Family Sunday Welcomes Estraven Lupino-Smith
Originally from Toronto, Estraven is an artist-researcher and educator whose practice involves sound, print, video and installation work.
Special Guests at Family Sunday
Family Sunday gives the AGGV a chance to showcase current exhibitions to young visitors and their families through hands-on activities. It also allows us to collaborate with some amazing community members who have so much to share, through their vocation, life experiences and vibrant personalities.
Breaking Bread at Family Sunday
At December’s Family Sunday, we were happy to welcome our guests, artist Farheen Haq and her son Cairo, as well as the CBC’s Khalil Akhtar. Through art exploration, performance and food, our guests explored ideas about what it means to come “home”.
Family Sunday Does Kidlandia!
For the first time ever the AGGV’s popular all-ages event, Family Sunday, appeared “pop-up” style at Kidlandia September 14-16.
Moving Change by Brendan Fernandes
The text messages came fast and furious starting Wednesday morning inviting participants to the open rehearsal and talk, then gradually over the weekend, revealing the three secret locations for performances of Moving Change by Brendan Fernandes.
The Aesthetic Perceptions of Art
By Jon Tupper, AGGV Director
What’s really happening when people encounter art? How does it affect them? It’s a mystery researchers have pondered for centuries. Here at the Gallery, I think of visitors regarding Emily Carr’s towering west coast forests; or an intricate Japanese print; or the ghostly digital trees in an installation such as Kelly Richardson’s The Erudition, which appears in our current show Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest.
Techno-Art and Cherry Blossoms for Family Sunday
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer Family Sunday morphed into the AGGV’s second Cherry Blossom Festival this March, in sync with […]