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 call-for-submissions posting to submit for consideration in the next and final Digestif of the year, email details to editor@reissue.pub
Xinema One Year Cine-Celebration
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver BC
Thursday November 16, 7:30pm
Tickets here
It’s Xinema’s One Year Cine-Celebration, featuring an open submission screening showcasing short works by XINEMA alumni and close supporters. Celebrating BC’s rich film community, the program will showcase films from 1997 to the present that explore topics of love, longing, new imaginaries, the Anthropocene, and more. Surprise merch available!
Fake Jazz November
Toast Collective, 242 E Pender St, Vancouver BC
Friday November 17, 9pm
$20 NOTAFLOF
This month’s Fake Jazz features Volt (Roxanne Nesbitt & Anju Singh), Ghost Taco (Devon Michigan), and Knife Knife.
Co-Motion Single Field Instrument
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University, 520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC
Friday November 17, 7:30pm, and Saturday November 18, 3pm
Tickets here (PWYC)
Curated by Aki Onda, performance and sound artist Nour Mobarak’s Co-Motion Single Field Instrument turns the gallery into a room-sized instrument by using a real-time tracking system. Designed and conceptualized by the artist, and digitally programmed by Alex Iglizian, sounds, samples, and audio and lighting effects will be triggered as Mobarak moves across colour-coded marks on the floor.
Among the Braves: The Battle for Hong Kong
Alice Mackay Room, Lower Level, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 W Georgia St, Vancouver BC
Monday November 20, 7pm
Free
Journalists Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin discuss their new book, Among the Braves, a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of four core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing’s brutal crackdown. Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa called this book “a must-read for anyone who cherishes liberty.” Moderated by Joanna Chiu, Toronto Star reporter and author of China Unbound.
Re-Materializing the Printed Image: The Case of Early Modern Copper
Community Lounge, Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver BC
Thursday November 23, 4pm
Free
As a part of Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series, AHVA PhD student Tim McCall presents his research, tracing contemporary media discourse back to issues arising from early modern printmaking with a focus on copper. A complex array of historical actors — medieval craftspeople that imbued copper with abstract “virtues”, Europe’s most powerful banking family that monopolized Hungarian copper mining at risk of Ottoman invasion, the self-trained hand of the engraver that worked among proto-industrial machinery — converged on the early modern copper plate even before paper received its image.
Dion Smith-Dokkie: This Will Be the First of a Thousand Worlds We Give Life To
Gallery Gachet, 9 W Hastings St, Vancouver BC
November 24–January 20, 2024, Tuesdays–Saturday 12–6pm
Opening: Friday November 24, 7pm
Free
Smith-Dokkie probes into what they call the ‘neo-colonial terraforming project’ at work in NEBC, a region that has undergone rapid, extensive industrialization over the course of the past century. This programme of resource extraction and environmental design is still at work, as evinced by pervasive and cumulative impacts on this territory and the webs of life it sustains: mines, pipelines, dams, farms, cities, roads, and so on. Taking up the model of the traditional land-use study (TLUS), which transcribes oral histories and auto-ethnographic knowledge and experience into qualitative and quantitative data, the artist transforms topographical and satellite-image maps into speculative territories and affective records that problematize an extractive colonial imagination of the region.
Blue Greens Workers: Alyson Bucharest, Sauha Lee, Kiyoshi Whitley
UNIT PITT Gallery, 2954 West 4th Ave, Vancouver BC
November 25–February 3, 2024, Thursday–Saturday, 12–5pm
Opening: Friday November 24, 7pm
Free
Blue Greens Workers marks UNIT/PITT’s inaugural exhibition at their new gallery location, following three years of remote operations. The mixed-media works consider overlapping dimensions of time, labour, memory, and landscape through the ever-shifting realm of psychic-space and meaning-making. A common thread linking the artworks is their responsiveness to material and temporal realities of place — acting as records of gesture, playing with past and futurity, and presenting psychic impressions of place.
Fan Wu: Wounded Healer (Without Dependency)
Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front, 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver BC
Saturday November 25, 7:30pm
Tickets $5-15 sliding scale, or free with album purchase
Second Spring presents interdisciplinary writer Fan Wu’s débutanté LP of “drone/poetry”, touch the Ten Thousand Things without dependency. Hosted and supported by the Western Front, this album release party will feature performances by Fan Wu & Ensemble, Prince Nifty, Eddy Wang, and Julian Hou. Preceding the album release on Thursday November 23, Wu will also host a reading/screening at the Western Front with local artist writers, Tiziana La Melia, SF Ho, and Hamish Ballantyne.
In the Archive of Memory
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings St, Vancouver BC
Sunday November 26, 2pm
Free
Ten years since the publication of her groundbreaking children of air india, un/authorized exhibits and interjections (Nightwood Editions, 2013), award winning author Renée Sarojini Saklikar discusses research and creation in conversation with Dr. Angela Failler, Canada Research Chair in Culture and Public Memory, and Shachi Kurl, President of the Angus Reid Institute. The three come together to celebrate the anniversary of Saklikar’s original book of poetry, and to reflect on the importance of creative approaches to histories of violence — past and present — as a means of fostering critical understanding and hope. Moderated by Am Johal, Director, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
Cao Minghao – The Water System Rhizome
Coach House, Green College, 6021 Cecil Green Park Rd, Vancouver BC
Wednesday November 28, 5pm
Free
An artist’s talk by Cao Minghao, UBC’s AHVA Distinguished Visiting Artist. Rooted in field investigation, research, and knowledge exchange — ‘durational water-system practice’ goes beyond the ways in which a natural environment is defined through predictive and conceptual means. Cao will discuss the ways in which she and her collaborator, Chen Jianjun, ground their work through long term research and find a particular site as the basis of their ecological practice. In their work, they attest that any place, any subtle details of the water system rhizome, can become not only a potential method for discussing and exploring deeper environmental issues but also an impetus to build a mutual alliance among the earth’s ecologies.
Improv Karaoke #12
8EAST, 10 E Pender St, Vancouver BC
Wednesday November 29, 6pm
Free/PYCW, register here
On the last Wednesday of every month, 8East hosts a collaborative, improvised music karaoke night! Open to improvising musicians of all genres and experience levels. Small ensembles will be randomly created from musicians that register to play short sets together. Limited capacity of 25 musicians. Registrations open one-week prior to each event, drop-in registrations at the door are available but capacity-dependent; audience members are always welcome and do not need to register. Co-hosted by Andrea Wong, Spencer Schoening, Mike WT Allen, and Matthew Ariaratnam.
Calls
The Reach Gallery Museum: Art on Demand 10.1 & 10.2, Exhibition (Abbotsford, BC)
Deadline: November 27
Clayton Community Centre, Pop-Up Artist (Surrey, BC)
Deadline: November 19
Dek Unu Magazine, Writing Call (online)
Deadline: November 20
With Intentions: Form, Writing Call (online)
Deadline: November 27
Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design, Call for Artisans (Cape Breton Island, NS)
Deadline: Open until full
Mount Pleasant Community Screen, Screen-based work (Vancouver, BC)
Deadline: January 12, 2024