In the fall of 2018, a team of creative people came together under a partnership between Skwah First Nation and the Artist Response Team (ART) to create school curriculum merging the importance of environmental awareness with Stó:lō language, songs and stories. Thus was born Good Medicine Songs / Éy St’elmexw St’elt’ílém.

The band will be at the Mission Folk Music Festival on Saturday, July 24, at 6 pm on the main stage.

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Folk Mission Festival:
http://missionfolkmusicfestival.ca/

Artist profile:
http://missionfolkmusicfestival.ca/artist/good-medicine-songs-ey-stelmexw-steltilem/

Artist Response Team:
https://www.artistresponseteam.com/goodmedicinesongs

Gerry Kowalenko talks with Rachel Peake, the director of Something Rotten, one of the musicals presented at this year Theatre Under the Star.

“ In the streets of Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare is a Renaissance rock star while playwright siblings Nick and Nigel Bottom are stuck in his shadow.

Desperate to write a hit show, the Bottom brothers enlist the aid of a mysterious soothsayer who foresees they can beat the Bard’s success by creating a brand new form of theatre… the musical!”

The show runs until August 26 at the Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park.

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TUTS:
https://tuts.ca/show/something-rotten/

Rachel Peake:
https://www.rachelpeake.com/

Arts Rational’s Gerry Kowalenko talks with Michelle Demers Shaevitz, Artistic and Executive Director of the Mission Folk Music Festival. She travels nationally and internationally to hear bands and participate in showcases.

The 35th Mission Folk Music Festival runs from July 22 to 24 at the Fraser River Heritage Park.

More info:
https://missionfolkmusicfestival.ca/

Arts Rational Gerry Kowalenko talks with Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg about the presentation of her piece “Pants” at Dance on the Edge on July 15 and 16.

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Dancing on the Edge
http://www.dancingontheedge.org/program/calder-white-tara-cheyenne-performance/

Tara Cheyenne Performance:
https://www.taracheyenne.com/

“Rebecca Margolick is a Canadian dancer and choreographer living in New York. Her multi-disciplinary and solo works have been presented in Costa Rica, France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel, and across the U.S and Canada. She was named one of Dance Magazines Top 25 to Watch in 2021. Her solo Bunker + Vault won the Jury Prize for “best indoor choreographic work” at the 2019 Festival Quartiers Danse in Montreal.”

Bunker + Vault Is presented at Dancing on the Edge on July 15 and 16 at the Firehall Arts Centre.

For more info:

Dancing on the Edge:
http://www.dancingontheedge.org/program/rebecca-margolick-kate-franklin-jeremy-oneill/

Rebecca Margolick:
https://www.rebeccamargolick.com/