Event Listings

SFU: Think You Know Vancouver?


Date: Throughout 2011 (next event on March 31)
Location: Venue TBA - please check website
Website: www.sfu.ca/history/van125.htm

As part of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary year celebrations SFU’s department of History has planned a year-long lecture series exploring different aspects of Vancouver’s history.

These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Visit the SFU website for further information on times, locations and to RSVP.

The schedule for the lecture series continues throughout the year, and the Vancouver Sun is also providing a free podcast service of all the lectures.

* January 27th, 2011 – Charlie Demers and Matt Hern: “Vancouver: The Best Place on Earth?”
* February 24th, 2011 – Ilya Vinkovetsky: “I Can See Russia from My House”: Russian Colonization on the Northwest Coast, 1804-1867.
* March 31st, 2011 – Jennifer Spear: “Captain George Vancouver goes to California, 1792-1794”
* April 28th, 2011 – Mary-Ellen Kelm: “The Flu of 1918 - preview of H1N1?”
* May 26th, 2011 – Allen Seager: “Vancouver’s First 50 Years”
* September 29th, 2011 - Jack Little: “Vancouver’s Playground: Class and Leisure in Howe Sound, 1902-1962.”
* October 27th, 2011 – Andrea Geiger: “Taking the Province to Court: Japanese Immigrants and Race in Early Vancouver”
* November 24, 2011 – Derryl MacLean: “Realizing the Muslim Community in Vancouver.”

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Visit the Vancouver Sun’s website to learn more and to listen to podcasts of the SFU History Vancouver 125 lecture series.

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”