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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…

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:

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 (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…

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…