Skeins Artists Blanket The City
Blanketing The City is a public art mural series and Reconciliation process designed by acclaimed xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Weaver and Graphic Designer, Debra Sparrow in collaboration with Vancouver Mural Festival. Begun in 2018, the series boldly affirms the resurgence and importance of Coast Salish weaving on these lands, and directly combats the ongoing systemic suppression of […]
February Blue Cabin Events
Local artist Pippa Lattey who is currently working at the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency has some upcoming events for the community. Lattey will be giving an artist talk online on February 3 at 7pm. Learn about Lattey’s incredible kinetic sound sculpture programmed to follow local tide data. In 2017, Pippa inherited the piano of […]
Pippa Lattey – Blue Cabin Artist Residency
Local artist Pippa Lattey will be in residence at the Blue Cabin from January 22 – March 5, 2021. Lattey works with sculpture, movement, sound and place. Her first solo exhibition Into Orbit was at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon in April 2020. Outdoor projects include Gestures of Birds (2018) in New Westminster, and Banana Installation outside the Vancouver Art Gallery for […]
MST FUTURISM
December 3, 2020, Curators Sierra Tasi Baker and Paisley Nahanee invite you to hear from MST Host Nation thought leaders about their ideas to re-envision the built form centred in right relation to our land, waters, and skies. This event will feature Matriarch Chief Janice George, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, Auntie Orene Askew, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, Matriarch Debra […]
AUDAIN PRIZE FOR OTHER SIGHTS
Earlier in October, Other Sights received news that they would be receiving a $10,000 award from the Audain Art Foundation, sharing the Audain Prize for 2020 with 12 other BC-based Artist-Run Centres: 221A, Access Gallery, Artspeak Gallery, Grunt Gallery, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Or Gallery, UNIT/PITT Society for Art & Critical Awareness, VIVO Media Arts Centre, […]
Blue Cabin Virtual Film Series
Join us Thursday, July 16th for the final screening of the Blue Cabin’s weekly virtual screening events.
15 Years of Other Sights Projects
Other Sights was founded in the spring of 2005. This year, 2020 marks the organization’s 15th year in operation. Four of the Organization’s founders remain committed as Producers with Other Sights, Lorna Brown, Barbara Cole, Colin Griffiths and Marko Simcic. The fifth founder, Patrik Andersson has also remained involved with the organization as a Producer […]
FLOOD (Displaced Horizon) – Now Installed
The FLOOD (Displaced Horizon) billboards have been installed as part of Capture Photography Festival. Other Sights was planning an event to celebrate this public outdoor billboard project, however, due to Covid-19 and social distancing measures in place, that is no longer feasible. Alternatively, we’ve prepared a video about the project that features photographer Howard Ursuliak […]
New Blue Cabin Residents Janice and Buddy
In February the Blue Cabin welcomed two new residents Chepximiya Siyam’ Cheif Janice George and Skwetsimeltxw Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph, both accomplished weavers and teachers from the Squamish Nation. Chief Janice George graduated from Capilano University, North Vancouver BC, and the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA. She feels her education at these schools […]
the future is floating – 2020 Future museum
This last public event for The Future is Floating created a fictional harbour tour of the future, looking back at the year 2020. With stops along the way, including Cockatoo Island, the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and Barangaroo. The artists created a narrative that parodied the ‘tour guide’ presentation of place, introducing more complex […]