Arts aficionado Kristin Cheung tells us about the 24-hour Drawing Party coming up August 10-11th at the Project Space in China Town; Three's Company: A Collaboration with Ray Hsu, Leanne Dunnic & David Spenst Aug 12 at Hogan's Alley; A tribute to animator Paul Boyd.

Flora from the Queer Arts Festival fills us in on upcoming events including the lesbian opera, "When the Sun Comes Out", & Yamantaka//SONIC TITAN. Sara reviews the Transgression Now art exhibit at the Roundhouse Community Centre and talks about "Beyond the Labyrinth: In Search of John Dowland", an event featured in the Early Music Society's Summer Festival.

Sara talks about "Crazy Wisdom", a documentary in the International Buddhist Film Festival and plays her interview with scholar Dr. Robert Thurman who sits on the Board of the Festival. The Queer Arts Festival opens tonight! We talked with Chris Morrisey of the Rainbow Refugee Committee and Mark Bentley Cohen about his one man play "Bi, Hung, Fit, and Married."

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Tom Anselmi of the Arrival Agency talks about the renovation at the new Fox Theatre; Curator Cate Rimmer fills us in about the erotic art featured in "Tatoos & Scrimshaw: The Art of the Sailor" at the Vancouver Maritime Museum; Arts Reporter Rohit Jospeh tells us abut the Indian Summer Festival!