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The long-anticipated launch of Chun Hua Catherine Dong and Ek Rzepka’s community project We Give A Shit Because We Care is this coming Friday, December 2, at 8pm. We call it a “community project” because the two artists contacted other artists in the Pitt’s community and asked them to submit documents, specifically documents of their…

Thanks to Reid Shier and Michael Turner for mentions of the Pitt and Pitt director Keith Higgins in their discussion of the role and evolution of artist-run centres in Vancouver. You can read the article by picking up the current issue of Fillip, or read it online here.

Looking for a small gift for someone? You can support contemporary art in Vancouver and spread some culture by buying one or more of our Pitt publications, made one-at-a-time by Publication Studio Vancouver. How about: Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again, a book of full-size reproductions of exhibition posters, gig posters and ephemera from 1979-1984, containing…

Our series of artist commissions riffing on the wrong side of history, Ill Repute, is going to wrap up in the next month with a frenzy of activity. First, look for the launch of We Give A Shit Because We Care on Friday, December 2nd. This is another project drawing on the social networks that…

Even when we’re closed, there’s still something to look at, every evening from 8 to 11pm. Right now, it’s a playlist put together for Patrick Cruz’s installation Yin Yang Temple (you can also see the installation part of this project at night if you peek through the bars around our doors). In the coming weeks,…