February 28 - LAST CALLElizabeth Bachinsky is the author of three collections of poetry, Curio (BookThug, 2005), Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood, 2006), and God of Missed Connections (Nightwood, 2009). Her work was nominated for the Kobzar Literary Award in 2009, the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2006 and the Bronwen Wallace Award in 2004, and has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and on film in Canada, the United States, France, Ireland, England, and China. She is an instructor of creative writing at Douglas College in New Westminster where she is Poetry Editor for Event magazine.
Peter Dickinson is Associate Professor in the Department of English at SFU. His most recent book is World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place, and Politics (Manchester University Press, 2010), which has a chapter comparing the Vancouver and Beijing Olympics. His play, The Objecthood of Chairs, a collaboration with choreographer Rob Kitsos and director DD Kugler, will premiere at SFU Woodward's in September 2010.
Jeff Derksen is a poet, teacher, critic, and founding member of the Kootenay School of Writing. His works include Until (Tsunami, 1987), Downtime (Talon, 1991), Dwell (Talonbooks, 1993), Transnational Muscle Cars (Talonbooks, 2003) and Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics (Talonbooks, 2009). A Collection of his critical writing is forthcoming: After Euphoria: art/space/neoliberalism (EC Press/JPR Ringier) . He collaborates with Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber on visual art and research projects with the collective Urban Subjects: they are the editors of Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade (Fillip/Sternberg 2009). Derksen is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University.
Anu Sahota is an advocate of public broadcasting and a student of media history. She has worked in radio, television, and archives at the CBC and is a longtime volunteer at the Pacific Cinémathèque. She is currently learning all she can about film production at the National Film Board of Canada.
Anu wishes to thank Colin Preston at the CBC Archives for his ongoing support & friendship.
Clint Burnham is a Vancouver writer and critic. His books include Rental Van (poetry, 2007), Smoke Show (novel, 2005; nominated for the BC Book Prize that year), Buddyland (poetry, 2000), Airborne Photo (short stories, 1999), and Be Labour Reading (poetry, 1997). He also writes frequently on contemporary art, in such venues as artforum.com, Flash Art, Camera Austria, The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, C Magazine, fillip, Pyramid Power, etc. He teaches English at Simon Fraser University.
Ken Lum's art is concerned with the dialectics of the private and public construction of identity, space and politics. His public art work titled, Monument for East Vancouver was recently installed at Clark and Great Northern Way, and represents his third public art commission in Vancouver. He has participated in numerous international art exhibitions, including the Sydney Biennale, Venice Biennale, Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, the 2007 Istanbul Biennial and 2008 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.
Lum has been widely published and is the Founding Editor of Yishu: The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Lum was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 1999 and awarded a Killam Award for Outstanding Research in 1998 and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award in 2007. He is presently working on two major public art commissions in Berlin, Germany and in Utrecht, Holland.
Vancouver-based critic and curator Trevor Boddy has written on architecture and cities for The Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Seattle Times and design magazines globally. A contributing editor to Seattle’s Arcade and Toronto’s Canadian Architect magazines, his architectural criticism has earned the 1990 Alberta Book of the Year Award, 2001 Western Magazine Award for arts writing, and Boddy was named co-winner of the 2003 Jack Webster Journalism Award for civic reporting. Boddy is author of the books Modern Architecture in Alberta (Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1987) and The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal (NeWest Press, 1989)
Matthew Soules is a licensed architect in Canada and the United States and is the director of Matthew Soules Architecture Inc.–the Vancouver based architecture, urban planning, and research firm.
Soules' research interests include the intersection of ecology and design, the Metropolitan Project, and questions of architecture's relationship with popular culture and politics. His writing has been published in magazines and journals including Praxis, Azure, Canadian Architect, Topos and 306090. He has been a guest critic at numerous institutions including MIT, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Harvard. Prior to starting his own practice he worked on a diversity of projects throughout the world for architecture firms in Vancouver, Boston, Rotterdam, and New York City.
Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver. His photographs, films and videos have been seen in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally including three Documentas (1992, 1997, 2002) and three Venice Biennales (1990, 2000, 2005). Major solo exhibitions have been hosted by Centre Georges Pomipidou (Paris, 1993), Museo Renia Sofia (Madrid, 1993), Vancouver Art Gallery (1999), The Power Plant (Toronto, 1999), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, 2000) and a comprehensive survey of his work, Past Imperfect: Works 1986-2007, was mounted by the Württembergischer Kunstverein and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart in 2007. In addition to making art he curated a touring exhibition of Samuel Beckett's cinematographic work, Samuel Beckett: Teleplays (1988), edited a book on of art in Vancouver, Vancouver Anthology (Vancouver: Talon, 1991) and co-edited a book on the history of the projected image in art, Art of Projection (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009). Between 2004 and 2006 he held the post of professor at the Universität der Künste, Berlin and currently teaches in the Graduate Department at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.
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The Candahar Bar will be open 12pm to Midnight
Location:
Offsite in the PTC Studio, 3rd Floor
1398 Cartwright Street
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC
Admission:
Daytime $5 / Evening $10 at door
The Candahar Bar is presented with the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
Generous support has been received by Grouse Mountain, Whistler Brewing, Whistler Water, British Columbia Arts Council Unique Opportunities Program, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Culture Ireland and the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, Northern Ireland.