Featuring over 100 pieces from MONOVA’s rich museum collection, Echoes of Memory weaves together untold stories of aging, memory loss & dementia, and the power of community on our collective human experience.

This solo exhibition by Kim Kennedy Austin runs from February 7 to April 20 at the Burnaby Art Gallery and centers upon the artist’s interests in 20th century advertising, media, and popular culture in myth and meaning making. Drawing on a range of movies and books through this body of work, she explores topics such as conformity, consumer capitalism, risk, and blind faith.

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Kim Kennedy Austin: What Price Salvation
Photographer: Blaine Campbell

Amiri works predominantly in textiles to examine notions of home, as well as how gender, social norms, and larger geopolitical conflict impact the daily lives of women, both in Afghanistan and in the diaspora. Continuing to use textiles as the medium, Amiri searches to define, explore, and question these spaces. The figurative tendency in her work is due to her interest in the power of representation, especially of those objects that are ordinary to our everyday life, such as a passport, a vase, or celebrity postcards.

In xʷəlməxʷ child, Manuel Axel Strain draws on Musqueam, Secwépemc, and Syilx ways of knowing, and the discipline of Western psychology. Compositing theories of mind from across their different cultures, Strain imagines the perspective of a child who contemplates the world from beyond these existing frameworks. Through figurative paintings, transformed into pictographs and set against photographic murals, Strain’s work proposes a way of seeing that suspends judgement and challenges divisions such as past and future, old and new, self and other.

Life Force
Opening Reception, April 5, 2-5pm
Bothkinds Project Space

Feature image:
Laura Marie Clark
Ocean Debris No. 1, Archival pigment print, 20×16

Launched in 2013, Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival. Annually in April, lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver as part of the Exhibition Program, alongside an extensive Public Art Program, an Events Program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events as well as an educational partnership with Emily Carr University.

​​Lindsay McIntyre engages filmmaking as a material practice. For over two decades, she has experimented with manipulating the properties of celluloid, creating a diverse body of films grounded in labour, collaboration and process. Working between documentary, experimental film and expanded cinema performance, McIntyre’s oeuvre reflects on displacement from Inuit Nunangat, place- and land-based methodologies, Inuit community, and survivance, often in conversation with her family history.

Since 2016, New York-based artist collective CFGNY has investigated the transnational circulation of style, addressing a constellation of aesthetics across architecture, contemporary fashion, historical collecting practices, and cultures of cuteness. The group’s practice coalesces around exploring an ineffable but shared recognition of being perceived as other that it calls “vaguely Asian.” Approaching identity and subjectivity as relational endeavours, CFGNY conceives its art-making – integrally collaborative within and beyond the collective – as an act of sociality.

Puccini’s sublime masterpiece closes out our celebratory 2024–2025 season in grand style, with five performances conducted by VO’s Music Director, Maestro Jacques Lacombe. This extended run boasts a double cast bursting with world-class talents, including Tokyo-born soprano Yasko Sato. Praised for her “disarming, honest, refined and authentic” approach, she makes her VO/Canadian debut as Cio-Cio-San, having previously explored the role’s complexities in performances throughout Italy, the US, Belgium, Slovenia, Greece, Spain, and Japan.

For countless generations dance played an integral part in Indigenous defining art and culture. Through the sharing of Indigenous knowledge and artistic practices of the Northwest Coast, Spirit and Tradition layers coastal masked dances, projected imagery, soundscape, and LED puppetry.  Be immersed in the rich and diverse ecosystem of the coastal mountains and oceans.

A Shadbolt & Burnaby Lyric Opera Presentation
Burnaby Lyric Opera brings us their shining stars to perform exerpts from famous Operas. A great way to sample Opera
All seats $20.00