Pagbalik sa Takipsilim (Return to Twilight)
Miko Revereza and Kidlat Tahimik
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
6:30 PM and 8 PM
The Cinematheque
(1131 Howe Street)
Four Short Films (2014-2023) by Miko Revereza and Kidlat Tahimik’s Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015) will be screened in this double bill that explores personal, fictional and historical stories of Filipino migrants, expatriates and balikbayans. Presented in partnership with the Cinematheque.
Click here for tickets to the 6:30 PM screening of Four Films by Miko Revereza.
Catch you there!
Community Screenprinting and Nourishing Event
Saturday, July 27 | 3 PM to 6 PM | at grunt gallery
You’re invited to gather, eat and screenprint with us in celebration of grunt’s 40th anniversary! To mark this milestone and celebrate the artist communities who have made grunt what it is today, we commissioned designs by local artists Marlene Yuen and Cole Pauls. This is a special opportunity to screen print their designs on an item of your choice (give new life to an old shirt? Apron? Pillow case? So many possibilities!).
This is a casual gathering hosted by grunt staff with Marlene Yuen and Cole Pauls, featuring abundant food (vegetarian/vegan/gluten free options) and a DIY screen printing station. We will have professionally printed shirts and tote bags featuring the custom designs for sale as well.
Like a secret recipe simmering on our proverbial stove for four decades, both artist designs play with what we’ve come to call the “grunt sauce” — at times sweet, at times spicy, a concoction reduced and extended over the years, with a pinch or dash from too many cooks to thank, a secret recipe we’d love to share with you.
Cole Pauls is a Champagne and Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory). He holds a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls has created three graphic novels: Dakwäkãda Warriors (2019), Pizza Punks (2021) and Kwändür (2022). In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories The Egghead & The Nipper. In 2022, Artspeak gallery, Vancouver, held the first solo exhibition of Pauls’ work, Dazhän Kwändür ch’e (This is a Story). In 2023, Kwändür won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize from the BC & Yukon Book Prize.
Marlene Yuen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her current focus is on illustrations, comics, zines and handmade books. In 2021, her short-run book co-published by grunt gallery, Ho Sun Hing Printers, received an honourable mention from the City of Vancouver Book Awards program. It is about Canada’s first Chinese-English letterpress print shop. She has also created artworks about Vancouver’s historic Chinatown and Chinese Canadian workers for museums and galleries (including grunt!).
Accessibility:
grunt gallery is accessed from the sidewalk via a 106” long, 64” wide concrete ramp that rises 12”. The slope is 1 : 8.75. There are no rails on the ramp. The front entrance is an outward-swinging double door with a total width of 64”, and with hand and foot height buttons for automated opening. Entry to the Media Lab behind the gallery space is via a 42” wide passage and entry to the neighbouring amenity space is through a manually operated outward swinging double door with a total width of 70”. No stairs, inclines, or elevators are necessary to access the public areas once inside the gallery.
grunt gallery has a single gender neutral washroom that is accessed via a 31” wide doorway with an automated swinging door with a door handle that is 40” high. The toilet has a 10” clearance on the left side and a 21” clearance in front, with a support bar on the left side. The sink height is 34”.
grunt has immunocompromised guests and staff. Masks are strongly encouraged and are provided at the door.
Please contact us via access@grunt.ca with any questions, feedback or to discuss access needs.
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Check out past event documentation on our Vimeo page.
Images: An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance by Kali Spitzer, opening reception, 2019; a sentimental dissidence by Gabi Dao, opening reception, 2019; Together Apart Queer Indigeneities Symposium, artist talk by Jas M. Nixon, 2019.