Who do they think I am… Jim Pattison?
Bah! Humbug! is A Christmas Carol with sass
Written by Brit Bachmann + photos by Alisha Weng Bah! Humbug! is a twist on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, drawing parallels between the squalor of Victorian London and Vancouver’s modern-day Downtown Eastside. This is the 5th annual year of Bah! Humbug!, with proceeds supporting Heart of the City Festival. Every year the play is […]
Home Dream Home: a Corporeal and Ethereal Location as Art
Interview + Photographs by Andi Icaza-Largaespada On the evening of November 28th, Access Gallery held the opening of Catherine Pulkinghorn’s exhibition Home Dream Home, curated by Shaun Dacey. Home Dream Home is a process-based dialogue on the construction of Home as space for shelter and lifestyle, and the real estate market’s simultaneous toll on socioeconomic […]
Visual Arts Celebration at The Cultch
The DTES Small Arts Grants Exhibition's Opening Reception Celebration
To celebrate the Vancouver Foundation Small Arts Grants program, in partnership with Carnegie Community Centre, a gallery of work was selected by the incredible Sita Kumar, and hosted at The Cultch Gallery. The DTES Small Arts Grants “new initiative seeks to foster individual achievement amongst local artists in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.” Opening night was May […]
A Beautiful Decay at Positive Negative
Polaroid show features an international array of artists that challenge the limitations of the format
The event description for this show of Polaroids highlighted the international representation of artists: Germany, Sweden, England, Italy, Czech Republic, Australia, Brazil, United States, and Canada. It also poetically described the reason for the title: “‘Beautiful Decay’ sharpens its gaze on disorder and desolation, where memories are forgotten and left behind, and the laws of […]