Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be contributors to VIA. A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.com to help people like us find out about art and design events in our awesome city of Vancouver!This week there are tons of great events happening. For the full listing please head to Artsy-Dartsy.com.

This week Vivo Media Arts Centre is having the Yule Log Invitational! Saturday, Dec 12, 8pm, 1965 Main Street. We really get a kick out of this tradition! It reminds us of Christmas in Winnipeg with the snow banks piled up to 10 feet high. The blowing snow outside, my dad starting a fire in the fireplace, and my mom making us hot chocolate with lots and lots of marshmallow for after I ‘helped’ my dad shovel the longest driveway ever. Should be good times at Vivo on Saturday and we can’t wait to see the artist interpretations of the Yule Log.

“It was the first great video installation, in which television was transformed into what it was really meant to be, an extension of the easel painting, a trompe l’oeil in the middle of the living room that adorned life, instead of interfering in it.” -Rick Moody, On “The Yule Log”

Ten artists were invited to create their interpretation of the “Yule Log”, the looping video of a burning fireplace broadcast on television over Christmas Day. The original Yule Log was created in 1966, conceived by the station manager of WPIX Channel 11 in New York, and has since expanded to be widely broadcast on various networks throughout the United States and Canada.

Featuring works by Aaron Carpenter, Alastair Condon, Meesoo Lee, Jonathan Middleton, Elizabeth Milton, Alexander Muir, Asa Mori, Kathleen Ritter, Sam Scott and Wiley Wiggins. Curated by Sharon Bradley.

The exhibition opening is held in conjunction with their annual holiday party and fundraiser. Merriment is guaranteed.

Other Notables: Join us at the  Gingerbread Competition on-line auction and gala at the Museum of Vancouver, Dec 10th. Tickets available here. Also Burnaby Art Gallery is having a great show – Gordon Smith: The Printed Pictures.

Please see Artsy!Dartsy! for details on more opening receptions.