City Opera Vancouver presents 'Song from the Uproar’ - a Celebration of Early Feminist Icon, Isabelle Eberhardt. Explore the adventurous and tragic life of Isabelle Eberhardt, an explorer, journalist, and sufi, in this Canadian premiere.
The 2023 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize exhibited work from artists working with film, photography, or video, according the prize exhibition’s host, the Polygon Gallery. Artists were nominated by staff and faculty at British Columbia arts institutions and post-secondary programs. As the exhibition engaged with emerging lens-based artists, it was fitting that the exhibition demonstrated how BC artists are finding their place in modern culture and art. The exhibition was open from December 15th to January 29th.On entering the exhibition space, visitors were immediately greeted by Wei Chen’s Listening to the Floor, 2021, which depicted a man pressing his ear to the floor in a column of the same image that increased in size, the man filling more of the frame as the images grew and became closer to the ground. Inspired by the experience of the Covid-19 lockdown, the image not only reflected common feelings about a shared experience, but also echoed the style of internet me
My first thoughts were ‘where has this place been!?’ It’s the kind of idea I wish I had, and I’m immediately glad that someone made it happen. I first heard about Liquidation World through instagram — the name intrigued me, triggering memories of shopping in the big discount box-store growing up. At first it was a bit unclear to me what this Liquidation World was, but luckily their slogan is very straight-to-the-point, “we take everything and everything must go!”One of their instagram videos procraims, “If it’s just sitting in your studio locked away it’s not doing any good to anyone. Bring it down to Liquidation World, where we turn your art into cold hard cash!’’ Could it be true? An accessible, DIY art consignment, event and gallery space in Vancouver? Turns out it was, and their accessible approach is really what made the place so cool. Truly anyone was invited to bring in the fruit of their artistic labour &md