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Thu 24th Aug, 2023 - Fri 15th Sep, 2023
Transpiring explores the human experience of transition by analyzing the way rainwater moves through a plant’s interior and escapes as vapour. Through her installation of contact-prints made with rainwater, Debra Gloeckler reflects on the water cycle’s stages of transformation, interconnection and renewal as she navigates significant life changes. Sunlight-sensitive paper, plant and soluble in... read more...
Thu 27th Jul, 2023 - Sat 19th Aug, 2023
Lucky To Be Held Theoren Johannessen By Stella Daisy McCaig asking for more forever Marcescent memory messy, untethered, lost in the wind, fully malleable memory disorganized memory, taken down, ripped apart, build back up, torn through, stolen from, reconstructed memory gentle as it goes memory gentle as we go memory welcome to the past where it pretends to be the truth you as... read more...
Wed 19th Jul, 2023
Eventide is a free, outdoor, all-ages music series which showcases local talent and brings in exciting touring artists. Shows take place in Centennial Square on Wednesday evenings in July and August. the fifty fifty arts collective presents Vancouver's Kimmortal locals Mourning Coup Niloo Pesewa read more...
Thu 29th Jun, 2023 - Sat 22nd Jul, 2023
Like a Circle in A Spiral" is an attempt to re-interpret the identity-memory relationship. As in, the identity that cannot be reachable independent of memories, and the memories that cannot be remembered, or even stored without reflecting on the identity of the person carrying them. The experience of "Like a Circle in A Spiral" starts with visual engagement within the twists and turns of charco... read more...
Thu 1st Jun, 2023 - Fri 23rd Jun, 2023
parafutures: storying between the fragments explores alternative conceptions of time, being, and futurity that lie outside the predominantly Western, colonial notion that time is linear and homogenous. The prefix ‘para’ refers to the state of being adjacent to, alongside, beyond, or aside from (Merriam-Webster). In an increasingly volatile world shaped by political and ecological instability, ... read more...
Thu 27th Apr, 2023 - Sat 20th May, 2023
One thing is certain and the rest is lies is a continued exploration on navigating Queer culture as a person connected to the Iranian diaspora in so-called Canada. My practice involves connecting with my Iranian heritage through traditional forms of art such as Persian miniatures, Mughal miniatures, and illuminated manuscripts. Persian miniatures were often created to accompany stories and poe... read more...
Fri 31st Mar, 2023 - Fri 21st Apr, 2023
This work is exploring the relationship between the tactile material world and the digital technological realm we are often immersed in. Through 3D scanning I am able to digitally render a physical object or surface texture, distort and transform it in a digital world, then combine, mirror, alter and print to create sculptures that live in the “uncanny valley” between recognizable form and oth... read more...
Fri 3rd Mar, 2023 - Fri 24th Mar, 2023
Through arrangement, Laveen Gammie’s CONTENT- AWARE makes visible the often unacknowledged labours and perils of contemporary cultural production—a myriad of symbology illuminates the misconceptions, promises and manipulations of world-making under capitalist conditions. In moving these balloons from the background to the centrepiece, Gammie interrogates their role in the construction of meani... read more...Fri 24th Feb, 2023
The Action Index, Audio Osmosis & the fifty fifty present Sook-Yin Lee with Ora Cogan & Pesewa at Centennial United Church's Assembly Room. This is an all ages event! Sook-Yin Lee An iconic Canadian media figure, Sook-Yin Lee is an award-winning filmmaker, musician, actor, visual artist and broadcaster who has immersed herself in myriad creative collaborations. Many of them were made with h... read more...
Fri 10th Feb, 2023
Come see Samantha in the gallery Friday Febuary 11th, and 12th from 1-3pm! In my ceramic art practise, I use abstraction, minimalism and multiplicity to create large-scale sculptures, and multi-component installations. This exhibition draws on research in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist feminist scholarship for creative inquiry about Erasure: the act of causing a feeling, memory, or period of ti... read more...
Thu 5th Jan, 2023 - Fri 27th Jan, 2023
Lifelines, water bodies
Lifelines, water bodies, is a photo-based exhibition exploring the body entangled within landscapes and the suggestion of land forms created by bodies in flux. In the photographs, human bodies wrap around, tuck into, and hide within crevices, rocks, caves, trees, and each other. Often faceless, lacking a specific identity, their flesh becomes abstracted as they meld into and become an integrated ... read more... >
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