The Burnaby Potters’ Guild is hosting our annual Holiday Ceramic Sale on November 7 & 8, from 10 AM–5 PM at Lochdale Hall (490 Sperling Ave., Burnaby).

Come find one-of-a-kind handmade ceramics created by local potters, some that have been part of the guild for decades! From mugs, bowls and vases to sculptures, whimsical creatures, curious forms and all kinds of surprising treasures. This year’s sale will also feature pieces from our Raku firing, wild-clay slip work, and sculpture-focused members.

November 7 & 8 | 10 AM–5 PM
Lochdale Hall, 490 Sperling Ave., Burnaby
Free admission

The hall has ramp access, and parking and street parking are available nearby.

RSVP on Eventbrite for event reminders and more information:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2003042835040

Connect with local potters and find something handmade for yourself (or someone on your holiday list)!

As part of the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival 2026, Connection Salon presents the Satellite Exhibition, an exhibition running from October 16 to November 29, at the Gathering Place, 609 Helmcken St, Vancouver featuring artworks of 10 different artists.

Join us for the Meet the Artists event on October 22th, from 5:30 to 7:00pm. The event is free and refreshments will be provided.

The exhibition is supported by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, the Connection Salon Artist Collective, the Gathering Place Community Centre, and the British Columbia Arts Council.

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.

Spectacular Meltdowns and Exploded Views: Superdimensional Art and Architecture at Expo 86 – 2026.10.13

In this series, graduate students from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and outsider artists will give 20-minute presentations about their work followed by informal discussion. Plain English is is a clear, straightforward expression. This is a talk that a general audience can understand the first time they hear it. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Date: October 20th
Time: 5:30 PM to 7 PM
Location: The Gathering Place Community Centre (Gallery Space), Connection Salon Gallery, 609 Helmcken Street.
Free Admission

This month, the presentations will be by:
Inanna Cusi
– Going Back into the Darkroom- with Motion Picture

Ben Roback
– The Spoken Portrait: A Drawn Speech

This event is supported by the British Columbia Council for the Arts, the Gathering Place Community Centrr, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and the Connection Salon Artist Collective.