Past Events

Join Future Worldings artist Sun Forest for a two-part workshop engaging with biomaterials as a fluid, complex space of radical possibility.

Join the team of Grenville+Fille (Bruce Grenville and Alice Mackenzie) as they share their discoveries and processes researching and archiving the work and legacy of feminist innovator in contemporary tapestry, Ann Newdigate (1934-2023).

Image: Sentences: Fanakalo and the Vanishing Signs (detail), 1993 Cotton warp. Mixed media, weft: silk, linen, wool, synthetic blends 198.12 x 198.12 cm

Join Future Worldings artist Sun Forest for a two-part workshop engaging with biomaterials as a fluid, complex space of radical possibility.

Join us for a discussion with Curator-in-Residence Melissa Feldman as she touches on her independent curatorial work, as well as her research into humour and artistic practices during her residency at Griffin.

Join us for the Future Worldings Conference, presented by the Aboriginal Gathering Place + Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Emily Carr University and Griffin Art Projects, in collaboration with the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.

The Future Worldings Conference considers approaches to shared “worldmaking,” employing a collective and collaborative methodology that arises from the contributions of partners, presenters and audience members. The Future Worldings Conference provides a forum to work alongside and with one another to articulate and reflect on our shared relations to the unfolding concerns of thinking through decolonial futures together. The Future Worldings Conference also considers how it may be possible to retain the specificities of site, body, history, access and cultural understandings in order to “world” together.

From 9 - 7PM on campus at ECU, the Future Worldings Conference features presentations by international artists and curators, including  Nura Ali, Lisa Baldissera, Sven Christian, Randy Lee Cutler, Bongi Dhlomo, Sun Forest, Dora Alejandra Gaviria-Sernal, Mimi Gellman, Wezile Harmans, Lebogang Mogul Mabusela, Pebofatso Mokoena, David Ng, Usha Seejarim, Daniel Stompie Selibe, Sikho Siyotula, Karen Tam, Pat Vera, Daina Warren, and Xwalacktun. The day’s events will also feature a special post-conference Reception & Performances with Pebofatso Mokoena (South Africa) and See Monsters (Canada), to be held from 5 PM to 7 PM at the Aboriginal Gathering Place.

Open Studios with Future Worldings Artists

Sunday, September 15—12:00PM–4:00PM. 

Performance by Wezile Harmans at 1 PM.

Presented in collaboration with Contemporary Art Society Vancouver (CASV).

In Person: Griffin Art Projects Residency Studios and Griffin Art Projects, 1180 Welch Street + 1174 Welch Street, North Vancouver

Explore Open Studios with the Future Worldings artists, showcasing works of South African artists—Lebogang Mogul Mabusela, Pebofatso Mokoena, and Wezile Harmans—and three Canadian artists—Nura Ali, Sun Forest, and Xwalacktun. This event is part of the Future Worldings Project at Griffin Art Projects.

The Open Studios offers a unique opportunity to explore what the artists have been working on during their residency. 

The event will include a 30 minute performance, held in the Griffin Gallery space, titled My Name is... to be continued by Wezile Harmans at 1 PM.

My Name is... to be continued is an ongoing series work that explores the impact and urgency of knowledge transmission in discomfort. Using live spoken words borrowed from the Indigenous people of Southern Africa, Khoisan and Nguni language, Wezile Harmans makes a reference to the tensions and disjunctures between formal and informal knowledge systems. This power struggle takes embodied form through the interplay of gestures, collective conversation and movements, which suggest that the tension between who gets to speak and who listens remains perpetually unresolved. In that process history and identity is distorted.

Join Bahar Mohazabnia, Griffin’s Assistant Curator of Engagement for an Exhibition Tour of The Prop House: A Collection of Over One Million Objects in Farsi.

Join us for a Live from the Studio event with Curator-Residence Wayne Baerwaldt online via Zoom!

We extend a warm invitation to join us for an enlightening Conversation on Collecting with Leslie Madsen, as part of Griffin’s exhibition, The Prop House: Collection of One Million Objects, who will share the journey of her collection over over one million objects, that comprises Mount Pleasant Furniture’s holdings. A prop house in the film and video industry for over forty years, Leslie will discuss the development of the collection and its place in the heart of filmmaking and theatre imagination. This ongoing series builds on Griffin Art Project’s mandate to make privately held art collections accessible to the public.

Visit the Griffin Art Projects Residency for an Open Studio to view the creative processes and research of Homa Khosravi, BIPOC Studio Award Winner, and Aiden Kirkegaard, Griffin x ECU Studio Award Winner, as they share their work developed during their residency at Griffin!

Join us for a compelling pre-recorded artist talk with Charlene Vickers, presented as part of Griffin Art Projects' special programming for National Indigenous Peoples Day and National Indigenous History Month!

Zoom-in to a virtual artist talk with Homa Khosravi, BIPOC Studio Award Winner and Aiden Kirkegaard Griffin x ECU Studio Award Winner. Khosravi and Kirkegaard will discuss the work and research conducted during their time at Griffin!

Curated by Lisa Baldissera and Paul Wong, The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects celebrates Mount Pleasant Furniture (MPF), a prop house wonderland for film, television, stage and art communities.

Join Griffin’s Assistant Curator of Engagement Bahar Mohazabnia in person for an exhibition tour of Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar in Farsi.

Join artist-in-residence Chad Wong online to learn what he has been up to during his time at Griffin!

Meet artist-in-residence Chad Wong at Griffin’s residency space to view the featured Capture Festival exhibition I live here!, and attend our Open Studios to learn about the research of Paris-Vancouver Curatorial Program resident Lucie Camous

Visit Emerging Indigenous Studio Award winner Cody Tolmie in person to celebrate the work and research of his residency. Drop in for a casual chat between 12 and 5 PM.

Tune in online to hear what Emerging Indigenous Studio Award winner Cody Tolmie has been up to during his time at Griffin!

We are pleased present: mini-conference, Arcs and Orbits: Art, Relationality and Innovation on site at Griffin Art Projects!

Join curators Lisa Baldissera and David MacWilliam for a hybrid (in person and online via Zoom) exhibition tour of Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar. 

Drop by Griffin’s residency space to see what Indigenous Studio Award resident Rolande Souliere has been up to during her time at Griffin.