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  • Is There a Crisis of Narration? Narrative Imagination on Chinese Social Media

    Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Amidst the rising concern about a crisis of narration in global digital culture, this talk reclaims the work of narrative imagination, with a focus on civic storytelling on Chinese social media. In today’s platform society, social media platforms often obstruct the telling and sharing of some stories while promoting others. In response, social media users […]

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  • Variations on a Garden

    Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Abbas Akhavan, curtain call, variations on a folly, 2021/2023, barley straw, subsoil, lightweight leca, sharp sand, puddle clay, wood, chromakey green paint, pink noise, 390 x 650 x 1230 cm. Photo: David Stjernholm; courtesy of the artist. Join visual artist Abbas Akhavan as he discusses some of his most significant works to date, particularly those focused […]

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    The Nettle Dress Film Screening

    Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The Nettle Dress is a poetic 2023 documentary by Dylan Howitt that follows the seven-year activity of artist Allan Brown to glean, process, spin, weave, and sew a dress of local stinging nettles. We will be screening it as an opening to the Slow Fashion Show at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), opening at 7 pm the […]

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  • Rising Tides

    Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    This inaugural event in the series "Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea," will feature novelist Christine Lai, whose acclaimed novel Landscapes centres on an archivist cataloguing art after environmental disaster. Landscapes was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Award (US and Canada) and was a finalist for the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published […]

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    Victoria Chang Reads “With My Back to the World”

    Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection OBIT. "Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. […]

  • Crafty Play

    Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Craft practices are sometimes more than satisfying and challenging activities that are fulfilling and meaningful for their own sake. Craft can also be a hands-on means to rework the world: a tool for critical engagement, political advocacy, and social action. This discussion brings together three contemporary artists whose work expresses the sometimes-subversive power of handmaking, […]