Teasing Talkies! presents a cinematic history of burlesque, beginning with LeRoy's 1962 classic, Gypsy.

Show director Jess West is such an inspiring and strong woman who really opened up about the future of fashion for curvy women and how value judgments on women’s bodies are more often than not unjustified.

It’s easy to become enthralled by the lives of those existing purely on paper. Rendered only by words and imagery, the emotions and intimacies of two dimensional characters spring to life; their trials and tribulations become our own. Just ask performer Lise Rodgers, and she'll tell you a story, or three. On Thursday morning, 'Fashion in literature - Out loud' kicked off the 2015 VAMFF Cultural Program's 'Talks and Tours' section.

Arj Barker has been on the touring circuit for the past 25 years. He knows what his audience wants and he delivers. Nothing is off limits, not even the well-trodden path of babies crying on planes and the pitfalls of spam email. After an overstated entrance, he moves through some quick jokes before delving into […]

Anything involving cancer is automatically considered morbid and depressing, like nothing remotely happy or funny could result from it, right? Wrong. Luke Ryan, a dual cancer survivor, takes the c-word and makes it his own, resulting in one hilarious (and entirely embarrassing) show.