IGNITE!

Thursday, July 16th, 2026

Waterfront Theatre
1412 Cartwright St
Vancouver
BC V6H 3R7

Doors: 8:00pm
Show: 8:30pm
+ post-show mixer

Accessibility Information:

For information about seating, parking, washrooms, and other accessibility
information see Waterfront
Accessibility Page.

IGNITE! weaves together a dynamic assemblage of five emerging artists for an inspiring Pecha Kucha–style evening. Lightning round presentations explore how memory, migration or resistance shape contemporary diasporic artistic practices. Uplifting us through the evening is Arthur Flowers, Memphis-born storyteller, novelist and musician. 

Look forward to presentations from:

  • Manjot Kaur, visual artist

  • Cassandra Myers, spoken word artist

  • Jenny Garcha, spoken word artist and cultural organizer

  • Nhylar, curator and poet

And other friends.

Across disciplines, artists meditate and riff on classical forms and fractured futures. IGNITE! invites audiences to share a glimpse of the next wave of BIPOC artists carving out brave new spaces of original artistic expression

MAJOR PARTNER

about the artists

arthur flowers

Arthur Rickydoc Flowers, native of Memphis, is the author of novels, creative nonfictions, and graphic collaborations with Indian artists, including I See the Promised Land and Brer Rabbit Retold from Tara Books, Chennai. He has been Exec. Dir. of The Harlem Writers Guild and various nonprofits.

He is a professor, emeritus, Syracuse University, and a practitioner of Literary Hoodoo. The High Hoodoo of Memphis. A performance artist in the griotic school of African American literature – Welcome to the Traveling Medicine Show. Whatever ails you I will cure it for sure. If I can’t cure you, I will ease your troubled mind.