Welcome to ReIssue Digestif, a bi-weekly-ish round-up of events on our radar. All times in PST.
If you are BC- or AB-based and have an exhibition, event or job posting to submit for consideration in the next Digestif, email details to admin@reissue.pub
Dream Safely: BFA Graduating Exhibition
Audain Gallery, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings St, Vancouver BC
April 19–May 6, Tuesday–Saturday 12–6pm
Opening: Wednesday April 19, 6–8pm
Free
Featuring works by Tanha Binte Azam, Ayesha Beg, Kaila Bhullar, Karry Hon, Marwah Jaffar, Huong Anh Pham, Iver Smith, and Hana Steinwand. Exploring what it means to be alive with humans and non-humans while each person functions through the lens of their individual positionality, this cohort ponders the nature of the next chapters of their lives, and how the world will continue to grow alongside them. What does it mean to dream in a “post-pandemic” world? How has the perception of interconnectivity shifted and transformed in the past 4 years?
Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations
Beaumont Studios, 326 W 5th Ave, Vancouver BC
Wednesday April 19, 7pm
Tickets $10-15, register here
An evening of conversation in celebration of Suzette Mayr’s Scotia Giller Prize winning book, The Sleeping Car Porter. The novel explores labour, desire, and memory through the perspective of a queer Black man In conversation with writer Wayde Compton, the two will speak on the topic of unspeakable histories – unspeakable in how racism in the razing of Hogan’s Alley was guised under “urban renewal” and in the ways Black queerness was untold and hidden from our past. Moderated by poet and spoken word artist, Brandon Wint with an opening by award-winning musician Khari Wendell McClelland.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Cinecenta, Student Union Building, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria BC
Wednesday April 19, 5pm & 7pm
Free
In celebration of National Canadian Film Day, Cinecenta is hosting a free screening of director Madison Thomas’s 2022 documentary about legendary singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie! Catch it on the big screen and celebrate her lifetime of work.
Fake Jazz
Toast Collective, 242 E Pender St, Vancouver BC
Friday April 21, 9pm
$20 NOTAFLAOF, tickets at the door
Fake Jazz is back at the Toast Collective! Featuring Julia Santoli (NY), In Mirrors (solo improv), Waters, Green Mist, with DJ PUBU.
Rematriation
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver BC
April 22–April 25
Showtimes and tickets here
From the front lines of the fight to preserve BC’s old growth forests, Rematriation is both an urgent wake-up call and an inspiring tribute to land defenders. Aggressive logging destroys more than 10,000 hectares of our province each year. Less than 3% of our virgin forests remains. At Fairy Creek, a coalition of First Nations and environmental activists refuse to stand down. Alexi Liotti’s passionate, respectful film gives these protesters a platform and amplifies their call to action. See it back-to-back with A Cedar is Life (dir. Leslie D Bland & Harold C Joe), playing April 22.
@ubcundergradshow2023: in/finite inside of us is the universe
AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, 6398 University Blvd, Vancouver BC
Saturday April 22–28, Tuesdays–Saturdays, 12–5pm
Free
The graduating exhibition is organized by students in VISA 475: Exhibition Theory and Practice, with Professor Althea Thauberger.
“We’ve been time travelling these past few years in our becoming as artists, even though we didn’t always realize it. We have re-membered our past, present, and future selves as the living, breathing beings we are now becoming in every moment. Doing the inner work of being an artist has brought us to a humble understanding of our smallness within an ecosystem of many relations—cultural, intellectual, familial, cosmological, ecological—relations that sustain and uphold us, and yet, are inextricably “us” all the same.”
Baby Book: book launch with Amy Ching-Yan Lam
READ Books, Emily Carr University, 520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC
Tuesday April 25, 6–8pm
Free
Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed. From a discount bus tour family vacation to a cosmogony based on cheese, these poems accumulate around principles of contingency and revelation. Lam describes the vivid tactility of growth and death–how everything is constantly, painfully remade–offering a vision against the stuck narratives of property and inheritance. Join artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam and guests Andrea Actis, Ido Radon, and Christian Vistan for the launch, co-presented by READ Books and the Richmond Art Gallery on the occasion of Amy Ching-Lam’s exhibition, a small but comfy house and maybe a dog, at the Richmond Art Gallery on view April 22–June 11.
millennial line: a comedy and poetry show
Massy Arts Gallery, 23 E Pender St, Vancouver BC
Wednesday April 26, 8pm
$12/PWYC here or at the door
Hosted by Tin Lorica and Savannah Erasmus, millennial line returns, featuring a line-up of QTBIPOC comics and poets.
While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St, Victoria BC
Saturday April 29–October 22
Gallery admission and hours here
A multi-year project promising a series of forums, talks, and public presentations by Black curators and artists from across the country, While Black considers “both the limits and possibilities of the relationship between contemporary art spaces in Canada and Black art, artists, arts workers, and audiences.” A co-presentation with the Or Gallery (Vancouver, BC) and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown, P.E.I.), which have hosted related exhibitions over the past two years. Curated by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques & Denise Ryner.
Jobs / Calls
P/T Discorder IT Manager (Vancouver), apply by 04/23
P/T Museum of North Vancouver Archivist (North Vancouver), apply by 05/01
F/T CiTR 101.9 FM Station Manager (Vancouver), apply by 05/04
Canadian Films (Shorts/Documentaries/Features): VIFF (Vancouver), submit by 05/26