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Live Biennial fights boredom
with Freedom, Barbed Wire
F
or such a small burg there's
plenty of competition for the
arts dollar in the next week.
Chagall at the VAG, The B a s e m e n t Show downtown the ongoing isolation of Pamela
Masik, and of course, the Write r s (and Readers) Fest, continuing until the end of the

the most serious names in art
display their stuff for seven days
only, and t h e n poof, they're
gone. For examples check out
www.basement-show.com.
Diane Farris Gallery continues
the Cherry Hood exhibit entitled Bruder, in which the acclaimed
Australian
painter
makes comments in watercolour
about the place of adolescence in
pop culture, at 1590 W. 7th Ave.
Geist, Canada's erudite literary-journalism magazine and
the pride of many a B.C. literary
mind, whoops it up at the Writf
ers (and Readers) Festival with
readings, storytelling and a custom-designed cake to celebrate
its Jubilee issue, at Performance
Works Saturday (Oct. 25). Tickets
MARY F R A N C E S H I L L for $10 at the door, 604 681-9161,
1218 Cartwright St. on Granville
weekend. Head-spinning variety Island. More on the fest, of
makes my job difficult. So I'll course, at www.writerfest.bc.ca.
scrunch my eyes shut and point
Craig Sibley shows his sculpmy finger at...at... Live Biennial it ture from Thursday to Nov. 6 at
is, then—a series of performance the Winsor Gallery downtown,
art happening at sites around with a do with the artist in attentown. This week the Western dance from 5:30 p.m. at 667
Front opens with Freedom by Pe- Howe, 604 681-4870.
t e r Conlin, a two-week show in
Before I knew the title of Paul
which he divvies the room into
sections and invites the public to
interact; Jamie McMurray gets
back to his farm-boy roots at the
Front with Barbed Wire, a performance based on all the violent
and self-destructive things rural
boys do just to fight boredom, on
Saturday, (Oct. 25) starting at 7
p.m. Not far away that same day
from noon to 5 p.m. at the YWCA
thrift shop, 4300 Main, Lori Weidenhammer dons herself in the
fineries reminiscent of popular
images of domestic engineers in
One Hundred Housewives. Equally
neat-o is Dinner: For Corporeal
and Radiant Beings, in which
Dinka Pignon presents video
feeds t h a t have real supper
guests dining with virtual ones.
Huh. This is just the beginning,
folks. Live continues t h r o u g h
November, so stay tuned here
for more updates, and check
out www.livevancouver.bc.ca.
Don't be intimidated; they're
just superstars is all. The doors
of the Electra, formerly the BC
Hydro building, will be open at
Nelson and Hornby from 11 a.
m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday for
The Basement Show, showing the
work of Douglas Coupland,
Graham Gillmore, Angela
Grossmann, Attila Richard
Lukacs and Derek Root. Five of

Chizik's show at the Elliott Louis
Gallery I thought, 'Hmm...looks
oddly Canadian. Very Ontario
cottage-country stuff." And voila,
Chizik's paintings are called
Canadian Autumn: Cross Section of
New Work, and they'll hang at
1540 W 2nd Ave. (the Waterfall
building) to Nov. 2.
Not too much on the literary
front, given that most readers
will be flocking to Granville Island for the Writers Fest, but
here's a nice-sounding freebie:
Thursday, Sarah Dunant drops
by Women In Print at 7:30 p.m.
to read from The Birth of Venus, a
novel about a young woman discovering beauty in Florence, at
3566 West 4th Ave., 604-732-4128.
Time to shove your neighbour
out of the way, elbows poking in
others' guts. It's all worth it for Pc
book-lovers scouring for loads of Si
50-cent novels. If history serves, tc
there'll be madding crowds of
readers at the VPL's fall book sale
Thursday to Sunday, from 10 a.m.
every day but Sunday, when the
Alice MacKay room opens at 1
p.m. Early birds get the best
cheap goodies. ©