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Tea Base: Mahjong Live Zoom Hall

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Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredJoin Tea Base for a performative Mahjong game where a family group, Hannia, Jade and Chau Cheng will play together with Florence Yee facilitating and the audience acting as the fourth player! From December 2020 - March 2021, Tea Base is in residence with MOCA. A plan to host monthly Mahjong Halls […]

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TD Community Sunday: Paint your Cake with Libby Brewer-Dulac from Sift Baking Co.

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Register nowOnline pre-registration required Get creative with cake! Try a new way to let your creativity flow… with buttercream! In this hands-on online workshop, you’ll get an introduction to the palette knife painting technique using Swiss meringue buttercream with Libby Brewer-Dulac from Sift Baking Co. Taking the lead from artist Michael Lin and his current […]

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Michael Lin in Conversation with Kathleen Bartels

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Register nowOnline pre-registration required Join MOCA’s Executive Director Kathleen Bartels and artist Michael Lin for a discussion that explores a decade of Lin’s monumental painting installations. In 2010 Lin was commissioned by Bartels and her curatorial team to create a significant painting intervention that was installed on the exterior of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The […]

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TD Community Sunday: Make a Mahjong Tile Treasure Box with Christie Carrière

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Register nowOnline pre-registration required Join artist Christie Carrière for this live workshop where you will learn how to make your own Mahjong Tile Treasure Box! Christie will show participants how to trace, cut out, and glue your treasure box together. Then, she will show you some different ways to decorate your box, including how to […]

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TD Community Sunday: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Sculpture Art with Naz Rahbar

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Register nowOnline pre-registration required Making a sculpture out of found and recycled materials can have endless possibilities! It can also help the environment by reducing waste. Join artist Naz Rahbar in this virtual workshop and make a sculpture out of recycled objects. This activity will get us thinking about our relationship to matter and materials, […]

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TD Community Sunday: Experimenting with Oozing Oobleck

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Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredIn her films, artist Mika Rottenberg explores the different ways we can interact with matter. Her film, Spaghetti Blockchain, which is also the title of her exhibition at MOCA, shows colourful objects being melted, burned, squished, and sliced. When we handle an object or material, it will behave based on its state of […]

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Between Us: Eriola Pira with Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld of Etcétera

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Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredJoin Eriola Pira—curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in a scintillating conversation—with Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld of Etcétera on the aesthetics of protest, the politics of performance and what it means to present collective, embodied artistic practice in a globalized—yet fractured—world. In […]

TD Community Sunday: Little Islands with Emmie Tsumura

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Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredJoin artist Emmie Tsumura for a hands-on virtual workshop inspired by Michael Lin's Archipelago! Emmie will show you how to create your own patterned archipelago, or chain of islands, drawing inspiration from your immediate surroundings. After collecting motifs and patterns that represent your home or neighbourhood, participants will cut out and decorate […]

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Between Us: 3.9 Collective, Protection Spells and “Black Magic”

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Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredIn the 2010 census, the African American population of San Francisco—a city rich in Black politics, art and creativity—had declined to 3.9 percent. If, as the 3.9 collective mandate states, being "Black" is now synonymous with "vanishing," what does it mean to be Black, creative and in America at this time? In […]

Mahjong Movie Moments with Tea Base

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Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredEver wondered what that one moment in Crazy Rich Asians, when Constance Wu’s character lays down that tile in the mahjong hall meant? Have the classic poker table moments in Spaghetti Westerns (or almost every Clint Eastwood movie) been your secret favourite? Been fascinated by the hidden meanings in classic board games? […]

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