Spring Arts Preview 2023: Your information to the most effective in Vancouver dance, music, theatre, comedy, and visible arts
Right here’s the wonderful thing about the phrase “artist”: it could possibly imply no matter you need it to imply. Which is one other method of claiming that, whether or not you’re speaking Yoko Ono or Douglas Coupland, Nick Cave or Crystal Pite, Keith Boadwee or Shane Koyczan, all of them belong on the similar lunch desk. As we return to one thing resembling normalcy right here on the Georgia Straight, we’re happy to convey you 2023’s spring arts preview.
This 12 months’s bundle begins off with two generations of Vancouver artists—Kokoro Dance’s iconic Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget, and their multi-talented son Joseph Hirabayashi—providing their views on the challenges, and rewards, of creating artwork in a metropolis that typically appears solely focussed on actual property and getting a desk at that sizzling Michelin starred restaurant.
From there we take a look at different voices persevering with to form the humanities in Vancouver: rising playwrights, dance renegades, and organizations embracing some massive adjustments. There are additionally curated critics’ picks for the spring exhibits you don’t wish to miss.
Like what you see right here? Do not forget to verify again continuously over the approaching days and we’ll be including new profiles, options, and highlighted exhibits. A kind of of us who desires every part directly? There is a resolution for that: run out and seize a bodily copy of the Straight, which may be present in our bins on the road, finer espresso outlets, and notably styling classic clothes shops. No matter your most popular methodology of studying, get pleasure from.
And keep in mind, as Joseph Hirabayashi notes in his essay, anybody may be an artist. All it’s a must to do is lean into the phrase and make one thing your personal.
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