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Since the incorporation of Port Coquitlam on March 7, 1913, the natural beauty and charm of the City has attracted many residents and businesses. Port Coquitlam has experienced significant growth and has strived to remain relevant to the changing…

The LIVE Biennial of Performance Art was founded and produced by grunt gallery for its first four iterations 1999 - 2005. Initially conceived of and organized by Brice Canyon and Glenn Alteen, LIVE sought to highlight the well established but often…

Vancouver-based fashion designer Lore Maria Wiener (31 March 1920 – 16 July 2019) dominated local fashion during the mid-century and continued designing well into her 80s. Wiener combined elegance with comfort in creations ranging from flapper-…

SMOC – originally named the BC Museum of Original Costume Society – was founded as a not-for-profit society in 1992 to create a collection of historical fashion to narrate a humanist social history, illustrative of Canadian diversity and changing…

The Legacy Project is an umbrella program within Karen Jamieson Dance, which has five components that are concerned with the preserving and the passing on of Karen Jamieson’s life’s work. The Legacy Project has been recognized as an important tool:…

As figures, bees are efficient, industrious, mobile, manageable, and profitable workers; they make honey and pollinate the flora, diligently crossing between GM and non-GM crops and, in the process, they are themselves being modified, contaminated,…

Reality is mirrored through video feeds that have real guests dining with virtual ones in this intimate and eerie experience. Video guests address real guests in arbitrary conversations as if they were able to see them. Guests can respond to the…

Over the first two weeks of November, Forkert convened small groups of participants to perform everyday activities together in public and private spaces, drawing attention to the experience of time and the possibilities of spending time together. At…

As an artist who works both in performance and video art, Lida Abdul creates poetic spaces that allow the viewer to interrogate the familiar and the personal. Her work is guided by a ritualized formalism that insinuates the immediacy of myth and the…

Photograph of early Sointula, that shows the first Sointula Cooperative Store

Wong Mon Hong was born in Van Winkle in 1901. From 1917 until 1943 he was active in mining, and the operation of two grocery stores and a cafe. He worked for two years in Vancouver, then returned to the Cariboo to continue mining. He died in 1985.…

Photograph of the second Sointula Cooperative Store

A three-day online performance exchange between Sydney, Australia, Vancouver, Canada, and Lancaster, UK. Chiasma presented live streams of Léa Donnan's Adult Female, Rebecca Belmore's Tent City, and Hester Reeve's The British Umpire…

pucker is the story of how one woman's sexuality revolves around and inside her mouth. With falling ice, secreted hairnets and golden handbags, Goldwater revels in the pleasure of words as they roll off the tongue.

Talent Hut, established in 1989, is rearing its ugly head once more after an extended run in hell. Mainstays MC Jimmi Schmmoz, Orlan Fortrel, Big Glory (guitar) Hole, Ina Pavolvina, Jean Poole, Boofka Putz, Countess Turnoff, and new recruits take…

Artist and educator Andrea Fraser gives a talk on her performance practice, critical interrogation of art history, and institutional critique of exhibition spaces as addressed through one of her best known works, Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk,…

The Bulletin Mensuel was the monthly pubication of the SFV from May 1985, probably to Aug. 1986, when the SFV’s publication Le Phare begins publication. The collection is incomplete. The format was folded 8 ½ in. x 14 in. pages.   Le Phare was the…

David Yonge seated against a wall at the Crying Room. Still from Picnic by Mima Preston and Gareth Moore.

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

Rebecca Belmore and Archer Pechawis stand at the railing while Glenn Lewis reads from a script. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

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

Accompanying an exhibit at Artspeak of the same name, Cop Puppet employs stuffed animals as narrative vehicles that critique the darker side of state power and popular culture. The stuffed animal impart a pleasant familiarity and provide an…

This series includes publications and magazines that were collected by John Vance because they contained stories about his career and forensics work. Includes True Crime magazines. Digitized pages include the specific article about Vance.