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VIFF strives to engage and empower communities, encourage dialogue, educate, and champion local artists. Through decades of experience and inspired program development, VIFF has evolved into an acclaimed annual
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VIFF strives to engage and empower communities, encourage dialogue, educate, and champion local artists.
Through decades of experience and inspired program development, VIFF has evolved into an acclaimed annual festival, a premier arthouse cinema, and now the home to the Institute for the Moving Image.
With a complex and impactful festival and year-round program that boasts over 1,500 annual screenings and events, VIFF has become the most prolific and engaging cinematic entity in the region, connecting audiences to bold storytelling while advancing the art and industry of the moving image.
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Various location in Vancouver
716 E Hastings St
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Join world-renowned Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation master carver Xwalacktun for an illustrated talk on Coast Salish art, story, and cultural practice. Reflecting on residencies from South Africa to Scotland, he will
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Join world-renowned Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation master carver Xwalacktun for an illustrated talk on Coast Salish art, story, and cultural practice. Reflecting on residencies from South Africa to Scotland, he will share how his work remains grounded in Coast Salish teachings while connecting with communities around the world.
Xwalacktun (Rick Harry) is one of Canada’s most well known Skwxwú7mesh and Kwakwaka’wakw sculptors and carvers. His wood carvings can be found throughout the province, telling stories of healing and growth. Fittingly, this led to him being the first Indigenous artist to be granted a license to create art related to an Olympic Games, when the event came to Vancouver in 2010.
Xwalacktun was born and raised in Squamish. His mother is originally from Squamish and Alert Bay (Coast Salish, Kwakiutl) and his father was Coast Salish (Squamish). Xwalacktun was given his Indigenous name by his father, Pekultn, who was a hereditary chief, originally from the Seymour Creek area in North Vancouver. Xwalacktun gained his skills and education from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Capilano College but also feels he learned a lot through trial and error.
In 2012, Xwalacktun received the prestigious honour of the Order of British Columbia for his many artistic contributions to communities locally and worldwide, and in 2013, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2022 he was the recipient of an Emily Carr University Honorary Degree, and won the Polygon Award in First Nations Art in the Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement category in 2023. More recently, he completed an artist residency in South Africa in summer 2024.
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The Ferry Building Gallery
1414 Argyle Avenue
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The Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival showcases the work of visual artists and performers outside of mainstream art institutions. We strive to provide a platform for these artists to share their
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The Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival showcases the work of visual artists and performers outside of mainstream art institutions. We strive to provide a platform for these artists to share their unique perspectives and artistic visions with the community.
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Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews
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A body in the hot tub. A chemist with no pulse and a museum full of people who all claim they were elsewhere when poor Dr. Distillation took his final
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A body in the hot tub. A chemist with no pulse and a museum full of people who all claim they were elsewhere when poor Dr. Distillation took his final soak.
Murder? Or just a bad case of the cramps?
The guests become the suspects, sleuths and stars in 90 minutes of laugh-out-loud, fast-paced intrigue. Six people chosen from the attendees will become the suspects—the heroes of the night.
Everyone else forms teams of junior detectives who grill suspects, compare notes and dig deeper… Doug Manure smells a little off. Fanny Flapper, the grieving widow, is crying a little too large. Jane Frame, the safari adventuress, might be eyeing bigger game. Nana, the nanny, resents identical twins Atom and Molecule Distillation, who finish each other’s alibis a little too smoothly. One of them is the killer hiding in plain sight.
Hit the clue table for the autopsy report, run theories by the senior detectives, and sort red herrings from real evidence—and solve it before tea-time!
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Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Steet, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
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Join Elmira for a relaxed, intimate portrait drawing session inspired by the Portrait Award exhibition. Beginning with blind contour drawing, we’ll use mirrors to create self-portraits, then explore the connection
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Join Elmira for a relaxed, intimate portrait drawing session inspired by the Portrait Award exhibition. Beginning with blind contour drawing, we’ll use mirrors to create self-portraits, then explore the connection between the gallery’s portraits and your own story. Each session offers unique variations and can be taken individually or as a series. No experience needed—just bring whatever materials you have on hand.
Two sessions:
October 21 (course #226016)
October 28 (course #229431)
Cost: $25 per session
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The Ferry Building Gallery
1414 Argyle Avenue
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Join exhibiting artist Farheen Haq for a collective weaving gathering where stories, memories, and threads come together. Guided by Haq, participants are invited to slow down, weave alongside one another, and contribute to a growing communal artwork, part of
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Join exhibiting artist Farheen Haq for a collective weaving gathering where stories, memories, and threads come together. Guided by Haq, participants are invited to slow down, weave alongside one another, and contribute to a growing communal artwork, part of In the Folds of Memory.
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Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave