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My friend Twyla Bella is 6 years old. She lives on Bowen Island, and I’ve known her parents for many years. Her Mother is Gail Lotenberg, the choreographer a group of behavioural...
Sculptor and scientist Lee Gass promotes two upcoming events. One event is Experiments, an evening-length dance production about the essence of scientific creativity. He has been collaborating with
They say too many cooks spoil the soup, and I’m sure that must be true in general. When Lucretia and I cook together, one of us is always the executive chef (and guess who that usually is) and...
Sometimes creativity is an individual thing, but it also runs in families. It can also run in whole communities and cultures. Last fall, during a fascinating 2-day meeting in Tofino, I learned about
Our neighbor Diane told us a story that impressed me deeply. She was working in her garden one autumn when she heard an apple fall from one of Klaus’s trees across the road. Within seconds, she hear
Once a biologist always a biologist, I guess, and once a teacher always a teacher. There's no escaping it. Decades of wondering about what's going on behind the scenes in the living world doesn't go
Consider yourself invited to the Quadra Island Studio Tour, the weekend of June 5 and 6, 2010. With 30 artists participating this year, we have nearly everything: sculptors, painters, potters...
Is the need to create imprinted in the human genes? Otherwise, why would artists continue to make art while facing a life of poverty and few rewards? The mystery of the urge to create is a universal,
Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Olympics. The current 2010 Winter Olympics frenzy in Vancouver leads me to reflect on high-level athletic performance, particularly in terms of the physiology of the "la
It is a very special event when the sun comes through my studio window in the wintertime. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does my life literally lights up with joy, insight, and revelation.
