British Columbian Artist Run Centre Events
221A
221A Artist Run Centre is a non-profit organization that supports and facilitates dialogue between contemporary art and design. 221A’s programme manifests a unique interdisciplinary community by presenting work that creates new knowledge extensions between existing art and design practices.
http://221a.ca/
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Access
Access Artist Run Centre presents new work in the contemporary visual arts through annual programs, which supports a series of exhibitions and accompanying publications, special events, collaborations with other arts organizations, and public discussions.
http://vaarc.ca
Alternator Gallery
The Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, B.C., is operated by the Okanagan Artists Alternative Association, a non-profit society created in 1989.
http://www.alternatorgallery.com
Artspeak
Artspeak is a non-profit artist run centre established in 1986. Artspeak presents contemporary practices, innovative publications, bookworks, editions, talks and events that encourage a dialogue between visual art and writing.
http://artspeak.ca
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balcone
Balcone is a nonprofit society that presents contemporary art projects in a variety of situations and spaces throughout Vancouver. Without a permanent location, we operate with mobile offices and flexible programs that are reactive to social, political and economic challenges within the local arts community.
http://www.balcone.org
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Gallery Gachet
Gallery Gachet proximity to and cooperation with other cultural and artist run centers, uni’s and colleges art progs, public galleries and literary groups, and residents ensure its exhibits are well attended and our unique contribution to the cultural community is recognized.
http://www.gachet.org
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grunt gallery
Founded in 1984, grunt interprets its history and programming as a variety of initiatives around evolving concepts of community. Our role has been to act as an intersection between various cultural groups based on aesthetics, medium, or identity.
http://grunt.ca
Helen Pitt Gallery
The Helen Pitt Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of experimental contemporary art that addresses social, political, cultural, and critical issues outside of the mainstream commercial art practice.
http://www.helenpittgallery.org
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Intermission Artists Society
Intermission Artists Society provides a support base for artists working within a contemporary context. Intermission curates and facilitates cross-disciplinary projects and events in non-traditional spaces, and fosters the growth of art in experimental and emerging forms.
http://www.inter-mission.org
Kootenay School of Writing
Founded in 1984, the Kootenay School of Writing offers inexpensive courses (in writing, editing, and publishing), sponsors colloquia and critical talks on writing, visual art, and politics, hosts reading series with local, Canadian, and international writers, and publishs a Writing magazine.
http://kswnet.org
Ministry of Casual Living
Formed to provide artists from all disciplines with an accessible venue for experimentation, the MOCL is committed to promoting critical, self-reflective discourse, and integrating the artistic process into all aspects of everyday life.
http://www.ministryofcasualliving.ca
Open Space
For over thirty years, Open Space has been a substantive entity for professional artists who utilize hybrid and experimental approaches to art-making, as well as a touchstone for young and emerging artists.
http://www.openspace.ca
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Or Gallery
The Or maintains an ongoing commitment to the presentation of contemporary art that is experimental, challenging, and critical. The Or Gallery was created in 1983 and is currently located downtown Vancouver, Canada.
http://www.orgallery.org
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Other Sights
Other Sights is dedicated to challenging perceptions, encouraging discourse and promoting individual perspectives about shared social spaces. We operate as a collective of Vancouver-based individuals with expertise in curation, project management, presentation, delivery and promotion of temporary art projects in public spaces. Other Sights seeks to create a presence for art in spaces and sites that are accessible to a broad public, such as the built environment, communications technologies, the media, and the street.
http://othersights.ca/
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Projectile Publishing Society
The Projectile Publishing Society is a non profit society located in Vancouver, Canada. They are a project based publishing house.
http://projectilepublishing.ca
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VIVO Media Arts
VIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE, incorporated in 1973 as the Satellite Video Exchange Society (SVES), continues to fulfill its founding vision by directly supporting independent artists, community-based producers and activists to develop and exchange their media-arts skills in a supportive environment. VIVO builds an audience of makers, organizers and critics through artist residencies, lectures, workshops, performances, exhibitions, and curatorial and archival research
http://www.videoinstudios.com
Western Front
The Western Front Society is one of Canada’s first artist-run-centres. For over 30 years, it has developed an international reputation as a centre for experimental art practice and performance.
http://front.bc.ca
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W2
W2 is a globally-networked community media arts organisation located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. W2 aims to break the digital divide, promote social inclusion and cross-cultural dialogue by specializing in multi-platform broadcasting, telepresence, interactive live screens, mobile technology and open web through the delivery of a wide variety of urban digital culture initiatives, residency and educational programs.
http://www.creativetechnology.org
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Xchanges Gallery and Studios
Xchanges is a member-driven artists’ cooperative operating a gallery and affordable studios for practicing artists. It houses eighteen individual and group studios, clay studios, and cooperative printmaking and photography studios.
http://www.xchangesgallery.org