Artist Tina Newlove has had work in over 70 juried exhibitions. With the painting, stitching and assembling I have been doing for “Protection”, I am seeking to nail down the past. The antique ph...Read More
… one of the great values of metaphors is the variety of ways they can be employed and how they can open up an otherwise sealed perspective. Recently I was browsing at a book display and happene...Read More
Perhaps nothing is more personal than a face. It is the primary locus for our relationships with others. And so the face is both the icon of our individuality and uniqueness as well as essential for c...Read More
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