October 2014
COMMUNITY NEWS
RenfrewCollingwoodCommunityNews.com
VIVO Media Arts Centre comes to Renfrew-Collingwood
by Karen Knights
Vancouver’s oldest media arts centre, VIVO, has moved to 2625 Kaslo Street from its Main Street, Mount Pleasant, location where it has been for 21 of its 41 years. VIVO recently lost its space to redevelopment. This June, the City of Vancouver approved $2.3 million for VIVO & C-Space to pursue a co-location capital project under the Mount Pleasant Production Spaces Program. As it works towards purchasing a permanent space, VIVO anticipates working from RenfrewCollingwood for two to three years. VIVO looks forward to getting to know its new neighbourhood, developing partnerships and engaging the community in its many programs and services. It is already collaborating with the Italian Cultural Centre on a 2015 exhibition, as part of an international European Union initiative, and eagerly anticipates similar collaborations with other local groups and artists over the next few years. Incorporated in 1973 as the Satellite Video Exchange Society, VIVO is remembered by many as Video Inn, a pioneering Canadian artist-run centre and one of the earliest international video centres. It is Vancouver’s oldest and most comprehensive media arts centre, directly supporting artists through affordable equipment rentals, studio space, post-production facilities, workshops, an international video distribution service, and a work exchange program that subsidizes production costs for artists who volunteer at the centre. VIVO 2013 exhibition COYOTE X by Terry Haines, a video installation that evokes issues of land ownership and cultural survival through the presence of Coyote, who acts as metaphor and messenger. Haines was a Vancouver-based multi-disciplinary artist of Secwepemc/WelshTsilhqot’n/French ancestry. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk
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