Updates
Other Sights is currently expanding our FLEET team, we are hiring a Community Liaison. FLEET: Foreshore has rolled into place this spring, visit the website for events and residency information. FLEET: UBC has also rolled into place at the Fabric of Campus Fibre Garden, programming and residencies will be posted on the website soon.
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.
We are 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 is held at Lobe Studios, and if you would like to attend, there will be a few more events this summer. Links will be posted for events two weeks in advance.
Summer residencies are fast approaching at the Blue Cabin. In July Other Sights and the Blue Cabin will host Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George and Skwetsimeltxw/Buddy Joseph, they will give an artist talk on the 22nd of July. Updated information about the forthcoming August residency will be available on the Cabin’s website soon. 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