Spring Arts Preview 2023: Your guidebook to the greatest in Vancouver dance, music, theatre, comedy, and visual arts

Ora Sawyers 2 years ago

Here’s the excellent issue about the word “artist”: it can mean what ever you want it to mean. Which is a further way of saying that, no matter if you are chatting Yoko Ono or Douglas Coupland, Nick Cave or Crystal Pite, Keith Boadwee or Shane Koyczan, they all belong at the same lunch table. As we return to some thing resembling normalcy right here at the Georgia Straight, we’re happy to bring you 2023’s spring arts preview.

This year’s bundle starts off with two generations of Vancouver artists—Kokoro Dance’s legendary Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget, and their multi-gifted son Joseph Hirabayashi­—offering their perspectives on the issues, and benefits, of building art in a metropolis that from time to time would seem entirely targeted on serious estate and acquiring a table at that very hot Michelin starred restaurant.

From there we look at other voices continuing to shape the arts in Vancouver: emerging playwrights, dance renegades, and companies embracing some major alterations. There are also curated critics’ picks for the spring exhibits you really don’t want to pass up.

Like what you see listed here? You should not fail to remember to check out again often over the coming times and we’ll be introducing new profiles, functions, and highlighted exhibits. Just one of these people who desires all the things at the moment? There is a resolution for that: run out and grab a actual physical duplicate of the Straight, which can be observed in our bins on the avenue, finer coffee outlets, and specially styling classic clothing retailers. No matter what your most popular technique of reading, delight in.

And bear in mind, as Joseph Hirabayashi notes in his essay, anybody can be an artist. All you have to do is lean into the phrase and make a thing your own.

 

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