Event Listings

ARC Lines: Vancouver’s Artist Run Origins


Date: February 2011 – ongoing
Location: Online @ www.arcpost.ca

The Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres’ project Origin Stories is an important on-line publication documenting Vancouver’s Artist-Run Centres. Posted on the ArcPost: Artists and Institution website, Origin Stories will identify each member centre and include significant archival images, original mandates, history of founding artists and other materials pertinent to the origins of Vancouver’s artist-run activity. Critical writing, online and print resources will also be included. This online site will celebrate the history of artist-run movements in the city and provide a resource for tracking the influence of these centres on Vancouver’s contemporary art practices. www.arcpost.ca

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

WE: Vancouver – 12 Manifestos for the City


Date: February 12 – May 2, 2011
Location: Vancouver Art Gallery
Website: www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

Vancouver Art Gallery’s WE: Vancouver exhibition and related programming will document the range of practices, actions and ideas by designers, artists, architects, filmmakers, writers, activists, and planners that shape and activate this city. The manifestos are based on twelve calls to action, twelve movements, strategies and practices that fundamentally shape Vancouver today: MOVE, ACTIVATE, CHOOSE, LISTEN, UNITE, REMEMBER, SEE, WASTE (not), CONSUME, PROJECT, SHAPE, SURPRISE). FUSE and other Gallery programming events will explore the many individual and collective ways in which Vancouverites creatively contribute to the City.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

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Vancouver Sun: “WE:Vancouver — Exhibition Pushes Boundaries”

Canadian Architect: “Vancouver Art Gallery marks Vancouver’s 125th year with innovative exhibition”

Vancouver Live Performance Project


Date: Symposium – TBA, 2011; Online Archive – ongoing
Location: Vancouver Live Performance Project Symposium – at the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab; Vancouver Live Performance Project Archive — available online.
Website: www.plankmagazine.com

Wild Excursions Performance partners with Plank Magazine to create the Vancouver Live Performance Project online archive, celebrating Vancouver’s accomplishments in theatre and dance. This archive will include written and audio interviews of Vancouver dance and theatre artists. The research will lead to a published booklet containing selected interview excerpts, photos and Plank Magazine writings. A symposium in spring/summer 2011 will complete the project.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.