Author Archives: Sylwia

The New Access Consortium Presents: A Collective Audit of the Vancouver Art Gallery

By Sylwia | Published: December 3, 2015

Opening – Saturday November 7th 6-9pm Exhibition runs: Sunday November 8th- December 13th The New Access Consortium is the collective, decentered, non institutional organizational structure initiated by artist Carmen Papalia through which a fluid cast of members are supported in assessing the conditions of access in public and institutional spaces.

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The Talking Cloth: Speaking Truth

By Sylwia | Published: November 30, 2015

Opening – Saturday November 7th 6-9pm Sunday, November 8th – December 13th, 2015 WISH Drop-In Centre Society operates an overnight drop-in for women in street-level survival sex trade. In addition to a broad diversity of programmes, WISH also offers an Aboriginal Women’s Button Group.

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For A New Accessibility

By Sylwia | Published: November 18, 2015

Join us For A New Accessibility, a convergence at Gallery Gachet held in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery and artist Carmen Papalia.

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Organizing for Accessibility & Mutual Aid

By Sylwia | Published: November 12, 2015

A participatory workshop with our current exhibiting curator Carmen Papalia Tuesday, November 17th  3-5 pm In this growing landscape of non-option institutional support services, those with diverse and complex needs are routinely disempowered by the systems that they rely upon in order to maintain their basic health and well being.

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How to support Gallery Gachet

By Sylwia | Published: September 15, 2015

Dear friends and community, Thank you so much for your many messages of support and inquiries about how to support Gallery Gachet, given recent news of a funding cut (gallery gachet’s fundings cut). On Thursday, September 10th we held an emergency meeting to further update our community and to advance our response to this situation. […]

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Gallery Gachet’s Funding Cut: Resolved to Continue Our Work

By Sylwia | Published: September 10, 2015

Gallery Gachet learned last week that after twenty-one years of receiving core funding from the Provincial Ministry of Health our contract with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is being severed, with ninety days notice. The financial cut amounts to half of the organization’s overall budget, and represents the majority of wage and operational resources.

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ANNUAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Deadline Extended

By Sylwia | Published: September 10, 2015

Deadline: Sept 15th, 2015  Deadline Extended: September 30th, 2015 As you may have heard, Gallery Gachet recently learned that after twenty-one years of receiving core funding from the Provincial Ministry of Health our contract with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is being severed. We are resilient and resolved to continue our work! We welcome all […]

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The Future of Gallery Gachet

By Sylwia | Published: September 4, 2015

Dear Friends, Gallery Gachet learned this week that after twenty-one years of receiving core funding from the Provincial Ministry of Health our contract with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is being severed, with ninety days notice. The financial cut amounts to half of the organization’s overall budget, and represents the majority of wage and operational […]

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The 8th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show | In Between!

By Sylwia | Published: August 27, 2015

Exhibition runs: September 11th–October 25th, 2015 Opening reception: Friday, Sept 11th, 6–10pm *part of SWARM 2015 Opening day procession from Oppenheimer Park–488 Powell St–at 5pm

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FOR A NEW ACCESSIBILITY

By Sylwia | Published: August 17, 2015

Madness+MobilityNow, after 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other landmark legislation that was penned with the intention of preserving personal rights and freedoms for diverse groups, it is becoming clear—with daily articles about the swelling number of people who are incarcerated with mental illness or who experience violence based on the […]

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