Celebrating 15 years of cultural resistance, Canada’s largest political arts festival, the Under The Volcano festival of Art & Social Change, will be held again this year at Whey-Ah-Wichen (Cates Park), in North Vancouver, on the traditional territory of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Sunday, August 8th.
A child of Vancouver’s active indie music scene in the late 1980s, and largely youth-oriented in it’s early days, Under the Volcano has emerged as a successful and enduring cultural tool to educate and inspire alternatives to the overwhelmingly oppressive forces of patriarchy, racism, and capitalism.
For those living in, or near, Vancouver, see ya there next Sunday …

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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