Five reasons to check out the Eastside Culture Crawl
Credit to Author: Shawn Conner| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:00:24 +0000
23rd Annual Eastside Culture Crawl
When: Nov. 14-17
Where: Various Eastside locations between Columbia St., 1st Ave., Victoria Dr., and the Waterfront
Info:culturecrawl.ca
1. Art for everyone. The Eastside Arts District is home to the highest concentration of visual artists, designers, and craft makers in Canada. Each year, hundreds of the neighbourhood’s visual artists open their studios, workspaces, garages, homes and barely legal loft spaces to the curious. The Crawl has grown steadily since its 1994 inception, but last year saw record-breaking attendance with more than 45,000 people meeting artists an exploring studios — a nearly 30-per-cent increase from last year.
2. The Cave. Artists Kate MacDonald and Les Sears create an installation of two- and three-dimensional artworks, light, and projections, that is based on Plato’s Allegory of The Cave, which posits that real knowledge could be gained only through reasoning and that what we believe based only on our senses is merely opinion. Or something like that. (Hamilton Bank Building, 1895 Powell St.)
3. Tales from the Forest. Megan Majewski’s installation is inspired by fairy-tales, pop-up books, and animation cels. Step into another world, one of strange but reassuring plant-based shapes and forms as envisioned by the local pop surrealist. (281 Industrial Ave.)
4. Save the artists! Displacement: Eastside Culture Crawl Special Exhibit is a juried selection of works by Metro Vancouver visual artists who have faced the challenges of eviction or found ways to survive displacement. (Ongoing until Nov. 24 at Firehall Arts Centre and the Cultch.)
5. Moving Art: Culture Crawl’s Sixth Annual Projection of Film & Video. Knock back a craft beer at Strange Fellows Brewing, which hosts a showing of art-based, contemporary silent films.