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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…

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…

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.

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 — 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.