Eastside Culture Crawl to celebrate its 25th anniversary with online and in-studio events
Exhibitions, talks, and films, as well as a main event spread over November 12 to 14 and November 18 to 21
Artist Jenn Brisson’s A Portrait of 2020 is a vivid look back at the year, as part of the film-based Moving Art/Natural Analog/ues program.
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY programming has been announced for the Eastside Cultural Crawl Visual Art, Design & Craft Festival, set to take place online and in-person over two weekends this year: November 12 to 14 and November 18 to 21.
With full COVID safety protocols in place, more than 400 artists will show their works to the public via a new artist livestream schedule, an appointment-based preview weekend, and the Crawl's traditional open studio series.
Organizers at the Eastside Arts Society have improved the event’s digital presence to ready for the hybrid event. Enhancements include a new user-friendly website, appointment-booking software, and 360-degree virtual studio tours.
Based on positive feedback from 2020, when studio bookings were created for the first time, the preview weekend is back for November 12 to 14, reserved for appointments only. Then traditional open studios will return for the event's main weekend November 18 to 21.
To get you in the mood for the Crawl in the runup to the event, a multivenue, salon-style curated preview exhibition, called Surfacing, will run starting November 1. Featuring works from more than 75 artists curated by a jury of their peers, the show will be displayed across the Firehall Arts Centre, Alternative Creations (1659 Venables Street), the Pendulum Gallery downtown, and the Herschel Flagship Store’s Infinity Room at 349 Water Street. Surfacing, too, has a digital component, with The Cultch showcasing its component online.
Elsewhere, there’ll be an online virtual benefit with a silent auction, called Take Flight, October 14 to November 6, and an artist discussion series hosted by Carlyn Yandle online from November 9 to 11.
And don’t miss Moving Art/Natural Analog/ues, premiering November 8 at 7 pm online: the 8th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Film and Video Projection features submissions from eight artists, curated by Kate MacDonald and Esther Rausenberg. Offerings include some riffs on the wild ride of the past pandemic year, including a whimsically illustrated look back at some painful and funny touchstones in Jenn Brisson’s A Portrait of 2020, and Matthew Gilligan’s artfully animated Isolation.
Find the full roster of events and their schedules--and check out the rad new website--by heading here.
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