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Larissa Healey is now used to donning the 20-pound-plus regalia worn when grass dancing, but the two-spirit Anishinaabe artist didn’t grow up celebrating Indigenous arts and culture. Healey was a Sixties Scoop baby, stolen from their family and adopted out in the Canadian government’s effort to erase their people. Through powwows at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre and meeting other Indigenous folks in the arts, Healey began to reconnect with their heritage in adulthood. “It’s been awesome, brutal work— the healing process is hardcore,” says Healey. “But your insight and foresight become farther when you deal with your trauma.” As a grass dancer, Healey’s responsibility is to bless the ground through movement: their flexibility and fluidity mimics the way tall grass moves in the wind.

It’s a complex and meaningful art, but one that the dancer’s background in martial arts well-prepared them for. Healey grew up practicing kung fu, kickboxing and Brazilian jiu jitsu. That, in addition to their work in sculpture and graffiti (which has been exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Bill Reid Gallery and National Gallery of Canada), informs the discipline and passion that makes their dancing so compelling. “When you hit that happy spot with that drumbeat, your ancestors are there,” says Healey. “They will put their hands on your elbows, and help carry you. I am so proud to be able to hold that space.”

Healey will be performing at the opening of the DTES Heart of the City Festival on October 27. Full details on page 78.

Fall into Culture

Cozy up to the best events in the city.

by Alyssa Hirose

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FLAMENCO FESTIVAL

DATE September 4 to 26 VENUE Varies COST Varies, many events free vancouverflamencofestival.org Outside and online, the Vancouver International Flamenco Fest is all Canadian this year. Live performances will take place at the Waterfront Theatre and at the Picnic Pavilion at Granville Island. If you can’t have fun at a flamenco show, seek treatment.

VANCOUVER FRINGE FESTIVAL

DATE September 9 to 19 VENUE Venue Various COST Varies vancouverfringe.com Vancouver’s weirdest theatre festival is back, and you can bet all the performers in the city have been itching to get silly (and serious) on stage. Expect both live performances and pre-recorded shows in this year’s hybrid fest.

SONGS OF SUMMER

DATE September 11 VENUE Gateway Theatre COST $20 gatewaytheatre.com In the conclusion to their outdoor concert series, Richmond’s Gateway Theatre is spotlighting dynamic duo Krystle Dos Santos and Steffanie Davis. Their upbeat contemporary funk and soul is the perfect mood booster for the greyer days ahead.

MONSTERCAT COMPOUND

DATE September 18 VENUE 380 Railway Street COST Free with RSVP monstercat.com This annual (save for last year) outdoor block party is an electronic music lover’s paradise, with live tunes, art and gaming. Entry is free, but for $25 you can treat yourself to a private bar and viewing area.

COMEDYPANTS

DATE September 18 & October 2 VENUE China Cloud Studios COST $15 eventbrite.ca This monthly comedy show returns to a newly renovated China Cloud (so they’ll be clowning around on an actual stage, rather than on the charming but small rug the performers used to stand on). ComedyPants is hosted by local jokesters Alistair Ogden and An-Te Chu and features special guests from around the city.

TRANSFORM CABARET FESTIVAL

DATE September 23 to October 2 VENUE Online and the Historic Theatre at the Cultch COST From $15 online, from $29 in person transformcabaret.com There’s something for everyone at this fest: think theatre, music, comedy, drag, burlesque and circus. The 10-daylong extravaganza spotlights both local and international Indigenous artists, with a focus on unity and empowerment. Catch it online at home or attend a viewing party at the Historic Theatre.

Duckie, a show at East Van’s Transform Cabaret Festival

Steffanie Davis and Krystle Dos Santos at Gateway Theatre’s Songs of Summer

Alistair Ogden, ComedyPants

An Eric Metcalfe mural from Teeth, Loan and Trust Company, Consolidated: The Trylowsky Collection VSO’s Back to the Future in Concert

TEETH, LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, CONSOLIDATED: THE TRYLOWSKY COLLECTION

DATE September 24 to December 11 VENUE Griffin Art Projects COST Free griffinartprojects.ca This is a collection of dental office art (stay with us) from Dr. Zenon Trylowsky. But unlike most kitschy, seaside-focused dental decor, this is a gallerylike collection Trylowsky curated through pro bono work. He’d get art as a thank-you— the ideal exchange for artists without dental plans.

VSO’S BACK TO THE FUTURE IN CONCERT

DATE September 24 & 25 VENUE Orpheum Theatre COST From $32 vancouversymphony.ca Sure, we can see movies in theatres again, but the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is doing us one better. Films with live orchestra music are back at the Orpheum, and first in the lineup is Back to the Future. A fitting choice, as we’re all now well aware that time is liquid.

HARVEST HAUS

DATE October 8 to 10 VENUE PNE Agrodome COST From $35 harvesthaus.com It’s stein time. On the menu at this traditional German celebration is spaetzle, pretzels, bratwurst, schnitzel and, of course, plenty of beer (that includes both German bier and local craft brews). The oompah band plays bangers only.

YOKO ONO: GROWING FREEDOM

DATE October 9 to May 1 VENUE Vancouver Art Gallery COST $24 for adults vanartgallery.bc.ca This new exhibit invites the viewer to take part in the artistic process, creating a unique collaborative method that Yoko Ono herself pioneered. Through mending broken china, hammering nails and writing notes about your mom, you get to be part of the art.

EMERGENCE: OUT OF SHADOWS

DATE October 10 VENUE Online COST Free kdocsff.com KDocsFF, our city’s leading social justice film festival, brings you the premiere of this gripping documentary. It follows three South Asian queer people living in Vancouver, and how they resist silence—and find compassion—within their conservative families.

Grace Eiko Thomson, Heart of the City Festival

Vancouver Fall Home Show

Yoko Ono

VANCOUVER FALL HOME SHOW

DATE October 14 to 17 VENUE Vancouver Convention Centre COST $16 for adults vancouverfallhomeshow.com The ideal event when you’re looking for home inspo: hundreds of booths, home experts and swoon-worthy displays. You’ll need a blueprint to tackle this one.

HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL

DATE October 27 to November 7 VENUE Online and throughout the Downtown Eastside COST Varies heartcityfest.com This Downtown Eastside community festival is bursting with talent. Highlights include a reading from author Grace Eiko Thomson, an extraordinary archival collection of Chinese Canadian social movements from Sid Tow Chan and, of course, performance from grass dancer Larissa Healey, featured on page 75.