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This series contains the personal and professional correspondence created and received by John Vance during his lifetime and career. The records include a diary from 1934-1935 which chronicles his time under police protection, correspondence with…

Mo's beard is trimmed by a participant. Both are spotlit in front of the projected words “Future of Empire”. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy.

This performance is inspired by the book "Empire" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt with its philosophical and political propositions of shifting configurations of racism. However, it is clear that racism has not receded but actually…

Taking in Strangers is a show that explores through oral history, physical, theatre, video, and projected images, the similarities and connections between the people of Newfoundland and Québec. With text taken verbatim from conversations, this show…

Randy and Berenicci, dressed as nomadic travelers, appear to float in False Creek on a sculpture engulfed in flames. From the land, viewers used an optically assisted telescope to create the illusion of the performers waling endlessly through the…

For LIVE, Martin Beauregard produced his performance 'Fireworks', using a slide projector and live sound effects. Beauregard's simulations fall flat, never reaching the needed climax in their fulfillment of his intention to wipe out…

Lesbian art collective Kiss & Tell's Borderline Disorderly draws on their experiences as artists and activists to confront the complexity of making art as queer Canadians. This performance is about artistic process, censorship, the gulf…

Item consists of a letter from Vancouver's Chief of Police to Cloverdale's Chief Constable. Item also includes the letter from the Vancouver [Police] Secretary to Vance.

The performance group One Night Only work by taking over alternate or empty spaces to create site-specific installation work in dialogue with the form and function of the space. Six artists inhabited the space of the Bartlett Exhibition and…

Barabas illustrates the body as a vessel for energy, essence, and idea. A tattoo excavates the seamline between the front and back of the artist's body. The artist asks, what is the connection? what do we contain? and what is the nature of the…

Les Échos du Pacifique is a French-language choir that has operated in the Lower Mainland from at least the 198s. The early issues of its newsletter simply bear the choirs name, Les Échos du Pacifique. This is an incomplete collection, comprising…

Larry Krone and his band perform on stage at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

LMW News spanned over 20 years, highlighting the coming season’s offerings for LMW clientele. The newsletters were a family affair: Lore Maria Wiener’s daughter, Claudia Cornwall, created whimsical illustrations of her mother’s designs and provided…

Gordon Cornwall delighted in shooting on location throughout the Lower Mainland and incorporated settings as diverse as hydroelectric dams and helicopters into the marketing images he created for LMW throughout the decades.

Since 1960, the CCFPG provides programs and activities for the Francophones of Prince George. Its newsletter is Le Coin du Parc. This is an incomplete collection from Dec. 1999 to Fall-Winter 2017-18, with gaps.

Chen and Michalofski will be gathering sound and smell information from locales around Vancouver. They will have a market stand presentation in the market where visitors can sample the audio-smell guides that result. These guides take them them…

Jeanne Randolph, a psychoanalyst and writer of highly inventive visual arts criticism will directly address the performative body of the technologically enhanced lecturer in her Syntax errors presentation. Randolph draws upon her research interests…

Vancouver artist Sandra Lockwood is known for her strong, graceful, emotional performances. Lockwood presented a song/poem cycle based loosely on the life and work of astronomer/inventor Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and his wife Elizabeth as part…

Based in Courtenay, the AFVC provided programs and activities to the Francophones in the Comox valley. It no longer exists. Its publication, L’Écho, was published in at least two formats. This is an incomplete collection, ranging from March-April…

The CBA provides programs and activities for the Francophones of Powell River. Le Petit Accueil was its publication. This incomplete collection ranges from April 1994 to Nov. 1995 Le Petit journal francophone was its following publication. This…

The SFM represents the Francophones of Maillardville, a Francophone community which is now part of Coquitlam.   Bonjour Maillardville was printed as of 1984 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of Maillardville. It was published first…

L’APPCF is the organization grouping the parents of the Programme Cadre de Français, the province’s first French Immersion program, which was launched in 1979. It is based in Vancouver. It published its newsletter, Dans L’Cadre, from ca. 1979 to at…

The digitized B.C./Western Canadian Lumber Worker collection contains newspapers produced from 1960 to 1980 by the British Columbia District Council No. 1 and the Western Canada Regional Council No. 1 of the forestry labour union the International…

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