Discussion: Diversity and the Built Environment: the Case of 105 Keefer
Saturday, January 16, 2016, 2 PM at Centre A Free admission Facebook event Centre A welcomes architect Joe Wai, urban planner Nathan Edelson, community builder Doris Chow, academic/community...
View ArticleSinofuturism (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...
View ArticlePacific Crossings: Let Individuals Represent Individuals – Carol Yinghua Lu...
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...
View ArticleWe cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughters and Daughters of our Mothers
Centre A presents the new exhibition "We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughters and Daughters of our Mothers". This exhibition will be available for viewing both in the gallery and online.
View ArticlePacific 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...
View ArticleJUSTIN SHOULDER PRESENTS PHASMAHAMMER / IN CONVERSATION WITH HENRY HENG LU
Join us for this lecture-performance illuminating Phasmahammer, an ecology of alter personae in their main body of work based on queered ancestral myths. Friday, August 7, 2020, 5:30 PM PST via Zoom....
View ArticleThe Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay: An Artist Talk with Yen-Chao Lin
Join us for an online artist talk by Montréal-based artist Yen-Chao Lin via Zoom in conjunction with the current group exhibition, We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughter and Daughters of our...
View ArticleGu Xiong: The Remains of a Journey
Comprised of a new body of multimedia works, this exhibition by Gu Xiong revives three historic sites across British Columbia that bear the untold struggles of the Chinese immigrants. Opening virtually...
View ArticleFIRECRACKER: A Centre A Online Art Sale
Centre A is proud to launch FIRECRACKER, an online art sale featuring the works of more than 20 artists. 50% of the proceeds will go towards Centre A, and the rest goes to the artists. Available NOW...
View ArticleFirecracker: A Centre A Online Art Sale
Centre A is proud to launch FIRECRACKER, an online art sale featuring the works of more than 20 artists. 50% of the proceeds will go towards Centre A, and the rest goes to the artists. Available NOW...
View ArticleWill Kwan: Exclusion Acts
Centre A is pleased to present "Exclusion Acts", a solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Will Kwan. The exhibition brings together a new body of work that takes an unflinching look at the systemic...
View ArticleMigration, Memory, Land: A Panel Discussion
Join us on Saturday, February 6, 2021, at 2:00 PM PST, online, for "Migration, Memory, Land: A Panel Discussion", with Dr. Chris Lee (UBC), Dr. Xiaoping Li (Okanagan College), and Mr. Gu Xiong....
View ArticleFugitive Images: A Lecture by Chris Hamamoto & Federico Pérez Villoro
Join us on Friday, March 5, 2021, at 4:00 PM PST, online, for “Fugitive Images”, a lecture by Chris Hamamoto & Federico Pérez Villoro.
View ArticleWhose Chinatown? A Virtual Conference
Whose Chinatown: A virtual conference brings together a weekend of collaborative panels and talks facilitated live over zoom, brought to you by Griffin Art Projects, Centre A, The New Gallery and the...
View ArticleTEHCHING HSIEH: FREE THINKING
Presented in partnership with Centre A, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s 19th Heller Lecture features New York-based, Taiwan-born artist Tehching Hsieh. Join us on June 3, 2021, at 4:00 PM PST / 7:00 PM...
View ArticleSpeech Acts: Zainub Verjee
Centre A is pleased to announce Speech Acts: Zainub Verjee, an exhibition that negotiates language, resistance, and artistic labour by the multidisciplinary artist, curator, writer, activist, and arts...
View ArticleThis space is intentionally left blank (nothing is more important than...
"This space is intentionally left blank (nothing is more important than independence and freedom)" grapples with how, within the public economic sphere, the common, result-driven curatorial strategies...
View ArticleResistance as an Act of Public Pedagogy
This virtual panel "Resistance as an Act of Public Pedagogy" will bring together five artists with African origins - Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, Laiwan, Linda Mvusi, Shaheen Merali, and Zainub Verjee - for an...
View ArticleA LINGERING SHADOW
Centre A and The Polygon Gallery present A Lingering Shadow, a program of short films that consider how memory becomes encoded in movement. Screening continuously WED to SUN, 10 AM to 5 PM, and until 8...
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