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 The AFRACB provides programs and activities for Francophones 50 years and over in B.C. It is based in Victoria. Its quarterly publication, L’Entraînés, appears both online and in print. This collection includes only a single copy, May 2019, which…

The fourth in a series of panel discussions on performance art organized for LIVE 2003. This panel engaged practitioners within, adjacent to, and outside of the performance discipline in a discussion on artistic process.

The Répertoire culturel des ressources francophones de la Colombie-Britannique was published by the Fédération des Franco-Colombiens in 1989 in a softbound 8 ½ in. x 11 in. format. It seems to be considered Volume 1 of the series, though is not…

Based in Nelson, l'Association francophone des Kootenays Ouest (AFKO) provides programs and activities for the Francophones of the West Kootenays. Its news bulletin, La Voix des Kootenays (The Voice of the Kootenays) is published quarterly at…

A participant raises an audio-smell guide to their nose. Still from The Seven Sauces by Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski.

Two performances occurred simultaneously in adjoining rooms. Each performance reflects the disparate bodies of work that the two artists pursue separately. When they interface with each other (either purposefully or accidentally) a third performance…

Masked performer stands in an alcove at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

The Vancouver Police Museum & Archives is an independent museum run by the Vancouver Police Historical Society, a registered charity. The museum’s foundations began in celebration of the Vancouver Police Department’s centennial anniversary in…

Réseau-Femmes Colombie-Britannique provides programming for Francophone women in the province.   RFCB celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010 with the publication of À 20 ans, toute est possible! [sic]. It celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015…

Established in 1983, the Centre for Socialist Education is a community-based society working to popularize the principles of socialism through political and cultural events.

Irene Loughlin incorporates states of grasping and hanging from a fire escape in an off-site performance located in a local alley of Canada's poorest postal code. A memorial piece for people who have died in the alley and a testimonial to those…

This is a loss of bodily control, of bodily functions. She experiences both repulsion and desire simultaneously. She is abject. She is outside of herself. Her body lies dormant beside her body being traumatized. This performance was part of the…

Mo and another participant stand on either side of a person in a chair with a gagged mouth. The words “Imperial Racism” are projected onto the wall. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy.

Lizard Jones reads from a script at the microphone, surrounded by Kate Craig, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Rebecca Belmore, and Glenn Lewis. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

Video still of Marlene Madison projected during the performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

This is the front side of the certificate for shares, from the Sointula Cooperative Store Limited, issued to Alex Anderson.

Video still of Marlene Madison projected during the performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

Michael Turner and Judy Radul perform on stage at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

Welcome to the home of ARCH – BC, the Archival Records of Ceramic History in British Columbia. Arch-BC is a site dedicated to the newsletters of the Potters Guild of British Columbia (PGBC) the oldest provincial ceramic guild in Canada. The…

Projection of Fiona Bowie accompanying Marlene Madison's live performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

This collection contains objects of general relevance to the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.

Informed by popular culture and situated in contemporary cultural issues, Marlene Madison's Mira investigates multiple performance gestures and takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of cults - from psychoanalysis to those which more subtly…

Giant food, genetically modified organisms, Beckett and Marx (that's the brothers not Karl) combine in fusion cooking's maddest combo yet. Slapstick comedy is mutilated and disemboweled and now the organs are taking over. What happens when…