Title: Archives Manager
Pronouns: he/him
Email: Email dan@grunt.ca
Ask him about: grunt history, community archives, research, images/video/documents in the archive, technology, where things are, how things were, skateboarding, cats, bikes, gardening

Name Pronunciation: Dan (rhymes with can, pan, ban, man), Pon (rhymes with dawn, lawn, gone)

Biography

Dan Pon 盤大明, Archives Manager, is a librarian and archivist of mixed Cantonese and European settler ancestry, living on unceded Coast Salish territories. He is the Archives Manager at grunt gallery, where he works to preserve and share material and non-material culture, support research and creative interventions, and platform imaginative models at the intersection of visual arts and information science. His recent work includes facilitating the collaborative public programming series Recollective, creating a digital collection documenting the early years of LIVE Biennial of Performance Art, and managing the migration of grunt’s collection into a new database platform. His work has been published here and there, but he is most interested in supporting artists and art workers labour toward a more equitable and caring arts sector. Dan holds an MLIS from UBC and also works as a librarian at Langara College.

Contact Information

Email: dan@grunt.ca
Best way to contact Dan: Call 604-875-9516, or visit the gallery Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm

Visual Description

Dan is a 5’11” or 180cm tall middle-aged mixed-race Asian man with short dark hair, brown eyes, and thick eyebrows. He typically wears jeans or slacks, a plain hoodie, a baseball cap or toque, and black sneakers.