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Vancouver Art Gallery’s Family-Friendly Weekend: Family Fuse, March 3-4

by Remy Scalza in Events on February 27, 2012

Photo credit: Vancouver Art Gallery

On select Fridays throughout the year, the Vancouver Art Gallery – Western Canada’s largest showcase for art – morphs from sophisticated museum to multimedia entertainment zone.

The events, called Fuse, transform the gallery into a space where art, music and performance all come together. Fuse features live shows in the gallery spaces, progressive DJs, unconventional and offbeat gallery tours and lots of unexpected surprises. The idea behind it all: Show that museums can be hip, exciting and accessible.

This March 3-March 4 marks a special weekend installment of Fuse designed with families in mind. It’s called Family Fuse and is staged three times a year. Continue reading:
Vancouver Art Gallery’s Family-Friendly Weekend: Family Fuse, March 3-4

Party at the Art Gallery? Hip Hop and Aboriginal Art at the VAG, this Friday Feb 24

by Remy Scalza in Events on February 23, 2012

Credit: Vancouver Art Gallery; BeatNation4 -Shawn Hunt, Master of Ceremony, 2011, acrylic on panel.

When making plans for your Friday night, the Vancouver Art Gallery might not be the first option to come to mind. Except this Friday.

From 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. the gallery will be hosting one of its signature Fuse events ($17.50 for adults; free for gallery members). Fuse transforms the gallery into a hip, edgy live performance venue with music, DJs, art (obviously) and more. It’s geared towards an evening crowd and shows a side of the VAG few visitors ever see – the after-dark, let-your-hair-down side.

This Friday’s Fuse event is a really unique one: It kicks off a new exhibit called Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture (the exhibit official opens on Saturday). Friday’s Fuse party will feature Aboriginal DJs and projectionists Jackson 2 Bears and A Tribe Called Red, plus performance artist Skeena Reece and graffiti artist Dedos, who will be b-boy dancing.

In other words, this may be one of your few chances to hear turntables and hip hop mash-ups in the sacred halls that house Emily Carr and other masterpieces.

And if you can’t make it for Fuse, don’t worry.

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Party at the Art Gallery? Hip Hop and Aboriginal Art at the VAG, this Friday Feb 24

New Emily Carr Paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery

by Remy Scalza in Events on November 3, 2011

Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery

Think you’ve seen all the Emily Carr masterpieces at the Vancouver Art Gallery? Big Raven, with those bold colours and shapes echoing aboriginal carvings. Cedar, with its undulating sea of needles. Zunoqua of the Cat Village, with its enigmatic totem in the foreground.

Well, you’re in luck. 21 paintings by Emily Carr spanning the length of her career – and never shown publicly before at the museum – are on display right now at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of the new exhibit, Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection.

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New Emily Carr Paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery

5 Vancouver Summer Events Still Going in September

by Dana Lynch in Entertainment on September 6, 2011

Butterfinger Deep Fried Cheesecake at the Summer Night Market in Richmond. Photo: Summer Night Market in Richmond / Lions Communications Inc.

Just as our summer weather is continuing past Labour Day (thankfully), so are a handful of Vancouver’s best summer events and activities. If you haven’t been to Bard on the Beach or the Summer Night Market in Richmond yet, you still have time to catch these summer favourites before they end for another year.

5 Vancouver Summer Events Still Going in September

1. Bard on the Beach
One of the Vancouver’s most famous summer traditions, the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival—which stages its plays against the gorgeous backdrop of English Bay–continues through September 24, 2011.

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5 Vancouver Summer Events Still Going in September

The Colour of My Dreams – Surrealist Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery

by Dana Lynch in Entertainment on July 6, 2011

Edith RimmingtonThe Oneiroscopist, 1947oil on canvasThe Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel MuseumPhoto: © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Last week, I finally had a chance to see the newest exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG): The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art.

Once again, VAG has brought an outstanding, world-class exhibition to Vancouver. The Colour of My Dreams is the most comprehensive exhibition of Surrealist art ever to be shown in Canada; it features 350 works by leading Surrealist artists, including André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Leonora Carrington, Brassaï, André Masson, Edith Rimmington, and (my favourite) Man Ray.

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The Colour of My Dreams – Surrealist Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery’s Family-Friendly Weekend: Family Fuse, March 3-4

Party at the Art Gallery? Hip Hop and Aboriginal Art at the VAG, this Friday Feb 24

New Emily Carr Paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery

5 Vancouver Summer Events Still Going in September

The Colour of My Dreams – Surrealist Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery

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