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Where Mountain Cats Live is a lush invitation for strengthening community bonds, while acknowledging the precarity that we often build our roots upon. Via table-based installation, prints, and accompanying artist’s
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Where Mountain Cats Live is a lush invitation for strengthening community bonds, while acknowledging the precarity that we often build our roots upon. Via table-based installation, prints, and accompanying artist’s books, artist Jenie Gao collapses layers of global and local colonization, childhood memories, and familial narratives of home, displacement, and perseverance, embedded in individual objects.
The centrepiece of this exhibition is the iconic ‘lazy Susan’ table, a post-colonial innovation emblematic of Chinese American and Canadian restaurants. The table features hand-carved images of rabbits and cats in a cyclical chase, from a story that Gao’s mother tells of her bravery while facing ‘mountain lions’ outside her childhood home on a mountainside in Keelung, Taiwan. The work captures a moment when a mother’s stories are suspended between a child’s imagination and an elder’s recollection, and as Gao deals with their present-day dilemmas: the predatory realtors encroaching upon their mother’s home in rural Kansas, increasing pollution and land destruction, and the stubborn resilience of native flora and fauna that nevertheless persist and return.
Where Mountain Cats Live is an investigation of material culture, an homage to the ‘imagination of the oppressed,’ and a love letter to Jenie Gao’s mother and extended communities who, in the face of many uncertainties, maintain a sense of home.
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Grunt Gallery
350 E 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC
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For over a year artists from all over the world have been mailing us 4″x6″ postcards with original art they made on the front of them. There are drawings, paintings,
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For over a year artists from all over the world have been mailing us 4″x6″ postcards with original art they made on the front of them. There are drawings, paintings, collages, photographs, block prints, and more. It is pretty amazing.
We have received about 300 postcards from over 15 countries and more will be added as they come in the mail after the show opens.
All postcards will be for sale for only $20 each with all proceeds going to support Outsiders and Others.
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HOLIDAY MARKET!! Come join us for some fun music while you get your holiday shopping done at the market filled with LOCAL Artists & Artisans! HOLIDAY MARKET Sundays from 12-6pm Dec 7th
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HOLIDAY MARKET!!
Come join us for some fun music while you get your holiday shopping done at the market filled with LOCAL Artists & Artisans!
HOLIDAY MARKET
Sundays from 12-6pm
Dec 7th & 14th
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The Gallery George
140 West Hastings Street
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Experience Clara’s dream come to life as she embarks on a magical journey through the Land of Snow, across the Lemonade Sea, to the Kingdom of Sweets where she is greeted by
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Experience Clara’s dream come to life as she embarks on a magical journey through the Land of Snow, across the Lemonade Sea, to the Kingdom of Sweets where she is greeted by the enchanting Sugar Plum Fairy. An unforgettable adventure awaits as her gallant Nutcracker battles the evil Mouse King and his army of mischievous mice.
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Queen Elizabeth Theatre
630 Hamilton St
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Join us on December 18 for a festive evening of shopping and saving at Arthentic, home to Whistler’s largest collection of local artisan-made goods.
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Maury Young Art Centre
4335 Blackcomb Way
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Imagine a Christmas far, far away…in both time and place. The Winter Harp ensemble performs your favourite classic Christmas songs, as well as ancient tunes, on harps, flute and other
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Imagine a Christmas far, far away…in both time and place. The Winter Harp ensemble performs your favourite classic Christmas songs, as well as ancient tunes, on harps, flute and other rare medieval instruments live on stage at The BlueShore at CapU on Vancouver’s North Shore. Listen to poetry and enchanting folk tales, take in the scene of rich velvet gowns against a backdrop of cathedrals and snow, and instantly be transported to a Christmas long, long ago.
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BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University - North Vancouver
2055 Purcell Way