Reflections and Refractions Along the Citified Shore

Posted by on Sep 19, 2024 in Events, Talk, the foreshore | No Comments

October 2nd, 2024 at 6 PM FLEET: Granville Island 1425 Anderson St, Vancouver Walk and reflect together along the waterfront places so impacted by colonial industrialization, urbanization, and ‘place making’ on these Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh lands and waters. What assumptions can we read from the ways these lands and waters have been treated, shaped, decided […]

FLEET – PHASE II RECOMMENDATIONS

Posted by on Apr 17, 2023 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
FLEET  – PHASE II RECOMMENDATIONS

From November 2022 to February 2023 FLEET working group hosted four half-day sessions with members from the Host Nations on unceded Musqeuam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Participants included emerging Indigenous artists and students, established artists, designers, teachers and community members. Many thanks to those who joined in helping to further define FLEET’s direction. Below are […]

Bioplastics workshop Branscombe House

Posted by on Apr 17, 2023 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
Bioplastics workshop Branscombe House

Join Blue Cabin Floating Artist in Residence Michelle-Marie Letelier on Saturday April, 22 from 1-4pm for a Bioplastics workshop at Branscombe House on Musqueam, Kwantlen and Tsawwassen territories. Register Here. About the workshop⁣ On Saturday, April 22, join current Blue Cabin artist in residence Michelle-Marie Letelier as she leads a hands-on session at the historic […]

Blue Cabin Resident Michelle-Marie Letelier

Posted by on Apr 5, 2023 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
Blue Cabin Resident Michelle-Marie Letelier

In March the Blue Cabin welcomed Michelle-Marie Letelier. Residency: March 24 – May 4, 2023 Michelle-Marie Letelier is a Chilean artist and researcher based in Berlin. Her multidisciplinary work orchestrates transformations of ‘natural resources’, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the sea-landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Through her work, she blends different epochs, […]

FLEET Consultations

Posted by on Mar 20, 2023 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
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 […]

SOVEREIGN WATERWAYS

Posted by on Nov 24, 2022 in Projects | No Comments

Mobility Device by Carmen Papalia

Blue Cabin Resident Keely O’Brien

Posted by on Sep 22, 2022 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
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

Posted by on Sep 22, 2022 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
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

Posted by on Aug 30, 2022 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
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 […]

CARMEN PAPALIA WORKSHOP NOW AVAILABLE

Posted by on Jun 17, 2022 in Blue Cabin, Events | No Comments
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 […]