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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…
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A short break — Re: The Fox and Jamie Peck coming soon
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…
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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…
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Tonight: Elizabeth Fischer’s 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…
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TONIGHT | Stack of Moves
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…