Bead Loom Workshop at EWMA

By Sylwia | Published: June 16, 2017

Wednesday, June 21st from 12 to 3pm
Join Gallery Gachet artist Afuwa and learn to bead on a loom, including warping, beading, and finishing. Together we will make beaded bracelets. At the end of the workshop participants will take their handmade beaded bracelets home. Read More »

Posted in News, Workshops | Leave a comment

Volunteer Orientation Session

By Sylwia | Published: June 16, 2017

Volunteer Orientations/ information sessions take place on the third Tuesday of each month at 3.00 pm. Our next Volunteer Orientation, Tue, June 20th. On these dates, Training Sessions will be held at 4.00pm following the orientation. Training Sessions are intended for all volunteers but especially those who may be interested in becoming a member of the Gallery Gachet Collective. Read More »

Posted in News, Workshops | Leave a comment

Uncovering the Archive

By Sylwia | Published: June 5, 2017

Friday, June 16th 12-6pm

Over the years the 88 East Cordova location of Gallery Gachet has hosted some amazing exhibitions and events and been a home-base to many talented artists. Read More »

Posted in Events, Exhibitions, News | Leave a comment

Your Story Fabric Bookmaking with Sima Elizabeth Shefrin

By Sylwia | Published: March 23, 2017

Saturday, March 25th, from 12.00pm to 2.00pm

In partnership with Enterprising Women Making Arts (EWMA) Gallery Gachet artists have been leading a diverse array of workshops on different themes and mediums. This month join Gallery Gachet exhibiting artist Sima Elizabeth Shefrin. Read More »

Posted in Events, News | Leave a comment

Karen Irving and Elizabeth May

By gachetadmin | Published: March 3, 2017

March 24th to May 7th, 2017

Opening: Friday, March 24th 6-9pm

Karen Irving and Elizabeth May are two painters who explore their world through gestural abstract representation on canvas. Irving and May communicate through colour, composition and varied means of paint application to connect with the viewer and tell their stories. Don’t miss their side by side exhibitions Irving’s Here and Now and May’s Paint Love. Read More »

Posted in Exhibitions, News | Comments closed

How to Remember

By gachetadmin | Published: March 3, 2017

March 24th to May 7th, 2017

Opening: Friday, March 24th 6-9pm

How to Remember contains a range of documentation that combines graphic illustration, knitting, book-making, embroidery, journaling and poetry. The artists have formed creative records that serve as a kind of memory. Read More »

Posted in Exhibitions, News | Comments closed

Jordan Martin Performance-Lecture

By gachetadmin | Published: February 7, 2017

Friday February 17th 6:30pm

Martin will be performing from Portrait As An Αέρας Δύναμη Ένας (Air Force One), her forthcoming poetry and coloring book, as well as songs from her parallel LP Songs on Guitar recently released under her musical pseudonym Daphne.

Jordan Martin is an uprooted Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist and multi-instrumentalist. Her musical project Daphne often presents as interdisciplinary performance (a combination of poetry, theatre, dance, visuals, and music). She has two forthcoming books of poetry Portrait As An Αέρας Δύναμη Ένας (Air Force One), a poetry and coloring book, and S.O.S. : Some Oscillations Suck!, a book and musical EP of poetic rock criticism with translations in morse code. More information about her projects can be found here. http://cargocollective.com/jordanamadimartin

Posted in Events, News, Performance Night | Leave a comment

February Workshops with Jordan Martin

By gachetadmin | Published: February 7, 2017

Workshop 1: Born in Flames – Screening & Coloring Workshop

Thursday, February 16th, 6:30pm

We will watch the 1983 independent feminist cult feature Born in Flames and color in Jordan Martin’s coloring pages inspired by the film. Born in Flames is set in a future where after the “Social Democratic War of Liberation”, a peaceful socialist revolution, a group of women decide to organize & rebel against sexism, racism, and homophobia within the post-revolutionary society.

 

Workshop 2: Teaching to Transgression Poetry Zine Workshop

Thursday, February 23rd, 6:30pm

Participants will be instructed in a writing workshop implementing exercises inspired by various transgressive feminist teachers. The culminating poems will be compiled into a community zine to decorate and share after the workshop.

Posted in Events, News, Workshops | Leave a comment

Salon Shop | Abstract Revamp: The Artwork of Sandra Leigh Savage-Morgan

By Sylwia | Published: December 20, 2016

Exhibition Opening: Friday, January 13th 6-9pm

These artworks have been in process for almost a decade. Paintings created and set aside by Sandra Leigh Savage-Morgan in 2008 are being revisited, edited and reclaimed. Read More »

Posted in Events, Exhibitions, News | Comments closed

What Remains

By gachetadmin | Published: December 20, 2016

Exhibition Opening: Friday, January 13th 6-9pm

What Remains is comprised of the work of four artists who contend with conditions of identity through unique and varied means. This multimedia exhibition incorporates dialogical performance highlighting resistance to a gendering and racializing gaze formed on Eurocentric constructions of identity politics. Read More »

Posted in Events, Exhibitions, News, Uncategorized | Comments closed

  • About Gallery Gachet

    Gallery Gachet is a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Gachet is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space built to empower participants as artists, administrators and curators.

    Read more >>

  • Donate

    Gallery Gachet is a non-profit artist run centre located in the Downtown Eastside.
    Your support will help us extend the range and quality of our programs.





  • Accessibility Info

    front door: 5 feet width
    front door step: 6 inch height
    ramp: 34 inch width

    washroom door: 33 inch width
    toilet: 10 inch clearance on left side
    14 inch clearance in front to sink
    the washroom has a handrail

    Click here to see our full accesibility audit.

  • Subscribe to our e-newsletter

    Want to subscribe to Gallery Gachet's monthly e-newsletters and receive monthly updates, opportunities, and promotions?

    You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link at the bottom of our monthly newsletters.

    * indicates required
    Provide consent to recieve gachet enews

    View previous campaigns.