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How Aidan Faminoff Turned Seventeen Years of Competitive Diving into Vancouver’s Premier Drag Night

Before Hazel and the sequins, the stunts, and the sold-out rooms, there was a diving board. For seventeen years, Aidan Faminoff trained as a competitive diver, representing Team Canada at the national level and earning an athletic scholarship to Florida State University, where he completed a degree in Sports Management. That kind of career demands...

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Future Geographies: The Only Question that Matters

What does it feel like to stand at the edge of ecological collapse — and still choose to imagine something worth saving? That is the provocation at the heart of Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change, opening this month at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It is not a comfortable question. It is,...

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Karen Lam: The Road That Keeps Opening

Fate, free will, and the things that chase you down a dark road — for most people, those are abstract concepts. For Karen Lam, they are a filmography. The Vancouver-based writer, director, and co-founder of Black Opiate Entertainment did not arrive at filmmaking by the obvious route. She came through law, tax credits, a Manitoba...

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Aphist Sid: The Shape of What Remains @ Gallery Merrick

It is not the most obvious pairing — a Bangkok-born conceptual painter and a gallery on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Yet the representation of Aphist Sid by Gallery Merrick in Victoria, British Columbia feels less like an accident of geography than a curatorial statement of intent. Sid has been earning serious attention for...

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Vadym Kholodenko x Fazioli x Rosewood Hotel Georgia

There are evenings in a city that arrive without announcement and leave an impression that simply does not fade. In the early days of May, Vancouver was host to something genuinely extraordinary — and it began not on a concert stage, but in the relaxed elegance of the Georgia Bar at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia....

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Helen Siwak – Issue #41 – Publisher’s Message

West Coast spring does not ease in — it insists. One morning the city simply decides, and everyone adjusts accordingly. Terraces fill. Markets return. People move differently through streets that, weeks ago, asked nothing of them. Issue 41 of Folio.YVR arrives in the middle of all of it, and it arrives with something to say....

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Folio.YVR Issue 41 Sails into Spring with Riverside Luxury Cruises, 11 Stories & Seasonal Extraordinary Experiences

[This press release originally published on May 13, 2006 on EINPresswire Here: https://www.einpresswire.com/article/912401916/folio-yvr-issue-41-sails-into-spring-with-riverside-luxury-cruises-11-stories-seasonal-extraordinary-experiences] Canada’s only ecoluxury lifestyle magazine launches its spring issue spanning river cruising, drag, film, food, fashion, fine art, classical music, and love. VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, May 13, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine announces the release of Issue 41 — a spring edition...

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IOPE: A Korean Skincare Pioneer Makes Its Canadian Debut

Hey Beauties! If you have ever believed that your skin deserves more than a pretty bottle and a compelling promise, IOPE just arrived in Canada to prove you right. Before IOPE landed on Canadian shelves, it arrived in a dermatologist’s office. Board-certified cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Katie Beleznay of Humphrey & Beleznay Cosmetic Dermatology hosted a...

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Where Voices Rise: The Resound Gala Celebrates Chor Leoni

Vancouver’s choral arts community gathered in fine form for the Resound Gala, the annual fundraiser supporting Chor Leoni and the singular work this ensemble brings to the city. The evening unfolded with the warmth and precision one has come to expect from an event of this calibre — polished in every detail, and genuinely moving...

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Vancouver’s FIFA Moment Has Arrived — And You Need to Be Here

FIFA World Cup 2026™ has officially kicked off, and Vancouver is one of just 16 host cities across North America chosen to be part of the biggest single sporting event in human history. This is not just a sports tournament — it is a once-in-a-generation cultural moment unfolding right in our backyard. BC Place will host...