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Pacific Crossings: Dispatches from Manila

Part of Pacific Crossings’s Triangulations series, Dispatches From Manila asks artists and curators from the region to ‘check-in’, offering perspectives or creative projects that they have been occupied with during the recent months. Watch the program at pacificcrossings.ca

Pacific Crossings: Let Individuals Represent Individuals – Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding

Join us for “Let Individuals Represent Individuals”, an online talk and Q & A with curators Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding on Thursday, June 18, 2020, at 7 PM PST (Vancouver local time). Register within.

Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD): Screening & Talk with Lawrence Lek

Centre A and The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington are pleased to present Lawrence Lek’s Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) (2016), an experimental video essay on a future seemingly (re-)positioned by China’s technological development through science fiction, documentary melodrama, social realism, and Chinese cosmologies, un-mirroring cultural clichés. Screening at 3 PM PST. Artist talk at 4:15 PM PST. June 6, 2020.

Pacific Crossings: Revisiting A Journal of the Plague Year on the Eastern Pacific Coast – Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero

Join us for “Revisiting A Journal of the Plague Year on the Eastern Pacific Coast”, an online talk and Q & A with curators Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 7 PM PST (Vancouver local time).

Centre A Listens: The Sounds in the Diasporas

Tune in with the Curatorial Team at Centre A as we explore diverse tracks, melodies, performances, and everything in-between. The list will be updated weekly. #CentreAListens

In Conversation with Lam Wong

In January 2020, Vancouver-based artist and writer and Centre A’s curatorial apprentice Charisma Christal Thomas sat down with artist Lam Wong at Centre A and spoke about his artistic practice and how it was explored and introduced into his exhibition, the world is as soft as a volcano: a moving composition, at the gallery.

Charlotte Zhang: Pine Street

Centre A is pleased to co-present Nanaimo-raised and Los Angeles-based artist Charlotte Zhang’s Pine Street in partnership with the 2020 Images Festival and Critical Distance Centre For Curators (Toronto). April 14 – 22, 2020. Online. Read more…