February 22, 2020

Events happening today

1. ALL
   DAY

   

   A Grammar of Loss:…

   
   

   February 22, 2020      March 28, 2020

   A Grammar of Loss: Studies in Erasure
   Chantal Gibson
   Open Space, February 22 - March 28, 2020
   This February, Vancouver-based artist-educator Chantal Gibson returns to Open Space
   with A Grammar of Loss: Studies in Erasure, a show of new and recent work building on her 2019
   exhibition, How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire.
   Wielding black ink, black paint, and black liquid rubber, the exhibition explores the dis/comfort—the
   ideological stickiness—of engaging in this de/colonial moment. It off ers a visually poetic response
   to the questions “What does it mean to decolonize a text? And what does it really mean to confront
   Empire?”
   The exhibition features new digital works and altered texts, and includes Souvenir, the collection of
   2000 blackened souvenir spoons that debuted at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2018, and featured
   in Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art. Gibson will also transform part of the gallery
   into a public art studio, bringing with her The Other James Baldwin, an ongoing altered book project
   that invites visitors to engage with colonial texts of the past to reimagine the future.
   Gibson will be on hand for a week-long community residency from March 21-28 which will include
   workshops with educators and gallery visitors, inviting them to participate in activity and discussion
   around the historical and ongoing erasure of Black, Indigenous, and racialized bodies in the Canadian
   education system. Exploring methods of decentering colonial thought in the classroom, this workshop/
   studio time will open space to collaborate and co-create with other artists, educators, communities,
   and institutions.
   An opening reception will be held Friday, Feb. 21 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
   www.openspace.ca
    
   

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2. 12
   AM

   

   Comic Potential

   
   

   February 14, 2020 08:00 AM      February 22, 2020 08:00 AM

   Comic Potential
   Written by Alan Ayckbourn
   February 13 – 22, 2019
   Director Conrad Alexandrowicz
   Set Designer Leah Anthony
   Costume Designer Misty Buxton
   Lighting Designer Harry Zhe Lin
   Sound Designer Glen Shafer
   Stage Manager Devon Vecchio
   Love, robots and daytime TV: A wickedly satire about the art of comedy and the rise of artificial intelligence
   Considered one of the funniest and most inventive plays by Britain’s grandmaster of comedy, this romantic sci-fi satire is set in the foreseeable future, when actors are replaced with convincingly lifelike robots known as “actoids.” Adam, an aspiring young writer, visits a TV studio to meet his idol, Chandler, the director of a never-ending hospital soap opera who was once a great movie director. On the set, Adam discovers the charming android Jacie Tripplethree (serial number JCF 31333) and realizes that the programming glitch that makes her laugh hysterically also makes her more human. Adam and Chandler start developing a new TV show for Jacie to star in, but the studio executives aren’t convinced. Will Adam lose his heart to a robot? Will his show get the green light? Will love prevail? Tune in to find out! 
   In the age of today’s virtual online assistants, this wickedly funny satire from 1998 reads like a cautionary tale of the rise of artificial intelligence.
   •                        See bios on Phoenix website
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   NOTE: Includes some coarse language. Suitable for ages 14+.

   

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3. 8
   PM

   

   

   A Grammar of Loss

   
   

   February 22, 2020 08:00 PM      February 23, 2020 01:00 AM

   This event began 2020-02-22 and repeats every week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 2020-03-28

   
   

   From February 21 to March 28, Vancouver-based artist-educator Chantal Gibson returns to Open Space with A Grammar of Loss: Studies in Erasure, a show of new and recent work building on her 2019 exhibition, How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire. Turning towards contested objects to edit, redact, and transform them, the exhibition explores the dis/comfort of engaging in this de/colonial moment, offering a visually poetic response to the question “What does it mean to decolonize a text? And what does it really mean to confront Empire?” The artist will participate in a community residency March 20-27. There will be an opening reception for the work Friday, Feb 21, 7-9pm.
   

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