Event Category Archives: Arts & Culture District

Elemental Cinema: Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman

Elemental Cinema brings together the collaborative film works of Arts professor Denise Ferreira da Silva (GRSJ) and artist Arjuna Neuman. Three cinematic works question how structures of power and categorizations of difference generate rifts between humans, and with the more-than-human, the earth and cosmos. In these films, the four elements – water, earth, fire, air […]

ARTIVISM: Politics of the Body

UBC Drag X Artivism is throwing a Queer Back-to-School party with Vancouver’s top BIPOC & Trans and/or Non-Binary Talent! An all BIPOC + Trans night of experimental drag featuring students & community artists hosted by Continental Breakfast starring: Queen Maiden China, Kara Juku, Mx. Bukuru, Skim, Belladonna VonShade, Persephone Estradiol, Rainbow Glitz, Count Cupid and […]

ARTIVISM 2022: Contact Improvisation

No experience and all abilities welcome at this body movement class with Anne Cooper from Edam Dance. Wear comfortable clothes that allow you to slide on a partner or the floor but aren’t too slippery, and no/minimal jewelry. Kneepads recommended. “Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. […]

Xicanx Speaks!

This new series of Artist talks will feature 15 of the artists in exhibition giving gallery talks about their works and participating in roundtable dialogue moderated by co-curators Jill Baird and Greta de Leon. The first iteration of Xicanx Speaks! will feature Judith F. Baca, Sarah Castillo and Kathy Vargas. Xicanx Speaks! is an opportunity […]

ARTIVISM 2022: Art Connects – Outsider Art

In conjunction with the annual Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (Oct 14 – 16), the VAG invites you to an online conversation about the festival, the artists it serves, the complex history of “Outsider Art” and its place within the Vancouver community. Hosts Kristin Cheung, Executive Director of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, and Shannon […]

Sound House: Honouring with Orange

The Museum of Anthropology’s Sound House Series returns this fall for its 4th season. Sound House is a celebration of culture and music, set in MOA’s Haida House, against a stunning backdrop of Northwest Coast art and architecture. Launching this September, this season will feature diverse lines up of genre-blending bands and musicians, spoken word […]

Film: Joyland

ARTIVISM is proud to yet again partner with the 41st Vancouver International Film Festival with a ground breaking, award-winning new film from Pakistan addressing politics of the body as they are strained under expectations of tradition. In Joyland, a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, while […]

Film: Joyland

ARTIVISM is proud to yet again partner with the 41st Vancouver International Film Festival with a ground breaking, award-winning new film from Pakistan addressing politics of the body as they are strained under expectations of tradition. In Joyland, a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, while […]