Arts Rational

In the fall of 2018, a team of creative people came together under a partnership between Skwah First Nation and the Artist Response Team (ART) to create school curriculum merging the importance of environmental awareness with Stó:lō language, songs and stories. Thus was born Good Medicine Songs / Éy St’elmexw St’elt’ílém. The band will be at the Mission Folk Music Festival on Saturday, July 24, at...

Gerry Kowalenko talks with Rachel Peake, the director of Something Rotten, one of the musicals presented at this year Theatre Under the Star. “ In the streets of Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare is a Renaissance rock star while playwright siblings Nick and Nigel Bottom are stuck in his shadow. Desperate to write a hit show, the Bottom brothers enlist the aid of a mysterious soothsayer who...

Arts Rational’s Gerry Kowalenko talks with Michelle Demers Shaevitz, Artistic and Executive Director of the Mission Folk Music Festival. She travels nationally and internationally to hear bands and participate in showcases. The 35th Mission Folk Music Festival runs from July 22 to 24 at the Fraser River Heritage Park. More info: https://missionfolkmusicfestival.ca/

“Rebecca Margolick is a Canadian dancer and choreographer living in New York. Her multi-disciplinary and solo works have been presented in Costa Rica, France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel, and across the U.S and Canada. She was named one of Dance Magazines Top 25 to Watch in 2021. Her solo Bunker + Vault won the Jury Prize for “best indoor choreographic work” at the 2019 Festival Quartiers Da...

Arts Rational Gerry Kowalenko talks with Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg about the presentation of her piece “Pants” at Dance on the Edge on July 15 and 16. MORE INFO Dancing on the Edge http://www.dancingontheedge.org/program/calder-white-tara-cheyenne-performance/ Tara Cheyenne Performance: https://www.taracheyenne.com/

Lisa Mennell - Publicist for Vancouver Cultural Centre For more information on upcoming season: thecultch.com

Friend of the Arts Rational, Rudi Leibek, gives us some tips on how to enjoy the Vancouver Folk Music Festival that runs from July 14-16 at Jericho Beach. More info: http://www.thefestival.bc.ca/

Alvin Tolentino, dancer participating in Dancing on the Edge JULY 13 & 14, 2022 / 8:00 PM / Firehall Arts Centre For more information: www.dancingontheedge.org www.companyerasgadance.ca

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks to Steffanie Davis who plays The Killer Queen in We Will Rock You. One of the two musicals at TUTS. Playing until August 27 at Malkin Bowl at Stanley park. For information: https://tuts.ca/show/we-will-rock-you/

Starr Muranko - Co-Artistic Director Raven Spirit Dance Society - sharing an Indigenous worldview through the medium of contemporary dance. For more information: ravenspiritdance.com

Robert Albanese, Executive and Artistic Director of the Vancouver Jewish Film Centre, and Harriet Frost, talk to Arts Rational host Gerry kowalenko about this year's Jewish Film Festival, set to open on March 3. [ www.vjff.org ]

Host Gerry Kowalenko speaks with dancers and choreographers Arash Khakpour and Kelly McInnes about their double bill of personal, bold solo works, Melon Piece + Blue Space. The event will take place at the Roundhouse Community Centre, March 3-5. "The two dance solos, Melon Piece + Blue Space , offer a balance of light and dark, evoking a timely reflection on our current struggle to exist in harmon...

Gerry speaks with Sherry J. Yoon, Artistic Director of Boca del Lupo Theatre, regarding the current and upcoming programming. More info: https://bocadellupo.com/

Gerry Kowalenko speaks with Janice Morris, Founder and Festival Director of KDocsFF, Metro Vancouver’s Premier Social Justice Film Festival. The festival runs Feb 18 to 27. More info: http://www.kdocsff.com/upcoming-events/2022/2/18/kdocsff-2022

Gerry Kowalenko talks with Paul Armstrong, Co-Executive Director and Head of Development at Crazy8s, about the latest edition, in advance of talking with the winners. More info: https://crazy8s.film/

Gerry Kowalenko speaks with Ian Merkel, Founder and Head of the Vancouver Foreign Film Society, about the Pedro Almodovar retrospective running at the VIFF Feb 11-March 10 and 28th RENDEZ-VOUS French Film Festival running Feb 18 to Mar 31 2022. More info: https://van4film.org/ https://www.facebook.com/vanforfilmclub/ Pedro Almodovar restrospective: https://bit.ly/3H5uObl Rendez-vous: https://rende...

Gerry Kowalenko talks with Lisa Mennell, Communications and Outreach Manager at the Cultch about their upcoming programming. More info: https://thecultch.com/

Host Gerry Kowalenko talks with dancer and choreographer Arash Khakpour about his performance, Orangutang, part of Dance In Vancouver 2021. The show runs November 24-27 & December 1-4, 2021 "The Biting School draws on history, literature and philosophy to interrogate challenging social and political issues. The company’s work translates the anxiety, trauma and beauty of our time into the language...

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko is interviewing choreographer Lesley Telford, who, through Inverso, presents “1:1:1” (phase one) at this year Dancing on the Edge. From the DOTE's website: Work-in-progress Inverso is in its first stages of research for our new work: “1:1:1”, which explores perception distortion and the neurological effects of living through a screen. How does our mind play tricks o...

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks with Ziyian Kwan and Rianne Svelnis, from Dumb Instrument Dance, two of the co-creators and performers of "Dreaming of Koi" presented this year at "Dancing on the Edge" "Dreaming of Koi is a faux-pastoral urban romance, a declaration of wonder for the flora and fauna that exists within and without. Set in the botanical maze of Dr. Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gar...

Arts Rational host Gerry Kowalenko talks to Donna Spencer, Artistic Director of both the Firehall Arts Centre and the Dancing On the Edge Festival, which this year runs from July 8-17.

Vancouver playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu talks to Arts Rational host James Mainguy about the new production of his play '1 Hour Photo,' streaming online at The Cultch May 28-30. You can get tickets at thecultch.ca.

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks with Fuyubi Nakamura, curator of Future For Memory, Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, currently on display at the MOA. "In the 10th anniversary year of the Great East Japan Earthquake, or 3.11, A Future for Memory addresses how we deal with memory when our physical surroundings are drastically altered. It focuses on the changing physical and...

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks with Jordy Matheson, producer of Virtual Humanity, a Zee Zee Theatre production. "In Virtual Humanity audience members select a title from the collection of 30+ “Virtual Humans” in the collection – something that intrigues them, confuses them. They will then proceed into a one-one-one digital face to face conversation with their “Virtual Human”, a person who w...