Gallery Gachet
9 West Hastings Street V6B 1G4 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Jackie Dives: Things My Dad Taught Me opens this Thursday, April 1. The first series, A Room for the Pain, will be on view in the gallery by appointment - please contact [email protected]. The second series, also titled Things My Dad Taught Me, will be on view at gachetfromaway.org. The third series, Grief Point, will be installed on transit shelters throughout the city from April 12 - May 16. As part of Gallery Gachet's COVID-19 safety protocol, we ask visitors to be aw...are that the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis of safe drug supply. When visiting the neighbourhood, in addition to wearing a mask in the streets and the gallery, carrying a Naloxone kit is a responsibility we strongly recommend. Gallery Gachet's consideration of the personal, relational, and socio-political ramifications of the War on Drugs continues in May and June with a three-part conversation series hosted with Pivot Legal Society. Stay tuned for details. This exhibition is part of the 2021 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program Capture Photography Festival The Grief Point series is posted with the support of the City of Vancouver.

This Spring, Gallery Gachet’s programming addresses the personal, relational, and socio-political ramifications of the War on Drugs. From April 1 - May 15, Things My Dad Taught Me, a photography series in three parts, is an art exhibition by Jackie Dives, whose practice is influenced by feminism and photojournalism Jackie Dives. Dives describes a shift in style across three phases of the project that parallels her own healing. After her father's death she created overlapping,... double-exposed images that were jarring and confusing, which reflected how she felt at the time of this loss. Later her images became more still and quiet, while she reflected on the complication of grieving someone who had died from such a stigmatized death. And now, for the third component of the project, she has made portraits of other people who have also experienced losing someone to a drug overdose. She contends with loss resulting from overdose as a personal and relational experience in the context of more than one public health crisis. This exhibition is part of the 2021 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program. http://gachet.org/exh/jackie-dives-things-my-dad-taught-me/ Beginning in late May, Gallery Gachet will join forces with Pivot Legal Society to host three community conversations about the War on Drugs. TJ Felix, Meenakshi Mannoe, and Manuel Axel Strain will center local perspectives, contending with structures and effects of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. Stay tuned for details.

As the Vancouver Park Board announces plans to partially reopen Oppenheimer Park in June, we invite you to (re)visit "Displacement in Public Green Spaces," an online conversation hosted in May 2020 by Vines Art Festival with jaye simpson, Siobhan Barker, Ga'axstsalas Cheryle Williams (gunargie o'sullivan) and Jane Shi. The transcript is published in The 13th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show (the art book). Contact [email protected] for digital or print copies. The video recording is available on the Vines Facebook channel: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=247245446507708&ref=watch_permalink Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard

TODAY 30TH ANNUAL FEB 14 WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH Family and community members now gathering in remembrance at Carnegie Centre (Main and Hastings)... All welcome for the March starting at 12 pm from Carnegie (Main and Hastings) Unceded xmkwym (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), and Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories All COVID-19 protocols are in effect - social distancing and masks are required The event is also fully live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube

The COVID-19 vaccination clinic is also running today, February 1, from 10AM - 4:30PM at Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings. For those who are houseless or living in a shelter/SRO/supportive housing.

Today : Friday, January 29 COVID Vaccine Drop In Clinics in the DTES OPEN TODAY FOR... Those who are homeless Residents of shelters Residents of SROs Residents of supported housing Carnegie Centre 401 Main Street 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Pender Community Health Centre, 59 West Pender Street 10 a.m. 4 p.m. Downtown Community Health Centre, 569 Powell Street 10 a.m. 4 p.m. Union Gospel Mission, 601 East Hastings 9 a.m. 4 p.m. Guidelines: wear a mask and stay apart even after you get vaccinated This update adapted from Vancouver Coastal Health

Let's Talk about ending anti-homeless, anti-drug user stigma

We conclude this calendar year by welcoming The 13th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show. The tradition continues as a publication featuring the artwork and insight of 40 artists and community leaders connected to or displaced from Oppenheimer Park, the green space known as Lek’leki, the Powell Street Grounds, Paureu gai, the backyard of the Downtown Eastside - on the unceded lands of the xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwú7mesh (Squamish) and slilwta / selílwitul...h (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. A community partnership between Oppenheimer Park/Carnegie Community Centre Association and Gallery Gachet, this annual show began in 2008 in anticipation of changes, challenges, and loss in a pre-Olympic city. As the park has been enclosed since March, for 2020 we invited artists to engage thematically with ongoing processes of placement and displacement. Context is provided with open letters and the transcript of "Displacement in Public Green Spaces," an online conversation hosted in May by Vines Art Festival, who we welcome this year as co-publisher. Imagined as a community artists' book, there are contributions from: Adrienne Macallum, Bonnie Low, Brian Humchitt, Rosa Chan, Carol Larson, Cassandra Tina Eastman, Diane Wood, DTES Graffiti Artists, Bruce Walther, Gilles Cyrenne, Edgar Alan Rossetti, Gladys Lee, Eva Cho, Grace Chan, Jim Dewar, James Pau, Lily Huo, Marko, May Li, Michael Edward Nardachioni, Phoenix Winter, Robyn Livingstone, Priscillia Mays, Rudolf Penner, Serena Guan, Shannon Johnson, Stanley M Paul, Wendy Stewart, TJ Felix, Siobhan Barker, Ga’axstsalas Cheryle Williams (gunargie o’sullivan), Jane Shi, jaye simpson, Adriana Contreras Correal, Les Nelson, Lorelei Hawkins, and Manuel Axel Strain. Designed by Jane Harms, the art book will be distributed in January. Copies will be shared throughout the community and available on a sliding scale/by donation through Gallery Gachet. Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard #oppenheimerpark #carnegiecommunitycentre #Lekleki #Paureugai #crabpark #Skwachays #strathconapark #dtes #art #tentcity #namegansnation

BUSH Gallery's Lands Meeting (Solstice Agenda) is today at 4pm! For the Zoom link please email Manny Axel Strain at [email protected]

Reading today, curated by Mercedes Eng: 'a gatheration,' who also happen to be featured in the current Gallery Gachet exhibition, Fear and Care for the Fate of the World (gachetfromaway.org)

Fear and Care for the Fate of the World begins on the eve of the winter solstice, Sunday, December 20 at 4pm, with BUSH Gallery’s online on lands live digital art, Lands Meeting (Solstice Agenda), with Tania Willard, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Peter Morin & Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill. To register for this lands/zoom meeting please email Manny Axel Strain at [email protected] Turn your zoom (camera) around - face it towards an element of the natural world. This could be a... plant inside, a view out your window, the sidewalk, your territory, the grass outside, a park, a street corner, the place you go to get free wifi, the territory you live in. The territory you acknowledge, any element that to you constitutes the land wherever that is. The resultant images and sounds constitute an acknowledgment of our interconnectedness in nature in the virtual in the social and in the distance. It also acknowledges all the lands and all these ancestors, the lands we carry inside us, the lands that surround us and our place within them. More info: gachetfromaway.org

Winter solstice is approaching, seemingly unphased by climate crisis or pandemics. Following this elliptical reversal, Fear and Care for the Fate of the World celebrates the still sun and long night, offering time-based artwork by Afuwa, BUSH Gallery, aly de la cruz yip, Chandra Melting Tallow, and Cecily Nicholson, Mercedes Eng, Hari Alluri & Junie Désil. Curated by artists Bruce Ray and Manuel Axel Strain and presented by the Gallery Gachet Collective, this exhibition poses the question: in the midst of a global pandemic, an international uprising against anti-Black violence, white supremacy, and police brutality, and urgent defense of Indigenous lands and sovereignty, how do our relationships with the earth itself continue to ground our struggles?

Check out the beautiful new hive art by Haisla Collins, Larissa Healey, Jessica Numminen, J Peachy, Jacqueline Quewezance, Jeska Slater, Martin and Shona Sparrow, Jacqueline West, Ilirijan Xhediku, and Sandra Yuen. Thanks to Hives for Humanity for supporting artists throughout Gallery Gachet's networks with another community collaboration.

We could not be happier to announce that the Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show continues for the 13th time this year in the format of a community artist book. Co-published by Gallery Gachet, Oppenheimer Park/Carnegie Centre, and Vines Art Festival, this collection of art and writing engages intrinsically and thematically with displacement and place-making. Oppenheimer Park currently remains enclosed; since August we have been reaching out to artists, writers, and community ...leaders throughout the DTES neighbourhood and beyond, including those living at KT in Strathcona Park, ensuring this year’s project is as accessible as it can be for artists, coordinators, and audiences. We can’t wait to share it with you later this year; stay tuned for launch date and details. Image: TJ Felix, C.R.A.B. Park (2020), ink and pencil crayon on paper. 18 x 24 in. Image courtesy of the artist. Artist TJ Felix writes: "There's so much history on this waterfront that I couldn't possibly fit it all on one map. I ended up missing some important stuff, but I touched on the history of certain objects & places that I've always felt a connection with. Every map is personal to whoever made it, it shows their bias, their beliefs, their values, & is a reflection of their worldview. CRAB park has always been one of my favorite places in the city, & researching the history there has reaffirmed that love." Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard Vines Art Festival

Thanks to Ella Adkins for the insightful review of THIS IS GREAT MATERIAL for Femme Art Review

Staff news: We bid farewell to Sylwia Kisyska, Gallery Gachet's communications manager since 2011. Sylwia is a graphic designer with a passion for photography and fine art. She brought creative design solutions to our promotions materials and careful attention to our exhibition documentation. We will miss her, her patience, storytelling, and sense of humour, and we wish her success in her future art and design practice (sylwiadesign.com). Best of luck and health to you and y...our family, Slywia! Slywia (portrait: Image 1) fondly recalls designing posters for exhibitions including 2016's In This Together (Image 2), when, after unexpected funding cuts, "everyone worked together to save the gallery"; Pandora's Box in 2018 (Image 3), a group exhibition curated by d. June Conley with a theatrical poster; and The World As We Create It: The 12th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show from 2019 (Image 4): "I really like the title of this show and the final effect of this poster; and especially right now with all that is happening around the world, this title is even stronger and gives other meanings to our behaviour and actions."

Gratitude to the artists of THIS IS GREAT MATERIAL for sharing their subtle and unique collage practices: Afuwa, Tamara Bond, Marissa Diamond, Mary Phyllis O’Toole, and Krystle Coughlin Silverfox. We wonder what they will each conjure next. Thank you also to Quin Martins, Jane Harms, Slywia Kisynska, the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre and Dressew for production assistance. Documentation of this online exhibition and poster series will be available soon at gachet.org... And of course, recognition to our generous funders: The City of Vancouver, The Province of BC, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Vancouver Foundation, and the Lacey Prize 2019. Artwork: Tamara Bond, See youtube video, 2016. Collage on paper (acrylic on paper, black paper, charcoal on canvas). 22 x 22 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.