The rich, melancholy melodies of Fado music are steeped in the history of the Portuguese. Fado, explains playwright Elaine Avila, is the feeling of saudade —the happiness of beautiful days long gone and the pain of knowing they will never return.
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The latest UBC Arts & Culture project aims to provide information and tickets on upcoming concerts. What they have introduced is a mobile ticket booth, or more precisely, a ticket-trolley-tricycle hybrid which will be rolling around campus.
The basis of the play follows Esther and Gilles’ transition from living in Montreal to Vancouver. It starts out poking fun at the differences between the two cities such as the fact that it never (ever) stops raining in Vancouver.
Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s first feature, Album, tries to give its critique on individuals’ two-faced and superficial natures by giving insight into Turkish society and culture. It is a work that ultimately fails to deliver what it promises.
The film has multiple layers in how it presents the events that occurred that day. It’s narrated by the personal accounts of various victims, journalists, police officers and spectators who were affected or played a key role during the killings.
Mariza, The Queen of Fado, is returning to perform at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The internationally acclaimed singer is performing works from her most recent album, Mundo, on Wednesday, November 2 2016 in the Chan Shun Concert Hall.
Denis Matsuev returned to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Thursday, October 20 for a performance of incredible quality. It was, without a doubt, one of the most breathtaking piano concerts that I have ever seen.
The performers consist of UBC alumni who collectively began rehearsing for the play some time in January, meeting several times a week to prepare. Amongst those involved in the production are Deb Pickman and Gerald Vanderwoude.
Straight from the opening shot, The Red Turtle tosses us into the blue, immersed in the violent, overwhelming moving-tapestry of a storm. It is here we meet our nameless protagonist, who soon washes ashore a small deserted island.
If I told you there was an Australian guy in Jalalabad taking advantage of lax Afghan child labour laws to hawk DVDs, you probably wouldn't feel too warmly toward him. But that's (part of) what director George Gittoes is doing.
The titular Blake is played by Dave Johns, a standup comic trading in his comic craft for a more tragic role. He performs opposite single mum Katie, a character forced by the system into roles like mother, carer, thief and prostitute.
Surrounded by controversial social issues like polygamy and economic turbulence, "Emma" is an eye-opening domestic drama that tells a story about a family through a mother’s perspective. The name itself, "Emma," actually means ‘mother’ in Indonesian.
Over the last couple weeks, Happn has caught the attention of the Ubyssey staff as something that could potentially surpass Tinder and become the official dating app of Vancouver — or at least it is marketed that way.
The basic premise is that one of the best agents in Canada’s national defense? unit, Frank Johnson, has gone missing-in-action during a mission to stop a vampire geneticist, Van Cleave, from making zombies more invincible than they actually are.
The 2016 graduating class of UBC’s BFA Acting program started as a group of classmates, grew into friends and transitioned into coworkers. The eight members of the program studied in close quarters for three years in order to perfect their craft.