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Thu 12th Nov, 2020 - Sun 3rd Jan, 2021
Reflecting Pool
Swimming pools are a space in history that have highlighted racial discrimination and social disadvantage. They have remained a luxury for the white and wealthy and have long been a symbol of the American dream, suburban haven, and a marker of status. In a way, they reflect the entirety of our social systems. Only those who fit a specific social group are able to create lives centred around pleasu... read more...
Thu 15th Oct, 2020 - Fri 6th Nov, 2020
PROTECT YOURSELF // stop hoping
Who gets to grieve? What does it mean to close one’s self off to family? What happens when the people who are supposed to know you best fail you? As a queer, racialized person living in a city far away from homeland and family, Joy has spent the last several years struggling with these question—questions of identity and family and actualization and embodiment, ability to bring self into bei... read more...
Tue 29th Sep, 2020
the fifty fifty arts collective and Feed the arts in the CRD present Psychic Pollution https://psychicpollution.bandcamp.com/ w/ Consumer Report https://consumerreport.bandcamp.com/ An exclusive live stream broadcasting at 7PM sharp FREE! on Twitch.tv/fifty_fifty_arts_live The artists are paid a small honorarium for their performances. You can help support them even further by purchasing f... read more...
Thu 17th Sep, 2020 - Fri 9th Oct, 2020
(carrying wind, for now)
For the length of a year, a big swath of blue scaffolding netting hung on one side of the building at the corner of Yates and Langley. I encountered it every day to and from work, and quickly became enraptured by the big blue and how the wind moved through and with it. Its invitation to pause and notice my surroundings transformed that generic city street into a space that felt profoundly comforti... read more...
Fri 28th Aug, 2020 - Tue 25th Aug, 2020
4 artist 4 days
the fifty fifty arts collective and Feed the Arts in the CRD present 4 ARTISTS 4 DAYS August 25th - 28th @ 7PM sharp Tune in live Via Twitch (you don't need an account to watch content on this service) https://www.twitch.tv/fifty_fifty_arts_live Aug. 25 Richard Quirk (UK) https://richardquirkmusic.bandcamp.com/ Richard Quirk has been performing music both as a solo & band artist for o... read more...Thu 27th Aug, 2020 - Tue 25th Aug, 2020
4 artist 4 days
the fifty fifty arts collective and Feed the Arts in the CRD present 4 ARTISTS 4 DAYS August 25th - 28th @ 7PM sharp Tune in live Via Twitch (you don't need an account to watch content on this service) https://www.twitch.tv/fifty_fifty_arts_live Aug. 25 Richard Quirk (UK) https://richardquirkmusic.bandcamp.com/ Richard Quirk has been performing music both as a solo & band artist for o... read more...Wed 26th Aug, 2020 - Tue 25th Aug, 2020
4 artist 4 days
the fifty fifty arts collective and Feed the Arts in the CRD present 4 ARTISTS 4 DAYS August 25th - 28th @ 7PM sharp Tune in live Via Twitch (you don't need an account to watch content on this service) https://www.twitch.tv/fifty_fifty_arts_live Aug. 25 Richard Quirk (UK) https://richardquirkmusic.bandcamp.com/ Richard Quirk has been performing music both as a solo & band artist for o... read more...Tue 25th Aug, 2020
4 artist 4 days
the fifty fifty arts collective and Feed the Arts in the CRD present 4 ARTISTS 4 DAYS August 25th - 28th @ 7PM sharp Tune in live Via Twitch (you don't need an account to watch content on this service) https://www.twitch.tv/fifty_fifty_arts_live Aug. 25 Richard Quirk (UK) https://richardquirkmusic.bandcamp.com/ Richard Quirk has been performing music both as a solo & band artist for o... read more...
Thu 20th Aug, 2020 - Fri 11th Sep, 2020
forms of isolation
forms of isolation is a collection of paintings and handmade items created in isolation during a global pandemic by renee leighann. This series of painted works are a collection of acrylic on canvas and wood panels, some with felt detailing that give the pieces a slightly three dimensional, textured quality. The felt details draw from past work that focussed on wool and fibre, including weavings,... read more...
Fri 24th Jul, 2020
Eventide Music Series presents
the fifty fifty arts collective, City of Victoria - Local Government, CFUV 101.9 FM, Eventide Music Series proudly present Lightning Dust an exclusive livestream event at a secret location The show will be broadcast on Twitch July 24th (time TBA) https://www.twitch.tv/fifty_fifty_arts_live (you don't need a Twitch account to take part) Lightning Dust is made up of Amber Webber and Josh W... read more...
Thu 23rd Jul, 2020 - Fri 14th Aug, 2020
Postcards from the Pandemic
Postcards from the Pandemic is a collaborative mail art project of over 600 postcards that were created by artists in and around Victoria in the depths of social lockdown created by the Covid 19 pandemic. The project was begun in March 2020 by members of BOXCARSIX Artist Collective to stay connected, distract from the anxiety and boredom of the early days of the pandemic, and get us into the studi... read more...
Thu 23rd Jul, 2020 - Fri 14th Aug, 2020
Postcards from the Pandemic
Postcards from the Pandemic is an exhibition of 600 postcards created collaboratively artists in and around Victoria during lockdown. Begun by members of BOXCARSIX artist collective as a way to stay in touch and keep making art, the project quickly grew to create a community of over 60 artists. Postcards were begun by one artist and then posted onto another, who would add elements and then post it... read more...
Sat 20th Jun, 2020 - Sat 18th Jul, 2020
Later Impressions
On Later Impressions As a child, I discovered a small hollow below the surface of my backyard. From this cavernous space, I pulled out fragments of dirt-caked, painted porcelain. Laying out the pieces for examination, I was not only transfixed by the mystery of this unexpected find, but also by the history of the objects and their one-time existence as whole and useful entities. They were inext... read more...
Sat 20th Jun, 2020
the fifty fifty arts collective presents our 2nd livestream concert event of the year featuring Thomas Di Ninno from Freak Heat Waves solo performance!! Thomas Di Ninno has been a local visual and music artist in the Victoria arts scene for some time. His music career has taken him all over the world with his popular post punk experimental art band Freak Heat Waves. You may have seen his... read more...
Fri 5th Jun, 2020
The fifty fifty presents Soft Plastics feat. Carey Mercer LIVE!
the fifty fifty arts collective presents our first livestream concert event of the year featuring SOFT PLASTICS https://softplastics.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/SoftPlastics5Dreams/ Introducing Soft Plastics, the new project and inspiration of Carey Mercer, former songwriter and leader of Frog Eyes. The songs on their upcoming record, 5 Dreams, were written by Carey Mercer in the... read more...
Wed 20th May, 2020 - Sat 20th Jun, 2020
I Am. Artist. Mother. Me.
** This event has been moved online. Starting May 20 check out http://thefiftyfifty.net/ to see the show. Oona will be taking over our Instagram @thefiftyfiftyartscollective from May 20-26! ** “I Am. Artist. Mother. Me.” is an exhibit featuring new and existing works that offer an intimate view of an unfolding relationship to motherhood. Through the process of textile mark-making, ideas aro... read more...
Thu 23rd Apr, 2020 - Thu 7th May, 2020
Èt-shình (Medicine)
** This event has been moved online. Keep an eye out for our online gallery in the near future and join us on Instagram live for the opening on Thursday, April 23rd at 4:30PM. Additionally, Teresa will be taking over the fifty fifty Instagram from April 23rd until April 30th!*** Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé (b. 1992) is a proud member of the White River First Nation of Beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada... read more...
Sat 7th Mar, 2020 - Fri 27th Mar, 2020
Bloomin' - A group ceramic show
Opening reception - Saturday, March 7th, 7-10PM Exhibition dates: March 8th - March 27th Artist Honorariums for this show are generously supplied by Feed the Arts in the CRD Bloomin’ is a group exhibition featuring the work of emerging ceramic artists in Victoria and throughout BC. As a group of 18 artists we each have differing personal motivations to produce art. Together we want to cel... read more...
Sat 29th Feb, 2020
Interzone Dance Night : PsyCHic PolLUtion Album release at Logans
Interzone Dance Night. Saturday February 29th 2020. Psychic Pollution's "Digital Apathy" album release party! https://psychicpollution.bandcamp.com/album/digital-apathy with LIVE sets from our friends Death Talks (Vancouver) : https://deathtalkxx.bandcamp.com/ Deadmalls :https://deadmallsmusic.bandcamp.com/ THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT INTERZONE DJs MAX RENN & NEUFLESH BRING YOU THE BEST OF INDUSTRI... read more...
Mon 17th Feb, 2020
Open Space, The fifty fifty arts collective, and VILA present Oren Ambarchi / crys cole Monday, February 17th Doors at 8pm Cavity Curiousity Shop All Ages $20 Advance tickets available at CAVITY Curiosity Shop. ~~~~~~~~~~ Oren Ambarchi / crys cole WEB: https://orenambarchi.com/ / https://cryscole.com/ BC: https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/ SC: https://soundcloud.com/crys-cole ... read more...
Sun 16th Feb, 2020
Coming up February 16th! the fifty fifty arts collective presents @Lori Goldston http://lorigoldston.com/ Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentl... read more...
Thu 9th Jan, 2020 - Fri 14th Feb, 2020
AYYA MYRA
AYYA MYRA is an exhibition about waste, worship, freneticism, the icon and dissent. Kai Bay and Jasper van Alderwegen’s work combine to create a vernacular of symbols and motifs that speak to mythology and theism as much as graffiti and vandalism. Jasper van Alderwegen is a painter/multimedia artist born and raised in Victoria, currently pursuing an honours BFA in visual arts at UVic. Their w... read more... >
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