Claire Donnan

The WISE Hall, an unassuming brown structure in a quiet area of East Van, was the new home of this year’s iteration of a long-standing independent music festival. In the past, it has typically boasted 70–80 acts across multiple days and venues. The 32nd year of Music Waste, however, looked quite different. It was more modest, with six local acts sharing one stage this past Sunday, on June 7. Julia McDougall, one of the event organizers, said it was a rebuilding year for the festival.

Behind the curtained-off entrance down one of the Museum of Anthropology’s long hallways, dozens of robes, beautifully designed, detail the life and history of a Haida woman and her family. The new exhibit, I Use My Haida Eyes, will run from May 14 to Oct. 12 at the MOA.

There wasn’t an empty seat to be seen in the Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre, packed to the brim last Friday night for SUBA Trio’s concert of Afro-Caribbean fusion. The three musicians entered, the crowd screamed and then sat as the musicians played for an almost-uninterrupted two hours. The trio consisting of jazz pianist Omar Sosa, kora master and singer Seckou Keita and percussionist Gustavo Ovalles, have been collaborating and performing together for years.