Ross Penhall is always looking for a fresh perspective to capture. Click the link below and take a listen to Opus Art Supplies’ podcast interview where Penhall discusses his fascination with light and shadow and the way landscapes lead the eye. In Conversation with Ross Penhall
The Annual Plywood Cup fundraising event has always drawn a crowd in the past, but since current circumstances prevent crowds, Plywood Cup has gotten creative: where traditionally there are multiple 4-member teams building vessels using 3 sheets of plywood in just 90 minutes with only some nails, a hammer, duct tape, and a hand saw. […]
Would you like to learn how to paint landscapes? Or are you already a painter wanting to learn a few more tips and techniques for realistic oil painting? Lucas Kratochwil has designed this online, 4-week workshop, to teach you how to paint realistic landscapes, from the comfort of your home, anywhere in the world! He […]
Boca del Lupo Presents Red Phone And Offers Plays2Perform@Home Two Innovative Theatre Projects that Blur the Line between Audience and Actor. Part theatre and part social intervention, Red Phone is an audience-to-audience performance that utilizes the intimacy of a phone call and the technology of a teleprompter. And Plays2Perform@Home is an artfully designed script Box […]
Arts Umbrella On Screen is a one-day, exclusive screening of a series of films by the Arts Umbrella Dance Company. Created in lieu of live performances at the Vancouver Playhouse in May, these films represent a diverse array of the choreographic works the students explored throughout the year. Featuring choreographers such as Wen Wei Wang, […]
The BlKEnnale/WALKennal event is a set of self-guided art routes that will take participants through 24 different neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver. Delivered through the "Ride with GPS" app, our routes will help Vancouverites get outside, get active, and see a side of the city they never knew existed!
Looking Glass: Apertura Series is an exhibition of fifteen new cut and polished sculptural works by Vancouver glass artist Laura Murdoch. While these works stand together as a series, each vessel is “painted” with layers of intricate and exuberant patterns, which distinguishes it from the next. In this exhibition, Murdoch explores the idea of containment. […]
Vancouver 30th International Flamenco Festival is pleased to partner with Granville Island to bring to you live flamenco dance and music by local Vancouver based artists. This live event leads up to our 30th annual festival, which this year will be on-line, starting September 19th - 26th (see website for details and registration). This free […]
Despite the pandemic and the workshop and gallery having closed for a few months, the Dundarave artists continue to make prints. It has been a challenge, but artists are resilient and determined. The Gallery re-opened July 1st with new hours. Stop by to see this exhibition of new works created during a time of isolation […]
High-energy originals and choice standards from three of Vancouver’s most in-demand, cutting-edge young talents. Drawing on each member’s taste and experience across genres—jazz, R&B, rock, and world music—their sound is a unique hybrid of improvised music and deep groove. With bassist Geordie Hart (The Boom Booms), tenor saxophonist Dominic Conway (Coco Jafro, Enemy Pigeon), and […]
Words shape our worlds. They can delight, inspire, provoke, comfort and unite – as do the authors, journalists and poets who wield them. The Vancouver Writers Festival has been encouraging readers of all ages to explore the power of storytelling and books, through events with local and international writers. We can’t enjoy the Festival in […]
Running from October 19-25, the Vancouver Writers Fest goes virtual this year, with 40+ events featuring Kevin Kwan, Tegan and Sara Quin, Megha Majumdar, Thomas King, Charles Yu and many more. With pay-what-you-can events for adults and free events for youth, there’s a little something for everyone, book lovers and idea seekers alike!
CMHC-Granville Island would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.
