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Les Échos du Pacifique is a French-language choir that has operated in the Lower Mainland from at least the 198s. The early issues of its newsletter simply bear the choirs name, Les Échos du Pacifique. This is an incomplete collection, comprising…

Boris Nieslony has worked in performance art since the 1970's and is the founder of Black Market International. He works extensively around the world organizing and networking performance art activity.

The Performance Network Symposium brought together curators from across Canada to develop and explore networking and exchange opportunities in the performance art sector via three days of attending LIVE events and discussions for participants,…

'Barbed Wire' is McMurry's autobiographical performance that will challenge our perceptions and emotions. We witness him in states of physical danger as he performs defiant and dangerous activities that young boys specifically engage…

A performance in a retrospective format, inventing and telling tales of performance in Vancouver from the 60's and 70's. Featuring an ensemble cast made up of a who's who of Vancouver performance artists, this multimedia project was…

The Bulletin was published at least in 1989 by La Fête Colombienne des enfants, which was a major children’s festival held in Vancouver, which led to the establishment of the Vancovuer Children’s Festival. This is an incomplete collection,…

Since 1960, the CCFPG provides programs and activities for the Francophones of Prince George. Its newsletter is Le Coin du Parc. This is an incomplete collection from Dec. 1999 to Fall-Winter 2017-18, with gaps.

Gordon Cornwall delighted in shooting on location throughout the Lower Mainland and incorporated settings as diverse as hydroelectric dams and helicopters into the marketing images he created for LMW throughout the decades.

LMW News spanned over 20 years, highlighting the coming season’s offerings for LMW clientele. The newsletters were a family affair: Lore Maria Wiener’s daughter, Claudia Cornwall, created whimsical illustrations of her mother’s designs and provided…

La Boussole is a resource centre for Francophones in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Its publication is Le Journal La Boussole. The collection includes only one issue, from April 1995 (no.6). It seems to have appeared in April and in September.

This series contains the personal and professional correspondence created and received by John Vance during his lifetime and career. The records include a diary from 1934-1935 which chronicles his time under police protection, correspondence with…

This performance is inspired by the book "Empire" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt with its philosophical and political propositions of shifting configurations of racism. However, it is clear that racism has not receded but actually…

Taking in Strangers is a show that explores through oral history, physical, theatre, video, and projected images, the similarities and connections between the people of Newfoundland and Québec. With text taken verbatim from conversations, this show…

Randy and Berenicci, dressed as nomadic travelers, appear to float in False Creek on a sculpture engulfed in flames. From the land, viewers used an optically assisted telescope to create the illusion of the performers waling endlessly through the…

For LIVE, Martin Beauregard produced his performance 'Fireworks', using a slide projector and live sound effects. Beauregard's simulations fall flat, never reaching the needed climax in their fulfillment of his intention to wipe out…

Nihilist Spasm Band has performed with various lineups since their formation in London, Ontario in 1965. Known internationally for their home-made instruments and unconventional approaches to tuning, tempo, and time signature, the Nihilist Spasm…

No other artist of the twentieth century who engaged in war on the side of doing wrong has been as celebrated as German artist Joseph Beuys. In an unprecedented examination of the way Beuys' iconography relates to National Socialism, Stiles…

Re-Act was a two night retrospective of live art by Paul Wong, taking the form of a live multimedia presentation including video projects and multi-monitors, live video mixing, musicians, audio, lighting, movement, and theatrics, all directed live…

As figures, bees are efficient, industrious, mobile, manageable, and profitable workers; they make honey and pollinate the flora, diligently crossing between GM and non-GM crops and, in the process, they are themselves being modified, contaminated,…

Reality is mirrored through video feeds that have real guests dining with virtual ones in this intimate and eerie experience. Video guests address real guests in arbitrary conversations as if they were able to see them. Guests can respond to the…