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West coast poets and authors get their close-up

November 22nd, 2012 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on West coast poets and authors get their close-up)

A new book capturing the images of some of the west coast’s most admired authors and poets has been launched

A new book called 111 West Coast Literary Portraits features rare portraits of emerging, mid-career and well-known writers who have lived in British Columbia, accompanied by excerpts of their writing. Photographers Barry Peterson and Blaise Enright began photographing writers in 1998, travelling the Coast and Gulf Islands seeking the famous and infamous. They took pictures of writers in their personal spaces, intimate portraits of B.C.’s best, most honoured, as well as emerging, literary talent. (more…)

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The great house concert tour of 2013 on its way

November 22nd, 2012 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (0 Comments)

If you’d like to invite Eric Harper to bring his award-winning music into your home, you can join his house concert tour

Award-winning guitarist Eric Harper has plans for 2013—and you could be a part of those plans. He says: “I’d love to do a House Concert Tour but I’m in need of House Concert hosts. Basically, someone who’s willing to host a concert in their living room just for the sake of having live music in their home. If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in hosting a House Concert* please let me know. I want to start the tour in January 2013. But all the planning has to start now.” (more…)

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Artist explores motherhood and her ‘double life’

October 11th, 2012 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Artist explores motherhood and her ‘double life’)

Sara Robichaud’s exploration is shaped and informed by objects of personal and symbolic significance in her life

Nanaimo artist Sara Robichaud’s latest collection, Double Life, is a series of large-scale acrylic paintings that explore the various roles in her life. The birth of her daughter, Amelie, set in motion what seems to be a creative meditation about life, from birth to death, and the roles a mother—who also happens to be an artist—inhabits.

Intensely personal and symbolic objects inform the wider work in Double Life—including the  scales, surfaces, and colours Sara uses [opens to PDF]. “Like the personal objects that I use as inspiration, the paintings themselves become reminders of certain phases of my life—reflecting what was happening and how I felt,” she says. (more…)

Master sax man brings inspiring message

September 6th, 2012 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Master sax man brings inspiring message)

Juno award-winning master musician and composer Phil Dwyer has battled with addiction and mental illness

Phil Dwyer’s 2012 Juno award for the incredibly ambitious Changing Seasons is the latest in a “resume full of examples of his genuinely adventurous creative spirit,” says the Juno website. Changing Seasons was awarded “Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year.”

The Changing Seasons suite marks a new stage in Phil Dwyer‘s development as an artist, writes Nou Dadoun at VancouverJazz.com.  The theme running through the composition is change, described by Phil as:  “Changing weather, changing climatic conditions, the changing economic structure of the world and some big changes in my own life.  It’s a call to acknowledge the fact of all these changes taking place and a query as to what are we going to do about it.” (more…)

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Master sax man brings inspiring message

September 6th, 2012 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Master sax man brings inspiring message)

Juno award-winning master musician and composer Phil Dwyer has battled with addiction and mental illness

Phil Dwyer’s 2012 Juno award for the incredibly ambitious Changing Seasons is the latest in a “resume full of examples of his genuinely adventurous creative spirit,” says the Juno website. Changing Seasons was awarded “Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year.”

The Changing Seasons suite marks a new stage in Phil Dwyer‘s development as an artist, writes Nou Dadoun at VancouverJazz.com.  The theme running through the composition is change, described by Phil as:  “Changing weather, changing climatic conditions, the changing economic structure of the world and some big changes in my own life.  It’s a call to acknowledge the fact of all these changes taking place and a query as to what are we going to do about it.” (more…)

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Inside William Kurelek’s surrealistic world of art

July 5th, 2012 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Inside William Kurelek’s surrealistic world of art)

Extraordinary film looks into artist’s mind, fears, and his questions about whether he was really even human

William Kurelek’s The Maze is a documentary about the life of celebrated Canadian artist William Kurelek, dramatically told through his paintings and his on camera revelations. The film takes an intimate look into the life of one of the 20th century’s most fascinating artists and his struggles with attempted suicide and a self professed “spiritual crisis”. Kurelek describes “The Maze” as a painting he painted while in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. (more…)

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