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# UNIT/PITT

Society for Art and Critical Awareness

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## Posts

- [Exhibitions and events](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/)
- [c.a.f.f. Session 6 featured in Rhythm Changes article](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/c-a-f-f-session-6-featured-in-rhythm-changes-article/) - Vancouver, BC — April 13, 2026 UNIT/PITT is pleased to share new coverage of c.a.f.f. (calling all friendly faces), U/P's monthly (e)merging and experimental jazz nite, curated by composer and trumpeter Ben Frost. In a feature published April 10, 2026, music journalist Will Chernoff of Rhythm Changes reviewed the series' sixth edition, which took place
- [Announcement: Alison Bosley accepts the role of UNIT/PITT Executive Director](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcement-alison-bosley-accepts-the-role-of-unit-pitts-executive-director/) - Dear all, It is with equal parts sadness and excitement that we are announcing a new chapter at UNIT/PITT. After three years of dedicated leadership, Catherine de Montreuil has stepped down as Executive Director of UNIT/PITT as of January, 2026. At the same time, we are also pleased to announce that Alison Bosley has accepted
- [Call for Applicants: Board Treasurer](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-applicants-board-treasurer/) - UNIT/PITT Artist-Run Centre Volunteer Board Officer | Immediate Appointment UNIT/PITT is seeking a Board Treasurer to join our Board of Directors for an immediate appointment. This is a key governance role that works closely with our Executive Director and Board to support the financial health, sustainability, and accountability of the organization. With a recently appointed
- [Renovations at UNIT/PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/renovations-at-unit-pitt/) - We have important updates to share about UNIT/PITT's recently completed renovations! We are happy to announce that UNIT/PITT has completed its Phase 1 renovations to implement essential upgrades to our facility. Renovations were made possible thanks to support from the BC Arts Council the City of Vancouver, and our landlords. UNIT/PITT took on our lease at
- [2025/26 Board of Directors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/2025-26-board-of-directors/) - We're pleased to announce our 2025 Board of Directors! This year, we've welcomed Solange Adum Abdala to our Board for a two-year term, and bid farewell to Angie Kwong and Anna Zoria, confirmed during our 2025 AGM on July 3, 2025. With gratitude, directors Madison Mayhew (President/Chair), Craig Stensrud (Vice President/Vice Chair), Sara Ellis (Archives
- [Unit/Pitt presents Wrong Wave 2014: Art Rock? Reprise](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-presents-wrong-wave-2014-art-rock-reprise/) - Three nights of art rock! Festival pass, $20 in advance. Thursday October 16 at The Fox Cabaret July Fourth Toilet - Death Prizm - Late Spring $10 at door, or buy festival pass Doors: 7:30 Friday October 17th at the Western Front the grain of the voice an evening with Frog Eyes - Nicholas Kgrovich
- [Announcing the 2024/25 Board of Directors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcing-the-2024-25-board-of-directors/) - It's with immense pleasure that we officially announce the appointment of UNIT/PITT's 2024 Board of Directors, welcoming Angie Kwong, Henry Tsang, Nico Ford, Kaila Bhullar, and Héloïse Auvray for two-year terms, confirmed during our 2024 AGM on August 26, 2024. Directors Madison Mayhew (President/Chair), Craig Stensrud (Vice President/Vice Chair), Sara Ellis (Archives Chair) and Emilie
- [A Notice to Our Community—UNIT/PITT Needs Your Help!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/a-notice-to-our-community-unit-pitt-needs-your-help/) - Video segments from Sound of the Sun, Volume III Garden Party, curated by Jefferson Alade for the June 21, 2024 Summer Solstice. Documentation by Tadros Eyob
- [2024 AGM + Call for Board Members!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/2024-agm-call-for-board-members/) - Annual General Meeting Wow! 2024 was a huge year for UNIT/PITT. We found a new home, a new director, some departures, and some new faces. We're incredibly grateful for the amazing people we've had the opportunity to work with this year: Al Razutis' Gravity wins, Entropy Rules, curated by Felix Rapp alongside an original publication; three iterations
- [Announcing Ali Bosley as Interim Director](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcing-ali-bosley-as-interim-director/) - June 16, 2024 - UNIT/PITT is pleased to announce the appointment of Ali Bosley as our Interim Director. Ali will be stepping into this role temporarily during the summer months to oversee programming and operations. Ali Bosley brings a wealth of experience and passion for artist-run culture, as the Administrator for studio collective Duplex Artists’
- [Chaos Emblematic + UNIT/PITT Housewarming](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/chaos-emblematic-unit-pitt-housewarming/) - Image: Master of Reality performance ft. Thiago Franzim
- [Job Call: ReIssue Publisher](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/job-call-reissue-publisher/) - Applications due September 15, 2023 UNIT/PITT is seeking to hire a Publisher to oversee operations of ReIssue's online and printed publishing platforms. Since January 2020, ReIssue has established itself as an important platform for critical art writing and discourse within Western Canada through its online home at reissue.pub, through writing workshops, and in print through our
- [UNIT/PITT is Getting its Own Home!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/news-unit-pitt-is-getting-its-own-home/) - We are moving to our new permanent location at 2954 West 4th Ave on September 1, 2023After three years of remote, online, and mail-art programming, we are thrilled to announce that UNIT/PITT has signed a lease for September 1, 2023 at 2954 West 4th Avenue. This means a return to gallery exhibitions, in-person programming, as well as
- [Call for Applications: Director, deadline October 28](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-director-2022/) - NOTE: THIS POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED. We are no longer accepting applications, but thank you for your interest Terms: Full-time, initial 2 or 3 year contractStart Date: Between December 1 and January 16, 2023Hours: 36 hours/week, flexible scheduleSalary: $50-55,000 per annum based on experience + benefitsDeadline for Applications: 4:00 pm PDT on October 28,
- [Announcing Catherine de Montreuil as Director](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcing-catherine-de-montreuil/) - Catherine de Montreuil is an artist, arts worker, and trained horticulturist whose leadership is informed by her experience as a working class person. Throughout her work within the network of Vancouver's artist-run organizations, she has advocated for fair labour standards and greater equity within the arts. She has extensive experience in independent arts publishing, and
- [2022/23 Board of Directors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/2022-23-board-of-directors/) - We would like to extend a warm welcome to Hilda Nanning and Mollie Burke, who are joining returning board members Aileen Bahmanipour, Sara Ellis, Jennifer Huang, Michael C.K. Ma, Madison Mayhew, and James Spetifore to form the 2022/23 Board of Directors. Keep scrolling down to read their bios. This year’s slate was confirmed at our Annual General Meeting on July
- [Brit Bachmann becomes Development Coordinator & ReIssue Publisher](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/brit-bachmann-becomes-development-coordinator-reissue-publisher/) - If you’ve contacted UNIT/PITT this last season, you may have noticed that Brit Bachmann’s title has changed to Outgoing Director. Over the next few months, Brit will transition to Development Coordinator & ReIssue Publisher as the Board of Directors seeks out and hires a new Director for UNIT/PITT. The Board of Directors is grateful to
- [Wrong Wave 2022 Closing Party: Nasdaq, Star Party (Seattle), The Artists, Sophia Stel at Antisocial Skateboard Shop, July 30](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2022-closing/) - Join us in celebrating the conclusion of Wrong Wave 2022, a month-long celebration of art rock, experimental film, visual art and community projects, with a skateboarding party and live music at Antisocial Skateboard Shop (2337 Main Street, Vancouver). Music will begin at 6:30pm, but there will be skateboarding in the back all day. THIS IS
- [Notice of Annual General Meeting July 29, 2022](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/notice-of-annual-general-meeting-july-29-2022/) - 2021 was a huge development year for UNIT/PITT, and our most ambitious program cycle in years — that is, until this year with Wrong Wave Festival and I SPY... 3. Some highlights from 2021 include La Commune Free School & Artist Residency, I SPY... disposable camera mail art program, Helen's Quarantine Cookbook, ReIssue.pub's first full
- [UNIT/PITT Selected Runner-Up for 2021 Lacey Prize](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/2021-lacey-prize/) - To have our work be seen and to be shortlisted for the 2021 Lacey Prize means so much to us, particularly this year as UNIT/PITT continues to adapt to the pandemic/post-pandemic cultural landscape. The board and staff of UNIT/PITT would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Eunice Bélidor, Curator of Quebec and Canadian Contemporary Art at
- [Wrong Wave 2022: Week 3, July 18-24](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2022-week-3/) - Welcome to the 8th edition of Wrong Wave Festival: The Liquidation World Guide to Maximizing Your Autonomy, curated by Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Maya Beaudry and David Biddle, aka Liquidation World. This week's schedule is PACKED with regular Wrong Wave Festival programming and Wronger Wave... we hope you like it! Mourning Coup’s greatest hits: https://mourningcoup.bandcamp.com/ Gretchen Snakes: Art
- [Call for Artists: I spy...2022](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-artists-i-spy-2022/) - Information and artist fee I SPY...is a disposable camera mail art project created by UNIT/PITT. Inaugurated in 2020, this will be the third and most ambitious iteration of I SPY… A total of 30 artists will be mailed disposable cameras with return postage. Each individual will be given a unique text prompt written by poet,
- [Wrong Wave 2022: Week 4, July 25-31](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2022-week-4/) - Welcome to the 8th edition of Wrong Wave Festival: The Liquidation World Guide to Maximizing Your Autonomy, curated by Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Maya Beaudry and David Biddle, aka Liquidation World. We're happy to have gotten your attention, now keep reading for a list of the coolest art happenings you could possibly attend during the last week of July...
- [Wrong Wave 2022: Symphony of Fire, July 5](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2022-symphony-of-fire/) - Wrong Wave Festival 2022 will begin on July 5 with a special silver screen edition of Symphony of Fire, an experimental music and video festival. You make a video, send it to us, we screen it. Submissions will be screened on Tuesday, July 5 at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street, Vancouver) at 7pm. Symphony of
- [Come join our Board of Directors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-board-members-2022/) - Yes, it's that magical time of year when all your favourite non-profits launch their calls for Board Members, including us! Our Board of Directors is a group of eleven individuals representing artists, writers, academics and other professionals, all at different stages of their careers. UNIT/PITT's Board of Directors strive to reflect the communities and demographics
- [Wrong Wave 2022: Week 1, July 4-10](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2022-week-1/) - Welcome to the 8th edition of Wrong Wave Festival, curated by Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Maya Beaudry and David Biddle, aka Liquidation World. The title of this year's festival is, The Liquidation World Guide to Maximizing Your Autonomy. Join us on July 5 at The Cinematheque for Symphony of Fire, the official kick-off event. Keep reading for
- [Wrong Wave 2022: Week 2, July 11-17](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2022-week-2/) - Welcome to the 8th edition of Wrong Wave Festival: The Liquidation World Guide to Maximizing Your Autonomy, curated by Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Maya Beaudry and David Biddle, aka Liquidation World. This week is alllllll about Wronger Wave, keep reading for all the week’s details! Click HERE to add Wrong Wave Festival to your Google Calendar So... What
- [Get your orders in!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/get-your-orders-in/) - Oooooo we've got some exciting Summer/Fall programming to announce soon! The UNIT/PITT team has been busy preparing for new programs and transitions — so busy that we need to lighten our workload. With the exceptions of the ReIssue Year 1 Anthology and Wrong Wave Festival Guide (forthcoming), all other titles and merchandise will be temporarily
- [La Commune Revisited](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/la-commune-revisited/) - Last year, Dr. Roxanne Panchasi in collaboration with UNIT/PITT presented La Commune 2021, a 10-week virtual free school on the Paris Commune of 1871. The program, which is still available online, features open access readings, an interactive timeline of key historical events, and weekly episodes of radio 1871, an original podcast where Roxanne interviews other
- [UNIT/PITT welcomes Nadia Mahamoor](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unit-pitt-welcomes-nadia-mahamoor/) - It is our pleasure to announce that Nadia Mahamoor is joining UNIT/PITT as part of Shumka Centre's Art Apprenticeship Network 2022. Nadia will be working alongside Rachel Lau and Brit Bachmann to curate a speaker series in response to I SPY…a disposable camera project. Thank you to the Shumka Centre and Emily Carr University of
- [Wronger Wave: Call for Expressions of Interest 2022](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wronger-wave-call-2022/) - Wrong Wave is back! The eighth instalment of UNIT/PITT’s art rock, experimental and visual art festival will happen this July 2022. Curated by Liquidation World Collective, Wrong Wave 8 will be a month-long, multi-site celebration of emerging and underground art scenes. Wronger Wave is a parallel series of music, visual art, film and publishing events
- [WEEK 6](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-6/) - Welcome back to Week 6 of LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. If you’re just joining us this week, you might want to take a look at the content from the previous five weeks to help get you
- [WEEK 10](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-10/) - Ten. Whole. Weeks. Welcome back to LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. If you’re just joining us this week, you might want to take a look at the content from the previous nine weeks to help get
- [WEEK 9](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-9/) - It’s Week 9, the penultimate week of LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. If you’re just joining us this week, you might want to take a look at the content from the previous eight weeks to help
- [WEEK 8](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-8/) - Welcome back to Week 8 of LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. If you’re just joining us this week, you might want to take a look at the content from the previous seven weeks to help get
- [WEEK 7](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-7/) - How can it be Week 7 already?! Welcome back to LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. If you’re just joining us this week, you might want to take a look at the content from the previous six
- [WEEK 1](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-1/) - Bienvenue/Welcome to week 1 of LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Dr. Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. The Paris Commune erupted in the spring of 1871 following more than a century of political, social, and economic transformation in France. After months of war
- [COMMUNE-OPÉDIE](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/commune-opedie/) - The COMMUNE-OPÉDIE is an extension of the La Commune 2021 Free School. These thematic pages on different aspects of the Paris Commune and its legacies were written by students in an SFU seminar taught this past spring by History professor and Free School host Roxanne Panchasi (Simon Fraser University). Stacey Bishop, a PhD Candidate in History at the University of
- [2021/22 Board of Directors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/2021-22-board-of-directors/) - We would like to extend a warm welcome to Andrea Valentine-Lewis, who is joining returning board members Aileen Bahmanipour, Sara Ellis, Jennifer Huang, Michael C.K. Ma, Madison Mayhew, Roxanne Panchasi, James Spetifore and Alena Webber to form the 2021/22 Board of Directors. Keep scrolling down to read their bios. This year's slate was confirmed at our Annual General Meeting on August 8,
- [Call for Board Members, 2021-23](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-board-members-2021-23/) - UNIT/PITT is seeking 1-3 individuals to fill vacancies on our Board of Directors. As a charitable non-profit artist-run organization, the Board is a crucial governance body that helps steer the vision of the organization through participation on Committees, and in Board Meetings with Staff (every 2 months). Although the time commitment may fluctuate based on
- [UNIT/PITT welcomes Lauren Lavery and Rachel Lau](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unit-pitt-welcomes-lauren-lavery-and-rachel-lau/) - Thank you for tuning in to U/P’s programming over this last year. Behind the updates and social media posts is a dedicated staff and board of directors, but they haven’t all been properly announced. Leading up to our Annual General Meeting on August 5, 2021, we want to share a long overdue introduction to the
- [2021 Artists in Residence](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/artists-in-residence/) - UNIT/PITT presents the La Commune 2021 Artists in Residence! Each of the 10 artists below, who represent a variety of media, are tasked with responding to an aspect of La Commune 2021 Free School that resonates with their practice and with their lives. Click here to view the responses. Born shortly before the tumult of
- [Witching Hour Solo Performance by Michelle Lui](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/witching-hour-solo-performance-by-michelle-lui/) - Tonight, the second midnight performance of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting starts at 11:30 pm and runs until 12:30. These "Witching Hour Solos" can be viewed through the windows of UNIT/PITT, from out on the sidewalk. The nature of tonight's performance is a closely guarded secret -- we'll be as surprised as you are. Before you
- [You're invited to our AGM](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/youre-invited-to-our-agm/) - Join us for the 46th-ish Annual General Meeting of UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness on Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 6pm PDT. This AGM will be exclusively held over Zoom, as we're still operating remotely while working towards reopening a public gallery. To read the full AGM announcement and Special Resolution, click here. If
- [I SPY… Call for Prompts 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/i-spy-call-for-prompts-2021/) - I SPY...is a disposable camera mail art project created by UNIT/PITT. We send cameras to artists and they show us the world through their lens. Last year, I SPY...artists were given prompts to inspire their photographs written by poet, writer, and beadwork artist Samantha Marie Nock. This year, we want to hear from you. After
- [I SPY… Call for Applicants 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/i-spy-call-for-applicants-2021/) - Information and artist fee I SPY… is a disposable camera mail art project created by UNIT/PITT. Inaugurated in 2020, this will be the second year of I SPY…After a turbulent year, we would like to know what you’ve seen. What have you witnessed? In your communities? Your everyday life? Your dreams? What have you not
- [Announcing Brit Bachmann as Executive Director of UNIT/PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcing-brit-bachmann-as-unit-pitt-projectss-new-executive-director/) - “There are few organizations on the West Coast as radical and calculatedly unpredictable as UNIT/PITT Projects, thanks to Kay’s leadership. I am excited to build on UNIT/PITT’s legacy with programming and community initiatives that interrogate the very structure and purpose of artist-run centres, and serve to support emerging artists and organizers.” – Brit Bachmann, incoming
- [HAPPENINGS & HEADS-UPs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/happenings-heads-ups/) - A collection of Paris Commune-related & Commune-spirited events taking place in various sites during the period of the free school — this page is updated weekly! LOCAL La Commune 2021 Presents: COMMUNE-OPÉDIE The COMMUNE-OPÉDIE is an extension of the La Commune 2021 Free School. It features thematic pages on different aspects of the Paris Commune and
- [La Commune 2021 Book Club Presents: a discussion of Jodi Dean's COMRADE May 29](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/la-commune-2021-book-club-presents/) - Saturday, May 29 14:00 PDT / 17:00 EDTZoom // FreeRegister by emailingregister@unitpitt.ca You may also register through Eventbrite On Saturday, May 29, join La Commune 2021 Free School for a virtual discussion on Jodi Dean's Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging (Verso, 2019) with special guests Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez, Mike Gouldhawke, Steffanie Ling, and Gustavus Stadler. You can purchase Comrade as
- [Solidarity with Palestine & Indigenous sovereignty](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/solidarity-with-palestine-indigenous-sovereignty/) - UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness is a charitable non-profit artist-run organization that supports art and critical awareness by offering the tools, space, resources, and mentorship for emerging artists and members of our neighbouring Chinatown and Downtown Eastside communities to engage in experimental creative work that advances a more expansive, inclusive reality for art
- [EN GRÈVE!: 1970s French Labour Activisms on Screen](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/en-greve-french-labour-activisms-on-screen/) - Thursday, May 20 18:00 PDT / 21:00 EDTZoom // FreeRegister by emailing: register@unitpitt.ca You may also register through Eventbrite here Join UNIT/PITT and VIVO Media Arts Centre for a conversation focused on labour activisms in France in the ‘70s, one century after the Paris Commune of 1871. Special guests Nathan Crompton (Simon Fraser University), Karen
- [WEEK 2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-2/) - Welcome back to Week 2 of LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. The Paris Commune erupted in the spring of 1871 following more than a century of political, social, and economic transformation in France. After months of
- [WEEK 5](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-5/) - Welcome back to Week 5 of LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. If you’re just joining us this week, you might want to take a look at the content from the previous four weeks to help get
- [Poems for the Paris Commune April 22](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/poems-for-the-paris-commune-april-22/) - Thursday, April 22 19:00 PDT / 22:00 EDTZoom // FreeRegister by emailingregister@unitpitt.ca You may also register through Eventbrite Join us for an evening of readings & discussion with poets Cecily Nicholson, Mercedes Eng, and Stephen Collis, who will be sharing work that speaks to the events and spirit of 1871. The poets were three of
- [Apply by April 16: Program Coordinator](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/program-coordinator2021/) - Thanks to the BC Arts Council's Pivot Program, UNIT/PITT is excited to welcome a Program Coordinator to join our team on a 1-year contract, to begin in late April or May 2021. Keep reading for more information! 20 hours/week, $28/hour 1-year contract with the possibility for extension Start date: late April or May 2021 Organization
- [Paris Commune Listening Party! April 11](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/paris-commune-listening-party/) - Paris Commune Listening Party Followed by a Q&A with co-writer/Artistic Director Steve Cosson Sunday, April 11 at 12pm PDT Follow along with #ParCom21 on Twitter, and/or connect on ZOOM The first virtual event of LA COMMUNE 2021 Free School will be an online listening party for the original cast recording of The Civilians' 2012 musical play,
- [WEEK 4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-4/) - And here we are in Week 4 of LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. If you’re just joining us this week, you might want to take a look at the content from the previous three weeks to
- [WEEK 3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/lacommune2021/week-3/) - Welcome back to LA COMMUNE 2021, a virtual free school experience hosted by Roxanne Panchasi (a.k.a. RP) in collaboration with UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. The Paris Commune erupted in the spring of 1871 following more than a century of political, social, and economic transformation in France. After months of war and siege,
- [Welcoming the 2020/21 Board of Directors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/2020-21-board/) - This is a long overdue welcome to our 2020/21 Board of Directors! Aileen Bahmanipour, Sara Ellis, Jennifer Huang, Madison Mayhew, James Spetifore and Alena Webber have joined Mike C.K. Ma, Sunny Nestler, Roxanne Panchasi, Terra Poirier and Eleanor Wearing for a full slate of 11 directors.
- [Call for Applicants: LA COMMUNE 2021 RESIDENT ARTISTS](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-la-commune-2021-resident-artists/) - UNIT/PITT is seeking applications from early career artists and writers across British Columbia to create original works in response to a virtual free school, March-June 2021. Deadline to apply January 22, 2021
- [Welcoming our 2019/20 Board of Directors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/welcoming-board-of-directors/) - UNIT/PITT is excited to welcome Roxanne Panchasi, Molly Randhawa, Eleanor Wearing, and Mike C.K. Ma to the Board of Directors, joining Sunny Nestler and Terra Poirier. U/P would also like to thank Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Patrick O'Neill for years of service as Treasurer and Chair respectively, and most recently, for assisting with the hiring of
- [Commitment to Anti-Racism](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/commitment-to-anti-racism/) - As the Board and Staff of UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, we unequivocally support Black, Indigenous and people of colour communities — including trans, Two-Spirit, queer and disabled people — in demanding justice for white supremacy-driven murders, and defunding police. U/P operates on stolen land belonging to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First
- [Notice of Annual General Meeting and Special Resolution](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/notice-of-annual-general-meeting-and-special-resolution/) - To view the full notice, click here. The Board of Directors of UNIT/PITT Society of Art and Critical Awareness will be holding a virtual Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 6:30 pm PST. To RSVP, email info@unitpitt.ca by 12 pm PST on Wednesday, July 8. Please specify if you prefer video or
- [This website is new!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-website-is-new/) - U/P is still migrating our projects and publications from the old site to this new one, and some pages may be disrupted. In the meantime, you can visit I spy… (October 14–December 31, 2020), an online exhibition of disposable camera photographs...
- [UNIT/PITT is moving](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/up_moving/) - In light of the impact of COVID-19 on our organization and operations at 8EAST, UNIT/PITT has decided to leave its partnership with the New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW) at 8EAST (8 East Pender Street) as of October 1, 2020. The NOW Society will continue to offer events and programs at 8EAST. For information about programs
- [Launching in 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/launching-in-2021/) - UNIT/PITT in partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre is launching a platform for critical discourse and free school in early 2021, funded through Vancouver Foundation's Systems Change Grant. Sign up for the newsletter at ReIssue.pub
- [Call for board and committee members — Apply by July 3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-board-2020/) - UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness is a charitable non-profit artist-run organization that supports art and critical awareness by offering the tools, space, resources, and mentorship for emerging artists and community members to engage in experimental creative work that advances a more expansive, inclusive reality for art and cultural production. We are currently located
- [Call for applicants: I spy... a disposable camera project](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-applicants-i-spy-a-disposable-camera-project/) - Information and artist fee UNIT/PITT will mail disposable cameras with return postage to five individuals, each with a unique prompt that begins, “I spy with my little lens something that is…” Participants will have one month to photograph whatever they choose, as long as one photograph in their roll responds to the prompt. Nine photographs from each
- [What’s happening at the PITT?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/whats-happening-at-the-pitt/) - I've gotten this question a lot, and rightfully so. It's a good prompt to introduce myself in my own words, and share some Fall/Winter program teasers. Before becoming Executive Director at UNIT/PITT, I held positions with local non-profit arts organizations, including The Cinematheque, Capture Photography Festival, Discorder Magazine, and VIVO Media Arts Centre. I completed
- [2010-2019](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/2010-2019/) - This is almost certainly my last post on the Pitt site. I was the one responsible for the day-to-day affairs of the Pitt starting in early 2010, after some sudden cuts in provincial arts funding, when we were presumed dead by many in our community. Following the shutdown of the Helen Pitt Gallery's Alexander Street
- [What Next?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/what-next/) - It's the last day of the year, and charities are sending you last-minute appeals for donations. If you would like to donate, we definitely encourage that! (And if you can't spare a big amount, please consider a small monthly donation, which is easy to set up -- we love those!) But the purpose of this
- [New publications, fall 2018](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/new-publications-fall-2018/) - Here's a photo of our two most recent publications, in their habitat. WRONG WAVE 666 was produced in coordination with Wrong Wave No.6, held October 10-13, 2018. It was edited by the festival's curator, KC Wei, and is a collage of materials, playlists, notes, writings and drawings contributed by the festival's participants. Terra Poirier's Non-Regular:
- [Introducing 8EAST](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/introducing-8east/) - We're happy to announce another phase of the Pitt's 43-year existence. Starting today, we are working in partnership with New Orchestra Workshop Society to create and support a new social space for the production of culture, and for public access to new art, at 8 East Pender Street, until recently the location of Selectors' Records.
- [An Announcement of Changes Coming at UNIT/PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/an-announcement-of-changes-coming-at-unit-pitt/) - UNIT/PITT Projects, one of Vancouver's most enduring artist-run galleries, is announcing a major change in direction. Founded by art students in 1975 as the Helen Pitt Gallery, the Pitt has provided crucial early-career support for hundreds of Vancouver artists, as well as presenting music, dance, and film. Since our re-launch in 2011 as UNIT/PITT Projects,
- [Karaoke Video Maker Free Store echoes: Population 101 by Glad Rags](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/karaoke-video-maker-free-store-echoes-population-101/) - (via Exclaim Magazine online) Here's something that showed up on our alerts: a video produced as part of Casey Wei's Karaoke Video Maker Free Store residency last year is getting attention online. Here's the finished video for "Population 101" by Glad Rags, directed by KC Wei, shot at her Karaoke Video Maker Free Store at
- [Final countdown for support](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/final-countdown-for-support/) - There are only hours left to make a donation and get a charitable receipt for the 2017 tax year! Here are some of the things we did in 2017, with the help and support of our community. We hope you'll consider helping us out now for a successful 2018! We opened 2017 with Juan Cisneros's
- [42 years](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/42-years-of-unruly-criticality-be-part-of-the-future/) - We need your help to keep presenting new art and new ideas, both inside and outside the gallery. Please donate, or even better set up a monthly donation that you can afford. For the past two years or so, our front door has featured the logo you see here: the U/P lettermark with the slogan
- [Spectre of Fascism Free School Musical Playlists](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/spectre-of-fascism-free-school-musical-playlists/) - The song 'The Politics of Dancing", was released in 1983 by the British group Re:Flex. Analysis of the lyrics suggests a blurring of media lines, where "deejays become the new politicians" but the popular understanding behind it's rallying cry is more that dancing is true democracy, able to bridge social divides. With this phrase in
- [IM/MIGRATION AF](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/immigration-af/) - In July, a group of six artists between the ages of 16 and 20 started working together at the Pitt as part of the School of Collaboration and Invention (SOCAI). Through their discussions, they rapidly developed the concept for a one-day exhibition on the subject of immigration and migration, and we scheduled it for a
- [Jamey Braden: SHE _____ THE _____ held over until July 8](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/jamey-braden-she-_____-the-_____-held-over-until-july-8/) - We're into summer now and about to take a break from gallery programming for a while, but if you missed Jamey Braden's exhibition SHE _____ THE _____, there's no need to despair! We're keeping the show open for an extra week. Final day is no Saturday, July 8. UNIT/PITT is open noon to 5pm, Tuesday
- [Screenings and events in June: Ulrike Meinhof, Kathy Acker, Jamey Braden](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/screenings-and-events-in-june-ulrike-meinhof-kathy-acker-jamey-braden/) - We're excited to be presenting screenings, an artist tour, and a book launch during Jamey Braden's exhibition SHE _________ THE _________, which continues until July 1. Wednesday, June 14, 7pm: Artist's tour for UNIT/PITT members. Join Jamey Braden and Kay Higgins for a tour of the exhibition, and some bonus extras. To become a member,
- [A quick spin around Jamey Braden's SHE _____ THE _____](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/a-quick-spin-around-jamey-bradens-she-_____-the-_____/) - If you haven't seen Jamey Braden's solo exhibition yet, here's a quick spin through it, courtesy of UNIT/PITT board member Derrick Chang. The exhibition, titled SHE _____ THE ______ runs until July 1st, and our gallery is open noon to 5pm, Tuesday through Saturday. We'll also be hosting some events that go with the
- [Back in Black](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/back-in-black/) - This last weekend we painted out the chroma-key green on our walls and floor. The gallery now echoes the mid-80s, when the Pitt moved to 36 Powell Street and the basement was made into a black gallery. We're keeping one wall white for upcoming screenings -- watch our social media, or add your name to
- [April May June July How the Time Goes Flying By](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/april-may-june-july-how-the-time-goes-flying-by/) - We're coming up to the end of Casey Wei's Karaoke Music Video Maker Free Store residency and installation, and it has been intense! Four bands shooting videos using green screen, black walls, smoke machine, custom backdrops, a swimming pool, and a galvanized garbage can; plus all of the people who booked time to record or
- [Interview with Artist in Residence Casey Wei](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/interview-with-artist-in-residence-casey-wei/) - Between shooting and production of music videos with flashing colourful lights and people singing/lip-syncing their hearts out, we sat down with UNIT/PITT’s artist in residence Casey Wei to talk about her inspirations, community involvement, and current art work: “Karaoke Music Video Maker Free Store.” As an artist where or who do you get inspiration from?
- [Insights on "It Was Something and Then It Became Something Else."](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/insights-on-it-was-something-and-then-it-became-something-else/) - Juan Cisneros Neumann's exhibition isn't just focused on the space within the gallery, but instead extends from the neighbourhood around him to all of North America. On the back wall is an illustration of the American and Canadian flags crossed with an arrow pointing to LA LA LAND. Hollywood being a huge influencer of both
- [Starting off 2017 with Juan Cisneros Neumann](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/starting-off-2017-with-juan-cisneros-neumann/) - Juan Cisneros Neumann: It Was Something and Then It Became Something Else January 27 to March 11 “It Was Something and Then It Became Something Else” is the result of several cups of coffee and months of conversations between Juan Cisneros and Unit/Pitt curator Jamie Ward. Their interactions range from issues of politics to the
- [Everybody Needs Everyone's Help Right Now](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/everybody-needs-everyones-help-right-now/) - We need your help -- please donate to UNIT/PITT now, and please consider supporting some of the many great organizations in our neighbourhood with an equivalent donation. We're making a last-minute request -- if you have considered donating to the Pitt, if you think our risk-taking programming and commitment to emerging artists and emerging practices
- [Join the Action](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/join-the-action/) - Donate now to support UNIT/PITT. While you're doing that, please also donate to the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House. It has been an amazing year at the Pitt: we did almost twice as much programming -- exhibitions, talks, screenings, performance than what we do in a typical year. At the same time, we are being squeezed
- [Last week of Corbin Union: Inversus Mundi](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-week-of-corbin-union-inversus-mundi/) - Thanks to everyone who has come by so far to see Corbin Union: Inversus Mundi. In case you haven’t seen it yet, the exhibition runs until Saturday, December 17th. After that, we will be closed until mid-January. Watch our site for announcements of upcoming events and exhibitions—you can also subscribe to our mailing list or
- [Self-Indulgence at this Time is Helping the Enemy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/self-indulgence-at-this-time-is-helping-the-enemy/) - ... but we're going to ask you to indulge us briefly to read this message. This is a plea for your support. You're going to get a lot of these in the next month or so, from a lot of different organizations, who all need your support. If you're inclined, please consider a one-time or
- [Musik Klub 5: Culture War! Edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/musik-klub-5-culture-war-edition/) - Thank you to all of you who joined us for the riveting premiere of Musik Klub’s second season, beginning with the Culture War! Edition. Stay tuned for upcoming screenings featuring a number of themes attempting to make some sense of current times. In the meantime, check out the playlists compiled by Jamie Ward below. “For this
- [Final days of Joseph Staples: Garden of Paradise](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/final-days-of-joseph-staples-garden-of-paradise/) - There are less than two weeks left to see Joseph Staples’ exhibition, Garden of Paradise. Come by now through October 22 to watch Staples’ series of mesmerizing, collaged GIFS. UNIT/PITT Projects is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5pm at 236 East Pender Street. See you soon!
- [Fall 2016 at the Pitt starts on Friday, September 9](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/fall-2016-at-the-pitt-starts-on-friday-september-9/) - We're now mostly recovered from the intense year of programming that was the 2055 Project, and this summer's T.A.Z. and Chinatown Maps events, and we're getting ready to launch another year of exhibitions, talks, screenings, and everything else. We're starting fall 2016 with Joseph Staples: Garden of Paradise, a compelling and strange exhibition of video
- [Looking back at 2055](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/looking-back-at-2055/) - 2015-16 was UNIT/PITT's 40th anniversary. At various points in its history, it seemed unlikely that the Pitt would survive to see its 40th year. (And if you want to know more about all of that, Allison Collins wrote a great recap of our history back in 2012.) Since we had already looked back at the
- [Four books by Publication Studio](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/four-books-by-publication-studio/) - The Publication Studio Vancouver storefront residency at UNIT/PITT has been busy, and is about to get busier. On Saturday, July 30 2011 at 2 pm, PS Vancouver will be launching four books at once, all titles that have been turned out during the residency. Here's a peek at three of the covers (we'll show you
- [Why Am I Afraid To Love hits the streets of Vancouver](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/why-am-i-afraid-to-love-hits-the-streets-of-vancouver/) - Street posters, up until end of February Artist's talk and Valentine's Day reception, Saturday February 13, 7pm Installation in UNIT/PITT Reading Room until February 27 If you're seeing some intriguing messages on your local poster kiosk, there's an explanation. Monique Levesque's work Why Am I Afraid To Love? is now available for viewing all around
- [January at UNIT/PITT: Graeme Wahn, Monique Levesque, Musik Klub 3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/january-at-unitpitt-graeme-wahn-monique-levesque-musik-klub-3/) - We're getting ready to start 2016 at UNIT/PITT. Look for Graeme Wahn's exhibition Mother Hastings Time Capsule, opening Friday, January 15; Monique Levesque's public project Why Am I Afraid To Love?, beginning at the same time and building up to a reception on February 13; and a new edition of Musik Klub on Friday, January
- [Why you should donate to the Pitt, part two](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/why-you-should-donate-to-the-pitt-part-two/) - Your donation — whether it is a monthly sustaining donation, or a one-time donation of any size — will help the Pitt show and support new, unknown, and under-acknowledged artists well into the future. The Pitt has supported new artists and new ideas for 40 years now. We're governed and run by artists, and committed
- [Why you should donate to the Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/why-you-should-donate-to-the-pitt/) - This has been a great year for UNIT/PITT. This fall was the 40th anniversary of the day in 1975 that students from the Vancouver School of Art rented the premises of a defunct shoe store in the main floor of the Avalon Hotel and founded the Helen Pitt Gallery. We have been through a lot
- [Tonight - a sort of closing party, and launch of ISSUE #6](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-a-sort-of-closing-party-and-launch-of-issue-6/) - Tonight at 7pm, join us for the launch of the latest ISSUE Magazine, and a closing-of-sorts for Rachel and Sarah Seburn's We Should Take Below: The Gambling Splinter. The first 40 copies of ISSUE also include a fresh, new-look Bartleby Review. And in case you can't make it tonight, the exhibition will be open until
- [After noise](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/after-noise/) - We ended up at capacity for last night's event Vancouver Noise and the Harmoniously Productive City, with a talk by Pietro Sammarco and a response in the form of a performance by The Rita. We'll be posting a video of the event very soon for those of you who couldn't be there; for now, there's
- [Why you should donate to the Pitt, and to some other places](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/why-you-should-donate-to-the-pitt-and-to-some-other-places/) - Today (Tuesday, December 1) is apparently "#givingtuesday" -- if you're anything like me, you have already seen a few messages from organizations you have donated to in the past, telling you today is the day to give them money. We're going to do the same thing, because we operate on a shoestring and donations not
- [Congratulations to Patrick Cruz](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/congratulations-to-patrick-cruz/) - Congratulations to Patrick Cruz on winning the RBC Canadian Painting Competition for 2015. His installation Yin Yang Temple, accompanied by a publication and community-driven playlist, was part of the Pitt's series Ill Repute back in 2011. You can listen to Patrick talking about the work here.
- [Limited Time Runs Out; Underground Bunker Open For Viewing](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/limited-time-runs-out-underground-bunker-open-for-viewing/) - Tonight (Friday, November 13) we'll be opening an ambitious installation, Rachel and Sarah Seburn's We Should Take Below: The Gambling Splinter, part of the 2055 Project. As we prepare for a future where above-ground housing will be reserved for the wealthiest, let's ponder underground living, shielded from the worst excesses above. The installation opens at
- [ISSUE Magazine and Jamie Ward in Discorder](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/issue-magazine-and-jamie-ward-in-discorder/) - Pick up November's issue of Discorder Magazine for an interview with UNIT/PITT's Jamie Ward about the past and future of ISSUE Magazine. The next ISSUE is Volume 4 Number 2, launching later this month (we'll be announcing the launch date very soon).
- [Coming up in March: An Exact Vertigo, a critical text and contemporary dance series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/coming-up-in-march-an-exact-vertigo-a-critical-text-and-contemporary-dance-series/) - a residency/library/mini festival/community invitation/dancing museum/book publication/lecture series/workshop series/utopia. An Exact Vertigo is an invitation to Vancouver’s contemporary dance and contemporary art communities to engage in discussion surrounding critical theory, text, and movement. The project consists of multiple actions: A free speaker and workshop series open to the public and accessible to non-dancers, the creation of
- [About 2055](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/about-2055/) - The Helen Pitt Gallery was founded in 1975 by students from the Vancouver School of Art, and regularly scheduled exhibitions began in January 1976. That means the 2015-2016 season is our 40th anniversary. However, we're not celebrating our 40th year. If you're not familiar with the history of the Pitt (Helen Pitt Gallery, Unit 306
- [Held over: Orphans and Dogs open until August 1st](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/held-over-orphans-and-dogs-open-until-august-1st/) - We've had great public response to our summer exhibition Elizabeth Fischer: Orphans and Dogs, so we're keeping the exhibition open for another week to give everyone a chance to get there. The last day is now Saturday, August 1st. You can also order a copy of Elizabeth's book online if you can't make it down.
- [Hurry on Down](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/hurry-on-down/) - Today and tomorrow are the last days to come and see Elizabeth Fischer's Exhibition Orphans and Dogs. Brave the rain and come see the show - not one to miss! We are almost sold out of this run of her book, so feel free to purchase one of these while we've got em. See you soon!
- [...Canada Day? We're open as usual.](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/canada-day/) - No, Unit/Pitt will not be celebrating this Canada Day. July 1st, 2015 will continue on as per usual. Drop on by between noon and 5pm today to see Elizabeth Fischer's Orphans and Dogs exhibition, and join us in this non-celebration on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Our gallery
- [25% more Pitt!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/25-more-pitt/) - Starting this week, we're open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5pm. That's an entire extra day added to our public hours, during which you can come in, see Elizabeth Fischer's exhibition Orphans and Dogs, buy our fine Pitt publications, relax in our reading room, or watch the street from the bench on our front step.
- [This week: Elizabeth Fischer opening](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-week-elizabeth-fischer/) - After a short hiatus, we're opening again this week with an exhibition, book launch, and performance by Elizabeth Fischer on Friday, June 12. The exhibition, Orphans and Dogs, opens on June 12 and continues through July. We have also published a book that goes with the exhibition but stands really well on its own. You
- [May and June at Unit/Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/may-and-june-at-unitpitt/) - The current exhibition, Cultivating Equilibrium will be extended until Thursday, May 21. This coincides with ISSUE Magazine's one-year anniversary launch. So come by for the last chance to see the installation by Patrick Campbell and Madison Killo, stay for a drink and pick up a copy of the new magazine. This coming issue features work by Stephane Bernard, Ileanna
- [Book launch Thursday, April 30](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/book-launch-thursday-april-30/) - Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation Publications Launch April 30, 2015, 7pm UNIT/PITT Projects will launch artists’ books by Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau; Didier Morelli; and Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte. These publications are part of the project Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, which unfolded as a series of performances, public actions, lectures, and an exhibition
- [Opening this Thursday at 7pm: Cultivating Equilibrium](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/opening-this-thursday-at-7pm-cultivating-equilibrium/) - This Thursday evening, slip into the twilight of Cultivating Equilibrium, Patrick Campbell and Madison Killo's transformative installation in the Unit/Pitt gallery space. The artists have taken the already transplanted, absurd, and strange site of the Bloedel Conservatory, which rests as a crystalline tropicalia at the top of Vancouver's Little Mountain, and transmitted the immersive environment into
- [Winter Activity](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/winter-activity/) - The Pitt is awakening from the holidays mid-January this year. Here is some of what you can expect from us in the next few months! Our first exhibition, The Facility for Consideration, runs January 16 - February 28th. Featuring work by Derek Coulombe, Tom Hsu, Kari Kleinmann, and Lida Pawliuk, and curated by Brynn McNab,
- [Donate now, for another 40 years of glorious chaos](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/donate-now-for-another-40-years-of-glorious-chaos/) - This is yet another message telling you to donate to something before the year runs out. Seriously, you should. There are a lot of organizations out there who do important, serious, well-established work that demands your unquestioning respect. We're not one of those. For almost forty years the Pitt has done odd, risky, and sometimes
- [Until January](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/until-january/) - We'll be closed until January. Watch our site for announcements of our 2015 exhibitions and events -- you can also subscribe to our mailing list or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. Thanks for your support in 2014! (And if you want to help us grow and prosper in 2015, donate!)
- [Studio Showcase and Benefit at 236](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/studio-showcase-and-benefit-at-236/) - Hidden from view behind Unit/Pitt Projects' gallery, are the workspaces of over 50 artists, designers, writers, and curators who play an essential role in the cultural landscape of Vancouver. Come November 14th, a selection of their work will be on display to the public in the gallery. Adapting a new symbiotic model which provides administration
- [Be There: The Monochrome Shop Closing Party](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/be-there-the-monochrome-shop-closing-party/) - Are you still unsure whether “Asian Wood, Indian Yellow” or “Portrait of a Young Girl” would look best above your fireplace? Are you still wondering which friends to give comic sans zeros to for Christmas, and how many they should each get? Well, it’s time to decide. The Monochrome Shop is closing its doors. Come
- [Ithaca Smith's Artist Talk: "On Blue in Green"](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/ithaca-smiths-artist-talk-on-blue-in-green/) - On Wednesday September 17th, Ithaca Smith gave an artist's talk at Unit/Pitt Projects regarding her collaborative video piece with Andrew Smith, "Blue in Green". The work itself is a 22:24 minute black and white single channel video loop, which also accesses dance and painting as disciplines. Listen in to the recording of Ithaca here,
- [New Line has Arrived at The Monochrome Shop!!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/new-line-has-arrived-at-the-monochrome-shop/) - The monochrome shop is excited to introduce its newest product line, Mark Cunningham's Negative Comic Sans Zero charcoal drawings. Mark will be spending time in the gallery producing as many of these as he can before the end of the project. Each drawing is a one off, is 9"x12", and can be purchased for $50
- [MONOCHROMES MONOCHROMES MONOCHROMES and more](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/monochromes-monochromes-monochromes-and-more/) - This week we're coming back from the summer break by SELLING OUT! Yes, OUR BUYER WENT WILD, and we're OVERSTOCKED. Nobody will undersell us on this AMAZING SELECTION OF MONOCHROME PAINTINGS. So get here early on Friday, September 12. Actually don't get here until 8pm, because we won't be opening the doors until then (part
- [UNIT/PITT Society AGM, Thursday September 4, 6pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-society-agm-thursday-september-4-6pm/) - The UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, which operates UNIT/PITT Projects, will be having its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, September 4 2014, at 6pm. The meeting will be held at 236 East Pender Street. Members, new members, and observers are welcome.
- [End of summer at U/P: Behind the Wall closing, Chief Dan George reading series, Projector Verse](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/end-of-summer-at-up-behind-the-wall-closing-chief-dan-george-reading-series-projector-verse/) - We're at the end of a hot summer in Vancouver, with a burst of activity to end the month of August. First is the closing reception for Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall on Friday, August 22nd at 8pm. This project built slowly, from a collection of personal objects, then video installation,
- [Behind the Wall talk, Lauren Marsden launch, reception, Sunday August 17](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/behind-the-wall-talk-lauren-marsden-launch-reception-sunday-august-17/) - This is the week that Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall moves into its final phase, with more works arriving, a talk by the curators, premiere of an audio work by Lauren Marsden, the arrival of new works by Alex Heilbron and Monsters, the launch of a new book, and the closing
- [This week's film: L'Homme Qui Ment by Alain Robbe-Grillet](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-weeks-film-lhomme-qui-ment-by-alain-robbe-grillet/) - The past two weeks of screenings of Marguerite Duras' work have been fantastic, thanks to everyone who came out and shared their interest in both Nathalie Granger and India Song. This coming week, we will be screening a film from one of her contemporaries, L'Homme Qui Ment by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Much more well known for his novels, Alain Robbe-Grillet
- [This Week's Film: Nathalie Granger by Marguerite Duras. ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-weeks-film-nathalie-granger-by-marguerite-duras/) - Thanks to everyone who came to the screening of La Cicatrice Intérieure by Philippe Garrel while the fireworks were happening last week. For the next two weeks, we are featuring two films written and directed by Marguerite Duras, a prominent member of the Rive Gauche film movement, and a prolific novelist. The first is Nathalie Granger, screening
- [A full day on Power2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/a-full-day-on-power2012/) - Today is one of the fullest days yet on Power2012. This morning was filled with a repeat broadcast of Dylan Gauthier's Ethnopoesis Radio Hour, Episode One; as we write this, Pitt intern Sarah Wong is in the middle of her extended DJ set; starting around 4pm Pacific time, look forward to a "bootlegged conversation" and
- [tonight: Le Révélateur by Philippe Garrel, 9pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/tonight-le-revelateur-by-philippe-garrel-9pm/) - Tonight (Wednesday, July 23) we start our series of casual summer screenings at the Pitt, curated and introduced by Brynn McNab, with a viewing of Le Révélateur by Philippe Garrel at 9pm. Described by Ubuweb: Surreal story of a 4-year old boy (Stanislas Robiolles) and his parents (Bernadette Laffont & Laurent Terzieff) made by Philippe
- [This week's film: La Cicatrice Intérieure by Philippe Garrel, feat. Nico](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-film-summer-screening-series-la-cicatrice-interieure-by-philippe-garrel-feat-nico/) - Thanks to everyone who came to the screening of Le Révélateur by Philippe Garrel on a cool, dark, rainy night. This week's film is also a work by Garrel, La Cicatrice Intérieure, which features Nico. You can watch the film at any time of the day or night in our window (soundtrack is on 89.7
- [Projector Verse 4, this Sunday (July 20)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/projector-verse-4-this-sunday-july-20/) - The latest in Kootenay School of Writing's Projector Verse series is coming up this Sunday, July 20, at 1pm. Writers Amy Fung, Reg Johanson, and Leah Horlick will be providing new takes on old texts. Admission is free, company is pleasant, and dialogue is fascinating. Sunday July 20 1:00-2:30 PM Fung + Johanson + Horlick
- [Behind the Wall, Day 1](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/behind-the-wall-day-1/) - The is the first day of Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall, a curatorial residency by Sylvana D'Angelo and Anežka Minaříková that will take place over the summer months. This is an installation that will expand and evolve day by day, starting with today's collection of personal artifacts from the collections of
- [Coming Up: Behind the Wall and Projector Verse 3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/coming-up-behind-the-wall-and-projector-verse-3/) - We're closed right now, but busy in preparation for summer programming. We'll be hosting more of Kootenay School of Writing's Projector Verse series this summer. Every second or third Sunday at 1pm, writers will present new riffs on old texts. Projector Verse 3, on Sunday July 6 at 1pm, features Ivan Drury presenting Eugene Ionesco,
- [Last few days of Robert Chaplin: About Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-few-days-of-robert-chaplin-about-time/) - Robert Chaplin's solo exhibition About Time, which opened back in mid-May, is closing this weekend. The show is a sampling of what Robert has produced over about two decades, including drawing, painting, sculptures, books, and animation. If you haven't seen the show yet, or if you want to come back for a second look (there
- [One year at 236 East Pender](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/one-year-at-236-east-pender-3/) - It has been one year since we opened our first exhibition at 236 East Pender. IOU, curated by Kalli Niedoba, was installed on temporary walls just weeks after we took possession of the building, and opened on May 17, 2013. Since then, we have replaced the floors, created a new gallery and office space in
- [The "top art book" for fall 2013 is ...](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-top-art-book-for-fall-2013-is/) - Thanks to Blouin Artinfo Canada for putting Rereading The Riot Act, And On, Vancouver 2011 at the head of their just-published list of Canada's Top Six Art Books for Fall. Rereading The Riot Act takes its title from a series of events curated by Anakana Schofield (better known as author of the acclaimed novel Malarky),
- [Robert Chaplin: About Time opens tonight, Thursday May 15](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/robert-chaplin-about-time-opens-tonight-thursday-may-15/) - Here are the two books we will be launching at the opening of Robert Chaplin: About Time tonight (Thursday, May 15, starting at 8pm). The first one is Sorry I'm Not Sorry by Robert Chaplin, a collection of rhymes, stories, and songs. The second is a critical volume, A Dossier Against Cynicism: Two Essays for
- [Stephen Collis talk from Spaces of Contestation now online](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/stephen-collis-talk-from-spaces-of-contestation-now-online/) - Speaking of Spaces of Contestation, Stephen Collis's talk "Riot Dogs and Research Labs: Poetry and Struggle" is now online. That means that all five talks in the series are available for viewing, with even more documentation of the performances and other events still to come. Thanks again to the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement
- [Now Online! Kirsty Robertson, Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules: Activism in the Museum and Gallery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/now-online-kirsty-robertson-capitalist-cocktails-and-moscow-mules-activism-in-the-museum-and-gallery/) - Thanks to our co-presenters at the SFU Vancity Office for Community Engagement and SFU Institute of the Humanities, the final talk in the Spaces of Contestation speaker series is now online. If you missed the talk and contentious q&a after, you can catch up here:
- [Thanks to everyone](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thanks-to-everyone/) - Last week was busy, with the ISSUE Magazine launch, Spaces of Contestation panel/finissage, Kirsty Robertson's lecture about protest inside the museum, and lots of last-minute details connected with all of these. Thanks are in order to Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, Kirsty Robertson, Zoe Kreye, Catherine Grau, Lauren Marsden, Didier Morelli, Gabriel Saloman, Am Johal, Andrea Creamer, SFU
- [Today! We're open with Spaces of Contestation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/today-were-open-with-spaces-of-contestation/) - Today (Friday, April 18), many of our colleagues at other galleries and artist-run centres are closed, in apparent observance of a religious holiday. Here at the Pitt, as confirmed blasphemers, we're open during the day today, and tonight we'll be hosting the panel discussion and finissage event that goes with the intense and sprawling Spaces
- [This week: Kirsty Robertson, ISSUE launch, Spaces of Contestation panel/finissage](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-week-kirsty-robertson-issue-launch-spaces-of-contestation-panel-finissage/) - We're at the beginning of a very busy week at the Pitt: Wednesday, April 16, we'll be co-presenting the final talk in the Spaces of Contestation lecture series; Thursday, April 17, it's the (re-)launch of ISSUE Magazine at the Pitt; and Friday, April 18 is the day when the Spaces of Contestation project culminates in
- [Why Art and Activism Goes Together Better than Oil and Water](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/why-art-and-activism-goes-together-better-than-oil-and-water/) - News Release WHY ART AND ACTIVISM GOES BETTER TOGETHER THAN OIL AND WATER The People’s Procession Against the Pipelines Gabriel Saloman and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) Saturday, April 12, 10am-4pm Burnaby, BC Presented by UNIT/PITT Projects as part of Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte In the Summer of 2013,
- [Oil Change? Join the People's Procession, April 12](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/oil-change-join-the-peoples-procession-april-12/) - This weekend, as part of Spaces of Contestation, Gabiel Saloman and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion will be presenting the Peoples' Procession Against the Pipeline in Burnaby on Saturday, April 12. Want to help us get the word out? Here's a video by Gabriel Saloman (also showing in the window of 236 E Pender!)
- [Spaces of Contestation full schedule of events](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/spaces-of-contestation-full-schedule-of-events/) - Spaces of Contestation is possibly the most ambitious project we have hosted since our relaunch in 2011. That's saying a lot, since we're comparing it to three years of Wrong Wave, the Ill Repute and What Future commissioning series, and the recent Crawling, Weeping mini-festival. The project, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, includes five lectures, four
- [Next: Spaces of Contestation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/next-spaces-of-contestation/) - Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting is over. After almost two months, seven midnight performances, innumerable city tours, seven stories told and matched with seven drinks; horns, strings, and drums played; twenty-one or more dances improvised; a wallet stolen in front of bystanders and then returned; layers of paint, writing, and paper applied to the Pitt's walls
- [Coming up: In Pursuit of Perpetual Motion, and The New Clothes ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/coming-up-in-pursuit-of-perpetual-motion-and-the-new-clothes/) - Next up at UNIT/PITT: the very first performance in Spaces of Contestation, a performance and procession by Lauren Marsden and the Vancouver Public Library, In Pursuit of Perpetual Motion. The performance will start at 1pm on Saturday, March 22, at the VPL Central Branch, culminating in a procession from the VPL (350 West Georgia Street,
- [Spaces of Contestation Talks online](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/spaces-of-contestation-talks-online/) - Stephen Collis's talk Riot Dogs and Research Labs: Poetry and Struggle is coming up tomorrow (Wednesday, March 12, 7pm, at SFU Woodwards, free admission). His talk is the fourth in a series about the city, art, and activism, providing a critical context for the overall Spaces of Contestation series. If you have missed the previous
- [This is the last chance - Crawling, Weeping final week](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-is-the-last-chance-crawling-weeping-final-week/) - We're coming up on the end of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting -- a "mini-festival" of visual art, storytelling, performance, music, and dance, accompanied by a book and walking tours every Saturday. This week is the last week of what has turned out to be a sprawling, intense project with some amazing moments. The gallery installation,
- [The second to last week of Crawling, Weeping: Week 6](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-second-to-last-week-of-crawling-weeping-week-6/) - The second to last week in the series Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting is upon us. The series has been running over the past five weeks, and will continue through to March 1st -- if you haven't already been attending midnight witching hour solos on Thursdays, Bob's Salon every Friday evening, or improvised guided tours of
- [Saturday stroll and a story](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/saturday-stroll-and-a-story/) - From battery opera performance's Facebook feed: Saturday stroll and a story? No ID required. 12-5pm today. Starting from Unit Pitt Projects, 236 E Pender. Free. Lovely people. Lovely day. Drop in. Every Saturday through March 1, come to the Pitt for walking tours with stories by your guides Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo
- [Tonight: Bob's Salon #5, with a story by Cease Wyss](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-bobs-salon-5-with-a-story-by-cease-wyss/) - Last night, Cease Wyss and friends presented a tea party for four important but not-so-famous people from Vancouver's past (a party that included tea for everyone, plus video projection and live painting -- you'll see the results when you drop by the Pitt). Tonight (Friday, February 14) she's back to tell a story for the
- [Witching Hour Solo, tonight: Cease Wyss](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/witching-hour-solo-tonight-cease-wyss/) - Tonight, come by 236 East Pender at between 11:30 pm and 12:30 for the latest performance in the series Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting, co-presented by UNIT/PITT and battery opera performance. Cease Wyss will be presenting this week's Witching Hour Solo, a solo performance in UNIT/PITT's space that can be observed through the windows, from the
- [Crawling, Weeping continues: Week 5](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/crawling-weeping-continues-week-5/) - Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting is now in its fifth week at UNIT/PITT. Thursday's Witching Hour Solo will feature a performance by Cease Wyss, who will also be telling a story the next evening for the fifth instalment of Bob's Salon, accompanied by dance from Justine Chambers, music from Ben Brown, and more. Saturday's improvised guided tours of the
- [Review of Crawling, Weeping in Dance Current](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/review-of-crawling-weeping-in-dance-current/) - Sarah Todd's online review of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting in Dance Current provides some historical context for crossovers between dance and visual art in Vancouver. In the 1960s and 1970s, in Vancouver and elsewhere, dancers, choreographers, media artists, and visual artists were collaborating in artistic and organizational projects, in a way that we hope is
- [Stories and walks, every Saturday through March 1st](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/stories-and-walks-every-saturday-through-march-1st/) - Come by today, and every Saturday through March 1st, for stories and improvised city tours by charming guides, as part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting.
- [Bob's Salon #4, with a story by Bracken Hanuse Corlett](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/bobs-salon-4-with-a-story-by-bracken/) - Last night (Thursday, February 6), Bracken Hanuse Corlett amazed us with a combination of music, video projections, and live painting, resulting in a big addition to the Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting gallery installation. Tonight (Friday, February 7) from 10pm to midnight, join us for a salon where Bracken will contribute a story, assisted and re-interpreted
- [Midnight performance by Bracken Hanuse Corlett, tonight](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/midnight-performance-by-bracken-hanuse-corlett-tonight/) - UPDATE: to take the edge off, we have rented two radiant heaters. That's 60,000 BTU of heat, just for you, so that you can enjoy Bracken's performance tonight. Come by 236 East Pender tonight (Thursday, February 6) between 11:30pm and 12:30 for a performance by Bracken Hanuse Corlett, another Witching Hour Solo in the series
- [Urban Subjects: What is Already Going On, tonight at SFU Woodwards](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/urban-subjects-what-is-already-going-on-tonight-at-sfu-woodwards/) - Tonight (Wednesday, February 5), we're co-presenting a talk by Urban Subjects, the latest in the Spaces of Contestation series. It's at SFU Woodwards in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, at 7pm, and admission is free. Urban Subjects is a cultural research collective made up of Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber. Their work fits
- [Crawling, Weeping continues: Week 4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/crawling-weeping-continues-week-4/) - The Crawling, Weeping cycle starts up again on Thursday with Bracken Hanuse Corlett's midnight performance -- the fourth Witching Hour Solo to take place in our front windows. Friday is another installment of Bob's Salon, again hosted by David McIntosh and this time featuring dance by Paras Terezakis, music by Max Murphy and Jeff Younger,
- [Crawling, Weeping and Spaces of Contestation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/crawling-weeping-and-spaces-of-contestation/) - We have two major, demanding projects running side-by-side right now: Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting, which continues until March 1st with Thursday midnight performances, Friday late evening Salons, and Saturday improvised walking tours (plus a book), and Spaces of Contestation, which has been running since the speaker series started back in the fall. Spaces of Contestation
- [Tonight: Bob's Salon with Margo Kane](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-bobs-salon-with-margo-kane/) - Tonight, as part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting, we're presenting the third Bob's Salon, an evening of music, storytelling, and dance performances, with a wine selected by host David McIntosh to complement and enhance the evening's story. This week, Margo Kane will tell a story that involves some fabled Pitt history, and dancers Billy Marchenski,
- [Tonight: Witching Hour Solo by Brian Solomon](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-witching-hour-solo-by-brian-solomon/) - The Witching Hour Solo -- the midnight performance you can watch through our windows from the sidewalk -- is back tonight for its third installment, this time featuring Brian Solomon. His performance will emulate the wild journey of the human state during the witching hour: what enters us, where we go, what we leave behind.
- [Crawling, Weeping continues - Week 3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/crawling-weeping-enters-its-third-week/) - Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting enters its third week at UNIT/PITT with another round of performers, musicians, artists and dancers. Thursday sees another Witching Hour Solo -- the midnight performance you can peep through our front windows -- this time featuring Brian Solomon. Details of the upcoming performance have yet to be revealed, so you're in for
- [Tonight at 10 - Bob's Salon, week 2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-at-10-second-bobs-salon/) - Tonight at 10pm, come by the Pitt for the second Friday night "Bob's Salon", hosted by David McIntosh. These weekly performances are another part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting, which continues until March 1. Last week's event featured storytelling, music, dance, unexpected audience involvement, a wine paired with the story, bubblegum, ritalin, and cockroids (whatever
- [Crawling, Weeping continues - this week's performances ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/crawling-weeping-continues-this-weeks-performance/) - Last week saw the launch of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting with performances by Chris Bose, Finn Manniche & friends, and dancers Maxine Chadburn, Michelle Lui, and Brian Solomon, hosted by David McIntosh. The same schedule holds this week, with a midnight performance on Thursday (the Witching hour solo, from 11:30 to 12:30, observable through our
- [Tonight: Michael Nardone, Stephen Collis, Christine Leclerc, Donato Mancini, and Cecily Nicholson](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-nardone-collis-leclerc-mancini/) - Tonight (Sunday, January 19), we'll be hosting a poetry reading by Michael Nardone, Stephen Collis, Christine Leclerc, Donato Mancini, and Cecily Nicholson. Thanks to Donato for bringing this event to us. Free admission, starts at 7 pm. More details below. Sunday January 19 7:00 pm UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender Free Admission Michael Nardone is
- [Tomorrow is now today,  and here's what will happen](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tomorrow-is-now-today-and-heres-what-will-happen/) - Here's David explaining what's going to happen today (Saturday, January 18). It involves waking up, coffee, and then things that happen all afternoon at UNIT/PITT.
- [Review of Re: The Fox](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/review-of-re-the-fox/) - It's not often that shows at the Pitt are reviewed in Korean. In fact, this is the first time I know of it happening, ever. Thanks to Hyung-Min Yoon for this review of Re: The Fox and related events, publications, and ideas. The exhibition continues until Saturday, December 21, and copies of The Fox -
- [Performance tonight (and book launch)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/performance-tonight-and-book-launch/) - Tonight is the second night of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting, a six-week series of performances, projections, and city tours brought to us by battery opera performance. Here's the lineup for performances that start at 10 pm. Dance: Maxine Chadburn, Michelle Lui, Brian Solomon Music: Finn Manniche and cohorts (New Improved) Story: Chris Bose Host: David
- [Tonight: a midnight performance, in our windows](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-a-midnight-performance-in-our-windows/) - This is the beginning of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting -- a performance by co-curator Chris Bose, starting at 11:30 pm and going until after midnight. You can watch it from the sidewalk in front of 236 East Pender Street. Tomorrow night (Friday, January 17) we'll be opening our doors again. The book that goes with
- [This week: the start of "Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting"](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-week-the-start-of-vancouver-crawling-weeping-betting/) - This is the week that we launch our co-presentation with battery opera performance, titled Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting. Over the next seven weeks, we will host evening projections, late-night performances, and walking tours. The schedule is pretty impressive, and crosses all sorts of disciplinary boundaries. On Thursday nights, the "Witching Hour Solos" are window projections
- [Coming up in 2014](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/coming-up-in-2014/) - A few days ago, we gave you a recap of UNIT/PITT's year in 2013. We thought you might be interested in what we have planned for the coming months. We can't tell you everything yet, but here's a lot of what you're going to see in 2014. And remember, we rely on your support! We're
- [This past year at the Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-past-year-at-the-pitt/) - Obviously the biggest thing that happened this year was our move to a new building, with a 15-year lease, a much bigger exhibition space, and indoor plumbing. That's a huge leap, one that will provide a stable base for more ambitious work. But we also had a full year of varied, awesome, and surprising exhibitions,
- [Thanks for being part of our fall 2013 launch](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thanks-for-being-part-of-our-fall-2013-launch/) - Although we have been at 236 East Pender since May, when IOU opened, last Friday was when we finally got to show off the newly-completed gallery, and the new floors and paint and lights in the rest of the building. Call it our grand opening; coinciding with SWARM, and of course the opening of God
- [UNIT/PITT needs you!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-needs-you/) - As we were saying before, UNIT/PITT has come a long way. We're settled into our new space, and we managed to keep presenting events and exhibitions while moving and renovations were going on. But now, it's the future we need to look out for. It was the support of our community that kept us going
- [Re: The Fox closes Saturday](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/re-the-fox-closes-saturday/) - This week is your last chance to stop by the space and see Arnaud Desjardin's Re: The Fox. The exhibition closes on Saturday, December 21st. There's still a limited supply of The Fox - bootleg edition available for purchase, both online and at UNIT/PITT, so get your copy before they're all gone. They're $15 each, or get the
- [How far we've come](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/how-far-weve-come/) - As you know, UNIT/PITT moved to a new location earlier this year. The interior of the new building, at 236 E. Pender Street, has undergone tremendous renovations since we moved in—new floors, white walls, wiring and lights, plumbing repairs, and at last, heating. The studios upstairs and downstairs are now fully occupied, and a few
- [closed for the rest of the day](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/closed-for-the-rest-of-the-day/) - Unfortunately our awkward door and minimal heat is not equal to the demands of a below-freezing day, making it difficult to work in the gallery and office today. We're closing early, and retreating to a warmer location. We hope it will be better tomorrow!
- [New music from Mathew Sawyer](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/new-music-from-mathew-sawyer/) - Had a nice package in the post today from Mathew Sawyer, who showed and performed with us in 2011. It's his new CD, Sleep Dreamt a Brother, accompanied by some constructive suggestions for improving the community. You can buy Mathew's latest release online, and you can also sample some of the tracks on Soundcloud.
- [The Lumpen-Headache video](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-lumpen-headache-footage/) - Last week, Arnaud Desjardin led a group reading of The Lumpen-Headache, a partial transcript of a meeting of the editorial collective of The Fox, as part of Re: The Fox. Here's some footage from the beginning of the reading, which took place at UNIT/PITT: An audio recording of the entire reading can be heard on
- [Thanks to everyone for The Lumpen-Headache](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thanks-to-everyone-for-the-lumpen-headache/) - Thanks to our fourteen readers last Saturday, who endured the intense cold in the gallery to read the entire transcript of the meeting in The Lumpen-Headache (from the third and final issue of The Fox). The readers were: Arnaud Desjardin, Keith Higgins, Kathy Slade, Cate Rimmer, Jamie Ward, Kevin Rowe, Zebulon Zang, Steffanie Ling, Kate
- [Wrong Wave 2013 starts NOW!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2013-starts-now/) - It's time -- Wrong Wave: Revenge of the New Puritan is here. The festival kicks off tonight with the screening of Hail the New Puritan, a film by Charles Atlas (including music by The Fall), and short films by Jonathan Wells. It starts at 7.00pm, at Pacific Cinémathèque. Tickets are $11 at the door -- or, do the right thing and
- [Re: The Fox opens this week at UNIT/PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/re-the-fox-opens-this-week-at-unitpitt/) - Arnaud Desjardin is a London-based artist and publisher currently doing a residency in Vancouver through the Emily Carr University Library and READ Books. In addition to an artist talk at Emily Carr, a reading group at READ Books, and a book launch at Satellite Gallery, his residency will include an exhibition at UNIT/PITT entitled Re:
- [TONIGHT | Spaces of Contestation continues with Jamie Peck](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-spaces-of-contestation-continues-with-jamie-peck/) - Join us this evening for the second instalment of the Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City series curated my Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte. Geoff Mann gave the first talk to kick off the series last month. Tonight, the series continues with Jamie Peck: Neoliberal urbanism -- artful alternatives? What does it mean to say that
- [A short break -- Re: The Fox and Jamie Peck coming soon](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/a-short-break/) - Last week was one of our busiest -- the end of God Save The Queen, the beginning of Spaces of Contestation, and four nights of Wrong Wave 2013: Revenge of the New Puritan -- so we're taking a short break from public programming. We're still around, even though the doors are closed. The next Pitt
- [TONIGHT | Kensington Gore and White Poppy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-kensington-gore-and-white-poppy/) - The final night of Wrong Wave has come. This year the festival closes with a show at SFU Woodward's featuring performances by two Vancouver-based outfits, Kensington Gore and White Poppy. White Poppy is the experimental brainchild of Crystal Dorval, the British Columbian multimedia artist formerly performing under her first solo project, My Friend Wallis. With White Poppy, she
- [Tonight: Elizabeth Fischer's orphans and dogs, Mark Szabo, Yuriko Iga, New Moon Poncho](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-elizabeth-fischers-orphans-and-dogs-mark-szabo-yuriko-iga-new-moon-poncho/) - Tonight is the third night of Wrong Wave, and one a lot of people have been looking forward to. On Thursday, the film Hail the New Puritan at Pacific Cinematheque served as a kind of keynote: dance by Michael Clark, costumes by Leigh Bowery, and music by The Fall combined to form a portrait of
- [TONIGHT | Stack of Moves](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/stack-of-moves-is-tonight/) - Stack of Moves, a dance project organized by Jen Weih, will take place tonight (Friday, October 25th) at Western Front as part of Wrong Wave: Revenge of the New Puritan. The event begins at 8.30pm with a highly recommended introduction by Justine Chambers, a Vancouver-based contemporary dance artist. Her introduction serves as a warm up -- "just
- [Art theft -- please be on the lookout](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/art-theft-please-be-on-the-lookout/) - Some time between 12:30 and 2 pm today (Wednesday, October 23), somebody stole one of the works from our current exhibition, God Save the Queen. The work is Portrait of the Future King, a collage by Bracken Hanuse Corlett, pictured below. Although there are no identifying marks on the frame (about 24x30", exact dimensions to
- [Tonight | Spaces of Contestation series begins with Geoff Mann: Scarcity Makes the City](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/spaces-of-contestation-begins-tonight/) - Join us this evening for Geoff Mann: Scarcity Makes the City, the first talk in the Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City series curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte. Scarcity Makes the City features Vancouver-based economic geographer Geoff Mann. Looking at how modern political economy affects social relations and our experience of everyday life, Mann will discuss how contemporary capitalist dynamics shape Vancouver’s urban
- [Orphans and dogs | Mark Szabo | New Moon Poncho | Yuriko Iga at UNIT/PITT on Saturday](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/orphans-and-dogs-mark-szabo-new-moon-poncho-yuriko-iga-at-unitpitt-on-saturday/) - Wrong Wave 2013 is fast approaching. On Saturday, UNIT/PITT will be hosting a showcase of performances accompanied by an installation by Yuriko Iga as part of the festival. Come by at 8.30 to see Elizabeth Fischer's most recent lyrical venture, Orphans and dogs. Also performing is Mark Szabo, a founding member of bands Horsey, Good
- [Wrong Wave is next week!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-is-next-week/) - Here's a big stack of freshly printed posters for Wrong Wave 2013: Revenge of the New Puritan, which starts next week. That's four days of art rock, film, and performance, starting on Thursday, October 24 with a screening of Hail the New Puritan (with short films by Jonathan Wells) at Pacific Cinematheque; then Stack of
- [Festival passes are now on sale for Wrong Wave: Revenge of the New Puritan](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/festival-passes-are-now-on-sale-for-wrong-wave-revenge-of-the-new-puritan/) - This year's Wrong Wave, curated by Sydney Hermant, has more performances and more venues than before. Starting with a screening of Charles Atlas's film Hail the New Puritan at Pacific Cinematheque (Thursday, October 24), the festival includes participatory dance at the Western Front (Friday, October 25), a night of music and installation including orphans and
- [Lydia Kwa book launch this Friday](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/lydia-kwa-book-launch-this-friday/) - Join us at 7:30 on Friday, October 11, as Turnstone Press presents the launch of Lydia Kwa's new collection of poetry, sinuous, at UNIT/PITT. There will be a reading (with introduction by Rita Wong), books for sale, and refreshments. Drop in if you can.
- ["God Save the Queen exorcises Canada’s postcolonial condition" -- review in The Georgia Straight](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/god-save-the-queen-exorcises-canadas-postcolonial-condition-unitpitt-projects-review-in-the-georgia-straight/) - In this week's edition of The Georgia Straight, the top art review is on our current exhibition God Save the Queen, curated by Chris Bose. It features BC artists Bracken Hanuse Corlett, KAST, MaRvIN StRAnGE, and Nigel Z. Check out the review by Robin Laurence on the Straight's website, or pick up a copy anywhere
- [Audiobooks by Artists starts now](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/audiobooks-by-artists-starts-now/) - This weekend, you can visit God Save The Queen, continuing at 236 East Pender until the end of the month, or you can see UNIT/PITT publications at the Vancouver Art Book Fair at the Vancouver Art Gallery, OR you can tune in to a selection of Audiobooks By Artists on UNIT/PITT Radio. UNIT/PITT Radio is
- [Congratulations to Colleen Heslin, winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/congratulations-to-colleen-heslin-winner-of-the-rbc-canadian-painting-competition/) - Congratulations to Colleen Heslin -- it was just announced that she is the winner of the 15th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Colleen's work was last seen at UNIT/PITT in the exhibition IOU, in May and June of 2013. She first showed at the Pitt in the group exhibition Too Many Words, back in 2007.
- [October 2013 at UNIT/PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/october-2013-at-unitpitt/) - October 2013 is a great month for words and music (and art) at UNIT/PITT. UNIT/PITT at the Vancouver Art Book Fair Join us at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday October 5th and Sunday October 6th for the Vancouver Art Book Fair. We'll be sharing a table with our co-publisher, Publication Studio Vancouver. At the
- [Studio Spaces at 236 are Going Fast! ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/studio-spaces-at-236-are-going-fast/) - Anyone interested in renting a studio space at the new Unit/Pitt Projects at 236 E Pender had better act quickly, because they are getting snapped up FAST! Half of the available spaces are now taken. We are putting up the walls this week, so you can actually see how incredible these studios are going to
- [Pitt books at the New York Art Book Fair](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/pitt-books-at-the-new-york-art-book-fair/) - If you're in New York, you should definitely visit the 2013 New York Art Book Fair, which continues until Sunday, September 22. Our co-publisher, Publication Studio Vancouver, is there at table Q58 with an amazing spread of books, including many UNIT/PITT books. The fair is at MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY, and admission is free.
- [Quick Announcement - Audiobooks by Artists on UNIT/PITT Radio](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/quick-announcement-audiobooks-by-artists-on-unitpitt-radio/) - In conjunction with the 2013 Vancouver Art Book Fair, On October 5th and 6th, UNIT/PITT Radio will present a 48-hour marathon of audio versions of artist's books. More details to be announced soon. UNIT/PITT Radio is an ultra-low-power informational transmitter, available on 89.7 FM in the immediate vicinity of 236 East Pender Street. This broadcast
- [Book Launch of Lydia Kwa's new poetry collection at Unit/Pitt Projects - Friday, October 11 at 7:30pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/8453/) - On Friday, October 11 at 7:30 pm Lydia Kwa launches sinuous, her newest collection of poetry here at UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver, through Turnstone Press, a Canadian literary publisher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through the mind’s eye Lydia Kwa charts the path of the stranger in a new land, the immigrant seeking
- [Getting ready for Friday](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/getting-ready-for-friday/) - Here's the latest from 236 East Pender: plywood-backed walls to go with the new lighting system. We're getting ready for the opening of God Save The Queen on Friday, September 13, at 8pm. It's also the grand opening of the 236 project, which is a joint venture between UNIT/PITT and 221A. Join us at the
- [Inside UNIT/PITT’s New 236 East Pender space](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitts-new-236-e-pender-space-sneak-peek/) - 236 E Pender is getting better all the time! We are really excited about our upcoming opening God Save the Queen curated by Chris Bose, and our Grand Opening/Fundraiser, both of which are happening this Friday (September 13, part of #swarm14). We have preserved some wonderful features of the 1930’s era building: the 20 foot
- [UNIT/PITT’s New 236 E Pender Space: What We Have Accomplished So Far](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitts-new-236-e-pender-space-what-we-have-accomplished-so-far/) - Grand Opening / SWARM Afterparty / Fundraiser on Friday, September 13th at 10pm. We have been working hard this summer! The space at 236 East Pender is looking impressive these days, but it wasn't always so pretty. Here is a look at the progress we have made in our renovations since May. By October
- [UNIT/PITT's New 236 E Pender Space: Update and Appeal for Funding](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitts-new-236-e-pender-space-update-and-appeal-for-funding/) - In case you have been on vacation, or outside enjoying the sun, we thought we should let you know that UNIT/PITT has been undergoing an exciting transformation this summer. In May, we moved from our Carrall and Pender location to a new space just down the street at 236 E Pender. We teamed up with
- [Fall 2013 Preview](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/fall-2013/) - Our doors may be closed right now, and there may be paper on the windows, but we'll be back in September, better than before. We have already presented two projects in our new building at 236 East Pender -- IOU and the enigmatic Whatever This Is ... -- on temporary walls while we cleared out
- [UNIT/PITT publications at the NY Art Book Fair](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/ny-art-book-fair-2/) - Courtesy of Publication Studio Vancouver, here's a selection of UNIT/PITT books at the New York Art Book Fair. The preview was tonight, and the fair continues until Sunday, October 2 at MOMA PS1. You'll find the books at the table shared by Emily Carr University Press and Publication Studio Vancouver in room Q on the
- [What is UNIT/PITT?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/what-is-unitpitt/) - Two of the most common questions we get asked by visitors to 15 East Pender are "what is this place?" and "is this the Helen Pitt Gallery?". I am always reluctant to impose an interpretation, short-circuiting the process by which an observer arrives at a personal understanding of art. However, that sort of (non-) response
- [Brad Allen's "World"](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/brad-allens-world/) - Whatever This Is It Won't Last Long continues at 236 East Pender until August 17. This exhibition takes place in a temporary shop holding its "Pre-Apocalypse Blow-Out" sale. Brad Allen's video World is definitely in tune with the theme of the sale. In this wry depiction of the apocalypse, the World is nothing more than
- [UNIT/PITT Annual General Meeting, 2013](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-annual-general-meeting-2013/) - The Annual General Meeting of the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness will take place on Tuesday, July 30 2013, at 7 pm, at 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver.
- [Last week of IOU](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-week-of-iou/) - Our first exhibition at 236 East Pender, IOU, is up until Saturday, July 6 at 5 pm. The works in this show -- by Steven Brekelmans, Colleen Heslin, Devon Knowles, Frieda-raye Green, Ben Raymer, and Ian Robert Sandilands -- have all changed subtly since it opened on May 17, as the seawater evaporated and mussels
- [Whatever This Is ... some quick pictures](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/whatever-this-is-some-quick-pictures/) - Here's a quick look at the opening of Whatever This Is It Won't Last Long, last Friday, July 12. The installation is open noon to 5, Wednesday to Saturday, until August 17. Outside the installation. unitpitt 0 0 Outside the installation. unitpitt The back door of Whatever This Is ... unitpitt 0 0 The back
- [The shop at the end of existence](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-shop-at-the-end-of-existence/) - Our summer exhibition, Whatever This Is It Won't Last Long, opens on Friday, July 12 at 8 pm. This is another provisional transformation of the 236 East Pender Street space, where renovations are still taking place "behind the scenes" -- literally in this case, because the installation itself is enclosed in a facade, one of
- [Owl Cave | Luminous Books: ALTERNATIVE ORGANS](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/owl-cave-luminous-books-alternative-organs/) - ALTERNATIVE ORGANS is an online resource for alternative publishing and book art projects presented by Luminous Books | Owl Cave in conjunction with the Luminous Books residency at UNIT/PITT Projects. . Taking its name from a publication within The Whole Earth Catalog, Alternative Organs draws on the catalog’s original aims to facilitate, reflect and build communities through independent
- [IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME REVIEW by MICHAEL TURNER IN CANADIAN ART](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/in-search-of-lost-time-review-by-micheal-turner-in-canadian-art/) - Make sure to pick up the latest edition of Canadian Art (Winter 2012/13) to read Michael Turner’s review on the exhibition In Search of Lost Time that was at the Pitt in early Fall 2012. The exhibition was curated by Myfanwy MacLeod
- [IOU and Art Waste](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/iou-and-art-waste/) - Our first exhibition at 236 East Pender, IOU, is part of a city-wide celebration of art that happens next weekend (June 6-9). Art Waste started as an offshoot of the Music Waste festival, which itself started in response to a music-industry event calling itself "Music West". As an artist-run centre dedicated to experimentation, emerging artists,
- [Been busy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/busy-week-opening-236/) - A couple of weeks ago, when we changed the sign at 15 E Pender, like we have done for every event since April 2011, it really set in that were moving out of that small, quirky space now. The last event at 15 E Pender was a closing party for GRAY School (1) on Wednesday,
- [The Final On Economy: A Sunday Service - May 26 at 15 E Pender Street](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-final-on-economy-a-sunday-service-may-26-at-15-e-pender-street/) - On May 26, 2013 at 11:00am On Economy: A Sunday Service (part of GRAY School) will provide an opportunity to engage with texts relating to issues within art and economies. We invite the public to bring written work-in-process to UNIT/PITT in order to facilitate one final writing and editing workshop. The service will later move
- [Picks by Frieda-raye Green](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/picks-by-frieda-raye-green/) - We're almost completely moved out of 15 East Pender now, and in to 236 East Pender, so our evening screenings at the old space are ending, and our first screening at 236 is starting. A few days from now, we'll be doing the same as before: every evening, video by artists in our street-facing window.
- [Announcing GRAY School (1) May 5 - 15, 2013](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcing-gray-school-1-may-5-15-2013/) - GRAY School (1) proposes itself as a centre for education around creative and intellectual exchange, the contextualization of a publication as well as a referent to the formative years of pedagogy: grade school. GRAY School (1) will be a space for an exhibition, lectures and workshops while also acting as the catalyst for GRAY Publications’
- [This week's video: Aquarian Foundation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-video-aquarian-foundatio/) - Screened on March 31, 2012 After a couple of weeks with no video in the window (sorry), here's a new one. The Aquarian Foundation will be playing at the Pitt on Saturday March 31 as part of the NO SHOW series -- if you want to come and check that out, some and see us
- [This week's screening: Bambule](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-screening-bambule/) - This week, between 7 and 10 pm, you can see a historical curiosity screening in our front window: Bambule, a film with a script written by Ulrike Meinhof. It was originally meant to be screened on German television in 1970, but by the time it was completed, the screenwriter was wanted by authorities in the
- [On Economy: A Sunday Service - May 12, 2013](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/on-economy-a-sunday-service-may-12-2013/) - Image: On Economy: A Sunday Service May 5, 2013 with "Where Art Belongs" and "Small as Beautiful" GRAY School (1) will be hosting its second On Economy: A Sunday Service this coming Sunday - May 12, 2013 - at 11AM with artists and collaborators Zoë Kreye and Catherine Grau. The event will provide an opportunity to engage with
- [Power2012 Radio: podcasts online now](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/power2012-radio-podcasts-online-now/) - We're currently in the process of archiving podcasts of programs from Power 2012 (part of Red76: THIS IS AN (A) FRONT), an internet radio station that was online in the months of October, November, and December 2012. After sifting through countless 24-hour long "air check" mp3s that were flooded with random iTunes music, I am nearly
- [The Shock of the New ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/the-shock-of-the-new/) - Showing in the front window of 15 East Pender this week is Episode 8 of the 1982 BBC series The Shock of the New, written and narrated by Robert Hughes. The episode, titled "The Future That Was", discusses the failings of the avant-garde. You can also watch it here, via Ubuweb. The player will
- [Rereading The Riot Act -- book launch on May Day 8PM!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/rereading-the-riot-act-book-launch-on-may-day-8pm/) - Updated May 1, 2013: We hope you'll be able to make it tonight for the launch, but if you can't, the book is now available for purchase online. On Wednesday May 1, 2013 (International Workers’ Day) at 8pm UNIT/PITT Projects is pleased to host the publication launch for Rereading The Riot Act, And On - Vancouver 2011
- [Before I'm Done screening nightly until May 4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/before-im-done-screening-nightly-until-may-4/) - This is the last week of What Future (and getting close to the end for 15 East Pender as well). Since late January, we have been showing the video component of Before I'm Done by the PJS Collective in our front window every night. You can still see the video if you're in the vicinity
- [What has happened to our future? A brief explanation of What Future](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/what-has-happened-to-our-future-a-brief-explanation-of-what-future/) - UNIT/PITT's latest series of commissioned works, collectively titled What Future, is now in full swing, and will be up at 15 E Pender until early May. Three artists, and one artist collective, produced new works on the broad subject of the future: The first commission, which launched in late January, was Before I'm Done by
- [We Give A Shit Because We Care launches this Friday](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/we-give-a-shit-because-we-care-launches-this-friday/) - The long-anticipated launch of Chun Hua Catherine Dong and Ek Rzepka's community project We Give A Shit Because We Care is this coming Friday, December 2, at 8pm. We call it a "community project" because the two artists contacted other artists in the Pitt's community and asked them to submit documents, specifically documents of their
- [Announcing 236 East Pender -- how you can help](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcing-236-east-pender/) - Donate Now! Unit/Pitt is pleased to announce that we have just signed a 15-year lease on a new location. The new building, at 236 East Pender Street, was formerly occupied by a grocery (and after that, a herbalist), and will provide us with a larger and better-equipped presentation space (indoor plumbing!), room onsite for our
- [Announcing I.O.U. - May 17 to July 6, 2013](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/announcing-i-o-u-may-17-to-july-6-2013/) - May 17 to July 6, 2013 I.O.U. is a curatorial project developed by Kalli Niedoba, bringing together works by Steven Brekelmans, Colleen Heslin, Devon Knowles, Ben Raymer, Ian Robert Sandilands and Frieda-raye Green. The works selected for this exhibition have been floating together, basely tied to a dock somewhere in the Strait of Georgia. During the months
- [Last week of Luminous Books | Owl Cave (until Saturday March 30, 2013)!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-week-of-luminous-books-owl-cave-until-saturday-march-30-2013/) - Update: open regular hours, noon - 5pm, on Good Friday and on Saturday March 30. This is the last week to catch the Luminous Books|Owl Cave temporary bookshop at UNIT/PITT Projects! Come by this week to check out new additions to the library from Paravion Press. Additions include: The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll,
- [Kevin Murphy: Atlantean Timepiece - opening this Friday, March 22 2013, 8 pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/kevin-murphy-atlantean-timepiece-opening-this-friday-march-22-2013-8-pm/) - Kevin Murphy: Atlantean Timepiece March 22 to May 4, 2013 Opening this Friday, March 22 2013, 8 pm Kevin Murphy’s Atlantean Timepiece is the fourth project in UNIT/PITT’s series What Future. Influenced by widespread concerns surrounding sea level rise, geological instability, earthquakes, and flooding in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Atlantean Timepiece imagines the future
- [New Texts From Luminous Books](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/new-texts-from-luminous-books/) - This week at UNIT/PITT Projects Luminous Books has added a collection from their Space Library at the Luminous Books|Owl Cave temporary bookshop. This collection includes a selection of moon and space themed books alongside reading lists on a lunar theme provided by both A Coelacanth Press and Luminous Books. The list includes Epitaphs by Ezra pound, A Trip
- [This week's video - Myths from Wrong Wave](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-video-myths-from-wrong-wave-2/) - Screened on February 18, 2012 Here's this week's video: part of the set by Myths at 2011's Wrong Wave festival. This duo brought an amazing set of music, video, dance and costume changes to the stage at the Waldorf that night. You can watch the video in our front window from 6pm to 11pm nightly
- [Kelly Roulette - preview](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/kelly-roulette-preview/) - Tonight (Friday, March 8th at 8pm), Kelly Roulette: Traditional Road Warriors is opening at UNIT/PITT. This is the latest project in our series What Future, where we have commissioned some under-exposed artists to create work that broadly addresses the idea of the future. Like the earlier project by PJS Collective, Before I'm Done, the artist's
- [Reviews: Robert Dayton's The Canadian Romantic with Broken Pencil and Susanna Browne's A Perfect Day with Decoy Magazine](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/a-review-of-robert-daytons-the-canadian-romantic-on-broken-pencil/) - This week - Broken Pencil (The Magazine of Zine Culture an the Independent Arts) published a short review on Robert Dayton's The Canadian Romantic, co-published by UNIT/PITT Projects and Publication Studio Vancouver in January 2012. The review was written by Alison Lang, outlining the content of the book as "part sketchbook, part diary entry, and part
- [Kelly Roulette: Traditional Road Warriors March 8 to April 27, 2013](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/kelly-roulette-traditional-road-warriors-march-8-to-april-27-2013/) - Opening Friday, March 8 2013, 8pm. The third project in the What Future series of commissions at UNIT/PITT Projects is Traditional Road Warriors by Kelly Roulette. Traditional Road Warriors depicts the inner struggle of native people living among the inner city streets. In one painting, an elder looks tired and forlorn sitting along a skid row street. In another
- [Susanna Browne: A Perfect Day February 22 to April 27, 2013](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/susanna-browne-a-perfect-day-february-22-to-april-27-2013/) - Broadcast event, Friday, February 22, 8 pm, at Unit/Pitt Projects, 15 East Pender Street, Vancouver BC The second project in Unit/Pitt’s What Future series of commissioned works is A Perfect Day by Susanna Browne. On Friday, February 22, join us for the launch of the project and its accompanying publication. The song A Perfect Day was composed by American
- [New Titles from Luminous Books and Owl Cave](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/new-titles-from-luminous-book-and-owl-cave/) - Yesterday, UNIT/PITT Projects received new stock from Luminous Books (London) and Owl Cave (San Francisco). New arrivals include: William S. Burroughs, the Evergreen Review and the Coelacanth Journal issues 6, 7 & 8 from London. The Coelacanth Press, named after the Prehistoric fish with a human heart that was thought to be extinct but then
- [Goodbye, sweet stencil painting](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/goodbye-sweet-stencil-painting/) - On the day we were coming in to install PJS Collective: Before I'm Done, this great piece of #idlenomore stencil painting on a small pallet was leaning against the outside of the building, waiting for us. It's entirely possible that it was left there by collective member John Walkus-Greene, although he has never confirmed that.
- [Luminous Books with Owl Cave, tonight (Friday, February 15)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/luminous-books-with-owl-cave-tonight-friday-february-15/) - While you can still come to UNIT/PITT and see Before I'm Done until early March, starting tonight we'll also be hosting Luminous Books with Owl Cave. Luminous Books, a London-based bookseller and book-curator, is installing a temporary bookshop and collection, which will exist at 15 East Pender until March 30. Books will be available for reading,
- [Luminous Books and Owl Cave this Friday February 15, 2013 at 8PM](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/luminous-books-and-owl-cave-this-friday-february-15-2013-at-8pm/) - This Friday, February 15 (2013) - starting at 8pm - Luminous Books and Owl Cave will be presenting an artist-curated second hand bookshop focusing on fiction, philosophy, art and other curiosities at UNIT/PITT Projects. Parcels from London, San Francisco, Portland and Paris are on their way to Vancouver for the temporary bookshop. Stock will be added as it arrives so
- [Luminous Books with Owl Cave ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/luminous-books-with-owl-cave/) - Opening Friday, February 15 2013, 8 pm - runs until March 30 at Unit/Pitt Projects, 15 E Pender St., Vancouver. Public hours are Wednesday - Saturday, noon - 5pm. London-based artist-curated bookshop Luminous Books finds shelter at Unit/Pitt Projects this month. A temporary bookshop of second hand fiction, philosophy and cultural curiosities alongside reading lists
- [Saturday, January 19 - GRAY Magazine launch at U/P](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/saturday-january-19-gray-magazine-launch-at-up/) - Join UNIT/PITT Projects Saturday, January 19 (2013) for GRAY Publication’s first issue launch party and fundraiser. Issue one focuses on “emergence”: presenting visual and text-based works from Soledad Muñoz, Jules Francisco, professor Caroline Bellios of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Alexander McQueen Savile Row. From 7 – 11PM on January 19 GRAY will be celebrating
- [Last week, next week, next month](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-week-next-week-next-month/) - Last week was a huge one for the Pitt: The first full week of Mathew Sawyer's show in the exhibition space, applications flowing in for fall internships, and Wrong Wave 2: Art rock is dead/Long live art rock. Wrong Wave 2 consisted of four performances by bands, 2 DJs, one solo performance by Mathew Sawyer
- [Red76: This Is An (A) Front – A Covert Education Review by Abbra Kotlarczyk for Decoy Magazine](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/red76-this-is-an-a-front-a-covert-education-review-by-abbra-kotlarczyk-for-decoy-magazine/) - Red76: This Is An (A) Front – A Covert Education was the last project to work with UNIT/PITT Projects and with that, a newly published review by Abbra Kotlarczyk, titled How Did I Get Here?: The Fronts and Means of Social Practices, is now available through Decoy Magazine's online platform. It discusses the project in depth, and
- [UNIT/PITT Projects at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-projects-at-printed-matters-la-art-book-fair/) - Publication Studio (PS) Vancouver and UNIT/PITT Projects are at Printed Matter’s first annual LA Art Book Fair (running February 1 – 3, 2013) at MOCA, sharing with Emily Carr University Press at Table 37! Preview night is tomorrow, January 31, 2013 from 6–9 pm. PS Vancouver, ECU Press and UNIT/PITT are next to a couple
- [Before I'm Done, January 25, 2013](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/before-im-done-january-25-2013/) - Here's a view from outside our front door of part of Before I'm Done by the PJS Collective, which opens tonight -- Friday, January 25 -- at 8pm. Part of the project is a video that will be showing every night from after sunset until 11pm in our front window. In the space you'll find
- [Re-reading the Riot Act by leannej](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/re-reading-the-riot-act-by-leannej/) - Here's the update we said we would post. Re-reading the Riot Act by leannej is the first in a series of new books from UNIT/PITT and Publication Studio Vancouver, emerging from the series Rereading The Riot Act, curated by Anakana Schofield. (The same series won UNIT/PITT a mention in The London Review of Books a
- [Friday - PJS Collective: Before I'm Done opens](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/friday-pjs-collective-before-im-done-opens/) - This Friday (January 25, 2013), we begin What Future, a series of commissioned projects by emerging artists and artist collectives, with Before I'm Done, a work by the PJS Collective (Paul Lang, John Walkus-Greene, and Skylar Stock). Tomorrow and Friday we'll post some details of the installation in progress. Please join us at 8pm on
- [Saturday - Celebrate the end of Power2012, Thumbs Up, This Is An (A) Front](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/saturday-celebrate-the-end-of-power2012-thumbs-up-this-is-an-a-front/) - Saturday, December 15 is the last day of regular Pitt programming this year. It's also the last official day of Power2012 radio, the Thumbs Up used-mp3 store, and Red76's curatorial project This Is An (A) Front: A Covert Education. To celebrate the season, and the wrap-up of this great project-within-a-project-within-a-project, we have some special events
- [Thanks for all of your help!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thanks-for-your-help/) - Thanks to everyone who responded to our request for donations. Support from our community is essential for a small organization like ours, and even small contributions are meaningful, and appreciated. There's still time to donate in 2012. One of the easiest ways is to make a donation through CanadaHelps.org. If you don't want to make
- [While we're closed - The Apology](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/while-were-closed-the-apology/) - We'll be closed until mid-January, when the four projects from What Future start appearing (check back soon for more information about that). In the meantime, we're re-presenting The Apology by Chris Bose, originally shown around this time last year as part of the series Ill Repute. The Apology will screen every evening in the front
- [Peace Library at UNIT/PITT Projects](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/peace-library-at-unitpitt-projects/) - Since the beginning of November, set up during Wrong Wave, Sharona Franklin and Tanner Matt's Peace Library has been been residing at the Pitt. Franklin and Matt see Peace Library as a project that "... curates and facilitates a diverse archive of ideas and objects which will have assembled themselves by happenstance by way of publishing, transcribing
- [Every little bit helps](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/every-little-bit-helps/) - In fall 2009, the Helen Pitt Gallery was forced to close. A dedicated group of volunteers kept the Pitt alive, and in April 2011, we re-opened as Unit/Pitt Projects, with a mandate to support innovative proposals by independent curators, and projects curated by artists. Since then, in spite of severe financial constraints, we have been
- [Tomorrow - Saturday, December 15 - Celebrate the end of Red76′s Power2012, Thumbs Up, This Is An (A) Front](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tomorrow-saturday-december-15-celebrate-the-end-of-red76′s-power2012-thumbs-up-this-is-an-a-front/) - Tomorrow, December 15 is the last day of regular Pitt programming this year. It’s also the last official day of Power2012 radio, the Thumbs Up used-mp3 store, and Red76′s curatorial project This Is An (A) Front: A Covert Education. Here's the schedule for tomorrow's closing: 12:00 - 1:00PM: the final instalment of "Ethnopoesis Radio Hour" by Dylan Gauthier
- [who's directing the show in Vancouver? on Power2012.ca](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/whos-directing-the-show-in-vancouver-on-power2012-ca/) - Saturday, December 8 on Power2012.ca: who's directing the Show in Vancouver? At 9:00am tomorrow (Saturday, December 8), tune in to Power2012.ca. Holly Goldsmith-Jones and Tobin Gibson, editors of GRAY, will talk about the aesthetics of Vancouver and portions of its cash flow. Aesthetics of the City: who's directing the show in Vancouver? is an extension of
- [Red 76: This is An (A) Front - Radio!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/red-76-this-is-an-a-front-radio/) - Next Saturday, December 15, 2012, will be the last day to check out Red 76: This is An (A) Front at UNIT/PITT Projects before we close for a few weeks over the holiday period. We will be open again in January of the new year, but if anyone wishes to come in and talk to
- [The Unit/Pitt Archive -- a work in progress](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-unitpitt-archive-a-work-in-progress/) - Our new web site is live, but not quite finished yet. You'll see that our volunteers (particularly Masha McConaghy), interns (months of work by Sarah Storteboom) and staff (especially Rita O'Grady), have digitized an impressive amount of material here, but there are still some significant gaps. We're hoping that the community of Pitt alumni out
- [Pitt director profiled in Vancouver Is Awesome](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/pitt-director-profiled-in-vancouver-is-awesome/) - Thanks to Anne Cottingham for mentioning UNIT/PITT, and Publication Studio Vancouver's storefront residency (on until Saturday, August 20) in this article. After August 20th we'll be taking a short break to prepare for another big push this fall. Watch this page for details, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or subscribe to our e-mail
- [Mathew Sawyer: There is no royal road until October 8](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/mathew-sawyer-there-is-no-royal-road-until-october-8/) - Screened on October 6, 2011 Mathew Sawyer's exhibition There is no royal road continues until Saturday, October 8 at UNIT/PITT. We're here from noon to 5pm for the rest of the week. Here's a video, shot by Ron Tran, of Mathew's Wrong Wave performance back on September 16. If you missed that, he'll be back
- [The archive in action: Kent Tate and the story of Vanishing Heat](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-archive-in-action/) - We get some nice messages from time to time, from people who were involved with the Pitt at some point in the past and are curious about what's going on, or are offering some kind of help, or just want to share a story. We were particularly happy to hear from an artist who screened
- [The Question(s) of Occupy Vancouver, on Power2012.ca](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-questions-of-occupy-vancouver-on-power2012-ca/) - Sunday, November 25 on Power2012.ca: Applying Political Theory to Occupy Vancouver At 1:30pm today, tune in to Power2012. Tristan Markle and Sean Antrim, editors of The Mainlander, will talk about the 100 Mile political diet, the role of "the contradiction", the crisis of leadership, and other questions brought forward by the anniversary of Occupy Vancouver.
- [Red 76: This is An (A) Front - Literature!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/red-76-this-is-an-a-front-literature/) - Alongside Red 76: This is An (A) Front's changing (store)front and their radio station in UNIT/PITT Projects (http://www.power2012.ca), a series of publications were produced at Publication Studio Vancouver that epitomize the collective's interests in discussing politics and power in Vancouver and abroad. Texts include Atelier Populaire's "Mai '68: debut d'une lutte prolongee" which includes writing and posters
- [Red76: This is An (A) Front - Front News!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/red76-this-is-an-a-front-front-news/) - In case you missed the announcement, Red76: This Is An (A) Front: A Covert Education has been held over until December 15, which means the Thumbs Up used mp3 store and Power2012 radio station are here for the next few weeks. A new addition launched at Wrong Wave, the Peace Library, will also be at
- [Rehearsal for a storm, broadcasting now on Power2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/rehearsal-for-a-storm/) - This is Ethnopoesis Radio Hour, recorded and assembled by Dylan Gauthier. This week, "Rehearsal for a Storm..." Featuring: a play in rehearsal by Dôme Theater; radio stations pulled in from around the city in the lead up to Hurricane Sandy; field recordings from the storm; questions about the election; odd sounds from who knows where;
- [Monday, November 12 on power2012.ca - weather and power](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/up-in-a-few-minutes-on-power2012-ca/) - Starting around 11am Pacific today (Monday, November 12), Power2012 will host a remote broadcast by Red76, as part of the ongoing project This Is An (A) Front (the broadcast will repeat at least six times over the next day or so). The broadcast is a recording of a discussion about the mobilization of self-managed community
- [Wrong Wave talk, Western Front, November 10, 6pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-talk-western-front-november-10-6pm/) - After three nights of music, something different. We're wrapping up the Wrong Wave festival with a discussion about the nature of artists-making-music, and musicians' role in "art". See us at the Western Front, 303 E. 8 Ave., at 6pm tonight (Saturday, November 10). Admission is free for this event. Panelists Tanner Matt, Soledad Munoz and
- [Today on Power2012: When Will We Ever Learn is back](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/today-on-power2012-when-will-we-ever-learn-is-back/) - Right now on Power2012, Gabriel and Juan talk about art school, internationally. Tune in between now and 5-ish.
- [Wrong Wave Preview #4: 80(sun) and Peace Library](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-preview/) - Friday, November 9 is the third night of Wrong Wave: Art Rock Believes in Reincarnation. After two nights of performances at The Waldorf Hotel, we're back on home ground at Unit/Pitt Projects, 15 East Pender Street (near Pender & Carrall). Tonight is also the launch of The Peace Library, which collects and publishes print, images,
- [Wrong Wave Preview #3: Thursday at The Waldorf](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-preview-3-thursday-at-the-waldorf/) - Thanks to everyone who came out for the first night of Wrong Wave: Art Rock Believes in Reincarnation, at The Waldorf on Wednesday. The evening featured a set by Neu Balance, followed by collaborations between Stefana Fratila + Ronan Nanning-Watson and Spectrum Interview + Merlyn Chipman, with DJ sets by Aaron Read. Tonight (Thursday, November
- [Wrong Wave Preview #2: what you'll see tonight at The Waldorf](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-preview-2-what-youll-see-tonight-at-the-waldorf/) - Wrong Wave: Art Rock Believes in Reincarnation starts tonight (Wednesday November 7) at The Waldorf Hotel. Tonight we'll have new material including two artist-musician collaborations. (Follow the links below for a taste of some previous work.) Doors open at 8, music starts around 9; $7 admission at the door tonight, or for $10 you can
- [Wrong Wave Preview #1: Neu Balance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-preview-1-neu-balance/) - Wrong Wave starts on Wednesday, November 7, at the Waldorf Hotel, with sets by Neu Balance, Stefana Fratila + Ronan Nanning-Watson, and Spectrum Interview + Merlyn Chipman. Doors open at 8pm, music starts around 9; $7 admission for Wednesday only, or $10 for an all-nights pass. Here's a preview of what you can expect from
- [Saturday afternoon - When Will We Ever Learn](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/saturday-afternoon-when-will-we-ever-learn/) - It's Saturday, so Gabriel Saloman is back with an afternoon of music, commentary, and readings about learning, education, power, and powerlessness. He'll be on until 5pm (Pacific time) or slightly later. Tune in at Power2012.ca.
- [Friday on Power2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/friday-on-power2012/) - At noon (Pacific time), we have a discussion from The Mainlander on the displacement of culture by development; later, at 4pm, Pitt intern Jane Kim brings us a discussion of the personal economics of art in Vancouver. Details below. Noon (Pacific time) Here today, Evicted tomorrow: The Political Economy of Cultural Spaces in Vancouver Over
- [Thursday radio schedule](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thursday-radio-schedule/) - Today: music selections by Sarah Wong until around 3pm Pacific, followed by a discussion by B Milder and Chase Carter about student power in specific issues relating to recent changes and questions arising within the Museum School, live and direct from Boston. Times, as always, are approximate. Tune in at Power2012.ca, on ultra-low-power FM in
- [Thumbs Up! and POWER2012 held over](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thumbs-up-and-power2012-held-over/) - Red76's project This Is An (A) Front, which started during the Institutions By Artists conference, was originally scheduled to end on November 3rd -- this coming weekend -- to make room for other things like Wrong Wave and What Future. It's clear to us, however, that both the Thumbs Up store and Power2012 radio are
- [A peek at Wrong Wave 2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/a-peek-at-wrong-wave-2012/) - Art Rock Lives! Unit/Pitt’s annual art-rock festival is about just about here. Wrong Wave 2012: Art Rock Believes in Reincarnation revisits the tradition of art rock as an arena for the creative engagement of music and visual art. This year, the Wrong Wave program assembles a variety of performances that exhibit the intersections in art
- [Wrong Wave panel announced](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-panel-announced/) - This year's Wrong Wave takes place next week! Starting on Wednesday, November 7, Unit/Pitt presents four days of artist/musician collaborations, performances, and dialogue curated by Research + Presentation Collective, for only $10 (if you buy a festival pass, almost a 50% savings over paying for each performance). The performance schedule was released about a week
- [This week's video - Flash Palace from Wrong Wave 2011](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-video-flash-palace-from-wrong-wave-2011/) - Screened on February 10, 2012 Starting tonight and ending next Friday night, our evening video screening is from Flash Palace's set at last September's Wrong Wave festival. The video starts showing at 6 pm, and runs continuously until 11 pm. If you're in Chinatown or Gastown at night and you don't mind watching from the
- [The Mainlander today on Power2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-mainlander-today-on-power2012/) - Today on Power2012: more information and discussion from our friends at The Mainlander. Program will start some time after 3pm Pacific. It looks like we'll be extending Red76: This Is An (A) Front past its original November 3 closing. That means that Power2012 and the Thumbs Up! store will keep functioning, for a while anyway.
- [Power2012 and the Thumbs Up! sound library](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/power2012-and-the-thumbs-up-sound-library/) - When we're not around, and not actively programming, there's still lots to be heard on Power2012, the radio station that is part of Red76's curatorial project at Unit/Pitt. In the mix with music (both familiar and obscure) are lectures, conversations, and other sounds. As we write this, the station is autoplaying an mp3 of Sam
- [When Will We Ever Learn on Power2012, now!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/when-will-we-ever-learn-on-power2012-now/) - WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?
- [Last chance to visit Research + Presentation Centre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-chances-to-visit-research-presentation-centre/) - Saturday, May 5 is the last day of Research + Presentation Centre, an experimental reading room curated by Amanda Jehring and Steffanie Ling. For the past month, the Pitt has been a functional centre for reading and research, complete with collections contributed by Jesse Birch, Stefana Fratila, Lenox & Burrard, Michael Turner, and Jerry Zaslove.
- [Friday music and maybe more](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/friday-music-and-maybe-more/) - After Thursday's incredible day of radio programming on POWER2012, we're relaxing a bit. This afternoon consists of music DJ'd by Pitt intern Jane Kim. A bit later, if there's time, we'll broadcast a remix of Allan Sekula's talk yesterday at ECU.
- [Ethnopoesis Radio Hour today on Power2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/ethnopoesis-radio-hour-today-on-power2012/) - Starting at 3pm Pacific Time, Wednesday October 24, and running continuously until some time tomorrow, is Dylan Gauthier's Ethnopoesis Radio Hour. You can pick it up in the vicinity of UNIT/PITT on 89.7, through our speakers at 15 East Pender during open hours, or over the internet at Power2012.ca. Wardriving for low- and micro- power
- [Power2012 this week](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/power2012-this-week/) - Red76's project THIS IS AN (A) FRONT continues, with new contributions. To explain the project, and how the Thumbs Up! store and Power2012 Radio fit in to it, here's a walk-through by Sam Gould: What is Thumbs Up : Power2012 from Sam Gould on Vimeo. We'll be announcing special broadcasts on Power2012 this week (starting
- [SETUP, Path, and thanks to our neighbours down the block](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/setup-path-and-thanks-to-our-neighbours-down-the-block/) - We're coming up on a busy month at UNIT/PITT: Research + Presentation Centre, curated by Amanda Jehring and Steffanie Ling, and featuring contributions from Jesse Birch, Stefana Fratila, Lenox & Burrard, Michael Turner, and Jerry Zaslove, closes this Saturday. This project is a custom-designed reading room with five great research collections, custom notebooks, and free
- [Red76: This Is An (A) Front – October 11 to November 3, 2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/red76-this-is-an-a-front-october-11-to-november-3-2012-2/) - Join UNIT/PITT Projects in welcoming Red76 to our space with tonight's opening (October 11,2012) at 8PM. Red76: This Is An (A) Front - October 11 to November 3, 2012 Beginning in the spring of 2012 Red76 initiated THIS IS AN (A) FRONT, first with a series of projects feeding into an “American-style Pizzeria” established in Pristina,
- [Last Week of In Search of Lost Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-week-of-in-search-of-lost-time/) - UNIT/PITT Projects has returned from the NY Art Book Fair with only three days of Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time remaining. Over the course of the exhibition, closing this Saturday October 6, there have been reviews published through both Decoy Magazine and Post Pacific Post. Stay tuned for a third review written by Michael
- [Mathew Sawyer profiled in the Guardian](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/mathew-sawyer-profiled-in-the-guardian/) - Mathew Sawyer's exhibition, There is no royal road (curated by Cate Rimmer) opens tonight at UNIT/PITT. Just in time for that, he has been profiled in the Guardian. If you miss the opening (part of SWARM), you can try to catch his performance at UNIT/PITT next Friday, September 16, part of Wrong Wave 2. Space
- [Preview: In Search of Lost Time box set](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/preview-in-search-of-lost-time-box-set/) - We'll be launching the jewel-like three volume book, In Search of Lost Time, at the Pitt this coming Friday, September 14, at 8pm. The book accompanies Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time, which is on view until October 6, and is a three volume set. Volume One, In Search of Lost
- [Esophagus Now ends Saturday July 9](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/esophagus-now-ends-saturday-july-9/) - Just a couple of days -- today and tomorrow -- left to see Chris von Szombathy's Esophagus Now, which closes on Saturday, July 9. We have really enjoyed having this show at the project space. We'll also miss the video, which screens nightly. If you can't make it down during the day, but you happen
- [UNIT/PITT in the London Review of Books](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-in-the-london-review-of-books/) - Here's a first for us: Anakana Schofield has written in the London Review of Books about Rereading The Riot Act II, the performance cabaret that coincided, through no deliberate effort on our part, with the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot.
- [SWARM this week](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/swarm-this-week-2/) - Tonight (Thursday, September 6) is the start of two nights of SWARM, which launches a new season of artist-run culture in Vancouver. Instead of listing everything that's going on, here's a little outline: Thursday night includes artist-run spaces in South Vancouver, Mount Pleasant, and Granville Island (we're looking forward to the show at Malaspina Printmakers);
- [Publication Studio comes to the Pitt, in person](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/publication-studio-comes-to-the-pitt-in-person/) - Publication Studio Vancouver is setting up for a storefront residency at the Pitt. Instead of an exhibition in the 15 E Pender space, PS Vancouver will be there Wednesday-Saturday until late August making books, rebinding broken paperbacks, and many other things. We'll be doing more of these storefront residencies in between curatorial projects. The idea
- [In Search of Lost Time's French Affinity ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/in-search-of-lost-times-french-affinity/) - In the curatorial description of Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time, Myfanwy MacLeod highlights Oksanen's fascination with French film. MacLeod describes this interest as one that inspires the artist's forays into both film and painting. Albert Lamorisse's Le Ballon Rouge (1956) and Robert Bresson's Une Femme Douce (1969) are two pertinent films to
- [This week's video: Mathew Sawyer's Wrong Wave 2011 set](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-video-mathew-sawyers-wrong-wave-2011-set/) - Screened on March 31, 2012 This week's video is Mathew Sawyer's performance from September 16, 2011, at UNIT/PITT. It's the entire set, one camera, no breaks, no edits. You can watch it in the front window of 15 E Pender every night through Friday, March 2, between 6 pm and 11pm. Or, you can watch
- [Ubu Roi](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/ubu-roi/) - Screened on July 18, 2012 Found on ubuweb, a film adaptation an important work of the proto-avant-garde, Jarry's Ubu Roi. If you're in our neighbourhood between 8 and 11 in the evening, you can catch a glimpse of it in our window. The player will show in this paragraph Part of the Pitt's summer screenings.
- [This week's film: Fritz Lang's M](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-film-fritz-langs-m/) - Screened on July 25, 2012 We're between exhibitions (until September 7), but there are still things to see (and hear). This week's screening in our front window is a non-subtitled German-language version of Fritz Lang's M. You can see it from the sidewalk in front of 15 East Pender Street from 8 to 11 pm
- [Tokyo Drifter](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/tokyo-drifter/) - Screened on August 1, 2012 This week's film: Tokyo Drifter. Viewable online, and on our patch of street. We'll be making some announcements about fall events very soon. Part of the Pitt's summer screenings.
- [This week: "buddhist"/rock'n'roll western Zachariah](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-week-buddhistrocknroll-western-zachariah/) - Screened on August 8, 2012 This week's film contains a few of cultural strands that ran through late-60s and early-70s "counterculture". Zachariah comes from a script written by the Firesign Theatre, loosely based upon Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha, starring Don Johnson and John Rubinstein as rock'n'roll gunfighters (who seem to be pretty much in love with
- [This week's film: F. W. Murnau's Faust](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-film-f-w-murnaus-faust/) - Screened on August 15, 2012 This week, our film is based upon a classic German tale; famously adapted in literature by Goethe, but the subject of probably thousands of adaptations and retellings. Murnau, who earlier had created the vampire silent Nosferatu, made this film in 1926, before moving to Hollywood to make Sunrise. You can
- [Canadian Romantic  - preview #2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/canadian-romantic-preview-2/) - Buy Tickets Now Here's another preview of our upcoming event and publication, The Canadian Romantic. A supple, lithe volume of tenderly hand-drawn illustrations, as well as an evening of intense, sensitive and perverted performance awaits you at Robert Dayton's An Evening With The Canadian Romantic at the Dunlevy Snackbar on Friday, January 13. You'll be
- [An Evening With The Canadian Romantic - preview #3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/an-evening-with-the-canadian-romantic-preview-3/) - Buy tickets online for Robert Dayton's An Evening with The Canadian Romantic. An Evening With The Canadian Romantic will be an unforgettable evening, an incomparable melding of performance, music and food at the Dunlevy Snackbar (433 Dunlevy Avenue, Vancouver). You don't need to take our word for it, though -- just scan the Vancouver press:
- [This week's film: Rose Hobart by Joseph Cornell](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-weeks-film-rose-hobart-by-joseph-cornell/) - Via ubuweb: a 20-minute film by U.S. surrealist Joseph Cornell, Rose Hobart. Made in 1936, the film is made from a now-forgotten 1931 Hollywood movie, East of Borneo. Most of the parts of the original movie containing action, exposition, and plot development have been removed, the soundtrack and dialogue has been wholly replaced with a
- [Wrong Wave 2 / Quick preview #4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wrong-wave-2-quick-preview-4/) - Tonight, at the Waldorf Hotel, the second night of the Wrong Wave festival will bring you B-Lines, Cowards and DJ Andrea Lukic. Here's a selection of tracks by Cowards. Wrong Wave continues on Friday, September 16, with Mathew Sawyer at UNIT/PITT (15 E Pender, 8pm, free, space is limited), and ends with the UJ3RK5 event
- [Wrong Wave 2 / Quick preview #5](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/wrong-wave-2-quick-preview-5/) - Mathew Sawyer is a pretty amazing artist, and we're lucky to have him here in Vancouver for a brief residency, for a month-long exhibition at the Pitt (both part of a project curated by Cate Rimmer, continuing in spring 2012), and for the Friday, September 16 part of the Wrong Wave festival. Mathew will be
- [Wrong Wave 2 / Quick preview #6](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/wrong-wave-2-quick-preview-6/) - On Saturday, September 17 at 2pm, the Wrong Wave festival will end with UJ3RK5: An Oral History, presented by David Wisdom with Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace, Colin Griffiths and Frank Ramirez at the Emily Carr University Theatre (ECU South Building). Here's some rare video of UJ3RK5 in rehearsal. Thanks to the Charles H. Scott Gallery
- [Wrong Wave 2: Quick preview #3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/wrong-wave-2-quick-preview-3/) - MYTHS and Flash Palace put on an amazing Wrong Wave show last night, along with DJ sets by Eli that surveyed the roots of art rock. Tonight (Thursday, September 15), Wrong Wave is at The Waldorf again, with B-Lines, Cowards and DJ Andrea Lukic. Here's a quick sample of B-Lines: Doors open tonight at 9,
- [Wrong Wave 2 / Quick preview #2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/wrong-wave-2-quick-preview-2/) - On Wednesday night's Wrong Wave bill at the Waldorf are MYTHS (whose video we posted yesterday), Flash Palace and DJ Eli Bornowsky. Here's a small preview of Flash Palace, in the form of video from a live performance at the Rickshaw last year: Doors open at 9pm. The full schedule can be found here.
- [Wrong Wave 2 / quick preview #1](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/wrong-wave-2-quick-preview-1/) - This week, from Wednesday the 14th through Saturday the 17th, UNIT/PITT and The Music Appreciation Society are presenting Wrong Wave, a festival of art bands and music by artists. Wednesday night at The Waldorf Hotel, the line-up will include MYTHS. Here's a preview of what you can expect. Admission only $5! For the rest of
- [This week's video: Gutai](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/this-weeks-video-gutai/) - Via ubuweb, some low-resolution, soundless, fascinating documentation of the Gutai performance art movement in Japan. See you in September! "Gutai art does not alter matter; it gives matter life ... In Gutai art, the human spirit and matter, opposed as they are, shake hands ... My respect goes out to the works of Pollock and
- [Patrick Ready, 1947-2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/video/patrick-ready-1947-2012/) - We're sad to hear that artist, writer, and inventor Patrick Ready has died. Our sympathy goes to his friends and loved ones. Here's some video of Patrick and longtime collaborator Hank Bull in last year's television project Public Access: 1999 & Beyond (curated by Weekend Leisure). The video is an adaptation of material from the
- [UNIT/PITT Projects at the 2012 NY Book Fair](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-projects-at-the-2012-ny-book-fair/) - From September 27 to 30, 2012 UNIT/PITT Projects will be presenting publications, lovingly produced by Publication Studio Vancouver, at the NY Art Book Fair (MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens). The preview night for the NY Book Fair is on September 27 from 6 – 9 PM. If you’re in or around NY stop by
- [In Search of Lost Time starts September 7](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/in-search-of-lost-time-starts-september-7/) - The sign on our door says "see you in September". And while we still have another week of film selections still to come, serious events at the Pitt are starting soon. The first is an exhibition by Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier, In Search of Lost Time, curated by Myfanwy MacLeod. The exhibition begins on
- [Tonight, In Search of Lost Time opening and book launch](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/tonight-in-search-of-lost-time-opening-and-book-launch/) - They're here! Copies of the three-volume In Search of Lost Time box set are now at the Pitt in preparation for tonight's opening and book launch at 8 pm. Published to accompany Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time, the set consists of a critical text by artist/curator Myfanwy MacLeod and artists'
- [In our window: Footsteps in the Snow by Valerie Sonnier](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/in-our-window-footsteps-in-the-snow-by-valerie-sonnier/) - Thanks to everyone who came out to the book launch and opening of In Search of Lost Time on Friday, September 2012. The book is available for purchase at the Pitt during regular hours (noon to 5pm, Wednesday-Saturday), and can also be ordered online from Publication Studio. The exhibition continues until October 6. And if
- [Making books: In Search of Lost Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/making-books-in-search-of-lost-time/) - Here's what it looks like at Publication Studio Vancouver right now, as we produce a three volume set of books for launch at the opening of In Search of Lost Time this Friday. We'll be adding some more previews over the next few days. Drop by 15 East Pender on Friday, September 14, at 8pm
- [Advance look at In Search of Lost Time box set](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/advance-look-at-in-search-of-lost-time-box-set/) - Here's the three-volume In Search of Lost Time set, as seen late last night at Publication Studio Vancouver. The three books have debossed letterpress covers, are lovingly hand-bound by PS Van, and are contained in a transparent box with clasp closure. We'll be launching this on Friday evening, with the artists (Shannon Oksanen and Valerie
- [This Saturday: music at the Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-saturday-music-at-the-pitt/) - Join us on Saturday, March 3 for the first in a series of three performances leading up to the opening of Research + Presentation Centre in April. Doors will open around 9:30 for music by Thomas Weideman, Patrick Geraghty, and Soledad Muñoz. To stay up-to-date on Pitt events, you can sign up for our mailing
- [This fall](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-fall/) - We're closed for a little while right now, recuperating from a busy spring and summer. This fall is going to be pretty amazing though, starting with SWARM in early September: Opening September 9, an exhibition, residency and performance by UK artist Mathew Sawyer, curated by Cate Rimmer Wrong Wave II: Art rock is dead. Long
- [History of 15 E Pender Street](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/history-of-15-e-pender-street/) - UNIT/PITT's location since April 2011 has been here in the Chinese Times building. Our sub-500ft2 storefront, with no plumbing, is one of a dwindling number of affordable main-floor spaces in the central area of Vancouver. The building was completed in 1902, and includes a top floor with bay windows and high ceilings, and a technically
- [Saturday March 3, music at the Pitt!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/friday-march-3-music-at-the-pitt/) - It has been a quiet February: some new videos have gone up, but we have been using the month to catch up on a few things, and to get ready for spring events. The first of those is going to be a music event on the evening of Saturday, March 3. Thomas Weideman, Patrick Geraghty,
- [UNIT/PITT AGM, Thursday August 30th at 7pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-agm-thursday-august-30th-at-7pm/) - The Unit/Pitt Society for Art and Critical Awareness, which operates UNIT/PITT Projects, is having its annual general meeting on Thursday, August 30 2012, 7 pm, at 15 East Pender Street, Vancouver.
- [Kate Armstrong: Path opens Friday May 11](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/kate-armstrong-path-opens-friday-may-11/) - Kate Armstrong: Path launches at UNIT/PITT this coming Friday, May 11 at 8pm. Path is a multi-volume artist's book containing text generated by the actions of an anonymous resident of Montreal between 2005 and 2007. UNIT/PITT is publishing a new edition of this work, in collaboration with Publication Studio Vancouver; from May 12 through June
- [Chris Bose opening Friday December 30, 8pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/chris-bose-opening-friday-december-30-8pm/) - Join us Friday, January 30 for an opening and book launch for Chris Bose's The Apology, the fifth commission in our series Ill Repute, artworks drawn from the wrong side of history. Chris's book, also titled The Apology, will be on sale, and we understand there will be tea and bannock. If you can't make
- [Patrick Cruz kicks off Ill Repute with Yin Yang Temple](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/patrick-cruz-kicks-off-ill-repute-with-yin-yang-temple/) - They're finally here -- our emerging artist commissions produced for Vancouver's 125th anniversary, collectively titled Ill Repute. This isn't your expected kind of Vancouver history project. Five artists or artist-teams were given a very wide area to work in, namely to respond somehow to the dodgy, checkered 36-year history of a Vancouver institution, namely this
- [Path audiobook preview](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/path-audiobook-preview/) - Here's a preview of the audiobook version of Path, the 12-volume artists' book that we will be launching at the Pitt on Friday, May 11. We will be playing the entire audiobook until June 9: you can come in and sample it at listening stations, and read the print version. Outside of open hours, you
- [While we're taking a break](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/while-we-are-closed/) - We're in between projects now, but please watch for new (and some repeat) screenings in our window. This fall is going to be busy, with curatorial projects by Myfanwy MacLeod and Red76, a new Wrong Wave festival, long-awaited publications from last year's Rereading the Riot Act series, maybe a book by Mathew Sawyer, and What
- [Last week of Kate Armstrong: PATH](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/last-week-of-kate-armstrong-path/) - This is the last week of our presentation of Kate Armstrong's generative bookwork, Path, at the Pitt. The last day is Saturday, June 9, but the book can be purchased at any time, or you can listen to the Path audiobook on Unit/Pitt Radio. Space Video by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett will continue to
- [Thanks to everyone for a great event](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thanks-to-everyone-for-a-great-event/) - With the kind assistance of our neighbours at the Rennie Collection and event sponsors Whistler Water and Carlsberg Breweries, the Francesco Vezzoli film night on May 25 earned almost three thousand dollars. The event was sold out, and the nice weather was perfect for extending the party to the roof of the Wing Sang Building.
- [Congratulations to Nicole Ondre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/congratulations-to-nicole-ondre/) - Nicole Ondre, who was in a Pitt show at 221A back in 2010, has won the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver's Emerging Artist Award for 2012. Congratulations!
- [Benefit for UNIT/PITT at the Rennie Collection, Friday May 25](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/benefit-for-unitpitt-at-the-rennie-collection-friday-may-25/) - Thanks to our neighbours down the block at 51 East Pender, there's a screening and party to benefit the Pitt this Friday night. The Rennie Collection are hosting an evening of short films from Francesco Vezzoli, with the films running continuously in one of their spacious rooms, leaving room to drink and mingle in the
- [Path is now up (and online)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/path-is-now-up-and-online/) - Thanks to everyone who came to the launch of Kate Armstrong's generative bookwork Path. The installation continues until June 9; during our regular hours (noon to 5pm Wednesday to Saturday) you can browse the printed version of Path, and listen to the Path audiobook (broadcast continuously on ultra-low-power FM radio) at one of the listening
- [More from the making of Path](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/more-from-the-making-of-path/) - Here's an advance look at all twelve volumes and 7000-plus pages of Path by Kate Armstrong. Each set is produced by hand at Publication Studio Vancouver. See it, and hear the audiobook version, at UNIT/PITT on Friday, May 11 at 8pm (or during regular hours until June 9).
- [Reminder - SETUP #2 Release Party tonight!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/reminder-setup-2-release-party-tonight/) - 7pm tonight at the Pitt, SETUP #2 Release Party. Freshly made copies of the second issue of this unique art magazine, with contributions from Eli Bornowsky, Susanna Browne, Matthew Higgs, Genesis Mohanraj, Lee Plested, Reto Pulfer, Judy Radul, and Sean Weisgerber, will be on sale. SETUP #1, released last year, was a great issue and
- [Just announced - SETUP Magazine launch party, May 3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/just-announced-setup-magazine-launch-party-may-3/) - Join us on Thursday, May 3 from 7 to 10 pm for the launch of SETUP Volume 1, Issue 2. Issue 2 features contributions by Arabella Campbell, Sean Weisgerber, Eli Bornowsky, Genesis Mohanraj, Matthew Higgs, Susanna Browne, Judy Radul, Reto Pulfer, and Lee Plested.
- [Research + Presentation Centre opens](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/research-presentation-centre-opens/) - Research + Presentation Centre opens tonight at 15 E Pender St. Rather than an exhibition, this is a working installation for use by the public: these selections from the personal libraries of participants are both traces of the origins of artistic and scholarly inquiry, and opportunities for further exploration by the public. Opening is at
- [Saturday, March 17: More No Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/saturday-march-17-more-no-show/) - March 17 marks the second in a series of three musical performances anticipating the opening of Research + Presentation Center on April 5. The night will include performances by Weed, Suldren, and Web Sheriff. An exciting night of rock bands awaits! Suggested donation: $5 Refreshments and pretzels will be available.
- [No Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/no-show/) - If you go to 15 East Pender right now, and look at our sign, you will see that it says NO SHOW. That's because the gallery is currently taking a break in its exhibition programming. However, that doesn't mean there is nothing going on. UNIT/PITT Radio is still broadcasting, and we will continue to add
- [Chris von Szombathy at Catalog](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/chris-von-szombathy/) - Last June, UNIT/PITT presented a solo exhibition by Chris von Szombathy, accompanied by a book that we co-published with Publication Studio Vancouver. Chris is part of an upcoming two-person show (opening February 9) at Catalog Gallery, just a short hop north from the Pitt (and a few doors east of one of our former locations).
- [leannej & my name is scot continue to read back to the city](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/leannej-my-name-is-scot-continue-to-read-back-to-the-city/) - Last year's Rereading The Riot Act series produced some great work, including performances at The Waldorf on the night of the Stanley Cup Riot. The program that night included a film by my name is scot and a performance by leannej that was later adapted as a book, published last summer. These two artists have
- [Remember Wrong Wave?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/remember-wrong-wave/) - Not that long ago -- back in September -- the Pitt presented Wrong Wave, a festival of art bands and music by artists, curated by The Music Appreciation Society. We're happy to see some of the people who performed in that festival are doing other great things: Myths: The Golden Dawn - later this month,
- [The Canadian Romantic - sneak preview](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/the-canadian-romantic-sneak-preview/) - Here are a couple of previews of The Canadian Romantic, coming to Vancouver on Friday, January 13 for one evening at the Dunlevy Snackbar. (Tickets $25 in advance -- buy here!) First, here is one of the pages from the book we're co-publishing with Publication Studio Vancouver, and launching at the performance and dinner on
- [An Evening With The Canadian Romantic - tickets now on sale](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/an-evening-with-the-canadian-romantic-tickets-now-on-sale/) - Buy tickets online: http://www.publicationstudio.biz/events/canadian-romantic Looking for a surprise for that special someone? Why not pick up tickets for two to the Vancouver appearance of The Canadian Romantic on January 13 -- dinner, two sets of music and performance, and the launch of a new book, at the Dunlevy Snackbar. Space is limited, so get your
- [Patrick Cruz artist talk and publication launch Saturday, 2pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/patrick-cruz-artist-talk-and-publication-launch-saturday-2pm/) - Join us for an artist talk by Patrick Cruz and the launch of a publication accompanying his installation Yin Yang Temple, on Saturday December 17 at 2pm at UNIT/PITT Projects, 15 East Pender Street, Vancouver. Patrick Cruz's installation Yin Yang Temple was the first commission launched in UNIT/PITT's series Ill Repute. Originally created in October
- [Saturday, December 17: celebrate the end of 2011 with us](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/saturday-december-17-celebrate-the-end-of-2011-with-us/) - Drop by 15 E Pender between noon and 5 pm on Saturday, December 17, and join us in ending the 2011 programming year. Since April 2011, when we moved in to 15 East Pender Street, we have shown about a dozen exhibitions and other types of projects. That's a busy schedule for any gallery, let
- [More Ill Repute this weekend: opening Saturday, talk Sunday](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/more-ill-repute-this-weekend-opening-satuday-talk-sunday/) - Sxwchálten (Dustin Rivers): Vancouver Can’t Argue With The Dead opens Saturday December 10, 8pm Ek Rzepka artist talk Sunday December 11, 2pm This weekend, UNIT/PITT's Ill Repute series of emerging artist commissions continues with two events: the launch of Vancouver Can't Argue With the Dead by Sxwchálten (Dustin Rivers) on Saturday, December 10 at 8pm;
- [Launching Saturday, Dec 10 - Vancouver Can't Argue With the Dead](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/launching-saturday-dec-10-vancouver-cant-argue-with-the-dead/) - Continuing the breakneck pace of programming this year, the Ill Repute series continues with Vancouver Can't Argue With the Dead by Sxwchálten (Dustin Rivers). This project includes video on the window monitor, a publication, and photo-based work in the gallery (which already houses Patrick Cruz's Yin Yang Temple and Chun Hua Catherine Dong & Ek Rzepka's
- [Ministry of Casual Living moving, changing](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/ministry-of-casual-living-moving-changing/) - Back in 2010, when the Pitt had an office but no permanent gallery, we received a very nice postcard from the Ministry of Casual Living in Victoria, inviting us to bring a show there. What resulted was Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again and the book of the same title (the first of many Pitt/Publication Studio
- [This is the shit!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/this-is-the-shit/) - Here it is, tonight! The amazing We Give A Shit Because We Care (part of the series Ill Repute) launches tonight, Friday December 2, with a sure-to-amaze assortment of video, audio, sculptural and illustrated shit. And you can take it home, in the form of freshly-printed books. They're full of shit, but you'll love them
- [Thanks for the shout-outs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/thanks-for-the-shout-outs/) - Thanks to Reid Shier and Michael Turner for mentions of the Pitt and Pitt director Keith Higgins in their discussion of the role and evolution of artist-run centres in Vancouver. You can read the article by picking up the current issue of Fillip, or read it online here.
- [Buy books, support the Pitt, support artists' publishing](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/buy-books-support-the-pitt-support-artists-publishing/) - Looking for a small gift for someone? You can support contemporary art in Vancouver and spread some culture by buying one or more of our Pitt publications, made one-at-a-time by Publication Studio Vancouver. How about: Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again, a book of full-size reproductions of exhibition posters, gig posters and ephemera from 1979-1984, containing
- [More Ill Repute: it's only natural](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/more-ill-repute-its-only-natural/) - Our series of artist commissions riffing on the wrong side of history, Ill Repute, is going to wrap up in the next month with a frenzy of activity. First, look for the launch of We Give A Shit Because We Care on Friday, December 2nd. This is another project drawing on the social networks that
- [In our windows](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/in-our-windows/) - Even when we're closed, there's still something to look at, every evening from 8 to 11pm. Right now, it's a playlist put together for Patrick Cruz's installation Yin Yang Temple (you can also see the installation part of this project at night if you peek through the bars around our doors). In the coming weeks,
- [Wil George artist talk Sunday November 13, 2pm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wil-george-artist-talk-sunday-november-13-2pm/) - Here's a nice image: Wil George and series co-curator Cease Wyss singing a welcoming song at Wil's book launch for Survival In Its Many Shapes, last Saturday at the Pitt. It was a great day, complete with bannock and tea brewed with freshly-picked herbs, a song, and readings from Wil's book (available online soon, but
- [UNIT/PITT Radio Online](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/unitpitt-radio-online/) - Thanks to everyone who came out for Wil George's book launch today, and especially to Wil for reading from his work and to Cease Wyss who not only curated this part of the Ill Repute series but also made the tea (from freshly picked herbs!) and bannock for this afternoon's event. We'll be putting video
- [Wil George book launch Saturday](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/wil-george-book-launch-saturday/) - Here it is -- the very first copy of Survival In Its Many Shapes by Wil George. Thanks to Wil and curator Cease Wyss for bringing this project to us. We'll be launching the book tomorrow -- Saturday, November 5 -- between 2 and 5 pm. Come by for tea, bannock, and poems. There will
- [Ill Repute: building on itself](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/ill-repute-building-on-itself/) - Last weekend we opened the first project in our Ill Repute series, Yin Yang Temple by Patrick Cruz. On Saturday, November 5 (at 2 in the afternoon) we'll follow with the second project, Survival in Its Many Shapes by Wil George. By early December, we will have five commissions by emerging artists running in various
- [Just to be clear](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/just-to-be-clear/) - UNIT/PITT is not part of the anonymous group that has put together a "we don't back the juiceman" blog on tumblr. It is true that the issues of affordable space and the freedom to produce and present culture in the city are serious, and demand more serious treatment than they are getting. In repeatedly capitulating
- [Launch of Yin Yang Temple](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/launch-of-yin-yang-temple/) - Thanks to Patrick Cruz, thanks to the people who contributed to his project (playlists by Andrea Lukic, Joshua Bartholomew, John Anderson, Heidi Nagtegaal, Francis Cruz, and Genesis Mohanraj; written contributions by Charlie Satterlee and Jabari Jordan-Walker will be in the book that we'll be publishing some time in November), and thanks to everyone who came
- [NY Art Book Fair](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/ny-art-book-fair/) - Through our partnership with Publication Studio Vancouver, UNIT/PITT's publications from the past year-and-a-bit are going to be at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend. So, if you're within easy travel distance of PS1 in Queens, NY from September 30 to October 2, come by the Publication Studio Vancouver table (PS Vancouver is sharing
- [Mathew Sawyer opening for SWARM 12, Friday Sept 9](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/mathew-sawyer-opening-for-swarm-12-friday-sept-9/) - If you haven't looked at the full schedule for SWARM 12, check it out. Thursday, September 8 and Friday September 9 are going to be packed with events around Vancouver. UNIT/PITT will be opening a show by UK artist Mathew Sawyer on Friday the 9th, and he'll be in Vancouver for a week or so
- [End of summer](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/end-of-summer/) - In two more days Publication Studio Vancouver's storefront residency at UNIT/PITT ends. It's been a good summer, one where we launched a new series of Pitt publications and participated in PS Vancouver's launch of an additional six or seven new titles. The reason we say "six or seven" is because new books are still in
- [PS Vancouver Re-bound party at Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/ps-vancouver-re-bound-party-at-pitt/) - A surprisingly intense afternoon of old books being made into new, on Saturday August 6. Here's a sampling: A treasured, well-worn and notated dictionary, re-bound in three volumes with red covers, iridescent end papers, and white spine and cover stamps. Covers (new, and the original one tucked inside): Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose
- [15 East Pender Street, Vancouver](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/15-east-pender-street-vancouver/) - If you haven't seen any of the projects we've been showing since April, you probably aren't acquainted with our current project space, at 15 East Pender St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We're currently showing Chris von Szombathy's excellent Esophagus Now, which you can see up close from noon to 5pm, Wednesday through Saturday until July
- [Rolling Stones Trilogy print edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/rolling-stones-trilogy-print-edition/) - Just a reminder that Michael Turner's print edition from The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera, In Three Acts, At Once is still available at the original price, but maybe not for much longer. The edition includes the text panels from the installation, the book Free Concert, and its critical companion volume, Rock Lore. The

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- [Atlantean Timepiece](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/atlantean-timepiece/) - Atlantean Timepiece by Kevin Murphy is a compendium of research and imagery accompanying the artist's project of the same name for Unit/Pitt's 2013 series What Future. In the early 21st century in Vancouver, anxieties about changing climate and rising ocean levels have a counterpoint in the water-orientation and reflective surfaces of luxury condominiums built on
- [Survival In Its Many Shapes](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/survival-in-its-many-shapes/) - Survival In Its Many Shapes is a collection of poetry by Vancouver artist Wil George. The book accompanied George's performance and talk by the same name in the series Ill Repute. This project was also accompanied by a poster/broadsheet which can be viewed online. Softcover 46 pages ISBN: 9780986709999 SOLD OUT
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- [Kara Stanton: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/kara-stanton-la-commune-2021/) - How does a city get made—and remade, and deconstructed, and reconstructed? In learning about the Paris Commune through the La Commune 2021 Free School, what seized my imagination was the workers’ own seizure of the city; their intent to occupy Paris in a new way, and in so doing, make the city mean something new.
- [Rhys Edwards: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/rhys-edwards-la-commune-2021/) - During the Parisian Commune, Gustave Courbet led the Federation of Artists. They called for a Communal Luxury in art-making. But Courbet himself did not produce any images of the Commune. Herein lies the poetic fissure: the gulf between what it is possible to represent, and what it is not. Like the Commune, painting is an
- [Emily Guerrero: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/emily-guerrero-la-commune-2021/) - Harm reduction, mothering, abolition every day 1 As the La Commune 2021 Free School has unspooled over this spring, I have been thinking through the lessons and reverberations between then and now, the Paris of there and the here, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ peoples. In my
- [Alysha Seriani: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/alysha-seriani-la-commune-2021/) - speculative evidence for a children's autonomous zone We met in their elementary school gym, the kind with a stage and curtains built into it like a closet — the proscenium facing the basketball hoop. Division One, or DO as we’ll call them, welcomed us with folded arms and hungry questions. “This isn’t a game,” DO
- [Stephanie Gagne: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/stephanie-gagne-la-commune-2021/) - Click here to view on Vimeo Bio: Stephanie Gagne is a Vancouver-based visual artist, with a BFA from Emily Carr University, and an MFA from Simon Fraser University. Her interests include popular culture, neighbourhoods, and childhood nostalgia. Stephanie's interdisciplinary projects often involve sculpture, photography, and video. Stephanie currently works as a teaching assistant in media
- [Ryan Ermacora: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/ryan-ermacora-la-commune-2021/) - Click here to view on Vimeo Bio: Ryan Ermacora is an award-winning filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. His work investigates the visible and invisible ways in which humans have engraved themselves into natural spaces and is informed by an interest in avant-garde depictions of landscape and labour. His style is defined by a self-reflexive and
- [Pippa Lattey: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/pippa-lattey-la-commune-2021/) - This action is my response to the toppling of the Vendôme Column. The 44 metre tall monument was dismantled during the Paris Commune. Photographs from the time show scaffolding, cables, and a large mound of dirt placed to cushion the column when it fell. These records of construction and destruction remind me of iconic photos
- [Mary Rusak: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/mary-rusak-la-commune-2021/) - Bio: Mary Rusak is a photographer and printmaker currently based out of Vancouver, BC. Her practice consists primarily of analog and alternative techniques including methods like cyanotypes and anthotypes. In 2014, Mary completed a certificate program at the Haliburton School of Art and Design which focused on drawing and painting. Following this, in 2020 she
- [Ada Dragomir: LA COMMUNE 2021](https://www.unitpitt.ca/ada-dragomir-la-commune-2021/) - Part performance, part playing with lego, part engineered life-cycle of a monument, and part poem, the brick in question (2021) is a work which is and is not about right now, and is and is not about the Paris Commune. It was conceived by a good and diligent student but executed by a tardy truant.
- [Juan Cisneros Neumann: It Was Something and Then It Became Something Else](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/juan-cisneros-neumann-it-was-something-and-then-it-became-something-else/) - Opening 7pm, Friday January 27 “It Was Something and Then It Became Something Else” is the first solo exhibition by Juan Cisneros Neumann. In this installation, Cisneros combines notions of identity and heritage, colonialism and power by filling the gallery walls with drawing made with chillies and divided by ethnic fabrics. Over the course of
- [People](https://www.unitpitt.ca/about/people/) - Board of Directors: Aileen Bahmanipour (Incoming Secretary), Sara Ellis, Jennifer Huang, Michael C.K. Ma, Madison Mayhew, Sunny Nestler (Chair), Roxanne Panchasi, Terra Poirier (Outgoing Secretary), James Spetifore, Eleanor Wearing (Treasurer), Alena Webber (Vice Chair). Executive Director: Brit Bachmann
- [Ongoing Commitment to Anti-Racism](https://www.unitpitt.ca/about/ongoing-commitment/) - For our full statement issued on June 17, 2020, click here. As the Board and Staff of UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, we unequivocally support Black, Indigenous and people of colour communities — including trans, Two-Spirit, queer and disabled people — in demanding justice for white supremacy-driven murders, and defunding police. We would
- [La Fête Permanente](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/la-fete-permanente/) - Didier Morelli's La Fête Permanente borrows the name of Robert Filliou and George Brecht's Eternal Network to describe his collaboration with the members of Britannia High School's Outreach Alternative Program in Vancouver. Over several weeks, the students evolved a collective practice exploring the formal and social implications of collective action in space. The project was
- [Something Else](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/something-else/) - Juan Cisneros Neumann's book Something Else skewers the North's idea of Mexican culture and also examines the underpinnings of his solo exhibition It Was Something and Then it Became Something Else, which was shown at UNIT/PITT in February and March of 2017. ISBN 9781927394328 $10 50 pages [wp_cart:Something Else:price:10.00:shipping:5.00:end]
- [Retail Residency: Agony Klub](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/retail-residency-agony-klub/) - Photo by Colin Brattey for Discorder Magazine, Issue 397, March 2018. October–November 2019, Agony Klub (KC Wei) will have a display at 8EAST as part of UNIT/PITT's Retail Residency series. All AK releases—which include magazines, cassettes, LPs, and music essays—will be sold during daytime hours. As part of the Retail Residency, Agony Klub will be
- [Unstable Ground](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/unstable-ground/) - UNIT/PITT Projects Unstable Ground is the work of six artists - Robin Cameron, Sarah Ciurysek, Kate Davis, Emily Jones, Dan Siney and artist-curator Andrea Pinheiro - addressing notions of instability through printed material. The book accompanied an exhibition in June 2011 at Vancouver's UNIT/PITT Projects. Through interviews, excerpts from
- [Esophagus Now](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/esophagus-now/) - Chris von Szombathy Published in conjunction with Szombathy's exhibition, Esophagus Now is a personal, synaesthesiac journey through highly individual meanings attached to common objects -- in this case, a burger, coke and hot dog - linked through cathexis to mystical asceticism, Archie comics, and a Kraftwerk discography. Illustrated with the author's own paintings. softcover 60
- [Re-Reading the Riot Act: Cycles One through Five](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/re-reading-the-riot-act-cycles-one-through-five/) - leannej This book is an extension of a performance by leannej, originally presented at the Waldorf Hotel on the night of Vancouver's 2011 Stanley Cup Riot. Five stories intertwine to present an account of protest and resistance on a personal, as well as historic scale. Co-published with UNIT/PITT
- [The Apology](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/the-apology/) - Chris Bose's book The Apology juxtaposes the artist's personal writing with excerpts from the Indian act and passages from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's parliamentary apology to survivors of the Residential Schools system, a system design to eliminate indigenous culture and language in Canada. The publication accompanies Bose's commissioned
- [In Search of Lost Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/in-search-of-lost-time/) - In Search of Lost Time is a three-volume set in a durable transparent case, made to accompany the exhibition Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time, curated by Myfanwy MacLeod, in September 2012. It consists of an amply illustrated critical text by the curator, and two artists' books. ISBN 9781927394113 $50 3
- [Thumbs Up! audio collection on USB thumb drive](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/thumbs-up-audio-collection-on-usb-thumb-drive/) - $20 limited edition ISBN: 9781927394182 The Power2012 radio station and Thumbs Up! used-music store hosted at the Pitt as part of Red76's project This Is An (A) Front generated hours of music, audio art, and discussion, You can own a customized USB drive bearing the Unit/Pitt and Thumbs Up! logos, containing an array of audio
- [A Perfect Day](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/a-perfect-day/) - Susanna Browne's A Perfect Day is a document of the artist's project for Unit/Pitt's 2013 series What Future. The early-20th-century parlour song A Perfect Day was transmitted into space, using facilities provided by a satellite communications company, on February 17, 2013. The piece itself will persist until the signal eventually becomes undetectably faint, a vast
- [Sorry I'm Not Sorry](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/sorry-im-not-sorry/) - Sorry I'm Not Sorry, in the words of artist Robert Chaplin, is a collection of "satirical Canadiana, doggerel, questions, memories & fleeting notions". Sometimes inflammatory, sometimes playful, the book was produced for the opening of Robert Chaplin: About Time, an exhibition which surveyed twenty years of drawing, painting, and sculpture. A separate critical volume by
- [A Dossier Against Cynicism: Two Essays for Robert Chaplin](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/a-dossier-against-cynicism-two-essays-for-robert-chaplin/) - A Dossier Against Cynicism: Two Essays for Robert Chaplin is a critical volume by Jerry Zaslove, accompanying the exhibition Robert Chaplin: About Time and the artist's book Sorry I'm Not Sorry. In two incisive essays, Zaslove explores the relationship between culture and bureaucracy, between artists and institutions, and between cynical and anti-cynical culture. ISBN: 9781927394212
- [Orphans and Dogs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/orphans-and-dogs/) - Orphans and Dogs contains unfiltered and unapologetic writing, photographic compositions, and drawings by Elizabeth Fischer, and her translation of Humorom by Attila Balogh, a Hungarian Roma poet. Throughout these stories, fragments, and poems, Fischer takes a personal, honest, and unsensationalized approach to experiences and observations of poverty, exile, and alienation. This book was originally published to
- [Lil Comedy at 8EAST](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/lil-comedy-at-8east/) - Lil Comedy comes to Chinatown! Hosted by Andrea Jin, Alistair Ogden and An-Te Chu. Saturday, September 21 — Aaron Charles Read, Danika Thibault, An-Te Chu, Rachael Schaefer, Ryan Williams. Hosted by Alistair Ogden. Friday, October 18 — Emma Cooper, Bradley Fung, Andrea Jin, Alistair Ogden. Hosted by An-Te Chu. Friday, November 15 — An-Te Chu,
- [New Work by Barrie Jones & All the Arms around You: Adrienne Lai](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/new-work-by-barrie-jones-all-the-arms-around-you-adrienne-lau/) - Includes the essay Disclosing Methods of Production: The Work of Adrienne Lai and Barrie Jones by Dan Starling. softcover 24 pages 8.5" x 5.5" SOLD OUT
- [Mind of a City](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/judy-cheung-mind-of-a-city/) - Judy Cheung With writing by Joni Low and Sarah Hamilton. booklet 14 pages 5.5" x 8.5" ISBN 978-0-9685318-4-6 SOLD OUT
- [Matter Work](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/matter-work/) - Nicole Ondre & Alainnah Whachell Curated by Jen Aitken, Mike Stupin and Vanessa Disler Excerpts from a conversation between the artists and curators. pamphlet 4.5" x 6" SOLD OUT
- [Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/exhibition-to-be-destroyed-again/) - Selections from the Unit/Pitt archive, 1979-1984 Selected and edited by Rita O'Grady & Keith Higgins This idiosyncratic but handsome volume presents a collection of gig posters, exhibition posters and other ephemera from the wild fusion of punk rock, new art, performance and political activism that collided in the Helen Pitt/Unit Pitt/P.I.G. gallery from 1979 to
- [Haptic](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/haptic-2/) - Tegan Moore, Elspeth Pratt, Lorna Brown A visual, written and tactile document of the work and process of two Vancouver sculptors, Tegan Moore and Elspeth Pratt, with a complex and provocative written contribution by Lorna Brown. Book design by Working Format. Includes colour plates in a glassine envelope, paper and plastic section dividers, and innovative
- [Reoccurrence: serial motifs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/reoccurence/) - Emmy Lee Stephanie Rebick Rebecca Brewer Chrystal Fisher Allison Tweedie This publication accompanied the 2010 exhibition Reoccurrence: Serial Motifs. Containing several high-quality colour plates, the volume includes an insightful critical essay by curators Emmy Lee and Stephanie Rebick, and a dialogue between the curators and artists Rebecca Brewer, Chrystal
- [Free Concert](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/free-concert/) - Michael Turner Published in accompaniment to his project titled The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera in Three Acts, at Once, Michael Turner's new book, Free Concert, re-presents the words spoken from the stage at the Altamont concert. softcover 56 pages ISBN 9780986709920 $15 SOLD OUT
- [The Rolling Stones Trilogy Print Edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/the-rolling-stones-trilogy-print-edition/) - Michael Turner This limited print edition is a re-interpretation by Michael Turner of three films about the Rolling Stones -Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter and Cocksucker Blues - as acts in a Wagnerian epic. Three text panels, as presented in the installation of the same name at the Waldorf Hotel and UNIT/PITT Projects in April 2011,
- [Public Access: 1999 & Beyond (VHS edition)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/public-access-1999-beyond-vhs-edition/) - Curated by Weekend Leisure The Public Access: 1999 & Beyond VHS edition provides collectors with an attractively packaged media artifact, containing all of the video from the original project (which can be viewed online at publicaccess.helenpittgallery.org), bonus trailers and extras, AND the Public Access: 1999 & Beyond book, which is a valuable addition to any
- [Public Access: 1999 & Beyond](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/public-access-1999-beyond/) - Curated by Weekend Leisure Public Access: 1999 & Beyond documents an artists' television project. Employing an overarching theme of "science fiction", the five participants (Angus Ferguson, Kaitlin Fontana & Nicole Passmore, Emmet Hall, Nicolas Sassoon and Hank Bull & Patrick Ready) were asked to produce works that considered the do-it-yourself aesthetic and lack of resources
- [Yin Yang Temple](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/yin-yang-temple/) - Yin Yang Temple by Patrick Cruz accompanied the artist's installation, presented as part of the 2011 series Ill Repute, and features contributions by the collaborators who contributed to the work, simultaneously a shrine, an extension of the artist's studio, and a crowdsourced celebration of music and DIY creativity.
- [We Give A Shit Because We Care (TM)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/we-give-a-shit-because-we-care-tm/) - We Give A Shit Because We Care™ (Volume 1 of An Encyclopedic Introduction to the Fulfilling Science of Excrement) Project curated by Catherine Chun Hua Dong and Ek Rzepka Contributors: Zarah Ackerman, Golboo Amani, Lesley Anderson, Holly Armishaw (with Molly Graham), Cindy Baker, Cindy Baker & Cheli Nighttraveller & Jessica McCormack, Bruce Barber, Peter Baren,
- [The Canadian Romantic](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/the-canadian-romantic/) - By The Canadian Romantic The Canadian Romantic is a book by the artist Robert Dayton consisting of tenderly hand-drawn illustrations and musings by the artist and his alter ego. Its publication coincided with his performance An Evening with the Canadian Romantic. Softcover 5.5" x 7" ISBN:9781927394021 $20 SOLD OUT
- [Path: A Generative Bookwork in Twelve Volumes](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/path-a-generative-bookwork-in-twelve-volumes/) - Kate Armstrong Path is a 12 volume book with text generated by the physical movement of an anonymous individual living in the city of Montreal between 2005 – 2007. Each time this individual accessed the internet using public wi-fi over the course of this two year period they were tagged with a textual passage exploring
- [The Fox, bootleg edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/the-fox-bootleg-edition/) - Issues one, two, and three of the short-lived New York-based art magazine The Fox are available in bootleg, on-demand format. The Fox was a short-lived critical journal and magazine published in New York in 1975 and 1976 by the American chapter of British conceptual art group Art & Language; only three issues were ever published.
- [Radio](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/) - UNIT/PITT Radio is on hiatus, but not forever! UNIT/PITT Radio is a very-low-power radio station broadcasting from various locations at various times. Between 2011-2015, you could pick it up in the immediate vicinity of UNIT/PITT on 89.7 FM. You can also listen to our archive of broadcasts, below. We broadcasted a variety of recordings from
- [Current and upcoming](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/) - Summer/Fall 2019 announcements soon!
- [Public Access: 1999 & Beyond: Angus Ferguson, Emmett Hall, Nicolas Sassoon, Nicole Passmore and Kaitlin Fontana, Hank Bull and Patrick Ready | Curated by Weekend Leisure](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/public-access-curated-by-weekend-leisure/) - Since 2009, Weekend Leisure has been producing a public access television programme, The Weekend Leisure Network, which airs locally in Vancouver on Novus Network Channel 4. Each episode consists of segments that vary in style and content, from studio karaoke performances to improvised non-sequiturs, and are often the result of various collaborations with individuals in
- [8EAST Launch](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/8east-launch/) - Doors at 8pm 8:30: Territorial welcome by Audrey Siegl from the Musqueam First Nation The Opening will include: - 43 Years of Unruly Criticality: Projected selections from the UNIT/PITT Archives - Improvised music with 8EAST Musician partners Peggy Lee (cello), Dylan van der Schyff, Kenton Loewen (drums), JP Carter (trumpet), Torsten Muller (bass), and Lisa
- [UNIT/PITT Society 2018 Annual General Meeting](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/unit-pitt-society-2018-annual-general-meeting/) - Notice of Meeting The 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Unit/Pitt Society for Art and Critical Awareness will be held on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 7pm at 8EAST, 8 East Pender Street, Vancouver BC V6A 1T1 Notice is also given of a Special Resolution to amend the Society's bylaws in compliance with new legislation,
- [The Lumpen-Headache](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/the-lumpen-headache/) - On Saturday, November 16, 2013, Arnaud Desjardin led a group reading of The Lumpen-Headache, a partial transcript of a meeting of the editorial collective of The Fox. The article, originally published in the third and final issue of the magazine in 1976, delineates issues and conflicts which remain live today. The readers were: Arnaud Desjardin,
- [Collective Reckoning. Session One](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/collective-reckoning-session-one/) - 1pm - 4pm refreshments and snacks provided Limited space for womxn and non-binary identified folks, RSVP EARLY to info@artsassembly.ca COLLECTIVE RECKONING is a joint project between UNIT/PITT and ARTS ASSEMBLY in the wake of socially driven calls to address sexual harassment, violence and trauma that disproportionately impacts womxn identified and non-binary folks. Through a series
- [Sharona Franklin: The Hermaphroditic Freedom of the Snail](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/matthew-shields-papa-was-a-garbage-man/sharona-franklin-the-hermaphroditic-freedom-of-the-snail/) - Biopharma, Pythagorean Occultism, and Patriarchy Wednesday, December 13, 7:30 pm “the snail represents male and female energy, the Pythagorean spiral of life, and taking it all at your own pace.” Sharona Franklin (Rental Bod, 2016) Sharona Franklin's talk will be a homage to Pythagoras, bridging female emancipation, historical mythos of the snail and biopharmalogical constellations.
- [T.A.Z.](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/t-a-z/) - Library of Outsider Research launch party, Friday, July 8, 7pm In July and August 2016, UNIT/PITT is suspending its exhibition program but remaining open to the public. A selection of screenings, events, services and activities will occupy the space during this prolonged interstitial period. The first element of T.A.Z. is the Rock N Roll Pleasure
- [Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/) - Curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte. Spaces of Contestation is a series of talks, performances, public actions, publications, and an exhibition that examines the collective walk/protest/public demonstration as both a performance and a social formation. The core of the project is in four collaborations between artists and community organizations, that initiate community engagement and democratic use of
- [2017 Annual General Meeting of the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/2017-annual-general-meeting-of-the-unitpitt-society-for-art-and-critical-awareness/) - Notice of Meeting The Annual General Meeting of the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, which operates UNIT/PITT Projects, will take place at 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver, on Tuesday August 29th at 7pm. Attendance is open to all. Members in good standing may vote on matters concerning the activities of the Society, and
- [Kate Armstrong: Path](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/kate-armstrong-path/) - Audiobook version of Path g/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/PATH_Volume1.mp3"][/audio] Path is a 12 volume book containing text generated by the physical movement of an anonymous individual living in the city of Montreal between 2005 – 2007. Each time this individual accessed the internet using public wi-fi over the course of this two year period they were tagged with a textual
- [A Perfect Day](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/a-perfect-day/) - In February 2013, Susanna Browne broadcast this version of the early-20th-century song A Perfect Day into deep space, using the facilities of a satellite communications company in Florida. From February 22 until April 27, we broadcast the recording locally on Unit/Pitt Radio. Susanna Browne: A Perfect Day was part of the commissioning series What Future,
- [An Exact Vertigo talks](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/an-exact-vertigo-talks/) - These talks were originally presented as part of the project An Exact Vertigo. Jen Weih, This is not a talk about horses, March 10, 2015 Ben Kamino, March 11, 2015 Aryo Khakpour from The Biting School, a Dance/Theatre company talks about Howard Barker's theatre of catastrophe, meaningless complexity, Hamlet, but not Deleuze, on the new,
- [Ithaca Smith: On Blue in Green](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/ithaca-smith-on-blue-in-green/) - Wednesday, September 2014, 7pm Artist talk by Ithaca Smith about her collaborative video project with Andrew Smith, Blue and Green, based on the Miles Davis recording of the same name. Accompanied the exhibition The Monochrome Shop.
- [Supporting membership](https://www.unitpitt.ca/about/membership/supporting-membership/) - $50 Supporting Membership: receive a free drink at openings and other special events with presentation of membership card; invitations to all openings and events; voting rights at our Annual General Meeting; invitation to a complimentary artist’s/curator’s tour of the current exhibition, when available all of the above, plus your choice of one of a selection
- [Regular membership](https://www.unitpitt.ca/about/membership/regular-membership/) - $20 Regular Membership: receive a free drink at openings and other special events with presentation of membership card; invitations to all openings and events; voting rights at our Annual General Meeting; invitation to a complimentary artist’s/curator’s tour of the current exhibition, when available.
- [Student membership](https://www.unitpitt.ca/about/membership/student-membership/) - $10 Student/Low Income Membership: receive a free drink at openings and other special events with presentation of membership card; invitations to all openings and events; voting rights at our Annual General Meeting; invitation to a complimentary artist’s/curator’s tour of the current exhibition, when available. Join the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness to earn
- [Membership](https://www.unitpitt.ca/about/membership/) - UNIT/PITT Projects is operated by the Unit Pitt Society For Art And Critical Awareness. To become a member, send your name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address along with a money order or cheque in the amount of $20 made out to Unit Pitt Society for Art & Critical Awareness 236 E. Pender St.,
- [Power2012](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/power2012/) - In conjunction with Red76: THIS IS AN (A) FRONT, UNIT/PITT hosted Power2012, an internet radio station, in October, November, and December of 2012. Music, lectures, readings, discussions, audio collages, and "hijacked conversations" were all part of the programming, which was also broadcast on ultra-low-power FM in the vicinity of 15 E Pender, and through speakers
- [Joseph Staples: Garden of Paradise](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/joseph-staples-garden-of-paradise/) - Opening Reception: Sept 9th at 7:30 PM, as part of SWARM 17 Garden of Paradise is comprised of six video loops, each consisting of two GIFs juxtaposed onto each other to form an intersection of movement, the animations finding alignment momentarily before drifting out of sync again. For this body of work, two material sources
- [Musik Klub 5: Culture! War Edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/musik-klub-5-culture-war-edition/) - 8pm, Friday October 21 Just in time for November's coming fire, Musik Klub returns from its dormant slumber for Season 2. This season, we'll be changing things up, with a number of themes to attempt to make some sense of current times. For this screening, we'll get in the the mud as the US scrambles
- [Musik Klub: TV Party Edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/musik-klub-tv-party-edition/) - Thursday, September 3rd, starting at 7pm Musik Klub is happy to present TV Party Edition. Join us in screening an hour-long program of live (or sometimes badly lip-synced) performances from a variety of international television music programs broadcast between 1965 & 1990. Keeping with the tone of the night, Elliot Heintzman will be playing records
- [UNSWARM](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/unswarm/) - Right after the Opening of Joseph Staples: Garden of Paradise 10pm-1am Bring the comedown to your SWARM high, and find the void between space, time & too many ten-minute conversations on materiality and the future of painting with ZEN FINGER & HAZY. $5 admission $10 admission + complimentary cocktail ZEN FINGER Unlike Gaspar, Balthasar, and
- [Cookie Johl: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/cookie-johl-paintings/)
- [Edward Withey: Group Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/edward-withey-group-show/)
- [Our Chinatown Maps 繪製我們的唐人街地圖!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/our-chinatown-maps-繪製我們的唐人街地圖/) - “Our Chinatown Maps 繪製我們的唐人街地圖!” is a week-long event that will aim to make space for storytelling and learning through mapping. Local community members' experiences, memories, struggles and anxieities will be communicated in two parts: a collective community map and individual cognitive maps. The collective interactive community map will highlight the gentrification crisis in Vancouver’s Chinatown
- [UNIT/PITT Society AGM](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/unitpitt-society-agm/) - Wednesday, August 17th, 7pm Notice is given of the Annual General Meeting of the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, on Wednesday, August 17 2016 at 7pm. The meeting will take place at UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver.
- [Asymmetry Project Skateart Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/asymmetry-project-skateart-show/) - The aSymmetry Project (www.asymmetryproject.com) connects artists and skaters from around the world to collaborate and create one of a kind works of art using skateboards as their canvas. Artists are provided with blank skateboards and are free to use any method or style to convert the decks into original works of art. Each artist is
- [Cultic Research Video Series: At War with Satan!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/cultic-research-video-series-at-war-with-satan/) - 8pm At War with Satan! is a video collection organized by Jamie Ward, looking at the infamous Satanic Panic. A textbook example of what sociologist Jeffrey S. Victor terms Rumor Panic, the period of the 1980s-1990s saw a wave of accusations of widespread Satanic activity in the US, Canada & England, fabricating the mythology of
- [Irwin Oostindie: Art and Community Reading Group #4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/irwin-oostindie-art-and-community-reading-group-4/) - Tuesday May 31, 7pm Organized by UNIT/PITT Projects Event held at 221A (221 East Georgia St, Vancouver) Reading: “The All Nations Festival and Coast Salish Cultural Sovereignty” by Khelsilem, published on the blog Liberated Yet? Everyone is welcome. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the reading ahead of the discussion. Irwin Oostindie will lead
- [Mark DeLong, Dream the Combine, M. Rattray & Eloise, Skeena Reece, prOphecy sun: Art and Parenthood](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/mark-delong-dream-the-combine-m-rattray-eloise-skeena-reece-prophecy-sun-art-and-parenthood/) - Opening Saturday, April 30, noon to 3pm Curated by Gabriel Saloman Art & Parenthood considers the social, material and aesthetic relationship that parenthood has to art-making. In spite of its enormous effect on a person’s life, in particular for those who bring a child to term, parenthood and child raising is often made invisible within
- [www.2055project.website](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/www-2055project-website/) - www.2055project.website An online exhibition space by Eli Zibin Curated by Catherine de Montreuil “Increasingly the object of an exhibition is no longer the exhibition of works of art but the exhibition of the exhibition as a work of art... ” Daniel Buren as quoted by ‘Walter Benjamin’ www.2055project.website is accumulatory, parasitic and at times haphazard;
- [Bruce Walther, Ray Tremblay and Jeff Bender: Tribal](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bruce-walther-ray-tremblay-and-jeff-bender-tribal/)
- [L'Esprit de Corps Nouveau](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lesprit-de-corps-nouveau/)
- [Lewis de Soto: Paintings of Modern Life](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lewis-de-soto-paintings-of-modern-life/)
- [Tom Hadju: Improv 8 on Nuclear Disarmament](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tom-hadju-improv-8-on-nuclear-disarmament/)
- [Performance at the Pitt: Curated by Angelika Khron](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/performance-at-the-pitt-curated-by-angelika-khron/)
- [Josie Kane: She'll Never Be The Same](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/josie-kane-shell-never-be-the-same/)
- [Gay/Lesbian Art Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gaylesbian-art-show/)
- [Pam Beley, Barb Gentle, Paul Calder, Ron Kong and Bill Rennie: Ceramic Sculpture](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/pam-beley-barb-gentle-paul-calder-ron-kong-and-bill-rennie-ceramic-sculpture/)
- [The Braineaters: I, Braineater, I, New York](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-braineaters-i-braineater-i-new-york/)
- ["Erotica" Jan 1978 - Group Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/erotica-jan-1978-group-show/)
- [Kim Dawn: 21 Sleeps and No Tomorrow Approaching the Warm](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kim-dawn-21-sleeps-and-no-tomorrow-approaching-the-warm/) - Kim Dawn 21 Sleeps and No Tomorrow Approaching the Warm March 6 - April 18 Opening Friday, March 5 @ 7pm. Special Artist Video Presentation at the Gallery, Saturday, March 20, 2pm. How can you mediate/translate sensory experience when you are disassociated from your own body? How does one connect with one's body when it
- [Iain Baxter, Bob Cain, Jim Campbell, George de Pape, Josi Fletcher, Michael Hornsby, Serena Laskin, Vaughn Neville, Jerry Pethick, George Sawchuk, Jim Thornsbury, Robin Campbell: 14 Island Artists](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bob-cain-jim-campbell-george-de-pape-josi-fletcher-michael-hornsby-serena-laskin-vaughn-neville-jerry-pethick-jim-thornsbury-robin-campbell-14-island-artists/)
- [Josie Kane, Eugene Chadbourne, David Erickson, Ralph Eppel, Don Druick, Lola MacLaughlin, Roy Green, Paul Plimley, Gordon Koch, Afra, Sharon Broccoli, Carmen Rosen Rettich, Clemens Rettich, David Granirer, Richard Foreman, Ross Barrett, Sam Salmon, Anita Perry: The Warehouse Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/josie-kane-eugene-chadbourne-david-erickson-ralph-eppel-don-druick-lola-maclaughlin-roy-green-paul-plimley-gordon-koch-afra-sharon-broccoli-carmen-rosen-rettich-clemens-rettich-david-gran/)
- [Claire Greenshaw: Are You Getting Smart With Me?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/claire-greenshaw-are-you-getting-smart-with-me/) - Claire Greenshaw is a Canadian artist currently based in Scotland. She has exhibited throughout Canada, in the UK and Sweden at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, The Khyber Artist Run Centre, Halifax, Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery, Halifax and the Neon Gallery, Sweden. She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art
- [Anakana Schofield and Jeremy Isao Speier: Rereading The Riot Act, And On -- Vancouver 2011](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/anakana-schofield-and-jeremy-isao-speier-rereading-the-riot-act-2011-and-on/) - Publication launch, 8pm, International Workers' Day 2013 Rereading The Riot Act, And On -- Vancouver 2011 is an artist's book by author/curator Anakana Schofield and artist Jeremy Isao Speier, based on source materials compiled for Schofield's 2011 curatorial project, Rereading The Riot Act. Part scrapbook, part research diary, this new book uses the 1935 reading
- [GRAY Magazine launch event](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gray-magazine-launch-event/) - Join UNIT/PITT Projects Saturday, January 19 (2013) for GRAY Publication's first issue launch party and fundraiser. Issue one focuses on "emergence": presenting visual and text-based works from Soledad Muñoz, Jules Francisco, professor Caroline Bellios of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Alexander McQueen Savile Row. From 7 - 11PM on January 19 GRAY will be celebrating
- [What Future](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/what-future/) - Works on the subject of "the future" commissioned by Unit/Pitt from: Susanna Browne, Kevin Murphy, PJS Artist Collective (John Walkus-Greene, Skylar Stock, and Paul Lang), and Kelly Roulette. What Future is a sequel to UNIT/PITT's 2011-12 commissioning project Ill Repute. In 2011 we asked five emerging artists to create works drawing on the “wrong side
- [Wrong Wave: Art Rock Believes in Reincarnation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wrong-wave-2012/) - Curated by Research + Presentation Collective (Steffanie Ling, Amanda Jehring and Collin Feigle) This year's festival comprises four days of artist-musician collaborations and performance, integrated media, discussions, and tapes, at the Waldorf Hotel, Unit/Pitt Projects, and the Western Front. Wrong Wave: Art Rock Believes in Reincarnation revisits the tradition of art rock as an arena
- [Red76: This Is An (A) Front - A Covert Education](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/red76-this-is-an-a-front/) - How do we engage power in our day-to-day lives? Where do we encounter it? What forms might it take? Daily, from parents to teachers, lovers to friends, police to elected governmental officials we, as individuals, encounter issues relating to power and its uses from our homes to our streets and state buildings. In what ways
- [Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/shannon-oksanen-and-valerie-sonnier/) - Extended hours (until 11pm) during SWARM, Friday September 7 2012 Opening reception and book launch Friday September 14, 8pm Curated by Myfanwy MacLeod. Accompanied by a three-volume publication, In Search of Lost Time. This exhibition explores various points of intersection between the works of these two artists. Oksanen’s work draws heavily on French film. From
- [Summer Screenings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/summer-screenings-2012/) - We're mostly closed for the summer, but watch our front window. We'll be screening a different film every week. See you in September.
- [Kate Armstrong: Path](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kate-armstrong-path/) - Opening Friday, May 11, 8pm. Book available for purchase. The month-long launch of this new edition of Path is accompanied by evening showings of Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett's Space Video in the front window of 15 East Pender. Path is a 12 volume book with text generated by the physical movement of an anonymous
- [Benefit for UNIT/PITT: Francesco Vezzoli film screening at Rennie Collection](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/benefit-for-unitpitt-francesco-vezzoli-film-screening-at-rennie-collection/) - Presented at the Rennie Collection, 51 East Pender Street UNIT/PITT Projects, located at 15 East Pender Street, thanks our neighbours The Rennie Collection, located at 51 East Pender Street, for generously supporting us with the proceeds of a one-night-only screening of films by Francesco Vezzoli. Rennie Collection is pleased to present, for one night only,
- [SETUP #2 Release Party](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/setup-2-release-party/) - Thursday, May 3, 7-10 pm Unit/Pitt Projects 15 E. Pender, Vancouver Setup Volume 1, Issue 2 Featuring contributions from: Arabella Campbell Sean Weisgerber Eli Bornowsky Genesis Mohanraj Matthew Higgs Susanna Browne Judy Radul Reto Pulfer Lee Plested Setup aims to provide space, in the form of printed material, for artists and writers to disseminate their
- [Research + Presentation Centre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/presentation-centre/) - Research + Presentation Center is an experimental reading room that locates and interprets personal libraries and places them in the public realm. With an emphasis on research and its relation to practice, contributors will be showcasing a range of chosen ephemera including books, film, and sound. Contributors include local artists, writers, a musician, and a
- [No Show!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/no-show-2/) - For the month of March, the UNIT/PITT will be hosting a series of performances titled No Show. These performances are in anticipation of Research + Presentation Center, an experimental reading room opening at the gallery on April 5. March 3: Thomas Weideman, Patrick Geraghty, and Soledad Munoz. March 17: Weed and Suldren. March 31: Cloudface
- [Robert Dayton: An Evening With The Canadian Romantic](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robert-dayton-an-evening-with-the-canadian-romantic/) - Robert Dayton Junior Presents: AN EVENING WITH THE CANADIAN ROMANTIC Buy the book. Presented by UNIT/PITT at the Dunlevy Snack Bar, 433 Dunlevy Ave., Vancouver BC on Friday, January 13 2012 | Tickets ($25, performance plus dinner; $40, performance plus dinner plus book) in advance, available at UNIT/PITT(15 E. Pender St.), READ Books (at Emily
- [Ill Repute](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ill-repute/) - To commemorate Vancouver's 125th anniversary, emerging artists produced commissioned works drawing on the wrong side of history, using the lens of the 36-year existence of the Helen Pitt - Unit/Pitt - Pitt International Galleries. Curated by Cease Wyss and Keith Higgins. The project includes commissioned works by: Chris Bose, Chunhua Catherine Dong & Ek Rzepka,
- [Out Of Context: 36 Artists Books From Emily Carr University](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/out-of-context/) - 36 Artists' Books from Emily Carr University Curated by Patrik Andersson This exhibition strives to be out of context. This is not an easy task when faced with the fact that all the art work included has been chosen from a very specific context. Twelve graduate students in the Visual Art and Media stream of
- [The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera in Three Acts, at Once: Michael Turner](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-rolling-stones-trilogy-an-inadvertent-opera-in-three-acts-michael-turner/) - The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera in Three Acts, At Once is a curatorial project by Michael Turner, co-presented by UNIT/PITT Projects and the Waldorf Hotel. The installation features three films starring the musical group the Rolling Stones (released between 1968 and 1972), reimagined as acts in an opera. Turner has written synopses for
- [Robin Cameron, Sarah Cuirysek, Kate Davis, Emily Jones, Dan Siney: Unstable Ground | Curated by Andrea Pinheiro](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robin-cameron-sarah-cuirysek-kate-davis-emily-jones-dan-siney-unstable-ground-curated-by-andrea-pinhiero/) - "I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me--not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression--a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration. The wondrous shock of feeling had come like the
- [Rereading The Riot Act: A Series Curated By Anakana Schofield](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rereading-the-riot-act-a-series-curated-by-anakana-schofield/) - Rereading The Riot Act is an ongoing interrogation of the historical events of April 23, 1935 -- when Mayor Gerry McGeer read the Riot Act to the relief camp protesters, their families and supporters gathered at Victory Square. This series of actions and publications intends to provoke an emotional, politicized engagement with civic space and
- [Esophagus Now: Chris von Szombathy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/esophagus-now-chris-von-szombathy/) - Chris von Szombathy's Esophagus Now combines prints, small sculptures and video in what is simultaneously a celebration and an interrogation of consumption -- and "consumption" is seen literally in many of the works here. From custom-drawn labels on soft-drink bottles, together making up the words in sentences, to immaculate reproductions of snack food -- this
- [Publication Studio summer residency](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/publication-studio-summer-residency/) - UNIT/PITT Projects welcomed Publication Studio for a storefront residency in our project space at 15 East Pender Street from July 16 to August 20, 2011. Publication Studio produced books from 12am-5pm, Wednesday through Saturday. The public was welcome to stop by anytime to bring in projects for printing and binding, browse our titles or just
- [Wrong Wave 2: Art rock is dead/Long live art rock](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wrong-wave-ii-art-rock-is-dead-long-live-art-rock/) - In 1983, UNIT/PITT presented the Wrong Wave Festival. Twenty-eight years later, we are pleased to present three nights of music by artists, or more specifically music by artists' bands. Curated by The Music Appreciation Society, the festival will consist of two nights of bands and DJs at The Waldorf Hotel (Wednesday the 14th and Thursday
- [Mathew Sawyer: There is no royal road](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mathew-sawyer/) - Opening Friday, September 9, 8pm (during SWARM) | Musical performance Friday, September 16, 9pm (part of Wrong Wave II) London-based artist Mathew Sawyer will present a series of new work in a one-month exhibition and will use the Pitt as a base for a one week residency in the city of Vancouver. The work produced
- [Luminous Books with Owl Cave](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/luminous-books/) - Luminous Books is an independent bookshop and project space, based in London, UK, specialising in second hand literature, art and cultural theory alongside a collection of artists books, with a particular interest in the relationship between art and fiction and alternative activity around the book form. The installation at UNIT/PITT is a collaboration with artist-led
- [GRAY School (1)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gray-school-1/) - GRAY School (1) proposes itself as a centre for education around creative and intellectual exchange, the contextualization of a publication as well as a referent to the formative years of pedagogy: grade school. GRAY School (1) will be a space for an exhibition, lectures and workshops while also acting as the catalyst for GRAY Publications’
- [Steven Brekelmans, Colleen Heslin, Devon Knowles, Frieda-raye Green, Ben Raymer, and Ian Robert Sandilands: I.O.U.](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/steven-brekelmans-colleen-heslin-devon-knowles-frieda-raye-green-ben-raymer-and-ian-robert-sandilands-i-o-u-sincerely-k-midas/) - I.O.U. is a curatorial project developed by Kalli Niedoba, bringing together works by Steven Brekelmans, Colleen Heslin, Devon Knowles, Ben Raymer, Ian Robert Sandilands and Frieda-raye Green. The exhibition happens in conjunction with 2013's Art Waste, part of Vancouver's annual Music Waste festival. The works selected for this exhibition have been floating together, basely tied to
- [Brad Allen, Scott Kemp, and Gregory Ligen: Whatever This Is It Won't Last Long](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/whatever-this-is-it-wont-last-long/) - Curated by Zebulon Zang Opening July 12, 2013, 8pm INT. SMALL SHOP -- DAY A light flickers intermittently above near depleted shelves that loosely grip the shop walls. “BLOWOUT SALE” signs intersperse the whiteness of the store. The few goods remaining are discreetly spread on various platforms. On the clerk’s desk a sign reads “all
- [Book launch, Lydia Kwa: sinuous](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/book-launch-lydia-kwa-sinuous/) - On Friday, October 11 at 7:30 pm Lydia Kwa launches sinuous, her newest collection of poetry here at UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver, through Turnstone Press, a Canadian literary publisher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through the mind’s eye Lydia Kwa charts the path of the stranger in a new land, the immigrant seeking
- [Amphibian14, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, KAST, MaRvIN StRAnGE, Nigel Z: God Save The Queen](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bracken-hanuse-corlett-byron-steele-nigel-z-god-save-the-queen/) - Curated by Chris Bose Opening Friday, September 13, 8pm -- part of SWARM God Save the Queen is inspired by the heavy curtain of colonialism that still hangs over Canada and the spirit of rebellion that was once crystallized by the Sex Pistols anti-Jubilee anthem, "God Save The Queen". The question “How do you feel
- [Audiobooks by artists](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/audiobooks-by-artists/) - In conjunction with the Artists' Books Weekend presented by the 2013 Vancouver Art Book Fair, on October 5th and 6th UNIT/PITT Radio will present a 48-hour marathon of audio versions of artist's books. You can tune in to our ultra-low-power signal (89.7 FM) in the immediate vicinity of 236 East Pender St., or listen here:
- [Wrong Wave 2013: Revenge of the New Puritan](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wrong-wave-2013-revenge-of-the-new-puritan/) - Curated by Sydney Hermant UNIT/PITT presents the third annual Wrong Wave music festival since its revival in 2011. TICKETS at door of events or festival passes at: http://wrongwave2013.eventbrite.ca/ Wrong Wave 2013: Revenge of the New Puritan draws inspiration from Charles Atlas' 1986 fictionalized documentary of dancer/choreographer Michael Clark as he prepares for his punk ballet
- [Re: The Fox](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/arnaud-desjardin-everday-press-john-slyce-re-the-fox/) - A curatorial project by Arnaud Desjardin and The Everyday Press, with John Slyce Opening Friday, November 15, 8 pm Group reading of The Lumpen-Headache, Saturday, November 16, 2pm The Fox - bootleg edition is available for purchase The Fox was a short-lived critical journal and magazine published in New York in 1975 and 1976 by
- [Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/) - Walking Projects : “Vancouver, crawling, weeping, betting" is a co-presentation with battery opera performance, comprising six weeks of public actions, clandestine screenings, chance meetings, and intoxicated psychogeographies. Memories, reanimated wraiths and the spirits imbibed are recorded in a series of twelve stories and accompanying maps. Installed in the gallery, these reports and boundaries document their
- [Rebecca Brewer, Chrystal Fisher and Allie Tweedie: Reoccurrence - serial motifs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rebecca-brewer-chrystal-fisher-and-allie-tweedie-reoccurrence-serial-motifs/) - Curated by Emmy Lee and Stephanie Rebick Presented at 221A Artist Run Centre This exhibition brings together three Vancouver-based emerging artists who use pattern in their work as an optical device to interrupt their representational landscapes. Rebecca Brewer, Chrystal Fisher and Allie Tweedie use abstracted repetitive forms to organize the pictorial space, define depth and
- [Tegan Moore and Elspeth Pratt: Haptic](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tegan-moore-and-elspeth-pratt-haptic/) - Presented at 221A Artist Run Centre, 221 E. Georgia St., Vancouver BC Opening reception and book launch Friday, September 10, 8pm / part of SWARM 2010. The term "haptic", referring to the sense of touch and act of touching, is now familiar in the description of devices like smartphones and touch-screens; in other words, the act
- [Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/exhibition-to-be-destroyed-again/) - From the Archives of UNIT/PITT Curated by Rita O'Grady Presented at The Ministry Of Casual Living, 1422 Haultain St., Victoria BC August 6 - August 23, 2010 Also presented in the windows of 221A Artist Run Centre, 221 E. Georgia St., Vancouver BC August 13 - August 27, 2010 Opening reception and book launch, Friday,
- [Nicole Ondre and Alainnah Whachell: Matter Work](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nicole-ondre-and-alainnah-whachell-matter-work/) - The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present Matter Work, an exhibition of new works by emerging Vancouver artists Nicole Ondre and Alainnah Whachell. Recognizing the poetry and intelligence inherent in materials, Ondre and Whachell eloquently negotiate the territory between an immediate relationship with matter and the historical inflections of form and substance. Whachell's sculptures reveal
- [Jenipher Hur and Avery Nabata: Signs, City Wall, City Path](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jenipher-hur-and-avery-nabata-signs-city-wall-city-path/) - Curated by Paul Kajander Suzhou Alley, Carrall St. (between Keefer & Pender) and BC Electric Building, Carrall St. (between Pender & Hastings) Signs, City Wall, City Path: An informal panel discussion and site visit with Jenipher Hur, Avery Nabata, Paul Kajander and Laura Kozak Saturday February 20, 2010 3:00 pm - Meet at 221A East
- [Michael Jones: Tolerance Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-jones-tolerance-time/) - December 5th - January 16th Closed : December 20th - January 5th Opening Reception : Friday, December 4th, 2009 Hosted by The Or Gallery 555 Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC Download Essay (pdf) Michael Jones' new installation consists of a short, narrative 16mm film projection in which the artist is cast as a police officer. Set
- [ISSUE Magazine Vol. 4 No. 1](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/issue-magazine-vol-4-no-1/) - On Thursday, May 21st, ISSUE Magazine will be celebrating one year as a quarterly! With a completely re-formatted and re-conceptualized magazine, we will be trying on some new pants for the next year. We've got 20 short-but sweet reviews of recent Vancouver shows, and some longer musings on art criticism and generosity. Pair that with
- [Joël Doyle: It's a long way from the wishbone to the backbone](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/joel-doyle-its-a-long-from-the-wishbone-to-the-backbone/) - What does it take to sustain oneself through means that are not limited but local, provided the castoffs of those living otherwise? Opening Friday, September 11, 7pm -- part of SWARM Curated by Zebulon Zang In his practice Joël Doyle addresses an interrelation between craft, labour and material as a matrix for the production of
- [Elizabeth Fischer: Orphans and Dogs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/elizabeth-fischer/) - Opening Friday, June 12, 8pm (followed by a performance by DarkBlueworld at China Cloud, 10pm). Gallery hours Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5pm. UNIT/PITT is proud to present a survey of work by Vancouver artist, musician, and writer Elizabeth Fischer. Well known from bands such as Animal Slaves and DarkBlueWorld, Fischer has also exhibited her visual and new media
- [An Exact Vertigo](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/) - a residency/library/mini festival/community invitation/dancing museum/book publication/lecture series/workshop series/utopia. Presented by Unit/Pitt Projects, from March 4th to April 4th, 2015. An Exact Vertigo is an invitation to Vancouver's contemporary dance and contemporary art communities to engage in discussion surrounding critical theory, text, and movement. The project consists of multiple actions: A free speaker and workshop series
- [UNIT/PITT Society 2015 Annual General Meeting](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/unitpitt-society-2015-annual-general-meeting/) - The Annual General Meeting of the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness will be held at 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver, on Friday, September 4th, at 7pm. Deeds Not Words.
- [Projector Verse: Louis Cabri & Peter Quartermain project Celia & Louis Zukofsky](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/projector-verse-louis-cabri-peter-quartermain-project-celia-louis-zukofsky/) - Sunday 23rd August 1:00 - 2:00 PM a Kootenay School of Writing series @ UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender St., housing the KSW library Poets / writers presenting poems / antipoems / language. Spoken; visually projected. Each will read one short text, followed with open discussion. Louis Cabri & Peter Quartermain project Celia & Louis
- [Cultivating Equilibrium](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/cultivating-equilibrium/) - Madison Killo and Patrick Campbell transform the gallery space into an immersive, non-site recontextualization of what is known in the rhetoric of its community of supporters as "Our Green Jewel." Built on an extremely valuable piece of land, Bloedel Conservatory was nearly closed in 2009 due to poor attendance, The fact that it remains as a
- [Book Launch: Spaces of Contestation, Unlearning Walks, La Fete Permanente, TRACTS](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/book-launch-spaces-of-contestation-unlearning-walks-la-fete-permanente-tracts/) - A launch for three publications from the Spaces of Contestation/Collective Walks project: Unlearning Walks by Catherine Grau and Zoe Kreye; La Fete Permanente by Didier Morelli; and TRACTS by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte. 7pm. More details to come.
- [Robert Chaplin: About Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/robert-chaplin-about-time/) - Opening Thursday, May 15, 8pm. “Many people look at a piece and ask, 'How long did that take?' The answer of course is irrelevant, and coming up with a cheeky response is essential to anyone who has attempted to survive by their wits.” Robert Chaplin, on the title “About Time” UNIT/PITT is pleased to present
- [Week 1 of An Exact Vertigo: March 4-8](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-1-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-4-8/) - Coming up in the first week of March, we kick off the series with a talk and workshop led by Jen Weih: Wednesday March 4th at 7pm: This is not a talk about horses. Based on the pictures and the models you would think the sun stands still. Of course, here on earth, it feels
- [Joe Menabney, Jim Cummins, Greg and Roy, Peter Culley, Jill Mandrake, Hedy Metal and the Barbs: Revenge of the Words Meets Godzilla](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joe-menabeney-jim-cummins-greg-and-roy-peter-cully-jill-mandrake-hedy-metal-and-the-barbs-revenge-of-the-words-meets-godzilla/)
- [Self-Guided Tour](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/cultivating-equilibrium/self-guided-tour/) - As an exercise in thinking about location, installation art, and metaphor, Brynn McNab has written a text to exist alongside the exhibition Cultivating Equilibrium. Stop by the space until May 7th to pick up a copy, or download it here.
- [Justine Chambers: talk on March 25th](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-4-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-25-29/justine-chambers-talk-on-march-25th/) - Justine Chambers talks about collaboration, dinner parties, space for dance, and all of the previous talks that were part of An Exact Vertigo. [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Justine.mp3|loop=yes|titles=Justine Chambers, talk March 25, 2015]
- [Benjamin Kamino: Talk on Wednesday March 11](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-2-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-11-15/benjamin-kamino-talk-on-wednesday-march-11/) - Benjamin Kamino on Bracha Ettinger, the contemporary, and trauma [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Ben-Kamino.mp3|loop=yes|titles=Ben Kamino, talk, March 11 2015]
- [Week 4 of An Exact Vertigo: March 25-29](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-4-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-25-29/) - To close out the series, we have Justine A. Chambers presenting a talk on Wednesday, March 25th at 7pm and hosting a workshop on Sunday, March 29th at 2pm. Here is a link to the recorded audio. Justine A. Chambers’ interests lie in collaborative creation and re-imagining dance performance. She is drawn to the movement
- [Week 3 of An Exact Vertigo: March 18-22](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-3-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-18-22/) - In the third week of An Exact Vertigo, we will be featuring The Biting School: The Biting School is a company of Arash and Aryo Khakpour along with Parjad Sharifi - with backgrounds in Dance, theatre and scenography. The company has been present at Dancing on the Edge Festival for the past two years, was
- [Week 2 of An Exact Vertigo: March 11-15](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-2-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-11-15/) - In the second week of the series, we have Benjamin Kamino presenting a talk on Wednesday March 11th at 7pm, and a presentation of his workshop will be a little earlier on Sunday morning, at 11am. This week will also have Deanna Peters in residence, rehearsing semi-publicly behind the windows of the Unit/Pitt Space. Here is
- [Aryo Khakpour: talk on March 18](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-3-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-18-22/aryo-khakpours-talk-on-march-18/) - Aryo Khakpour from The Biting School, a Dance/Theatre company talks about Howard Barker's theatre of catastrophe, meaningless complexity, Hamlet, but not Deleuze, on the new, and its connection to the past. [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Aryo-Copy-2.mp3|loop=yes|titles=Aryo Khakpour, talk March 18 2015]
- [Jen Weih: This is not a talk about horses.](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/an-exact-vertigo/week-1-of-an-exact-vertigo-march-4-8/jen-weih-this-is-not-a-talk-about-horses/) - [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jen-Weih.mp3|loop=yes|titles=Jen Weih, This is not a talk about horses, March 10 2015] In case you missed it, here is the audio from Jen Weih's talk that occurred Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 7pm at Unit/Pitt Projects, as part of the series An Exact Vertigo. Based on the pictures and the models you would think the
- [The Facility for Consideration](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/the-facility-for-consideration/) - January 16 - February 28th 2015 Opening reception is January 15 at 7pm. Featuring work by Derek Coulombe Tom Hsu Kari Kleinmann Lida Pawliuk Curated by Brynn McNab The Facility for Consideration is an exhibition engaging in a many-voiced conversation concern the artist's conception of space. Rather than using the public space as a medium
- [ISSUE #4 Launch](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/issue-4-launch/)
- [Delicious Double Feature](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/delicious-double-feature/) - Screening, 7pm, Friday December 19 2014 As the weather gets cold, there’s nothing to do but eat people. Come enjoy two cult classics that combine music and cannibalism, Big Meat Eater and Eat the Rich. Big Meat Eater is a locally made film set in “Burquitlam” the area between Burnaby and Coquitlam, which combines a
- [Studio Showcase and Benefit at 236](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/studio-showcase-and-benefit-at-236/) - >Hidden from view behind Unit/Pitt Projects' gallery, are the workspaces of over 50 artists, designers, writers, and curators who play an essential role in the cultural landscape of Vancouver. Come November 14th, a selection of their work will be on display to the public in the gallery. Adapting a new symbiotic model which provides administration
- [Emilie O’Brien and Adriana Riquer Turner: More or Less](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/emilie-obrien-and-adriana-riquer-turner-more-or-less/) - The work of Emilie O’Brien (Vancouver) and Adriana Riquer Turner (Mexico city) shares an interest in the interplay between ideas of real and speculative space. For this two-person exhibition, the artists display a series of individual and conceptually overlapping elements which hypothesize possible sculptural correlatives to some of our most formless impulses—memory and intuition,
- [Amy Lockhart: Faking It](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/amy-lockhart-faking-it/) - Amy Lockhart Faking It Saturday July 8 –Saturday, August 5, 2006 Opening reception: Friday, July 7 at 7:00 pm Animation workshop with the artist: Saturday, July 15 at 1:30 pm Amy Lockhart’s Faking It, a new installation and animation, as well as a mini-retrospective of seven short films, takes the sequential imagination as its primary
- [Gaile Addison, Geneviève Castrée, Shie Kasai, Nina Katchadourian, Mathieu Mercier, Mitchell Wiebe: Animal!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gaile-addison-genevieve-castree-shie-kasai-nina-katchadourian-mathieu-mercier-mitchell-wiebe-animal/) - Saturday, November 18th to Saturday December 16th, 2006 Opening reception: Friday, November 17th at 8:00 pm ANIMAL! is a simply-themed, subject-matter-based curatorial project which looks at our fascination, fear and misunderstanding of domestic pets, pests and wildlife. This exhibition features an eccentric, non-conclusive gathering of animal art from six artists from Canada, the United States
- [Scott Evans, Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie: The Great Scattered Remnants](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/scott-evans-emi-honda-and-jordan-mckenzie-the-great-scattered-remnants/) - September 9-October 8, 2005 Opening Reception: Friday September 9, 7:00 pm The Great Scattered Remnants is a collaborative, growing environment, constructed by Scott Evans, Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie, long-term collaborators from Victoria. Using a wide variety of specifically chosen found objects and post-consumer detritus, as well as lo-tech electronics and sound, the artists create
- [Peter Baren: ARK (Featuring Bridge of Sighs, Sleep of Reason and Wailing Wall)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/peter-baren-ark-featuring-bridge-of-sighs-sleep-of-reason-and-wailing-wall/) - Peter Baren ARK (Featuring Bridge of Sighs, Sleep of Reason and Wailing Wall) Performance: Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28, 2005 at 10:00 pm. Presented as part of the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art Presented with the support of The Netherlands Foundation of Visual Arts Design and Architecture and the Royal Netherlands Embassy,
- [Robert Niven and James Whitman: Dual l](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robert-niven-and-james-whitman-dual-l/) - Robert Niven and James Whitman Dual l Friday, February 10 - Saturday, February 25, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 7:00 pm Bewilderness by Robert Niven and Outbuildings and Livestock by James Whitman. Dual I, the first of a two-exhibition experiment into the possible synergies and disconnections of the duo-show format, features sculpture
- [Andrew Smith, Ithaca Smith, Mark Cunningham: The Monochrome Shop](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/andrew-smith-ithaca-smith-eliza-dyball-mark-cunningham-the-monochrome-shop/) - An indeterminate collaboration between Andrew Smith, Ithaca Smith and Mark Cunningham. Open for business from September 13 to Saturday October 11. Opening reception, Friday September 12, 8pm -- part of #SWARM15. The monochrome shop is here to sell. While we take the commodification of art as a given, and as a starting point, this is
- [Wrong Wave 2014: Art Rock? Reprise](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/unitpitt-presents-wrong-wave-2014-art-rock-reprise/) - Wrong Wave 2014 Thursday October 16 at The Fox Cabaret July Fourth Toilet - Death Prizm - Late Spring $10 at door, or buy festival pass Doors: 7:30 Friday October 17th at the Western Front the grain of the voice an evening with Frog Eyes - Nicholas Kgrovich - Eden Veaudry $8 at door, or
- [Monochrome Shop Closing Party](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/andrew-smith-ithaca-smith-eliza-dyball-mark-cunningham-the-monochrome-shop/monochrome-shop-closing-party/) - Saturday, October 11, 7pm Are you still unsure whether “Asian Wood, Indian Yellow” or “Portrait of a Young Girl” would look best above your fireplace? Are you still wondering which friends to give comic sans zeros to for Christmas, and how many they should each get? Well, it’s time to decide. The Monochrome Shop is
- [Monochromatic Operations: Available Now!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/andrew-smith-ithaca-smith-eliza-dyball-mark-cunningham-the-monochrome-shop/monochromatic-operations-available-now/) - The essay written by Monochrome Shop artist Mark Cunningham is now available for free online for your reading pleasure! Right here: monochromatic operations
- ["Deep Pockets" Book Launch and Artist's Talk](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/andrew-smith-ithaca-smith-eliza-dyball-mark-cunningham-the-monochrome-shop/deep-pockets-book-launch-and-artists-talk/) - The Monochrome Shop presents: Deep pockets : Monochromatic Attitudes Saturday October 4, 7pm. Unit/Pitt Projects Please join us for the launch of Deep Pockets, a book of new photography by Mark Cunningham, and for a talk by the artist about monochromatic attitudes, and their readability across a number of discursive fields, including rioting, autism, and
- [Ithaca Smith: On Blue In Green](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/andrew-smith-ithaca-smith-eliza-dyball-mark-cunningham-the-monochrome-shop/ithaca-smith-on-blue-in-green/) - Wednesday, September 2014, 7pm Artist talk by Ithaca Smith about her collaborative video project with Andrew Smith, Blue and Green, based on the Miles Davis recording of the same name. Accompanies the exhibition The Monochrome Shop. [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Unit-Pitt-Talk.mp3|loop=yes|titles=Ithaca Smith, On Blue in Green]
- [Chief Dan George Reading Series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/chief-dan-george-reading-series/) - The Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust presents a series of literary events to honour and celebrate the writings of Chief Dan George, the Salish Sea, and his impact on the cultural life of the people who live around it. UNIT/PITT is pleased to host part of this series, on Thursday August 28. Each event features celebrated
- [Karlene Harvey, Jordan Abel, Jamie Reid: Projector Verse](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/karlene-harvey-jordan-abel-jamie-reid-projector-verse/) - Sunday August 24 1:00 - 2:30 PM Harvey + Abel + Reid a KSW series @ UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender St., housing the KSW library Poets / writers presenting poems / antipoems / language. Spoken; visually projected. Each will read one short text, followed with open discussion. Karlene Harvey projects Mary Augusta Tappage Jordan
- [Summer Screenings 2014](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/summer-screenings-2014/) - All summer long, a selection of rare and neglected films can be viewed in our front window. Nothing to do on a Wednesday night at 9pm? Stop in at Unit/Pitt Projects, 236 East Pender, where we will be hosting a group screening of the films, followed by a short discussion. July 23 - Le Révélateur
- [Alex Heilbron, Lauren Marsden, Monsters: Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/behind-the-wall-x-in-front-of-the-wall/) - A curatorial residency by Sylvana D'Angelo and Anežka Minaříková with an exhibition by artists Alex Heilbron, Lauren Marsden, and Monsters. Closing reception and book launch Friday, August 22, 8pm Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall is a consideration of two families' recent past, against a backdrop of political change and economic globalization.
- [Closing Party - Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/behind-the-wall-x-in-front-of-the-wall/closing-party-behind-the-wall-x-in-front-of-the-wall/) - Friday August 22 2014 8PM - 11PM Unit /Pitt Projects 236, E Pender St Vancouver, BC Over the past seven weeks, the project Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall has developed from a small installation by curators Sylvana d'Angelo and Anezka Minarikova into a group exhibition, a book, and visual documents. New
- [Listening Party and Curatorial Discourse - Behind the Wall x In Front of the Wall](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/behind-the-wall-x-in-front-of-the-wall/listening-party-and-project-launch-behind-the-wall-x-in-front-of-the-wall/) - 4pm - Sylvana d'Angelo and Anezka Minarikova discuss the exhibition & book launch 5pm (sharp) - Lauren Marsden: The Sounds Of Your Ancestral Past Lauren Marsden’s audio work, The Sound of Your Ancestral Past, produced specifically for the exhibition Behind the Wall /In Front of the Wall, is composed as a sonic reflection of the
- [Hyung-Min Yoon, Catriona Strang, Ryan Fitzpatrick: Projector Verse](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/hyung-min-yoon-catriona-strang-ryan-fitzpatrick-projector-verse/) - Sunday 10 Aug. 12:30 - 2:00 PM [note earlier time] Yoon + Strang + Fitzpatrick a KSW series @ UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender St., housing the KSW library Poets / writers presenting poems / antipoems / language. Spoken; visually projected. Each will read one short text, followed with open discussion. Hyung-Min Yoon projects Vilém
- [ISSUE Magazine VOL 3 NO 2 Summer Launch](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/issue-magazine-vol-3-no-2-summer-launch/) - Thursday, July 31, 2014, 8pm Launch party for the second issue of the revived ISSUE Magazine. Join us at UNIT/PITT, 236 East Pender Street, to meet the writers and contributors and get a freshly-printed copy.
- [Amy Fung, Reg Johanson, Leah Horlick: Projector Verse 4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/amy-fung-reg-johanson-leah-horlick-projector-verse-4/) - Fung + Johanson + Horlick a KSW series @ UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender St., housing the KSW library 1:00-2:30, Sunday July 20 Poets / writers presenting poems / antipoems / language. Spoken; visually projected. Each will read one short text, followed with open discussion. Amy Fung projects Hilton Als Reg Johanson projects Annharte Leah
- [Ivan Drury, Taryn Hubbard, Lorraine Weir: Projector Verse 3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/ivan-drury-taryn-hubbard-lorraine-weir-projector-verse-3/) - 1:00pm – 2:30pm Presented by Kootenay School of Writing Projector Verse Sun. 6 July 1:00 - 2:30 PM Drury + Hubbard + Weir a KSW series @ UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender St., housing the KSW library Poets / writers presenting poems / antipoems / language. Spoken; visually projected. Each will read one short text,
- [Alex Leslie, C.E. Gatchalian, Phinder Dulai: Projector Verse #2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/alex-leslie-c-e-gatchalian-phinder-dulai-projector-verse-2/) - 1:00pm - 2:30pm Presented by Kootenay School of Writing poets / artists / writers presenting poems / antipoems / language. bi-weekly on sundays @ 1 pm @ unit/pitt projects 236 east pender vancouver bc unceded coast salish territories Projector Verse | 1:00-2:30 PM Sun. 22 June 2014 | Leslie + Gatchalian +
- [Projector Verse](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/projector-verse/) - Presented by Kootenay School of Writing poets / artists / writers presenting poems / antipoems / language. spoken; visually projected, analog. each poet will read one short text, followed with open discussion Sun. 8 June 2014 1:00-2:30 PM UNIT/PITT 236 E. Pender, home to the KSW library Julie Okot Bitek projects Maya Angelou Hari Alluri
- [ISSUE Magazine launch](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/issue-magazine-launch/) - ______\\\ art criticism in vancouver in print celebrate the launch of the second incarnation of ISSUE magazine with us reviews + drinks + snacks + music + copies 8pm thursday april 17 @ unit/pitt projects gallery + studios 236 east pender ///////________
- [Carole Itter: Desolate Combination of Objects with Long Assemblage](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/carole-itter-desolate-combination-of-objects-with-long-assemblage/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Tom Buhr: Photo Installation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tom-buhr-photo-installation/) - If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [V8 Collective: Suburbia](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/v8-collective-suburbia/)
- [Koochie: Sweat](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/koochie-sweat/) - Installation, Curated by Dana Claxton. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Stephen Collis: Riot Dogs and Research Labs - Poetry and Struggle](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/stephen-collis-riot-dogs-and-research-labs-poetry-and-struggle/) - Spaces of Contestation Speaker Series Talk 4 Riot Dogs and Research Labs: Poetry and Struggle by Stephen Collis Wednesday March 12, 7pm World Art Centre at SFU Woodward’s (149 West Hastings) What is poetry for in a time of spiralling struggle? Sometimes it’s just a riot dog, at best maybe able to bite a cop’s leg,
- [Kirsty Robertson: Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules - Activism in the Museum and Gallery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/kirsty-robertson-capitalist-cocktails-and-moscow-mules-activism-in-the-museum-and-gallery/) - Spaces of Contestation Speaker Series, Talk 5 Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules: Activism in the Museum and Gallery by Kirsty Robertson Wednesday April 16, 7pm World Art Centre at SFU Woodward’s (149 West Hastings) This talk asks: what happens when protest crosses the threshold of the large-scale museum or gallery? Using a number of examples, among them
- [Rereading The Riot Act I: A Public Action](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rereading-the-riot-act-a-series-curated-by-anakana-schofield/rereading-the-riot-act-i-a-public-action/) - This event marks the anniversary of the reading of the Riot Act in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on April 23, 1935 by Mayor McGeer to an assembled group of unemployed workers, their families and supporters. It is the first in a series of Rereading the Riot Act events, curated by Anakana Schofield. Meet us outside 16
- [Suzie Acheson: Into Salome's Wardrobe](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/suzie-acheson-into-salomes-wardrobe/) - Installation. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Andrew Short: Museum of Alienated Leisure](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/andrew-short-museum-of-alienated-leisure/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Susan Edelstein](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/susan-edelstein/) - Colour photographs combined with black and white photo emulsion pieces, and various mixed mediums. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Ingrid Koenig: Empowerment Series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ingrid-koenig-empowerment-series/) - Paintings. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Spaces of Contestation artists' panel and finissage reception](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/spaces-of-contestation-artists-panel-and-finissage-reception/) - Friday, April 18, 2014 Panel Discussion: 7pm Finissage Reception: 8pm Artists: Lauren Marsden, Gabriel Saloman, Didier Morelli, Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau Curator: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte UNIT/PITT Projects will host a panel discussion with artists Lauren Marsden, Gabriel Saloman, Didier Morelli, Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau, and curator Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte on April 18, 2014. The artists
- [Brice Canyon: Forever Yours](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/brice-canyon-forever-yours/)
- [Lindsey Boldt, Alli Warren, Danielle LaFrance, Anahita Jamali Rad](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/lindsey-boldt-alli-warren-danielle-lafrance-anahita-jamali-rad/) - 7pm A poetry reading at Unit/Pitt, on the occassion of a visit to Vancouver by Lindsey Boldt and Alli Warren. Reading with Vancouver's Danielle LaFrance and Anahita Jamali Rad. Warren arrives with her fresh book from City Lights Books: Here Come the Warm Jets. Travelling from Oakland: Alli Warren is the author of Here Come
- [Lila Smith, Mariken van Nimwegen, Downtown Eastside Womens Centre: Speaking in Chalks](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lila-smith-mariken-van-nimwegen-downtown-eastside-womens-centre-speaking-in-chalks/)
- [Lauren Marsden: Artist Talk](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/lauren-marsden-artist-talk/) - Alice Mackay Room, Lower Level Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W Georgia St), 7pm Part of the Spaces of Contestation series, Lauren Marsden will talk about her performance work In Pursuit of Perpetual Motion, a procession inside and around the library's Central Branch with books de-accessioned from the Library's collection. Inspired by the mythos
- [Lauren Marsden: In Pursuit of Perpetual Motion](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/lauren-marsden-in-pursuit-of-perpetual-motion/) - Perhaps my old age and fearfulness deceive me, but I suspect that the human species -- the unique species -- is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret. Translated from The Library of Babel (La Biblioteca de Babel) 1941, Jorge Luis
- [Gabriel Saloman and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion: People's Procession & Rally Against the Pipelines](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/gabriel-mindel-saloman-and-burnaby-residents-opposing-kinder-morgan-expansion/) - CALL TO ACTION! BROKE-Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion is organizing a People's Procession & Rally Against the Pipelines. We need your help to mobilize thousands of people to come out on Saturday April 12 to show their support. The People’s Procession will follow the existing and proposed oil and gas pipelines, which cut across the City of Burnaby.
- [Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau: The Unlearning Walking Club](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/zoe-kreye-and-catherine-grau-the-unlearning-walking-club/) - The Unlearning Walking Club is an open group that invites the public into a moving exploration of sensorial and metaphysical spaces – of the body and the land.Through a walking practice, we are looking for new ways to activate our perceptions and find creative forms of criticality and connection. We walk to reclaim internal personal space and
- [Suzo Hickey, Marianne Nicholson, and Jeanne Rogowskij: Rednecks and City Slickers](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/suzo-hickey-marianne-nicholson-and-jeanne-rogowski-rednecks-and-city-slickers/)
- [Urban Subjects: What is Already Going On](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/urban-subjects-what-is-already-going-on/) - Spaces of Contestation Speaker Series, Talk 3 What Is Already Going On by Urban Subjects Wednesday February 5, 7pm World Art Centres at SFU Woodward’s (149 West Hastings) The third talk in the Spaces of Contestation series, “What Is Already Going On” features the Vancouver and Vienna based cultural research collective Urban Subjects. Picking up from Jamie Peck’s
- [Cease Wyss: Witching Hour Solo #5](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/cease-wyss-witching-hour-solo-5/) - A tea party with some not-so-famous Vancouverites Thursday, February 13, 11:30 pm - 12:30 Live painting by; Esper Gone Fishin Take5 Performance by: Senaqwila Wyss (Reading Madeline Deighton's history) Tracey Rossi (Reading August Jack Khatsalanough's history) Sheryl McGraw (Reading Dominic Charlie's history) Cease Wyss (Reading Mary Eihu's history) Part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting
- [Geoff Mann: Scarcity Makes the City](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/geoff-mann-scarcity-makes-the-city/) - Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City Speaker Series Talk 1 Scarcity Makes the City by Geoff Mann October 22, 7pm World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward’s The first talk in the Spaces of Contestation series, Scarcity Makes the City, features Vancouver-based economic geographer Geoff Mann. Looking at how modern political
- [Bob's Salon, Week #7](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bobs-salon-week-7/) - Friday, February 28, 10 pm - midnight Bob's Salon is part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting Dance: Arash Khakpour and cohorts Music: Max Murphy, Joel Lower, Gary Wildeman, Bruce Freedman Story: Veda Hille Host: David McIntosh
- [Witching Hour Solo #7](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/witching-hour-solo-7/) - Thursday, February 27, 11:30 pm - 12:30 Part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting
- [Bob's Salon, Week #6](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bobs-salon-week-6/) - Friday, February 21, 10 pm - midnight Bob's Salon is part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting Dance: Daina Ashbee, Diego Romero and cohort Music: Max Murphy, Ben Brown, Russel Scholburg Story: Henry Tsang Host: David McIntosh
- [Daina Ashbee: Witching Hour Solo #6](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/daina-ashbee-witching-hour-solo-6/) - Thursday, February 20, 11:30 pm - 12:30 Part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting
- [Bob's Salon, Week #5](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bobs-salon-week-5/) - Friday, February 14, 10 pm - midnight Bob's Salon is part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting Dance: Justine Chambers and cohorts Music: Ben Brown and cohorts Story: Cease Wyss Host: David McIntosh
- [Bob's Salon, Week #4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bobs-salon-week-4/) - Friday Feb. 7, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon is part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting Dance: Paras Terezakis and cohorts Music: Max Murphy, Jeff Younger Story: Bracken Hanuse Corlett Host: David McIntosh
- [Bracken Hanuse Corlett: Witching Hour Solo #4](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bracken-hanuse-corlett-witching-hour-solo-4/) - Thursday, February 6, 11:30 pm - 12:30 Part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting
- [Bob's Salon, Week #3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bobs-salon-week-3/) - Friday Jan. 31, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon is part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting Dance: Billy Marchenski and cohorts Music: Max Murphy, Ron Samworth Story: Margo Kane Host: David McIntosh
- [Brian Solomon: Witching Hour Solo #3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/brian-solomon-witching-hour-solo-3/) - Thursday, January 30, 11:30 pm - 12:30 Part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting
- [Bob's Salon, Week #2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bobs-salon-week-2/) - Friday Jan. 24, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon is part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting Dance: Kelly McInnes, Sophia Wolfe, Elissa Hansen Music: Peggy Lee, Aram Bajakian, Tony Wilson Story: Michael Turner Host: David McIntosh
- [Michelle Lui: Witching Hour Solo #2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/michelle-lui-witching-hour-solo-2/) - Thursday, January 23, 11:30 pm - 12:30 Part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting
- [Chris Bose: Witching Hour Solo #1](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/chris-bose-witching-hour-solo-1/) - Thursday, January 16, 11:30pm - 12:30 Part of Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting
- [Bob's Salon, Week #1](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/crawling-weeping/bobs-salon-week-1/) - Friday Jan. 17 , 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon is a weekly performance, paired with a distinctive wine, during Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting Dance: Maxine Chadburn, Michelle Lui, Brian Solomon Music: Finn Manniche and cohorts (New Improved) Story: Chris Bose Host: David McIntosh
- [Jamie Peck: Neoliberal urbanism -- artful alternatives?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/jamie-peck-neoliberal-urbanism-artful-alternatives/) - Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City Speaker Series, part of the project Collective Walks - Spaces of Contestation, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte Talk 2 Neoliberal urbanism: artful alternatives? by Jamie Peck Tuesday November 12, 7pm Studio D, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward’s What does it mean to say that cities
- [Michael Nardone, Stephen Collis, Christine Leclerc, Donato Mancini, and Cecily Nicholson](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/michael-nardone-stephen-collis-christine-leclerc-donato-mancini-and-cecily-nicholson/) - Poetry reading Sunday January 19 7:00 pm UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender Free Admission Michael Nardone is managing editor of Amodern. Recent writings and dialogues appear in The Coming Envelope, Jacket2, Poetry Is Dead, n+1, Lemon Hound, Le Merle, The Conversant, and the language art anthology The Dark Would. Nardone is a doctoral student at
- [The Lumpen-Headache](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/arnaud-desjardin-everday-press-john-slyce-re-the-fox/the-lumpen-headache/) - Saturday, November 16, at 2pm Arnaud Desjardin will lead a group reading of The Lumpen-Headache, a partial transcript of a meeting of the editorial collective of The Fox. The article, originally published in the third and final issue of the magazine in 1976, delineates issues and conflicts which remain live today. The readers were: Arnaud
- [1st Annual Sexuality Artshow and Auction](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/1st-annual-sexuality-artshow-and-aution/) - Fundraiser for the Vancouver persons with Aids society, Featuring work from the members of the Salon De Refuses Artists Society. Preview Aug 20, 1-6pm, reception and auction Aug 21, 7pm.
- [Questionable Practices, Appropriation, and the Avant-Garde](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/questionable-practices-apropriation-and-the-avant-garde/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Freda Guttman: Guatemala, The Road of War](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/freda-guttman-guatemala-the-road-of-war/) - http://howlarts.net/post/30130932247/when-art-begets-art-freda-guttman
- [Daniel Oates: Parallaxadaisical](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/daniel-oates-parallaxadaisical/) - Saturday, November 18th to Saturday, December 16th, 2006 Opening reception: Friday, November 17th at 8:00 pm The term “objective correlative,” made famous by T.S. Eliot in his essay Hamlet and His Problems (1919), describes the formula by which specific reactions can be evoked in the arts through the appropriate combination of images, objects, and descriptions.
- [Rebound Party #2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/publication-studio-summer-residency/rebound-party-2/) - Between 2 and 4 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011, bring us your beloved but broken-down paperbacks, and give them new life with a new spine and new cover. We'll also take care of those editions with valuable content but iffy cover design, replacing those ugly jackets with a trademark Publication Studio folder. A small
- [Anna Marie Nakagawa, Robert Linsley, Natasha McHardy: Deliberate Distance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/anna-marie-nakagawa-robert-linsley-natasha-mchardy-deliberate-distance/) - This show brought together artists of varied experience and backgrounds to explore the ever–expanding relationships between artist concept and means of statement, ironic response to material, and the possibilities of presenting that product.
- [Kira Wu: fuel, food and longings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kira-wu-fuel-food-and-longings/) - The installation combines photography and video surveillance documents to focus on the three connecting aspects of the lives of her three brothers, "fuel, food and longing" (a twist on "Gas, Food and Lodgings"). Rather than raising a Chinese–Canadian story on these recurring themes in a documentary format, she opts to experiment with the notion of
- [Bruce LaBruce: Power. Race](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bruce-labruce-power-race-2/) - Using photographs taken during the filming of his most recent film SKIN FLICK and images shot for NYC porn magazine Honcho, Bruce LaBruce develops a dialogue concerned with ideas of representation, and specifically, the sexual/political power dynamics inherent in gay pornography. Publication catalogue includes writing by the artist, Mernie Lee Plested, Michael Turner, and Noam
- [Civil Defence Information Centre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/civil-defence-information-centre/)
- [On Economy: A Sunday Service](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gray-school-1/on-economy-a-sunday-service/) - Announcing the inaugural On Economy: A Sunday Service Sunday, May 5 (2013) at 11:00AM at UNIT/PITT Projects (15 E. Pender) This new addition to UNIT/PITT Projects’ public program – On Economy: A Sunday Service – is an event that will provide an opportunity to engage with texts relating to issues bound within art and economies.
- [Christian Kliegel, Mark Dudiak, Peter Conlin, Intermission Artists Society, Randy Lee Cutler, Alberto Guedea: Facilitating Experimentation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/christian-kliegel-mark-dudiak-peter-conlin-intermission-artists-society-randy-lee-cutler-alberto-guedea-facilitating-experimentation/) - Summer 2003 The Helen Pitt Gallery is committed to realizing opportunities for experimentation and public dialogue involving contemporary art and community. Although our programming will not resume until September of 2003, the gallery remains active. We are providing a public forum for a number of experimental projects during the summer -- extending our community outreach
- [Nicole Sanches, Jane Cameron, Mima Preston and Christine D'Onofrio: Strange Agencies](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nicole-sanches-jane-cameron-mima-preston-and-christine-donofrio-strange-agencies/) - Nicole Sanches, Jane Cameron, Mima Preston and Christine D'Onofrio Strange Agencies Swarm Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept. 11, 4-9pm, at the Gallery. An Exhibition Publication with essays by Mark Dudiak, Carly Haddon, Monika Szewczyk and Marina Roy will be available at the Gallery. Transcribed Conversations available here. Jane Cameron Christine D'Onofrio Mima Preston Nicole Sanches Before
- [Julia Feyrer & Christy Nyiri, Mima Preston & Gareth Moore, Josh Neelands, Ron Tran, Le Petit Mort, Michele DiMenna: Let's Do It Together](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/julia-feyrer-christy-nyiri-mima-preston-gareth-moore-josh-neelands-ron-tran-le-petit-mort-michele-dimenna-lets-do-it-together/) - Friday February 21, 2003 at 8pm Curated by Amy Pelletier as a part of the eciad student curatorial co-op program The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present an evening of performance by students from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Curator Amy Pelletier will host an evening of irreverent performance pieces that have
- [Kevin Murphy: Atlantean Timepiece](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/what-future/kevin-murphy-atlantean-timepiece/) - Opening Friday, March 22 2013, 8 pm Kevin Murphy's Atlantean Timepiece is the fourth project in UNIT/PITT's series What Future. Influenced by widespread concerns surrounding sea level rise, geological instability, earthquakes, and flooding in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Atlantean Timepiece imagines the future sunken city through the lens of an identification/misidentification with the Atlantis
- [Shopping cart/Checkout](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/shopping-cartcheckout/)
- [PJS Collective: Before I'm Done](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/what-future/pjs-collective-before-im-done/) - PJS Collective is John Walkus-Greene, Skylar Stock, and Paul Lang. This project is curated by Cease Wyss. Opening Friday, January 25, at 8pm. Part of the series What Future. Before I'm Done is an interactive conversation between three men. Through carving and drawing, photography, and video, PJS documents and creates a living art practice in
- [Kelly Roulette: Traditional Road Warriors ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/what-future/kelly-roulette-traditional-road-warriors/) - Opening Friday, March 8 2013, 8pm. The third project in the What Future series of commissions at UNIT/PITT Projects is Traditional Road Warriors by Kelly Roulette. Traditional Road Warriors depicts the inner struggle of native people living among the inner city streets. In one painting, an elder looks tired and forlorn sitting along a skid
- [Susanna Browne: A Perfect Day](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/what-future/susanna-browne-a-perfect-day/) - Broadcast event, Friday, February 22, 8 pm, at Unit/Pitt Projects, 15 East Pender Street, Vancouver The second project in Unit/Pitt's What Future series of commissioned works is A Perfect Day by Susanna Browne. The work consists of an audio file which will be broadcast into deep space using a satellite communications facility. The signal is
- [Thomas Weideman/ Patrick Geraghty/ Soledad Muñoz](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/no-show-2/thomas-weideman-patrick-geraghty-soledad-munoz/) - * no show * A night of solo visions in music and sound: Thomas Weideman Running away from the university gates for one night only. Pop form in convergence with the breathless f holes of a cello. Deep acoustic swing to the dilapidated dissonance of your decaying bus ride here. Patrick Geraghty Inquiries of a
- [Sylvia Scott: Party for Theatre of Mistakes](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sylvia-scott-party-for-theatre-of-mistakes/)
- [Vancouver School of Art Students: Crank Productions](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-students-crank-productions/)
- [Helen Pitt Benefit Concert](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/helen-pitt-benefit-concert/)
- [Monique Fouquet: Mixed Media](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/monique-fouquet-mixed-media/)
- [Goble & Schuyff: Photographs and Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/goble-schuyff-photographs-and-paintings/)
- [Jean Higinbotham: Mixed Media](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jean-higinbotham-mixed-media/)
- [Collage - VSA Faculty Show, Feb-Mar 1978](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/collage-vsa-faculty-show-feb-mar-1978/)
- [ECCAD Students: Fine Ceramic Works](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/eccad-students-fine-ceramic-works/)
- [Found and Formed Objects](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/found-and-formed-objects/)
- [Adam Nogrady& Ross Muirhead: At Every Turn](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/adam-nogrady-ross-muirhead-at-every-turn/)
- [Joseph Haag: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joseph-haag-paintings/)
- [Block & Murray: Fibre Arts ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/block-murray-fibre-arts/)
- [Women's Interart Co-op: 4th Annual Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/womens-interart-co-op-4th-annual-show/)
- [ECCAD Students: Photo-murals](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/eccad-students-photo-murals/)
- [Jim Cummins: The Wrong World](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-cummins-the-wrong-world/)
- [Diverse Harmony](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/diverse-harmony/)
- [Neil Wedman and Bob Straxicich: *!@#!!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/neil-wedman-and-bob-straxicich/)
- [Emily Carr Works in Clay Too](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/emily-carr-works-in-clay-too/)
- [Colleen Brown: The Will to Love](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/colleen-brown-the-will-to-love/) - He moves his lean yet powerful body with grace, his tall and vibrant frame exuding restless energy. There is an air about him of one born to command the gallery. His curious outward look and enthusiasm draw those around him close. He takes in his surroundings with a touching glance and there is a hint
- [Sean Alward and Heidi May: Let's Get Lost](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sean-alward-and-heidi-may-lets-get-lost/) - Is the eye intimately connected to the "I"? Ideated as a sphere, such a slippery object may exist simultaneously within and without us. Although the nature of this blurry separation is normally beyond our intuitive grasp, Heidi May and Sean Alward's current work tasks itself with just such a relation between subject and object. Sharing
- [Lara Favaretto, Aurélien Froment, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Mandla Reuter, Haegue Yang: From the Gathering](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lara-favaretto-aurelien-froment-christodoulos-panayiotou-mandla-reuter-haegue-yang-from-the-gathering/) - Curated by Andrew Bonacina and Anne Low September 12 – October 31 2009 New Closing Date Saturday October 17 Opening Reception Friday, 11 September, 8pm The Helen Pitt Gallery Artist Run Centre is pleased to present From the Gathering, a group exhibition of five international artists, all of whom are exhibiting for the first time in Vancouver.
- [Lucien Durey, Jenipher Hur, Gavin Lynch, Heidi Meixner, Asami Tsukada: The Tropics to the Herbarium](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lucien-durey-jenipher-hur-gavin-lynch-heidi-meixner-asami-tsukada-the-tropics-to-the-herbarium/) - Curated by Robin Selk and Joshua Bartholomew June 20 - July 18th, 2009 Reception: Friday, June 19th 7pm The Tropics To The Herbarium is an exhibition of works by recent graduates from Emily Carr University and Simon Fraser University. This being the artists' first opportunity to make work post-graduation, the pieces in the show are
- [Raymond Boisjoly, Karina Bergmans, Jennifer Cook, Steven Hubert, Roy Lu,  Sara Mameni, Isabelle Pauwels, Minh Nguyen, Stefan Thompson and Ron Tran: Transcontinental Divide](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/raymond-boisjoly-karina-bergmans-jennifer-cook-steven-hubert-roy-lu-sara-mameni-isabelle-pauwels-minh-nguyen-stefan-thompson-and-ron-tran-transcontinental-divide/) - The Helen Pitt Gallery Artist Run Centre is pleased to be hosting this exhibition in conjunction with Gallery 101 in Ottawa as part of BC Scene and gratefully acknowledges the participation of Raymond Boisjoly, Karina Bergmans, Jen Cook, Steven Hubert, Roy Lu, Sara Mameni, Isabelle Pauwels, Minh Nguyen, Stephan Thompson and Ron Tran. In considering
- [Vishal Jugdeo: Square Configuration (Decorum) Study](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vishal-jugdeo-square-configuration-decorum-study/) - Vishal Jugdeo is a Canadian artist currently based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited in Canada and the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Western Front in Vancouver, and at LAXART in Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks
- [Vanessa Kwan & Eric Metcalfe: The Set-Up](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vanessa-kwan-eric-metcalfe-the-set-up/) - Guest curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present a new and unprecedented work created between artists Vanessa Kwan and Eric Metcalfe. Over the period of five weeks Kwan and Metcalfe will conceptualize and produce a mural work in the gallery, culminating in a reception held December 12th, 2008.
- [Michael Drebert: Styrofoam Huffer](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-drebert-styrofoam-huffer/) - Curated by Dawn Johnston The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present Michael Drebert's project, Styrofoam Huffer, as part of the 2008 SWARM festival. Drebert departs from his recent practice of “actions” and has returned to material based sculpture to create a large scale installation that challenges notions of usefulness and asks the viewer to question their participatory
- [Julian Hou and Christian Kliegel: PPPPFFFFFHHHHHHHHHHHHGGG](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/julian-hou-and-christian-kliegel-ppppfffffhhhhhhhhhhhhggg/) - Julian Hou and Christian Kliegel share a background in critical art practice and are currently pursuing their Masters in Architecture at UBC. For the final installment of the workaday series at the Helen Pitt Gallery, Hou & Kliegel will engage in a process-oriented installation that takes the redesign of the exhibition space as its starting
- [Yvette Poorter: Knock on Woods – A Roving International Artist Residency](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/yvette-poorter-knock-on-woods-a-roving-international-artist-residency/) - With Knock on Woods, Rotterdam-based artist Yvette Poorter takes a nomadic version of her previous residency projects This Neck of the Woods (2005-2007) and A Week in the Woods (2001-2003) on the road throughout Canada, with this scheduled lay-over at the Helen Pitt Gallery. Poorter will also be presenting this project at Open Space (Victoria),
- [Billy Mavreas: And Another Thing](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/billy-mavreas-and-another-thing/) - Montreal-based artist and cartoonist Billy Mavreas presents And Another Thing as the second installment of the Helen Pitt Gallery’s Workaday series, a three-exhibition experiment addressing issues of creative process, labour and the performative gesture. For each of these exhibitions, the artists involved will be spending three weeks working live within the gallery space to develop
- [Aaron Carpenter: The Art of Richard Tuttle](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/aaron-carpenter-the-art-of-richard-tuttle/) - Aaron Carpenter’s The Art of Richard Tuttle is the first installment of the Helen Pitt Gallery’s three-exhibition Workaday series, addressing process, labour and the performative gesture. For each of these exhibitions, the artists will be spending three weeks working live within the gallery space to develop a new project. Carpenter’s project is an exhibition of
- [Julie Andreyev, Martha González Palacios, Nick Lakowski, Gwenessa Lam, Jeremy Isao Speier, Marlene Yuen: Ground Zero Redux](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/julie-andreyev-martha-gonzalez-palacios-nick-lakowski-gwenessa-lam-jeremy-isao-speier-marlene-yuen/) - Curated by Jeremy Todd You won't say that I hold the present too high, and if I do not despair of it, it is only because its desperate situation fills me with hope. - Karl Marx in a letter to Arnold Ruge, May 1843 Ground Zero Redux brings together new and recent work by six
- [Judy Cheung: Mind of a City](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/judy-cheung-mind-of-a-city/) - Produced in partnership with Plastic Kinetic Worms, Singapore, and Latitude 53, Edmonton Judy Cheung's Mind of a City is a participatory installation that works to counterbalance the sometimes negative psychological effects of urban living. Constructed as a series of skill-enhancement and re-conditioning stations, this exhibition offers a nurturing philosophy geared towards helping the participant retain
- [Donna Akrey, Blair Brennan, Graham Gillmore, Jason de Haan, Colleen Heslin, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Laurie Ljubojevic, Joshua Lovelace, Michael Maranda, Sherwin Tjia: Too Many Words](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/donna-akrey-blair-brennan-graham-gillmore-jason-de-haan-colleen-heslin-richard-ibghy-marilou-lemmens-laurie-ljubojevic-joshua-lovelace-michael-maranda-sherwin-tjia-too-many-words/) - Too Many Words is an exhibition that brings together a diverse selection of artists who take the role of reading as a central preoccupation and site of creative inquiry. Using a variety of strategies, the artists in this exhibition share a common engagement with the ways in which reading is enacted, experienced and represented in
- [John G. Boehme, Gathie Falk, Jason W. Fitzpatrick, David Khang, Glenn Lewis & Kate Craig, Glynn Davies-Marshall, Eric Metcalf, Oraf Orafsson, Randy & Barenicci, Ikbal Singh, Victoria Singh: The Performed Object - Against a Pathetic Fallacy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-performed-object/) - Curated by Todd A. Davis Presented in partnership with LIVE: the Performance Art Biennial The art object, since the death of painting in the late 1960s, might admittedly be living in the uncertainty of a true pedigree and unsettles any ranking of the fine arts. This small exhibition will continue this lineage while viewing art
- [Bill Pechet: Finding Sudoku](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bill-pechet-finding-sudoku/) - For his first solo exhibition in over a decade, Bill Pechet presents a series of two and three-dimensional ephemera and objects that trace the mundane moments and turbulence of thinking and repose that accompany the artist’s typical work week. An exploration of the space between directed thinking and its opposite - boredom, confusion and spacing
- [Joey Dubuc: hE BLESSES hIS gOOSE](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joey-dubuc-he-blesses-his-goose/) - Joey Dubuc’s recent work has been seeking connections between procedural poetics, narrative theory and conceptual art. hE BLESSES hIS gOOSE is a world of puppets, maquettes, sculptures, and images developed from the narrative possibilities available in the limited lexicon of words that can be written upside-down on a calculator. The protagonist of this landscape, BILL
- [Nayeob Kim and Susan Kang: The Unwritten History of a Quixote](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nayeob-kim-and-susan-kang-the-unwritten-history-of-a-quixote/) - Allow me modestly to claim that I am much better now at ambiguities. – Saul Bellow in Herzog The Unwritten History of a Quixote features Nayeob Kim and Susan Kang, two artists who approach their work through play that is repetitive, laborious, idealistic and absurd. The idea of the yard sale metaphorically connects Kim and
- [Leave Room for the Holy Spirit](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nayeob-kim-david-mook-robyn-croft-scott-moore-melanie-coles-barry-meldrum-christopher-olson-tiziana-la-melia-julianne-claire-rainbow-friberg-anna-szaflarski-allison-tweedie-sarah-hoemberg/) - Third Annual Emily Carr Institute Off-Site Graduation Exhibition Curated by Robyn Croft, Tiziana La Melia and Tegan Moore Nuns with rulers in hand, supervising teenage slow-dancers, separate the yielding bodies with the stern reminder to “Leave room for the Holy Spirit!” Like the last dance at prom, the works in this exhibition share a quick
- [Samuel Rudolph: The Scab of Antiquity](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/samuel-rudolph-the-scab-of-antiquity/) - History often seems to bear out the overriding influence of architecture on art, not the other way around. Our built environments help determine what kind of artistic creations can be made to furnish them, and influence both the context and the quality of these furnishings at any given time. Architecture can highlight whatever is in-sync
- [Joshua Bartholomew and Cedric Meister: The Liminality Project](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joshua-bartholomew-and-cedric-meister-the-liminality-project/) - Curated by Tegan Moore We have all been confronted with the challenge of stepping over a threshold, whether it’s as trivial as passing over the sill of a doorway or as momentous as graduating from school and entering the “real world.” However great or trivial the action, the act of breaching a threshold involves expectations
- [Shilo Jones: GLUT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/shilo-jones-glut/) - Shilo Jones’ GLUT is an exhibition of sculptural objects in which materials are handled in unusual ways and combined in singular fashion. A visceral softness and paradoxical sense of materiality characterize Jones’ work, which utilize elements of wood or stone carving, plaster, dollar-store kitsch and pop-culture references. In one assemblage, a Flavinesque neon light is
- [Sarah Hoemberg: No Hard Feelings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sarah-hoemberg-no-hard-feelings/) - Sarah Hoemberg takes advantage of the viewer's urge to select and discover, using subtle, basic tricks to spark attention. The paintings and sculptures are not seductive in a blatantly visual way. In her paintings, the colours are undersaturated, the contrast is low, and nothing is too considered or overstated. Every unique form hovers in close
- [Jenipher Hur: Momentary Equilibrium of the Fantasy Harmony Schematic](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jenipher-hur-momentary-equilibrium-of-the-fantasy-harmony-schematic/) - Perhaps the best ever motorcycle documentary, On Any Sunday (1971) came out during the last major phase of the Vietnam War, a bit before Nixon’s Watergate, and right around the time that the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was ratified in Moscow. It is fun to imagine, then, how the filmmakers were able to digest these wild
- [Madoka Hara, R. Kikuo Johnson, Kaori Kasai, Cindy Mochizuki, Jillian Tamaki: Between what’s said and unsaid](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/madoka-hara-r-kikuo-johnson-kaori-kasai-cindy-mochizuki-jillian-tamaki-between-whats-said-and-unsaid/) - Curated by Alia Nakashima Produced in partnership with the Powell Street Festival Society Between what’s said and unsaid is an exhibition of drawings and works on paper by Nikkei (Japanese descent) artists from Canada, USA, and Japan. This show looks at drawing as storytelling, drawing as exploration, drawing as play and process. From the sequential
- [Talk to the Hands](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/samantha-anderson-francesca-bennett-scott-billings-emily-kai-bock-rebecca-brewer-angela-chen-christopher-donnelly-roland-eickmeier-kayla-guthrie-jeremy-hof-steven-hubert-diana-kim-varian/) - Opening reception: Friday, April 27, 8:00 pm Featuring the work of Samantha Anderson, Francesca Bennett, Scott Billings, Emily Kai Bock , Rebecca Brewer, Angela Chen, Christopher Donnelly, Roland Eickmeier, Kayla Guthrie, Jeremy Hof, Steven Hubert, Diana Kim, Varian Loo, Manolo Lugo, Nicholas Matranga, Daniel Oates, Neal Rockwell, Maxwell Simmer, Warren Stagg, Shiloh Sukkau and Keith
- [Maxwell Simmer and Shiloh Sukkau: The History of Mystery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/maxwell-simmer-and-shiloh-sukkau-the-history-of-mystery/) - Perhaps hardwired by the tragi-comic reality of life and death, one sees epic-stylings everywhere, if one is honest—with war and scandal, love and adventure, supernatural forces and sometimes even a questionable birthright—all connected to the stellar and seemless narrative arch of the everyday. (In fact, they say this grand sweep of the epic can be
- [Tegan Moore: No Light Stands Alone](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tegan-moore-no-light-stands-alone/) - Like the Concrete Poet who tries to make words look like other things, Tegan Moore has set out in No Light Stands Alone to package light itself. As ambitious as this may seem, her discrete sculptural experiments appear to trap light somewhat less vigorously than the average atom or solar panel, bringing to mind a
- [Pablo Helguera: The School of Panamerican Unrest](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/pablo-helguera-the-school-of-panamerican-unrest/) - Pablo Helguera The School of Panamerican Unrest Friday, May 26 to Saturday June 10, 2006 EVENTS: Discussion/Roundtable Presentation: Friday, May 26 at 7:00 pm Panamerican Civic Ceremony: Saturday, May 27 at 8:00 pm With the participation of: Trevor Boddy (architecture critic/urbanist) • Michèle Faguet (curator, Or Gallery) • Charo Neville (independent curator) • Aaron Peck
- [Steve Hubert and Nick Matranga: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/steve-hubert-and-nick-matranga-self-fulfilling-prophecies/) - Steve Hubert and Nick Matranga Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Friday, July 7–Saturday, August 5, 2006 The combination of rationalism (to think that something is singularly what you know it to be) and the process of finding a plurality of meanings serves to illustrate, within Hubert’s works, how the simplicity of making, saying, or doing can bring truth.
- [CLOUDFACE Oo Oo / PLAYS: FOUR / THE AQUARIAN FOUNDATION](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/no-show-2/cloudface-oo-oo-plays-four-the-aquarian-foundation/) - * no show * A night of electronically informed structures by way of dance music's eternal puncture into the sublime. Cloudface Oo Oo "Within the individual, assumed to be harmonically connected to a similarly perfect and sacred totality, coupled with millennial expectations." Plays: Four Triple deck sound system and textural stabs from the couch side.
- [WEED / SULDREN ( Aaron Read band ) / Web Sheriff](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/no-show-2/weed-suldren-aaron-read-band/) - * no show * A night of bands performing rock music. WEED Unconvinced road warriors lay their cards on the table, only for the game to be interrupped by true sludge = true pop in multiple variants, re-administering the options on your next trip to the fast food counter. http://weed.bandcamp.com/ SULDREN Formally the Aaron Reed
- [Wil George: Survival In Its Many Shapes](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/wil-george-survival-in-its-many-shapes/) - Artist Talk. November 13th, 2011. [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WilGeorge_ArtistsTalk-11-13-11.mp3] Survival in its Many Shapes [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WilGeorge_SIIMS_3.mp3] Pain in its Many Shapes [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WilGeorge_PIIMS_2.mp3] Wil George’s poems, both in print and reading, draw on the struggles for cultural and personal survival of First Nations people in the context of the colonization and development of the unceded territories on
- [UJ3RK5: An Oral History](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/uj3rk5-an-oral-history/) - An Oral History by David Wisdom with Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace, Colin Griffiths, Frank Ramirez, and Danice Macleod. Introduced by Brady Cranfield and Kathy Slade of the Music Appreciation Society. September 17th 2011. [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/U-J3RK5-An-Oral-History-09-17-11.mp3]
- [Excerpts from Wrong Wave 2: Art rock is dead/Long live art rock](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/excerpts-from-wrong-wave-2-art-rock-is-deadlong-live-art-rock/) - Excerpts from the Wrong Wave 2 music festival, curated by The Music Appreciation Society, and played at the Waldorf Hotel, September 14 & 15, and UNIT/PITT Projects, September 16. Featuring Myths, Flash Palace, DJ Eli Bornowsky, B-Lines, Cowards, DJ Andrea Lukic and Mathew Sawyer. [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1-Flash-Palace.mp3,https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2-Flash-Palace.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/7-Cowards.mp3,https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/5-Cowards.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/4-Cowards.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2-Cowards.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/9-B-Lines.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/5-B-Lines.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/4-B-Lines.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3-B-Lines.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1-B-Lines.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1-Myths.mp3,
- [Excerpts from Rereading The Riot Act: A Series Curated by Anakana Schofield](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/excerpts-from-rereading-the-riot-act-a-series-curated-by-anakana-schofield/) - First part of the series curated by Anakana Schofield, Rereading the Riot Act I: A Public Action. Rereading The Riot Act is an ongoing interrogation of the historical events of April 23, 1935 — when Mayor Gerry McGeer read the Riot Act to the relief camp protesters, their families and supporters gathered at Victory Square.
- [Patrick Cruz: Yin Yang Temple](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/patrick-cruz-yin-yang-temple/) - Patrick Cruz Artist Talk. September 17th, 2011 [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Patrick-Cruz-Artist-Talk-09-17-11.mp3] Yin Yang Temple Playlist [audio:https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/01-Were-So-Cool-3.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/02-Wish-You-Could-Understand.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/01-P.E.-Teacher-1.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/10-Foggy-Eyes.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/04-Surreal-to-You.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/18-Doom.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/01-Bobbis-Station-ID.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/12-Love-is-Just-a-Game.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/02-Wish-You-Could-Understand.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/16-One-Chance.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/01-Beach-Attack-at-Crazy-Beach.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/17-Devils-Wand.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/05-This-Song-is-Going-to-be-a-Hit.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/03-Your-Love-Glows-In-The-Dark-1.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/03-Trash-Island.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/12-Shes-A-Real-Cutie-Pie.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Hank_id.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Playground.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/08-Hey-Dont-Fall.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/13-The-Same.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/09-Pick-up-the-Pieces.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/17-The-Lois-St.-Whats-Her-Name-1.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/24-Karawane.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/01-Turners-Station-ID.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/06-Interruptions.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/01-station-id-21.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Glass-Building-excerpt-from-einstein-on-the-beach.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/19-The-One-in-the-Dark.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/14-Rockin-Bunny.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/07-Viva-La-Memphis.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/10-Maff-Pitch.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/03-Bad-Birthday.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11-Endless-Expression.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/03-The-Closet.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/02-shoot-to-kill.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Gangsta-Forever.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/13-shouts.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/04-Tommy-Wright-III-Lil-Sko-Balla-On.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/death-is-not-a-metaphor.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/15-Bitch.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ANTHEM.mp3,
- [We Give a Shit Because We Care](https://www.unitpitt.ca/radio/we-give-a-shit-because-we-care/) - Artist Talk for We Give a Shit Because We Care by Chun Hua Catherine Dong and Ek Rzepka Introduced by Keith Higgins. December 11, 2011. [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Artist-Talk-for-We-Give-a-Shit-Because-We-Care-12-11-11.mp3] Part of Ill Repute series, a collaborative project that explores stories behind institutions and commemorates artists and cultural workers that honor the history of subcultures, cultures of resistance,
- [Sxwchálten (Dustin Rivers): Vancouver Can't Argue With The Dead](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ill-repute/sxwchalten-dustin-rivers-vancouver-cant-argue-with-the-dead/) - Opening Saturday, December 10 2011 at 8pm. Gallery hours, Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5pm. "That was just the way things were back then." "Well, I can't argue with the dead." In this work, which juxtaposes the archival and the current, traditional language and contemporary jargon, and the “first person” perspective with the false
- [Chris Bose: The Apology](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ill-repute/chris-bose-the-apology/) - Book launch and opening, Friday December 30, 8 pm. The Apology is a new media installation featuring rare colour footage from 1941 Vancouver. This work juxtaposes the modern city with Aboriginal Children at an undisclosed Residential School and with a voice over of the Apology by Stephen Harper to the First Nations, Inuit and Metis
- [Patrick Cruz: Yin Yang Temple](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ill-repute/patrick-cruz-yin-yang-temple/) - Opening Friday, October 21, 8pm Artist talk and book launch Saturday, December 17, 2pm In the first of the Ill Repute series of projects commissioned from emerging artists, Patrick Cruz has created Yin Yang Temple. Playlist: [audio:https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/01-Were-So-Cool-3.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/02-Wish-You-Could-Understand.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/01-P.E.-Teacher-1.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/10-Foggy-Eyes.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/04-Surreal-to-You.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/18-Doom.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/01-Bobbis-Station-ID.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/12-Love-is-Just-a-Game.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/02-Wish-You-Could-Understand.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/16-One-Chance.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/01-Beach-Attack-at-Crazy-Beach.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/17-Devils-Wand.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/05-This-Song-is-Going-to-be-a-Hit.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/03-Your-Love-Glows-In-The-Dark-1.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/03-Trash-Island.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/12-Shes-A-Real-Cutie-Pie.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Hank_id.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Playground.mp3, https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/08-Hey-Dont-Fall.mp3,
- [Marta Pan: Paintings and Sculpture](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/marta-pan-paintings-and-sculpture/)
- [Michael S. Thorne: Thornography](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-s-thorne-thornography/)
- [Steven Graham: House of Abstracts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/steven-graham-house-of-abstracts/)
- [Endgame by Samuel Beckett](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/endgame-by-samuel-beckett/)
- [David Ostrem: Beautiful Drawings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-ostrem-beautiful-drawings/)
- [Lisa Kokin: Vestiges, Work in Fibre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lisa-kokin-vestiges-work-in-fibre/)
- [Black Humour: Information Velocity, A Visual Exhibit](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/black-humour-information-velocity-a-visual-exhibit/)
- [A Multi-media Open Show on the Theme of Angels](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/a-multi-media-open-show-on-the-theme-of-angels/)
- [Kevin Cook: Every Customer is my Guest](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kevin-cook-every-customer-is-my-guest/)
- [Jim Christy: Sinners and Saints](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-christy-sinners-and-saints/)
- [Harry Ruggenberg: Participation Painting](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/harry-ruggenberg-participation-painting/)
- [At the Laundromat: Women Showing Art at the Laundromat](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/at-the-laundromat/)
- [Garry Jablonski-Jones: Recent Work](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gary-jablonski-jones-recent-work/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Chun Hua Catherine Dong and Ek Rzepka: We Give A Shit Because We Care](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ill-repute/chunhua-catherine-dong-and-ek-rzepka-we-give-a-shit-because-we-care/) - Opening Friday, December 2, 2011 at 8pm. UNIT/PITT, 15 E. Pender St., Vancouver BC. Talk: Sunday, December 11, 2pm. Gallery hours: noon to 5pm, Wednesday through Saturday. Video shown in front window, nightly from 8 to 11pm. Web-based work can be found at http://giveashit.helenpittgallery.org. We Give A Shit Because We Care is collaborative project that
- [Yvonne Parent: The Carousel](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/yvonne-parent-the-carousel/)
- [Craig Mahood: The Great Canadian Post-Atomic Home](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/craig-mahood-the-great-canadian-post-atomic-home/)
- [Jeannie Kamins: Amazing Grace will take the anti-poverty coalition challenge to live on welfare!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jeannie-kamins-amazing-grace-will-take-the-anti-poverty-coalition-challenge-to-live-on-welfare/)
- [I, Braineater and Stan Lake: Vanity Bizarre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/i-braineater-and-stan-lake-vanity-bizarre/)
- [Arthur Simmons: Conversation Pieces, A Show of Telephones](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/arthur-simmons-conversation-pieces-a-show-of-telephones/)
- [Judy Ward, April 1989](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/judy-ward-april-1989/)
- [Henry Raja-Aho: Matter=Energy=Space=Motion=Energy=Life](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/henry-raja-aho-matterenergyspacemotionenergylife/)
- [Nils Jesperson: In Memorium, Walter Knapp](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nils-jesperson-in-memorium-walter-knapp/)
- [Me, Me, Me!: A Self-Portrait Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/me-me-me-a-self-portrait-show/) - Self-portrait show by guest curator Hedy Wood.
- [Pablo Fiasco, Jan Wade, Julie Duschenes, Jim Cummins: The Last Pittsure Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/pablo-fiasco-jan-wade-julie-duschenes-jim-cummins-the-last-pittsure-show/) - The PITT is moving!! The PITT is moving!!! After nine long years in a roach infested rat hole on the seedy side of downtown Vancouver, the Unit/Pitt Gallery is finally ready to relocate. We don't like to brag, but the new location is really quite nice and actually has a floor and a ceiling that
- [Draineaters: April 1983](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/draineaters-april-1983/)
- [Exhibition to be Destroyed](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/exhibition-to-be-destroyed/) - Murray Brown, Jim Carrico, Christian Dahlberg, Todd Davis, Paul Ewert, Bill Featherston, Paul Forsythe, Mark Grady, Josie Kane, Rob Linsley, Richard Lukacs, Lorna Mulligan, Bill Noye, Oraf, David Ostrem, Ed Varney, Steven Wasney, Diane Wood
- [I, Braineater : I,Here. Where You!](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ibraineater-ihere-where-you/)
- [Depiction and Resistance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/depiction-and-resistance/) - In conjunction with celebration '90, a multimedia visual art, film and performance group exhibition. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [All I Have is Time: Joseph Wolkosky, April 1990](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/all-i-have-is-time-joseph-wolkosky-april-1990/)
- [Banff Ceramics Department](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/banff-ceramics-department/) - Sculpture and installation. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [James Fearon: Irish Scrolls](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/james-fearon-irish-scrolls/)
- [Michael Graf: Installation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-graf-installation/)
- [Persimmon Blackbridge: Doing Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/persimmon-blackbridge-doing-time/)
- [New Paintings by Peter Hamann, March 13 1989](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/new-paintings-by-peter-hamann-march-13-1989/)
- [Peter Afken, Jurgen Brockmann, Cornelia Dusor, Ralf Jurszo, Jochen Kuhn, Wolfgang Michael, Horst Muller, Ralf-Rainer Odenwald, Hopek Quirin, Norbert Schwontkowski: Vancouver / Hamburg](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/peter-afken-jurgen-brockmann-cornelia-dusor-ralf-jurszo-jochen-kuhn-wolfgang-michael-horst-muller-ralf-rainer-odenwald-hopek-quirin-norbert-schwontkowski-vancouver-hamburg/)
- [Leonard Brett: Human Rites, July 1983](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/human-rites-leonard-brett-july-1983/)
- [Rapid Change: Peter Gillett](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rapid-change-peter-gillett/)
- [Lynda Barry, Roland Brener, Dorothy Buckland, Beverly Chysyk, Brian Collins, Ian Garrioch, Ken Gerberick, Terry Larkin, Glenn Lewis, Mandad, Phillip McCrum, John McEwen, Carel Moisewitch, Michelle Normoyle, Lorraine Oades, Jerry Pethick, Barbara Spohr, Roger Sullens, John Thompson, Jim Thornsbury, Pennie Umbrico, Robert Young: Dog Days](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lynda-barry-roland-brener-dorothy-buckland-beverly-chysyk-brian-collins-ian-garrioch-ken-gerberick-terry-larkin-glenn-lewis-mandad-phillip-mccrum-john-mcewen-carel-moisewitch-michelle-nor/)
- [Clint Atkinson: Drawings on Purpose](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/clint-atkinson-drawings-on-purpose/)
- [Ingrid Yuille: Somebody's Well-Known Secret](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ingrid-yuille-somebodys-well-known-secret/)
- [Ingrid Koenig: Rap of the Sublime](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ingrid-koenig-rap-of-the-sublime/)
- [ME II: A Self-Portrait Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/me-ii-a-self-portrait-show/)
- [Graham Gilmore, Angela Grossman, Attila Richard Lukacs, Derek Root: Futura Bold](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/graham-gilmore-angela-grossman-attila-richard-lukacs-derek-root-futura-bold/) - Opening at the Pitt International Galleries on Monday December 3 at 8:00 p.m. is an exhibit by four young, dynamic painters, Graham Gillmore, Angela Grossman, Attila Richard Lukacs, and Derek Root. Having worked together for the past two years in a supportive/critical dialogue, these artists have clearly developed in their committment to painting. They are
- [Many Drawings and Pretty Pictures](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/many-drawings-and-pretty-pictures/) - The Pitt International Galleries (formerly Unit/Pitt Gallery) will be re-opening its doors at 36 Powell St. (main floor) on Monday November 5, at 8:00 p.m. Our new premises features three distinct galleries, one white, one grey, and one black, that allows a highly flexible programming schedule that will accommodate all art. We open with two
- [Tony Horn: Trouble in Bedrock](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tony-horn-trouble-in-bedrock/) - The Unit/Pitt Gallery, 163 West Pender, is pleased to present, live from Seattle, the faboulous Tony Horn. Trouble in Bedrock describes, in daringly executed paintings, the trials and tribulations of Stone Age stars Fred, Wilma, and assorted Flintstones, Rubbles, and Jetsons, as they attempt to cope with the modern world of high tech. See Pebbles
- [Mary Ann Liu and Ray Alton: Sculpture and Painting](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mary-ann-liu-and-ray-alton-sculpture-and-painting/) - A horse is a horse, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course, unless of course the horse is the work of Vancouver artist Mary Ann Liu and on display at the Unit/Pitt Gallery. Mary Ann's horse is a life size ceramic sculpture, in complete realistic detail. You may not actually
- [Debora Klyman-Mowczan: Sculpture Garden](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/debora-klyman-mowczan-sculpture-garden/) - Opening Monday, march 12, 1984 at 8pm the Unit/Pitt Gallery is happy to present the recently completed installation of Debora Klyman-Mowczan, a Vancouver sculptor. The installation which will occupy the entire gallery space is comprised of three elemnts: the pool, the poles and 75 modular units referred to as, the structures. Envision an undersized Stanley
- [Dierdre Keohane and Ron Zawatski: Fiendish Scenery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/diedre-keohane-and-ron-zawatski-fiendish-scenery/)
- [Karen Kazmer: Sideshow](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/karen-kazmer-sideshow/)
- [Matt Harley: Fur Painting (Primered Cars) and Others](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/matt-harley-fur-painting-primered-cars-and-others/)
- [Wil George: Survival In Its Many Shapes](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ill-repute/wil-george-survival-in-its-many-shapes/) - Wil George, a contemporary artist of the Tsleil Waututh Nation, will launch his book Survival In Its Many Shapes on Saturday November 5 at 2pm, at UNIT/PITT Projects. This book, accompanied by a video and readings to be broadcast on UNIT/PITT Radio, is part of the Ill Repute project for Vancouver's 125th anniversary, curated by
- [Philippe Raphanel and Paul Howells: Drawings and Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/philippe-raphanel-and-paul-howells-drawings-and-paintings/)
- [Julie Duschenes, Mark Grady, Cathy Ord and Todd Davis: Drawn From](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/julie-duschenes-mark-grady-cathy-ord-and-todd-davis-drawn-from/)
- [11 Sculptors from Cap College](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/11-sculptors-from-cap-college/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Joe Sarahan: "Curse" of the "Homo"](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joe-sarahan-curse-of-the-homo/) - Video Installation No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Vancouver School Of Art Students: The November Show 77](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-students-the-novembe-show-77/)
- [Vancouver School Of Art Students: The March Show 77](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-students-the-march-show-77/)
- [Mountain Dance Company ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mountain-dance-company/)
- [Carol Sawyer, Edward Withey and Keith Davidson: 3 People Painters of People](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/carol-sawyer-edward-withey-and-keith-davidson-3-people-painters-of-people/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Four book launches: leannej, Natural Progress, Everyday Library, User's Guide ](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/publication-studio-summer-residency/four-book-launches/) - On Saturday, July 30, Publication Studio Vancouver's storefront residency at UNIT/PITT Projects continues with four book launches. Join us from 2 to 4 pm for freshly made copies of these new books, produced on-premises at 15 East Pender Street, Vancouver. The four titles show the range and variety possible in storefront publishing using on-demand techniques.
- [Kent Tate: Vanishing Heat](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kent-tate-and-marie-kamali-vanishing-heat/) - Vanishing Heat (Super 8, 58 minutes, 1983) was an experimental movie comprised of Super 8 film Kent Tate shot from 1981-1982, combined with found footage. The entire film was created using an optical printer at the Funnel in Toronto, taking 7 months to complete. Each frame was duplicated multiple times to effect an ethereal slow motion, while the soundtrack was in real time. One of the
- [Rereading The Riot Act II: Performance Cabaret](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rereading-the-riot-act-a-series-curated-by-anakana-schofield/rereading-the-riot-act-ii-performance-cabaret/) - Presented by UNIT/PITT at The Waldorf Hotel, 1489 E Hastings St, Vancouver BC Canada 8 - 11 pm Wednesday, June 15 - Free admission In an ongoing interrogation of the historical events of April 23, 1935 -- when Mayor Gerry McGeer read the Riot Act to the relief camp protesters, their families and supporters gathered
- [L.N. Baird](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/l-n-baird/) - Gray Drawings and Photographs. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Minature Print Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/minature-print-show/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Vancouver School of Art: Graphic Design](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-graphic-design/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Stephanie Agg](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/stephanie-agg/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [DuMaurier International Jazz Festival](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/dumaurier-international-jazz-festival/) - No other information on this event is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Margo Kane: The River-Home](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/margo-kane-the-river-home/) - Using text, sound, movement and video, writer/director Margo Kane's work features an ensemble of First Nations artists exploring the rivers of memory.
- [Bugs Inside](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bugs-inside/) - New Compositions and Collaborations: Local Jazz group joined by dancers Barbara Bourget, Suzan Elliot, and Jay Hirabayshi. Kinetic Sculptures by Michael Hornsby.
- [Waves and Raves Cabaret](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/waves-and-raves-cabaret/) - Electro-dance band Perfume Tree, comedienne Christine Taylor, DJ Patti Stacker, and readings by Phinder Dulai and Kelly White. This event was part of the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts.
- [Deanna Bowen: Home](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/deanna-bowen-home/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Faye Heavyshield: The Heart As](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/faye-heavyshield-the-heart-as/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Teresa Marshall: Department of Indian Affairs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/teresa-marshall-department-of-indian-affairs/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Group Show: Contemporary Cameras](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/group-show-contemporary-cameras/) - Works by Zachary Longboy, David Neel, Shelly Niro, Aurthur Renwick, and Greg Staats. Curated by Mike MacDonald. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [East/West Performance Exchange](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/eastwest-performance-exchange/) - Performance artists from Quebec and BC exchange performances. Featuring Chris Creighton-Kelly, Diane Landry, Richard Martel, Ahasiw Kitotcigan Maskegon-Iskew, and Scott Tate. 8pm. $10/8. No other information on this event is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Making Out: Women on the Verge of Revolution in the Mango Swamp of Enchantment](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/making-out-women-on-the-verge-of-revolution-in-the-mango-swamp-of-enchantment/) - Voices of lesbian and bisexual women of colour and two-spirited women of first Nations. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Vancouver Free Press Festival](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-free-press-festival/) - Poetry readings by nine local authors and live music by local bands Copyright, Roots Roundup and Bugs Inside. No other information on this event is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Adonica, Sister Nadine, BBUNO, and Mark Pouser](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/adonica-sister-nadine-bbuno-and-mark-pouser/) - Performances and Readings. May 1-6, 15, and 29. 9pm. No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the artists and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Group Show: Black Subjected](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/group-show-black-subjected/) - Comic Book drawings by Terrence Anthony, film/video installation by Selina Williams, and installation by David-George. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [50/50: Works by over 100 Vancouver Artists](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/5050-works-by-over-100-vancouver-artists/) - Including Joe Average, Anna Banana, Bill Bisset, Persimmon Blackbridge, Lincoln Clarkes, I Braineater, Terry Ewasluk, Ken Gerberick, Carel Moisewitsch, Al Neil, Oraf, Chick Rice, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Jan Wade, Paul Wong, and Joyce Woods. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of
- [Perez Valverde: Jesus Angel](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/perez-valverde-jesus-angel/) - New roots from the same skin: Testimonies/Collage Paintings Mexico City. Mexcian Indeginous peoples videos screening March 11, 8pm No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [LEAPS (Live Electronic Arts Performance Series)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/leaps-live-electronic-arts-performance-series/) - No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Sharyn Yuen: Like a Plaque of Locusts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sharyn-yuen-like-a-plaque-of-locusts/) - Media based installation on handmade paper. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [New Years Eve Party](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/new-years-eve-party/) - Music by Sarcastic Mannequins and the Smugglers. 10pm No other information on this event is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Edmond Melnychuck: Multimedia Works](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/edmond-melnychuck-multimedia-works/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Performance Series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/performance-series/) - Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, and Raven Courtney: Saturday Nov 2 Donald Morin: Wednesday Nov 6 A. Kitocigan Makegon-Iskwew: Saturday Nov 9 No information on these events are currently available from the archives, except for the artists and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please
- [Donald Morin: Performance of Work in Progress](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/donald-morin-performance-of-work-in-progress/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Dana Claxton: Multimedia Poetry Reading](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/dana-claxton-multimedia-poetry-reading/) - No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Group Show: NeoNativists](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/group-show-neonativists/) - Contemporary Native Art by Teresa MacPhee, Kim Soo Goodtrack, Rick Harry, Leonard Fisher, Dana Claxton, Archer Pechawis, Donald Morin, Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, and Donald GhostKeeper No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you
- [Rondel Renoldson: Making No Apologies](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rondel-renoldson-making-no-apologies/) - Performance starts @ 9pm. By donation ($6) No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Group Show: First Ladies](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/group-show-first-ladies/) - A mixed media exhibition of aboriginal womens art, including Tania Cardinal, Lee Maracle, Kin Soo Goodtrack, Mary Longman and Michelle Thrush. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Big Bang Cabaret](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/big-bang-cabaret/) - Performances by Johnny Payne, Chris Houston, Andrew Wilson, and Roy Green. 10pm. No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [D.B. Boyko: Amphibious Tales](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/d-b-boyko-amphibious-tales/) - Performance with Andreas Kahre, Mark Parlett, and Kenneth Newby No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Kate Smith: Bed Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kate-smith-bed-show/) - Installation. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Group Show: Art with a Conscience](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/group-show-art-with-a-conscience/) - Special exhibition of works by 39 B.C. artists, including Jack Shadbolt, Tony Onley, John Koener, and recent Emily Carr graduates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Mark Harris and Ken Decker](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mark-harris-and-ken-decker/) - Writing/Reading Series @ 8pm No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Nicola Swaine: Recent Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nicola-swaine-recent-paintings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Diane Landry and Jocelyn Robert: Environ 8000 Kilometers](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/diane-landry-and-jocelyn-robert-environ-8000-kilometers/) - Installation by two Quebec artists centering around their cross-Canada travels. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [J.E. Sorrell](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/j-e-sorrell/) - Author reading @ 8pm. No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [B.U.NO.: Black Untitled #one](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/b-u-no-black-untitled-one/) - Performance @ 8pm. No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Angel Stripped Bare](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/angel-stripped-bare/) - Performance @ 8pm No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Oraf: Concentration](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/oraf-concentration/) - Exhibition regarding the concentration of material goods and associative greed. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Stephen O'connel: Proper Identification](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/stephen-oconnel-proper-identification/) - Performance @ 8pm. $5 No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [MAL. INC. LTD.: Betrayal of Innocence](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mal-inc-ltd-betrayal-of-innocence/) - "Matias Grieck uses the name MAL. INC. LTD. to de-personify his art-making. Grieck has been in numerous group exhibitions and performances in Berlin, and Buenos Aires, while a student at the Hochschule der Kunste Berlin. His installation at the Pitt Gallery was of sacks of milk powder, contaminated by the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl, that
- [Todd Davis and Robin Peck](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/todd-davis-and-robin-peck/) - Sculpture and conceptual art. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Mike McDonald: Recent Works](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mike-mcdonald-recent-works/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Bridgit Hill and Stephen O'Connell: Suede](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bridgit-hill-and-stephen-oconnell-suede/) - Multidisciplinary performance. 8pm. No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and date. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Grant Shilling: Boot Camp Foot Fetish](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/grant-shilling-boot-camp-foot-fetish/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Christopher Carey, Kathrine Moore and Sandra Storey](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/christopher-carey-kathrine-moore-and-sandra-storey/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the artists and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Housewarming Party](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/housewarming-party/) - Speaker Jim Green, poets Shelia Baxter and PJ Fleming, and music by LSD 49. 8pm. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Real BC Home Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/real-bc-home-show/) - Art against housing for profit. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Sergio Barrosa](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sergio-barrosa/) - Concert of new electronic compositions. 8pm. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Questionable Practices](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/questionable-practices/) - work from the board of directors and friends. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Donald Ghostkeeper: Questionable Practices](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/donald-ghostkeeper-questionable-practices/) - Performance. 10pm. No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Andre Stitt: Change is Not a Motel](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/andre-stitt-change-is-not-a-motel/) - Live performance by Andre Stitt, an artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. 10pm. "Change is Not a Motel" was released on his album Ceasefire in 2000. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [AGM](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/agm/) - Reception and Performance
- [Wieslaw Lucza: Black Gallery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wieslaw-lucza-black-gallery/) - Installation No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Emily Faryna: Plastic Blues from a Dead Woman](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/emily-faryna-plastic-blues-from-a-dead-woman/) - Live and pre-recorded mock-shock-music-theatre-video performance. 10pm. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Grant Shilling: Cowgirls, Fags and other brave people at McDonalds](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/grant-shilling-cowgirls-fags-and-other-brave-people-at-mcdonalds/)
- [Liang and Trotter: Graphics](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/liang-and-trotter-graphics/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Evelyn Armstrong: Lithographs and Drawings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/evelyn-armstrong-lithographs-and-drawings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Neil Bercry: Conceptual Concepts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/neil-bercry-conceptual-concepts/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Banff Students: Photographs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/banff-students-photographs/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Prazak And Mah: Meta](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/prazak-and-mah-meta/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Three Painters](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/three-painters/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Gilles Girard](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gilles-girard/) - Sculpture. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Real Party: Jeux D'Autos](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/real-party-jeux-dautos/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Paul Dolden and Andrew Czink, with Projections by Mark Mushet: The Threshold of Deafening Silence](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/paul-dolden-and-andrew-czink-with-projections-by-mark-musset-the-threashold-of-deafening-silence/) - Electro-acoustic music solo tape, performances, and photographic projections. 8pm. No information on this event is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Gerry Gilbert, Yvonne Parent, and Robin Peck: National Book Festival Week](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gerry-gilbert-yvonne-parent-and-robin-peck-national-book-festival-week/) - Readings by the authors. 8pm. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Scott Tate: Pissing on Jesus' Grave](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/scott-tate-pissing-on-jesus-grave/) - Performance and video. 9pm. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Joseph Wolkosky](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joseph-wolkosky/) - Mixed media installation. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Ella Suleiman and Jayce Salloum: Intifada](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ella-suleiman-and-jayce-salloum-intifada/) - Film premiere. 8pm. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Artistic Freedom Under Attack](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/artistic-freedom-under-attack/) - Panel discussion on the need for denied artistic freedom. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Susan Frykberg: Woman and House](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/susan-frykberg-woman-and-house/) - Electronic music theatre. March 3, 8pm. March 4, 2pm. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Joseph Cowie: Surreal Human Figures](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joseph-cowie-surreal-human-figures/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Vicki Loschuk and Nancy Kembry: Narrative Drawings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vicki-loschuk-and-nancy-kembry-narrative-drawings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Anarchist Posters](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/anarchist-posters/) - Over 300 posters depicting a century of international anarchist culture
- [Sean Thomson, Rich Neilson and Kurt Robertson](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sean-thomson-rich-neilson-and-kurt-robertson/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Jack McColl and Joseph Wolkosky](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jack-mccoll-and-joseph-wolkosky/) - Paintings and multimedia installation. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Alison Bigg, Brenda Hemsing, Carol Sawyer](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/alison-bigg-brenda-hemsing-carol-sawyer/) - Photography. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Elane Brewer: White](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/elane-brewer-white/) - Installation. No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Micheal Graf](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/micheal-graf/) - Sculptural installation. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Carol Pantages](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/carol-pantages/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Jean Trilby Higinbotham: On My Metal](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jean-trilby-higinbotham-on-my-metal/) - No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Daniel Guimond](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/daniel-guimond/) - Multimedia installation. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [David Asmodeus](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-asmodeus/) - Multimedia installation. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [The New Landscape](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-new-landscape/) - Group exhibition curated by Carol Pantages No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Tom Buhr and Corraine Oades](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tom-buhr-and-corraine-oades/) - Photo collage and installation. No other information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Gerry Rivera: Pop Tart](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gerry-rivera-pop-tart/) - Live Taping of Performance. 9pm
- [Joe Menaby: The Permanent Smile](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joe-menaby-the-permanent-smile/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Archived events](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/)
- [Publications](https://www.unitpitt.ca/publications/)
- [Christina Kirouac: Other Business (in production)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/christina-kirouac-other-business-in-production/)
- [Eli Langer](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/eli-langer/)
- [Little Diablo vs. the Dirty Dollface: Lady's Wrestling](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/little-diablo-vs-the-dirty-dollface-ladys-wrestling/)
- [Galia Eibenschutz: Instructions For Use (Instrucciones De Uso)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/galia-eibenschutz-instructions-for-use-instrucciones-de-uso/)
- [Connie Laalo and Saskia Morgan: Censored in Suburbia](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/connie-laalo-and-saskia-morgan-censored-in-suburbia/)
- [Jill Henderson: Commune](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jill-henderson-commune-2/)
- [Richard Saxton and Kristofer Harzinski](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/richard-saxton-and-kristofer-harzinski/)
- [Andrew Dadson: Aforementioned](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/andrew-dadson-aforementioned/)
- [A panel discussion on socially engaged arts practice: with Karen Earl, Shala Gutierrez, Glen Lowry, Karina Vernon, Rita Wong, Moderated by Kirsten Forkert](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/a-panel-discussion-on-socially-engaged-arts-practice-with-karen-earl-shala-gutierrez-glen-lowry-karina-vernon-rita-wong-moderated-by-kirsten-forkert/)
- [David Medalla and Adam Nankervis: Performances](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-medalla-and-adam-nankervis-performances/)
- [Anna Wood: Cedros de Luxe](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/anna-wood-cedros-de-luxe/)
- [Ludovic Burel, Stuart Croft, Eduardo Difarnecio, Per Huttner, Myfanwy MacLeod, Tommy Stockel, Neil Zakiewicz: Re-Defining the La-La-La-Landscape](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ludovic-burel-stuart-croft-eduardo-difarnecio-per-huttner-myfanwy-macleod-tommy-stockel-neil-zakiewicz-re-defining-the-la-la-la-landscape/)
- [Natasha McHardy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/natasha-mchardy/)
- [The Royal Art Lodge (Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Michael Dumontier, Drue Langlois, Hollie Dzama, Myles Langlois): Lodge Drawings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-royal-art-lodge-marcel-dzama-neil-farber-michael-dumontier-drue-langlois-hollie-dzama-myles-langlois-lodge-drawings/) - The Lodge's nurturing of an inclusive, community–fostering art making process results in work deftly immune to the dictates of fashion and the shifting aesthetic paradigms and demands of the art market.
- [Smear: Porno Festival](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/smear-porno-festival/)
- [Gary Smith: Starfucker](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gary-smith-starfucker/)
- [David Cuesta: Hip](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-cuesta-hip/)
- [Erin Stanley and Corin Sworn: Seem Allowance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/erin-stanley-and-corin-sworn-seem-allowance/)
- [Agit Prop: Agitational Propaganda Festival](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/agit-prop-agitational-propaganda-festival/) - Debra Waddington: Moral Alley - June 15-16, 2000 Tagny Duff: Bureaucratic Ambient, June 16-July 14, 2000 Anna Louise Crago: Blueprint For Our Disposal (performance), June 20, 2000 Jonathan Wells: I Feel For You, July 21- August 19, 2000 The Popular Liberation Front: Poster Project, June 16, 2000 Whoremonial Surge: Works from the Coalition for the
- [Steven Rayner, Jessie Lacayo, James Whitman, Barb Choit, Jen Weih, Sarah Edmond, David Cuesta, Catherine Jones, Rebecca Watt, Carly Haddon: Cellular Origins, A Rhizome Growth of Artworks by Local Makers](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/steven-rayner-jessie-lacayo-james-whitman-barb-choit-jen-weih-sarah-edmond-david-cuesta-catherine-jones-rebecca-watt-carly-haddon-cellular-origins-a-rhizome-growth-of-artworks-by-local-make/) - There is a certain presence of the body within this supposed scientific debate. The view falls in the state of mind of a rhizome: the character of which permits you to endure a psychotic transference, knowing nothing.
- [Aya Imura: New Performance Work](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/aya-imura-new-performance-work/) - This exhibition is part of Asian Heritage Month's ArtAbout, a self-guided art tour around town. Curated by Jenny Ham and Cindy Mochizuki Iya Imura is an installation and performance artist who deals with ideas involving Eastern philosophy through Western standpoints. Her work integrates Western interpretations of Zen and other Eastern philosophies. an examination of nostalgia
- [Kirsten Forkert: Fleeting (performance)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kirsten-forkert-fleeting-performance-2/) - Kirsten Forkert rides a bike through several different neighbourhoods in the Vancouver area. While she is riding, a stereo attached to the bike plays a sound piece; a series of texts that mean different things depending on the location. Co–sponsored by Center A, Museum for Contemporary Asian Art, as a part of Asian Heritage Month.
- [Robin Fry: Hunters Handshake](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robin-fry-hunters-handshake-2/) - With considerations of microcosmic and macrocosmic parallels, new overlapping dimensions materialize. Fry’s goal is to find plastic reference points that describe the perfect romance between order and disorder.
- [Claudia Cuesta: Taste](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/claudia-cuesta-taste/)
- [Ingrid Mary Percy: Far-out (paintings)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ingrid-mary-percy-far-out-paintings/)
- [The J.D.s Years: 1980s Queer Zine Culture From Toronto](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-j-d-s-years-1980s-queer-zine-culture-from-toronto/) - Curated by Luis Jacob, organized by Art Metropole
- [Igor Santizo: Newworks, This Way](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/igor-santizo-newworks-this-way/)
- [Jeff Tutt, Wil Murray, Keith Manship, Kristina Kudryk, Erin Evans: 5 Painters](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jeff-tutt-wil-murray-keith-manship-kristina-kudryk-erin-evans-5-painters/)
- [Neighbours Project, Adam Harrison, Sean George, John Anderson, American Type Culture Collection: Cut and Paste, Considering the Idea of New Media](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/neighbours-project-adam-harrison-sean-george-john-anderson-american-type-culture-collection-cut-and-paste-considering-the-idea-of-new-media/)
- [Production, Consumption and Function: Exploring Alternative Economics](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/production-consumption-and-function-exploring-alternative-economics/) - Elizabeth Zvonar: The Free Luck Cart Jesse Gray, Vishal Jugdeo, Paul Kajander, Elizabeth Milton: The Meeting Richard andrews, David Dorrington, Caterina Fake, Carly Haddon, Lou Parsons, Graham Sheard, Elizabeth Zvonar: Roundtable discussion
- [Valerie Lamontagne: Advice Bunny](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/valerie-lamontange-advice-bunny/) - December 7th at 8pm and December 9th at 2pm
- [David Cuesta: CLEAN](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-cuesta-clean/)
- [Jen Weih: Wink and Banter](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jen-weih-wink-and-banter/)
- [The Joy's Hot](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-joys-hot/)
- [David Mabb: Canada Seen From a Great Height](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-mabb-canada-seen-from-a-great-height/)
- [Fame 15](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/fame-15/)
- [July Fourth Toilet](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/july-fourth-toilet/) - J. Mclaughlin: LOSER October 2nd, 8pm
- [Brian Lynch, Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: TRANSFIGURATIONS, New Erotic Work](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/brian-lynch-alex-waterhouse-hayward-transfigurations-new-erotic-work/)
- [Seong Ewn Ahn, Barb Choit, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Jacqueline Dionne, Tommy LaCroix, Mernie Lee Plested, Bruce Walther, Johann Wieghardt, Christine Wight: Entertainment Centre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/seong-ewn-ahn-barb-choit-ken-dietrich-campbell-jacqueline-dionne-tommy-lacroix-mernie-lee-plested-bruce-walther-johann-wieghardt-christine-wight-entertainment-centre/) - works from the Staff and Board
- [Kevin McKenzie: TOMAHAWK](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kevin-mckenzie-tomahawk/)
- [Michael Graf: KATAKLYSMOS](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-graf-kataklysmos/)
- [Jane Adams, King Anderson, Helen Davies, Terry Reid, Michael Morris, Judith O'Keeffe, Milly Ristvedt: 35 Years Later](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jane-adams-king-anderson-helen-davies-terry-reid-michael-morris-judith-okeeffe-milly-ristvedt-35-years-later/)
- [Kirsten Forkert: What I Know](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kirsten-forkert-what-i-know/)
- [Joanna Rogers: Under Wraps](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joanna-rogers-under-wraps/)
- [Bob Brown: Deceived by Trust](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bob-brown-deceived-by-trust/)
- [Winslow DeLaney, David-George and Kirk Moses: Equilibrium](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/winslow-delaney-david-george-and-kirk-moses-equilibrium/) - B.B.U.N.O. (Building Bridges Untitled Number One) Curated by Anya Slade in recognition of Black History Month
- [City at the End of Time](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/city-at-the-end-of-time/)
- [Mary Sui Yee Wong: The Cage Maker](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mary-sui-yee-wong-the-cage-maker/)
- [Six of the Best](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/six-of-the-best/)
- [Tagny Duff: Foul Lick](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tagny-duff-foul-lick/)
- [Cultural Emergency Memo: National Action Against Arts Cutbacks](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/cultural-emergency-memo-national-action-against-arts-cutbacks/)
- [Wendy Lewington Coulter: Work, Work, Work, An Exhibition of Art Quilts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wendy-lewington-coulter-work-work-work-an-exhibition-of-art-quilts/)
- [Amir Ali Alibhai, Shirley Bear, Linda Frimer, George Littlechild: Home+Age=Homage](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/amir-ali-alibhi-shirley-bear-linda-frimer-george-littlechild-homeagehomage/)
- [12 Midnight: The Road to Ruin](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/12-midnight-the-road-to-ruin/) - Benefit Exhibition for the Helen Pitt Gallery regarding Canada Council cuts.
- [Artists of the Peace River](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/artists-of-the-peace-river/) - Dawson Creek Art Gallery Exchange
- [Terry Nurmi: B.C. Industrial School for Girls ... In Memoriam](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/terry-nuami-b-c-industrial-school-for-girls-in-memoriam/) - Curated by Ken Dietrich - Campbell
- [Barbara Feuz, Ingrid Schutz, Folke Kobberling: Growing, Collecting, Constructing](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/barbara-feuz-ingrid-schutz-folke-kobberling-growing-collecting-constructing/)
- [Arts in the Square at the VPL](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/arts-in-the-square-at-the-vpl/) - Organized by Raphael Pocaterra
- [Daisy Party: Helen Pitt Gallery Fundraiser](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/daisy-party-helen-pitt-gallery-fundraiser/)
- [Kate Barry and Cheryl Hamilton: The Hyster - Y of Hippocrates and Hypocrisy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kate-barry-and-cheryl-hamilton-the-hyster-y-of-hippocrates-and-hypocrisy/)
- [I, Braineater: Parasite or Creator?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/i-braineater-parasite-or-creator/)
- [Elizabeth Fischer: Stand-up Tragedy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/elizabeth-fischer-stand-up-tragedy/)
- [Cymbali](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/cymbali/)
- [Lisle Ellis: Archipelago](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lisle-ellis-archipelago/)
- [Pat Rafferty: Street Art](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/pat-rafferty-street-art/)
- [Gail Carney: Paper Dolls](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gail-carney-paper-dolls/)
- [Philip Hoffman: Experimental Film at the Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/philip-hoffman-experimental-film-at-the-pitt/)
- [Joan Wilkinson: Quiet Pets](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joan-wilkinson-quiet-pets/)
- [David MacLean: A Performance, Quarantine of the Mind](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-maclean-a-performance-quarantine-of-the-mind/)
- [Elizabeth Fischer: Performance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/elizabeth-fischer-performance/)
- [Jim Cummins (I, Braineater): Time to Play](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-cummins-i-braineater-time-to-play/)
- [Bit Parts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bit-parts/)
- [Pearl Belleson, Nancy Bryant, Myrna Cobb, Robin Constabaris, Illarion Gallant, Michael Graham, Lori Kenney, James Koerster, Bill Pechet, Rae Reedyck, Margit Renwall, Debbie Schrieber: De Claudia Pix](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/pearl-belleson-nancy-bryant-myrna-cobb-robin-constabaris-illarion-gallant-michael-graham-lori-kenney-james-koerster-bill-pechet-rae-reedyck-margit-renwall-debbie-schrieber-de-claudia-pix/)
- [Maja Bannerman and David Prentice: First and Third Person](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/maja-bannerman-and-david-prentice-first-and-third-person/)
- [Don Monet: The Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Land Title Action 1987, Court Room 53 (An Installation)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/don-monet-the-gitksan-and-wetsuweten-land-title-action-1987-court-room-53-an-installion/)
- [Christa Donaldson: The Laughing Artist](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/christa-donaldson-the-laughing-artist/)
- [Ronald Littke: Ron Dog, The Terror From Beyond Midnight](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ronald-littke-ron-dog-the-terror-from-beyond-midnight/)
- [Me Again: The Third Ever Self - Portrait Exhibition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/me-again-the-third-ever-self-portrait-exhibition/)
- [Cinestir: Short Dramatic Film Festival](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/cinestir-short-dramatic-film-festival/) - Short dramatic film festival : december 9 and 16, 1988.
- [Mondo Pop-art Performance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mondo-pop-art-performance/)
- [Hockey Night at the Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/hockey-night-at-the-pitt/)
- [Tom Konyves: Experimenter, Book Launching and Reading](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tom-konyves-experimenter-book-launching-and-reading/)
- [12 Midnite: Neon](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/12-midnite-neon/)
- [Brian Roche: Recent Works](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/brian-roche-recent-works/)
- [Mark Gaskin: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mark-gaskin-paintings/)
- [Renee Poisson: Trialogue](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/renee-poisson-trialogue/)
- [Lucy Hogg: Recent Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lucy-hogg-recent-paintings/)
- [Don Druick: In Concert](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/don-druick-in-concert/)
- [The Alcove Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-alcove-show/)
- [Jocelyne Belcourt Salem: Lines and Threads](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jocelyne-belcourt-salem-lines-and-threads/)
- [El Salvador-Nicaragua: Two Films](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/el-salvador-nicaragua-two-films/)
- [Phillip Djwa and Matthew Rogalsky: Howse, An Installation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/phillip-djwa-and-matthew-rogalsky-howse-an-installation/)
- [Lis Wright Hawbaker: Icons, Paintings and Shadowboxes](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lis-wright-hawbaker-icons-paintings-and-shadowboxes/)
- [Summer Screen: New Film and Video](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/summer-screen-new-film-and-video/)
- [Terry Henderson, David Steele, Tom Wren: Scratch and Win](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/terry-henderson-david-steele-tom-wren-scratch-and-win/)
- [Wedding Mail Art Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wedding-mail-art-show/)
- [Little Fyodor](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/little-fyodor/)
- [Tom Knott and Catherine Champy: Hecate's Way](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tom-knott-and-catherine-champy-hecates-way/)
- [Mark Linklater and Kim Kolkching Wong: Gum Wah](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mark-linklater-and-kim-kolkching-wong-gum-wah/)
- [4th Annual Audio Art Exhibition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/4th-annual-audio-art-exhibition/)
- [Davide Pan: Drawings and Things (3D)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/davide-pan-drawings-and-things-3d/)
- [Poeticotomize: The Great Bite of Vancouver](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/poeticotomize-the-great-bite-of-vancouver/) - Featuring: More of Canada's Obscure Poet Contest, and the Hum-Drums.
- [Ruth Norman: Unarius Video "The Arrival"](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ruth-norman-unarius-video-the-arrival/)
- [Rudy Zator: An Offering](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rudy-zator-an-offering/)
- [Mike Dennis: Elements of Social Contact](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mike-dennis-elements-of-social-contact/)
- [Super 8: Moving Image as Art](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/super-8-moving-image-as-art/) - SUPER 8: MOVING IMAGE AS ART is an exciting group of works by contemporary experimental filmmakers in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and West Berlin. 4 nights from 4 cities February 5, 8, 11 and 12, 1988.
- [Visioning Palestine: Posters/ Video/ Film/ Sculpture/ Photo/ Craft](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/visioning-palestine-posters-video-film-sculpture-photo-craft/)
- [Radio Lake Louise (aka Brice Macneil): The Posters](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/radio-lake-louise-aka-brice-macneil-the-posters/)
- [Paul-Emile Saulnier, Bruno Santerre, Francoise Dugre, Reno Salvail, Firmin Firquet: Second Biennale of Visual Art in Eastern Quebec](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/paul-emile-saulnier-bruno-santerre-francoise-dugre-reno-salvail-firmin-firquet-second-biennale-of-visual-art-in-eastern-quebec/)
- [Bruce Hutton: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bruce-hutton-paintings/)
- [BLT Theatre Co.: Off White in the Black Gallery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/blt-theatre-co-off-white-in-the-black-gallery/)
- [12 Midnight: Pop Poison](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/12-midnight-pop-poison/)
- [Michael Hornsby: Portraits of the Fabulous Rich and Famous and Other Lies](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-hornsby-portraits-of-the-fabulous-rich-and-famous-and-other-lies/)
- [David Asmodeus, Polly Bak, Kempton Dexter, Ken Gerberick, Roy Green, Lenna Greer, Zoe Lambert, Daav Macnab, Jean MacRae, Gary Ouimet, Danielle Peacock, Dianne Radmore, Lunar Suede, Hillary Wood: Trace Elements, Current Assemblage](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-asmodeus-polly-bak-kempton-dexter-ken-gerberick-roy-green-lenna-greer-zoe-lambert-daav-macnab-jean-macrae-gary-ouimet-danielle-peacock-dianne-radmore-lunar-suede-hillary-wood-trace/)
- [Frank H. Rothkam: Fisch III , Short Notice II](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/frank-h-rothkam-fisch-iii-short-notice-ii/)
- [Brian Bukzak: New Paintings and Drawings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/brian-bukzak-new-paintings-and-drawings/)
- [Phyllis Serota: Esmeralda and the Fish / Persimmon Blackbridge: Crow Advises Me to Jump](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/phyllis-serota-esmeralda-and-the-fish-persimmon-blackbridge-crow-advises-me-to-jump/)
- [Manwoman: Products No Home Should Be Without](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/manwoman-products-no-home-should-be-without/)
- [Brenda Hemsing: Oreo Brunch, An Exhibition of Photography](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/brenda-hemsing-oreo-brunch-an-exhibition-of-photography/)
- [Lenna Greer: Landscapes](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lenna-greer-landscapes/)
- [No Idea: An Improvisational Noise Band](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/no-idea-an-improvisational-noise-band/)
- [A Presentation of Second Year Student Films (SFU)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/a-presentation-of-second-year-student-films-sfu/)
- [Mr. Smith and Derrick Humphreys: The Village, An Assemblage](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mr-smith-and-derrick-humphreys-the-village-an-assemblage/)
- [Ken Gerberick: Break Light](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ken-gerberick-break-light/)
- [The Capricorn Conspiracy](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-capricorn-conspiracy/)
- [The Art Rat Crizmaz Fare](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-art-rat-crizmaz-fare/)
- [Broken Moose](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/broken-moose/) - b
- [Valerie Tereszko, Morin, Titosky: 3 Experi-performances](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/valerie-tereszko-morin-titosky-3-experi-performances/)
- [Heather Spears: Drawings from the Midwifery Trial](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/heather-spears-drawings-from-the-midwifery-trial/)
- [James Campbell](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/james-campbell/)
- [Davide Pan](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/davide-pan/)
- [Doug Biden: Prints - Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/doug-biden-prints-paintings/)
- [Paul Perchal: Photographs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/paul-perchal-photographs/)
- [Kari Burk: The Smell of Something Familiar](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kari-burk-the-smell-of-something-familiar/)
- [M. Simon Levin: Sites, Sets and Artifacts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/m-simon-levin-sites-sets-and-artifacts/)
- [Liz Scully: Horizontal](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/liz-scully-horizontal/)
- [Carolyn Sullivan: A Century of Citizens](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/carolyn-sullivan-a-century-of-citizens/)
- [Ian Hinchliffe and Kevin O'Connor: Performance Pile Up](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ian-hinchliffe-and-kevin-oconnor-performance-pile-up/)
- [Ken Gerberick and Don Manuck: Transport 86'd](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ken-gerberick-and-don-manuck-transport-86d/)
- [Terry Sawatzky: Toy Piano](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/terry-sawatzky-toy-piano/)
- [Elliot Sharp: Guitar Improvisation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/elliot-sharp-guitar-improvisation/)
- [The East End Theatre Society: The Saliva Milkshake and Dr. Kheal](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-east-end-theatre-society-the-saliva-milkshake-and-dr-kheal/)
- [Lunar Suede: Industrial Primitive](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lunar-suede-industrial-primitive/)
- [Susan Mills: Diaries](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/susan-mills-diaries/)
- [Patsy McMurchy: Like a Good Deed...In a Naughty world](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/patsy-mcmurchy-like-a-good-deed-in-a-naughty-world/)
- [Roy and Greg: Tropical Beat-niks from Venus! Poetry and Performance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/roy-and-greg-tropical-beat-niks-from-venus-poetry-and-performance/)
- [Martin Guderna, Assia Linkovsky, Michael Bullock, Ted Kingan, Lori-Ann Latremouille, Ed Varney, Michael Wrinch, Andrej Somov, Gregg Simpson, Ladislav Guderna, Tim Iles, Sandy Woodburn, Sheri-D Wilson, Hosea: Open Cages](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/martin-guderna-assia-linkovsky-michael-bullock-ted-kingan-lori-ann-latremouille-ed-varney-michael-wrinch-andrej-somov-gregg-simpson-ladislav-guderna-tim-iles-sandy-woodburn-sheri-d-wilson/)
- [Glenn Alteen: Insite](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/glen-alteen-insite/)
- [The American Dream by Edward Albee](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-american-dream-by-edward-albee/) - Performances : May 15-17, 22-24, 29-31, 1986.
- [James Packer: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/james-packer-paintings/)
- [Maggie Maloney: Bed Time Secrets](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/maggie-maloney-bed-time-secrets/)
- [Daav Macnab: Sans Titre](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/daav-macnab-sans-titre/)
- [Kris Bergthorson: Paintings and Drawings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kris-bergthorson-paintings-and-drawings/)
- [Voguerant: X-Sponge 86 - Addictionary](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/voguerant-x-sponge-86-addictionary/)
- [Brian Roche, Lx. Forde: Underground](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/brian-roche-lx-forde-underground/)
- [101 Vancouver Artists](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/101-vancouver-artists/)
- [Hedy Martyr and the Stigmatas, Mary Billy Magdelene Gene, The Procession of the Martyred Virgins, Special Guest Messiah: Crucifixation Party](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/hedy-martyr-and-the-stigmatas-mary-billy-magdelene-gene-the-procession-of-the-martyred-virgins-special-guest-messiah-crucifixation-party/)
- [One Day Art at the Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/one-day-art-at-the-pitt/)
- [Theresa Henry: Theresa's Coming Out Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/theresa-henry-theresas-coming-out-show/)
- [Lesley Bohm, Deborah Dacombe, Michael S. Thorne, David M. Weinberg: Subject/Object, Questionable Liasons](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lesley-bohm-deborah-dacombe-michael-s-thorne-david-m-weinberg-subjectobject-questionable-liasons/)
- [Burrell Swartz](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/burrell-swartz/)
- [Doug Henderson, Chris Cochrane: Resistance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/doug-henderson-chris-cochrane-resistance/)
- [Jean Brisson: Embryos](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jean-brisson-embryos/)
- [Second Vancouver International Artbreak Hotel Valentine's Day Sweetheart Mail Art Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/second-vancouver-international-artbreak-hotel-valentines-day-sweetheart-mail-art-show/)
- [Marc Diamond, director and Norman Armour, actor: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/marc-diamond-director-and-norman-armour-actor-krapps-last-tape-by-samuel-beckett/)
- [Ray Reedyk: Free Admissions](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ray-reedyk-free-admissions/)
- [Elizabeth Fischer: Everyone's Cousin](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/elizabeth-fischer-everyones-cousin/)
- [Ken Gerberick: Monsters from the Smithrite](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ken-gerberick-monsters-from-the-smithrite/)
- [Joey Schwartzman: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joey-schwartzman-paintings/)
- [Art Rat Crizmas Fare](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/art-rat-crizmas-fare/)
- [10th Anniversary: 2nd Anniversary, The Rational](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/10th-anniversary-2nd-anniversary-the-rational/)
- [Meet the Mayor: Breakfast with Mike Harcourt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/meet-the-mayor-breakfast-with-mike-harcourt/)
- [Michael Lewis: Cafe Dada](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-lewis-cafe-dada/)
- [Gabriel Szohner](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gabriel-szohner/)
- [Violet Costello, Catherine Costello](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/violet-costello-catherine-costello/)
- [Dan Joy: Proclamation of War / History is in the Making](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/dan-joy-proclamation-of-war-history-is-in-the-making/)
- [Kathryne Youngs: Henry Goes to the Met](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kathryne-youngs-henry-goes-to-the-met/)
- [Carel Moiseiwitsch: Comic Relief](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/carel-moiseiwitch-comic-relief/)
- [Deena Kelley: Drawings and Constructions](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/deena-kelley-drawings-and-constractions/)
- [Self-Accusation: A Speak Play by Peter Handke](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/self-accusation-a-speak-play-by-peter-handke/) - Unit Pitt hosted Self-Accusation play for three Saturdays : October 5, 12, 19, 1985.
- [Ian Davidson: The Sphinx](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ian-davidson-the-sphinx/)
- [Joe Menabney: Here C'est Chaud / Here Say Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joe-menabney-here-cest-chaud-here-say-show/)
- [Peter Walker: Sacred Art](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/peter-walker-sacred-art/)
- [Bob’s Your Uncle, The Wingnuts: Benepitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bobs-your-uncle-the-wingnuts-benepitt/)
- [Ken Gerberick, Zoe Lambert, Daav Macnab, Gary Ouimet: EXPOse](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ken-gerberick-zoe-lambert-daav-macnab-gary-ouimet-expose/)
- [The GLART Show (Gay and Lesbian Art Show)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-glart-show-gay-and-lesbian-art-show/)
- [Eugene Ionesco: The Chairs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/eugene-ionesco-the-chairs/)
- [Marcia Pitch: Voices of Darkness](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/marcia-pitch-voices-of-darkness/)
- [Juan Gomez-Perales: 731 B59g](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/juan-gomez-perales-731-b59g/)
- [Ron Zawatsky](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ron-zawatsky/)
- [Artwalk](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/artwalk/)
- [Georgie Haggerty: Abstractions de Papier Mache](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/georgie-haggerty-abstractions-de-papier-mache/)
- [Patrick Hughes: Arms for Venus](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/patrick-hughes-arms-for-venus/)
- [Robert Bowen: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robert-bowen-an-exhibition-of-recent-paintings/)
- [Tony Horn, George Chacona](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tony-horn-george-chacona/)
- [Hedy Hopper, Ian Stanwood, Joe Menabney, Joyce Hamilton, Gretchen Haywire, Roy Green, Marlene Swidzinski, Gerry Gilbert, Gerald Creede: Son of Revenge of the Words](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/hedy-hopper-ian-stanwood-joe-menabney-joyce-hamilton-gretchen-haywire-roy-green-marlene-swidzinski-gerry-gilbert-gerald-creede-son-of-revenge-of-the-words/)
- [Paul Ewert: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/paul-ewert-paintings/)
- [Leonard Brett: Signs of Struggle](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/leonard-brett-signs-of-struggle/)
- [Lorna Mulligan: Arcade](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lorna-mulligan/)
- [Martin Guderna](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/martin-guderna/)
- [Jim Cummins: I, Braineater](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-cummins-i-braineater/)
- [Oraf: WinOneWin](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/oraf-winonewin/)
- [The Beverly Sisters, Billy Jean Queen, Bob's Your Uncle, Herald Nix, Hedy Metal and the Barbs: Tunes from the Tomb of Bennett II](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-beverly-sisters-billy-jean-queen-bobs-your-uncle-harold-nix-and-the-fabulous-hedy-metal-and-the-barbs/)
- [Oraf, Jill Mandrake, Mike Johal, Ellie Csepregi, David Benton, Tom Konyves, Britt Haggerty, Annette Hurtig, Alexina Dalgetti, Vaness Richards, Jim Cummins: Revenge of the Words, Poets of Diverse Origins](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/oraf-jill-mandrake-mike-johal-ellie-csepregi-david-benton-tom-konyves-britt-haggerty-annette-hurtig-alexina-dalgetti-vaness-richards-jim-cummins-revenge-of-the-words-poets-of-diverse-origi/)
- [Oraf: Dream Endings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/oraf-dream-endings/)
- [Todd Davies](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/todd-davies/)
- [First Vancouver International Heartbreak Hotel Valentine's Day Sweetheart Mail Art Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/first-vancouver-international-heartbreak-hotel-valentines-day-sweetheart-mail-art-show/)
- [Kent Tate: No Rest for the Restless](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kent-tate-no-rest-for-the-restless/)
- [Hedy Metal and Barbs, Negavision: A Negativity Scene](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/hedy-metal-and-barbs-negavision-a-negativity-scene/)
- [An Art Rat Krismaz Fare](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/an-art-rat-krismaz-fare/)
- [Sexuality and Seeing](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sexuality-and-seeing/)
- [Burrell Swartz: Inter-Related Matters](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/burrell-swartzinter-related-matters/)
- [54-40, Dance Macabre, Negavision, Hedy Metal & the Barbs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/dance-macabre-negavision-hendy-metal-the-barbs-54-40/) - Fri. October 21, 8 pm
- [Astrid Thimmel and Samantha Hamernes: In Queer Streets](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/astrid-thimmel-and-samantha-hamernes-in-queer-streets/) - In Queer Streets is a show of photographs and air brushed acrylic paintings opening at the Unit/Pitt Gallery November 21, 8:00 p.m. The works explore transformation, transmutation and gender informed ways of seeing. The show will run from the 21st to the 27th and can be seen from 12:00 to 5:00 daily.
- [Michael Drebert](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-drebert/) - We exist in a world with many objects, each performing specific task(s). In our efforts to be efficient objects might only register in terms of performance and utility. Michael Drebert identifies such integral aspects or functions of an object, accentuating or attenuating them until they are disabled. Through this process, an identification and/or comprehension of
- [Fabiola Carranza, Charlotte Matthews and Tabitha Osler: Made to Fit](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/fabiola-carranza-charlotte-matthews-and-tabitha-osler-made-to-fit/) - September 9-October 8, 2005 Opening Reception: Friday September 9, 7:00 pm Made to Fit illustrates the artists need to alter the world around them. Fabiola Carranza, Charlotte Matthews and Tabitha Osler are compelled to personalize impersonal objects. The works in this show originated with an epistemological inquiry, a what would happen if . . .
- [Paul Ewert: Sculpture Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/paul-ewert-sculpture-show/) - No information on this exhibition or event is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Jim Carrico: What Could Be More Boring Than Art?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-carrico-what-could-be-more-boring-than-art/)
- [Terry Ray Brown: Westering](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/terry-ray-brown-westering/) - Friday, November 4-Saturday, December 10, 2005 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4, 2005 at 7:00 pm Culture is constructed from assemblage. Terry Ray Brown orchestrates a partly manufactured, partly authentic past. The notion of a distinct West Coast existence through the formative events of Brown's years living in the Lower Mainland has become central to his
- [Robert Sangster: Heart of the Republic](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robert-sangster-heart-of-the-republic/)
- [Relache Revisited](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/relache-revisited/) - No information on this exhibition or performance is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Daughters of Yoko](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/daughters-of-yoko/) - No information on this exhibition or performance is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Yves Klein Opening](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/yves-klein-opening/) - No information on this exhibition or performance is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Stan Lake: Swan Leak](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/stan-lake-swan-leak/)
- [Henry Kaiser: Henry Kaiser Plays Electric Guitar](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/henry-kaiser-henry-kaiser-plays-electric-guitar/)
- [James Klyman-Mowczan](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/james-klyman-mowczan/)
- [Attila Richard Lukacs: Special “A” Beef Prime Cuts Butchered for You](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/attila-richard-lukacs-special-a-beef-prime-cuts-butchered-for-you/)
- [Guitar Weirdos](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/guitar-weirdos/)
- [Harry Raggenberg and Bob Bowen](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/harry-raggenberg-and-bob-bowen/)
- [Mr. Leather](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mr-leather/)
- [Canadian Filmmaker Series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/canadian-filmmaker-series/)
- [I, Braineater](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/i-braineater/) - No information on this is exhibition or performance is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Tom Hadju and Friedson: New Music/Structured Improvisation](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tom-hadju-and-friedson-new-musicstructured-improvisation/)
- [Peter Reid: Voiced Poses](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/peter-reid-voiced-poses/)
- [Bruce Elder: Illuminated Texts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bruce-elder-illuminated-texts/)
- [Sheila Gostick](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sheila-gostick/)
- [Daughters of Yoko, No Dogs Please, Swagmen, Dino and the Pretension, The Electric Blankets](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/daughters-of-yoko-no-dogs-please-swagmen-dino-and-the-pretension-the-electric-blankets/)
- [Erik F. Hood, Julia Marshburn and Sam Willcocks: No Minors](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/erik-f-hood-julia-marshburn-and-sam-willcocks-no-minors/) - Friday, January 6–Saturday, February 4, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 2006 at 7:00 pm No Minors presents a set of individual and collaborative thematic works by fourth year Emily Carr Institute students Erik F. Hood, Julia Marshburn and Sam Willcocks. 99 Bottles of Beer is a classic drinking song dating back to the 14th
- [Trevor Lee Larson: We Are the World](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/trevor-lee-larson-we-are-the-world/) - Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 7:00 pm Instead of running amok with techniques borrowed from complicit historical figure painting, Trevor Lee Larson relies on a surreal approach to create numerous characterizations and combinations of himself and other simplistic beings. Molding a sensibility antithetical to conventions such as landscape or patterning, Larson forges forward
- [Oraf: Latent Images](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/oraf-latent-images/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Laura Piasta and Annika Rixen: We boast our light, but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/laura-piasta-and-annika-rixen-we-boast-our-light-but-if-we-look-not-wisely-on-the-sun-itself-it-smites-us-into-darkness/) - Friday, March 3–Saturday, April 1, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 2006 at 7:00 pm Laura Piasta and Annika Rixen’s collaborative installation blends paradigms residing on opposite ends of the spectrum of the human condition. If at one extreme you find science and mathematics, the opposing would house the incalculability of relations with another person.
- [Jonah Gray and Cameron Kerr: Fait](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jonah-gray-and-cameron-kerr-fait/) - Friday, May 26 to Saturday June 10, 2006 From the French for ‘to make’ or ‘to do’, the conjugated ‘Fait’ describes the connection in the act of making (concrete production) to the act of doing (authoring a work of art). Jonah Gray and Cameron Kerr have both paid due attention to both aspects of the
- [Bill Noye: Dirty Pictures](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bill-noye-dirty-pictures/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Spooky Movies: Halloween at the Pitt for Nuclear Disarmament Week](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/spooky-movies-halloween-at-the-pitt-for-nuclear-disarmament-week/)
- [Kayla Guthrie: Mood Farter](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kayla-guthrie-mood-farter/) - Saturday September 9 to Saturday, October 14, 2006 Opening reception: Friday, September 8 at 8:00 pm Mood Farter follows the artist through endless incarnations of trails and tribulations that followed Guthrie upon the examination of her drawing works. The medium is time consuming and became unable to accommodate diversification. Guthrie comes to see stylistic conventions,
- [Jeremy Hof: Strategies for Coping with Change](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jeremy-hof-strategies-for-coping-with-change/) - Opening reception: Friday, October 20 at 8:00 pm The strong, tangible logic at work in Jeremy Hof’s sculptural forms can nevertheless be a terror to comprehend. Like a Japanese puzzle box or pop song—whose every move appears simple, predictable and tight—Hof’s unassuming experiments and delightful quasi-functional fill-ins make sense on the surface, but often yield
- [Rebecca Brewer: Over and Over the Hills](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rebecca-brewer-over-and-over-the-hills/) - Rebecca Brewer Over and Over the Hills If the historical Romantic Hero were alive today—whether cloaked (as He would likely be) in the flecked red and black shadows of a Victorian opiate hotel, or else in an upholstered diner somewhere, quietly mulling over His notebook with a head full of abstract muses and reggae—then He
- [Manolo Lugo / Anna Szaflarski: Watchers](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/manolo-lugo-anna-szaflarski-watchers-2/) - Opening reception: Friday, March 23 at 8:00 pm A hallmark moment for the budding professional anatomist must have been the creation of the first major and officially sanctioned anatomical theater in Padua, Italy in 1594. The gory prospect of such a place—with circular viewing mezzanines made to surround a table upon which various experiments could
- [Christina Farmilo and Keith Paquette: Exploration of Sleep/Dream](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/christina-farmilo-and-keith-paquette-exploration-of-sleepdream/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Aya Zolbrod, Maitland-Carter, Peach and Assoc.: Let Me](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/aya-zolbrod-maitland-carter-peach-and-assoc-let-me/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [The Haters](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-haters-2/)
- [Junco Run and Animal Slaves](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/junco-run-and-animal-slaves/)
- [Grant Heisler and Leslie Fellbain: Meticulous Manifestations of Form](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/grant-heisler-and-leslie-fellbain-meticulous-manifestations-of-form/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Rick Gibson: Dead Animals](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rick-gibson-dead-animals/)
- [Bev Davies: 1000 Photographs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bev-davies-1000-photographs/)
- [Cool Down, Rhythm Mission](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/cool-down-rhythm-mission/)
- [Rhythm Mission, Obolenskis](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rhythm-mission-obolenskis/)
- [Wild in the Streets](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wild-in-the-streets/)
- [Barb Bernath, Paul Forsythe, Steven Wasney, Linda Carter, M. Normoyle, Robert Sangster, Sheila White, Patsi McMurchy, Dorothy Tinkley: Ten Vancouver People Who Take Pictures Too](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/barb-bernath-paul-forsythe-steven-wasney-linda-carter-m-normoyle-robert-sangster-sheila-white-patsi-mcmurchy-dorothy-tinkley-ten-vancouver-people-who-take-pictures-too/)
- [David Enblom: Word-works: Recent designs dealing with language](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-enblom-word-works-recent-designs-dealing-with-language/)
- [Dianne Radmore: Recent mixed media works and handbuilt clay vessel forms](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/dianne-radmore-recent-mixed-media-works-and-handbuilt-clay-vessel-forms/)
- [Vicky Marshall: New Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vicky-marshall-new-paintings/)
- [Robert Sangster: Decent Works](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robert-sangster-decent-works/)
- [Robert McPike: Coming Out](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/robert-mcpike-coming-out/)
- [The Haters](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-haters/)
- [Nicky Morgan, Wayne Arsenault and Sue Trum: Multi-Media](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nicky-morgan-wayne-arsenault-and-sue-trum-multi-media/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Marilyn Easun, George Gaudette, Andrej Arajs, Terryl Atkins, Donald Ottosen, Erich Ranfft and Pat Goettler: Cereal Photoworks](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/marilyn-easun-george-gaudette-andrej-arajs-terryl-atkins-donald-ottosen-erich-ranfft-and-pat-goettler-cereal-photoworks/)
- [Oraf: One Man's Hero is Another Man's Freak](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/oraf-one-mans-hero-is-another-mans-freak/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Anthony Elliason: Recent Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/anthony-elliason-recent-paintings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Pat McCarthy: The Toy Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/pat-mccarthy-the-toy-show/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Tammy Luciw, Pat Traer and Sandra Wiley: Jello 1-2-3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tammy-luciw-pat-traer-and-sandra-wiley-jello-1-2-3/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Jim Cummins and the Braineaters: I Was A Teen-Age Braineater](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-cummins-and-the-braineaters-i-was-a-teen-age-braineater/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Richard Kuz, Lisa Person, Jack Scrivener and Madeleine Schenkel: A sharp show of images animal to female to oriental, in paint satin and photograph, in the window will be Madeleine's letter to 1984](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/richard-kuz-lisa-person-jack-scrivener-and-madeleine-schenkel-a-sharp-show-of-images-animal-to-female-to-oriental-in-paint-satin-and-photograph-in-the-window-will-be-madeleines-letter-to-1984/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Susan Handwerker, Paddi McGrath and Nancy Cogburn: 3 women working in practically every medium about being women](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/susan-handwerker-paddi-mcgrath-and-nancy-cogburn-3-women-working-in-practically-every-medium-about-being-women/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Shelley Ide and Laara Cassells: An Installation, yet unknown, to be constructed in the gallery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/shelley-ide-and-laara-cassells-an-installation-yet-unknown-to-be-constructed-in-the-gallery/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Linda Dayan, Laila Ball and Donna Love: Bright Colourful Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/linda-dayan-laila-ball-and-donna-love-bright-colourful-paintings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Anna Materna and Mia Johnson: Paintings and Drawings of the Erotic](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/anna-materna-and-mia-johnson-paintings-and-drawings-of-the-erotic/) - No information on thexhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Terry Ryals: Figurative Abstractions](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/terry-ryals-figurative-abstractions/)
- [ID: Work from the students of the Interdisciplinary Studies department at the College of Art](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/id-work-from-the-students-of-the-interdisciplinary-studies-department-at-the-college-of-art/)
- [Tagny Duff: Bureaucratic Ambient](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tangy-duff-bureaucratic-ambient/) - The 25 minute audio tour invited groups of four participants to become a unit that together explores the physical and behavioral boundaries within the various "free space" areas and permit zones through the downtown core. Whoremonal Surge is organized by the Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers.
- [Terence Gower: Campaign PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/terence-gower-campaign-pitt/) - July 21 to August 15, 2000 Terence Gower presented in the front window of the gallery a fictional advertising campaign presenting possible strategies including mock–ups of poster campaigns and digitally imposing our identity on neighbouring billboards.
- [Jonathan Wells: (I feel for you)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jonathan-wells-i-feel-for-you/) - Mocking the history of the still life and presenting a performative action that mimics the exhibition, Wells presented 10 bouquets that were left to decay. His neglect questions why we paint flowers and suggests the irony of their role in cultural traditions involving life and death.
- [The Braineaters, Jim Bridges, Stan Leak, Oraf, Sandra Prehara, Bill Rennie, Sue Schnee, I, Phona: Object d'Art](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-braineaters-jim-bridges-stan-leak-oraf-sandra-prehara-bill-rennie-sue-schnee-i-phona-object-dart/)
- [Denise Hawrysio](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/denise-hawrysio/)
- [Andreas Ghestalt, Angelika Krohn, Maureen Phelan and Katha Teed: The Pathology of Romance](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/andreas-ghestalt-angelika-krohn-maureen-phelan-and-katha-tweed-the-pathology-of-romance/)
- [Mark Jowett, Doug James and Ron Davidson: Destined and Defreuded](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/mark-jowett-doug-james-and-ron-davidson-destined-and-defreuded/)
- [Marilyn Mylrea and Crystal Allinott: Lollygagging and Fair Dinkum](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/marilyn-mylrea-and-crystal-allinott-lollygagging-and-fair-dinkum/)
- [Patrick McCarthy: Ground Zero](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/patrick-mccarthy-ground-zero/)
- [Andreas Fault, Davie Deluxe, “nausea symbiotica”, Inez Velasquez, Zonko, Kate von Kaos, Dada Dog, “automatic truth”, Steve Naive, Diane deFacto: Dada Data](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/andreas-fault-davie-deluxe-nausea-symbiotica-inez-velasquez-zonko-kate-von-kaos-dada-dog-automatic-truth-steve-naive-diane-defacto-dada-data/)
- [Sue Schnee and Sandra Prehara](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sue-schnee-and-sandra-prehara/)
- [Rodney Clark](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/rodney-clark/)
- [Ron Kong and Barb Gentle: Pro Feign](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ron-kong-and-barb-gentle-pro-feign/)
- [The Dogwood Monarchist Society](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/the-dogwood-monarchist-society/)
- [Octopus, East and West, Theos, Yayas, Eighties OD: Beat Night](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/octopus-east-and-west-theos-yayas-eighties-od-beat-night/)
- [Ray Alton, Dean Mitchell, Bruce Walther, Ray Tremblay, Tex Culver: 5 Aside](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/ray-alton-dean-mitchell-bruce-walther-ray-tremblay-tex-culver-5-aside/)
- [Frank McFarlane, Jacqueline Hofmann, Lynn Onley, Ron Sawatsky, Mary Ann Liu: Nuns, Demons, and Dinosaurs: Works in Clay](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/frank-mcfarlane-jacqueline-hofmann-lynn-onley-ron-sawatsk-mary-ann-liu-nuns-demons-and-dinosaurs-works-in-clay/)
- [Jacqueline Hofmann: Bondage Artifacts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jacqueline-hofmann-bondage-artifacts/)
- [Joelle Ciona and Andrew Power: Super String | Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke: Strange Animals](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/joelle-ciona-and-andrew-power-super-string-cooper-battersby-and-emily-vey-duke-strange-animals/) - Two collaboratively developed video pieces make up this exhibition concerning aesthetics. In one a performer and an observer respond in action and word to each other. In the second description comes through the miscommunication of gesture. The viewer has the opportunity to locate themselves within the gallery space in relationship to the aesthetic debates.
- [Jeremy Todd: Emergency](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jeremy-todd-emergency/) - Todd's work investigates possible relationships between allegory, iconographies of abjection, the narcissisms of both artist and audiences, interactivity and his own practice. These ruins, although partially indecipherable, are quickly viewed through a mediating veneer of rebel nostalgia and bogus mythology.
- [Jin Li: Tales from two Continents](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jin-li-tales-from-two-continents/) - Collaboration with downtown ESL students in video, photography and sound. Trends related reflect and examine the volatile economic shifts around Asia and North America.
- [Sandy Plotnikoff and Lucy Pullen](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sandy-plotnikoff-and-lucy-pullen/) - Collaborative and individual works in a variety of media including performative photo documents, sculpture, archives and conceptual projects. Work interacts with the complex social systems, objects and environments of modern life.
- [Althea Thauberger: Free Food](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/althea-thauberger-free-food/) - Exhibition of still life photographs. Works included documentary, digitally compiled, and scenes arranged for the camera. Participating in the conceits of Garden/Heaven/Utopia, "Free Food" plays with the perversity that we are free in nature.
- [Nelson Henricks: Fuzzy Face](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nelson-henricks-fuzzy-face/) - Single channel video and installation. Through contrast of two found images and a video portrait Henricks explores the id, history of portraiture and the interval between images and the meanings produced there.
- [Kika Thorne: Beginning of Architecture Series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kika-thorne-beginning-of-architecture-series/) - Architectural works in a variety of media. Participating in and documenting group actions these videos and poster campaign explores issues of Social Architecture, the History of Totalitarianism and the inclusion of Life, Work and Action in activism.
- [Sara Graham: Open Cities](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sara-graham-open-cities/) - Consists of sculptures and drawings reiterating the forms of planned suburbs. Conceived as the "Garden Cities", suburbs are now seen as the regressive product of the pursuit for open space. The shapes and lines of expressways, fiction road systems and community parameters became articulated in the work.
- [Art Rat Crizmaz Fare](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/art-rat-crizmaz-fare/)
- [Luis Jacob: Collapsing New Buildings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/luis-jacob-collapsing-new-buildings/) - Jacob's exhibit consisted of three bodies of work, Album, the BILTS and Model City. In comparing these works we ask what are the possibilities of a horizontal monument and what narratives can we conceive from our horizontal and vertical production.
- [Jill Henderson: Commune](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jill-henderson-commune/) - Jill Henderson Commune Jan 11 - Feb 9, 2002 Naive architectural sculptures and drawings were installed on a makeshift drafting table and pinned to the walls. Small Play–doh like blocks with eyes look out as they cling to hidden areas of the gallery and project back to us an unexpected humanity. Wall drawings included the
- [Tim van Wijk: Right of Way](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tim-van-wijk-right-of-way/) - Installation of 4 modular transmission towers along a contoured right of way. Relates how the hydroelectric dam and its transmission towers arbitrarily and drastically alters the landscape. Curated by Rebecca Watt.
- [Completion of Architecture Series: Wreck Room](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/completion-of-architecture-series-wreck-room/) - Wreck Room – Exchange with Art System, Toronto Ont. Juxtaposing work from Pitt membership and pieces curated by Art System, this show brought together work that used common materials as a means for sculptural statement of the twisted and fragmented meanings found in a landscape of familiar objects. Art System (Toronto) – Derek Sullivan, LuLu
- [Michael Gauley: Panaramarama](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/michael-gauley-panaramarama/) - Panaramarama Installation of paintings and Sculpture Work relays sensory overload and relates to feelings of alienation in an increasingly confusing society. Installation of paintings and sculpture work relays sensory overload and relates to feelings of alienation in an increasingly confusing society. Works included grafitied record albums, Bin Laden maze game and a taxidermied bear cub
- [Jen Weih: Open](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jen-weih-open/) - Open is a lounge. It is an interactive, mixed media installation that includes sculpture, video, and sound. The lounge is informed by an examination of value and cost and of labour and reward. It is a decadent space for relaxation and social interaction that has been created with cheap and found materials. The process of
- [Tricia Middleton and Joel Taylor: Vampyr](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/tricia-middleton-and-joel-taylor-vampyr/) - In Vampyr, a video installation framed as a futuristic set, the classic seduction between the vampire and victim is endlessly repeated. Twin video projections, rear screen projected on paired hanging diffusion screens, are hung so as to reference portraiture as well as "futuristic" technologies such as holography. With the artists assuming the roles of vampire
- [I, Braineater, Hedy Metal and the Barbs, Dan Joy, The Last Sex on Earth, Kill Pussycat Kill: The Last Gig at the Unit Pitt](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/i-braineater-hedy-metal-and-the-barbs-dan-joy-the-last-sex-on-earth-kill-pussycat-kill-the-last-gig-at-the-unit-pitt/)
- [Instant Coffee (Jenifer Papararo, Jinhan Ko, Kate Munroe, Timothy Comeau, Cecilia Berkovic, Stephen Crowhurst) : The Urban Disco Trailer + Everyone](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/instant-coffee-on-a-stick/) - Instant Coffee On a Stick October 11 to November 9, 2002 Ideas are a dime a dozen and we intend to materialize them for less and faster then we can think.For their upcoming exhibition, at the Helen Pitt Gallery, Instant Coffee will fill the gallery with a series of their products, from prototypes to sellable
- [Miguel da Conceicao](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/miguel-da-conceicao/) - Framed by a bough of boys and yarn, fluorescent lights, the work of miguel da conceicao functions in the realm of oneiric representation of the homoerotic. He works to inscribe modes of duality conceived from the same origin yet existing individually manifested in mirrored images of unchallenged masculinity. The relationship of the twin as two
- [Toni Latour: Dog Eat Dog](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/toni-latour-dog-eat-dog/) - Toni Latour Dog Eat Dog April 18 - May 17, 2003 The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Vancouver based artist Toni Latour. Working in a variety of disciplines, the content of her practice focuses on her identity as an artist. With humour as its vehicle, her work addresses
- [Nils Jespersen: A Gothic Love Story](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/nils-jespersen-a-gothic-love-story/) - Leave the bright balmy summer of Vancouver behind and enter the dark brooding world of A Gothic Love Story. When you cross the doorway of the "World's Only Post-Atomic Art Gallery", the Unit/Pitt at 163 W. Pender on Monday August the 13th at 8 pm you will be swept into a vortex of dark visions,
- [Orphan Drift: Doublewalker](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/orphan-drift-doublewalker/) - Orphan drift Doublewalker May 31 to July 5, 2003 Orphan drift, an artists' collective based in San Francisco, London, Oslo and Cape Town, will introduce themselves to Vancouver with a new installation at the Pitt Gallery. DoubleWalker, a sound and visual environment, presents a matrix of remade scenes from well known films, altered in different
- [A performance by Devon Gifford and Mark Giliiland](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/a-performance-by-devon-gifford-and-mark-giliiland/) - Wednesday, Nov.5 @ 8pm TAKE THAT PAINT!! PUT IT THERE!! YOU CAN DO IT!! CAUSE YOU CARE!! After quitting art school Devon Gifford has been committed to a year long regiment of physical training for cheerleading. She will perform her "opening cheers" designed to unite the audience in their expression of support for our local
- [Vanessa Kwan, Josh Neelands and Kara Uzelman: The Comedians](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vanessa-kwan-josh-neelands-and-kara-uzelman-the-comedians/) - Vanessa Kwan, Josh Neelands and Kara Uzelman The Comedians Tuesday, November.4 @ 8pm Taking its inspiration from a 5-minute stand-up comedy routine, this 2-hour performance uses synchronized gesture and perpetually looped dialogue to recontextualize the experience of creating and consuming entertainment spectacle. Josh, Kara and Vanessa will present themselves as an endlessly repeating “installation” that,
- [Patrick Hughes: Mostly Real Big Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/patrick-hughes-mostly-real-big-paintings/) - Patrick Hughes of HUGE STUDIOS graces the Unit/Pitt Gallery, 163 West Pender, with Mostly Real Big Paintings, opening at 9 p.m. July 30. Formerly known as a photographer and filmmaker, Hughes has dragged his painting skills out of the woodwork to present many large figurative works dealing with your favourite topics: FOOD, SEX, VIOLENCE, LOVE!!!!
- [Gareth Moore: Transformer | Jacob Gleeson: Survivor](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/gareth-moore-transformer-jacob-gleeson-survivor/) - Gareth Moore Transformer Jacob Gleeson Survivor Guest Curated by Anne Elizabeth Low November 29 to January 10, 2004 Opening November 28 @ 7:00pm Using an aesthetic vernacular of the street and everyday life specific to Vancouver, artists Gareth Moore and Jacob Gleeson critique our expectations of throw away objects and lifestyles and provide situations of
- [Elizabeth Zvonar, Jesse Gray, Vishal Jugdeo, Paul Kajander and Elizabeth Milton: Production, Consumption & Function - Exploring Alternative Economies](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/elizabeth-zvonar-jesse-gray-vishal-jugdeo-paul-kajander-and-elizabeth-milton-production-consumption-function-exploring-alternative-economies/) - Elizabeth Zvonar, Jesse Gray, Vishal Jugdeo, Paul Kajander and Elizabeth Milton Production, Consumption & Function: Exploring Alternative Economies January 17 - February 29, 2004 The work in this exhibition has been programmed in conjunction with InFest (see www.paarc.ca/infest) and is meant to contribute to the celebration and discussion of international artist run culture. The work
- [John Anderson, American Type Culture Collection, Sean George, Adam Harrison, and the Neighbours Project: Cut & Paste - Considering the Idea of New Media](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/john-anderson-american-type-culture-collection-sean-george-adam-harrison-and-the-neighbours-project-cut-paste-considering-the-idea-of-new-media/) - John Anderson, American Type Culture Collection, Sean George, Adam Harrison, and the Neighbours Project Cut & Paste: Considering the Idea of New Media May 8 - June 26 Opening Friday, May 7 @ 7pm. This exhibition will be accompanied by a publication (a collection of six texts) available at the Gallery. Conversations with the artists
- [Su Schnee: Futur of an Illusion](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/su-schnee-futur-of-an-illusion/) - Montreal based visual artist Su Schnee is returning to Vancouver, where she studied and worked up to 1981, to present her unique painting style at the Pitt International Galleries. The pieces in "Futur of an Illusion" are as evocative as the title implies. The collective work moves through time and space, calling out to the
- [Marsha Bradfield, Mark Buck, Wesley Cameron, Jessica Eaton, Jillian Pritchard and Dan Starling: An Ideal Language](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/marsha-bradfield-mark-buck-wesley-cameron-jessica-eaton-jillian-pritchard-and-dan-starling-an-ideal-language/) - Marsha Bradfield, Mark Buck, Wesley Cameron, Jessica Eaton, Jillian Pritchard and Dan Starling An Ideal Language August 7th - September 2nd 2004 Opening Friday August 6th @ 7pm Curated by Crystal Huba as a part of the ECIAD student CO-OP program This exhibition will be accompanied by a publication by Jillian Pritchard and Dan Starling
- [Oraf: One Million](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/oraf-one-million/) - January 2 - 14, 1984 The Unit/Pitt Gallery, 163 West Pender, is opening 1984 with One Million, an installation by the infamous Oraf. His performance, One in a Million will take place on January second at 8 p.m. The show runs until January 14, with a duration of a million seconds. But that's not the
- [Jared Ferguson, Randy Grskovic, Andrea Juby, Didi Lin, Matt McGale, Heidi Nagtegaal, Karen Ngan, Peggy Ngan and Gary Wang: It Doesn't Add Up](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jared-ferguson-randy-grskovic-andrea-juby-didi-lin-matt-mcgale-heidi-nagtegaal-karen-ngan-peggy-ngan-and-gary-wang-it-doesnt-add-up/) - Jared Ferguson, Randy Grskovic, Andrea Juby, Didi Lin, Matt McGale, Heidi Nagtegaal, Karen Ngan, Peggy Ngan and Gary Wang It Doesn't Add Up July 3rd - 31st, 2004 Opening Friday July 2nd @ 7pm Curated by Katie Brennan as a part of the ECIAD student CO-OP program It doesn't add up. It doesn't make sense.
- [Olivier Moreau, Ferguson Neville and Steven Smith: Grey Point Fractalism](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/olivier-moreau-ferguson-neville-and-steven-smith-grey-point-fractalism/) - The Unit/Pitt Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of computer art works by the Grey Point Fractalists, a Vancouver based collaboration of artists and mathematicians. As well as paintings influenced by the rapid advance of computer technology within our society, the exhibition will consist of process works written for the IBM P.C. and the
- [Christine Stewart: The Pearl | Faith Moosang: March to May](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/christine-stewart-the-pearl-faith-moosang-march-to-may/) - Christine Stewart The Pearl Faith Moosang March to May The Helen Pitt Gallery ARC facilitates public outreach initiatives, projects, experimentation and dialogue concerning contemporary art and community whenever possible. In between the first two exhibition programs of the 2004 Fall season we will be hosting two SFU MFA Projects: These projects will be open to
- [Dan Wood](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/dan-wood/) - 24-hour exhibition/record release extravaganza. Son of Alan, record cover artist, attempts to legitimize his art. Neo-fauve portraits with the same content concept as the old man's.
- [Animal Slaves + Mode d’Emploi](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/animal-slaves-mode-demploi/) - One of the more socially aware group of musicians to grace the West Coast of Canada.
- [Bill Noy and Jay Samwald: An Extremely Pleasant Environment](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bill-noy-and-jay-samwald-an-extremely-pleasant-environment/) - On July the 2nd at the Unit/Pitt Gallery, 163 West Pender Street in Vancouver, An Extremely Pleasant Environment will be presented by Bill Noy with Jay Samwald. Subtitled Not Expo 86, An Extremely Pleasant Environment is a refreshing new look at paranoia. Paranoia from the Greek derivatives: para: above, beside; and noia: active for noos:
- [Jim Cummins: I, Braineater  I, Gesamtkunstwerk](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-cummins-i-braineater-i-gesamtkunstwerk/)
- [Terry Ewasiuk: Still Lives](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/terry-ewasiuk-still-lives/) - Terry Ewasiuk's Still Lives is an exhibition of recent photography which opens on Monday May 21, 1984 at 8:00 p.m. at the Unit/Pitt Gallery, 163 West Pender St. For the past seven years, Terry's photos have focused on her self-portrait as subject matter and presented us with an ongoing progression that ranged from blunt emotionalism
- [Sheri-D Wilson: Tight Wire](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/sheri-d-wilson-tight-wire/) - A 40-minute, one-act play written by Sheri-D Wilson of Calgary. Reality theatre with interaction from the audience and a questioning of their social responsibilities. They needed it.
- [American Pictures](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/american-pictures/) - After five years of crisscrossing the USA and taking over 10 000 photographs, Jacob Holdt from Denmark felt it was time to tell North Americans what they were all about. "The photographs from this multi-media presentation, many of them utterly stunning, evolve into a comprehensive story of America's racial scene, a story that is at
- [Bill Featherston](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/bill-featherston/) - "Not bad for an old fart." - Vanguard "...we're artists in this town, ranging in age from a hundred and forty-nine (Bill Featherston)..." - Alan Wood, Issue He's not that old, but he does have around thirty years on the average age bracket at the Unit/Pitt. He's from the old school of hard-drinking, rough-talking macho
- [Donna Akrey, Collin Johanson, Simon McNally, Erica Stocking: IN EXCESS](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/donna-akrey-collin-johanson-simon-mcnally-erica-stocking-in-excess/) - Donna Akrey, Collin Johanson, Simon McNally, Erica Stocking IN EXCESS February 19 - March 26. 2005 Artist Talks - Saturday., March.12, 2pm An EXHIBITION PUBLICATION is available at the Gallery. Transcribed Conversations available here. Erica Stocking Simon McNally Collin Johanson Donna Akrey Accumulation and abundance no longer transparently signify security, autonomy or strength. How do
- [Adrienne Lai: All the Arms Around You | Barrie Jones: New Works](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/adrienne-lai-all-the-arms-around-you-barrie-jones-new-works/) - Adrienne Lai: All the Arms Around You Barrie Jones: New Works April 8-May 14, 2005 Artist Talks at the Gallery, Saturday, April 23, 2 pm The Helen Pitt Gallery ARC is pleased to exhibit new works by both Adrienne Lai and Barrie Jones. While Jones has been a part of the regional contemporary art community
- [Stephanie Aitken: Headlands - New Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/stephanie-aitken-headlands-new-paintings/) - Stephanie Aitken Headlands: New Paintings June 30 to August 6, 2005 Opening Reception: Thursday June 30, 7:00 pm Stephanie Aitken’s series of new, unabashedly beautiful paintings is at once an admiring ode to—and subtle critique of—the Romanticist landscape painting tradition and the idea of the sublime. Comprised of a series of mountains, peaks and vistas,
- [Anthony Schrag: Our Body Is in the World/It Has all Gone Terribly Wrong](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/anthony-schrag-our-body-is-in-the-worldit-has-all-gone-terribly-wrong/) - Anthony Schrag Our Body Is in the World/It Has all Gone Terribly Wrong Performance: Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 9:00 pm Presented as part of the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art Meet at the gallery at 9 pm for a par cours tour of Gastown led by Anthony Schrag. By climbing up, hopping onto, and
- [Charles Chalmers, Fred Douglas, Nate Larson, Clea McDougall and Yvette Poorter: Duplicitous - Narrative Trends in Photography](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/charles-chalmers-fred-douglas-nate-larson-clea-mcdougall-and-yvette-poorter-duplicitous-narrative-trends-in-photography/) - Charles Chalmers, Fred Douglas, Nate Larson, Clea McDougall and Yvette Poorter Duplicitous: Narrative Trends in Photography Friday, November 4-Saturday, December 10, 2005 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4, 2005 at 7:00 pm This exhibition of photographic works by Charles Chalmers, Fred Douglas, Nate Larson, Clea McDougall and Yvette Poorter, returns to the narrative potential of the
- [Amelia Bauer, Robert De Saint Phalle, 536 Collective (Jeremy Turner, Donato Mancini and Patrick “Flick” Harrison), Matt Gerring, Laura Madera, Sandra Meigs, Mariah Robertson, and Tobias Wong: Help Your Self](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/amelia-bauer-robert-de-saint-phalle-536-collective-jeremy-turner-donato-mancini-and-patrick-flick-harrison-matt-gerring-laura-madera-sandra-meigs-mariah-robertson-and-tobias-wong-help-y/) - Amelia Bauer, Robert De Saint Phalle, 536 Collective (Jeremy Turner, Donato Mancini and Patrick "Flick" Harrison), Matt Gerring, Laura Madera, Sandra Meigs, Mariah Robertson, and Tobias Wong Help Your Self Friday, January 6-Saturday, February 4, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 2006 at 7:00 pm Overhead Projector Performance at 8:30 pm Taking its inspiration from
- [Erin Shirreff and Colin Zaug: Dual II](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/erin-shirreff-and-colin-zaug-dual-ii/) - Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 2006 at 7:00 pm Artist Talk: Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 2:00 pm Dual II is the second of a two-exhibition experiment that considers the unavoidable cross-readings and interpretations of the duo-show format. The exhibition features new sculpture, drawings and video projection by Erin Shirreff and Colin Zaug. In a
- [Raymond Boisjoly, Terry Ray Brown, Mat Bushell, Michael Drebert, Anne Ehrlich, Erik F. Hood, Andrew Hutchinson, Trevor Lee Larson, David Lehman, Dawn Johnston, Cameron Kerr, Chloe Lewis, Alex Low, Julia Marshburn, Charlotte Matthews, Monique Mouton, Tabitha Osler, Nicola Vardaro, Sam Willcocks: Diminutive Disposition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/raymond-boisjoly-terry-ray-brown-mat-bushell-michael-drebert-anne-ehrlich-erik-f-hood-andrew-hutchinson-trevor-lee-larson-david-lehman-dawn-johnston-cameron-kerr-chloe-lewis-alex-low-jul/) - Friday, April 21 to Saturday, May 6, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, April 21 at 7:00 Diminutive Disposition is a group show of graduating students from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design that takes the idea of scale as its starting point. Following an ever present common thread among the graduating class, the exhibition
- [David Diviney: Hollow](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/david-diviney-hollow/) - David Diviney Hollow Saturday September 9 to Saturday, October 14, 2006 Opening reception: Friday, September 8 at 8:00 pm Artist’s Talk: Saturday, September 9 at 2:00 pm Diviney’s recent installations find connections between the structures of our cultural allegories and the material language of sculpture. His work—loosely based in traditions of assemblage, additive/subtractive construction and
- [Curtis Grahauer, Andrew Kent, Scott Massey, Alex Pensato, Kara Uzelman, Danna Vajda: LatentCity](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/curtis-grahauer-andrew-kent-scott-massey-alex-pensato-kara-uzelman-danna-vajda-latentcity/) - Curtis Grahauer, Andrew Kent, Scott Massey, Alex Pensato, Kara Uzelman, Danna Vajda LatentCity Guest curated by Werner Whitman Saturday, October 21 to Saturday, November 11, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, October 20 at 8:00pm LatentCity brings together the recent work of six diverse Vancouver artists who share an interest in the relationship between the materiality of
- [Jane Benson: Underbush](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jane-benson-underbush/) - Jane Benson Underbush Saturday March 24 to Saturday, April 21, 2007 Opening reception: Friday, March 23 at 8:00 pm Jane Benson’s prolific art practice is fueled by a fascination with the transformative potential of representation and the reinvention of context. Her works are marked by a careful attention to the connotative subtext of various materials
- [Craig Mahood: Functional Bathroom Erotica](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/craig-mahood-functional-bathroom-erotica/) - On April 23, 1984 the Unit/Pitt Gallery at 163 West Pender will be transformed into an erotic bathroom courtesy of the fiberglass sculptor Craig Mahood. Working on this most mundane of environments, the bathroom, the artist has managed to create a sensual erotic filled piece that will forever colour the way we look at our
- [Vancouver School Of Art Instructors: New Work](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-instructors-new-work/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Laura Baird: The Energy of Grey](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/laura-baird-the-energy-of-grey/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Vancouver School Of Art Students: Graphics](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-students-graphics/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Stephanie Agg: Acrylics](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/stephanie-agg-acrylics/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Malaspina Print Makers: Miniature Print Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/malaspina-print-makers-miniature-print-show/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Laurie Wong-Mitchell: Woman By Woman](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/laurie-wong-mitchell-woman-by-woman/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Jim Breukelman: Photographs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jim-breukelman-photographs/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Glen Alps: Prints](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/glen-alps-prints/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Women's Interart Co-op: Group Exhibition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/womens-interart-co-op-group-exhibition/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Chard Chenier: Human Interior](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/chard-chenier-human-interior/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Esperin Crestani: Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/esperin-crestani-paintings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Howard Fry: Photographs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/howard-fry-photographs/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Lea Allen: New Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/lea-allen-new-paintings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [William Cupit: Photographs](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/william-cupit-photographs/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Vancouver School Of Art Students: Design Research Exhibition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-students-design-research-exhibition/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available from the archives, except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Jeannie Kamins: Portraits](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jeannie-kamins-portraits/) - One of Vancouver's most respected fabric artists, Jeannie Kamins, is off to new horizons with her upcoming exhibition at the Unit/Pitt Gallery from March 27 - April 7, 1984. Jeannie continues an imaginative and highly charming approach in recycling fabric to create spirited figurative images - she has an uncanny eye for correlating the fabric's
- [Vancouver School Of Art Students: Ceramics](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-students-ceramics/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Handcraft House Students: West Coast Fibre Arts](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/handcraft-house-students-west-coast-fibre-arts/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Hugh McPherson: Artist At Work](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/hugh-mcpherson-artist-at-work/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Vancouver School Of Art Students: Exhibition Of Paintings](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/vancouver-school-of-art-students-exhibition-of-paintings/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Federation of Canadian Artists: Young Contemporary Art Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/federation-of-canadian-artists-young-contemporary-art-show/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Art Phantom: 2nd Phantom Art Show](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/art-phantom-2nd-phantom-art-show/) - No information on thexhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [Fred Amess: 71 Works](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/fred-amess-71-works/) - No information on this exhibition is currently available except for the title and dates. If you have any information or materials of your own that you would like to add, please contact info@helenpittgallery.org .
- [John Anthony and Steven Leece: To Be Re(a)d](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/john-anthony-and-steven-leece-to-be-read/) - "Avant-Gauche music?"? This concert is part of the promise of two young Vancouver artists, John Anthony and Steven Leece to be premiered on the opening night of their show To Be Re(a)d, at the Unit/Pitt Gallery on February 27, at 8:00 p.m. Keeping time with the "avant-gauche" music will be a series of live poems
- [Wrong Wave Festival](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/wrong-wave-festival/) - Two full nights of music and performance by 9 Vancouver, 1 Seattle and 1 Bellingham multidisciplinary sound and theatrical groups which receive no government funding. Played before sellout crowds both evenings this was another example of the Unit/Pitt's attempt to bring some new talent to the public at large.
- [Jean Brisson: Negavision](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/jean-brisson-negavision/) - The Unit/Pitt Gallery announces the return of Negavision to the public domain. The former Montreal-based performance duo (Jean Brisson and Collette Gurmond), a pivotal factor in Vancouver's underground resistance of 1978-80, resurface with an installation of painting and sculpture entitled Satellite Voodoo, opening Monday, January 30 at 8p.m. The exhibition will open with a performance
- [Chris Creighton-Kelly: The Price of Poker: Gambling on Solidarity](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/chris-creighton-kelly-the-price-of-poker-gambling-on-solidarity/) - "The Price of Poker: Gambling on Solidarity", a video installation by Chris Creighton-Kelly will open on January 23 at 8p.m. at the Unit/Pitt Gallery, 163 West Pender. On July 7, 1983, the Social Credit government presented the citizens of British Columbia with a repressive legislative package. The response was strong and sustained. Tens of thousands
- [Kaori Kasai, Cindy Mochizuki, and Rafael Tsuchida: Generation Movement](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kaori-kasai-cindy-mochizuki-and-rafael-tsuchida-generation-movement/) - August 1-August 14, 2009, Wednesday-Saturday, plus Sunday August 2nd noon-5 pm Reception: July 31, 2009 @ 8 pm Artist's Talk: August 6, 2009 @ 6 pm GENERATION MOVEMENT is an interdisciplinary collaborative exhibition of contemporary Japanese Canadian performance-based works in which contemporary artists Kaori Kasai, Cindy Mochizuki, and Rafael Tsuchida collaborate with a non-artist member
- [Past exhibitions and events](https://www.unitpitt.ca/exhibitions/past/)

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- [ReIssue Anthology Year 2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/product/reissue-anthology-year-2/) - ReIssue Year 2 Anthology surveys reissue.pub’s second year of online published works; including contributions by EA Douglas, Alex Jensen, Steff Hui Ci Ling, Fellow Peter, Julia Prudhomme, Dion Smith-Dokkie, Sue-Shane Tsomondo, Reid Urchison, Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora, and Casey Wei. ReIssue is an interdisciplinary art writing platform focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted
- [ReIssue Year 1 Anthology (2022)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/product/reissue-year-1-anthology-2022/) - A selection of 10 text and creative submissions from ReIssue's first year of publication, chosen by Jordan Wilson. Ft. Brit Bachmann, Jonah Gray, Godfre Leung, Ben Lickerman, Kitt Peacock, Dana Qaddah, Amanda Siebert, Casey Wei, Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Chelsea Yuill, Coco Zhou
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## Projects

- [Solar Bee Garden Tea Zen REMIX](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/solar-bee-garden-tea-zen-remix/) - May 30 - August 15, 2026 Opening reception May 30, 1-4 PM Documentation Events Artist Bios UNIT/PITT presents Solar Bee Garden Tea Zen REMIX, a site-responsive, multi-media collaboration by Lam Wong and Peter Courtemanche (Absolute Value of Noise), May 30 – August 15, 2026. Curated by Ali Bosley.Moving between U/P's gallery & garden, the exhibition draws
- [Loopy Lounge](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/loopy-lounge/) - 📆 July 5, 2026⏰ 2-6 PM📍2954 W 4th Ave (UNIT/PITT) Join us for the second iteration of Loopy Lounge: a fibre craft gathering + fundraiser! Organized by Noor Ghazal, Héloïse Auvray, and Kira Saragih, Loopy Lounge carves out space for fibre crafters of diverse backgrounds to come together, meet other crafters and craft together while
- [Herbal Reverie by Max Power](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/herbal-reverie-max-power/) - Launch event: June 13, 2026 2-5 PM 2954 W 4th Ave Books available for purchase here UNIT/PITT is pleased to announce the publication of Herbal Reverie, a book of poetry by Max Power. Designed by Aaron Friend-Lettner, and featuring photography by Julie Pasila and edited by Ryley O'Byrne, Herbal Reverie explores the interspecies relationship between plants and people as an alternative method
- [50: Half a Century of UNIT/PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/50/) - November 7, 2025 - February 15, 2026 Documentation of live VJ and DJ sets at UNIT/PITT's 50th anniversary opening night. EVENTS Visioning Futures - Jan 31 January 31, 2026, 5-9PM2954 West 4th Ave UNIT/PITT presents Visioning Futures, a conversational gathering that invites artists and community members to be in dialogue with each other and reflect on
- [c.a.f.f. (calling all friendly faces): U/P's Monthly (E)merging and Experimental Jazz Nite](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/caff/) - Calling all friendly faces! Join us for our (e)merging experimental jazz nite -- on a regular, recurring, and reverent basis. NOTE: May 7th's c.a.f.f. will be its last iteration before going on hiatus over the summer! If you haven't had a chance to stop by, now's your chance. Keep an eye out for event announcements
- [Navel of the Möbius Sound Series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/navel-of-the-mobius-sound-series/) - Navel of the Möbius ::: Experiments in Continuous Deformation Pairs of collaborators will enter into a ‘sonic topological space,’ whose limits, continuity and connectivity emerge and morph through the contingent interplay of the performers’ shared signals and take shape by way of attuned listening and response. Each person in a duo will have part of
- ["all the time: poems and traces" Launch Event](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/all-the-time-poems-and-traces-launch-event/) - April 25th, 2026 19:00-22:30 Doors at 19:00. An evening of poetry, sound, image, and conversation for the launch of Xiaoxuan Huang’s book all the time: poems & traces (Metatron Press, 2026.) Featuring special guests grim beverage, Mateo Paredes Heidemann, and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora. This event is free for all to attend. Books, cassettes, and other ephemera
- [UNIT is U - 50th Anniversary Publication](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/unit-is-u-50th-anniversary-publication/) - Celebrating a half-century of essential art and critical inquiry, UNIT is U is a seminal compilation of musings, mishaps, memories, and wishes from 20 writers exploring UNIT/PITT’s expansive history since its incorporation in 1975. The publication features essay-length and short-form writing contributions that contextualize the important history of this peculiar organization across the decades, and
- [The Only Animal: Slow Social Club](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/the-only-animal-slow-social-club/) - UNIT/PITT is pleased to partner with The Only Animal for the winter series of Slow Social Club throughout February and March, 2025, hosted in our gallery and garden spaces. Registration is free, but space is limited!Please RSVP via eventbrite Workshop dates:February 9, February 16, March 1, March 8, March 16, March 30, 1:00-4:00pmAccessibility NotesThe Only Animal’s Slow Social Club offers soft tactics to
- [Nail Salon with Nellie Gossen](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/nail-salon-with-nellie-gossen/) - June 10-15, 2025 UNIT/PITT2954 West 4th AveBy appointment: nelliegossen@gmail.com We are pleased to host interdisciplinary artist Nellie Gossen in bringing their Nail Salon to UNIT/PITT this June. Weaving together lineages of expansive fashion and beauty practice with the teachings of spiritual- and end-of-life care, Nellie uses the time-space of a manicure to hold open, one-on-one conversations
- [to carve without cutting](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/to-carve-without-cutting/) - Activations and Events Free Admission Artist Bios Printed Matter UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness is excited to announce the exhibition to carve without cutting, curated by Asia Jong. The exhibition will unfold simultaneously across the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden & Public Park in Vancouver’s Chinatown, from August 31 to September 28, 2024
- [borrowed belonging: art ecosystem](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/borrowed-belonging-art-ecosystem/) - borrowed belonging November 30 - December 20, 2024Opening reception November 30, 2024, 6-9pmUNIT/PITT and art ecosystem invite you to join us for the opening reception of borrowed belonging. The exhibition features a collection of sculpture, installation, prints, poetry and plant medicines created by art ecosystem collective members karmella benedito de barros, Maymoona Gaid, Lexi Mellish-Mingo and
- [Summer Studio Residency: The Garden, The Gallery](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/summer-studio-residency-the-garden-the-gallery/) - To celebrate UNIT/PITT's first summer in its new gallery space, we are offering a three-month summer studio residency opportunity for an individual, collaborative, or collective of artists whose work can engage with our garden space and gallery, culminating in an exhibition in October 2024. We are now accepting expressions of interest for the residency program.
- [Light grows wild: XINEMA Film Screening and to carve without cutting Closing Reception](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/light-grows-wild/) - XINEMA and UNIT/PITT are proud to present Light grows wild, a programme of experimental films presented in conjunction with the to carve without cutting exhibition, curated by Asia Jong. This collection of works by Emma Roufs, Bram Ruiter, Daniel Robin, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Carolee Schneemann, Tiziana La Melia, Maryse Larivière, Carolynne Hew, and Sarah
- [ecco landscape: The Art of Soundmapping — Workshop, August 9, 10 + 12](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/ecco-landscape-workshop/) - ecco landscape: The Art of Sound Mapping Sound maps have re-emerged as a popular medium for recontextualizing and re-presenting land and ecology, blending artistic and creative practices like soundscapes and experimental aural interventions with scientific, analytical methods such as geographical data analysis. Given that the discipline is so enmeshed with technological advancement, the practice is
- [Sound of the Sun, Vol. III: SUMMER SOLSTICE](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/sound-of-the-sun-three-artist-announcement/) - A SOLAR SONIC SOUND PROJECT, IN ALIGNMENT WITH SUN CYCLES Dates: June 20th, 2024: Live performance and cassette tape release at UNIT/PITT Featuring sound works from Immix (Robyn Jacob), Matt Nish-Lapidus, Thomas Evdokimoff, Anju Singh, Marianne Thodas, Hân Phạm, Edith Skeard, Jen Yakamovich & Inkydew the Companion, Sam Meadahl, and Joel DeStefano. Sound of the
- [XINEMA x UNIT/PITT present: BUDDING](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/xinema-buddingscreening-fairyclocksworkshop/) - FAIRY CLOCKS FILM WORKSHOP Eco-processed daisy-chained 16mm film developed during the Fairy Clocks Workshop on July 20 + 21, 2024. Curated by Kara Hansen and Kasper Feyrer. Film features footage by Amelia Darragh, Sophia Jaworski, Madeleine Keen, Michelle Helene Mackenzie, Hannah Moller, Shahir Qrishnaswamy, Tess Rafael, Vivien Sagsen, Morgan Sears-Williams, Jaylene Scheible, Eric Tkacyk, &
- [Gravity wins, Entropy rules](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/gravity-wins-entropy-rules/) - March 2 – April 30, 2024Opening Reception Saturday March 2, 7–9PM2954 West 4th Ave, Vancouver, BCCurated by Felix Rapp Gravity wins, Entropy rules features holographic sculptural assemblages by Al Razutis. Curated by Felix Rapp, this exhibition presents a rare and critical opportunity for the public to encounter holographic art—a distinctly West Coast artistic discipline. Born
- [The Transparency Machine Event - July 24](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/the-transparency-machine-event-july-24/) - A Transparency Machine event will occur on Wednesday July 24, 7:00PM, in UNIT/PITT's gallery with poem-texts selected and projected by Scott Inniss, Jenny Penberthy, and Leah Sharzer. The Transparency Machine Event asks a writer to select a poem-text written by someone else and to facilitate a 20-minute discussion about it. The texts selected by Scott, Jenny, and Leah
- [Artists in Residence - art ecosystem collective](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/artists-in-residence-art-ecosystem-collective/) - To celebrate the first summer in our new space, UNIT/PITT is pleased to welcome the art ecosystem collective as our The Garden, the Gallery artists-in-residence. Residents will be provided free access to UNIT/PITT's gallery and garden space from July - September, 2024, culminating in an exhibition in October, 2024. Although art ecosystem is a wide-ranging collective with fluctuating
- [Sound of the Sun, Volume I](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/sun-2/) - LISTEN NOW: https://soundcloud.com/user-929382892/sets/sun Curated by Catherine de Montreuil and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes Recording, mastering, and project support from Nick Short Artwork by Martin Steuck, Catherine de Montreuil, and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes Dates: June 20 – Album release dateJuly 4 – 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Broadcast on CJSF 90.1 FM with Marisa + CatherineJuly 20
- [N Dimensional Space](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/n-dimensional-space/) - Film Screening in the Garden at UNIT/PITT ft. Kasper Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Peter Lipskis, Sam Perry, and Al RazutisOrganized by XINEMASunday, April 28, 2024, 8pmTotal program time: 76.5 min This program is a part of the 2024 Capture Photography Participating Events. Please join us on Sunday, April 28th for 𝙉 𝘿𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚, an experimental film screening
- [Sound of the Sun, Volume II](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/sound-of-the-sun-volume-ii/) - Dates: December 21, 2023: Online releaseJanuary 13, 2024: Live performance and cassette tape release at UNIT/PITT Featuring sound works by: In The Are, goddaughter, Spiral Remix, J Ward, Tiffany Muñoz, Aila, May Flower, Olivia Valenza, Hank Bull, and Aaron Oliver. Sound of the Sun, Volume II is here to accompany you through the darkest day of the year. Created for the Winter Solstice of
- [Blue Greens Workers](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/blue-greens-workers/) - Alyson Bucharest, Sauha Lee, Kiyoshi Whitley Curated by Catherine de Montreuil Nov 25, 2023 – Feb 3, 2024 Opening Reception November 25 7PM UNIT/PITT is pleased to present the group exhibition Blue Greens Workers with works by Alyson Bucharest, Sauha Lee, and Kiyoshi Whitley. The presentation of Blue Greens Workers marks UNIT/PITT’s inaugural exhibition at our new gallery location,
- [Strategies for Survival (1986)](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/strategiesforsurvival1986/) - Strategies for Survival (1986) is an archives project produced by UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, re-presenting the partial proceedings of Strategies for Survival: State of the Arts/The Art of Alternatives, An International Conference for Artists, organized by the Vancouver Artists League, and held at the Commodore Ballroom, June 9th, 10, and 11th, 1986. In 1986,
- [Video Walkthrough: I spy...  Project Catalogue 2020-2022](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/video-walkthrough-i-spy/)
- [I spy... Project Catalogue + ReIssue Year 2 Anthology Launch](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/i-spy-project-catalogue-reissue-year-2-anthology-launch/) - UNIT/PITT Double Book Launch at Or Gallery I spy… Project Catalogue 2020-2022 + ReIssue Year 2 Anthology May 30, 2023 from 5:00-8:00 PM, with remarks at 6:45PM Refreshments and snacks will be served Generously hosted by the Or Gallery for UNIT/PITT and ReIssue at 236 E Pender St, Vancouver, BC This event is free and open
- [SOUND OF THE SUN, VOLUME 1: CALL FOR PITCHES](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/sun/) - CALLING ALL MUSICIANS, WRITERS, ARTISTS, STORYTELLERS Deadline: March 24, 2023 ABOUT THE PROJECT As Earth tilts towards the Sun, light, growth, and activity are at their peak. Plants lush and expressive stretch into long bright days of gratuitous photosynthetic activity. Animals are awake, insomniac, exploratory—or at rest in shady reprieves. As light increases, so too
- [Ada Dragomir, Alger Ji-Liang, Ana M Tonso Alonso, Angie Rico, Atheana Picha, Celina de Leon, Chloe Hardmon, Dani Neira, DANI YOUR DARLING, Dax Heaven, Hannah Dubois, Jake Kimble, Julia Chang, Kaila Bhullar, Kara Ditte Hansen, Karl Hipol, kathy feng, Louie Villanueva, M.V. Williams, Marv Houngbo, Melanie Evelyn, Pari, Samantha Walters, Sara Wylie, Sarah Madgin, Sarah Wong, Snack Witch aka Joni Cheung, Soloman Chiniquay, Timothy Fernandes, Zuleyma Prado: I spy...3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/ispy3/) - I spy 2022...the online exhibition ran from November 30 to February 28, 2023. I spy… is a mail art program created by UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. This year, 30 participating artists were mailed a disposable camera and a unique text prompt written by poet, editor and writer Jane Shi. They were instructed
- [Wrong Wave Festival: The Liquidation World Guide to Maximizing Your Autonomy, July 2022](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/wrong-wave-festival-2022/) - A selection of art rock, experimental film, visual art and community projects The 8th edition of Wrong Wave Festival, curated by Liquidation World (Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Maya Beaudry, David Biddle), runs from July 5-31, 2022. The Liquidation World Guide to Maximizing Your Autonomy is the most expansive Wrong Wave Festival to date, with events and exhibitions
- [Ada Dragomir, Alysha Seriani, Emily Guerrero, Kara Stanton, Mary Rusak, Pippa Lattey, Rhys Edwards, Ryan Ermacora, Stephanie Gagne: LA COMMUNE 2021 by Roxanne Panchasi](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/la-commune-2021/) - I have sent you numerous letters, but I am not aware whether you have received them. As very probably they are now either in the clouds or in the moon, I write a short resume of what has passed since we have been cut off from the outer world, as I believe that I have
- [Roxanne Panchasi: La Commune 2021 Free School](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/la-commune-2021-free-school/) - From March to June 2021, writer and scholar (and UNIT/PITT Board Member) Roxanne Panchasi presented a virtual free school focused on the Paris Commune of 1871. The course materials were initially delivered by e-newsletter, as 10 weeks of curated, open access readings that thematically mirrored the major events from 150 years before: WEEK 1: Bienvenue/WelcomeWEEK 2: The Election of Paris CommuneWEEK
- [ReIssue.pub: an online art writing magazine by UNIT/PITT](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/reissue/) - ReIssue is an interdisciplinary art writing magazine focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted in critical engagement with experimental art practices. ReIssue soft-launched at reissue.pub in 2021 thanks to the generous support of Vancouver Foundation’s Systems Change Grant, UNIT/PITT, and VIVO Media Arts Centre. ReIssue is an online magazine for art
- [Izzy Cenedese, Raine Bongon, Ella White: I spy...Artist Talk Series](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/i-spy-artist-talk-series/) - April 21 - Izzy CenedeseApril 28 - Raine BongonMay 5 - Ella White12-1PM PSTZoom//Free From April 21 to May 5, join UNIT/PITT every Thursday for free, lunchtime artist talks with Izzy Cenedese, Raine Bongon, and Ella White. Register via Eventbrite This online artist talk series is a part of a connecting bridge of projects created
- [andi icaza-largaespada, Brandon Leung, Daniela Rodriguez Chevalier, Jae Lew, Meesh QX, Sidi Chen: I spy... 2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/ispy2/) - I spy 2021...is now live! The online exhibition runs from October 25 to February 28, 2022. View the I SPY online exhibition I spy… is a mail art program created by UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. This year, 6 participating artists were mailed a disposable camera and a unique, crowd-sourced text prompt. They
- [Wrong Wave 7 by NuZi Collective](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/wrong-wave-7/) - Wrong Wave is an erratic festival hosted by UNIT/PITT celebrating the intersection of music, performance, visual art and publishing. Curated by NuZi Collective, the seventh instalment will feature the launch of a limited edition publication (Tue Nov 19), and a music showcase (Thu Nov 21) at 8EAST. Tue Nov 19 | ZINE LAUNCH & ARTIST
- [Taking photos & making books: a conversation with Soloman Chiniquay and Louie Villanueva](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/taking-photos-making-books/) - April 8, 12-1:30PSTZoom//FreeRegister by emailing register@unitpitt.ca Join UNIT/PITT for a free, lunchtime discussion on cameras, documentation, and self-publishing with lens-based artists, Soloman Chiniquay and Louie Villanueva. This event will be a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will not be visible, but they may submit questions and comments through the Chat function. Live Closed Captioning will be available
- [Svava Tergesen, Ryley O'Byrne, Rebecca Wang, Rachel Lau, Phoebe Huang, Mona Fani, Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Jaz Whitford, Jackie Dives, Gloria Wong: I spy...](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/i-spy-a-disposable-camera-project/) - I spy… a disposable camera project is a mail art program created by UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. Ten artists are each sent a disposable camera and a unique text prompt. They are instructed to photograph whatever they want, as long as one photograph responds to the prompt. UNIT/PITT chooses nine photographs from each
- [Corbin Union (Miruna Dragan, Jason de Haan, Kris Lindskoog, Warren McLachlan, Karly Mortimer, Jeremy Pavka, Kylie B. Ward): Inversus Mundi](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/corbin-union-miruna-dragan-jason-de-haan-kris-lindskoog-warren-mclachlan-karly-mortimer-jeremy-pavka-kylie-b-ward-atrum-fortuna/) - Opening Friday, November 4, 7pm “Already many of the surrounding buildings had disappeared beneath the proliferating vegetation. Huge club mosses and calamites blotted out the white rectangular faces, shading the lizards in their window lairs. Beyond the lagoon, the endless tides of silt had begun to accumulate into enormous glittering banks, here and there overtopping
- [Warren McLachlan: Structure for Observing Atypical Flight](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/warren-mclachlan-structure-for-observing-atypical-flight/) - UNIT/PITT is inaugurating a series of works presented on the exterior of our building with Warren McLachlan's Structure for Observing Atypical Flight, which can be viewed from the street in front of 236 East Pender. These sculptural works are intended as habitats for local birds and bats, and originated with the Corbin Union collective's observations
- [Robert Dayton: The Empty Bed](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/robert-dayton-the-empty-bed/) - Presented by UNIT/PITT at Access Gallery, 222 East Georgia Street Friday, May 25, 7 - 10 pm (free admission) Robert Dayton will present an interdisciplinary performance as himself and as The Canadian Romantic based around his artist's book The Empty Bed published by Impulse [b]. Also on view will be drawings and copies of The
- [Chris Bose: The Apology](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/chris-bose-the-apology/) - Book Launch and Artist Talk [audio: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Chris-Bose-Book-Launch-and-Artist-Talk-12-30-11.mp3] Part of Ill Repute series, The Apology is a new media installation featuring rare colour footage from 1941 Vancouver. This work juxtaposes the modern city with Aboriginal Children at an undisclosed Residential School and with a voice over of the Apology by Stephen Harper to the First Nations,
- [Limited Time Library](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/limited-time-library/) - A curatorial project by Abbey Hopkins and Catherine de Montreuil OPENING: October 1st, 7pm Through selective and organized sharing, the Limited Time Library serves as a temporary site for research, study, leisure and sharing of knowledge. Created through a delegated selecting process, overlaps and departures in themes pertaining to the library’s community members emerge in
- [Coffee & Newspapers](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/coffee-newspapers/) - Part of Limited Time Library @ Unit/Pitt Wake up with us before the Vancouver Art Book Fair! From 9am-2pm we will be serving coffee (and tea!) and have a wide range of standard newspapers, special edition newspapers and artists newsprint works for perusing. We will have the freshest local papers, a selection of archived materials,
- [1975–2055: Art and Community Panel Discussion](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/1975-2055-art-and-community-panel-discussion/) - Tuesday November 3, 7–9 p.m. Co-presented by: UNIT/PITT Projects and Vancouver Moving Theatre/Heart of the City Festival Location: UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender St. 1975–2055: Art and Community is a panel discussion co-presented by UNIT/PITT Projects (part of 2055 public programs) and Vancouver Moving Theatre/Heart of the City Festival that brings together representatives of five community-driven arts organization in
- [Musik Klub 2: Selectors Special Edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/musik-klub-2-selectors-special-edition/) - 7pm - 10pm, Friday November 6 Musik Klub is happy to present Selectors Special Edition. Join us in screening an hour-long program of live (or sometimes badly lip-synced) performances and rare promo videos from a variety of international television music programs broadcast between 1965 & 1995. Keeping with the tone of the night, Brady Cranfield
- [Rachel & Sarah Seburn: We Should Take Below - The Gambling Splinter](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/rachel-sarah-seburn-we-should-take-below-the-gambling-splinter/) - "Wherever landscapes are rapidly transformed by technology, there is war." -Lebbeus Woods Opening Reception Friday, Nov. 13 at 7PM URBAN FOXHOLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: -What is your protection program? -In this fluid community, what do you protect? -How do we protect our communication? -How do we preserve secret space? 5 classifications of bunkers: -Trench -Artillery -Industrial
- [Pietro Sammarco with The Rita: Vancouver Noise and the Harmoniously Productive City](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/pietro-sammarco-and-the-rita-vancouver-noise-and-the-harmoniously-productive-city/) - 7pm, at Selectors Records, 8 East Pender Street, Vancouver Free admission Pietro Sammarco will present a talk on the history of noise regulation in Vancouver, followed by a response in the form of a performance by internationally-acclaimed "harsh noise" performer The Rita. Vancouver’s urban noise by-law was written in 1938, a year after the Non-Partisan
- [DEC 17 ISSUE Launch VOL. 4 NO 2 // Gambling Splinter Closing](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/dec-17-issue-launch-vol-4-no-2-gambling-splinter-closing/) - Thursday Dec 17th at 7pm we are celebrating a trifecta of endings. ISSUE Magazine has finished up its latest chrysallis and is ready to re-emerge as a fresh new winter butterfly. Come see the results of what seems like 85 months of toiling little hammers: with a new layout, exhibiton reviews, a conversation with Tiziana
- [Musik Klub 3: Phase Induction Edition](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/musik-klub-3-phase-induction-edition/) - Musik Klub is happy to present VOL. 3: PHASE INDUCTION EDITION. Join us in screening an hour-long program of live (or sometimes badly lip-synced) performances and rare promo videos from a variety of international television music programs broadcast between 1965 & 1995. Keeping with the tone of the night, Josh Stevenson will be playing records
- [Graeme Wahn: Mother Hastings Time Capsule](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/graeme-wahn-mother-hastings-time-capsule/) - Curated by Catherine de Montreuil Opening Friday, January 15, 8pm In the year 1940, a time capsule titled The Crypt of Civilization was sealed in Atlanta, Georgia; set to be opened in the year 8113. Similarly, the design of Hastings Park features a time capsule, albeit for a more realistic span of time: the year
- [Monique Levesque: Why Am I Afraid to Love?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/monique-levesque-why-am-i-afraid-to-love/) - Valentine's Day reception and artist talk, Saturday February 13, 7pm Curated by Brynn McNab "I am engulfed, I succumb..." S'abimer/to be engulfed Outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse Appropriating fantasies from teen nightmares and self-help books as a city-wide stage play, Monique Levesque
- [Time's Up: Book Launch and Reading](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/times-up-book-launch-and-reading/) - Join us on February 10 at 7pm for the launch of Time’s Up!, a book project by Abbey Hopkins, Curtis AuCoin and Dan Pon, and some readings by Curtis AuCoin, Cole Nowicki, Alison Braid and Alyssa Dusevic. Time’s Up! is the final publication for Limited Time Library @ Unit/Pitt. Writer in Residence for the duration
- [Elaine Carol: Art and Community Reading Group #1](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/elaine-carol-art-and-community-reading-group/) - Discussion led by Elaine Carol Tuesday February 23, 7pm Reading: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame by Beverly Naidus. Contact UNIT/PITT at info@helenpittgallery.org for access to a copy of the book. Everyone is welcome. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the reading ahead of the discussion. Elaine Carol will lead a discussion exploring
- [Jordan Abel, bill bissett, Danielle LaFrance, Donato Mancini, sidony o’neal, Anahita Jamali Rad,  The Third Thing:  Future Concrete](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/jordan-abel-bill-bissett-danielle-lafrance-donato-mancini-sidony-oneal-anahita-jamali-rad-the-third-thing-future-concrete/) - Opening Friday, March 4, 7pm Closing event and publication launch Saturday, April 16, 7pm Curated by Gabriel Saloman Future Concrete is an exhibition of visual poetry by seven North American poets, creating answers and further questions to the question "what comes after this?" Each poet was invited to engage questions of what poetics might be
- [An Exact Vertigo 2016/2055](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/an-exact-vertigo-2016/) - An Exact Vertigo, entering its second year, is an invitation to Vancouver’s contemporary dance and contemporary art communities to engage in discussion surrounding critical theory, text, choreography, and movement. The series will return to UNIT/PITT projects in 2016 as part of UNIT/PITT’s 2055 Project, a programming framework for the year which imagines the possibilities and
- [Justin Langlois: Art and Community Reading Group #2](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/justin-langlois-art-and-community-reading-group-2/) - Discussion led by Justin Langlois Thursday March 17, 7pm UNIT/PITT, 236 E Pender St., Vancouver Justin Langlois will lead a discussion exploring the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues tied to the production of community-based art. This is the second in a series of monthly reading discussions on the problematic relationships between “art” and “community”. This
- [Musik Klub 4: Good Times Ahead Edition w/ Penny Jo Buckner](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/musik-klub-4-good-times-ahead-edition-w-penny-jo-buckner/) - 7pm, Friday April 1 Rain bummin' you out? Pretty simple: Penny Jo Buckner plays records. Jamie Ward plays obscure music videos. Everyone hangs out and thinks about summer. Good Times Ahead... MUSIK KLUB is a screening series organized and hosted by Jamie Ward and is intended to highlight ongoing research into exciting or challenging music
- [Book launch/closing party for Future Concrete: Poetics After This](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/book-launchclosing-party-for-future-concrete-poetics-after-this/) - Saturday, April 16, 7pm Please join us for the final hours of Future Concrete, an exhibition of seven North American poets imagining a future through poetry. Exhibiting artists include Jordan Abel, bill bissett, Danielle LaFrance, Donato Mancini, sidony o'neal, Anahita Jamali Rad, and the Third Thing. This evening will also be the launch of a
- [Matt Hern: Art and Community Reading Group #3](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/matt-hern-art-and-community-reading-group-3/) - Tuesday April 19, 7pm UNIT/PITT, 236 E Pender St., Vancouver Matt Hern will lead a discussion exploring the ethical, political, and aesthetic issues tied to the production of community-based art. This is the third in a series of monthly reading discussions on the problematic relationships between “art” and “community”. This series is part of 2055
- [Juan Cisneros Neumann: Book launch for Something Else](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/juan-cisneros-neumann-book-launch-for-something-else/) - Join us at 7pm on Friday, March 3 for the launch of Something Else, an artist's book by Juan Cisneros Neumann. Drawing on the themes in his exhibition It Was Something and Then It Became Something Else, on view at UNIT/PITT until March 11th, the book combines found materials with original drawings to skewer the
- [Spectre of Fascism Free School](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/spectre-of-fascism-free-school/) - Spectre of Fascism Free School will return in fall 2017. These events will take place on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. The events are FREE and open to the public. If you would like to donate to the Institute to help fund future events like this one, please
- [ISSUE 404 + Flexer :: Launch & Listening Party](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/issue-404-flexer-launch-listening-party/) - March 24 @ Publication Studio Vancouver / Selectors Records 8 E Pender St. 7 pm $10 a copy! Join us for the launch of ISSUE 404 no.7 and a first listen to the much-anticipated FLEXER youtube playlist compiled by Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes in collaboration with VIP contributors. Edited and designed by guest editors Catherine de
- [Casey Wei: Karaoke Video Maker Free Store](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/casey-wei-karaoke-video-maker-free-store/) - Karaoke production every Friday & Saturday in April, noon to 6pm On every every Friday & Saturday in April, UNIT/PITT Projects will be transformed into a video store where you can make your own fabulous music video of a karaoke song (or your own material) in front of a green screen. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! To
- [Jamey Braden: SHE _________ THE _________](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/jamey-braden-she-_________-the-_________/) - Opening Thursday, May 18, 8pm with a guest appearance by Shitlord Fuckerman Book launch Friday, June 30, 7pm Exhibition extended to July 8 SHE ______ THE ______ is an exhibition of paintings from a feminist unconscious. Using automatic writing, and painting on unstretched, unsized canvas, Jamey Braden creates pointed statements that nevertheless admit a measure
- [School of Collaboration and Invention Summer 2017](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/school-of-collaboration-and-invention-summer-2017/) - JOIN THE INAUGURAL VANCOUVER CHAPTER OF THE SCHOOL OF COLLABORATION AND INVENTION Starting July 2017, UNIT/PITT Projects will host the School of Collaboration and Invention (SOCAI) – a multifaceted, participant-led program that engages young people aged 16-20 in art and design through practices of collaboration, performance, material in(ter)ventions, creative dissent and artistic activism. Together we
- [Dan Farrell, Nicole Markotić, Renee Rodin: Projector Verse](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/dan-farrell-nicole-markotic-renee-rodin-projector-verse/) - Sunday, July 23 4:00-5:30 PM Presented by Kootenay School of Writing at UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 East Pender St. Three poets respond to three texts projected on the wall Dan Farrell projects Thomas Cranmer Nicole Markotić projects Michael Davidson Renee Rodin projects Jim Wong-Chu [Dan Farrell:] A letter from Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury to King
- [Jonathan Blessin, Lucas Chung, Sarah Kim, Tamsyn Kushner, Ashley Kusumoto, Wendel Vistan: IM/MIGRATION AF](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/jonathan-blessin-lucas-chung-sarah-kim-tamsyn-kushner-ashley-kusumoto-wendel-vistan-immigration-af/) - THE SCHOOL OF COLLABORATION AND INVENTION AT UNIT/PITT Saturday, 19 August, 2017. 1.00–5.00 PM MUSICAL PERFORMANCE by OTHER PEOPLE’S BABIES 3.30 PM Donations welcome. The School of Collaboration and Invention (SOCAI) is a multifaceted, participant-led program that engages young people aged 16-20 in art and design through practices of collaboration, performance, material in(ter)ventions, creative dissent,
- [Gio Swaby: We All Know Each Other](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/gio-swaby-we-all-know-each-other/) - Opening Friday, September 8, 7pm Part of SWARM 18 #artistrunbc Hair care is an extensive, meaningful and necessary method of self love, through which black women celebrate themselves and each other. As well, it acts as an exchange of cultural information, as techniques and tips are shared between generations of black women through family, friends,
- [Spectre of Fascism Free School II](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/spectre-of-fascism-free-school-ii/) - These events will take place on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. The events are FREE and open to the public. If you would like to donate to the Institute to help fund future events like this one, please visit http://www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/donate.html. ASL requests must be submitted at least 3
- [Artist tour and discussion with Gio Swaby](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/artist-tour-and-discussion-with-gio-swaby/) - Artist tour and discussion, Wednesday October 4, 7pm Join us in discussion with Gio Swaby on the work in her exhibition We All Know Each Other, which continues through October 21. In a series of stitched portraits on canvas, We All Know Each Other celebrates the self-love and appreciation black women have worked fiercely to
- [Matthew Shields: Papa was a Garbage Man](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/matthew-shields-papa-was-a-garbage-man/) - (gallery closed Dec 17-Jan 3) Opening Friday, November 17, 7pm In Papa was a Garbage Man, Matthew Shields presents a monumental throne made of trash and other socially symptomatic debris collected from rubble heaps and alleys. Surfaces of a mad montage materiality embed the sculptural object in a contemporary infinity of materials, the textures and
- [Spectre of Fascism: Closing Roundtable](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/spectre-of-fascism-closing-roundtable/) - 6pm onward At Selectors' Records, 8 East Pender Street, Vancouver BC Participants: Ajay Bhardwaj Patricia Barkaskas Stephen Collis Hilda Fernandez Samir Gandesha Harjap Grewal Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli Am Johal Presented by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University and UNIT/PITT Time to wrap up our Free School with a free-ranging discussion of the spatio-temporal
- [Collective Reckoning | Session Two](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/collective-reckoning-session-two/) - At ACCESS Gallery 222 East Georgia Street 1pm - 4pm refreshments and snacks provided Limited space RSVP EARLY to info@artsassembly.ca COLLECTIVE RECKONING is a joint project between UNIT/PITT and ARTS ASSEMBLY in the wake of socially driven calls to address sexual harassment, violence and trauma that disproportionately impacts womxn identified and non-binary folks. Through a
- [#postdildo Reading Series featuring Anahita Jamali Rad](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/postdildo-reading-series-featuring-anahita-jamali-rad/) - Doors at 8pm Reading at 830pm UNIT/PITT and 8EAST are pleased to host the third installment of #postdildo #readingseries, featuring poet Anahita Jamali Rad. ANAHITA JAMALI RAD is currently based on Tio'tia:ke on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples. Her work explores materiality, history, affect, place, and displacement. She has published a few chapbooks,
- [Wrong Wave no. 6](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/wrong-wave-no-6/) - KC Wei took a short respite from art rock? and is back to curate Wrong Wave no. 6. It starts Wed Oct 10, with the world premiere of KC’s art rock? The Popular Esoteric (2018), and Myles Black’s The Virga Soundtrack (2018) at VIVO Media Arts, followed by conversation with the directors. The Virga Soundtrack is
- [@fucknovancouver, Hue Nguyen, Dana Kearley, MT Mann #TearItDown2019](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/tearitdown2019/) - Tear It Down 2019 is an ephemeral group art exhibition on poster kiosks from November 2019 until January 2020. Participating artists were asked to create works in response to Vancouver's unaffordability and housing precarity. The resulting posters address themes of access and accessibility; body and belonging; class and security. Week 1 — Nov 29-Dec 6
- [The Limits of Aurality](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/the-limits-of-aurality/) - Symposium 23 March 2018, 10–5pm FREE Much has been made of aurality in recent years. This is due in part to the way attention to sonic experience appears to open new critical paths and modes of thought that are otherwise unavailable to ocular and logocentric forms of analysis and interpretation. However, an aurally-inflected take on
- [#postdildo Reading Series, featuring Maxine Gadd & Ted Rees](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/postdildo-reading-series-featuring-maxine-gadd-ted-rees/) - Thursday, September 20, 8pm at 8EAST Join us for the fourth installment of #postdildo #readingseries, featuring poets Maxine Gadd & Ted Rees. MAXINE GADD is a Vancouver-based poet who lives and works in the Downtown Eastside. A graduate of the UBC English program in the early 1960s, Gadd has published numerous books, chapbooks, and little
- [Ryan Fitzpatrick: A cloth reading](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/ryan-fitzpatrick-a-cloth-reading/) - Saturday, October 6th 2018 8EAST (8 E Pender) 1pm-3pm Join us on an autumn afternoon for a cloth reading. A cloth reading is a type of reading performance in which one is tasked to read a book out loud from cover to cover. For our purposes, the poet will read their nascent manuscript to a group of eager
- [Non-Regular book launch & artists' panel: Working in precarity](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/non-regular-book-launch-artists-panel-working-in-precarity/) - Presented at the ECUAD Aboriginal Gathering Place Second Floor Emily Carr University of Art and Design 520 E 1 Ave., Vancouver BC 6pm - 9pm Join us for the launch of "Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design." Speakers will consider the question: HOW DOES EMPLOYMENT PRECARITY AFFECT OUR ART
- [Caitlin Chaisson, Juan Cisneros, Sharona Franklin, Heather Kai Smith, Splenda, Temporary Investments: #tearitdown2018](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/caitlin-chaisson-juan-cisneros-sharona-franklin-heather-kai-smith-splenda-temporary-investments-tearitdown2018/) - Works by Caitlin Chaisson, Juan Cisneros, Sharona Franklin, Heather Kai Smith, Splenda, and Temporary Investments will be appearing on poster kiosks around Vancouver from October 24 to December 15. #tearitdown2018 is an art exhibition using poster kiosks instead of a gallery. Street posters are covered up, torn down, and frequently disappear completely, just as the
- [U/P at 8EAST](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/u-p-at-8east/) - From July 2018-September 2020, UNIT/PITT co-managed 8EAST (8 East Pender Street, Vancouver) with the New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW). U/P and NOW took over the space from Selectors' Records (2015-2018) with the intention of continuing Selectors' ethos of interdisciplinary collaboration between visual artists, musicians, writers and community members. U/P left the lease in September 2020,
- [AMB: Lois Klassen's Reading The Migration Library](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/amb-lois-klassens-reading-the-migration-library/) - On October 8, 2020, UNIT/PITT hosted a Zoom event for Lois Klassen's artist book project, Reading The Migration Library, as part of Vancouver Art Book Fair's Art Book Month. Hosted by Jairo Salazar, this event was a double book launch for Crista Dahl's The Migrators and Carlos Colín's Tierra Y Libertad / Little México, and
- [Agonyklub Poetry Reading?](https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/agonyklub-poetry-reading/) - As UNIT/PITT’s inaugural Retail Residency, Agonyklub has curated an evening of readings for your mind's eyes' pleasure on Wednesday, February 19 at 8EAST (8 East Pender Street) from 7pm onward. FREE ADMISSION Featuring: KC Wei Colin Osler Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross Nicole Kelly Westman Music playlist by AK. Selections from the AK catalogue will also be

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