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soundwork
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Sounds Japanese Canadian to Me
Sounds Japanese Canadian to Me is a monthly podcast on Japanese Canadian history and culture. Produced and hosted by Raymond Nakamura and staff of the Nikkei National Museum, the episodes are structured as a casual...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 134-135
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast: Indigenous Law in Action
Season one of the RAVEN (De)Briefs podcast series is a refreshing Indigenization of the traditional podcast format in that it evokes everyday kitchen table conversations among relatives, combined with sonic, Indigenous documentary. Exploring contemporary environmental...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 128-129
colonialism Delgamuukw v. BC Indigenous Indigenous rights treaties land claims law
photo essay
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
A Tradition of Evolution: The Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival
Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival: Vancouver, British Columbia, 25-26 May 2017. The festival featured film and new media presentations, including a “Turtle Island Shorts” program (May 26); VR and augmented reality presentations (May 27); and...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 151-159
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Konelīne: our land beautiful
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature at the 2016 Hot Docs Festival, Nettie Wild’s Konelīne: our land beautiful weaves together stories of humanity’s relationships with industry, the wilderness, and nature in Northwestern British Columbia. Telling...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 187-188
Book Review
Unmooring The Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories
From food (Valenze, 2012) to crops (Ali 2020, Rappaport 2019) to commodities (Curry-Machado, 2013) to digital cultures (Punathambekar and Mohan, 2019) and to empires (Bayly, 2003; Hopkins, 2003) there has been a steady scholarly commitment to...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 139-142
Book Review
Rain City: Vancouver Reflections
John Moore is a BC-based free-lance journalist and author. Original versions of the sixteen essays that make up this volume have appeared in a variety of newspapers and periodicals over several decades. Some have won...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 141-142
Book Review
Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley
Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley is a collection of memoirs by thirty-two women who came to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island in the 1970s. Drawn by an...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 185-187
Book Review
Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017
Cole Harris’s Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017 is delightful summer reading. It is, primarily, a history of the Harris family’s Bosun Ranch and a record of the lives of...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 185-6
Book Review
One More Time! The Dal Richards Story
Local icon Dal Richards passed away on New Year’s Eve 2015. In the tributes that followed and at his memorial, many noted the auspiciousness of his passing. For years, his New Year’s Eve concerts...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 237-238
Book Review
Tellings from Our Elders: Lushootseed syəyəhub, Volume 1: Snohomish Texts as told by Martha Williams Lamont, Elizabeth Krise, Edward Sam, and Agnes Jules James
Skagit Valley as told by Susie Sampson Peter, Dora Solomon, Mary Sampson Willup, Harry Moses, Louise Anderson, Martin Sampson, Dewey Mitchell, and Alice Williams
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Pages 218-221
Book Review
Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst
Poet Robert Bringhurst has been just on the periphery of my attention for many years, and it seems I’ve been in good company. Although he has made a name for himself in some circles (he...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 210-211
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Book Review
Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture
At first glance, I was sceptical of Made in British Columbia. What more could possibly be written about painter Emily Carr or architects Francis Rattenbury and Arthur Erickson? But Maria Tippett’s carefully crafted biographies of...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 164-165
Book Review
Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historic Commodore Ballroom
From the beginning, Aaron Chapman is clear about his intentions for Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historical Commodore Ballroom. The renowned Granville Street concert venue is a place where “The history of...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 169-170
Book Review
The Afterthought: West Coast Rock Posters and Recollections
Jerry Kruz’s beautifully illustrated autobiographical work provides an intriguing first hand glimpse of Vancouver psychedelic music scene. The book revolves around Kruz’s years as a concert promoter from 1966 to 1969. Although it briefly describes...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 141-43
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Book Review
The Artist in the Cloister: The Life and Works of Father Dunstan Massey
Art and Roman Catholicism have, for most of the church’s long history, gone hand in hand. And Roman Catholic churches, schools, and abbeys in British Columbia are no exception. During the first decades of the...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 242-44
Book Review
Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk
As the angry, impetuous, and disobedient stepchild of rock-and-roll, punk has become an increasingly popular topic for academic and popular writers. Yet, as Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth demonstrates, Canadian contributions have often gone unnoticed. In...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 151-52
Book Review
Book Review
Mulligan’s Stew: My Life … So Far
Searching the Canadian literary pantry for a satisfying meal of rock and roll history can turn up very slim pickings indeed. Which is why British Columbia veteran DJ, VJ, and actor Terry David Mulligan’s memoir...