Artists in Canada are actively making work in response to concerns about land, water,
and energy. Learn more about their powerful artwork in an engaging exhibition tour of
Ground Signals on Wednesday, October 4 from 7 to 8:30pm at Surrey Art Gallery, led by
co-curators Roxanne Charles and Jordan Strom. Admission is free.
From paintings, audio recordings, sculpture, and videos that engage with colonial
histories to the legacies of extractive economies, the multisensory artwork in Ground
Signals invites response. As you exchange stories for energy, travel back in time to
Tahltan territory, or listen to spoken word poetry while contemplating a painting, youre
challenged to reconsider your relationship to the places you live, work, play, and
recreate. Strom and Charles will share behind-the- scenes information on the thirteen
artists and artwork and draw out connections between the works. Both regular tour
participants and first-time Gallery visitors are encouraged to ask questions and share
their responses to the art. No need for an art degree”this casual and informal tour is
welcome to all.
About Ground Signals
Paintings and picturesque photographs of Canadas rugged wilderness and untouched
nature continue to permeate our media and underwrite our national identity. Yet the
Canadian landscape has rarely ever been untouched. The land has long been inhabited.
There have been many centuries of cultural production by Indigenous Peoples that
represent the land and the connection between nature and human experience in very
different ways from the traditions encompassed within Western landscape art. During
recent decades, new generations of artists working in Canada have drawn from a wealth
of other non-Western practices and developed new forms of media to represent the land
beyond the romantic, expressionistic styles and pictorial forms that have become so
familiar. These artists invite us to consider our own presumptions and relationship to the
places around us”beyond seeing them as scenic or banal, as sources of investment
and industry, or as sites of recreation.
Building on several recent Surrey Art Gallery exhibitions that have addressed
landscape, ecology, territory, and mapping, Ground Signals challenges visitors to listen
and experience the land in fresh and compelling ways through a combination of sounds
and images.
Artists: Ruth Beer, Roxanne Charles, Marie Ct, Lindsay Dobbin, Richard Fung,
Brandon Gabriel and Ostwelve, Farheen HaQ, Peter Morin, Valrie d. Walker and Bobbi
L. Kozinuk, Charlene Vickers and Cathy Busby
Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the City of Surrey,
BC Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia, Canada Council for the Arts, and
the Surrey Art Gallery Association.
Surrey Art Gallery is located at 13750-88 Avenue, Surrey, BC, Canada. 604-501- 5566 |
www.surrey.ca/artgallery
HOURS Tues-Thur 9am-9pm | Fri 9am-5pm | Sat 10am-5pm | Sun 12-5pm | Closed
Mondays and holidays.

Doors open at 6:15PM
Rennie Museum
51 East Pender St, Vancouver
Free and open to public, first come first seated
As part of the exhibition programming, Ian Wallace will be taking part in Rennie Speaker
Series and give a talk on his Rennie Museum exhibition featuring rarely and never”
before seen historic works.
Ian Wallace, O.C. (b. 1943) lives and works in Vancouver. An influential figure in the
establishment of photoconceptualism, Wallace has presented work in Hamburg
Kunstverein; Kunsthalle Zurich; Witte de With, Rotterdam; American Fine Arts, New
York; the Power Plant, Toronto; Canada House, London, among many others. He is the
2004 recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts and was
named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012.

Celebrate our 10th edition with us!
Oct 3″8 ” Performances, talks, workshops, panels, Verb Frau TV, hi-jinx
www.livebiennale.ca
Program, schedule, updates, streaming, blogs, details, news!
FB: livebiennale T: livebiennale
Enquiries: info@livebiennale.ca
Artists include:
Jrn J. Burmester / Germany
Tanya Doody / Canada
Margaret Dragu / Canada
Genevieve et Matthieu / Canada, Quebec
Stein Henningsen / Norway
Maiko Jinushi / Japan
Nile Koetting / Japan, Germany
Louise Liliefeldt / Canada
Theo Pelmus / Romania
Praba Pilar / Columbia
Raeda Saadeh / Palestine
Kristin Snowbird / Canada
Jackson 2Bears / Canada
Western Front / Wed Oct 4 7:00 PM $10.
VIVO Media Arts / Thurs Oct 5, Fri Oct 6, Sat Oct 7 7:00 PM $10.
Unit/Pitt Projects / Workshops Oct 4, Oct 5, Oct 6 10:00 AM
Limited space! Register now! Free.
Pats Pub / Artist Lunch Talks Oct 4, Oct 5, Oct 6 12:30″2:00 PM Free
Interurban Gallery / Super Cool Tuesdays Sept 26, Oct 3, Oct 10 6:00″8:00 PM Free

Professional Development for Artists

Do you want to inspire curiosity and learning in young people through your creative practice while building your skills in arts-based learning facilitation and the BC Curriculum?

Emerging artists 18-35 years old, living in the Metro Vancouver area, who are in the early stages of their career are invited to apply. All artistic disciplines are welcome.

Work with experienced professional teaching artists to build your capacity to provide engaging arts integrated learning for BC’s young people.

Artists selected to participate will be fully subsidize to:

• Attend five days of practical, experiential workshops offered by ArtStarts in Schools
• Be mentored by professional artists experienced in using arts integration in schools
• Incubate project proposals at a public event with artists, educators and community organizer
• Receive program materials

Deadline October 2

Workshops

Creativity 101 with Elfred Matining
9am to 3pm on Friday, November 10, 2017

How do we talk about creativity within an institutional, educational context? Through left- and right-brain workshop activities, participate in a series of collaborative, hands-on experiences that will unpack contemporary perceptions of art and education, philosophies and domains of the creative process, and an introduction to arts integration as an approach to teaching.

Pedagogy: Art Practice as Teaching Practice with Dianna David
9am to 3pm on Friday, December 1, 2017

Learning is the acquisition of knowledge; investigating the multiple ways that transfer can occur is the subject of pedagogy. An art practice is potent with the capability to create dialogue — and through this dialogue, learning happens. Working with professional teaching artists, explore how the creative process, through an arts integration approach, can be utilized to engage and activate the imaginations of young people.

Navigating Resources with Emily Beam
9am to 3pm on Friday, January 12, 2018

Having a sound knowledge of resources is key to creating inclusive, informative and engaging arts-based learning experiences for young people. Discover where to access relevant resources and learn how to utilize them effectively. Through a series of collaborative workshop activities, learn how to navigate the BC Ministry of Education Curriculum with confidence, present your professional art practice to educators and design learning focused workshops and performances.

School Culture Panel Discussion
9am to 3pm on Friday, February 9, 2018

Every school has a unique combination of cultural values, norms and guiding principles that form their collective “school culture”. Through an interactive panel discussion and hands-on presentation with experienced educators and professional teaching artists, gain perspectives about the contemporary nuances of schools in British Columbia. Gain a better understanding of what the day to day of a travelling performing artist in school is like.

Meta-Learning with ArtStarts
9am to 3pm on Friday, March 9, 2018

Learning requires constant reflection to deepen our understanding and perspectives. Taking all of our learning in the last 5 months as our starting point, we dive into “meta-moments” to unpack the process and methods of learning that we all collaboratively created and participated in throughout the Learning Lab. Allow methods and styles of facilitation to become explicit as we unpack our learnings together.

Facilitators

Dianna David
From Filipino dancing to physical theatre, hip hop to props, mechanical engineering to miming, street performer to speaker, Dianna David enjoys playing in all worlds. She infuses these experiences into her movement mastery through the manipulation of objects, props and her audiences into a world where stories of triumphs and transformations are spoken and shown. Her movement storytelling has been seen throughout the world for over a decade, holding the attention of around-the-world audiences of all sizes.

Emily Beam
Emily supports community organizations, schools and artists to access resources and build capacity. She is a detail-oriented achiever masquerading in a world of creativity and imagination. She has worked as a grantor, lender and facilitator for various non-profits, foundations and social enterprises. Emily holds a certificate in Dialogue and Civic Engagement from Simon Fraser University.

Elfred Matining
Elfred works with the community to find new ways of thinking, learning, and experiencing our world through art. As an artist, his art practice investigates the phenomenon of pedagogy through objects and performance. As a community organizer, he engages artists and educators across the province in dialogue and professional learning about arts integration and creative and critical thinking through the framework of curriculum.

Definitions

An Emerging Artist is someone who …

• Is between the ages of 18 and 35
• Devotes a minimum of 24 hours per week to their pursuit of their art
• Is in the early stages of their career, usually within the few first years of pursuing a career in their field
• Demonstrates a commitment to devoting more time to artistic activity
• Is involved in their creative community
• Has not yet been showcased beyond their primary country of residence
• Shows a financial commitment to their practice, and seeks income through their artistic work
• Has a small history of presentation or publication
• Is enrolled in, or has recently graduated from, a related degree/diploma program
• Self identifies as emerging

Metro Vancouver includes the following geographical municipalities of:

More Info:  https://artstarts.com/aill-emerging

Opens:  Wednesday, September 27, 5:00 – 7:00 pm (artist will be in attendance)
Artist talks by Athena Papadopoulos and Ryan Peter:  Thursday, September 28 @ 12:30 pm
Featuring work by:  Sean Alward, Steven Hubert, Nick Lakowski, Athena Papadopoulos, Ryan Peter, Carolyn Stockbridge, Tia Whitten
Co-curated by Marina Roy and Phil McCrum
AHVA Gallery – Room 1001 Audain Art Centre – 6398 University Boulevard

September 28, 7pm

A lecture by internationally renowned art critic and professor Isabelle Graw opens the symposium. Graw will consider what constitutes painting today and look at current measures of value in painting, from artistic to economic, through the lens of critical theory.

Reliance Theatre, Emily Carr University, 520 E. 1st, Vancouver

Artists Steffani Jemison + Justin Hicks
Performance: Friday, September 22 @ 8pm + Saturday, September 23 @ 2pm
Exhibition open till October 28

Another time, this time, one time features a series of new works made under the
umbrella of Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks Mikrokosmos”an ongoing collaborative
project that considers listening, language, and pedagogy through contemporary Black
American music. Using the solfge system of musical learning (do re mi) as a model,
Jemison and Hicks work dissects Gil Scott-Herons 1977 song We Almost Lost Detroit
into 61 melismatic gestures. Here, Black musical study is the subject and form of the
work, as these individual gestures are sequenced and performed as both melody and as
code.

This iteration of Mikrokosmos is produced by Western Front with additional support from
Nottingham Contemporary for a related exhibition and performance in 2018.

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Friday September 15, 2017, 1-5pm
Please join 2nd year MFA Visual Art candidates Aileen Bahmanipour, Christopher Lacroix, Cameron McLellan, Candice Okada, and Madiha Pandhiani for their Interdepartmental Critiques starting at 1:00 PM on Friday 15 September in the AHVA Gallery.
AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, 6398 University Blvd, University of British Columbia
All are welcome.

September, 13 @ 5:30-7:00pm
Location: 3rd Floor, Audain Art Centre, UBC

Join faculty, alumni, staff, and fellow students from the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) for a night of free music, food, and great conversation. Hosted by the Visual Arts Students Association, the Art History Student Association, and the Undergraduate Journal of Art History.

Get to know your instructors, staff, and fellow students. Ask questions about careers, research, and art in a safe and inclusive setting.

For questions or more information, please contact ubc.ujah@gmail.com

The AMS Bike Co-op is looking for volunteers to help the organizers of the second ever Pedalling Art:
Vancouver’s Annual Bike Art Auction . This year’s event will take place on Friday, November 10th at Gam
Gallery .
Pedalling Art is a silent auction fundraiser for two programs run by PEDAL and the AMS Bike Co-op:
Pedals for the People and Bici Libre . These programs divert bikes from the waste stream, refurbish them
with the help of volunteers, and give bikes to people that would otherwise have little to no means of
reliable transportation. The programs also subsidize repairs and provide mechanical instruction and
support in the form of toolkits when possible.
__________________________________________________________________________
Volunteers are needed to assist with planning and execution of the event.
Volunteers can expect to gain skills and experience in the following areas:
● Event staffing, planning, and promotion
● Curation
● Gallery install / uninstall
● Non-profit management
● Programs management
Please e-mail pedalling.art.vancouver@gmail.com or call 604-822-2453 to join our team.
1896 East Mall | University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC | 604-822-2453 | info@bikecoop.ca