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Annual General Meeting (AGM).

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Image credit: Collin van Uchelen, Project Fire Flower, October – December, 2021. Photo by Dennis Ha.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | 6:45 PM | ONLINE via Zoom and IN-PERSON at grunt gallery.

Please join us for a fast and fun Annual General Meeting of the Visible Art Society (dba grunt gallery) in person or online via Zoom. We will be meeting for the following purposes:

  1. Presentation of the 2024 – 2025 Audited Financial Statements.
  2. Board of Directors’ Report.
  3. Program Director Report.
  4. Operations Director Report.
  5. Election of the Society’s Officers.

As a member, you are invited to attend virtually and vote. If you are not a member, please sign up for our monthly newsletter by visiting the link in our bio! Sign up by 5PM on September 22, 2025, to qualify to vote at our upcoming AGM. There is no cost to membership.

Please email access@grunt.ca with any access needs or requests. We look forward to seeing you at the AGM!

If joining in-person our address is:

#116–350 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver. BC, V5T 4R8, Mainspace Building.

If joining online please use this zoom link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87330632438?pwd=XNq5bU3sR1CRspkgbA9FVhKSNlAs13.1

Or use these details to join:

Meeting ID: 873 3063 2438

Passcode: 659437

A volar entre rocas Workshop Open Call – Applications due Thursday, September 11, 2025, 9AM (PDT).

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Processing Relationships to Place with Mariana Muñoz Gomez.

Friday, September 19 | 2 PM to 4 PM.

Saturday, September 20 | 12 PM to 1 PM.

At the Aboriginal Gathering Place located at 520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver / Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

2-DAY WORKSHOP OPEN CALL for BIPOC with paid honorarium.

Applications are now closed and were due Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 9AM (PDT).

Participants will join Winnipeg-based artist Mariana Muñoz Gomez in practicing expressing their relationships to place through writing and drawing. A selection of texts, videos, and other artworks will be shared with participants to explore in advance of the workshop starting. During the workshop, these materials will be discussed together and prompts created and received for the purpose of creating writings and drawings, which may be done independently between workshop sessions.

This workshop is open to individuals identifying as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of colour. With the intention of facilitating this workshop as a collaborative learning space, each participant selected for this two-day workshop will be paid an honorarium of $150 CAD. Applications will be reviewed and participants selected by Mariana and Audrey Siegl, with the aims of sharing decision-making and de-centering a settler perspective. We extend our thanks to Musqueam artist and activist Audrey Siegl for her consulting and for providing an opening for this workshop. 

Please note that masks will be required and provided at the workshop however, attendees will be served refreshments and masks will be taken off occasionally.

AGP ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

The AGP is mobility device accessible. There is a ramp to the left of the main/front entrance of Emily Carr University. The front doors have large buttons that may be pressed to open the front entrance doors automatically. Once inside, there is open space to navigate freely with a mobility device, and the floor is flat, polished cement. Take the first right after entering via the front doors of Emily Carr University and continue straight. The AGP entrance is two large double doors and will appear at left, after the cafeteria area.

There are single-stall non-gendered bathrooms across from the cafeteria, one of which is mobility device accessible. There are two more mobility device accessible bathrooms in gendered washrooms next door to the AGP as well.

Do you have further questions or access needs? Please email Sydney at spascal@ecuad.ca.

A volar entre rocas and related programming are presented by grunt gallery and supported by the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. This event is presented in partnership with the Aboriginal Gathering Place, Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

A volar entre rocas Events

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Artist Talk with Mariana Muñoz Gomez.

Friday, September 19 | 12 PM to 1 PM.

Join us at the Aboriginal Gathering Place located on the main floor of Emily Carr University of Art and Design at 520 E 1st Ave! Please email Sydney at spascal@ecuad.ca. to coordinate access needs or ask questions.

A promotional graphic for a casual gathering at grunt gallery hosted by Mariana. A bold orange banner at top with white text states the event’s title, “Calling Creatives de las Américas and the Caribbean.” There is a small area of orange background at top and a large area of yellow below the orange banner. Black text appears on the yellow background outlining details of time and location included in the caption of this post with additional information reading, “You’re invited to a gathering at grunt gallery! No RSVP required. Snacks and great company provided. At bottom three logos appear. grunt gallery’s logo appears in white to the left of the Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts logo in black. At top right, an outline of the world map representation of South America, the Caribbean islands, and Central America including Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama appears in a brown colour.

Calling Creatives de las Américas + the Caribbean.

Wednesday, September 24 | 5 PM to 7 PM.

At grunt gallery. #116–350 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver.

Interested in questioning popular notions of “Latin America” and latinidad, this gathering is open to artists / creatives / arts-adjacent folks who identify as having roots in the regions known as Middle America/Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

This gathering will be a low-pressure opportunity to network around our creative practices and open conversations about identity and place. Questions Mariana is interested in chatting with you about include: 

💭 How do you identify?

💭 ¿Usas el término Abya Yala?

💭 Caribbean creatives, what is your relationship with the concept of “Latin America”?

¡Ahí nos vemos!

No RSVP is required. Please scroll to the bottom of our website to view our space’s accessibility information in the footer section and email access@grunt.ca with any further access questions or needs.

Please note that masks wil be required and provided however, attendees will be served refreshments and masks will be taken off occasionally.

A volar entre rocas and related programming are supported by the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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.

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