Projects and Events

Events

Winter Market 2024

Winter Market

December 14, 2024

Poster by Meghan…

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Free Drop-in at Coworking

December 2, 2024

221A is offering 10 free drop-in spots to hot-desk at Coworking on Monday, December 2 from 10AM - 5PM. Located at 825 Pacific, the space is inspired…

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221A Fellowship Talks: Christian Vistan

November 30, 2024

Join us for an afternoon of learning and discussion with 221A Fellow Christian Vistan.

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Winter Market + Open Studio

November 16, 2024

Organized by 221A tenants at 236 Pender, the Winter Market + Open Studio features 11 artists selling and exhibiting artwork and giftable items.

221A Fellowship Talks: Lauren Crazybull

November 16, 2024

Join us for an afternoon of learning and discussion with 221A Fellow Lauren Crazybull.

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221A Fellowship Talks: Katayoon Yousefbigloo

October 30, 2024

Join us for an evening of learning and discussion with 221A Fellow Katayoon Yousefbigloo.

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Hide Time: A Medicine Skillshare

September 28, 2024
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In commemoration of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, SEARA and art ecosystem co-hosted Hide Time, a medicine skillshare. Led by Sunkosi…

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Facing Canada’s Complicity: Palestine & The Arts

September 19, 2024

Hosted by SEARA in collaboration with from the river to the sea collective, Facing Canada’s Complicity: Palestine & the Arts welcomed a full…

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Survey : Digital Preservation of Cultural Assets

Does your work in arts and culture involve storing assets such as digital art objects or other digital cultural media? If so, we invite you to…

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221A Fellowship Shortlist Exhibition

June 4–July 31, 2024

The Fellowship Shortlist Exhibition features nine artists, each of whom offer a distinct way of considering relation to convention, everyday…

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Blockathon for Social Good Reception

Join us for a closing reception on Sunday July 23, 5:00 – 8:00 pm for an awards presentation and to hear more about our work at the…

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Zasha Colah’s Fellowship Closing

Curator Zasha Colah is getting ready to close her Fellowship with 221A after the The Scorched Earthly exhibition opening at the Ar/Ge Kunst in…

Syrus Marcus Ware Fellowship Launch

221A invites you to meet Fellow Syrus Marcus Ware at this live stream, where he will present his practice, activism and research. Syrus is…

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Livestream: Vancouver housing access dashboard launch

November 3, 2022

Join 221A and Center for Spatial Technologies (CST) founder and lead Maksym Rokmaniko on November 3rd, 9am PDT, for a livestream celebrating the…

2022 Annual General Meeting

Dear Member of 221A Artist Run Centre Society, We are excited to announce that the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Society is set to…

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Serenading Hearts

Celebrating the double launch of Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice’s Annual Fundraiser & “No Pressure” Acupressure Path…

Projects

Anti-Racism Data Project

The Anti-Racism Data Project will survey experiences of race-based harm and examine historical initiatives to combat racism in B.C.’s arts sector…

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Yee Project

221A is collaborating with the Yee Fung Toy Society to develop a community-based cultural hub in Chinatown. It will include low-income housing for…

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POWERSHARE Fund: 2020-21

In the wake of COVID-19, the Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts (SEARA) raised $319,009 for BC-based BIPOC…

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Christina Battle: Stolon Mesh Network

Stolon Mesh is a community mesh network seeded by 221A that offers free wifi to users in Vancouver’s DTES & Chinatown, and beyond. Developed by…

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The Node Library

Web3, or the decentralized internet, is a mass coordination technology: users working together in the service of a common goal—cultural collectives,…

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Zasha Colah: The Scorched-Earthly

November 2020 - May 2023

Focusing on practices of storytelling, poetry and weaving as forms of insurgency, Zasha Colah's fellowship investigates the infrastructures of…

Syrus Marcus Ware: No Future, No Cry

December 2022 - ongoing

Created and hosted by 221A Fellow Syrus Marcus Ware, No Future, No Cry is a six-part podcast featuring prominent artists, activists, and thinkers who…

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Cultural Land Trust

2018 – ongoing

221A is supporting the research, planning and startup of an independent Cultural Land Trust (CLT). The CLT is a model that provides a collective…

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Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks

Project Flow Phase 1, Research – February 2019–March 2021 Phase 2, Development – May 2021–2023 Outcome: The Node Library Initiative Objectives…

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Living Description

Living Description is an education initiative convened by artist Aislinn Thomas that conceptualizes access not as an accommodation, but as a…

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Publication: Imagining new systems of exchange

This publication documents a number of the conversations that took place across Christina Battle's research fellowship with the aim of finding and…

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x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ New Growth 新生林 Community Pollinators Program

The Community Pollinators Program is a long-term education initiative supporting and celebrating the ongoing stewardship of the x̱aw̓s…