Since 2020, the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture has convened bi-weekly meetings with over 30 BC-based arts service organizations (ASOs) to address sector needs. Together, we have collaborated on advocating for a brighter future for all arts, culture, and heritage entities, professionals, and volunteers. In 2023, a working group of ASOs engaged Earnscliffe, a professional government […]
Fans of the beloved Knives Out film franchise will not be surprised to see detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) make a dramatic entrance at a crucial point in its latest installment, Wake Up Dead Man. They may, however, be surprised to see him make that entrance as a direct answer to prayer. And Blanc keeps […]
Denis Villeneuve made it clear right from the start that his adaptation of Dune would take three films. The first two would cover the first book and a third one would wrap up the full arc he set out to tell. That plan is finally coming to fruition with Dune 3, which, according to lead […]
Oct 22, 2025 An episode from Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, too good not to share for Catholic Culture Podcast listeners! Anthony D’Ambrosio directed, wrote, and produced the outstanding new film Triumph of the Heart about St. Maximilian Kolbe. In this inspiring interview, he discusses the difficult path he and his team charted to produce […]
Even in situations when Japanese people are quite positive that something is true, they typically hold back on expressing claims. Similar to how one might use a layer of wrapping paper to hide what is really within a package, when speaking Japanese, Japanese speakers regularly encase their assertions in language that implies they aren’t sure […]
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, the loose Thomas Pynchon adaptation One Battle After Another, serves up many a memorable scene. But for a certain kind of cinephile, nothing — not the terrorist attacks, not the chases, not the swerves into askew comedy — sticks in the mind quite so much as the moment in which […]
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What’s in a name? For Marguerite Humeau, a shared prehistoric language, a collective future and the structure of her latest exhibition at The White Cube. Meys, meaning to mix or bring together in a hypothetical Indo-European language, is a multi-disciplinary body of work that imagines what insects could build with the remains of a human […]
The Alliance invites you to join CultureBrew.Art and Visceral Visions for the March edition of their Monthly BIPOC Chat and Chew series: Working with Sound, Video and Media Artists. The online event is an invitation for BIPOC artists to chat about the potential of using sound and video in creative endeavours. Led by industry experts Chris Gatchalian and Anju Singh, this free interactive […]
For many people there is a reflexive shudder that rips through them upon seeing homes decorated for Halloween. They clutch the pearls of their souls as their color drains to ghostly white. How can you like something so morbid? I draw tremendous comfort from Spooky Season. I know what they’re talking about; I’m not irredeemably […]
