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Photos of war and resistance in Colombia

May 12, 2006
| Jesus Abad Colorado is a photojournalist from Colombia. An exhibition of his recent photos in on display in Vancouver. Laura Lamb went to see it.

13:15 minutes (12.14 MB)
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Palestine, Israel and me

May 17, 2006
| Laura Lamb reviews a forum theatre production that grapples with the political fallout in Canada of events in the Middle East.

14:53 minutes (13.63 MB)
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Leila Khaled Hijacker

June 2, 2006
| A review of a new film by Swedish filmmaker Lina Makboul about Leila Khaled who hijacked two planes in 1969 and 1970.

13:52 minutes (12.7 MB)
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Art School Confidential

June 10, 2006
| Laura Lamb has spent a lot of time in art schools - both as a student and a teacher. She shares her thoughts on the new satire by Terry Zwigoff.

11:43 minutes (10.74 MB)
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Avant-garde theatre and puppetry

February 1, 2007
| Three productions at the recent PUSH Festival of the Performing Arts in Vancouver use puppets to explore the nature of theatre.

14:47 minutes (13.54 MB)
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Mount Pleasant

February 8, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews Ross Weber's new movie set in the Vancouver neighbourhood where she lives.

13:44 minutes (12.58 MB)
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Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre

February 19, 2007
| Laura Lamb takes issue with the current exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, billed as "the history of staged photography from 1840 to the present".

15:37 minutes (14.3 MB)
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Hippies and Bolsheviks

March 9, 2007
| Amiel Gladstone's new play is set in the Kitsilano of the 1970s.

11:54 minutes (10.9 MB)
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Mother Courage and Her Children

March 13, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews a new production of Brecht's masterpiece playing in Vancouver until March 17.

14:30 minutes (13.28 MB)
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Klimt

March 31, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews the film by Raoul Ruiz about the turn of the 20th century painter Gustave Klimt.

14:18 minutes (13.1 MB)
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The Walls of Nablus

April 27, 2007
| A photo exhibition of walls in an ancient Palestinian city has Laura Lamb reflecting on expressionism, photography and the convention of the picturesque.

13:02 minutes (11.94 MB)
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My Kid Could Paint That

November 9, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews Amir Bar-Lev's documentary about a 4-year-old who paints like Jackson Pollock.

12:34 minutes (11.51 MB)
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The Black Rider

January 30, 2008
| Laura Lamb reviews this theatrical collaboration between Tom Waits, William Burroughs and Robert Wilson.

13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)
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Kuba and Paradise

February 29, 2008
| Laura Lamb reviews two works by the Turkish video artist Kutlug Ataman currently showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

15:14 minutes (13.95 MB)
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That Night Follows Day

February 13, 2009
| A play at Vancouver PUSH festival catalogues how parents and other adults shape children's perceptions and understanding of the world. Laura Lamb joins us with a review.

13:29 minutes (12.35 MB)
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The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony

May 28, 2009
| A visual art installation by Jerry Zaslove metaphorically recreates a machine of torture from a Franz Kafka short story.

14:42 minutes (13.45 MB)
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Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art

July 6, 2009
| The current show at the Vancouver Art Gallery showcases Dutch art at a time when the merchant class was becoming the ruling class.

14:18 minutes (13.09 MB)
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Othello: a study in paradox

July 10, 2009
| Laura Lamb reflects on Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy playing this summer at Vancouver's Bard on the Beach festival.

17:12 minutes (15.75 MB)
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Woodblock prints show images from Iraq war

September 28, 2009
| L.A. artist Sandow Birk uses a centuries-old technique to transform images from the Iraq war into prints reminiscent of Goya and Callot.

13:51 minutes (12.69 MB)
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Urban homesteading in Pasadena

November 27, 2009
| Laura Lamb reviews Homegrown, a movie about a family of urban homesteaders in California who produce all their own food on a city lot.

11:35 minutes (10.61 MB)
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Bata Colony: A shoe magnate's utopian dream

December 1, 2009
| The video documentary Colony by Cinema Suitcase examines a crumbling outpost of the Bata Shoe Company in Batanagar, India. Laura Lamb shares her thoughts about the film.

16:07 minutes (14.76 MB)
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More than just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics

January 15, 2010
| A new exhibit at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre takes a critical look at how the 1936 Olympic Games were used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis.

16:15 minutes (14.88 MB)
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Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

February 2, 2010
| In 2005, James Long found a suitcase full of photographs in an alley in East Vancouver. That chance find led to this play currently showing at the PUSH International Performing Arts Festival.

15:03 minutes (13.78 MB)
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The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan

March 3, 2010
| A new play by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop imagines a Don Juan released from hell to warn us not to do what he did. Laura Lamb went to see the production and shares her thoughts.

12:15 minutes (11.22 MB)
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Arms and The Man

March 25, 2010
| Theatre at UBC is staging a new production of George Bernard Shaw's famous anti-war play. Laura Lamb went to see the play and shares her thoughts.

11:57 minutes (10.95 MB)
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Mump and Smoot

June 1, 2010
| Canada's so-called horror clowns bring their new production Cracked to the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Laura Lamb shares her thoughts on the show.

14:13 minutes (13.02 MB)
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Herr Beckmann's People

June 16, 2010
| A new play by Victoria playwright Sally Stubbs has won the third annual Canadian Peace Play competition. Laura Lamb went to see the production by Touchstone Theatre.

14:34 minutes (13.35 MB)
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Besa: Muslims who saved Jews in World War II

July 21, 2010
| A new art exhibit in Vancouver explores the little-known history of Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during the Second World War.

16:23 minutes (15 MB)