The 21st Edition of the Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouvers beloved four-day
celebration of visual arts, design, and crafts ” runs November 16 ” 19, 2017 in 500+
artists studios, homes, and garages throughout Vancouvers Eastside. Boasting its
largest line-up of artists, venues, and events to date, the Crawl will welcome more than
30,000 visitors to intimately experience this vibrant and inspiring neighbourhood ” the
most densely populated community of artists across Canada. Added to this years line-
up is a series of intimate workshops and demonstrations in pottery, live chainsaw
carving, natural textile dyeing, and glassblowing to deepen patrons understanding of the
unique art-making process.   More info: culturecrawl.ca

The Eastside Culture Crawl runs November 16 & 17 from 5pm-10pm and November 18
& 19 from 11am-6pm.

Nearly 40-years in the making, The Polygon Gallery – formerly the Presentation House
Gallery – will open its doors on North Vancouvers waterfront at the foot of Lonsdale
Avenue on November 18, 2017.  Designed by BCs Patkau Architects, the $20 million, 25,000-square-foot cultural facility will be the largest, photography-focused gallery in Western Canada. To coincide with its unveiling, The Polygon Gallery will mount its inaugural exhibition N. Vancouver, on display until Spring 2018.
The most ambitious project in the Gallerys history, N. Vancouver will pay tribute to the
evolution of North Vancouver and will feature commissioned works by more than 10
artists, including Andrew Dadson, Gabrielle Hill, Althea Thauberger, Stephen Waddell
and Tracy Williams, paired with existing work by Stan Douglas, Greg Girard, Fred
Herzog, Curt Lang, and Jeff Wall, among others.  Gallery admission by donation.
www.thepolygon.ca

Museum of Anthropology – 6393 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC
Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC with the Musqueam Indian Band present
the remarkable new exhibition The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving, on display from
November 19, 2017 to April 15, 2018.
Curated by Susan Rowley in collaboration with Salish weavers, this exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the past 200 years of Salish wool weaving. The exhibition will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view rare early Salish weavings on loan from museums in Europe and the United States, as well as works created by contemporary Salish weavers. Visitors will experience these striking textiles and gain an understanding about the resources required in their
creation, and also their spiritual, cultural, and economic significance to local communities.
Admission details and info at: moa.ubc.ca

Read Books, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2, Canada
Part exhibition catalogue, part artists book, and part candy store advertisement,
Multiple Elementary explores the elementary school classroom as a site for the
invention and reception of contemporary art practices. The book explores aesthetic
and representative possibilities for process-based and publicly oriented artworks,
especially amidst the complications and contradictions inherent to collaborations
with children.
Contributors take-up adult-child relationships, the wildness of children and the
contact-high they offer to artists attempting to recuperate wonder, failure, and
queerness in their work. The commissioned texts also explore the reception of
childrens art outside of the classroom, the unruly behavior of artist multiples and
taste-making in relationship to the “Other.” Finally, a lexicon for curatorial,
pedagogical and feminist-material-discursivity is offered to further locate Multiple
Elementary amongst larger cultural questions.
With contributions by: Lorna Brown, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Mark Clintberg, Jack
Halberstam, Sydney Hermant, Vesna Krstich, Chris Lee, Stephanie Springgay, and
Maiko Tanaka.
Artist/editors biography
Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling have been collaborating since 2007. They are
currently based in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam,
Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Their projects take shape as public
installations, social situations, and events that circulate as photographs, videos,
printed matter, and artists multiples. They are currently fascinated with the contact-
high intrinsic to collaborative work, especially in their recent projects with children.
They currently teach at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design where they
received the 2016 Ian Wallace Award for Teaching Excellence. They are the 2017
recipients of the Mayors Arts Award for public art in Vancouver.

Room 213 at MOA – Free — no registration required
This interdisciplinary seminar series on visual and material culture is for anyone with interest in this field across different departments at UBC and beyond. It is an informal forum to share research and exchange ideas, usually followed by conversations over a drink at Koerner’s Pub. Open to students, staff, faculty and community members in and around UBC.
Flow, Progression, Rest, Saygin Salgirli, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, UBC
This talk is a conceptual exercise in two parts. It engages with three nouns (flow, progression, rest), and questions how they can be transformed into concepts for architectural and art historical analysis. Part one is based on my ongoing research, and it focuses on thirteenth and fourteenth-century architecture from Anatolia. Starting with the landscape and its territorial markings through Seljuk caravanserais (thirteenth century), it moves onto Bursa, the first Ottoman capital (fourteenth century), and questions whether a comparable patterning of movement through architecture could be observed in an urban context. Part two concerns my next research, and with a time leap and switch in medium, it deals with an eighteenth-century Ottoman manuscript, painted by the court artist Levni. It depicts the festivities organized to celebrate the circumcision of Sultan Ahmet III’s sons in 1720. The second part questions, on the one hand, how flow, progression, and rest can be used to analyze the manuscript, and on the other, how they can be utilized to relate the manuscript to the larger social context of late-sixteenth and early-eighteenth-century Istanbul.

Rennie Hall I Room B2160
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5T 0H2
Please join us for an artist talk with Barry Doup, alumnus and current outdoor
screen exhibiting artist.

Following the launch of his work “Object Poems”, commissioned by the City of
Vancouver Public Art Program for the outdoor screen at Emily Carr University of Art
+ Design, Barry Doup will be discussing the undertaking of this major work and
presenting other recent projects.

Barry Doup (b. 1982 Victoria, BC) is a Vancouver-based artist primarily working
with computer animation. He graduated from Emily Carr University in 2004 with a
Bachelor of Media Arts majoring in animation. His films use imagery and language
derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic
drawing. He often creates settings within which a character’s self-expression or
action is challenged and thwarted, resulting in comic, violent and poetic spectacles.
His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally including the
Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan), International Film Festival Rotterdam
(Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Anthology Film Archives (NY, New York), Lyon
Contemporary Art Museum (Lyon, France), Pleasure Dome (Toronto, ON), MOCCA
(Toronto, ON), Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
and the Tate Modern (London, UK).

Visual Art Forums are presented by the Audain Faculty of Art, Emily Carr University
of Art + Design.

When: 8:00 pm-12:00 am, Friday, November 10, 2017
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street

Admission: $29. Tickets at the door
Free to Vancouver Art Gallery Members

October 25, 2017, Vancouver, BC ” Channeling the worlds of ritual and alchemy,
Vancouvers favourite late-night art party returns Friday, November 10 to present an
artful evening of magic, spell and ceremony.

Reliance Theatre – Emily Carr University of Art + Design
520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5T 0H2

Join us for the first edition of this year’s Working Artists panel series, featuring
presentations and group discussions with ECU alumni Gabrielle Strong (visual and
public artist), Pongsakorn Yananissorn (Plaza Projects), Matt Troy (Founder and
Director Vancouver Arts and Leisure), and Steffanie Ling (Events and Exhibitions
Curator, VIVO; independant critic).

Working Artists is a semi-annual series of lectures and workshops for students and
emerging artists. In this session, panelists practicing arts professionals from a wide
variety of disciplines share how they first emerged into their field through a focus on
public engagement and supporting community. Speakers will share experience from
a range of approaches including creating non-profit organizations in the arts,
curating, art writing, and public art.

The panel presentation will be followed by a moderated Q + A and breakout
sessions introducing audience members to the speakers and each other.

This is a free event; everyone is welcome.
Working Artists is part of the Visual Art Forums and is co-presented by the Audain
Faculty of Art, the Faculty of Culture + Community and the Career + Professional
Development Office.

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Applications due: Monday, November 6, 2017, 5:00 pm
Hours: 10 hours/week (5.5 hours on Saturdays; 4.5 hours on Sundays) + possibility of some weekday evening hours
Salary: $15.00 per hour (plus 12% in lieu)
Start Date: November 18th
Job description:
The Evergreen Cultural Centre (ECC) seeks an outgoing and enthusiastic Gallery Assistant to support the development and delivery of the Art Gallery at Evergreen’s (AGE) exhibition, public engagement and education programs. Under the direction of the Curator/Visual Arts Manager, and with the support of volunteer Gallery Attendants, the Assistant will create a welcoming and informative experience for gallery visitors.
The Gallery Assistant will encourage creativity by facilitating our monthly Westminster Savings Family Days art activities, working together with volunteers and art instructors, and leading family-friendly exhibition tours. The Assistant will provide essential administrative, research and logistical support for current and upcoming exhibitions, education and public engagement programs. The Assistant will also participate in the research and development of various marketing and communication initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Monitor the gallery and the work of volunteer Gallery Attendants.
• Record and manage attendance records.
• Manage, and develop gallery physical and electronic mail lists.
• Perform exhibition research as required by the Curator.
• Manage exhibition archives.
• Facilitate Westminster Savings Family Day activities
• Develop and lead weekly exhibition tours related to AGE exhibitions.
• Provide exhibition research assistance and administrative support to the Curator.
• Provide research assistance and administrative support to the Curator/Visual Arts and Education Managers on the development of education and public engagement activities.
• General administrative duties will include data entry; monitoring office and telephones; upkeep files and other relevant information.
Qualifications:
The candidate will be a personable, creative, and resourceful individual with a demonstrated knowledge of current contemporary Canadian and international artistic practices. The candidate will possess an interest in and knowledge of trends in public engagement and educational program planning and delivery in the arts. The candidate will have the ability to engage with socially diverse visitors of all ages and backgrounds. The position demands that the candidate have excellent written and verbal communication skills and organizational skills. The position also requires the ability to complete tasks with minimal supervision and to take initiative. The candidate must possess or be prepared to obtain a valid criminal record check. First aid training is an asset.
• University upper year student or graduate with a degree in an arts-related field, with one or more years practical experience in an art gallery, museum or educational environment, or experience-based equivalents
• Exceptional communications skills
• Exceptional organization skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to complete tasks with minimal supervision.
• Ability to take initiative and problem solve.
• Computer experience with web applications, Microsoft Office and basic database knowledge
Contact:
Please submit your cover letter and resume by email to:
Katherine Dennis, Curator/Visual Arts Manager
Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam V3B 7Y3
Email: katherine@evergreenculturalcentre.ca
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. No telephone calls please.

Kim Kennedy Austin: You, Only Better
The result of a recent artist residency at BAF, Kim Kennedy Austins new body of work
You, Only Better touches on the seemingly universal desire for self-improvement. In her
past work, the Vancouver-based Austin has drawn from the prose of pop culture,
distilling nuggets of questionable wisdom from such unlikely sources as old editions of
Seventeen, trade magazines, love songs, and YA novels. You, Only Better borrows its
title from a recent New York Times article on Dave Apsey, the prominent founder of
Bulletproof coffee known for his driven, if not fanatical approach to achieving the 3.0
version of himself”and selling the recipe behind it. In North America, methods for self-
improvement”espoused by personal trainers and plastic surgeons, life coaches and
lifestyle bloggers, stylists and self-help authors, make-up moguls and Goop gurus”
proliferate within the marketplace.

Andrew Kent: Epiphoria
Epiphora, a clinical term, describes an uncontrolled flow of tears across the face. The
suffix -phoria can refer to the visual axes of the eye, but also to an emotional state;
euphoria, dysphoria. Like the portmanteau he has created to describe it, Andrew Kents
new show at BAF Gallery evokes the fragility of both our inner worlds and the material
one we inhabit.  Rendered in pencil on black paper, Kents painstakingly detailed seascapes
flicker in and out of visibility as light catches on the reflective graphite surface. The
viewers bobbing, back-and-forth motion that causes the image to appear and disappear is
reminiscent of the ebb and flow of tidal waters, and the shifting mutability of perception
itself.