It’s that time of the year again when January rolls around and we feel a bit bloated from the holidays and New Years Eve shenanigans. In comes Dine Out Vancouver, an annual festival for food lovers that helps get us out of the cozy house and into restaurants we haven’t tried yet, or favourites...
The trip was a success: I had spent the month of November on the North Island of New Zealand attending the SATW convention in Wellington, did a post-trip to hike and mountain bike in Tongariro National Park, and then spent the remaining weeks travelling from Paihia and Auckland in the north, down to Rotorua...
I feature Melena in my upcoming book, Catching My Breath: Dancing my way across Canada, in a chapter about the circus scene in Montreal. Although she gives a behind-the-scenes look at life in the circus, I wanted to profile her dance career outside of Cirque du Soleil, too, which is just as impressive.
She seemed to smile up at me, her almost four metre/13 foot-long body sashaying gracefully beneath my own outstretched limbs. Her small eyes looked at me curiously before she blew bubbles that rushed up and hit me in the mask. I jolted upwards and my head shot out of the water. That beluga whale...
I was invited to Thailand this spring by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to celebrate Songkran (Thai New Year). I was lucky enough to see the Joe Louis Puppet Theatre perform (the country’s “only troupe that still performs the Hun Lakhon Lek Thai traditional small puppet play and remains the sole guardian of this...
I always try to be somewhere or do something neat on my birthday. Last year I was in Haida Gwaii for the first time, and the year before that I was step dancing in Cape Breton. This year, I was home in Vancouver, so I had to come up with something interesting. The criteria?...
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