CiTR -- Arts Report

Arts aficionado Kristin Cheung tells us about the 24-hour Drawing Party coming up August 10-11th at the Project Space in China Town; Three's Company: A Collaboration with Ray Hsu, Leanne Dunnic & David Spenst Aug 12 at Hogan's Alley; A tribute to animator Paul Boyd.

Flora from the Queer Arts Festival fills us in on upcoming events including the lesbian opera, "When the Sun Comes Out", & Yamantaka//SONIC TITAN. Sara reviews the Transgression Now art exhibit at the Roundhouse Community Centre and talks about "Beyond the Labyrinth: In Search of John Dowland", an event featured in the Early Music Society's Summer Festival.

Sara talks about "Crazy Wisdom", a documentary in the International Buddhist Film Festival and plays her interview with scholar Dr. Robert Thurman who sits on the Board of the Festival. The Queer Arts Festival opens tonight! We talked with Chris Morrisey of the Rainbow Refugee Committee and Mark Bentley Cohen about his one man play "Bi, Hung, Fit, and Married."

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Tom Anselmi of the Arrival Agency talks about the renovation at the new Fox Theatre; Curator Cate Rimmer fills us in about the erotic art featured in "Tatoos & Scrimshaw: The Art of the Sailor" at the Vancouver Maritime Museum; Arts Reporter Rohit Jospeh tells us abut the Indian Summer Festival!

Review of You are Very Star at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre: Patricia Gruben on her installation "Veil of Nature: Museum of Liminal Science" and play "The Secret Doctrine" at SFU Woodwards; Arts Report attends 31rst Annual Jessie Awards

Patrick Kennedy--nephew of JFK-talks at the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Conference in Miami Florida; Jen Kovac talks about the Summer Sparkle Dance Party, a hot and sweaty fundraiser for the Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre; Writer Kevin Kerr talks about the transmedia production of "You Are Very Star" currently playing at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.

Peggy, co organizer, talks abou tthe Van Taiwanese Film Festival from UBC Literature Etc. June 14-16 Mike talks to Jesse Birch about Properties at the Western Front, celebrating its 40th Anniversary and open house June 16th. And Sylvanna and Katayoon join us to talk about Art Waste June 6-9th (with music from White Poppy, Lie and Zoo).

Host Sara Lapsley talks with Manveet Virk of Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Society about the HSBC City of Bhangra Festival. Artist Connie Kuhns explores the concept of the open road in her photography exhibition at Chernoff Fine Art; Adrian Sinclair tells us about the Liberate your Party at the Museum of Vancouver party May 31rst.

Andrea Creamer talks about the use of space and community at the Toast Collective and the current exhibition: Scott Malin's, "Weavings Stainings,and Paintings. Artist Liz Knox, the valedictorian of the Emily Carr graduating class, speaks about their end of year show "You Are Here" running until May 19th.

http://front.bc.ca/events/radio-free-stein/ International Roundtable Discussion "A Biocultural Hinge: Theorizing Affect and Emotion Across Disciplines," hosted by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies May 1-4th 2013. More info on that can be found here: http://internationalroundtabletheorizingemotionacrossdiscipline.pwias.ubc.ca/

Vancouver Opera's production of "Tea: A Mirror of Soul"; DOXA film festival; Cranfield and Slade talk about the Music Appreciation Society's upcoming event "Revolution".