Updates
FLEET: UBC rolled into place at the Fabric of Campus Fibre Garden in the spring. Programs at UBC include ECO-Tarot readings, a resident Natural Plant Dyer, Flax Harvesting from the garden, Whittling Wednesdays, Fibres and Textiles Workroom Reader Series, plein air drawing workshops, guided walks and more. On October 3, there will be a community based symposium that weaves together interdisciplinary themes on the healing properties of Indigenous plants, sustainable fibre-based textiles, and naturally derived biomaterials for application in drug delivery and bioprinting. FLEET: Foreshore also rolled into place near the Museum of Vancouver in the spring, visit the website for events and residency information.
A collaboration with Host Consulting and the Blue Cabin, Sovereign Waterways offers the opportunity to explore an enriched and deeper understanding of the ongoing presence and histories of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations on the waters where the Blue Cabin floats. With artworks that respond to changing conditions, this project speaks to the pressing need to support and further important dialogues about sharing public spaces on unceded territories. To view the two of the three artworks from this project, you can see them in person at the Blue Cabin or on our project page. Limited edition prints of each artwork are also available.
Other Sight is pleased to be working again with Carmen Papalia on a series of listening sessions entitled Weather for the Blind – a healing, disability-informed sound event by non-visual social practice artist Carmen Papalia, featuring the Weather Warlock – an analog synthesizer built by New Orleans musician and inventor Quintron. This series of events was held at Lobe Studios over the summer. There may be one final listening session coming up in October. More news on this will be announced soon.
Other Sights was delighted to welcome back and host, in collaboration with the Blue Cabin Cooperative, Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George and Skwetsimeltxw/Buddy Joseph in July. George and Joseph gave an artist talk during their time at the cabin. Also in July Blue Cabin hosted Water Worlds, a First Nations-led project by the Centre for Reworlding beginning with two linked convenings across the Pacific Basin, on the unceded traditional lands and waters of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples in Canda and unceded Taungurung Country in Australia. Other Sights looks forward to partnering again with the Blue Cabin in the fall to welcome FLEET artists in residence, Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick in October. Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency was created to honour and sustain creative engagement with the city’s foreshores, sites that are critical to our local ecosystem and to Vancouver’s early development, holding the forms of many shifting and overlapping histories. If you would like to support an upcoming residency, you can donate here. Visit the Blue Cabin website for information forthcoming and past events, residencies and programming.
Plenty of new content has been added to Currents and Waves radio over the past few months. From radio dramas and experimental audio works to audio zines and tidal predictions. This broadcast platform features over 100 contributors. Tune in anytime, it runs 24 hours a day. currentsandwaves.ca We are working on launching a new program theme on the radio this spring: FLEET: Sound and Sustenance. Stay tuned…