Libby Leshgold Gallery

2024

October 9, 6 - 8pm
Integrated Motion Studio / Wilson Arts Plaza

fertile ground
Listening event with divide the silence

September 26, 6pm
Reliance Theatre

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

Wednesday, August 28, 6 pm
READ Books

Search Engine
Book Launch and Conversation

August 16–23

READ Books Summer Sale

August 20, 6 - 8 pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

Activating the Archive
Sheryda Warrener

July 30, 6 - 8 pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

Ekphrastic Translations
Sheryda Warrener

July 28, 10 am - 4 pm
Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Rennie Hall)

Vancouver Art Book Fair Symposium on Art Publishing

July 24, 2024 at 6 pm
READ Books

Book Launch
Cait Mckinney: I know you are, but what am I? On Pee-wee Herman

July 4, 2024 at 6 pm
READ Books

Kevin Kit Yuen Lo
Design Against Design: Cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice
Set Margins, 2024

June 15th, 4-6pm
Reliance Theatre

HOHOL (Hang Out Hang Out Lang)
Artist Panel

Wednesday June 5, 6–9pm
Integrated Motion Studio

Assembling a Black Counter Culture
Speaker Music and Made By We

Wednesday, May 29, 7-9pm
Reliance Theatre

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

Wednesday, March 27, 6:30pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

REALITY TV AS RESEARCH… real Housewives Watch Party w/ Chandra Melting Tallow

Wednesday, March 13, 6pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

Artist Talk: Hazel Meyer and Atheana Picha
Moderated by Vanessa Kwan

Thursday, March 7, 6:30pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

Seventeen
A LIVE Table Read

Wednesday, February 28, 3:30pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

Performance: WEEPING CONCRETE
Featuring Hazel Meyer, Dana Qaddah, and Rhyan McCorkindale

Tuesday, February 20, 7pm
Reliance Theatre

GUSH
By fox maxy, film screening

Thursday, February 15, 6pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

Performance: WEEPING CONCRETE
Featuring Hazel Meyer, Dana Qaddah, and Rhyan McCorkindale

February 12-14, 12-5pm
Library Artist Book Room

Open Studio

Tuesday, January 23, 6:30pm
Libby Leshgold Gallery

KIN. Screening & Social
Social at 6:30pm / Screening at 7:30pm DJ set by DJAMA

Friday, January 12, 6pm
Aboriginal Gathering Place

Islands of Decolonial Love: Reading & Reception
Misc. Activities Collective: Tsēmā and Jonathan Igharas

2023

July 20 - December 31, 2023

drift
Misc. Activities Collective: Tsēmā and Jonathan Igharas

December 6, 2023 - 1:00pm

Tsēmā Igharas with Rita Wong
Artist Talk and Screening

Nov 17, 2023 - 7:30pm
Nov 18, 2023 - 3:00pm

Co-Motion Single Field Instrument
Nour Mobarak

June 17 - August 12, 2023
Emily Carr University

Art Rock Summer full list of events

March 1, 2023 - June 30, 2023
Urban Screen, Wilson Arts Plaza, Emily Carr University
Daily 8am-9pm

Shaheer Zazai: ECfdV_EC.mov

May 30, 2023 6:00pm
At Artspeak Gallery, 233 Carrall St., Vancouver

TEMPER: one hundred brief missives within a character limit book launch and panel discussion

April 11 - 23, 2023
12:00 - 5:00pm daily

Ryan Tacata: full schedule of White Carpet residency events

Friday, April 21 6pm, in the gallery
This event is free and open to the public.

Curtain Speech by Ryan Tacata, with Justine A Chambers and Billy Marchenski

Tuesday, April 25, 6 – 8 pm, in the gallery

Book Launch with Amy Ching-Yan Lam

Co-Presented with Richmond Art Gallery

Thursday, April 6, 7pm, in the gallery

Zephyrs by Justine A. Chambers, with Steph Cyr and Sophia Gamboa

This event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Book Launch + Talk - The Creative Lives of Animals
Carol Gigliotti in conversation with Julie Andreyev

Thursday, March 23, 6 - 9pm, in the gallery

loscil: Adrift
Giorgio Magnanensi, Elisa Thorn, Meredith Bates, and Nick Anderson perform in the installation

Friday, March 17, 6pm

Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto by Simon(e) van Saarloos
Book launch and panel discussion (Hybrid event, in person and online) with Simon(e) van Saarloos, J. Logan Smilges, and Yahlnaaw
Introduced by Kay Higgins

Thursday March 9th, 6pm

A conversation with Shaheer Zazai and Emily Hermant

In-person event

Thursday March 2, 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Artist-Curators on Curating: Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme in conversation
Moderated by Vanessa Kwan and hosted by Libby Leshgold Gallery

In-person at the Libby Leshgold Gallery or online via Zoom
Free and open to the public.
ASL interpretation provided.

Urban Screen, November 1, 2022 – February 28, 2023

Frankie McDonald: Láwa7

Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 6PM

Tracing Contours: Canadian South Asian Contemporary Arts 1990s – 2020s
Shelly Bahl, Farheen Haq and Jordan Strom
Programmed and moderated by Zool Suleman

Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 6PM
Online Zoom Panel

Thursday, January 26, 2023

An Evening of Conversations and Presentations: Jagdeep Raina, Amia Yokoyama, and Yui Kugimiya
Thursday, January 26, 2023
6:00 pm (PST)

January 25, 2023

Mike Bourscheid: Book Launch and Artist Talk
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
6:00 - 8:00 pm

2022

July 5 – October 31, 2022

Liz Knox: Infinite Scroll
Urban Screen, July 5 – October 31, 2022

March 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022

Kandis Williams: Triadic Ballet
Urban Screen, March 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022

Thursday, April 14th, 6pm

Artist Talk: Kandis Williams

Rennie Hall (B2160)
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
This event is free and open to the public.

Monday, April 4th to Sunday, April 10th 2022

Related: Online Film Screenings

Free, no registration required

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Artist Talk: Cornelia Wyngaarden
Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 6PM
Online, free and open to the public.

2021

August 30, 2021 - February 28, 2022

Laiwan: PANDEMIA - The Movie
Urban Screen, August 30, 2021 - February 28, 2022

October 23, 2021

The Coven in Residency + Tom Hsu: Around the Corner Closing Events
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, various locations, Saturday, October 23, 2021, 5-8pm

September 7 - October 24, 2021

The Coven residency at the Libby Leshgold Gallery
Free Public Events, September 7 - October 24, 2021

August 18 - 22, 2021

Tom Hsu: Around the Corner online film screenings
Online, August 18 - 22, 2021

July 29, 2021

In Space launch event with Eleanor Vonne Brown and Ho Tam
Online talk Thursday, July 29, 2021

April 15, 2021

Cedar Tree of Life, Faces in the Land with Dempsey Bob, Haida Modern
Online screening Thursday, April 15, 2021

March 16, 2021

Sébastien Aubin: something not cared for (online residency)
Artist talk March 16, 2021 - residency March through December 2021

March 1, 2021

Diyan Achjadi: Hush
March 1, 2021

2020

Communal Care and Liberation: Publishing for Radical Futures
Adriana Monsalve (Homie House Press) and MJ Balvanera (Co-Conspirator Press) in conversation, moderated by Emmy Catedral

December 3, 2020

October 29, 2020

Publishing (with) Communities: Social Care and Network Building Experiences in South America
A talk by Laura Daviña and Darío Marroche
October 29, 2020

October 1, 2020

Cole Pauls: K'ānäthät (Thinking)
October 1, 2020




July 30, 2020

Artist-publishers, care, and social action with Beatrix Pang and Paul Soulellis

2019

November 28

The Undesirables: Art in Public Spaces, a panel discussion

July 12-14

At Least Five Difficulties: A Symposium on Artists' Publishing

April 17

Screening: Gates of Heaven and The Loved One

March 29 and 30

Designing Death: A Symposium

2018

November 30

Film Screening Dana Claxton: A Guerilla Seeks a More Trained Lesson

November 15

Readings and Book Launch Aja Moore: hotwheel

October 21

Lecture and Book Launch Andrea Fraser: Museum, Money and Politics

October 20

Book Launch Hyung-Min Yoon: Black Book

October 9

Artist Talk Fraser Muggeridge

October 4

Opening Reception Stalactite

September 15

Publishing Event A Selection of Fragments

September 8

Prize Launch and Talk The Scorpion and Felix Prize: Three artists’ books by emerging artists

June 14

Opening Reception It’s difficult to put a painting in the mailbox: Toward new models of artists’ publishing

March 20

Reading and Book Launch Jacob Wren: Authenticity is a Feeling

March 1

Launch and Performance READ Edition 6 & 7

February 2

Artist Walk-through Maureen Gruben

February 1

Opening Reception QULLIQ: In Darkness, Light

January 12

Film Screening Nuclear Savage & Sand Wars

2017

December 5 to 12

Holiday Reading Sale READ Books

November 21

Book Launch Multiple Elementary

November 14

Book Launch Camera Austria International Issue 139

October 21

Panel Discussion The Pacific

October 20

Opening Reception The Pacific

July 4 to 11

Moving Sale Read Books

June 29

Panel Discussion Never Precious: Anonymous Design in Canada

June 13

Opening Reception Never Precious: Anonymous Design in Canada

March 16 to April 11

After Hours Technimate

March 16

Artist Talk and Reception Elizabeth Price

March 13

Curators on Curating Kristy Trinier

February 28

Opening Reception Goodbye Charles

January 13

Award Reception Inaugural Tanabe Prize

2016

November 24

Curators on Curating Lorna Brown

November 23

Gallery Talk Sean Lynch

November 22

Opening Reception Sean Lynch

September 22

Opening Reception Genocide and Democracy, Secrets of Life and Death

September 22

Gallery Talk Genocide and Democracy, Secrets of Life and Death

May 31

Opening Reception Rust Never Sleeps

May 31

Lecture Natasha Myers

May 24

Poetry Reading Lisa Robertson and Christine Stewart

February 4 to April 14

Events Like a Rolling Stone

February 2

Opening Reception Like a Rolling Stone: An Exhibition About Rock and Rock

2015

November 14

Opening Reception An-My Lê

September 21

Artist Talk Lucy Skaer

September 18 to 20

New York Art Book Fair

September 12

Gallery Talk Colleen Heslin

September 8

Opening Reception Treading Buoylines

July 16

Opening Reception arrive, reach, revisit, turn and return

June 2

Opening Reception Drawings

May 14

Lecture Alexander Alberro

March 16

Artist Talk An-My Lê

February 24

Opening Reception David Zink Yi

February 4

Gallery Talk Trish Kelly

January 24

Book Launch Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design

January 22

Lecture Gwen Allen

2014

December 10 to 17

Holiday Reading Sale READ Books

December 3 to 7

Artists’ Books Pop Up Shop

November 26

Curator’s Talk Nayia Yiakoumaki

November 25

Opening Reception Aspen Magazine: 1965–1971

November 22

Curator’s Tour The Port / Matthew Buckingham: Obscure Moorings

November 15

Book Launch The West Coast Modern House

October 4 and 5

Vancouver Art / Book Fair

October 2

Opening Reception The Port / Matthew Buckingham: Obscure Moorings

October 1

Artist Talk Rodney Graham

September 26 to 28

New York Art Book Fair

September 26 to 28

The London Art Book Fair

September 16

Opening Reception Props and Other Paintings

July 4 to 13

Summer Reading Sale READ Books

June 4

Artist Talk Peter Culley

June 3

Opening Reception Area A

April 7

Artist / Publisher Talk James Hoff on Primary Information

April 3

Book Launch With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form

March 3

Talk Sarah Resnick: On Triple Canopy

February 26

Curator’s Tour Tila Kellman

February 25

Opening Reception Hyperflat

February 13

Opening Reception Cindy Sherman meets Dzunukwa: From the Michael OBrian Collection

February 2 to 15

Exhibition and Sale Student Ceramics

January 31

Book Launch After Euphoria

January 31

Lecture Jeff Derksen

January 20

Curators on Curating Jonathan Middleton

2013

December 11 to 18

Holiday Reading Sale READ Books

December 11

READ Edition Launch Janice Kerbel

December 5

Artist Talk Mark Lewis

December 3

Opening Reception Mark Lewis

November 23

Book Launch and Artist Talk The Book on Books on Artists' Books

November 21

Book Launch Picturing Transformation: Nexw-áyantsut

November 19

Artist Talk Arnaud Desjardin

November 15 to December 21

Exhibition Re: The Fox

November 13, 18, 20, 25, 27

Publishing Workshop Reeditions / Reprints / Reissues / Facsimiles / Copies / Versions / Bootlegs / Pirates…

November 11 to 27

Residency Arnaud Desjardin

November 7

Book Launch and Talk Amber Frid-Jimenez

October 24

Lecture and Screening Matthew Taylor Raffety

October 17

Curator’s Talk Cate Rimmer

October 10

Book Launch Grounds for Standing and Understanding

October 3

Book Launch Nuggets: New and Old Writing on Art, Architecture, and Culture

September 26

Artist Talk Sean Lynch

September 24

Opening Reception The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea – Part VI

September 5

Back to School Party with HUMANS!

August 6

Opening Reception Photography and the West Coast Modern House

July 18

Opening Reception Offline

July 4 to 14

Summer Reading Sale READ Books

July 4

Artist Talk Scott Massey

June 4

Opening Reception Let's Reach c Together

May 5

Book Launch Collection of Essays by Zheng Shengtian

March 14

Artist Talk Zineb Sedira

March 12

Opening Reception The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea – Part V

February 21

Record Launch and Performance Phil Woolf: For How Long Have I Been Asleep

February 16

Book Launch Group Search / Memory Palace

February 7

Artist Talk Neil Wedman

January 15

Opening Reception Selected Monochromatic Paintings and Works on Paper, Part Two of Two

2012

November 22

Reading Colin Browne

October 30

Opening Reception The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea – Part IV

October 25

Artist Talk Allan Sekula

October 18

Artist Talk and Book Launch Garry Neill Kennedy: The Last Art College and Printed Matter 1971-2009

September 15

Opening Reception John Armleder and Ecart

September 15

Edition Launch Rodney Graham: Amazing Rotary Pscho-Opticon

July 19

Opening Reception Here + There

June 5

Opening Reception Virtual Voices

March 13

Opening Reception The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea – Part III

February 10

Book Launch Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971

February 3

Artist Talk and Book Signing Frances Stark

January 20

Book and Limited Edition Launch Brian Jungen: Carapace

January 19

Book Launch and Readings bill bissett and Carl Peters

January 17

Opening Reception Grounds for Standing and Understanding

2011

December 15

Edition and Book Launch Neil Wedman, Elspeth Pratt, CJ Press

December 2

Book Launch A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics

November 9

Exhibition Tour Poemitron and other works

November 8

Opening Reception Poemitron and other works

October 30

Walking Tour SS Princess Sophia Disaster Shipwreck Cemetery Walk

October 18

Talk Barbara Sjoholm

September 7

Artist Talk Karl Haendel

September 6

Opening Reception The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea – Part II

June 21

Opening Reception Miscreants and Reprobates

March 11

Artist Talk Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan

March 9 to 11

Performance The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas

March 8

Opening Reception The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas

March 8

Opening Reception IT KNOWS NOT WHAT IT IS

January 18

Opening Reception The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea – Part I

2010

November 16

Opening Reception Minor Pieces

November 15

Artist Talk Guido van der Werve

September 18

Reading Eileen Myles and Lisa Robertson

September 17

Opening Reception Hot to Cold | Cold to Hot

August 13 to September 3

Exhibition Twenty + Change

August 12

Opening Reception Twenty + Change

July 27

Opening Reception Mina Totino

June 10

Rebound Party Publication Studio

June 8

Opening Reception 1:26 In Study Model Wonderland from Halifax to Vancouver

June 8

Opening Reception Publication Studio

April 23

Closing Reception After the Gold Rush

January 26

Book Launch Recipes for an Encounter

January 19

Exhibition Opening High Performance: Evolution and Innovation in Canadian Design

2009

November 24

Book Launch Sabine Bitter + Helmut Weber

November 17

Opening Reception Vintage Dan Graham: Projects for Publication
1966 – 2009

November 17

Exhibition Tour Vintage Dan Graham: Projects for Publication 1966 – 2009

November 13

Lecture David Platzker

October 22

Book Launch Art of Projection

October 22

Q&A and Book Signing Seth

October 11

Reading and Book Launch Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson

September 22

Opening Reception Ruben Ochoa

July 28

Opening Reception With Friends Like These...

June 2

Opening Reception Positioning the New

April 22

Screening Lisl Ponger and Tim Sharp Select Video Works

March 17

Opening Reception Now and Then

March 1

Book Launch Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip

February 14

Book Launch Vancouver Matters

February 3

Opening Reception Fallow

2008

December 3

Performance The Beatles VS The Rolling Stones

November 27

Artist Talk Pauline Oliveros

November 25

Opening Reception The Sound I’m Looking For – Part 2

November 14 and
November 15

Performances Brian Joseph Davis

October 31

Artist Talk Dan Graham

October 15 to November 12

Concerts Wednesday Afternoon Listening Events

October 8

Artist Talk Dave Allen

October 7

Performance Dave Allen

October 7

Opening Reception The Sound I’m Looking For – Part 1

October 7

Book Launch Visible Heavens from 1850 – 2008

October 6 to October 10

Performance Dennis McNulty

July 25

Opening Reception Strippers

June 3

Opening Reception Telling Details: The Architecture of Clifford Wiens

April 11

Book Launch The Banal

March 11

Opening Reception Nonetheless

February 15

Launch Fillip 7 and Hadley + Maxwell: 1+1-1
Talk Eric Fredericksen

February 2

Book Launch and Screening The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

January 22

Opening Reception Trust in Me

2007

December 6

Book Launch 52 Transactions

November 27

Opening Reception evening all afternoon

September 25

Opening Reception Gerard Byrne