Current Events and Exhibitions
Act 3: As Visible as Blood
Opening Reception: December 5, 7:30pm–9:30pm
Exhibition Dates: November 28, 2025–March 14, 2026
Gallery Gachet
9 W Hastings Street.
Act 3: As Visible as Blood, reimagines the historical archetype of the Black, or Sable, Venus through the works of Rebecca Bair, Silvana Mendes, Keisha Scarville, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, and Kariyana Calloway-Scott. Bridging the thought of Black feminist writers and diasporic histories, the exhibition confronts the visual grammars of empire, slavery, and cultural domination while reclaiming the sensual, domestic, and speculative possibilities of Black womanhood.
Curated by Olumoroti George
ACT III: As Visible as Blood — Reading Group Session II
Wednesday, February 11, 6–8 PM
Gallery Gachet
9 W Hastings Street.
Join us for our second reading group on Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book by Hortense Spillers.
This session will be led by Troy Johnson, Curator-in-Residence, alongside a very special co-facilitator, extending our collective engagement with Spillers’ foundational text on captivity, kinship, gender, and the violent grammars through which Black life has been rendered legible, usable, and expendable.
Spillers’ essay remains urgent for how it names the ways slavery reconfigured gender itself, positioning Black women’s bodies within regimes of availability, inheritance, and desire, while undoing the assumed stability of “motherhood,” “family,” and the human.
Gachet Writer’s Group
Friday, 13 February, 10:30 am –12:30pm
Recovery Café (a program of The Kettle Society)
620 Clark Dr, Vancouver
Join us for our next community writing session, Gachet Writers Group, facilitated by our 2026 Writer-in-Residence, Suparna Choudhury.
This session continues the Gachet Writers Group’s commitment to creating space for collective reflection, experimentation, and care through writing. Suparna brings an interdisciplinary practice that moves between research, creative writing, and community-based work. Everyone is welcome—whether you write often or are just beginning.
ACT III: (Revisited) — To Be Seen (Film Series)
Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen is a film series curated by the Akojo Film Collective that extends Act 3: As Visible as Blood through moving image. The series foregrounds Black femme life, labour, intimacy, and becoming across the diaspora, attending to the conditions under which Black femmes are rendered visible, asked to labour, and find ways of living otherwise.
Workshop at Gachet — to be held and held and held,
Saturday, February 28th, 12–3pm
Gallery Gachet
9 W Hastings Street.
Nail technicians will be present to offer false manicures, drawing inspiration from Kosisochukwu Nnebe’s The Seeds We Carry, currently on view in the gallery. Adornment is approached not as ornament alone, but as labour, ritual, and a site where pleasure, refusal, and self-possession converge.
Open to all. Priority will be given to BIPOC femmes and femme-presenting individuals. RSVP at info@gachet.org
in communion — Dinner for Black Femmes
Friday, March 20th, 6–9pm
Gallery Gachet
9 W Hastings Street.
As a closing gesture of As Visible as Blood, Gallery Gachet will host a catered dinner and private convening for Black femmes. This gathering, hosted at Gallery Gachet, is conceived as a space of nourishment, reflection, and togetherness, an evening held in care and shared presence.
This is an invitation-only event. Black femmes and BIPOC femmes interested in attending are welcome to express interest by contacting info@gachet.org.
Drop-In Art Sessions
Tuesdays, 2-4pm
Gallery Gachet
9 W Hastings Street.
Everyone is invited to Gallery Gachet Tuesdays from 2-4 pm to participate in drop-in style art classes facilitated by Amelia Rodriguez. The facilitator is present to talk through ideas, expand artists' material and conceptual repertoire, or to simply provide space, time, and encouragement to create artwork and social connections on participants' own terms. Materials are provided and include watercolor paint, paper, brushes, and coloured pencils.