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Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be new contributors to VIA.A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.com to help people like us find out about art and design events in our awesome city of Vancouver!This week there are tons of great events happening. For the full listing please head to Artsy-Dartsy.com. |
This week Or Gallery is hosting a fundraiser that involves dancing! It's a dance-a-thon where contestants collect pledges to dance over a five hour period. Individuals not directly participating in the dance-a-thon are welcome to attend and show their support.
Check out this great instructional video.
If dancing isn't your thing Blanket Gallery is hosting a great show featuring Beau Dick titled Pookwis. Opening Reception is Thursday, May 6, 6-9pm. In his first exhibition with the gallery, Beau explores the stylistic diversity in which the mythical character Pookwis can be resolved.
Beau presents sensuous, and irrational incarnations of Pookwis, the serpent who was turned into a man and who lives under the sea. By doing a deep investigation into the canons of design he has inherited through Kwakwaka’wakw culture, outside the anthropology museum, or the First Nations art shops, he illuminates the meaning in relation to its use.
Other notables: Monte Clark Gallery presents Nature Morte, Diane Farris Gallery presents Sara Genn: White, and the Emily Carr Grad shows are on till next week! Check out the young up-and-coming talent coming out of our city! We were really blown away by some of the work.
