CURRENT EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
The James Black Gallery exhibits work in many mediums and forms. The space has a combination of elements that allow artists to be playful with the design and the usage of the space.
We currently host small indoor/outdoor workshops (of up to 10 people) that are organized by community members. In addition, we also allow filming for live streams in the space during COVID-19, and by-appointment events.
a new gut psycho-biome
Opening January 31st, 5-8PM
February 1st - 5th , 2-6PM
a new gut psycho-biome is a sonic performance piece alongside a collection of mixed media works that will be on display following the end of Jae Lew and Maliv Khondaker’s month-long Pod Residency at the James Black Gallery. Through their work in the residency, they seek to explore the connection between technology, the gut and the mind.They plan to use quotidian and culturally significant materials such as ancestral food and nostalgic objects as resistors in building square wave synthesizers for a sound performance. They will document the process and keep a reflection journal that will be used to create an artist book. The publication will serve as a meditation on the themes that will surface throughout the creative process, through exploring the interconnectedness in tech/mind/gut. What culture is bred in the petri dish? What is sterile? What is alive?
4th Annual General Meeting
February 27, 2022
The James Black Gallery invites all members and interested community to our third annual general meeting. We'll be appointing new board members, discussing the budget, and voting on any new changes to our structure.
Aeye Residency Show
4pm - 8pm, March 5-6, 2022
A group show presented by February residents and Aeye members Sahba Sad, Anne Marie Slater, Andrea, Carlan Savage-Hughes, Andrelle Jingco
PAST EVENTS 2021
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Sagittarius Szn: Gathering for Community to Set Intentions and Listen to Music. Event Link
December 4th 3-6PM
live DJ set by Kerub and live musical performances by Sad #SagSzn is coming Before the weather gets too cold, come hang out, be a social, listen to live music
performed by @sadgalsunny @kerubbyvi @kealoha.music and @elyssecloma with @bb_aloe and set intentions with us!
Entry by donation or bring a snack, no one will be turned away Everyone is welcome, and community will keep us warm #qtbipoc #vancouvermusic #bipoc
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Distortions
Opening December 9th, 6-10PM
December 10th - 14th, 2-6PM Event Link
A painting exhibition that will be on display at the end of Darius Kian and Natalie Robinson's month-long pod residency on-site. In their upcoming works, they will explore a process of sourcing images, heavily manipulating them with digital tools, and then reforming them as oil paintings. Each of their series reflects this transformation from recognizable forms to augmentations that depict a personal reality.
Community Art Therapy Workshop: Creative Hands
This is a community art therapy workshop with the focus of creating connection through art making. The workshop will aim to reconnect participants with their inner strengths and foster a sense of healing through community and creativity.
By Sunshine Souls Art Therapy. Tickets are limited.
being held and holding
November 5th - 11th, 2021. Event Link
Opening November 5th, 2021 6-10PM
A Hammock Residency group exhibition and launch of a series of artist publications funded by the BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
Heidi Nagtegaal. Estraven Lupino-Smith, Sarah Lum, Carly Pokoradi, Otis Bell
Community Art Therapy Workshop: Postcards of Kindness
October 23rd, 2021 5-7PM. Event Link
Join us for an in-person community based art therapy group at The James Black Gallery!
This is a community art therapy workshop with the focus of creating connection through art making. The workshop will aim to reconnect participants with their inner strengths and foster a sense of healing through community and creativity.
By Sunshine Souls Art Therapy. Tickets are limited.
VABF’s 10th Birthday Party
October 26th, 2021 7PM. RSVP: Event Link
VABF is 10 years old! Wear a mask and come celebrate a decade of artists’ publishing, community-building and comradery with us at the James Black Gallery for an outdoor birthday party. There will be music, cake and good times! Please bring proof of vaccination.
Arezoo: Intimacy and Iran
A Group Art Show. Event link here.
September 23rd, 6PM - 9PM
September 24th - 26th, 2PM - 5PM
“Arezoo: Intimacy and Iran” displays a scenery of works that touch on desire and dualities, overlapping identities, and the re-imagining of obscured histories through the Iranian lens.
Bringing together a diverse group of local Iranian creatives, this exhibition acts as a meeting place where narratives surrounding intimacy and desire are challenged and intentionally reclaimed. A collective mapping and re-mapping of experiences takes place through art that explores previously under-explored themes, making way for new histories to be written in the present day.
"Arezoo" features works by Darius Kian, Shima Raeesi, Sahba Sadeghian, Shahin Sharafaldin, Sepideh Yadegar, and Reyhan Yazdani, curated by Sev Shabankareh.
Neighborhood Block Party
October 9th, 2021 3-9PM.
We are teaming up with local neighbours at 133 E 7th Avenue as well as the Vancouver Tenants Union to celebrate our block with a focus on connection.
There will be live music between 3pm to 9pm and BBQ between 3pm to 6pm in the alleyway and backyard. All are welcome.
Creating a community garden of strengths through art
August 25, 2021 6-8PM. Link here.
Join us for our upcoming outdoor event.
Participants will be invited to use a variety of art materials provided to create their flower or plant for the garden pieces. The group will come together again at the end and they will be invited to add their garden elements to the larger piece of paper that is representation of the community garden.
This workshop is hosted by sunshine souls art therapy group and Parvin Peivandi. It will be located outside in our yard and gardenspace, with social distancing measures in place.
Ceramics Handbuilding Workshop
August 17, 2021 6-8PM
Link here.
Join us for our upcoming Ceramics Handbuilding workshop hosted by Diana Lupieri, the Ceramics Co-Lead at The James Black Gallery! Workshop will be taking place outdoors, in the front yard of the JBG. Event open to JBG studio mates and close community members.
The maximum capacity for this workshop is 15 participants. Proceeds will go towards setting up a drop-in studio in the future, and arranging to provide spare tools and clay.
Touching Unseen Sound: Lobe Spatial Sessions
August 6th, 7th, 13th, and 14th, 2021
The James Black Gallery, in partnership with Lobe Studio and with support from The City of Vancouver, supported a two week residency at Lobe Studio for a local Deaf artist Silas Ng. The composition created during that residency will be played for pod Spatial Sessions with a prioritization of Deaf or Hard of Hearing audiences.
Lobe Studio is a unique space, as it has a 4D sound system and tactile feedback floor which allows more experimentation with the vibrational quality of sound.
Phenomenal Woman
July 17-18, 2021 12-5PM
A solo exhibition by artist Buchi Igwilo, featuring 6 paintings accompanied by a poetry reading.
About Buchi: Through her paintings, Buchi captures Black womanhood in various dynamic spaces. She aims to depict womanhood and women in many forms, while presenting the Black body in spaces where they previously haven’t been showcased. Buchi uses her artform in order to encourage Black women to take up space, and to nurture and embrace beauty in Black womanhood. Through this, she strives for Black women/femmes to transform and rebuild their standards of beauty in relation to the familiarity of what is seen in the mirror, into the phenomenal Black woman.
20/2020: A Solo Exhibition by Steven Audia
April 23-25, 2021
An exhibition of twenty black and white photographs taken in 2020. This collection of images explores how my perspective and approach has changed over the course of this last year. Closeness, something that now feels almost taboo, has become a primary subject, along with memories of life “before.”
3rd Annual General Meeting
February 20, 2021
The James Black Gallery invites all members and interested community to our third annual general meeting. We'll be appointing new board members, discussing the budget, and voting on any new changes to our structure.