Intimate Encounters is an inquiry into the works of Jinian Raine Harwig, Gladys Lou, and Vicente Ortiz Cortez whose films will be screened on Gallery Gachet’s community screen. The films were selected from the Penticton Art Gallery’s Gifts of Madness 2024 exhibition and are curated together into a micro-shorts programme that meditates on the surveillance of bodies in queer, mad and altered states. The artists explore shifting consciousness through multiple mediums such as 16mm analogue cinema, video performance and gif art.

November 14th, 2024, to January 24th, 2025
Outside 9 W Hastings St on our community screen

The Gachet Writers Group is a democratically run inclusive writers group that provides space to share stories, receive feedback from peers, take part in writing exercises, and hold discussions. Each session includes time for stream of consciousness writing. Facilitated by Bruce Ray.

Fridays, 10:00am to Noon at Carnegie Community Centre (until Gachet's renovation is completed), 401 Main St, Vancouver, BC V6A 2T7.

At the Japanese Hall on Mondays starting Oct. 7, 2-4pm. Room 4F. The address is 487 Alexander St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1C6.

Community members are invited to drop-in and participate in an open studio environment with facilitators (Kat & Indigo), art materials, and snacks. The facilitation is supportive and there to expand artists' material and conceptual repertoire if desired, or simply there to provide a safe space to create artwork and social connections, on their own terms.

Materials available for participants include pastels, acrylic paint, brushes, felt pens, paper, collage materials, and canvases (dependant on availability).