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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…

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

Certificates of Shares of the Capital Stock, dated 1912-1920.

This is a 2 sided certificate for shares, from the Sointula Cooperative Store Limited, issued to Rustaa Savola.

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…

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 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, 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…

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.

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

This is a 2 sided certificate for shares, from the Sointula Cooperative Store Limited, issued to John Tynjala.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Select works from Gregory's series How to Predict the Weather Using a Pig Spleen were presented at Video In. For the month of November the studio was turned into a four week long working space as Gregory reworked technical elements of this…

Volt is "the electric body and its kinetic charge, the language used to depict acquisition - what attracts and repels desire. A continuing fascination, exploration, and re-invention of identity, the past, present, and future self..." -…

In conjunction with the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005, The Al Neil Project presented 4 evenings of interdisciplinary work by, and inspired by, Vancouver innovator Al Neil, a seminal force in the multi-disciplinary practices that have…

The second in a series of Sunday panels at grunt gallery exploring notions of performance from the perspective of practitioners and the academy and the complex relationship the form of performance art has negotiated with institutional representation…

Ablakela, meaning 'calm' in the Lakota language, is a performance work by Dana Claxton, accompanied by Peyote Singers Johnny Mike and Verdell Primeaux of The Native American Church. The performance employs a large video projection of…

"I am fascinated by memory...a subtle tone in the voice, a colour, a smell or a sudden light end up being part of our memories and, ultimately, being part of us." Jocelyn Robert is a multidisciplinary artist from Quebec City. Known for his…