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Lisa Deanne Smith, 'Flower Girl'
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Lisa Deanne Smith, 'Flower Girl'
In Flower Girl, Lisa Deanne Smith created an interactive performance piece wearing a costume incorporating fresh flowers. Standing on a pedestal, Smith spoke about her desires then walked through the audience and surrounding neighbourhood asking…
Larry Krone (with Rodney Graham, Judy Radul, Peter Culley, and Michael Turner), 'A Country & Western Jamboree'
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Larry Krone (with Rodney Graham, Judy Radul, Peter Culley, and Michael Turner), 'A Country & Western Jamboree'
Larry Krone (b. Chicago, 1970) is based in New York and has been exhibiting drawings, sculptures, installations, and videos since the early 1990s. His work has been shown widely, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum, The…
HUMAN 5, 'Human 5'
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HUMAN 5, 'Human 5'
A live large-scale mixed media installation was produced by anonymous collaborators HUMAN 5. The event is process-based and will bring to light diversity within practices alive in the public realm. Presented by the Helen Pitt Gallery, now known as…
Glenn Lewis, 'Mondo Artie Episode #6070 - The Sleuth Lips Report'
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Glenn Lewis, 'Mondo Artie Episode #6070 - The Sleuth Lips Report'
A performance in a retrospective format, inventing and telling tales of performance in Vancouver from the 60's and 70's. Featuring an ensemble cast made up of a who's who of Vancouver performance artists, this multimedia project was…
Performance Network Symposium
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Performance Network Symposium
The Performance Network Symposium brought together curators from across Canada to develop and explore networking and exchange opportunities in the performance art sector via three days of attending LIVE events and discussions for participants,…
Jamie McMurry, 'Barbed Wire'
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Jamie McMurry, 'Barbed Wire'
'Barbed Wire' is McMurry's autobiographical performance that will challenge our perceptions and emotions. We witness him in states of physical danger as he performs defiant and dangerous activities that young boys specifically engage…
Fête Colombienne des Enfants
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Fête Colombienne des Enfants
The Bulletin was published at least in 1989 by La Fête Colombienne des enfants, which was a major children’s festival held in Vancouver, which led to the establishment of the Vancovuer Children’s Festival. This is an incomplete collection,…
Boris Nieslony, 'Black Market International'
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Boris Nieslony, 'Black Market International'
Boris Nieslony has worked in performance art since the 1970's and is the founder of Black Market International. He works extensively around the world organizing and networking performance art activity.
Performance Art Cabaret
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Performance Art Cabaret
The Performance Art Cabaret at the Vogue Theatre was the kickoff event for LIVE at the End of the Century, the first LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. Organized by Glenn Alteen and Brice Canyon, this event continued a tradition of cabaret…
Vance filing - Vance [associations and employment correspondence], vol. 6
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Vance filing - Vance [associations and employment correspondence], vol. 6
Astrid Hadad y Los Tarzanes
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Astrid Hadad y Los Tarzanes
Cabaret diva-comedienne and performance artist, Astrid Hadad, already a legend in her native Mexico City and across the world, is known for her ravishing voice and outrageous stage presence. Astrid's show is a fusion of song, theatre and…
Certificates of Shares
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Certificates of Shares
Certificates of Shares of the Capital Stock, dated 1912-1920.
Correspondence [professional and private], accolades and associations, vol. 1
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Correspondence [professional and private], accolades and associations, vol. 1
Conseil scolaire francophone de la C.-B.
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Conseil scolaire francophone de la C.-B.
Transition : Bulletin d’information was published by the CSFCB. This is an incomplete collection, from April-May 1996 to June 1996, with gaps. It was printed in folded 8 ½ in. x 14 in. format. The Rapport annuel is the CSFCB’s annual report. This is…
Liminal, 'Objects for the Emancipated Consumer'
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Liminal, 'Objects for the Emancipated Consumer'
Dynamo presented Liminal's original production, Objects for the Emancipated Consumer, a multimedia spy drama and interactive performance and installation. Six characters searched for answers to an ambiguous series of past, present, and future…
LIVE at the End of the Century
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LIVE at the End of the Century
LIVE at the End of the Century 1999 was the first LIVE Biennial of Performance Art and was conceived of and coordinated by Glenn Alteen and Brice Canyon. Eleven Vancouver arts organizations and countless individuals collaborated to produce five…
Taste This, 'Too Close to Fire'
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Taste This, 'Too Close to Fire'
Taste This, a group of four performers who blend storytelling, music, and performance to create a multi-media spoken word experience, has been known to take on topics ranging from cross dressing to super heroes, and now, pyromania. Too Close to Fire…
Marie Baker, 'Kyoti Bites'
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Marie Baker, 'Kyoti Bites'
A multimedia performance by Vancouver based Anishinabe writer Marie Annharte Baker celebrating the coyotrix - the continuing presence of the coyote in urban life. Presented by IMAG.
Audit Committee
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Audit Committee
Protective Services Committee
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Protective Services Committee
Chambre de Commerce Franco-Colombienne, Vancouver
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Chambre de Commerce Franco-Colombienne, Vancouver
The CCFCV provides programs and activities for the Francophone business community of Vancouver. Nos Affaires appears in several formats. This is an incomplete collection ranging from Vol. 3, no. 2, its Annual Report for 1984-5, to Vol. 8, no. 6,…
Kristine Stiles, 'Props For The Memory and Doing Wrong in the Work of Joseph Beuys'
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Kristine Stiles, 'Props For The Memory and Doing Wrong in the Work of Joseph Beuys'
No other artist of the twentieth century who engaged in war on the side of doing wrong has been as celebrated as German artist Joseph Beuys. In an unprecedented examination of the way Beuys' iconography relates to National Socialism, Stiles…
Paul Wong, 'Re-Act'
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Paul Wong, 'Re-Act'
Re-Act was a two night retrospective of live art by Paul Wong, taking the form of a live multimedia presentation including video projects and multi-monitors, live video mixing, musicians, audio, lighting, movement, and theatrics, all directed live…
Centre culturel francophone de l'Okanagan, Kelowna
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Centre culturel francophone de l'Okanagan, Kelowna
Based in Kelowna, the CCFO provides programs and activities for the Francophones of the Okanagan. Its publication, L’Écho de l’Okanagan, appeared in several formats. This incomplete collection ranges from Oct. 1979 to Jan. 1990. L’Anse-aux-Sables…
Dolores Dallas, 'An Apple is an Apple'
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Dolores Dallas, 'An Apple is an Apple'
Dallas creates a moving sculpture by transforming animal hides into abstract forms and sculptures, applying 'tattoo-like' designs and free verse poetry to the surfaces. The plains of the skins are screens into which she will project her…