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The 221A Fellowship Library opened at 825 Pacific in May 2024, and was shaped by the previous work and spirit of the Pollyanna 圖書館 Library which was located at 221 East Georgia Street from 2017–2020.
Fellowship Library
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The 221A Fellowship Library collects print material, audio, videos, objects, and artworks obtained by artists during their time as a 221A Fellow. These items are available for reference only. The library is open by appointment only, based on staff capacity.
Art Worker Diary: A Writing Workshop
February 22, 2025 2–4 PM
Join in this intimate, two-hour writing workshop led by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, exploring the ongoing problem of how to live, work, and make art under capitalism.
Architects for Social Housing – For a Socialist Architecture Under Capitalism: The Political
August 9, 2019 2–4 PM
Please join 221A Fellows, Architects for Social Housing (ASH), for a workshop on the political implications and social development strategies that are…
Screening and Social with Architects for Social Housing
August 9, 2019 4:30–6:30 PM
Please join 221A in thanking Architects for Social Housing (ASH) for their work in Vancouver as part of their Research Fellowship. Over the past four…
Architects for Social Housing – For A Socialist Architecture Under Capitalism: The Economic
August 2, 2019 2–4 PM
Please join 221A Fellows, Architects for Social Housing (ASH), for a workshop on the economic implications and social development strategies that are…
Architects for Social Housing – For A Socialist Architecture Under Capitalism: The Environmental
July 26, 2019 2–4 PM
Please join 221A Fellows, Architects for Social Housing (ASH), for a workshop on the environmental implications and social development strategies that…
Architects for Social Housing – For A Socialist Architecture Under Capitalism: The Social
July 19, 2019 2–4 PM
Please join 221A Fellows, Architects for Social Housing (ASH), for a workshop on the social implications and social development strategies that are…
New Models Module 1: Imagining Collapse
June 5, 2019 9 AM–12 PM
As part of the three-year Research Initiative, Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks, 221A presents the workshop New Models Module 1: Imagining…
Burn the Palaces, Freeze Tuition Now!
February 21, 2019 7–9 PM
Please join the Tuition Freeze Now student organizers in a night of dialogue and music to learn more about the struggle for affordable education…
Digital/Debt/Empire Study Group
January 23, 2019 6–8 PM
We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to…
Judith Butler Study Group: Session 5
January 22, 2019 7–9 PM
This Fall at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, 221A, the University of British Columbia’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and the Institute for Gender,…
Rent Strike! Study Group
January 17, 2019 6–8 PM
The re-emergence of housing movements in recent years has seen the resurgence of the rent strike—the mass, coordinated withholding of rent from…
Judith Butler Study Group: Session 4
November 20, 2018 7–9 PM
This Fall at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, 221A, the University of British Columbia’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and the Institute for Gender,…
The Sculpture Fund: Presentation and Reception
November 14, 2018 5:30–7:30 PM
Presentation from 6 – 6:30pm Join 221A for a presentation and reception for Fellow Amy Nugent’s project, The Sculpture Fund. The evening will unfurl a…
Judith Butler Study Group: Session 3
November 6, 2018 7–9 PM
This Fall at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, 221A, the University of British Columbia’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and the Institute for Gender,…
Direct Action and the Archive: Screening Sid Chow Tan’s video journalism
November 2, 2018 3–5 PM
Join 221A for a screening of selections from Sid Chow Tan’s archive of self-produced video journalism. For decades, Chow Tan has been active as…
Artist talk: Dakwäkãda Warriors and Indigenous Futurisms
October 25, 2018 6–8 PM
As part of Comix for Community Solidarity, Cole Pauls will host a two-part reading group and artist talk on Indigeneity in comics at Pollyanna 圖書館…
Reading Indigenous Self-representation in Comics
October 16, 2018 7–9 PM
As part of Comix for Community Solidarity, Cole Pauls will host a two-part reading group and artist talk on Indigeneity in comics at Pollyanna 圖書館…
Judith Butler Study Group: Session 2
October 9, 2018 7–9 PM
Update: Due to temporary maintenance at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, the second session of the Judith Butler Study Group (Oct 9, 7–9pm) with Sheila Giffen…
Reading ‘The Indian’ in Comics
October 2, 2018 7–9 PM
Update: Due to temporary maintenance at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, the first session of Reading Indigeneity in Comics with Cole Pauls will be relocated to…
Judith Butler Study Group: Session 1
September 25, 2018 7–9 PM
This Fall at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, 221A, the University of British Columbia’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and the Institute for Gender,…
Digital Disengagement, Adi Kuntsman
September 5, 2018 6:30–8 PM
Please join us for a lecture by visiting academic Adi Kuntsman (Manchester Metropolitan University). Kuntsman has identified an overwhelming tendency…
The Clay Ladies Storytime
July 25, 2018 2–3 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for readings of The Clay Ladies (2001) written by Michael Bedard, on either July 25 or August 22, 2-3 pm. This…
Organizing for Student Power
July 12, 2018 6–8 PM
Hosted by 221A Librarian Vincent Tao, the Autonomous Education Study Group will investigate ‘the university’ as a means and ends of…
Autonomous Education: Case Study 2
July 5, 2018 6–8 PM
Hosted by 221A Librarian Vincent Tao, the Autonomous Education Study Group will investigate ‘the university’ as a means and ends of…
Frances Loring and Florence Wyle: Their Wills and Testaments, and The Sculpture Fund
July 4, 2018 6–8 PM
Join Vancouver-based 221A Fellow Amy Nugent at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s E.P. Taylor Library & Archives for a special Toronto Art Book…
Bread and Roses: 1912-Today
July 3, 2018 7–9 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Tuesday, July 3, for the last of four sessions in the Bread and Roses Study Group. Hannah Dempsey will start the…
Krista Belle Stewart, Potato Gardens Band
June 30, 2018 2–3 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Saturday, June 30 for a performance of Potato Gardens Band (2018) by Krista Belle Stewart. This event is organized…
Autonomous Education: Case Study 1
June 28, 2018 6–8 PM
Hosted by 221A Librarian Vincent Tao, the Autonomous Education Study Group will investigate ‘the university’ as a means and ends of…
Domestic Labour and Temporary Foreign Workers
June 26, 2018 7–9 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Tuesday, June 26, for the second of four sessions in the Bread and Roses Study Group, Domestic Labour and…
sum of the parts: what can be named, Deanna Bowen
June 23, 2018 1–3 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Saturday, June 23 for a screening of Deanna Bowen’s sum of the parts: what can be named, followed by a…
The Neoliberal University
June 21, 2018 6–8 PM
Hosted by 221A Librarian Vincent Tao, the Autonomous Education Study Group will investigate ‘the university’ as a means and ends of…
Socialist-feminism and Direct Action in the Lower Mainland
June 19, 2018 7–9 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Tuesday, June 19, for the second of four sessions in the Bread and Roses Study Group, Socialist-feminism and…
Strike While the Iron is Hot
June 12, 2018 7–9 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Tuesday, June 12, for the first of four sessions in the Bread and Roses Study Group, Strike While the Iron is Hot.…
Casey Wei Screening at The Cinematheque
May 27, 2018 2–5 PM
On May 27, 221A and The Cinematheque present a screening of two films by Vancouver based artist Casey Wei, as part of Jenn Jackson’s curatorial…
Felix Kalmenson’s A House of Skin & Neither Country, Nor Graveyard
May 16, 2018 7–9 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Wednesday, May 16, for a screening of Felix Kalmenson’s films A House of Skin and Neither Country, Nor…
Test Program
May—June 2018
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Clark House Initiative: A talk with Zasha Colah & Prabhakar Kamble
May 8, 2018 6–7:30 PM
Please join us for a discussion with Zasha Colah and Prabhakar Kamble of Clark House Initiative, Bombay. Clark House Initiative is a curatorial…
Queerness and Xeno-Sexualities
April 24, 2018 8–10 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the fifth of this semester’s five reading groups. This session will study the subject of “Queerness and…
MOOGIE Mag 2 Book Launch
April 20, 2018 7–10 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the launch of MOOGIE Mag 2. This issue will be published in collaboration with DDOOGG as part of Science…
Speculative Fiction in the Anthropocene
April 17, 2018 7–9 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the fourth of this semester’s five reading groups. This session will study the subject of “Speculative…
World on a Wire (1973)
April 12, 2018 7–10:30 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the second of two sessions in this semester’s science fiction viewing series. World on a Wire is a 1973…
Non-Human Communication
April 10, 2018 7–9 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the third of this semester’s five reading groups. This session will study the subject of “Non-Human…
Dwelling with the Unknown
April 3, 2018 7–9 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the second of this semester’s five reading groups. This session will study the subject of “Multiple…
Kaiba (2008)
March 29, 2018 7–9 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the first of two sessions in this semester’s science fiction viewing series Kaiba is an anime series…
Divya Mehra, DIFFICULT PEOPLE
March 24, 2018 5–6 PM
In her work as an artist, Divya Mehra speaks to the challenging, and often isolating experience of growing up in the Canadian Prairies. Over the last…
Go and Chess Night 5
March 21, 2018 6–8 PM
221A invites you to join us at Pollyanna Library for a night of go and chess hosted by Khan Lee. All are…
Multiple Perspectives and Worlding
March 20, 2018 7–9 PM
Join Juli Majer at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the first of this semester’s five reading groups. This session will study the subject of “Multiple…
This Chime Has a Door (2018), Page Dance (2018)
March 17, 2018 3–5 PM
Join 221A for Page Dance (2018), a performance by Jean Brazeau, followed by a reception for his new commission, This Chime Has a Door (2018) This…
Study Group: Kyoko Matsunaga / Atomic Study
March 10, 2018 3–4:30 PM
Join us for an afternoon convening where we will review Atomic bomb literature, documentary film, and songs of protest selected by Kyoko Matsunaga,…
BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS: FORUM ON ART AND DEVELOPER MONEY
February 28, 2018 7–10 PM
A community dialogue on artwashing — the co-option of art workers and institutions by real estate in Vancouver Unravelling this complex and uneven…
Go and Chess Night 4
February 20, 2018 6–8 PM
221A invites you to join us at Pollyanna Library for a night of go and chess hosted by Khan Lee. All are…
Science Fiction and The Other
02.2018–04.2018
As part of her Spring 2018 N.O.P.E. fellowship with 221A, Juli Majer will host Science Fiction and the Other, a semester of programs that consider…
Go and Chess Night 3
January 23, 2018 6–8 PM
221A invites you to join us at Pollyanna Library for a night of go and chess hosted by Khan Lee. All are…
Yu Su: Semester’s-End Conversation
December 16, 2017 4–5:30 PM
Join 221A Fellow Yu Su at Pollyanna Library for an end-of-semester conversation and listening session. Yu Su will discuss her Fall 2017 project…
Collective Listening-research / Communal Cataloguing
December 9–16, 2017 2–6 PM
To conclude the Fall 2017 semester of Pollyanna Sound Archive Prototype 01, Pollyanna Library’s reading room will be adapted as a collective listening…
The Health of the People is the Highest Law: Roundtable on Cultural Non-Profits and Accountability
November 29, 2017 7–9 PM
“The Health of the People is the Highest Law is an inscription carved high on the facade of a modest little public library in an unfashionable corner…
W.W.A.S. at the Vancouver Tenants Union Convention
November 26, 2017 12–2:30 PM
W.W.A.S. will be presenting a mid-term report of its research at the Vancouver Tenants Union Convention on November 26, 12 – 2:30 PM. The collective,…
Go and Chess Night 2
November 14, 2017 6 AM–8 PM
221A invites you to join us at Pollyanna Library for a night of go and chess hosted by Khan Lee. All are…
Call for Participation: Fieldwork Session #2
October 20–November 3, 2017 12 AM
Pollyanna Sound Archive Prototype 01 – Fieldwork Session #2 November 5, 3PM – 6PM Call for participation: Research contributors for sonic fieldwork As…
Go and Chess Night
October 17, 2017 6–8 PM
221A invites you to join us at Pollyanna Library for a night of go and chess hosted by Khan Lee. All are…
Voting
October 14, 2017 5:30–6 PM
221A invites you to assemble at Pollyanna Library at 5:30 PM to vote in the 2017 by-election at the closest polling station, Lord Strathcona…
Charcuterie 3 Launch: Need not pander
October 14, 2017 7:30–11 PM
• Readings by Tiziana La Melia and Sungpil Yoon • Performance by Strawberry (Dennis Ha and Barry Doupé) • After-event at Spare Room For this issue, we…
Plasticity: Catherine Malabou Reading Group
October 4–November 21, 2017 12 AM–11:59 PM
Registration for this Program is Closed French philosopher Dr. Catherine Malabou, best known for her work on plasticity, has forged new connections…
Call for Participation: Fieldwork Session #1
September 22–October 12, 2017 12 AM
As part of Yu Su’s Fall 2017 fellowship with 221A, she will be working with Librarian Vincent Tao to convene a semester of research and programming…
lunch in the meadow
2017
To inaugurate Pollyanna Library at 221 E. Georgia, 221A presents Scott Johnson Gailey’s lunch in the meadow (2017), a multitimbral situation bringing…