The Blue Cabin

Pippa Lattey's online artist talk is tonight at 7pm!

Don't miss artist-in-residence Pippa Lattey's live talk and Q&A this Wednesday February 3rd at 7PM! - https://mailchi.mp/3ce8/blue-cabin-pippa-lattey-artist-talk

As of this weekend, you can tune in live to the sounds in and around the Blue Cabin 24/7 for the rest of Pippa Lattey’s residency! Lattey’s collaborator, musician Thomas Evdokimoff, is maintaining a livestream on Locus Sonus, a worldwide network of open microphones maintained by sound artists, musicians and other interested parties. An open microphone has been set up facing out over the water. Listeners will hear the steady din of traffic from Quebec Ave and the Cambie Br...idge, the small ferry boats coming and going from the dock nearby, airplanes and helicopters flying overhead, ongoing construction, as well as the birds and people who come through the area, and of course, rain. Lucky listeners may catch Pippa working on Al Neil's piano. This stream explores the intersection of place, usage, and sound ecology; the daily rhythm of life, the ephemeral nature of live sound, and the passage of time. https://locusonus.org/soundmap/051/ Thomas Evdokimoff is a musician and educator based in Vancouver BC. He holds a Master of Arts in music theory from UBC and currently teaches at Arbutus Music Academy and through evdokimoff.net. He enjoys writing about music, and working with sound with a focus on electronic media including electronic music, musique concrète, soundscapes and location recording.

Multidisciplinary artist Pippa Lattey's six-week residency at the Blue Cabin begins next Friday January 22nd! - https://mailchi.mp/34ddbd/blue-cabin-pippa-lattey-residency

Did you attend the MST Futurism: Decolonizing the City through a Matriarchal Lens panel yesterday? Or maybe you missed it? If you're interested in learning more about the MST Futurism project, follow their Instagram account! https://instagram.com/mstfuturism?igshid=1jp1ihzceplbx

The MST Futurism project is hosting a panel discussion featuring Chief Janice George and Auntie Orene Askew of the Squamish Nation, Matriarch Debra Sparrow of Musqueam and Matriarch Angela George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. MST Futurism: uplifting and celebrating xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and slilwta (Tsleil-Waututh) visions for the future of what is currently known as Vancouver.

The deadline to apply to our Engagement Coordinator position is tomorrow, Friday November 13th! All details at https://thebluecabin.ca/job-call-engagement-coordinator/

We're hiring an Engagement Coordinator! Applications are due Friday November 13th, 2020. Full details can be found at https://thebluecabin.ca/job-call-engagement-coordinator/ The Engagement Coordinator will work within the communities the facility inhabits making connections and strengthening relationships, while increasing visibility and access. A major focus will be with heritage, cultural and Indigenous communities. The position will require the incumbent to familiarize th...emselves with the many different heritage stakeholders in Vancouver and on the North Shore including community groups, non-profits, government departments, universities and museums and archives. The Engagement Coordinator will work with these groups to develop and deliver programming for the BCFAR in the form of lectures, panels, open houses, exhibits and discussions around the Blue Cabin that are part of the project’s broader curatorial activities. See more

While we continue to work behind the scenes, here's a photo of the Blue Cabin floating into its current home in False Creek back in August 2019! The Blue Cabin's unique journey continues - further announcements coming soon. In the meantime, stay warm and safe, everyone!

This incredible textiles exhibition is on at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery in Winnipeg until August 1st! Featuring local weavers and past Blue Cabin residents Angela George, Chief Janice George and Buddy Joseph.

Thank you so much to all the filmmakers and distributors who shared incredible films with us for our Virtual Film Series! Every Thursday evening from May 14 - July 16th, we screened films exploring local and national histories from Indigenous, Chinese-Canadian, environmental, archival and activist perspectives. A huge thank you, too, to audiences who joined us from their homes for these films and post-screening discussions. We were honoured to host filmmakers Nettie Wild, Cha...rles Wilkinson, Teresa Alfeld, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn for live Q&A sessions, and would also like to extend our gratitude to Jane Gutteridge, Tamara Ivis and Shirley Vercruysse from the National Film Board for giving us access to their amazing archive. It's our hope that watching these extraordinary films helped you connect to the worlds outside your home while hunkered down to flatten the COVID-19 curve. Please stay tuned for future programming announcements coming soon! See more

We are thrilled to present THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN (2019) this Thursday July 16th as the final film in our virtual screening series. Directors Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn will join us after for a live Q&A! This is a must-see film, register now via the link below (and it's free!).

Only 2 more screenings left in our weekly series, don’t miss these truly extraordinary films! This Thursday July 9th we present 2 classic NFB films, Mudflats Living (1972) which documents an idyllic squatters community being threatened with eviction by North Vancouver District authorities; and These Are My People... (1969), the first NFB film made entirely by an Indigenous crew, exploring the history of Indigenoussettler relations. The final film in our series, next Thur...sday July 16th is the highly acclaimed THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN (2019), including a special Q&A with directors Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn. You do not want to miss this! Both screenings are free, but registration is required. Register by noon on Thursday to receive the link! Thursday July 9th: https://bit.ly/3gvx7Y1 Thursday July 16th: https://bit.ly/2O2E5rj

The famous North Shore squats, once home to the Blue Cabin, are best known as the setting in which author Malcolm Lowry wrote his landmark novel "Under The Volcano," which is widely acknowledged as one of English literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition. Join us for a special virtual screening of "Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry," a 1976 feature-length Oscar-nominated documentary by Donald Brittain & John Kramer tha...t was shot on location in four countries, and combines photographs, readings by Richard Burton from the novel and interviews with the people who loved and hated Lowry, to create a vivid portrait of the man. This screening is free but registration is required. Register by noon on Thursday, July 2nd, to receive the screening link! And join us afterwards for a post-screening group discussion.

This Thursday's film is "The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical" (2018) by Teresa Alfeld, who will join us live for a post-screening Q&A! Alfeld's film explores the remarkable life of World War II veteran, criminal lawyer, city councillor and outspoken socialist Harry Rankin. In 1986, following the Expo World Fair, Harry ran to become mayor of the city he had fought so hard to make liveable and affordable, but was caught off guard by a young, right-wing upstart named Gordon Cam...pbell vying to steer Vancouver in a different direction. Decades later, director Teresa Alfeld dusted off reels of 16mm footage in Harry's son's basement to finish a documentary started by lawyer-turned-filmmaker-turned-lawyer Peter Smilsky many years before. "The Rankin File" chronicles Harry’s nearly fifty-year career fighting for and with the working-class and marginalized communities of Vancouver. Today, the Blue Cabin is moored on the north side of False Creek at the Plaza of Nations, a development built for Expo '86, and a neighbourhood where Harry Rankin had hoped the city would build affordable housing. Join us from home for a special virtual screening and a live post-screening Q&A with director Teresa Alfeld! This event is free but registration is required. Register by noon on Thursday, June 25th, to receive the screening link.

Join us from home this Thursday June 18th for a virtual screening of "Everything Will Be" by Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan. Kwan's documentary explores Vancouver's Chinatown, a once vibrant and thriving neighbourhood in flux as new condo developments and non-Chinese businesses move in and gradually overtake the declining hub of the Chinese community. Kwan's documentary captures this transformation through the intimate perspectives of the neighbourhood’s residents..., diverse merchants and new entrepreneurs, who offer their poignant reflections on change, memory and legacy. Join us for this special virtual screening and post-screening discussion. A goal of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency is to encourage close consideration of historical perspectives of place. This event is free, but registration is required. Register via Eventbrite by noon on Thursday June 18th to receive the screening link!

One goal of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency is to encourage close consideration of historical perspectives of place. The history of the Blue Cabin cannot be separated from the history of settler colonial jurisdiction or the racial logic that has formed and reformed these unceded xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwú7mesh (Squamish), and slilwta/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands and waters. These issues have been brought to the fore by the current mass movement led ...by Black Lives Matter. As the Blue Cabin prepares our upcoming online programming, we invite you to visit virtual sites of Vancouver’s Black history, where structures of property and the law were wielded as tools of racially motivated displacement shaping the tensions and contours of the city. The Hogan’s Alley Society and the Black Strathcona Project (https://www.hogansalleysociety.org/ and http://blackstrathcona.com) are both projects doing incredibly important work to maintain a Black present in Vancouver against historical erasure. Yesterday the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts were occupied as an act of reclamation of the Hogan's Alley site. Social media indicates that the occupiers have made demands from a recent statement by Black Lives Matter Vancouver, including acknowledgement of the harm caused by the destruction of Hogan's Alley. Please read the full statement: https://blacklivesmattervancouver.com/vancouver-dismantle-/

#StoryTime: Originally built by a Scandinavian craftsman in the early 20th century, The Blue Cabin is a unique survivor of a once popular now vanished way o...f life. Formerly an off-the-grid squatters’ cabin, the #historic structure became the studio of local artists Al Neil and Carole Itter in the 1960s. The Blue Cabin was scheduled for demolition in 2015, when #Vancouver artist-run-centres came together to restore the architectural gem and transform it into a floating #ArtistResidency. Read the full story & discover many more at www.northshoreculturecompass.ca. Photo: The Blue Cabin See more

Director Nettie Wild will join for a live Q&A after the screening tomorrow night! Don't miss this register by noon tomorrow!

Another fantastic film screening this Thursday, May 28th! Join us from home for "KONELNE: our land beautiful" by local legendary documentary filmmaker Nettie Wild. An art film with politics, drama, and humour, "KONELNE: our land beautiful" explores different ways of seeingand being. Wild's film is a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it. Some hunt on the land. Some mine it. They all love it. Set deep in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, "KONELNE" captures beauty and complexity as one of Canada’s vast wildernesses undergoes irrevocable change. **Register (for free!) via the link by noon on Thursday**

Tonight! Virtual screening and a Q&A with the director! Register by 5pm, it's free

Have you ever visited Haida Gwaii? Join us from your home this Thursday, May 21st, for a special virtual screening of the award-winning "Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World" (2015) featuring a live Q&A with the director! Charles Wilkinson's phenomenal documentary explores the breathtakingly beautiful archipelago off BC's northwest coast - home to a dedicated community uniting to protect land and sea for the next generation. Register by 5pm on Thursday to receive the screening link!