Gordon Gerrard is a conductor and the executive director of City Opera Vancouver. COV is presenting the Canadian Premiere of Sophia's Forest, by Librettist Hannah Moscovitch and composer Lembit Beecher.

Drawing inspiration from the lived experiences of many who have endured war, loss, and displacement, Sophia's Forest is a modern, contemporary piece on feeling overwhelmed by global conflict and connects us to individual stories.

Gerrard talks about COV's role is staging the show, how they are trying to change the perception of Opera, and why it is a good medium for Contemporary ideas.

The show runs May 29-June 1st at Studio T at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Visit https://cityoperavancouver.com/season/sophias-forest/ for tickets.

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Kourtney Roy is a photographer and filmmaker currently based in Paris. Her debut feature is Kryptic, a horror-thriller about a cryptid hunter that goes missing and a woman who abandons her life to search for new meaning. It is out now.

Chelsea Haberlin is a theatre creator, Artistic director of Neworld Theatre, and the director of Meeting, the debut play from Katherine Gauthier. The immersive show centres around a group therapy session and deals with 'Co-Dependents, Love and Sex Addicts Anonymous', in a small intimate space. It features groundbreaking mental health and trauma-informed practices as well as a talk-forward with the audiences.

The show runs May 14th-June 7th at the Chalmers Heritage Building in Vancouver.

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Meg Hamand is an author, short story writer, and journalist, whose work has appeared in The Plymouth Pilot News, The Effingham Daily News, Michiana Executive Journal, and 13th Hour Magazine. Her creative pieces have been featured in Hoosier Writers, Indiana English, and Internationally Yours: Prize-Winning Stories.

Her debut novel, the historical fiction tale Diamonds of Auschwitz, a intergenerational of romance, was released on March 11th.

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Jeremy Luke is an actor who has appeared in such films as Don Jon, Jersey Boys, and Sully, and was a regular cast member on the series Mob City. He stars opposite David Arquette in the new film Mob Cops, based the extraordinary true tale of cops who were working for the New York Mafia.

The film was released on Demand and Digital on April 25th.

Beth Lane is an actress-turned-documentary filmmaker whose powerful debut film Unbroken tells the story of her family's survival in the Holocaust. Using interviews with her mother and her aunts, Beth retraces the family's steps in Germany and remembers her grandmother, who was a victim in the concentration camp.

It was released on Netflix on April 23rd, which happened to be Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Maia Beresford is an actress and singer who is starring as Doralee in Royal City Musical Theatre's production of 9 to 5: The Musical, which runs from April 25-May 11 at The Massey Theatre in New Westminster.

Maia talks about channeling her inner Dolly Parton, and how everything from shoes to hairstyle creates a character. She talks about what Dolly means to people and why she is so popular and relevant today, as well as her cover band and acting in her first film!

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Tolga Karacelik is the filmmaker behind Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer, his debut English-language film. He talks about making films in America versus Europe, serial killers, and working with Steve Buscemi.The film is out now.

Josh Mendoza is an author and filmmaker whose new sci-fi novel is Shadow of the Eternal Watcher. He talks about the process for a film versus a novel, sci-fi, fandom, and all things spooky. The book is out now.

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Torsten Ruther and Luii are the director of the new film Uppercut, which is a remake of their German film of the same name. An old retired gym owner and former boxer, meets his protege, a young female boxer from Europe, forming a mismatched alliance.

The film is available now

It's triple fun Tuesday! Kiana Madeira - best known for her roles on Trinkets and the Fear Street trilogy and Lovell Adams-Gray (Power Book II: Ghost) talk about their experience working on Morningside, a new Canadian film from writer-director Ron Dias. What does it mean to be Canadian? How will the current trade war era affect Canadian storytelling? Seeing Toronto as a character on screen. These are the deep questions we get into.

The film was released on February 21, with additional cities coming on February 28th.

You may have Aylet Zurer on screen in both film (Angels & Demons) and Television (Daredevil). Now, she is set to star as Queen Ahinoam in the new Amazon Prime Series House of David, a show which marks Jon Erwin's first foray into scripted television. Can a secular audience enjoy a faith-based program? Yes, as long as the story is there.

The series premieres February 27th.

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes is the writer-director behind My Dead Friend Zoe, which is based off of his experiences serving in an Iraq and a tribute to veterans all over. Let's talk about PTSD and trauma, and let's acknowledge their existence.

The film will be released on February 28th.

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Francesca Piscopo is a dancer and choreographer originally from Italy and now living in Vancouver. She is the artistic associated of DanceHouse, which is staging a production of La Ciudad de los Otros by Colombian dance troupe Sankofa Danzafro. The show runs February 21 & 22 at the Vancouver Playhouse.

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Rob Tregenza is a cinematographer and film director whose debut feature Talking With Strangers caught the attention of Jean-Luc Godard, which led to their collaboration Inside/Out. He also talks about working with the great Bela Tarr.

Rob's new film is The Fishing Place, a WW2 Holocaust film set and filmed in Norway in both Norwegian and german. Rob talks about making a film in a language he doesn't speak, the cultural rise in popularity of the Norwegian Resistance movement, Scandinavian cinema, and his theory on the film being set in the present day. He also shares a wild Christopher Doyle story.

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