Meet November’s Featured Artist: Sylvie Ringer
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November’s Featured Artist is Sylvie Ringer, a visual artist who works with drawing, print media, and painting to tell stories through landscapes.
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Rich Aucoin wants to give you his phone number
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Rich Aucoin is one man party on a cross-country mission to bring us together.
Read MoreMeet October’s Featured Artist: Lindsey Hampton
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For this artist, graphic design came first, and ceramics came later. Lindsey Hampton took up a six-week ceramics course as a hobby, and what started as “just something to do” evolved into a business selling ceramics both online and through local and international stockists such as Vancouver Special, Easy Tiger Goods (Toronto), and Coming Soon (New York City).
Read MoreMeet September's Featured Artist: Alina Senchenko
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“My practice is really trying to de-stereotype Ukraine and Eastern European countries. I try to look at a different point of Ukrainian life and society and try to breakdown structures. A lot of photographers from the West go to any Third World country and look at it with an exploitative gaze. There are people trying to live their lives in these places. It always made me mad to see this type of artwork.”
Read MoreVLAFF’s Commitment to Accountability: Curating for Diverse Audiences
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“From VLAFF as a whole, I hope people take away that we as a festival, are a work-in-progress. I don’t want to perpetuate the assumption as a Latinx organization that it’s smooth sailing in any sort of way. We are very different people in our team, we don’t all hold one particular political perspective. In a way, the films we present are a lens into our conversations, differences, and similarities.”
Read MoreWeaving and Resisting on the Foreshore
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The blue cabin will grace the foreshore of False Creek as of August 25, and the 2019-2020 programming year will see four residencies by Indigenous artists from Turtle Island and Australia. The theme of the year, Skeins: Weaving on the Foreshore, focuses on Coast Salish weaving practices.
Read MoreMeet August's Featured Artist: Tim Bauer!
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“I grew up with drag queens and it fascinated me for anyone to be able to go outside, be totally different, and be themselves, and be strong about it, with their heels on, walking tall. I always admired that. I always considered that to be a superhero feature, because superheroes always change their outfits and take on a different persona. I always equated the two in a lot of ways. The idea of gender being a performance is a really bold statement that I admire in drag queens as well.”
Read MoreThe World We Want to Exist In: Creating Culture with the CURRENT Feminist Electronic Arts Symposium
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What does it mean to create a culture, break down the existing structures of power in order to create the world we want to exist in? Who are the creators of culture, and who is culture created for?
These are the questions that drive the annual CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Arts Symposium, a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary and intersectional electronic art and music initiative.
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