As an independent animation and documentary filmmaker who works in traditional and computer-based techniques, Jeff Chiba Stearns is already well-known in the arts community. His latest film, Mixed Match, is an important …
Burning eyes, open wide— I could be you too, despite the tears and eyes as dry as a seahorse on an apothecary table underneath the Chinatown sky. David Ly is …
And then I met him: worshipper of my body down on his knees, his tongue so kind between my thighs. Be my boy for one more night, his tongue insists …
The Globe and Mail once suggested that if one cooking demonstration provides food for thought, then A Taste of Empire should be considered a great success. The play begins with Chef Jovanni prepares …
We returned to Vancouver on the Sunday. It was a difficult ferry trip for Michael as he was feeling lousy. He didn’t eat much lunch, just some soup and french …
For Michael, Love Cynda is Cynda Yeasting’s book about her experience of loving a man who was terminally ill with cancer. A unique love story between Michael Chu and Cynda, the book ultimately …
My mother left me a suitcase of sweaters she knitted in mohair, wool, acrylic in blends of burnished ochre bright carmine, sombre blue, sea green. I see her now in …
To see my mother slip away— like witnessing time being reassembled, the missing hands being reattached, the frozen hours and minutes retrieved from the crumbled heap, put back in their …
There is urine on the seat again. Every time Shaohan sees splotches of his father’s urine on the toilet seat, something clenches inside him. He doesn’t have to sit there …
The boat ran out of water. She stepped out and missed the silkiness of mud between her toes. A homeland flows down cheeks crusted in sea salt. David Ly …