Arts & Life

By ROSE LEUNG Vancouver Fashion Week’s decision to name fast-fashion giant Shein as one of their featured designers has sparked outrage among some members of the fashion community. Shein has a well-documented history of complaints for…

By Philomena Okolo Nina Zarabi an Iranian filmmaker who left her home country to pursue dreams of creative freedom after years of facing strict censorship. “It is very hard for a female director to break through on their own,” said…

By MILENA BAAK Levon Kendall, a former member of the Canadian national basketball team who represented Canada at the 2010 FIBA World Championship, enjoyed a successful career playing professionally in Europe before retiring from the…

By JUAN DIAZ LOPEZ Langara’s 2025 Artist in Residence, Pooya Nabei, shares stories of immigrants as they transition to a new life in his new project, An Old Reverie. Having immigrated from Iran to Canada when he was 17, Nabei’s…

By EHRIN LOPEZ An important immigrant support centre in Vancouver is being forced to close due to budget cuts. Since 2008, the Skilled Immigrant InfoCentre (SIIC) has been assisting newcomers to navigate employment opportunities in…

By TUAN TRAN Local activist choir hits all the right notes in the fight for social justice. Solidarity in Notes, created in March 2000 with the support of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, has become a stable presence in the…

By TUAN TRAN & DANIEL BUMANGLAG Langara international students coming from a more earthquake-vulnerable country can provide helpful and lesser-known tips for people in B.C., a seismically active zone. Katrina Mirambel, former…

By ROSE LEUNG After facing rejection from publishers due to lack of experience, Max Moreno, a student in the Langara English program, turned to self-publishing. His second novel recently won the Literary Titan Silver Book Award which…