As if Mother Nature hadn’t done a bang-up job of making Vancouver’s North Shore a breathtaking sight to behold, the cities have upped the game with a generous public art program reflecting North Van’s rich heritage and culture. Grab a map and explore over 150 outdoor pieces, in between visits to the many galleries, theatres and gardens that make the North Shore more than just a pretty place.
Explore our Museum after hours with Pay-What-You-Can admission every Thursday evening!
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Explore our Museum after hours with Pay-What-You-Can admission every Thursday evening!
Be it date-night, an evening of family fun, or your own cultural excursion, step into our galleries and let curiosity be your guide as the stories of North Vancouver come to life under a whole new light
Thursdays, Weekly
Time: 5PM –8PM
Audience: All Ages
Pay-What-You-Can
All drop-ins welcome!
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March 12 (Thursday) – July 30 (Thursday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
A new sculpture by James Harry marks The Polygon Gallery’s seventh collaboration and co-commission with Burrard Arts Foundation. Eye of the Ancestor is a striking yellow cedar wooden sphere, carved
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A new sculpture by James Harry marks The Polygon Gallery’s seventh collaboration and co-commission with Burrard Arts Foundation. Eye of the Ancestor is a striking yellow cedar wooden sphere, carved with Coast Salish designs on the surface and holding a mirror-polished stainless steel sphere inside. The composition creates layered reflections and viewpoints that shift with the viewer’s movements around the sculpture. The title of the work draws from Coast Salish visual language, where the eye is a form associated with awareness, presence, and continuity beyond the individual. Harry’s sculpture translates that form into a multiscalar design that enacts a subtle intergenerational choreography, reflecting Indigenous pedagogies wherein knowledge is relational, accumulative, and often revealed incrementally across the arc of one’s life.
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April 10 (Friday) – October 18 (Sunday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
Simranpreet Anand’s latest body of work weighs the spiritual significance of sacred materials against the costs and modes of their mass production. Working from a Sikh perspective, her installation of
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Simranpreet Anand’s latest body of work weighs the spiritual significance of sacred materials against the costs and modes of their mass production. Working from a Sikh perspective, her installation of ceremonial fabrics, lenticular prints, and embroidered photographs considers the notion of the “eternal” in terms of religious significance, as well as the synthetic nature of products manufactured to last forever. Collapsing commercial and domestic spaces, her exhibition at The Polygon Gallery will feature a living room — with custom wallpaper, a couch, and a television — beside the Gallery’s gift shop, probing multivalent ideas of worship, value, and sustainability in the 21st century. Anand was the winner of the 2023 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize.
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April 18 (Saturday) – August 23 (Sunday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
As Spring Spills into Summer showcases a collection of oil paintings that capture the fleeting dance of shadows and light in nature. Each piece invites the viewer to step into
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As Spring Spills into Summer showcases a collection of oil paintings that capture the fleeting dance of shadows and light in nature. Each piece invites the viewer to step into the serene world of the natural environment, where light and shadows converge to evoke emotions and spark contemplation.
