MOVING ART / Unity

Online Premiere

Monday, November 6, 6pm
culturecrawl.ca/event

2025 Culture Crawl Preview Exhibit
November 6 – 30

Alternative Creations Gallery

1659 Venables Street

During gallery hours:
Mon/Tues/Wed: 9am–5pm
Thurs/Fri: 9am–9pm
Sat: 9am–5pm

Opening Reception: Thu, Nov 6 from 6–8pm

East Van Vodville Cinema
November 16 – 23

On-Demand 24/7

Fourth window from the alley, 1601 Venables St

Lumiere Festival
November 13–16

Location: TBD
dark until 10pm 

Unity

12^th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl Film and Video Exhibition

Alone we are thread, together we are cloth.” 

Unity explores the beauty of connection – between people, ideas, and the natural world. From the intimate act of braiding hair to the intricate weaving of textiles, these works trace the ways in which individuality intertwines into collective creation. Artists this year draw together disparate strands: nature and a human voice, community and solitude, digital signal with analogue process. 

Each piece reminds us that unity is not uniformity, but the rhythm of many parts moving as one. Together, these works assemble a vision from fragments of memory and perspective, a liminal cloak that once opened reveals our togetherness in grief, our oneness with nature, and our mutual love for the buildings that hold our history. Even the great cat distribution system reveals its hand – evidence that harmony exists in the most mysterious networks of all. 

 Threads meet. Worlds overlap. The tree becomes greater than its rings. 

• BROOMANCE by Ethan White 
• Eroded Origins: Speak for Me! by Garrett Andrew Chong 
• The Reincarnation of Puke Pixie by Cheree Lang 
• The Thread that Binds Us by Fatima Maria Travassos 
• Critical Points of Contact 2022-2025 by Debra Gloeckler 
• Hair Braiding by Rashi Sethi 
• Ghostly Spaces by Isaac Forsland 
• echo / corpus by Nisha Platzer 

Curated by Kate MacDonald, Sierra MacTavish and Esther Rausenberg