The Unreliable Narrator: Writing in the Digital Age | Artist Talk by Luanda

An engaging evening presented by VLACC, in partnership with the PuSh Festival, featuring writer and performing artist Luanda Casella as she explores the power and danger of storytelling in today’s post-truth era.

Reckoning with the cult of story in our post-truth era, Luanda Casella, writer, performing artist, and master of narrative subversion, examines how the machinery of persuasion has hijacked the timeless human desire for storytelling.

In this lecture, she introduces her artistic practice and research into The Unreliable Narrator, revealing how deceptive discourse and irony operate across literature, performance, and digital culture to both manipulate and awaken critical thought.

Lili Vieira de Carvalho, Executive Director of VLACC, will moderate the conversation.

Don’t miss this thought-provoking talk that challenges how we engage with truth, fiction, and the stories that shape our understanding of the world.

Date: February 5, 2026
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Location: SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4)
About the Artist
Luanda Casella is a writer, performing artist, and theatre director from São Paulo, based in Ghent, Belgium. A resident artist at NTGent, her work is internationally acclaimed and known for its ingenious storytelling and incisive deconstruction of language. She is currently a teacher in the drama department at the KASK Conservatory in Ghent, and a PhD candidate examining “deceptive discourse” in communication processes and “unreliable narrators” in classic and contemporary works of fiction.

Casella has also been a guest lecturer at leading institutions, including DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam), KABK (The Hague), P.A.R.T.S, School for Contemporary Dance (Brussels), Toneelacademie Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin, Cité Universitaire de Paris, and Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.

About the moderator
Lili Vieira de Carvalho is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre (VLACC). Originally from Brazil, she has more than 30 years of experience in arts management and community-engaged cultural programming. At VLACC, she has led the organization’s growth, building partnerships across Vancouver’s arts sector and championing Latin American artists and stories. Lili was recently awarded the Ordem do Rio Branco medal from the government of Brazil for her contributions to cultural exchange.

In Partnership with PuSh Festival

Supported by SFU

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