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2020

HOTSPOT HOT-SPOT HOT SPOT: Aston Coles, Hugh Goodden, Andrew Hildreth, Demi London

Sunday Dec. 6th 2020 until Sun. January 3rd
Aston Coles (Winnipeg), Hugh Goodden (Toronto), Andrew Hildreth (Victoria), Demi London (Victoria)

HOTSPOT HOT-SPOT HOT SPOT is a game of arbitrary images and objects, assembled in a stupid way, as an attack on the hammer of time and reasonableness in a going-gone world. Read More
Free

Movement and Perception III: Alison Klymchuk

Sunday Oct. 25th 2020 until Sun. November 15th
Movement and Perception III
Acrylic on canvas, 40" x 40", 2020.

Born in Ontario, Alison Klymchuk is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ, Lkwungen and Wyomilth territory (Victoria, BC). She is currently studying towards a B.F.A at the University of Victoria in Brit... Read More
Free

Ektadome: Laura Trager

Wednesday Oct. 14th 2020 until Sun. October 25th
3 min | Germany | 2020

100' of 16mm Kodak Ektachrome shot at a fun fair at night—an experiment in "affective vision." Dark forces present themselves in plain sight in this longed-for place of our childhood. As we let ourselves be mesmerized by its lights and colors, we reconnect with memories a... Read More
Free

MoCL Summer Artist Residencies

Saturday Oct. 3rd 2020
We are excited to announce the Ministry of Casual Living’s inaugural summer artist-in-residence. Throughout the summer, invited artists will work within the space for two weeks followed by an "open studio" where members of the public are invited to engage with the artists and check out their works... Read More
Free
1pm - 5pm doors at 1pm

Other Dates / Times

Jun. 13, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
Jun. 27, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
Jul. 11, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
Jul. 25, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
Aug. 8, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
Aug. 22, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
Sep. 5, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
Sep. 19, 2020 1pm doors at 1pm
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

Small Press Showcase: Open Space, The Riso Collective

Thursday Oct. 1st 2020 until Tue. October 13th
As part of Open Space's Small Press Fest programming and Vancouver's Art Book Month, Open Space and the Riso Collective present a showcase of local print publishing. From October 1-13, the Ministry of Casual Living's window gallery in Odeon Alley will be transformed into a showcase of art book and i... Read More
Free

Small Press Showcase: Open Space, The Riso Collective

Thursday Oct. 1st 2020 until Sun. September 13th
As part of Open Space's Small Press Fest programming and Vancouver's Art Book Month, Open Space and the Riso Collective present a showcase of local print publishing. From October 1-13, the Ministry of Casual Living's window gallery in Odeon Alley will be transformed into a showcase of art book and i... Read More
Free

STANZAS (concrete is porous/NISHGA/In a New Order): Christine Walde, Bill Bisset, Aram Soryan, Jordan Abel, Paul Dutton, bpNichol, Michael Morris

Friday Sep. 4th 2020 until Sat. October 24th
Victoria Arts Council presents a city-wide project investigating the overlap of literary and visual arts

Community Partners and Presenters:
- Micah Lexier @ Empty Gallery (833 Fisgard St), 1-30 September
- JG Mair @ The Ministry of Casual Living (Odeon Alley): 1-30 September
- concret... Read More
Free
Victoria Arts Council: 12-5pm Other location hours listed in brochure (link in description)

Keyboard 2.0: JG Mair

Tuesday Sep. 1st 2020 until Wed. September 30th
Paper, typewriter, plinth, HTML code
2018

JG Mair’s work occupies the space between what we actually see and what we want to see. This ethos is clearly evident with the web-based work Keyboard 2.0 on exhibition at The Ministry of Casual Living window. It marks the first occasion that this piec... Read More
Free

BLM Protest Posters: The Riso Collective

Saturday Aug. 1st 2020 until Sat. August 15th
In solidarity with Black Lives Matter, a selection of Protest Posters are currently on view at the Ministry of Casual Living Window Gallery.

Featuring poster designs for racial justice by Canadian and American artists, sourced from @posters_for_blm. Risograph prints by the Riso Collective at Ope... Read More
Free

Dear Me, This is you.: Fern Long

Friday Jul. 10th 2020 until Sat. August 1st
I avoid certain things - eggplant, wearing high heels, eating broken glass. But those are nothing in comparison to the biggest one of all - the self portrait. In my art practice I draw, paint and build things but never, ever is the subject me. Or not that I like to admit anyway. It's a thing that sc... Read More
Free

Dignity: Justice Schanfarber

Saturday Jun. 20th 2020 until Sat. July 11th
Dignity, 2020
Wood, acrylic on canvas
48x52"
(Photo by Barb Hunt)

About the work
The wood at the center is cedar, a discarded piece of dunnage from a tree that defines the place I live, used to protect or facilitate the commerce of something unknown and since gone. This piece of wood made an ... Read More
Free

Throwing Light: Mobile Youth Media Fest + Micro Market

Wednesday Jun. 17th 2020
Join us in our parking lot for a free youth-led mobile film screening, out of a van.

Bring your own lawnchair if you can, some seating will be provided. Social distance practices in effect! 50 people max. Read More
Free
7:30 - 9 doors at 7pm
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

THROWING LIGHT: Mobile Youth Media Fest

Wednesday Jun. 17th 2020
The Space Blanket Society and the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry present:

THROWING LIGHT is a 50 minute program of diverse and original youth content, featuring 19 artists aged 10-20. Short films, photographs, animations, digital art, and music - all broadcast from the back of a van!
... Read More
Free
7:30 - 9 doors at 7
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

SUPERPOD: Natasha van Netten

Saturday May. 30th 2020 until Sat. June 20th
This installation depicts the entire population of southern resident killer whales living in the Salish Sea: currently 72. This unique group of orca have been a small population since numbers were first recorded in 1976—fluctuating between 70 and 99 members. This installation echoes the fragility ... Read More
Free

VIRTUAL ART CLUB

Wednesday May. 27th 2020
Good news self isolators: The Ministry of Casual Living has moved our weekly Art Club online! Join us every Wednesday evening 6:30 - 8:30pm PST for VIRTUAL ART CLUB! This is the excuse you need to get creative, share, interact and have fun. Or just draw quietly, whatever you're in the mood for. Join... Read More
Free
6:30 - 8:30

Other Dates / Times

@  The Ministry of Casual Living

Forced structure I & II: Paul van Trigt

Saturday May. 9th 2020 until Sat. May 30th
(30"x30") (20"x20")
collage on canvas

This series came together over the course of the winter of 2019, months before we would be impacted by the global pandemic. Pulling together themes of body image, nature, and "progress " , these collages work through the ideas of social and personal expect... Read More
Free

VIRTUAL ART CLUB

Wednesday Apr. 1st 2020
Good news self isolators: The Ministry of Casual Living has moved our weekly Art Club online! Join us every Wednesday evening 6:30 - 8:30pm PST for VIRTUAL ART CLUB! This is the excuse you need to get creative, share, interact and have fun. Or just draw quietly, whatever you're in the mood for. Join... Read More
Free
6:30 - 8:30

Other Dates / Times

@  The Ministry of Casual Living

Urbanlite: Gina Luke, Levi Glass

Saturday Mar. 28th 2020 until Sat. April 18th
The installation Urbanlite, will transform the existing Ministry of Casual Living’s window into a functional, outdoor, public use SAD lamp.

The installation’s production of radiant soft light is a response to Victoria’s unique geographical location, a rain forested area that is nourished by... Read More
Free
Re-Scheduled -

Preservation Haul: An Arts Victoria Launch & Celebration: DJ DIMITRI, Jason Verners

Thursday Mar. 26th 2020
PRESERVATION HAUL
An Arts Victoria Launch & Celebration
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We're so excited to announce this special event designed BY and FOR our amazing arts community!

You may not yet be familiar with The Victoria Arts Promotion and Preservatio... Read More
FREE but LIMITED SPACE RSVP REQUIRED
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Re-Scheduled -

The Bobou Raungaloid parasite: Dave Biddle

Saturday Mar. 14th 2020
*We have decided to postpone this event until a future date. Please stay tuned!*

An installation consisting of drawings, text, sound and video that will be accompanied by a short presentation of possible facts and performative speculations... w/ DJ Mud (Katayoon)

"The Bobou Raungaloid parasite... Read More
Free
7pm - 11pm
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

To The Sea: Mari Jagt

Saturday Mar. 7th 2020 until Sat. March 28th
Mari Jagt is an emerging mixed media artist and poet in Victoria who is inspired by nature, bright colours, outer space, and the strange. Jagt makes homemade berry inks in the summer, and her poetry been published in some literary journals. She believes in accessibility in art, and the importance of... Read More
Free

Dihedral: Owen Parnell

Friday Mar. 6th 2020 until Sun. March 8th
Dihedral
-new and old works-
Owen Parnell

Exhibition: March 6-8, 2020
Opening: Friday, March 6, 6-9pm
Viewing: Sat, Mar 7, 12-5pm, Sun, Mar 8, 12-5pm and by appointment
Location: Devonshire Studio Gallery, 858 Devonshire Road

A dihedral angle is the angle between two intersecting planes. ... Read More
Free
Fri Mar 6, 6-9pm, Sat Mar 7, 12-5pm, Sun Mar 8, 12-5pm
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

48 Hour (Diagonal): Josh Franklin

Friday Feb. 28th 2020 until Sun. March 1st
48 Hour (Diagonal)
Josh Franklin

Exhibition: February 28-30, 2020
Opening: Friday, February 28, 7-10pm
Viewing: Sat, Feb 29, 12-5pm, Sun, Mar 1, 12-5pm and by appointment
Location: Devonshire Studio Gallery, 858 Devonshire Road

“48 Hour (Diagonal)” consists of two paintings that will... Read More
Free
Fri, Feb 28, 7-10pm, Sat, Mar 1, 12-5pm, Sun, Mar 2, 12-5pm
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

WIRE MOTHER / CLOTH MOTHER + JOLLY PAGODA: Amy Anderson

Saturday Feb. 22nd 2020
WIRE MOTHER / CLOTH MOTHER
+
JOLLY PAGODA

Beat-driven electronic soundscapes with projections by Amy Anderson

February 22, 2020
9:00pm
Devonshire Studio Gallery
858 Devonshire Road
All ages Read More
Free
9:00pm - 11:00pm doors at 8:30pm
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

A Piece of Motherhood: ERIN HILCHIE

Saturday Feb. 15th 2020 until Sat. March 7th
The birth of her son marked a new departure in Erin Hilchie’s artistic practice and sparked this series of feminist collages titled, A Piece of Motherhood. Pairing the everyday, life-giving necessity of breastfeeding with polished greco-roman sculptures, Erin hopes to bring to light the postpartum... Read More
Free

ROOT SHOCK - Presented by the Artemisia Institute: Kemi Craig , Gesig Isaac , Tiffany Joseph , Joshua Ngenda

Friday Feb. 14th 2020 until Sun. February 16th
ROOT SHOCK – Presented by the Artemisia Institute

Kemi Craig
Gesig Isaac
Tiffany Joseph
Joshua Ngenda

Exhibition: February 14-16, 2020
Opening: Friday, February 14, 6-9pm
Location: Devonshire Studio Gallery, 858 Devonshire Road

The Artemisia Institute is pleased to announce its inaug... Read More
By Donation
Fri Feb 14, 6-9pm, Sat Feb 15, 12-5pm, Sun Feb 16, 12-5pm
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

The thing is, this thing is all it is…: Austin Clay Willis

Thursday Jan. 30th 2020 until Sun. February 2nd
"The thing is, this thing is all it is…"
Austin Clay Willis

Devonshire Studio Gallery
858 Devonshire Road, Esquimalt
Opening: Thursday, January 30, 2020, 7-9pm
Viewing: Fri, Jan 31, 1-5pm, Sat, Feb 1, 1-5pm, Sun, Feb 2, 1-5pm and by appointment

"The thing is, this thing is all it is..." ... Read More
By Donation
@  The Ministry of Casual Living

Disposable Angels: Alison Bigg

Friday Jan. 24th 2020 until Sat. February 15th
Alison Bigg’s ongoing series, Disposable Angels, stems from her collection of ‘throw-away’ angels. She is incorporating them into her work by using them as armatures for soap, sugar and gelatin casts. The result is an over-indulgent profusion of glom. A cornucopia of iconography that resembl... Read More
Free

Coming Up

Twitching Hour: Exhibition by Amelia Beauregard & Sarah Massey

Saturday Oct. 5th until Sat. October 26th
Join us at the OCTOBER 5TH OPEN HOUSE (780 BLANSHARD), where TWITCHING HOUR will be opening in the MoCL Gallery, featuring artists Amelia Beauregard & Sarah Massey!

Message from the artists: “Enter our bedroom at Twitching Hour, where the night’s memory is lacerated with a tender suspension o... Read More
By Donation
Thursdays: 5-8PM Saturdays: 1-4PM
@  The Ministry of Casual Living