FutureLoss community dinner at grunt
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Photo-documentation of a community dinner hosted at the grunt gallery by curator Vanessa Kwan and artist Zoe Kreye for the project FutureLoss. Invitation: “As a small thank you for your participation in FutureLoss, grunt gallery and Zoe Kreye invite you and a guest to share dinner with us: Sunday, April 12th, 7pm grunt gallery 116 – […]
Field Studies: Exercises in a Living Landscape
Opening night and In Conversation
Photodocumentation by Corie Waugh Exhibition statement: “Presented in conjunction with Capture Photography Festival, Field Studies investigates radical and inventive ways in which our everyday landscape might be experienced and mapped. Rebecca Bayer and Laura Kozak’s community-based project The Hadden Park Map Exchange (developed through the Vancouver Parks Board Field House Residencies) documents the coming together […]
Cultivating Equilibrium
Opening Night at Unit/Pitt
Photo-documentation by Corie Waugh The artists, Patrick Campbell and Madison Killo, have been successful in transforming the gallery of Unit/Pitt into a new space for their exhibition, Cultivating Equilibrium, by recontextualizing the Bloedel Conservatory. “Madison Killo and Patrick Campbell transform the gallery space into an immersive, non-site recontextualization of what is known in the rhetoric of […]
Cramped Quarters, Energetic Investigation, and Six Hundred Red Notebooks
MascallDance explores modern living in quirky The Three Cornered Hat
Photography by Alisha Weng Text from press release by MascallDance A profoundly powerful study of movement, space and human interaction, MascallDance’s The Three Cornered Hat features the diverse talents of contemporary dancers Lara Barclay, Amber Funk Barton, Dario Dinuzzi, Billy Marchenski, Darcy McMurray, and Chris Wright. A gutsy and energetic investigation of the spaces in-between, […]
Atmospheric Extensions
Quiet City’s 17th iteration: VIVO, March 26th
Photographs by Alisha Weng / Words by Brendan Yandt Arriving at VIVO at 10 o’clock, an initial excitement generated upon hearing the sounds of Vancouver’s Sarah Davachi and Richard Smith is quickly dispelled, as their set comes to an end almost immediately. Lesson learned: get to Quiet City on time – you’ll want to hear everything. The […]
8minuteswith: Jamie Taylor and Sarah Faye Bernstein of The Jamie & Sarah Experience Project
8minuteswith – podcast series Hosted by Angela Ferreira Introduction by Elliot Vaughan A place to historicize conversation, with Vancouver artists, about their artistic practice. Interview 1 – March 14, 2015 Jamie Taylor and Sarah Faye Bernstein of The Jamie & Sarah Experience Project Angela Ferreira asks Jamie & Sarah questions about how they met, how […]
Gestures of Distance: Far Away So Close Part II
A reading by Stephen Collis at Access
Words + Photos By: Irene Lo Access Gallery, under the direction of Kimberly Phillips, has a material relationship with words. Curating objects in space and putting text on a page are not separate actions. Words have a physical presence in Part II of the Far Away So Close where Part II explores […]
Untap the Millennial Mind
CultureBeast’s Kenneth Lamar puts the ‘con’ in BeastCon
Words by Brit Bachmann + Photos by Andi Icaza-Largaespada Unless you are oblivious to all the ‘Gen Y’ bashing in media, you are familiar with the term Millennial. Wikipedia defines the Millennial Generation, otherwise known as Generation Y as anyone born between 1980 and the early 2000’s. While certain authors praise Millennials for their sense […]
A Supreme Celebration at Western Front
Three day event of expression, collaboration and improvisation culminates in a six-hour expression Coltrane’s Love Supreme poem
Photography by Ravi Gill 50 years after legendary saxophonist/composer/creative pioneer John Coltrane released “A Love Supreme,” the Vancouver-based New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW) invited Le Nouveau Jazz Libre de Québec (NJLQ) from Montréal for a multi-day event. Thurs Feb 19 A free improvisation workshop led by Vancouver’s Lisa Cay Miller and members of the NJLQ […]
Finding a Place for Philosophy
Am Johal at the Vancouver Institute for Social Research
Words by C. Stewart Photo by Alex Ross On March 2nd, the first of the Vancouver Institute for Social Research Spring 2015 lectures took place at the Or Gallery. This fourth series of VISR, which aims “to move beyond the borders of the traditional university and to open up a more accessible platform in the […]