Updates
FERC Sustainability Scholar 2024 Project
For the second year in a row, Other Sights has partnered with Fraser Estuary Research Collective (FERC) and invited a Sustainability Scholar to collaborate and create a project that explores the beauty and significance of the Fraser Estuary. This year our scholar is curating a festival that will occur at the Blue Cabin in Steveston over the course of the first two weekends in August. The festival includes workshops, live music, guided tours, symposiums, storytelling nights, and more. Visit the event page to find the calendar and come together to learn, appreciate, and help protect this vital ecosystem.
FLEET project has been busy this spring, fabricating the very first two FLEET Studios on Granville Island. These studios will serve as non-habitable, artist-production workspaces on a temporary basis. Other Sights has found locations for both studios. FLEET: Edmonds is ready for occupancy in July, an FLEET: Granville Island ready in August. For more information on the project and updates on calls for artists, events at the studios, and more, visit our newly complete FLEET project website!
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 three artworks installed at the cabin visit our project page. You can also purchase a limited edition print of each of the artworks.
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
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. After close to three years at Imperial Landing in Steveston the Blue Cabin will be relocating back to Vancouver at the end of summer, if you would like to support the move or an upcoming residency, you can donate here. Visit the Blue Cabin website for information forthcoming and past events, residencies and programming.
Foreshore Immersive revisits the presentation format of past 2016-17 Foreshore sessions. This new iteration explores critical ideas and research from artists, writers and thinkers who are working to address the many uncertainties and challenges of our present time. Foreshore Immersive will assess the ever changing conditions of public spaces at this phase in the pandemic, survey ongoing urgencies of climate crises, explore ways of applying queer theory to maritime disaster and colonial failure, and celebrate the resurgence of Indigenous-led forms of scholarship and leadership. More events are coming this fall.