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Through 2026 and 2027, the series brings together some of the country’s most impactful practitioners to share their insights and oeuvres with the public. A new series of events in partnership with the Audain Foundation invites the public to experience the world through the eyes of some of the art world’s most esteemed practitioners. Held […]
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Date Night: Bark as Art with North Van Arts
Discover the Artistic Potential of Tree Bark
Cityscape Gallery
335 Lonsdale Avenue North Vancouver, BC V7M 2G3
Thursday, November 12, 2026
6:30 – 8:30 PM
This two-hour, hands-on workshop invites participants to discover the artistic potential of tree bark – a material rich with history, texture, and expressive possibility. Led by Metro Vancouver artist Janna Kumi, whose practice bridges forestry expertise and contemporary drawing and collage, the session introduces participants to sustainable bark sourcing, simple preparation techniques, and creative approaches to bark-based collage. Participants will create a small, finished artwork using bark fragments, paper, and mixed media.
https://northvanarts.ca/education/date-night-bark-as-art/
Key Features
– Engaging introduction to bark as an art material
– Demonstrations of preparation, cutting, layering, and composition
– Organic collage with bark exploring geometric abstraction
– Supportive, guided studio time suitable for all skill levels
Who should attend
– Nature lovers
– Anyone interested in tactile, sustainable art-making
What you need to bring
– All materials will be provided
Since launching in 2022, our monthly CityScape Date Night series has become a familiar part of the arts and cultural scene in Lower Lonsdale. Held inside an active gallery, these evenings are about discovering something new, new connections, new creative habits, and fresh ways of seeing the world around you.
Each month we invite a different local artist ,both emerging and professional to bring their own artistic stories, techniques, and inspirations.
We explore a range of mediums: From Textiles to Sculpture, Watercolour to Digital Art, Creative Writing to Drag Life Drawing, Kintsugi to Recipe Zines.
Many of our workshops use eco-friendly, low-cost, and accessible materials, making it easy to continue the practice at home if you fall in love with it. From paper mâché sculptures to Gelli printing to plant-based weaving, you will try creative techniques that are sustainable, affordable, and hands-on.
Whether you’re here to explore a new creative practice, start a hobby, meet others, or enjoy an evening out, each Date Night brings a fresh artistic experience with a different artist every month.
ArtTrp 15 Days in Italy 2027
Stays + Visits in Florence, Venice, Rome and Other Locales
15 days in May 2027
Stays + Visits in Florence, Venice, Rome & other locales
Guided Museum Tours & Historic Site Visits
Structured time to sketch & journal our adventures
Free Time with expert tips to embrace la Dolce Vita
ArtTrp Italy is a dynamic, curated travel experience exploring the museums, studios and streets of Italian Art & Culture. Designed for art students of any discipline and led by experienced experts, this immersive itinerary guides you through the incredible artistic heritage and vibrant contemporary expressions of our incredible host destinations.
• Art Trp Italy is a private tour for arts students facilitated by faculty experts for OST Travel Inc (Founded in 1967).
Register for the INFORMATION SESSION THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5.
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE contact: ArtTrpitaly@gmail.com for details on fees & itinerary.
Mad Arts Indie Film Night
Connection Salon is holding Mad Arts Indie Film Night!
Join us for a screening night of 12 short films by 7 different filmmakers with a filmmaker panel and Q&A moderated by Kagan Goh! Date: October 29th Time: 4:00-7:00pm Location: The Gathering Place Community Centre (609 Helmcken Street, Vancouver, BC) Free Admission
The event is supported by the Connection Salon Artists Collective, the Gathering Place Community Centre, the City of Vancouver Cultural Services, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Spectacular Meltdowns and Exploded Views: Superdimensional Art and Architecture at Expo 86
This talk will focus on four exhibitions at Expo 86.
TUESDAY • OCTOBER 13 • 2026 ¬| 5:00 • 7:00pm
Presented by the West Coast Modern League
with INFORM | 50 Water St | Vancouver BC
Doors/Reception 5:00pm | Talk 6:00pm
A time of shifting political winds (the rise of right-wing governments), large-scale industrial catastrophe (Space Shuttle Challenger and Chernobyl), and ecological destruction (acid rain to clear-cut logging) the mid-1980s also ushered in a new aesthetic paradigm.
Seemingly disparate forms of art, including new media installation, kinetic sculpture and architecture, large-scale 70mm cinema, and collaborative publicly engaged art rose up across Canadian cities, museums and galleries.
A key convergent point for these ascending forms of image and space making was Vancouver’s 1986 world’s fair.
This talk will focus on four exhibitions at Expo 86: Michael Snow’s holographic installation The Spectral Image, SITE’s Highway 86, Peter Cardew’s CN Pavilion and the Canada Pavilion’s Great Hall.
In certain respects, these exhibitions foreshadowed immersive art forms that grew in number in the early decades of the new century; yet they also stand apart as distinct superdimensional spaces, that reconceptualized viewers as active participants grounded in physical reality.
Taking its cue from the concept of the ‘exploded view’—a form of drawing or diagram with components of an object or device that has been slightly separated at a distance in three dimensions—this presentation will share some of the ideas and design evolutions that informed these experimental exhibits; examine some of the resonances between them; and situate these new media spaces within a broader set of artistic and architectural conversations in the 1980s and the current moment.
Jordan Strom is a curator and writer working on the unceded ancestral territories of the Coast Salish people. Over the past 25 years his curating, writing, and publishing have often examined the intersection points between ideas, art, urbanism, media and technology studies, intercultural practices, and interdisciplinary aesthetics. As Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Surrey Art Gallery he has organized many solo and group exhibitions including In the Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art this past spring. The exhibition grew out of his research as a PhD candidate in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where, under the supervision of Dr. Laura Marks, he is writing on expanded media art in the time of North America’s last world’s fair.
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