Upcoming Events

This graphic promotes grunt gallery's blind-led tour series facilitated by Jinnie Saran every Wednesday this October at grunt gallery. There is a black colour-block banner at top, above an image of Jinnie and attendees engaging in a tour of A volar entre rocas within grunt gallery's exhibition space. Bold white text states "Free blind-led tours with Jinnie Saran!" at top with white text outlined in black below that provides details of dates and duration in the area of an upper section of a red-ochre gallery wall. Below text, Jinnie, a young, blind Indo-Canadian artist and writer, is speaking while leading a tour and wears a beige long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans with black boots and rainbow laces. Jinnie has short hair and holds a phone with attached white earbuds and stands facing the camera while slightly oriented left, and holds the harness of her Black Labrador guide dog in her other hand. Two people at right also face left, one person wears all black. Their back is mostly visible and their arms are crossed while another person at bottom right, crouches while wearing a red cap and bright green t-shirt. Both stare intently at Jinnie as she talks. The gallery space is comprised of a polished cement floor and two large red-ochre gallery walls with two washi prints visible, a small excerpt of sky appears at top left, above Jinnie, and a large body-sized print depicting dark lava rock, white mortar, and clothing lines appears immediately behind and to the right of Jinnie and even further to the right is an open doorway with white walls and an exit sign visible in the distance.

Tour A volar entre rocas!

Join Jinnie Saran for free blind-led tours of A volar entre rocas at grunt gallery this October! Jinnie, a blind Indo-Canadian emerging artist and writer, will guide visitors through the ins and outs of Mariana Muñoz Gomez’s solo exhibition.

Learn more about Jinnie by visiting her website jinniesaran.com.

📅 Wednesdays: October 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.
⏰ Tours start at 4 PM and 6 PM
⏱️ 30 minutes + Q&A
📍 grunt gallery (# 116-350 E 2nd Ave)

All are welcome—sighted, low-vision, and blind visitors!
No registration is required.
Questions? Email access@grunt.ca

Visit Mariana’s website at www.marianamunoz.ca .

grunt gallery is excited to announce a series of free, drop-in volunteer-led tours this October, facilitated by Jinnie Saran. These unique tours allow visitors to experience contemporary art through visual and non-visual perspectives, challenging traditional ways of engaging with gallery spaces.

The 30-minute tours will be held on Wednesdays at 4 PM and 6 PM. Each tour will be followed by a question-and-answer session, creating space for dialogue about diverse ways of experiencing and interpreting art.

A volar entre rocas Behind-the-scenes Tour

Saturday, November 1 at 1 PM.

Are you an artist or curious about how exhibitions are set up? Join this low-barrier tour series and bring your questions to learn the more about how our current exhibition was installed.

This hour-long tour is free and will be conducted in spoken English with 2 VCC student interpreters and a TV displaying auto-generated English captions.

White text appears on a black background with header text at top reading, “grunt gallery closure, September 30, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.” At bottom white text credits the landscape colour photo at centre, “Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun performing, An Indian Act: Shooting the Indian Act, 1997.” At centre, the image depicts two people lying on their stomachs in a large grassy field with many trees in the distance and a bright blue sky overhead with many clouds. Lawrence appears in the foreground in a black jacket and red earmuffs as he holds the wooden body and looks through the scope of a gun mounted on the ground, pointing left. There is a person in a white hat laying behind Lawrence as well as a white sign in the distance with red lettering the largest of which reads, “danger” and “stop” — Image credit: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun performing *An Indian Act: Shooting the Indian Act*, 1997. Photograph by J. Semper.

This Tuesday, September 30th, grunt gallery will be closed in observance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As an organization operating on the stolen, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, we accept responsibility to work actively in support of Indigenous sovereignty, and towards a respectful relationship with this place. Complacency is violence, and we continue to work to better understand local ecologies, follow Indigenous leadership, and respond to calls for action. If you have any questions on what that means, please email communications@grunt.ca.

This Tuesday, staff will be engaged in learning on topics such as the management of invasive plant species, local ecological restoration initiatives, and Indigenous-led resistance to Canada’s bill C-5. Here are a few learning opportunities and events we’d like to share with you:

Museum and Archives of North Vancouver will be hosting a variety of workshops surrounding Indigenous histories and cultures. Admission is pay-what-you-can and free for Indigenous folks.

Time: 11 AM to 4:30 PM.

Where: MONOVA | 115 West Esplanade, North Vancouver.

Ticketing Link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/truth-reconciliation-day-tickets-1666069862809

There are also ongoing online Lunch-and-Learns every day from September 22 – 26 at 1PM (EDT), facilitated by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, for an adult audience.

trw-svr.nctr.ca/lunch-and-learns/

Readings:

Yellow Head Institute special report: “Buried Burdens: The True Costs of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Ownership” yellowheadinstitute.org/report/buried-burdens-the-true-costs-of-liquified-natural-gas-lng-ownership/

To learn more about the territories and languages of First Nations in BC visit:

maps.fpcc.ca/

For more information on modern treaties in BC visit:

bctreaty.ca/faq/

Another initiative is to support local indigenous businesses! A few businesses to follow and purchase phenomenal products from would be:

sisterssage.com/

instagram.com/larissagrievesdesigns/

sriracharevolver.com/

decolonialclothing.com/

Velveteen Vintage

Renovatio Creative Co

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.