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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.

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.

The AFFNO provides programs and activities for the Francophones living in the north-west quarter of the province. It is based in Prince Rupert. Its publication, Actuellement, is published twice a year, in April and October, and each issue bears a…

This series contains records related to Vance's prolific work as City Analyst and forensics investigator. The records include general notes and correspondence, calculations, and his work specifically related to the Royal Visit in 1939, along…

"For a little while, the world cared about a rat..." Travel on a luxury tour bus for an in-depth examination of the story behind Vancouver's most famous rodent. Visit the sites that made the Sniffy story happen, watch the video, meet…

In Flower Girl, Lisa Deanne Smith created an interactive performance piece wearing a costume incorporating fresh flowers. Standing on a pedestal, Smith spoke about her desires then walked through the audience and surrounding neighbourhood asking…

The Performance Art Cabaret at the Vogue Theatre was the kickoff event for LIVE at the End of the Century, the first LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. Organized by Glenn Alteen and Brice Canyon, this event continued a tradition of cabaret…

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.

Since the early 1980s Stitt has collected photo snapshots of people and places in his adopted community in London and wherever he traveled making performances. As such these images function as a connection with a moment, a memory; as cultural…

A live large-scale mixed media installation was produced by anonymous collaborators HUMAN 5. The event is process-based and will bring to light diversity within practices alive in the public realm. Presented by the Helen Pitt Gallery, now known as…

The second in a series of Sunday panels at grunt gallery exploring notions of performance from the perspective of practitioners and the academy and the complex relationship the form of performance art has negotiated with institutional representation…

The White Rock Museum & Archives online collection of White Rock newspapers reflects the many eras in the history of a community known for its distinct sense of identity. First published in 1939, the 4-page weekly Semiahmoo Sun grew quickly to…

re: live was a two part event combining a video screening (November 17, 2001) and a subsequent panel discussion, addressing both the historical and contemporary relationship between performance and video art. Performance and video find a common…

Thundering Word Heard, the weekly spoken word/music fusion open mic series, presented the Vancouver book launch of 'Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal'. Word-sters…

In principle all objects or actions are potential sources of sound. For his performance, Shawn Bristow slowly dismantles an electric guitar while it is plugged in. Without creating any traditional compositions or music, the guitar will provide an…

Le Journal de Tire Lire was the magazine of the FPFCB for the parents of students in the Conseil scolaire francophone de la C.-B. (CSFCB), from June 1995. This is an incomplete collection, from June 1995 to Nov. 1997, with gaps. It was …

This is the newsletter of the Comité Jeunesse Franco-Colombien, based in Vancouver. We only have a single issue, Vol. 1, no. 1, Nov. 1988, printed in 8 ½ in. x 11 in. format.