TIMELINES
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On Leonard George and place: An ode
1971
Destruction of the Maplewood Mudflats
1971
Vancouver in 1971
1971
The Greater Vancouver Artist’s Gallery is founded
1972
Where are all the Black people?
1972
Who is Graham Warrington?
1972
The Greater Vancouver Artist’s Gallery opens
1973
Local Initiatives Program administered by CAG
1973
Analog Video
1976
The Immigration Act
1977
The Powell Street Festival
1980
Main Exit Gallery
1983
First Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver
1983
The October Show and the second generation of Vancouver artist-run centres
1984
Expulsion of Sex Workers from Vancouver's West End
1986
Roy Kiyooka publishes an April Fool Divertimento
1986
Expo 86
1988
Stan Douglas’ Television Spots
1989
Tiananmen Square massacre protests
1989
In Visible Colours: An International Women of Colour and Third World Women Film/Video Festival and Symposium
1991
Baltej Singh Dhillon is the first RCMP officer permitted to wear a turban
1992
Christos Dikeakos: Sites & Place Names at CAG
1993
Access Gallery moves into permanent space, Gallery Gachet incorporates as a non-profit
1994
CAG curator Keith Wallace visits the Bienal de la Habana
1997
Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
1997
APEC Conference
1998
VANDU founded
2001
Germaine Koh’s ... at CAG
2001
CAG moves to 555 Nelson
2002
Woodward’s Squat
2003
Insite opens
2005
Centre A moves to the Downtown Eastside
2013
Burrard Marina Field House
2014
Zaccheus Jackson Nyce, 1977–2014
2014
The Monuments of Piazza Italia
2015
Germaine Koh: Fallow at Charles H. Scott Gallery
2016
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion protests
2017
c̓əsnaʔəm: The city before the city
2018
Kwekwecnewtxw erected on Burnaby Mountain
2019
Deanna Bowen: Night Prowl at The WALL
2019
Sreshta Rit Premnath: Those Who Wait at CAG
2020
Jamie Lee Hamilton, 1955–2020
2020
COVID-19 lockdowns
2020
Jesse Gray: Mesomonuments at Artspeak
2021
New Growth: Latin American artists in Vancouver
2021
Atmospheric river and Pacific Northwest floods
2022
Fire at 165 East Hastings
2022
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
Audio
1995
Nations in Urban Landscapes at CAG
2010
VIVO Media Arts Centre’s Safe Assembly
2020
Affordability crisis in Vancouver
2020
In-Kind: Conversations with Arts Workers in So-Called Vancouver About Undocumented Resources Supporting the Sector
2022
A Seat at the Table with
2022
Plaque commemorating Serafim “Joe“ Fortes installed at English Bay Beach
2022
How it is: Chinatown, August 2022
Future
Legends of Vancouver
Future
Constructing the World’s Greenest City: Legacy of Displacement and Dispossession in Vancouver
Future
crying at work (a score for the future)
Video
1990
AIDS activist demonstrations at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
2000
Storyscapes: Reflections on Erasure and Story, 2000-2022
2003
Rosemary Brown, 1930–2003
2009
The Enough March
2012
AKA Collective
2015
For a New Accessibility Conference
2022
Housing