http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:01:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All’s Quiet On The Western Front 560 Seymour Street Curated by Sean George March 5th - 9th May, 2010 Opening :  Thursday, March 4th from 7:00pm - 9:00pm One of the really delightful things about the Culture Crawl is that you never know who will walk through the door. This year I met and had a ... http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog/?p=240 Ed Varney is BC.'s king of mail art, and has organised the Mail Art Olympix show, opening at the Havana Gallery on Commercial Drive,  on February 21. It runs until March, 2010. Some excerpts from the PR: “…he felt this would be a great opportunity to stage an art event which paralleled ... http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog/?p=178 Around here Chinese New Year’s is a major event and this year Chinatown went all out. The parade was extra-long and the crush of spectators particularly dense.  Offerings of lettuce and red envelopes hung from almost every doorway, and bands of lion dancers and drummers roamed the streets long after ... http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog/?p=159 Xmas day and my eldest's birthday; the younger’s was a few days earlier, on the Solstice. That evening went to Sun Yat Sen Gardens, to photograph the Lantern Festival. Lots of people in attendance, some lovely works installed. All nicely magical, with a sense of what such celebrations might have been like, ... http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog/?p=113 And then two days after… After little more than showering, getting a few groceries, and watching a fair amount of really bad TV,  I’ve re-accummulated enough energy and focus to scribble a quick Crawl update. We had masses of people, although it did seem as if the bad weather lowered the ... http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog/?p=71 Nearly midnight, the night before the Crawl, and still lots to be done. Tomorrow the two pieces East Van Graphics is printing arrive; a 6X8 desktop ‘‘12 buddha strathcona 2010 calendar ’’and a card of Val Arntzen’s beautiful ‘‘Bullets to Buddhas’’ piece. The calendar is a first showing of a series ... http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog/?p=60 http://www.kikuhawkes.com/blog/?p=1