Above: Jacob Amoah (7)
Asebu, Ghana
It’s 6:30 am in Asebu, a rural community in central Ghana. All of the orphans at Asebu’s Home of Hope are fetching water for their morning baths, all of them except Jacob. ‘Jo’ as he is sometimes called, is hiding in the bushes behind his home with feces running down […]
Jul
5
Promises, promises (by Sean Devlin)
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Mar
14
Love Lost and the Hippie Movement: thank you Dr. Gonzo
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“[During the Hippie Movement]…You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need […]
Jan
15
STORYFEAST 2008: International Storytelling Festival
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16th Annual Vancouver International Storytelling Festival
February 1-3, 2008
The Vancouver International Storytelling Festival celebrates its 16th year with “a feast of tales and tales of feasts”…a three-day-long cornucopia of performances by professional storytellers, on the theme of food for mind, body and soul. Local favourites like Pepe Danza, Melanie Ray and Lucia Frangione join […]
Apr
22
Still Writing…
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I’m busy writing EWB Articles but, if you are seeing this page, my account is ready to go…
Apr
1
The Commodified: the original street fashion blog
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Photos courtesy of Craig Long “The Commodified”.
Although the blog hasn’t even been running online for a year yet, it has drastically grown and acquired a permanent, ever-growing reader base, not just in Vancouver but all over the world. Listed under such blog sites as “Facehunter“, “The Commodified” is the ONLY official Vancouver street fashion blog […]
