WE: Vancouver Events
Tuesday, February 22, 7pm
Curator’s Tour / Bruce Grenville and Kathleen Ritter
In the Gallery
Join curators Bruce Grenville and Kathleen Ritter for an in-depth tour of WE: Vancouver as they highlight some of the different voices that make up the exhibition.
Free with Gallery admission.
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Tuesday, February 22, 6–9pm
Launch of The Capilano Review Manifestos Now! / The Capilano Review
In the Gallery
Celebrate the launch of the Manifestos Now! issue of The Capilano Review, a magazine that has published innovative literary and artistic works for more than thirty years. Writers energize the gallery in a series of performative readings of manifestos.
Free with Gallery admission.
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Thursday, February 24, 7pm
After Hours: Special Edition / Pecha Kucha Night
At the Vogue Theatre
In this unique night of rapid-fire ideas, Vancouver designers, artists, entrepreneurs and activists expose the real Vancouver using 20×20 (20 images, 20 seconds). Tickets include admission to this special edition of Pecha Kucha at the Vogue Theatre, as well as exclusive access and tours of WE: Vancouver at the Gallery following the event. Produced by Cause+Affect – www.causeandaffect.com.
Ticket info: $15
http://tickets.voguetheatre.com
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Saturday-Sunday, March 5-6, 10am-5pm
Family FUSE Weekend / Speak Loud
In the Gallery
This Family FUSE Weekend is all about the ways to “Speak Loud.” Artists, dancers, musicians, actors, filmmakers and other creative minds will lead performances, workshops, tours and hands-on activities, sharing new ways of being heard in the world around us.
Gallery Members and children age–12–and–under are free when accompanied by an adult. For more information, please phone 604.662.4700.
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Monday-Friday, March 7-11
Offsite Radio Broadcast/ Vancouver Co-op Radio
In the Gallery Rotunda
Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO, 102.7FM is a non-commercial, co-operatively-owned, listener-supported, community radio station. Over the course of 6 days in March, the Co-op Radio broadcasts selected programs live from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rotunda.
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Tuesday, March 8, 7pm
In the Gallery
On select Tuesdays, Ballet BC will be in the Gallery performing improvisational reactions to the exhibitions Unreal, Walking + Falling and WE: Vancouver.
Free with Gallery admission.
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Friday, March 18, 8pm-1am
In the Gallery
Celebrate Vancouver with this night of art, music and performance investigating the “darker side” of our city of glass. WE: Vancouver meets Unreal with works by some of Vancouver’s most innovative artists, including November Theatre, the 605 Collective, and others.
$19.50 Adults. Free for members.
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Tuesday, March 22, 7pm
Tour of WE: Vancouver/Trevor Boddy
In the Gallery
Join architecture curator, critic and consultant Trevor Boddy for a special tour of WE: Vancouver. Curator of such exhibitions as Vancouverism: Architecture Builds the City and Dialogue of Cities at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Boddy provides a critical interpretation of Vancouver’s urban development and planning in relation to the exhibition.
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Thursday, March 24, 7pm
On Location: Special Film Screening
Taking place at the Pacific Cinematheque
Located 1131 Howe St.
Vancouver writer and critic Michael Turner presents a special screening of Skip Tracer, Zale Dalen’s legendary 1977 feature about a repo man, shot on location in Vancouver and Richmond. Also on the program are two shorts by Turner, followed by a Q & A and discussion.
$10.50 regular / $9 seniors & students.
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Saturday-Sunday, March 26–27, 10am-5pm
Thing to Thing: The Makeshift Project / Natalie Purschwitz / In the Gallery
This two-day performance features artist and designer Natalie Purschwitz, who will turns personal objects into functional bags. Bring anything from a frisbee to a paperback novel and it will be transformed.
Free with Gallery admission.
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Tuesday, March 29, 7pm
An Open Class/Humanities 101 Community Program (HUM)
In the Gallery
Humanities 101 Community Program (Hum) is an educational opportunity available to residents of Downtown Eastside and Downtown South who live with material poverty. Led by Academic Director Margot Leigh Butler, this class invites the public to join in for a chance to listen and engage in discussions.
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Saturday, April 9, 9:30am-5:30pm
Conference / SUSTAIN: Vancouver
In the Gallery
How might current models of culture, ecology and economics shape the future of urban living? How can we reimagine the place we live? This one-day conference will present eminent speakers in an exploration of present and future sustainability.
For tickets, please call 604.662.4717.
Tickets: $65 adults; $55 members; $30 students (with valid ID).
PIBC CPD: 6.5 LUs
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Tuesday, April 19, 6pm
Habitat Open Forum/Hosted by Lindsay Brown
In the Gallery
Writer and designer Lindsay Brown hosts an evening of exchange exploring the 1976 Habitat Forum, an adjunct event to the UN Conference on Human Settlements. Members of the public are invited discuss their experiences and impressions of the event and to bring memories, stories, photos, or other mementos.
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Saturday April 30, 2pm CANCELLED
Screening of Hunting for the Rabbit
In the Gallery
Byron Dauncey, aka Cameraman, hosts a screening of Hunting for the Rabbit, a mockumentary that delves into Dauncey’s street artist alter ego. Cameraman discusses his work, what it means to him, and how it communicates to the public and to other artists.
