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Desirée Patterson is a Canadian photographic artist, currently living on the unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam and Squamish Nations, in Vancouver, BC. Her career began with photographic documentation of her extensive travels throughout more than thirty-seven countries. It was upon witnessing many exhausted environments and impoverished situations that Patterson dedicated her practi...

Kate MacDonald is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC. Her paintings, digital collages and video art have been exhibited throughout North America and Europe, and her paintings have been featured in Wired and international editions of GQ. She takes part in this year's Eastside Culture Crawl: https://culturecrawl.ca/artist/3983 For more information visit www. KateMacDona...

Arts Rational's Jim Mainguy talks with storyteller Rosemary Georgeson about Heart Of The City Festival's event 'In the Beginning'. "This is a wonderful opportunity, over five events, to listen and learn from Indigneous elders, knowledge keepers and artists from the nations who have lived, fished and worked here for thousands of years; and from other Indigenous people who have come to this place by...

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks with Savannah Walling, Associate Director of the Heart of the City Festival about this year's event 'Ground for Goodness' 'Grounds for Goodness Downtown Eastside' artfully explores why and how people sometimes do good things toward each other. GROUNDS FOR GOODNESS DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE: Adventures in digital community art making A virtual residency with Jumblies T...

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks with Thule van den Dam and Jenifer Brousseau about Heart of the City Festival's event 'Jenifer Reads'. 'Jenifer Reads' stars APTN TV personality Jenifer Brousseau (Wild Archeology) and special guests reading heroic coming-of-age stories, with the participation of youth exploring related themes. Thule van den Dam is in charge of the Program Production. More inf...

Arts Rational's James Mainguy talks with Erin Frizzell, Eastside Culture Crawl Managing Director, about this year's edition. This year Crawl is spread out over 3 weeks in November. EXTENDED 2020 DATES! NOVEMBER 2–9, 12–15 & 19–22 Open studio dates: November 12-15 + November 19-22 Thu/Fri: 5pm-10pm, Sat/Sun: 11am-6pm For more details: https://culturecrawl.ca/

Arts Rational Jacques Lalonde talks with Vancouver Asian Film Festival Director about this year programming. VAFF is the longest running Asian film festival in Canada. It was founded in 1995 and debuted in September 1997. Since then, tens of thousands of film lovers have experienced a diverse selection of North American-Asian and international films. VAFF 2020: October 31st - November 9 https://fe...

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks with Heart of the City Festival Associate Director Savannah Walling about this year programming.

Arts Rational's Gerry Kowalenko talks with Heart of the City program director Teresa Vandertuin about this year offering. For more information about Heart of the City: heartofthecityfestival.com

Arts Rational host James Mainguy talks to filmmaker Chelsea Goodman about her new series, Epic Quest, which debuted this week on the new streaming platform, The Fantasy Network. (thefantasy.network)

'Culture Days' is a nation-wide celebration of culture and art. This year's events will take place between September 25th and October 25th. Edwards Fu-Chen Juan is an artist, printmaker, and one of the BC Culture Days' ambassadors. He talks about Culture Days and his own work as an artist.

Arts Rational host James Mainguy talks to Yuri Arajs, about his new gallery, Outsiders And Others, and about 'outsider art.'

Arts Rational regular, James Irvine, returns with his Opinionated Bookseller column. Along with a few book recommendations for August and September, James talks to host James Mainguy about 'The Fire Next Time,' by James Baldwin. (Too damn many people named James on this show)

Heather Redfern, The Cultch's Executive Director, talks with Arts Rational host James Mainguy about their new fall season.

Gwaai Edenshaw spoke with Arts Rational host James Mainguy about the new exhibit, 'To Speak With a Golden Voice,' in honour of Bill Reid's 100th birthday. The exhibit is on now until April 11, 2021, at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.

In this extended, podcast-only, interview, Arts Rational host Jay Hamburger talks to Steve Vogler. He's the Artistic Director of The Point Artist-Run Centre in Whistler, BC. The two discuss this weekend's 9th annual Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival under the stars! With a floating stage on Lake Alta in Whistler, BC, this August 7th & 8th.

'Underneath the Harlem Moon Cabaret' is an Instagram Live performance by Krystle Dos Santos with guests Jackie Nguyen And Susana Williams. The free show will take place Tuesday evening, from 7 to 8:30 pm on Krystle Instagram account: instagram.com/krystledossantosmusic

South African-Canadian spoken word poet, writer, TEDx speaker, and educator, Lindi Nolte. We're listening to an excerpt from her recent TEDx talk, recorded earlier this year. Her website is, lindinolte.com

In this inaugural edition of 'Art Bites,' the Arts Rational looks at what's playing this week at Vancouver's independent cinemas; reviews the documentary 'The Booksellers;' and sends out an invitation to sing with fan-favorite Coco Love Alcorn.

Arts Rational talks with Chris Brayshaw, owner of Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver's legendary new and used bookstore, about life in a pandemic and keeping well-read. You can find their website, perfect as is, at pulpfictionbooksvancouver.com/