Celebrating its 35th anniversary, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), returns to screens from August 10-20. Presented by Out On Screen, the 2023 Festival features in-person and BC province-wide digital screenings, in addition to performances by 2SLGBTQIA+ local artists, post-screening Q&As with filmmakers, industry workshops, and encore screenings of the festival favourites on August 20….
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Picks of the Week – August 18, 2021
August moves past the half-way mark with a break in the heatwave, but the city’s activities keep heating up in this week’s picks. Music: The Firehall Arts Centre’s Music In The Courtyard series is back for the summer, with more music this week including performances by; woodwind quartet Ad Mare with guest artist Julia Nolan, blues-inspired The History…
Picks Of The Week – August 14, 2013
Here we are, midway through another month with lots more summer left to go and lots to keep us on the go! River: Head out to Mission Raceway as some of country music’s biggest names; Brad Paisley, Big & Rich, Emerson Drive, Joe Nichols & more light up the stage at the Rockin’ River Music…
VQFF: Spotlight Director – Bruce LaBruce
Sunday night’s feature at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival was on the festival’s 6th Annual Spotlight Director – Bruce LaBruce. Pornographer, enfant terrible, provocateur, punk, pervert, guerrilla filmmaker, smut perveyor…these are just some of the labels applied to Bruce LaBruce over the years, sometimes in a derogatory tone, sometimes not. LaBruce certainly doesn’t shy away…