Rituals for Unstable Ground Public Programs
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Rituals for Unstable Ground, the culminating exhibition of Centre A’s a Blessing & a Curse & a Practice residency, brings together new works by Xinwei Che, Romi Kim, and Ghinwa Yassine. Through distinct approaches to material, memory, and place, the exhibition considers how we live and make within conditions of precarity, and how practices of returning, remembering, and attending can help us stay with what remains unresolved.
The public program extends these conversations through an artist-led tour, workshop, talk, and Q&As with the participating artists.
Artist-led Tour: September 24, 2026, 6 – 8PM
Location: Centre A (205-268 Keefer St.)
Join artists Xinwei Che, Romi Kim, and Ghinwa Yassine for an artist-led tour of Rituals for Unstable Ground, the culminating exhibition of Centre A’s Blessing & a Curse & a Practice residency. The tour offers an intimate opportunity to encounter their new works and hear directly from the artists about their practices and questions shaping the exhibition.
Free to attend, no registration required.
Workshop: Tracing lines on unstable ground with Xinwei Che: October 3, 2026, 2 – 4PM
Location: Centre A (205-268 Keefer St.)
Beginning with a guided tour of the Fault Lines installation, this workshop moves between geological and lived forms of tension. We will look at basic fault-line types as ways of understanding pressure, slippage, and rupture in both land and daily creative life. Participants will trace cracks on surfaces in Sun Wah building, then return to read these marks together and share reflections. No art-making experience is needed, only a willingness to observe, reflect, and connect.
Free to attend, registration here.
Artist Talk with Q&A with Ghinwa Yassine: October 8, 2026, 6 – 7:30PM
Location: Centre A (205-268 Keefer St.)
Join artist Ghinwa Yassine for an artist talk and Q&A exploring her multimedia installation Experiments in a Failed Repair. Yassine will discuss her process of working with fragments of her grandfather’s destroyed home in South Lebanon, and how clay impressions become a way of attending to memory, absence, and loss. The conversation will consider her ongoing return to materials and histories shaped by destruction, and how repetition can become a practice of remembrance and repair without restoring what has been lost.
Free to attend, no registration required.
This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council and the Government of British Columbia.