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Announcing 236 East Pender — how you can help
Donate Now! Unit/Pitt is pleased to announce that we have just signed a 15-year lease on a new location. The new building, at 236 East Pender Street, was formerly occupied by a grocery (and after that, a herbalist), and will provide us with a larger and better-equipped presentation space (indoor plumbing!), room onsite for our…
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Owl Cave | Luminous Books: ALTERNATIVE ORGANS
ALTERNATIVE ORGANS is an online resource for alternative publishing and book art projects presented by Luminous Books | Owl Cave in conjunction with the Luminous Books residency at UNIT/PITT Projects. . Taking its name from a publication within The Whole Earth Catalog, Alternative Organs draws on the catalog’s original aims to facilitate, reflect and build communities through independent…
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Kevin Murphy: Atlantean Timepiece – opening this Friday, March 22 2013, 8 pm
Kevin Murphy: Atlantean Timepiece March 22 to May 4, 2013 Opening this Friday, March 22 2013, 8 pm Kevin Murphy’s Atlantean Timepiece is the fourth project in UNIT/PITT’s series What Future. Influenced by widespread concerns surrounding sea level rise, geological instability, earthquakes, and flooding in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Atlantean Timepiece imagines the future…
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New Texts From Luminous Books
This week at UNIT/PITT Projects Luminous Books has added a collection from their Space Library at the Luminous Books|Owl Cave temporary bookshop. This collection includes a selection of moon and space themed books alongside reading lists on a lunar theme provided by both A Coelacanth Press and Luminous Books. The list includes Epitaphs by Ezra pound, A Trip…
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Kelly Roulette – preview
Tonight (Friday, March 8th at 8pm), Kelly Roulette: Traditional Road Warriors is opening at UNIT/PITT. This is the latest project in our series What Future, where we have commissioned some under-exposed artists to create work that broadly addresses the idea of the future. Like the earlier project by PJS Collective, Before I’m Done, the artist’s…