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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…
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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 24×30″, exact dimensions to…
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Tonight | Spaces of Contestation series begins with Geoff Mann: Scarcity Makes the City
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…
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Orphans and dogs | Mark Szabo | New Moon Poncho | Yuriko Iga at UNIT/PITT 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…
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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…