highest worship...

Wintersleep broke out in 2007 with the release of Welcome to the Night Sky, their third studio album. Currently on tour promoting their fourth album, 2010’s New Inheritors, Jon Samuel — a member of...

Last February I attended a lecture on the rise of feminist art at Video Pool as part of Oliver Botar’s contemporary art history class. Among the films shown was Carolee Schneemann’s 1964 performance Meat...

Sweetgrass Directed by: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor Opening on Nov. 12 ★★★ out of 5 After viewing the documentary Sweetgrass, the end credits explain what was just depicted: a 300 kilometre sheep-herding expedition through rural Montana....

For 32 years Victoria jazz-punks NoMeansNo have lived apart from the sleazy beast known as the music industry. Now that the rest of the world has also turned its back on this ever-diminishing creature,...