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New translation of Tremblay's moving portrait of an extraordinary "ordinary" woman in this Chalmers Award-winning play. Cast of 6 women.

The world's first battlefield photographs, taken under fire at the battle of Fish Creek, Saskatchewan, during the War of 1885.

Award-winning playwright Panych turns Waiting for Godot into a comedy while simultaneously heightening its profound questions. Cast of 3 men.

A young woman embarks upon an emotionally resonant journey in search of a peaceful new life.

A dark and thoroughly contemporary comedy. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

Exposes the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror." Cast of 4 men.

A lifetime's devotion to the music of Mozart conceals a gruesome secret. Cast of 4 women.

Seven life stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, giving voice to women who are seldom heard on their own terms.

A fusty academic falls in love with a young actor who also has a four-year-old son.

This stunning full-colour historical atlas brings to life Vancouver's first fourteen decades.

History of the 18-year critical collaboration between the late bpNichol and Steve McCaffery and its resulting intellectual growth.

Traces the development of poet laureate George Bowering's many writings through four decades.

A Maritime family's tragedy, set in a raging storm. Cast of 2 women and 5 men.

In They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever, 'Nlaka' pamux elder Annie York explains the red ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley in British Columbia. This is perhaps the first time that a Native elder has presented a detailed and comprehensive explanation of rock art images from her people's culture. As Annie York's narratives unfold, we are taken back to the fresh wonder of childhood, as well as to a time in human society when people and animals lived together in one psychic dimension. This book describes, among many other things, the solitary spiritual meditations of young people in the mountains, a form of education once essential to all those who wished to succeed in life with their particular talents. Astrological predictions, herbal medicine, winter spirit dancing, hunting, shamanism, respect for nature, midwifery, birth and death, are some of the topics that emerge from Annie's reading of the trail signs and other cultural symbols painted on the rocks. She firmly believed that this knowledge should be published so that the general public could understand why, as she put it, "The Old People reverenced those sacred places like that Stein." They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever opens a discussion of some of the issues in rock art research that relate to "notating" and "writing" on the landscape, around the world and through the millennia. This landmark publication presents a well-reasoned hypothesis to explain the evolution of symbolic or iconic writing from sign language, trail signs and from the geometric and iconic imagery of the dreams and visions of shamans and neophyte hunters. This book suggests that the resultant images, written or painted on stone, constitute a Protoliteracy which has assisted, for millennia, both the conceptualization and communication of hunting peoples' histories, philosophies, morals and ways of life, and prepared the human mind for the economic, sociological and intellectual developments - including alphabetic written language - which have propelled human history into the modern era.

Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a "semi-documentary" National film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. Meigs spent two years writing this extraordinary narrative, which begins as her story of being in the film and unfolds into a gentle, intricate meditation on the experience of time, old age, magic and binding. Time becomes still and circular as the women's self-images and film images, their past and present, are bound inextricably with the filmmaker's vision. Interwoven with Meigs' reflections on time, aging, and the phenomenon of film, are her portraits of each cast member on and off camera. The eight women are strangers who first become company, then friends.