Café for Contemporary Art
Find us at 140 E Esplanade, North Vancouver
Inside CAFCA
Café for Contemporary Art is a place worth visiting in North Vancouver. We serve award winning 49th Parallel drinks, home made soups and sandwiches, and die-worthy deserts. We always have international and local artists showing in the gallery.
Puppets
CAFCA140 is known for its unusual exhibitions, but this time is almost unheard of: a show of puppets, instruments of puppetry and actual puppet shows. The exhibition is the brain-child and product of hard-work by organizer, Dusty Hagerud. Dusty has gathered some of Vancouver’s excellent puppeteers and their favourite puppets for the show. It’s been a long time coming, and its really worth a look at these remarkable exhibition.
Dusty points out that puppets is an overlooked if not derided art form, not only today but also throughout history. Christian institutions in medieval England labelled puppetry the work of the devil. Puppetry fell from royalty into the realm of travelling entertainers and gypsies. Ironically, the church utilized puppetry and its evocative and narrative characteristics to influence the general public. Details »
Tyler gets some street cred
Usually he takes the back-seat to the others in the CAFCA groupo. This time, Tyler climbed into the focal point in his interview with BC Local News. Details »
Sachiyo Takahashi: God is in the Details
Sachiyo Takahashi creates unique live cinematic presentations that harken back to the hands on intimacy of the Théâtre Optique techniques of early animation while optimising the possibilities of handheld video technology. Using her camera to manipulate focus and scale Takahashi projects intimate narratives of microscopic worlds of her own creation. This month long exhibitions includes three performances of her Microscopic Live Cinema-Theatre as well as the artist’s foray into creating peep-boxes which will be on display for the duration of the show. Details »
Adrian Boston – “Paper Tiger”
CAFCA curator and artist Adrian Boston has been investigating the body language of 20th century power figures as a part of his ongoing interest in questions of power and language. In Paper Tiger Boston
collaborates with Mark O’Krafka and Brian McGee to distill the power gestures of Chairman Mao into fluid video logos.
Your Kontinent: Richmond International Film and Media Arts Festival CAFCA co-presentation
Richmond International Film and Media Arts festival invited two of our associate artists to present their works during the July 23 weekend. Sachiyo Takahashi will show her amazing miniature live cinema, while Mark O’Krafka will present his documentary film on Squamish nation bluesplayer, Tips Blue. Both events are not to be missed. Mark showed a sneak-preview in our gallery in early Summer. Sachiyo will be showing her live cinema during the upcoming month of August.
Sachiyo Takahashi: Microscopic Live Cinema Theatre
Mark O’Krafka: Tips Blues
WHERE: Richmond Cultural Centre
WHEN: 7-10pm Saturday, July 23, 2011
CAFCA serves 49th Parallel
CAFCA serves coffee made with 49th Parallel roasted beans, and those beans have been roasted less than 2 weeks ago in Vancouver. 49th Parallel is considered the premiere bean roaster in the Vancouver area. The 49th owner is not only meticulous
Peanutbutter square
A home made peanut butter square, made by our staff Teagen right here in the CAFCA kitchen. The peanut butter square has become a regular menu item, given its popularity with staff members and customers.
The Delusions of Dylan Humphreys
CAFCA 140 is showing recent works of Dylan Humphreys. Dylan’s work is a potent blend of political and social commentary, offered in a comic book aesthetic.
The work appears undisciplined, random and hacked together on first glance; however, closer examination and contemplation reveals that Dylan prowess with a pen, paintbrush, spray-can and any other marking tool is deliberate, careful and anything but undisciplined. Dylan’s work shows off his technical rigor. It is not suprising that Dylan honed his skills in the Capilano University’s program dedicated to Graphic Arts and Illustration.