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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.