The Pacific Theatre was founded in 1984 by a group of actors who wanted to establish a non-propagandist professional theatre where they would be free to explore work having particular meaning to them ...Read More
D. S. Martin’s first full book of poetry entitled, Poiema is out. Publishers Wipf & Stock quote Luci Shaw as saying “Each of these poems makes you want to descend to its heart and discover th...Read More
“And there was one that wrestled with him until daybreak” -The Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 32:24 Wrestling with Angels (1995). There are few Christian poets and prose writers in BC and Canada that ha...Read More
David Gnass was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. While his artistic talents were encouraged during his schooling, it was a natural ability he did not value in his youth. It wasn’t until the late 90...Read More
There is a freeing power in creative gestures like song and we are met in surprising ways. Song, poetry, image, drama, dance and a good story seem to have the power to move us while providing fresh vi...Read More
The three poems and two images here presented are part of a much longer sequence which has recently been exhibited in the gallery of the Ryerson Polytechnic University’s School of Image Arts under t...Read More
While searching through Winter Sun, The Dumfounding (Margaret Avison’s collected poems of 1940-1966), I discovered that someone had written a note in the margin of Margaret’s signed poem The Swimm...Read More
I did not initially approach this work with any symbolism in mind. There is no coded message or secret meaning of any kind – the painting is simply a response to an actual experience of staying on t...Read More
“Signs are afoot that theological exploration into film is giving attention to productions well beyond the Hollywood genre and beyond movies given to explicitly religious themes. If film as an a...Read More
Geez, the Winnipeg based ad-free magazine devotes its spring 2008 issue to the theme Art in an Age of Brutality. The articles are woven around a quote from Thomas Merton in Disputed Questions. The sty...Read More