FESTIVAL
EXHIBITIONS
STARWEAVER @ PAUSE | JULY 6-15
Sandeep Johal + Debra Sparrow
MUSEUM BHAVAN | JULY 5-15
Dayanita Singh & nine artists
SCHEDULE OF
EVENTS
OPENING PARTY | JULY 5
With Vikram Vij & Guest Chefs
Culinary / Music
PAUSE—GRATITUDE SONG | JULY 6
A musical tribute to Coast Salish lands
Music / Ideas
PAUSE—MYTHICAL VANCOUVER | JULY 6
Stories about place
Music / Dance / Performance
PAUSE IN THE PARK | JULY 7, 8, 14, 15
Free Weekend Series
Music / Art / Dance / Ideas
CONFLUENCE | JULY 7
Music, Poetry and Song
Literature / Ideas / Music
5×15 | JULY 7
Five speakers. Fifteen minutes each.
Literature / Ideas
PAUSE—TIFFIN TALKS | JULY 8-13
A lunchtime ideas series
Ideas
HISTORIES & MYSTERIES | JULY 8
A walking tour of Kitsilano
Ideas / History
BEHIND THE CURTAIN | JULY 8
A Kutiyattam Workshop
History / Theatre
LIVING LEGENDS | JULY 9
Kutiyattam Sanskrit Theatre
Theatre
A THROW OF DICE | JULY 10
With VIFF
Film
YOGA | JULY 12
To Mortify or Cultivate the Body?
Ideas
THE POETRY OF AMAZEMENT | JULY 12
With Vikram Chandra
Literature / Ideas
SITA SINGS THE BLUES | JULY 14
With VIFF and MoV
Film
HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA | JULY 14
A Rare Concert from the Living Legend
Music
SONGS FOR SCHEHERAZADE | JULY 15
Allegra Chamber Orchestra + M. Assani
Music / Culinary
2018 FESTIVAL THEME
Mythmaking
People have always longed to know where we come from, why the world came to be and why things are the way they are.
And so for millennia, we have sat around fires, gathered under trees and in hillside amphitheatres, weaving stories that account for the unseen forces that shape our lives. It is our fictions that define us, our ability to generate and believe in a collective myth that makes us unique as a species. Our myths can be large and existential, but also central to the way we function — whether the many creation myths that explain our existence and define our identities, or the more functional fictions of the concept of money, or the concept of the nation that allow us to operate on common ground.
ISF 2018 takes on this massive theme, and examines ten centuries of human imagination and storytelling. We present a continent-spanning range of artists, from the inheritors of ancient oral storytelling traditions to genre-defying musicians, award-winning novelists, and provocative visual artists.
Join us in what we promise will be the most eclectic, exciting and nourishing two weeks this summer.
FEATURED
Artists
