FLEET Consultations
From November 2022 – February 2023, FLEET working group hosted four sessions with members from Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Urban Indigenous communities. Participants included emerging Indigenous artists and students, established artists, designers, teachers and community members. Relating the scale of a small studio was important to these sessions as we discussed FLEET studio needs, design […]
Blue Cabin Resident Atheana Picha
In February The Blue Cabin will welcome Atheana Picha as the first 2023 artist in residence. Residency: January 30 – February 18, 2023 Atheana Picha is a Salish artist from the Kwantlen First Nation, and her grandmother was from Tsartlip. Atheana was given the name Nash’mene’ta’naht by Gerry Oleman from the St’at’imc First Nation, which translates […]
UBC SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR
This summer Other Sights looks forward to working with a UBC Sustainability Scholar on Fraser River Estuary Programming for Currents and Waves. The call for UBC scholar applicants for the role is currently open until January 29th. About the Role: Other Sights would like to work with a Sustainability Scholar who will create an engaging […]
Blue Cabin Resident Keely O’Brien
An update on what Blue Cabin artist in residence, Keely O’Brien has been up to at the Blue Cabin. Keely has been busy creating her Dream Home Shrine and answering the Dream Home Hotline. Blue Cabin visitors were invited to participate in a variety of events and activities during Keely’s residency from August to October […]
NEW CURRENTS AND WAVES CONTENT
Over the past few months we have been adding new programs to the Currents and Waves radio platform. Tune in and listen to fascinating and challenging conversations as well as hypnotic and transcendent song. FEATURED PROGRAMS AND MUSIC INCLUDE: Several panels from the Unmoored, Adrift, Ashore Symposium at Emily Carr University of Art + Design […]
Sustainability Scholars at the Blue Cabin
Fraser Estuary Research Collaborative (FERC) Sustainability Scholars and their NGO mentors met at the Blue Cabin floating artist residency to share progress on their paid applied internship projects. Fourteen Scholars are working in this Collaborative this summer, made possible with funding from the Sitka Foundation. The Blue Cabin was a place to feel the river‘s […]
Annual Reports Now Available
Other Sights has added five years of our most recent annual reports onto our website. These serve as a great resource for more in-depth information on our activities, programming and operations. We welcome visitors to learn more about what we do by accessing these reports. Access the reports below or via the drop down tab […]
CARMEN PAPALIA WORKSHOP NOW AVAILABLE
In December of 2021 Carmen Papalia led a workshop entitled: Open Access Setting a New Standard for Cultural Accessibility. In this workshop about creative and justice-oriented accessibility practices, nonvisual social practice artist Carmen Papalia introduced participants to his 2015 Open Access manifesto, a conceptual framework for accessibility that moves beyond compliance-level measures with guidelines for […]
Blue Cabin Resident Debra Sparrow
Debra Sparrow has wrapped up her residency at the Blue Cabin a couple of weeks ago. There were several public events connected to her time in residence, Sparrow ran a couple of weaving workshops along with her apprentice Atheana Picha, and her colleague Zoe McDonnell led a natural mushroom dyeing workshop. All events were very […]
