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Wil George book launch Saturday
Here it is — the very first copy of Survival In Its Many Shapes by Wil George. Thanks to Wil and curator Cease Wyss for bringing this project to us. We’ll be launching the book tomorrow — Saturday, November 5 — between 2 and 5 pm. Come by for tea, bannock, and poems. There will…
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Ill Repute: building on itself
Last weekend we opened the first project in our Ill Repute series, Yin Yang Temple by Patrick Cruz. On Saturday, November 5 (at 2 in the afternoon) we’ll follow with the second project, Survival in Its Many Shapes by Wil George. By early December, we will have five commissions by emerging artists running in various…
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Launch of Yin Yang Temple
Thanks to Patrick Cruz, thanks to the people who contributed to his project (playlists by Andrea Lukic, Joshua Bartholomew, John Anderson, Heidi Nagtegaal, Francis Cruz, and Genesis Mohanraj; written contributions by Charlie Satterlee and Jabari Jordan-Walker will be in the book that we’ll be publishing some time in November), and thanks to everyone who came…
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Just to be clear
UNIT/PITT is not part of the anonymous group that has put together a “we don’t back the juiceman” blog on tumblr. It is true that the issues of affordable space and the freedom to produce and present culture in the city are serious, and demand more serious treatment than they are getting. In repeatedly capitulating…
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Patrick Cruz kicks off Ill Repute with Yin Yang Temple
They’re finally here — our emerging artist commissions produced for Vancouver’s 125th anniversary, collectively titled Ill Repute. This isn’t your expected kind of Vancouver history project. Five artists or artist-teams were given a very wide area to work in, namely to respond somehow to the dodgy, checkered 36-year history of a Vancouver institution, namely this…