National Presentation and Touring Program highlights Canadian talent in dance, theatre and music Vancouver, BC— In celebration of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, up-and-coming Canadian musicians, dancers and actors involved in the Cultural Olympiad are hitting the road with a national touring program featuring over 40 shows in cities large and small. [...]
The Blue Dragon A broken bottle of maple syrup in luggage arriving from Canada; the elegant, dramatic strokes of Chinese calligraphy; the romantic Old World sails of a junk gliding past the hulking steel of a modern ocean-going vessel. These seemingly disparate visuals are magically weaved together by Québécois theatre visionary Robert Lepage in his [...]
Karleen and James The intensity is what I have seen out of professional NHL games. Source: Karleen Gill For months, Karleen Gill has had May 6 circled on her calendar. She plans to buy Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games tickets the instant they become available. “I’ve been telling people the tickets go on sale in early [...]
CODE is about who we are. It’s the things we do every day. It’s the words we use to describe our selves and our communities. Source: Burke Taylor, VANOC vice-president, culture and celebrations The Cultural Olympiad’s digital edition (CODE) is a suite of programs best described by three words: Connect. Create. Collaborate. CODE creatively engages national [...]
The Lost Fingers Flash forward to January of 2010: Where will your interests take you? Cultural Olympiad 2010, presented by Bell, offers excitement for each of those fast-approaching days and nights. The festival has just announced 35 additional projects for the arts and culture extravaganza, which begins January 22, 2010 and continues throughout the Vancouver [...]
A broken bottle of maple syrup in luggage arriving from Canada; the elegant, dramatic strokes of Chinese calligraphy; the romantic Old World sails of a junk gliding past the hulking steel of a modern ocean-going vessel. These seemingly disparate visuals are magically weaved together by Québécois theatre visionary Robert Lepage in his latest stage offering [...]
Vancouver, BC– An airy stream of metal salmon shimmering overhead, five intricately carved spindle whorls inspired by curling rocks and three long-limbed wolves howling in unison on the Prairies are among the beautiful works of art by more than 90 Aboriginal artists that will grace the 2010 Winter Games venues as part of the Vancouver [...]
Art breathes life into a space. That’s certainly what’s achieved with the installation of Aboriginal art at the 2010 Winter Games venues. In a two-day exhibition starting Saturday, October 17, the public will have an opportunity to meet more than 50 of the brilliant artists behind the fantastic, permanent Aboriginal art installations at Vancouver 2010 [...]
