THE OTHER SIDE
Where: Nanaimo Art Gallery, 150 Commercial St.
When: Oct. 5-Jan. 12
Admission: Free (donations accepted)
Why: A new exhibition of photo-based artworks by Vancouver’s Michelle Sound and Nanaimo’s Eliot White-Hill opens this weekend at Nanaimo Art Gallery. The Other Side is the latest in an ongoing series at the gallery to explore relations between land, family and ancestors through the medium of photography. Sound (a Cree and Métis visual artist) and White-Hill (a Vancouver Island University graduate from Snuneymuxw First Nation) use digitally altered historical photographs with which to convey their message, adding everything from sculpture and cyanotypes printed on elk hide drums to render the images anew. Cutting edge, critical stuff.
RICEBOY SLEEPS
Where: Shaw Auditorium, 101 Gordon St., Nanaimo
When: Sunday, Oct. 6, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Tickets: $15 through nifss.ca
Why: The newly formed Nanaimo International Film Screening Society has chosen a whopper of a film with which to kick off its inaugural season: Riceboy Sleeps. The acclaimed indie drama, which was named best Canadian film by the Toronto Film Critics Association and won key awards at the Toronto International Film Festival, is being screened twice Sunday at the Vancouver Island Convention Centre in Nanaimo, the first event in a monthly series for the theatre-starved city. The gala will feature music, food, cash bar and silent auction, but the star of the show will be this superb film about a single mother from Korea raising her young son in the suburbs of Canada in the 1990s. It’s a coming-of-age classic.
IM:PRINT 2024
Where: Phoenix Theatre at UVic
When: Oct. 5-12
Tickets: $12-$30 from 250-721-8000 or phoenixtheatres.ca
Why: The University of Victoria and Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria are partnering for a multi-disciplinary event with matinee and evening events celebrating belonging, identity and place. Im:Print 2024 turns its attention to the stories by Indigenous, immigrant, newcomer, and settler artists told through dance, music, spoken word, and storytelling. The all-star team of facilitators include Monique Salez, Krystal Cook, Francis Matheu, Yasmine Kandil and Paulina Grainger, among others.
