ECU X Mount Pleasant: A Performance Series

Itziar Okariz, Katria Phothong-McKinnon, Maiko Yamamoto

Performance Series

Nov, 2025–March, 2026.

Open Studio + Riso Printing Demo at Moniker Press

Workshop

Nov 1, 2025
1–4 PM

space makers: possibilities for other models

Patrick Cruz of Kamias Triennial, Kara Ditte Hansen, Scott Kemp, and Jordan Milner of Avenue/Duplex.

Panel Discussion

Oct 29, 2025
6–8 PM

A Conversation with Ian Wallace + Dr. Trish Kelly

Ian Wallace, Trish Kelly

Artist Talk

Oct 16, 2025
6–8 PM

Half-light: Notes on Violence from the Trans Underworld

Kitt Peacock

Book Launch

Sep 17, 2025
6–9 PM

En Route: mobile forms of art and education

ECU Outreach Program (1979 to 1985), Kamias Triennial (2014), Avenue/Duplex (2014 to 2019), Ian Wallace, Laiwan, Moniker Press

Organized by Bopha Chhay, Troy Johnson, Vanessa Kwan with Kristy Waller

Exhibition

Sep 11–Nov 16, 2025

Portals, Gateways & Hesitations

Ogheneofegor Obuwoma

Exhibition

Jul 16–Nov 17, 2025

米之家 (Mǐ zhī jiā): House of Rice Performances and Artist Talk

Shay Dior, SKIM, Maiden China, Valak D’mon, Nikita Dior, Ploy Pailin, Jas Minh, Kara Juku, Bongganisa, Lulu Lomein

Artist Talk, Performance

Jul 10, 2025
6:30 PM

Care where no-one does: Freek Lomme in conversation with Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo

Freek Lomme, Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo

Co-presented with Set Margins’

Artist Talk

Jul 5, 2025
12 PM

Writing at the intersections of literary + contemporary arts practices

Lara Mimosa Montes, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, Rachel Valinsky, Sheryda Warrener

Moderated by Bopha Chhay and co-presented with Wendy’s Subway

Book Launch, Panel Discussion

Jul 5, 2025
3 PM

Vancouver Art Book Fair

READ Books

Book Fair

Jul 4–Jul 6, 2025

Get Outside Reading Room

Laura Kozak, Lily Raphael

Co-hosted with the Emily Carr DESIS Lab

Exhibition

Jun 9–Jun 20, 2025

The Employee

Joshua Schwebel, Lauren Wetmore, Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, Bopha Chhay

Book Launch, Panel Discussion

Jun 5, 2025
6 PM

Emblematic Elusions: Film Screening & Lecture with Afi Vanessa Appiah

Afi Vanessa Appiah, Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George

Lecture, Screening

Apr 14, 2025
6–8:30 PM

The Fates of Spring Poetry Tour

jaye simpson, Amber Dawn

Hosted by Mercedes Eng

Book Launch

Apr 10, 2025
7–9 PM

DeForrest Brown, Jr. in conversation with Giorgio Magnanensi

DeForrest Brown, Jr., Giorgio Magnanensi

Artist Talk, Performance

Apr 9, 2025
6 PM

House of Rice
米之家 (Mǐ zhī jiā)

Shay Dior, SKIM, Maiden China, Valak D’mon, Nikita Dior, Ploy Pailin, Jas Minh, Kara Juku, Bongganisa, Lulu Lomein

Exhibition

Mar 19–Jul 14, 2025

Reassemblage in the Relational Film

Nadia Shihab

Co-presented with Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and Critical Image Forum Research Excellence Cluster, UBC

Artist Talk

Mar 11, 2025
7 PM

Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances

Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, Lucas LaRochelle, Joshua Schwebel, Chelsea Thompto, Lan “Florence” Yee

Curated by Dallas Fellini

Exhibition

Feb 27–Apr 13, 2025

Trans Opacity Classroom

Dallas Fellini, Whess Harman, Kay Higgins, SF Ho, Maliv Khondaker, Vanessa Kwan , Joshua Schwebel, Chelsea Thompto

Workshop

Feb 27, 2025
10 AM–9 PM

DeForrest Brown, Jr. in conversation with Vanessa Fajemisin

DeForrest Brown, Jr., Vanessa Fajemisin

Artist Talk

Feb 6, 2025
6 PM

Graphite: Animated Traces by Alla Gadassik

Alla Gadassik, Vjeko Sager

Book Launch, Workshop

Feb 5, 2025
4–6 PM

The Faculty Show: Celebrating Creativity and Diversity

Alejandro A. Barbosa, Parvin Peivandi, Shoora Majedian, Hyein Lee, Ceile Prowse, Robin Mitchell Cranfield, Sarah Green, Sunny Nestler, Maggee Day, Henry Tsang, Gwenessa Lam, Ingrid Koenig , Rozita Moini Shirazi, Sophia Zarders, Valérie d. Walke, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Helene Day Fraser, Brooke Allen, Ruth Beer, Annie Briard, Heather Young , Neil Wedman, Patrick Andersson, Hayley Carruthers, Kathy Kinakin, Sydney Hart, Beth Howe, Vjeko Sager, Genevieve De Leon , Mark Igloliorte, Mark Johnsen, Nick Conber, Cameron Cartiere, Damian Moppett, Randy Lee Cutler , Sarah Shamash, Sara-Jeanne Bourget, Leah Burns, Ashiya Khan-Sequeira, Michelle Ng, Sara Osenton, Kristy Waller, Hillary Webb, Ki Wight , Faculty for Courage in Times of Occupation, Xinwei Che, Brendan Tang, Kyla Gilbert-Heaney, Janet Wang, Julie York, Jimena Diaz Jirash, Alexandra Phillips, Ian Rhodes, Avery Shaw, Gloria Han, Julie Andreyev, Gemma Crowe, Justin Novak, Carlo Ghioni, Adriana Jaroszewicz, Sara Khalili, Lindsay McIntyre, prOphecy sun, Daniel Wildberger, Andy Zuliani, Erika Thorkelson,Amory Abbott, Rita Wong, Kelly Lycan, Natalie R. Chiovitti, Louise St. Pierre, Terra Poirier, Miriam Libicki, Fawn Daphne Plessner, Mercedes Eng

Exhibition

Jan 10–Feb 9, 2025

DeForrest Brown, Jr.

Residency

Jan 2–Mar 31, 2025

From and Beyond Design: Conversations with Master of Design Students Podcast Launch Reception

Reception

Dec 11, 2024
3 PM

Broad: Say Less and Documents

Autumn Knight, Li(sa E.) Harris

Performance

Nov 22, 2024
7 PM

Sitting Room, 1987

Nadia Shihab

Exhibition

Nov 18, 2024–Mar 18, 2025

Hildegard Press Publication Series Launch

Lyndl Hall

Book Launch, Talk

Nov 13, 2024
6 PM

Resonance Speaker Series: Celine Wong Katzman

Celine Wong Katzman, Peter Bussigel, Vanessa Kwan

Talk

Nov 6, 2024
6 PM

fertile ground: Listening event with divide the silence

Miriam Berndt, Van Ber

Event, Workshop

Oct 9, 2024
6–8 PM

Autumn Knight

Residency

Oct 1–Dec 7, 2024

Does it matter if I’m here or there? On-demand, same-day, what’s happening?, where to?, livestream.

Dr. Ben Evans James

Talk

Sep 26, 2024
6 PM

Fire Season III

Amory Abbott, Liz Toohey-Wise

Book Launch

Sep 25, 2024
6–8 PM

as above / so below Panel Discussion

Sey Min, Seohyo, Yaloo

Panel Discussion

Sep 13, 2024
4 PM

Generation that Generates: as above / so below

Sey Min, Seohyo, Yaloo

Curated by MediaSonyo 미디어소녀

Exhibition design by Ben Evans James

Exhibition

Sep 13–Nov 10, 2024

Search Engine

Antonia Hirsch, Vanessa Kwan

Book Launch, Talk

Aug 29, 2024
6 PM

Activating the Archive

Sheryda Warrener

Workshop

Aug 20, 2024
6–8 PM

Ekphrastic Translations

Sheryda Warrener

Workshop

Jul 30, 2024
6–8 PM

Vancouver Art Book Fair Symposium on Art Publishing

Bopha Chhay, Jonathan Middleton, Emmy Catedral, Dallas Fellini, Anthea Black, Christine Walde, Joni Low, André-Lois Paré, Anton Vidolke, Brian Kuan Wood, Hallie Ayres, Maandeeq Mohamed, Maxine Proctor, Adetola Adedipe, Blair Swann, Louis Rastelli

Symposium

Jul 28, 2024
10 AM–4 PM

Vancouver Art Book Fair

Book Fair

Jul 26–Jul 27, 2024

I know you are, but what am I?

Cait McKinney, Lindsey Freeman

Book Launch, Reading, Talk

Jul 24, 2024
6 PM

fertile ground

Miriam Berndt

Exhibition

Jul 17–Nov 24, 2024

They Lift the Sky

Miko Revereza, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Reyhan Yazdani

Curated by Bopha Chhay

Exhibition

Jul 12–Aug 25, 2024

Design Against Design: Cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice

Kevin Kit Yuen Lo, Jaleh Mansoor

Book Launch, Talk

Jul 4, 2024
6 PM

HOHOL (Hang Out Hang Out Lang)

Christopher Baliwas, Patrick Cruz, Ella Gonzales, Ramolen Laruan, Christian Vistan, Thea Yabut

Co-presented by Grunt Gallery

Panel Discussion

Jun 15, 2024
4–6 PM

Assembling a Black Counter Culture: Speaker Music and Made By We

Speaker Music, DeForrest Brown, Jr., MadeByWe, Hafiz Akinlusi, Mada Phiri, Vanessa Fajemisin

Performance

Jun 5, 2024
6–9 PM

Your Old Way Kind of Vision

Siku Allooloo, Catherine Blackburn, Wally Dion, Charlene Vickers

Curated by Daina Warren and presented by the Aboriginal Gathering Place

Exhibition

Jun 1–Jun 30, 2024

Coexistence: Billy-Ray Belcourt & Molly Cross-Blanchard in Conversation

Billy-Ray Belcourt, Molly Cross-Blanchard

Co-presented with Massy Books, Massy Arts Society, Penguin Random House

Artist Talk, Book Launch

May 29, 2024
7–9 PM

STILL

Lani Maestro

Co-presented with grunt gallery

Exhibition

May 14–Jul 14, 2024

Reality TV as Research: Real Housewives Watch Party with Chandra Melting Tallow

Chandra Melting Tallow

Presented by Justin Ducharme

Screening

Mar 27, 2024
6:30 PM