Current Events and Exhibitions
Sunset Table Reading
Friday August 21, 7:30-9pm, 2026
Location: Sun Wah Centre Rooftop, 268 Keefer Street
Reader List: Christian Vistan, Sidney Gordon, Asian Jong, Scott Kemp, Tiziana La Melia
Please join us for a sunset reading on the rooftop of the Sun Wah Centre. Christian Vistan will read the Sunset Table in its entirety, joined by several readers whose practices explore themes such as archives, familial history, time, weather, and phenomenology. Re-released on the occasion of Flooding at Gallery Gachet, Sunset Table presents as an exercise in mapping distance. By calculating the sunset from the Pacific Northwest to Bataan, Philippines, Vistan creates a record of impossibility. Sunset Table transforms an instrument of calculation into an index of displacement.
Flooding: Dana Qaddah and Christian Vistan
Opening Reception: July 10, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: July 11–September 4, 2026
Location: Gallery Gachet, 9 W Hastings Street, Vancouver
Curated by Gachet curator-in-residence Troy Johnson
Flooding brings together the work of Dana Qaddah and Christian Vistan. Both artists are working with and against images and narratives that circulate in the wake of disaster. Drawing on countervisual strategies, Qaddah and Vistan offer distinct approaches toward a shared goal: pushing back against the passive consumption of disaster media.
Gachet Writer’s Group
Fridays, 10:30 am –12:30pm
Recovery Café (a program of The Kettle Society)
620 Clark Dr, Vancouver
The Gachet Writers Group is commited to creating space for collective reflection, experimentation, and care through writing. Everyone is welcome—whether you write often or are just beginning.
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 sessions 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.