Ollie Hansen

ROVE: discover art, build community

ROVE: discover art, build community

Every six months, ROVE maps a route of Mount Pleasant art spaces to check out & connect with

ROVE is a Mount Pleasant art walk. It happens not that often. Twice a year. Who thinks this should happen more often? Is it free? Yes! Is it guided? No, it’s self guided! Grab a map, get it on your phone, and go! Participating galleries have their doors open. ROVE is a friendly push to […]

 Nicole Dumas

A hint of death but no last rites this time.

A hint of death but no last rites this time.

Eschatons: The Touch and the Touched, November 14, 2014 at Dynamo

  Words + Photos by Nicole Dumas The invite for this show promised to be the “final event in the devine [sic] plan: the end of the world.” Doomsday has been prophesied to occur in many ways, both natural and supernatural. Tales abound of Antichrists, saviours’ second-comings, elemental disasters, comet collisions, etc. Cult and religious […]

 Brit Bachmann

VIVO’s Tell-Tale Heart

VIVO’s Tell-Tale Heart

A preview of VIVO's On the Move installation July 26-31

Words by Brit Bachmann The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. -Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks Vol.3 [1929-35] Last year VIVO placed an open call for On the Move, a final artist residency in their […]

 Brit Bachmann

Mount Pleasant on the Rize: grunt gallery

Mount Pleasant on the Rize: grunt gallery

Discussing urban development with grunt's Glenn Alteen

Words by Brit Bachmann + Edits by Christopher Millin + Photos by Alisha Weng Last month Western Front, grunt gallery, Arts Factory, VIVO and C-Space were awarded a combined $4.5 million in the form of CACs, or Community Amenities Contributions. This money was part of $6 million donated to the City of Vancouver by Rize […]

 Brit Bachmann

Mount Pleasant on the Rize: Arts Factory

Mount Pleasant on the Rize: Arts Factory

A rundown of CAC funding in Mount Pleasant, and the construction of Elia Kirby's Arts Factory

Words by Brit Bachmann Edited by Christopher Millin A wave of arts funding is breaking over the Mount Pleasant area, substantiating its status as one of Vancouver’s most vibrant and experimental artist hubs. On June 11th Vancouver City Council unanimously voted in favour of allocating $4.5 million to select arts organizations in Mount Pleasant in […]

 Sheng Ho

Broadway East Art Walk

Broadway East Art Walk

Free, family-friendly event revitalizes Mount Pleasant neighbourhood by connecting art with local businesses

The Broadway East Art Walk kicked off on Saturday June 8 2013 and VANDOCUMENT’s photographer Sheng Ho was there to capture it’s story. The initiative of the a group of passionate, community minded individuals in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, “this event is meant to offer a taste of the larger Art Walk that is being […]