MOPARRC

Green Streets Newsletter

loiszing — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:08:05 +0000

City of Vancouver’s Green Streets program supports the volunteer gardening of traffic roundabouts, burbs and other public lands. Their most recent newsletter describes many local events of interest to gardeners and those who like to hang out in gardens, parks and farmer’s markets. MOPARRC’s ‘meet & greet’ on April 18 is listed.

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Aganetha Dyck

loiszing — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:08:46 +0000

Feb 23/09 -

Aganetha Dyck

MOPARRC had a special privilege of a dinner with Aganetha Dyck when she was in town for the opening of her solo show Collaborations at the Burnaby Art Gallery. The exhibit combines new work, including exquisite and exotic photographs from the inside of hives (by use of a flatbed scanner), with earlier projects. Besides the photos, there is sculptural work in which braille texts, fabric, drawings, lazer-cut metal and more are offered to the bees for their consideration and embellishment. It is clear that Aganetha Dyck has herself been considering and experimenting with various forms of collaboration: from inter-species collaborations to working with her son Richard Dyck (for the in-hive scanning) and with writers like poet Di Brandt. Aganetha is an impassioned advocate for bees and ecology as well as generosity in art-making! the show runs until April 12/09.

2009 Project Sponsors

sharonkallis — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:54:39 +0000

The artists would like to thank

Environmental Youth Alliance
Vancouver Parks Board Arts & Culture
grunt gallery
Canada Council for the Arts
Mount Pleasant Community Association
Community Arts Council of Vancouver