The 26th edition of the Eastside Culture Crawl is back!
As one of the city’s most popular annual art events, the visual arts, design, and crafts festival happens annually in the month of November. During this year’s 4-day open studio festival weekend from November 17 to 20, 450+ artists from Vancouver’s Eastside art scene will open their studio doors to the public, offering an unparalleled opportunity for artists and art lovers to connect.
Centered in the area bounded by Columbia St., 2nd Ave., Victoria Dr., and the Waterfront, the Culture Crawl highlights a range of emerging and internationally-established artists from the Eastside across over 68 buildings and studios. The featured creatives span across a multitude of artistic practices, including painters, jewellers, sculptors, furniture makers, weavers, potters, printmakers, photographers, and glassblowers.
During the opening weekend, attendees can join Serena Chu at her studio to help colour a life-size mural celebrating art and diversity from November 18 to 20. From November 19 and 20, witness the ancient and modern techniques of stone carving with Oliver Harwood, and try the practice yourself in a fully-equipped studio.
This open artist studio event, along with the festival’s various activations, workshops, demonstrations, presentations, gallery displays, exhibits, and talks, aims to increase understanding and appreciation of the many varied visual art practices in the Vancouver Eastside Arts District.
The Culture Crawl festival’s largest preview exhibition to date, “NEXT”, runs until November 27 at five different venues across Vancouver, including the Cultch, Firehall, Alternative Creations, Pendulum Gallery, and Charles Clark Gallery at Strange Fellows Brewing.
This salon-style curated exhibition features 90 selected artists and their examinations of the impact of the pandemic. Their selected works explore society’s collective response of longing for a return to normalcy while looking towards the future. Through broad and diverse representation of mediums, these artists used the challenges of the past two years to deepen their practice, explore new modes of expression, and reflect on their artistic journey.
For those who wish to participate in this year’s Culture Crawl virtually, two programs, Moving Art and Talking Art, will premiere online on November 7.
Moving Art is the Culture Crawl's 9th annual online film and video series. Under this year's Moving Art theme of 'A Collective Point in Time', the selections for this 9th annual film and video series will reflect upon our shared humanity across space, time, and stardust. This year’s featured artists include Rosalina Libertad Cerritos, Zoran Drageli, Umbra & Lux, Alger Ji-Liang, My Name Is Scot, Sunny Nestler, Yaimel López Zaldívar, and Sally Zori.
2022’s Talking Art online series will focus on artists’ perspectives on their relationships with creativity, technologies such as AI and AR in artmaking, and art for mental health and wellness:
- November 7 - The New Age: Today's Art and Technology with Ed Hunt, Sára Molčan, and Sunny Nestler.
- November 8 - Inspiration Embodied with Shary Bartlett, Annette Nieukerk, and Cat Pino
- November 9 - Art and Healing with Lauren Morris, Laurel Swenson, and Rose L. Williams
Go to culturecrawl.ca/events for the full events schedule.
