Reflections and Refractions Along the Citified Shore
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 […]
Currents and Waves Radio
Other Sights has created radio station in tandem with The Future is Floating project in Sydney, Australia. Currents and Waves radio is now live and features contributions from over 150 artists, activists, scientists and musicians.
QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE UNLIMITED GUM EDITION
A product of Big Rock Candy Mountain, QA CHEW’s BUBBLE TROUBLE was developed with the Grade 6/7 students in Karen Sandu’s class at Queen Alexandra Elementary School in East Vancouver.
The Larwill Park Site Inaugural Project
The Larwill Park site holds a unique place in the history of Vancouver. Distinguished first as a cricket and lacrosse pitch by early sportsmen, the lot hosted countless demonstrations, jubilees and celebrations, visits from colonial royalty, military exercises, goats, a chain gang, riots and fairs. This platform for celebration and for protest is now the proposed site of the new Vancouver Art Gallery.
Sour vs Sour – Chocolate Bar Edition
Big Rock Candy Mountain – Sour vs Sour – As part of a 3-month engagement with a Queen Alexandra Elementary School grade 3/4 class, artists Hannah Jickling & Helen Reed taste-tested a range of flavours and developed a miscellaneous vocabulary to describe them: sounds, shapes, words, elaborate fonts, synesthetic line drawings and emojis. With visits to-and-from East Van Roasters, the group learned about single-origin, fairly traded dark chocolate and navigated its tense (and tacky) conflation with cheap candy from the gas station nearby.
BLUE CABIN SPEAKER SERIES: FLOATING ARTIST RESIDENCY
Join us for a conversation with the Blue Cabin project founding partners, Glenn Alteen, Esther Rausenberg, and Barbara Cole, as they talk about their four-year process of saving, remediating, and repurposing the cabin. They will also speak about the project as it moves into its next phases of development, drawing us closer to its launch as a floating artist residency and heritage engagement site.
BLUE CABIN SPEAKER SERIES: THE FORESHORE
The Foreshore is a multi-year collaboration between Other Sights for Artists’ Projects and curator Kimberly Phillips, and is inspired by the deep influence of the waterways on our cities and societies on the West Coast. Artist Jen Weih and artist and curator Vanessa Kwan will speak about The Foreshore’s past and current projects.
BLUE CABIN SPEAKER SERIES: CAROLE ITTER
Carole Itter will present an informal talk about her artwork and writings during her 35-year residency at the Blue Cabin. She will be joined by artist Krista Lomax for a conversation about their times spent at the cabin, and a screening of Lomax’s 11-minute documentary entitled the blue cabin.
BLUE CABIN SPEAKER SERIES: DANIEL FRANCIS
Squatters have been a fixture in Burrard Inlet since before Vancouver was created. Their story encompasses the history of Gastown and Kitsilano, the dispossession of Indigenous people, the evolution of Stanley Park, the hobo jungles of the Great Depression, and the search for affordable housing in an always-expensive metropolis. Author Daniel Francis describes this history, illustrating his talk with photographs both archival and contemporary.
THE FORESHORE: PART II, SESSION III
Join celebrated local artist Dana Claxton and art historian Jaleh Mansoor in a third instalment of The Foreshore, Part II sessions. This event is presented at nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona Branch, Vancouver Public Library. The Foreshore, Part II is organized in partnership with Contemporary Art Gallery.