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
Story Keeping: Brittney Namaakii Bear Hat and Richelle Bear Hat
Nanaimo Art Gallery, 150 Commercial St, Nanaimo BC
Now–April 9, gallery hours here
Free
Mohkinstsis (Calgary)-based artists Brittney Namaakii Bear Hat and Richelle Bear Hat present new and existing work in Story Keeping, exploring Blackfoot and Dane-zaa Cree storytelling practices through sculpture, photography, drawing, and video.
image/object: new approaches to three-dimensional photography
Reach Gallery, 32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford BC
Now–May 6, 2023, gallery hours here
Free
Beyond the medium’s representational and symbolic capacities, Canadian artists Karin Bubaš, Natalie Hunter, Karen Zalamea explore photography’s material qualities and spatial potential.
Delinda Collier: The Africa in Media Studies and Art History
Room 104, Frederic Lasserre Building, University of British Columbia, 6333 Memorial Road, Vancouver BC
Thursday March 16, 5:30pm
Free
Dr. Delinda Collier summarizes the history of media studies’ and art history’s reliance on “Africa” as shorthand for unmediated, non-technological, or pre-philosophical art. From Carl Einstein’s Negerplastik’s non-contextual photographs of African sculpture to Marshall McLuhan’s many invocations of Africans’ inability to perceive film or television, Africa was foundational to theories of medium in both fields. This talk will discuss this history in relation to the burgeoning digital and media art scene on the African continent, and will ultimately propose a broader understanding of mediation tied to an “Atlantic” history of art.
Alison Bremner: Ladykiller the Maneater
grunt gallery, #116-350 E 2nd Ave, Vancouver BC
March 16–April 29, Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5pm
Free
Tlingit artist Alison Bremner brings forward the experiences of an imagined deity who has existed in a dream-state for so long that no one is certain even of what she was the deity of anymore. Bremner’s paintings demonstrate both the love and bite of the artist’s humour and her penchant to draw from all aspects of contemporary Indigenous identity without adhering to the discourse of traditional vs. contemporary. Curated by Whess Harman.
Play by Play: Hazel Meyer, Lucas Morneau, and Tak Pham in Conversation
Kamloops Art Gallery (online via Zoom)
Thursday March 23, 2:30pm
Free, register here
Exhibiting artist Lucas Morneau, artist Hazel Meyer, and curator Tak Pham discuss the relationship between queerness, sports, and the artists’ creative practices in this talk organized in association with Lucas Morneau’s exhibition, Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL).
Wares, Kamikaze Nurse and Soyjoy at the Fox
Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main St, Vancouver BC
Thursday March 23, doors 8pm
Tickets $15 here or at the door
Wares is a heavy, dreamy, rough-around the edges pop band led by singer/guitarist Cassia Hardy from amiskwacîy, Treaty 6 territory. With local bands Kamikaze Nurse and Soyjoy.
Framing Agnes
Cinecenta, 3800 Finnerty Road, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
Friday March 31, 5pm
Tickets at the door
Filmmaker and UVic Gender Studies prof Chase Joynt’s 2022 feature film combines fiction and non-fiction by bringing together a cast of esteemed trans actors to reenact and reimagine case study interviews from a 1950s gender clinic. The film premiered last year at Sundance and is coming back to Victoria for one night at Cinecenta: don’t miss it!
Vinyl Envy 8th Birthday Party at The Roxy! (Folkie Friday)
Roxy Theatre, 2657 Quadra St, Victoria BC
Friday March 31, 7:30–10pm
Tickets $29 here
Victoria record shop and music venue Vinyl Envy celebrates its 8th birthday Friday March 31 at The Roxy! Featuring local folk music by Mama’s Broke, Dana Sipos, and Ghostly Hounds, along with a special tribute to late local musician Vic Horvath.
Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings St, Vancouver BC
Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1
PWYC, schedule here
The two-day student-led Skoden Film Festival is back for its fifth year! Founded and led by Carr Sappier (Wolastoqew) and Grace Mathisen, Skoen is organized by students from SFU’s School of Contemporary Arts and the Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology. Showcasing works by Indigenous filmmakers, this year’s programs are titled: Activating the Landscape; It’s a Long Story (with feature Ever Deadly); The Deepest Part of my Heart; Who I Am, Who We Are; and Our Connections.
Jobs / Calls
Special Events Assistant, City of Burnaby (Burnaby), apply by 03/19
Graphic Designer, Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver), apply by 03/20
Graphic Designer, Museum of Anthropology at UBC (Vancouver), apply by 03/21
Senior Development Manager, Vancouver Writers Fest (Vancouver), apply by 03/27
General Manager/Outreach Coordinator, All Bodies Dance Project (Vancouver), apply by 04/14