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The Real Fight for Beauty is a digital parody of an exhibition and book Fight for Beauty by Ian Gillespie, Founder of Westbank, a Vancouver-based real estate development company that is not a culture company, but a culture-displacing one. This satirical website is a homage to the real fights for beauty by Vancouverties. It aims to expose [...]

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For their exhibition, Westbank wrote an awful and pretentious poem about how they are fighting for beauty. They've slapped it on the stairs on Commercial Dr x Broadway skytrain station. They've created a neon display of the poem. 

It was begging to be rewritten, so here's a new version [...]

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Marpole in Vancouver used to be one of the largest Musqueam villages called c̓əsnaʔəm. The Province of BC wanted to issue a development permit on an ancestral burial site in c̓əsnaʔəm. In c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city, director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, documents the Musqueam First Nation's fight to protect their heritage, culture and the national historic site [...]

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The fight for Chinatown is an example of the real fight for beauty in Vancouver. In Paint it Red, director Eva Cohen documents the community's fight against Beedie, a real estate development company's proposal to put up a massive luxury condo tower in the heart of Chinatown. Her documentary is premiering at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) on November 5 [...]

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