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The Vancouver Artists’ Collective Association welcomes the world to Lilli’Q Café & Playhouse |
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Written by Sarah Martin
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 22:37 |
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The VACA - Vancouver Artists’ Collective Association is a not-for-profit society committed to the growth of local artists. We are hosting a series, Soulful Expressions: an art exhibit, entertainment and workshops at Lilli’Q Café & Playhouse, in Yaletown. The purpose is to bring the public and the world together with talented local artists from many mediums including music, writing, and visual art.
The art exhibit Soulful Expressions is on display from February 1st, to February 28th. Join us this Friday, February 5th from 4pm to 9pm for our Opening Gala. There is musical entertainment Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, afternoon workshops for music, poetry and painting, and children’s entertainers. Visual artists include Linda Red Hawk, Darshan, music from John Pippus, David Blair, Wee Boy Pretty, Rob Fillo, poetry from Bonnie Nish, Shannon Rayne, kids’ entertainers Pamela Sunshine and Professer Clickity Klunk. For the full schedule go to our calendar page, or visit our Google calendar dedicated to our Soulful Expressions series:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=sarahm%40vanartscollective.com&ctz=America/Vancouver.
Lilli’Q Café is located at 1268 Pacific Boulevard beside the Roundhouse Community Centre and kitty-corner from the Yaletown – Roundhouse Skytrain station.   
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Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 00:59 |
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Ryan Fletcher - VACA Vignettes |
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Written by Sarah Martin
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 00:30 |
Ryan Fletcher
Written by James Davis
December 4, 2009 1:01PM
I tip-toed around and over patches of asparagus-coloured moss on the weathered footway to the steady cadence of cathedral-style homes untoward Main and 20th Street. I window shop: handmade marionette string puppets; cotton knot macramé; paper mache pigs; framed triptych panels; thousand fold origami; ivory scrimshaw. Inside Bean Around the World Coffees, a twilight chalk menu suctioned to bricks lit with orbed cakes of incandescent light hitched and hung from the rafters. Back out through the solarium, windows framed with ruby translucent glass spheres, bristle brush pine, and garlands of electric tinsel. Down through the terrarium: asiago-arugula-tomatoed-cervelat-salami sandwiches. The aesthetic relaxes me into a Christmas mood. A chalet? No. Fooled. A business. One dollar per hyphen—$4.00—the night between the “s’s,” $0.50, plus government dues. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:50 |
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Written by Sarah Martin
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Monday, 11 January 2010 19:02 |
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Mat Lo
Written by James Davis
November 25, 2009 5:53PM
Seymour and Dunsmuir. Seven minutes early: 5:53PM. Another glossy deluge washing over a wet neon streetscape. I escape the peninsular nimbostratus blanket into The Railway Club, climb the newel stairway to the second level into the popular poplar match stick flame tavern. Birch tables. Oak planks. Maple wood wainscot panels. Zones of flat dirty maroon carpeting with humid cinematic footlights. I had heard that anything can happen here—conversation, music, film, meetings, beer chugging, dancing, et cetera, or all of the above—an alternating current. This time: quietly dirty; quietly authentic. Hickory sticks tapped hi-hats and cymbals under neon ionic beam ceiling pots. One $5.10 long neck Sleeman’s Honey Brown. Beforehand, I cast a net and collected biographical information from the subject of my interview—Mat Lo: |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 17 January 2010 22:18 |
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