Backspace
1318 Grant street - off the alley V5L 2X5 Vancouver, BC, Canada

https://bluedirtgirl.com

I am very happy to tell you that 5 of my recent paintings will be shown in a group exhibition March 4th-28th 2021 at the Gallery George (990 George street Vanco...uver). There is no "opening celebration" due to Covid 19 but the gallery is spacious so it is easy to maintain distance. "ISOLATION - one year in the making artists reveal what they created during one year of COVID-19 As March indicates a dubious anniversary of social distancing and self isolation, Gallery George presents artwork created during a time our world experienced a fundamental shift. Is this communicated in the art? Was there also a shift in process, in thought? Here artists reveal what motivated, what inspired and what was developed in their studios. While the art produced might reflect the challenges and emotions experienced during a year of disruption and isolation, here we may still find a way to connect. featuring works by: Lori Bagneres, Tiffany Blaise, Anastasia Fedorova, Lori Goldberg, Jeanne Krabbendam, Shevy Levy, Marisa Myrah, Joyce Woods, and Jason Y (gallery hours are Thursday-Sunday noon-5pm) Here is one of the pieces that will be on exhibit: "Blue Days" oil/canvas 55" x 61" 2020

When the Fraser flowed through Backspace in 2009.

BC Artscape selected to operate new cultural hub at 825 Pacific Street On March 10, 2020, Vancouver City Council approved BC Artscape as the operator of a futur...e City-owned building at 825 Pacific Street, a new cultural hub for Vancouver-based artists, cultural practitioners, and cultural organizations. The new stand-alone facility will feature over 21,000 square feet of shared multi-tenant and multi-purpose arts and cultural space, including ground floor presentation space and six floors of artist studio production and office space. Grosvenor Americas is currently in the early stages of preparing this cultural amenity space designed by IBI Group Architects, and will transfer it to the City as an in-kind Community Amenity Contribution upon completion of the space, anticipated in 2021. BC Artscape BC Artscape is a not-for-profit organization that develops and operates affordable spaces serving the needs of artists and arts organizations, as well as the local communities in which they are located. They currently operate B.C.'s largest community cultural hub the 48,000 square foot Sun Wah project in Vancouver's Chinatown, and will be partnering with the Community Land Trust Foundation of B.C. to operate 30 units of social housing for artists and 4,000 square feet of production space in an upcoming City-owned cultural amenity space at Main Street and 2nd Avenue. BC Artscape will complete tenant improvements at 825 Pacific, developing it into a cultural hub through a process of engagement with stakeholders from the arts and culture community, including underrepresented and/or underserved communities, and an understanding of the neighbourhood cultural landscape. The multi-tenant hub will provide affordable and secure space for artistic production and presentation, as well as administration and access to shared services. It will provide a platform for collaboration and space for publicly accessible cultural events and programming. Tenant Selection In consultation with City of Vancouver staff, BC Artscape will develop and implement a selection process for sub-tenanting the 825 Pacific cultural hub on a cost recovery basis, including opportunities for Vancouver-based professional artists, cultural practitioners, arts and culture non-profit organizations, coops, charities, collectives, and Musqueam, Squamish or Tsleil-Waututh Band Councils. Located in the downtown core, the space will complement other cultural venues in Downtown South including the new Howe Street Studios, The Cinematheque, Cineworks, The Dance Centre, and the Vancouver International Film Centre. It will also serve as a connection to the adjacent downtown entertainment district and Granville Island, helping to animate this burgeoning cultural neighbourhood. In partnering with BC Artscape, the City will be taking an important step towards meeting Making Space for Arts and Culture targets of securing 800,000 square feet of affordable, preserved, renewed, expanded, or new cultural space over the next 10 years, which was approved by Vancouver City Council last September, as part of Culture|Shift: Blanketing the City in Arts and Culture. For more information: BC Artscape https://www.bcartscape.ca/ [email protected]

On the Wind - the Backspace version of an installation outside the Surrey Art Centre

Morag, You’re a Long Time Deid took over BACKSPACE as part of the Push/Push Off Festival. Ipm performance today will wrap it up with what looks like another full house.

The BACKSPACE NEWSLETTER - Jan/Feb 2020

Morag, You're a Long Time Deid is coming to BACKSPACE as part of this years PuSh Festival...3 performances - Saturday February 8th - 4pm and 8:30pm. Sunday the 9th at 1pm. It's a pay what you can event, if you'd like to reserve a seat contact [email protected] Details Following a recent development period and performances in Scotland, Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz present MORAG, YOU’RE A LONG TIME DEID in association with Touchstone Theatre as part of the PuS...hOff! 2020 Ancillary Program. When Sam inherits her grandmother Morag’s piano, she finds a cryptic love letter made from lyrics of old Scottish ballads. Compelled by the intimate correspondence and the silence surrounding Morag’s suicide, Sam imagines a secret queer romance, and endeavours to uncover what her grandmother truly longed for. As the journeys of granddaughter and grandmother become musically intertwined, Sam begins to transform her ancestral songs, and in the process, discovers a voice of her own. This new experimental musical-in-development warps, disrupts and reconfigures traditional Scotish storytelling and ballad singing. Compositions are playfully woven through live performance and electronic loops to tell old stories anew. These performances take place on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

Recommended for everyone: A new film about the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is a shocking and brilliant reminder of the devastation HIV and Aids wreaked and still does

ok, it's like 9 days or ? until NYE at BACKSPACE can't offer a millennium change but will you take a decade...lets roar into this version of the 20s

NYE at BACKSPACE - Parking on Grant Street then down to Clark and up the lane...

Parksville, you’re up!