Events & Programming
Upcoming Events
Peripheral Review Fundraiser Auction
From Saturday August 13 – Saturday August 27, 2022, PR will host our very first online auction with an ambitious roster of work by Canadian and international artists. The auction will take place entirely on our new website and includes a wide range of price points for increased accessibility. All proceeds will go towards supporting PR’s publishing activities and paying contributor fees.
2022 Auction Artists:
Pardiss Amerian | Eli Bornowsky | Jasmine Cardenas | Yan Wen Chang | Allyson Clay | Rachel Crummey | Patrick Cruz | Gabi Dao | Sarah Davidson | Sam DeLange | Hannah Doucet | Lucien Durey | Morris Fox | Shannon Garden-Smith | Andrew Harding | Emily Harrison | Colleen Heslin | Yifan Jiang | Kelly Jazvac | Ivetta Sunyoung Kang | Jack Kenna | Chantal Khoury | Zoe Koke | Zahra Komeylian | Luther Konadu | Katie Kotler | HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander | Andrew Yong Hoon Lee | Caitlin LaPeña | Garret Lockheart | Jenine Marsh | Deirdre McAdams | Elizabeth Milton | Mariana Muñoz Gomez | Audie Murray | Zinnia Naqvi | Philip Leonard Ocampo | Julie Oh | Sophia Oppel | Preston Pavlis | Jordan Elliott Prosser | Les Ramsey | Jasmine Reimer | Meg Ross | Larissa Tiggelers | Alex Tedlie-Stursberg | Sean Weisgerber | Joy Wong | Thea Yabut | Shaheer Zazai | Shellie Zhang
PR Summer Block Party
Mark your calendars for an exciting outdoor block party event celebrating the end of our online auction in the plumb‘s laneway on Saturday August 27th, 2022! Events begin at 2pm and go until 9:30pm, there will be beer, food, open studios, live music and art performances, by-donation tarot readings and raffle prizes that dreams are made of!!!! Tickets are required for entry, stay tuned here for more information on how to obtain yours in advance so you don’t miss out! 🙂
Archived Events
Workshop your Pitch
Are you an emerging or unpublished art writer looking for tips on how to hone your pitch or first draft?
In advance of our Winter 2021 Call for Submissions Deadline (Monday December 13 at midnight PST) we are offering three virtual workshops over Zoom to help give you tips and personalized feedback on how to write an effective pitch for writing on visual art exhibitions and events.
Sunday Summer Reading Series
The Sunday Summer Reading Series are a month-long series of critical discussions on readings chosen and hosted by various artists, curators and organizers in a public park, organized by Editor Lauren Lavery.
2021 Artists:
Emma Metcalfe Hurst (August 29, 2021)
- Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by Cait McKinney
The event took place at China Creek Park North in Vancouver, BC.
Qian Cheng (August 22, 2021)
- The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker, Chapter One: Decide Why You’re Really Gathering
- taking space, holding space: curating-as-organizing in the time of need for solidarity at asia-art-activism by Annie Jael Kwan
The event took place at China Creek Park North in Vancouver, BC.
Emily Dundas Oke (August 15, 2021)
- an excerpt from Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Boreal Swing by Liz Howard
- pākahamakew by Samantha Marie Nock
- Billy-Ray Belcourt: The Optics of Language in Canadian Art
- the plot so far and ᐸᐢᑎᐯᐤ, by Selina Boan
The discussion was hosted online on Zoom.
Fan Wu (August 8, 2021)
We read a selection of poetry, prose, theory, and spiritual texts chosen by Fan under the theme of Non-attachment to the Self: A Collective Reading.The discussion was hosted online on Zoom.
Featuring excerpts of writing including:
- Dennis Cooper, Dream Police
- Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
- Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of the Planet
- Thich Nhat Hahn, The Other Shore
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Concordance
2020 Artists:
Belinda Kwan (August 2, 2020)
- filling the Klein bottle, an exhibition curated by Kwan which showed at the Varley Art Gallery (Markham), InterAccess (Toronto) and Bunker 2 CAC (Toronto) in 2020. The discussion was hosted online on Zoom.
Dallas Fellini (August 9, 2020)
- Excerpts by Andreas Angelidakis, Kimberly R. Drew, Juliana Huxtable, and Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, from Façadomy Issue 01: Gender Talents, Edited by Riley Hooker. (*cw: contains transphobic and homophobic slurs*); Trans* – Gender Transitivity and New Configurations of Body, History, Memory and Kinship, by Jack Halberstam (*cw: contains transphobic slurs*; Excerpt from Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, by John Boswell. The discussion was hosted in Dufferin Grove Park.
Noor Bhangu (August 16, 2020)
- The Going Insurrection by Sarah Rifky. The discussion was hosted online on Zoom.
Brit Bachmann (August 23, 2020)
- Selections from the archives of Issue Magazine including: “Some are Weather-Wise; Some Otherwise: Criticism in Vancouver” by William Wood; Selected “Spicy Samplings” chosen by Brit Bachmann; A Glossary of terms organized by Brit Bachmann. The discussion was hosted online on Zoom.
Cadence Planthara (August 30, 2020)
- Powr Mastrs Vol. 2 by C.F.; Whereas by Layli Long Soldier; Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil; My Conversations With Canadians by Lee Maracle. The discussion was hosted in Earlscourt Park.
2019 Artists:
Larissa Tiggelers (August 5, 2019)
- The chapter, “Why Bother” from Second Thoughts by Angie Keefer. The discussion was hosted in Christie Pits Park.
Vince Rozario (August 11, 2019)
- The chapter, “Representation” by Jaleh Mansoor and “The Problem with Representation” a transcription of a podcast episode by Gabrielle De La Puente and Zarina Muhammad of The White Pube. The discussion was hosted in Dufferin Grove Park.
Mohammad Rezaei (August 18, 2019)
- On Optimism and Despair by Zadie Smith, “by the strike of a match, or her good strike of lightning” by Natasha Chaykowski, and MIA and the Defence of Nuance by Fariha Roisin. The discussion was hosted in Dufferin Grove Park.
Katie Kotler (August 25, 2019)
- “Light Effects: On Miyoko Ito’s Abstract Interventions” by Dan Nadel, “Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83” by Grace Glueck for the NY Times and the video, “Hilma af Klint” produced by the Guggenheim. The discussion was hosted at Dovercourt Park.
Safia Siad (September 1, 2019)
- “Love as Political Resistance”, an excerpt from adrienne maree brown’s ‘Pleasure Activism’, and “Where Does Art Get To Live? A Conversation Between Anique Jordan and Michèle Pearson Clarke” from Momus. The discussion was hosted at Sorauren Avenue Park.
