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Books translated from their original language are proving increasingly popular as readers seek out global perspectives beyond their own.

Books translated from their original language are proving increasingly popular as readers seek out global perspectives beyond their own.

Light orchestration, crooning, and the sound of sleigh bells are all hallmarks of the genre.

Vancouver santour player Saina Khaledi has composed “My Beloved”, which will be performed in public for the first time.

Kalu is the first learning-disabled artist and the first artist with limited verbal communication to win the Turner Prize.

Henselmann, a former senior City of Vancouver cultural leader, offers reflections on what this year has helped him remember.

These objects may date to late antiquity (roughly the third to sixth or seventh century) and/or the medieval period.

It isn’t every day that you see a sitting mayor take to the stage and give a musical performance in front of a paying audience.

It has become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI.

In the last decades of his life, Luthuli was silenced and persecuted.

Many Indigenous cultures caution against the concept of “heroes,” which is rooted in western narratives that elevate people as saviours.










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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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