One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In February, we welcome Chantal Gibson to speak on the work of Sojourner Truth Parsons.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Chantal Gibson is a poet-artist-educator living on the lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her practice is grounded in materiality and research creation. Exhibited widely across Canada, her altered historical texts and installations imagine voices silenced by cultural and institutional erasure. 

Gibson is the author two poetry collections: *with/holding* (Caitlin, 2021) and *How She Read* (Caitlin, 2019), a decolonial critique of the Canadian classroom centering Black womanhood, winner of the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC) and the Pat Lowther Poetry Award (Can). 

Recipient of the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada’s highest award for post-secondary teaching, Gibson teaches in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University.

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Chantal Gibson on Sojourner Truth Parsons

Saturday Session

Join CAG’s Curator Godfre Leung for a walkthrough of the current exhibitions.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

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with Godfre Leung

Curatorial Tour

Charles Atlas

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Please join us for a screening of works by Charles Atlas at The Cinematheque on the occasion of Atlas' exhibition *Hail the New Puritan*.

Since his groundbreaking work as filmmaker-in-residence at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, New York-based film and video artist Charles Atlas has been one of the leading interpreters of performance for camera, known for his relentlessly innovative engagements with genre, technology and style. 

This program features three early works produced by Atlas in collaboration with dancers, each reflecting the exuberant spirit, canny camerawork and anti-documentary approach that defines this period in his practice. *Blue Studio: Five Segments* uses nascent chroma key technology to multiply the choreography of legendary dance artist Merce Cunningham across a series of outdoor landscapes for New York public television station WNET. *From an Island Summer* follows renowned ​“punk ballerina” Karole Armitage and her dancers along the boardwalk of Coney Island and through the streets of Times Square, capturing the garish magic of a 1980s New York summer. And *Because We Must* continues Atlas’s long-term collaboration with Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, adapting one of the enfant terrible’s dazzlingly irreverent stageworks for the screen.

*Merce by Merce by Paik Part One: Blue Studio: Five Segments*, 1975–76
16 min.

*From an Island Summer*, 1983–84
13 min. 

*Because We Must*, 1989
52 min. 

### RSVP
Registration for this event is required; tickets are free. Secure your place [here](https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/charles-atlas).

Note: Unclaimed tickets for complimentary screenings at The Cinematheque will be released 15 minutes before showtime. Please arrive early to guarantee your seat.

### Accessibility
This event is being held at The Cinematheque; venue accessibility information can be found [here](https://thecinematheque.ca/about/equity-accessibility).

### Biography
Charles Atlas (b. 1949, St. Louis, MO) has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. In 2024, the ICA Boston presented *About Time*, the first U.S. museum survey devoted to Atlas’ work. Other recent solo exhibitions include *The Mathematics of Consciousness*, a 100-foot long video installation commissioned by Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2022); *Charles Atlas: Ominous, Glamorous, Momentous, Ridiculous*, Fondazione ICA Milano, Italy (2021); and *Charles Atlas: The past is here, the futures are coming* and *The Kitchen Follies*, The Kitchen, New York (2018). Atlas’ work is included in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; and De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands. In 2024, Atlas’ archive was acquired by The Getty Research Institute.

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Dance for Camera: Early Works by Charles Atlas

Screening

Justine A. Chambers

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In January, we welcome Justine A. Chambers to speak on the work of Charles Atlas.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Justine A. Chambers is an artist and educator living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her movement based practice considers how choreography can be an empathic practice rooted in collaborative creation, close observation, and the body as a site of a cumulative embodied archive. Privileging what is felt over what is seen, she works with dances that are already there – the choreographies present in the everyday. Her work has been hosted by galleries, theatres and festivals locally, nationally and internationally. She is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.

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