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
Art Forums: Ranu Mukherjee
Emily Carr University (Online)
Wednesday February 1, 4pm–5:30pm
Free, register here
ECU’s Art Forums presents an artist talk with Ranu Mukherjee, a visual artist working in moving image, painting, and installation to build new imaginative capacities, drawing on collage, feminist science fiction, and Indian mythological images. Her recent artwork is guided by the forces of ecology and non-human agency, diaspora and migration, motherhood and transnational feminisms.
Cariboo Country: The Education of Phyllistine + How to Break a Quarter Horse
The Cinematheque, 1181 Howe St, Vancouver BC
Wednesday February 1, 7pm
Free
The finale screening of The Cinematheque’s The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia ends with a double-bill of North Vancouver-raised Philip Keatley’s 1960s’ TV series, Cariboo Country. Groundbreaking during its time for casting First Nation actors to play First Nation characters, the two 60-minute specials treat issues of racism, justice, friendship, and family. The films will be introduced by Colin Browne, with special guests in attendance: Sun Dance Chief Rueben George and Julia Keatley.
Views In and Out of Vancouver
Canton Sardine, #71–268 Keefer St, Vancouver BC
Now–March 25, Wednesday–Saturday 12–6pm
Free
An intimate opportunity with three of Wall’s classic lightbox transparencies created between 1987–1999, from “a time that now seems almost like another era.” Views In and Out of Vancouver is Wall’s first solo show in Vancouver since 2009. Curated by Lam Wong.
The Willful Plot
Curated by Melanie O’Brian
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver BC
Now–April 16, Tuesday–Saturday 12–5pm
Free
In its willfulness, the resistance garden is a counter-site, a heterotopia for alternative cultivation and potential transformation. This group exhibition brings together the practices of erya Akay and Vivienne Bissette, Gabi Dao, Derek Jarman, Charmian Johnson, Glenn Lewis, Mike MacDonald, Rehab Nazzal and Dana Qaddah to expand the notion of the garden as a site of tension between wild and cultivated, temporal and perpetual, public and private, sovereign and colonized.
erasure: Samantha Dickie
the fifty fifty arts collective, 2516 Douglas St, Victoria BC
February 2–25, Saturday 1–5pm
Opening: February 2, 7pm
Free
Victoria-based artist Samantha Dickie’s practice looks to themes of erasure both past and ongoing through ceramic sculpture and installation.
Pinking Index: Hannah Jickling and Reed H. Reed
Kelowna Art Gallery, 1315 Water St, Kelowna BC
February 4–May 7, gallery hours here
$6-7; Free for children under 12
Remember Big Rock Candy Mountain, the edible artist collaboration with elementary school students? This new exhibition by the artists, a collection of mono-prints, is a continuation of that social practice and research, based on gathered bits and ephemera from past projects.
Sad Anime Fan: Alex Jensen
arc/hive artist-run centre, 2516 Bridge St, Victoria BC
February 4–19, Saturdays & Sundays 12–4pm
Opening: February 4, 5pm
Recent ReIssue writer Alex Jensen shares this work engaging with Anno Hideaki’s enigmatic 1995 anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and a self-reflexive look at the artist’s fan world.
Do the Right Thing
Cinecenta, 3800 Finnerty Rd, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
Thursday February 9, 5pm & 7:15pm
Tickets available at the door, student & seniors discount available
Thirty-four years later, the Spike Lee classic still hits. Catch it at Cinecenta as part of their Black History Month programming.
Family Day: Please Meet the Geese with Collage Collage
Audain Gallery, 149 W Hastings St, Vancouver BC
Saturday February 11, 2–5pm
Free
Beloved Vancouver art studio and shop Collage Collage hosts an experience for children visiting the Audain Gallery with their families. Inspired by Carole Itter’s collection of found and fabricated geese and the environments made for them in her exhibition, gallery visitors with children can create some geese of their own! All materials provided.
Purple Rain
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver BC
Tuesday February 14, 6:20pm (19+)
Tickets available at the box office, or online here
Prince on Valentine’s Day, nuff said.
Jobs / Calls
Executive Director, Vancouver Heritage Foundation (Vancouver), apply by 02/12
Indigenous Engagement Coordinator, Nanaimo Art Gallery (Nanaimo), apply by 02/17
Collection Manager, SFU Galleries (Burnaby), apply by 02/19
Manager, Marketing, Communications and Brand, The ACT Arts Centre/Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Council (Maple Ridge), until filled