TO | FROM BC ELECTRIC RAILWAY: 100 Years

Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012

Raymond Boisjoly, Stan Douglas, Ali Kazim, Vanessa Kwan, Evan Lee, Cindy Mochizuki
September 15 – November 10, 2012
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11am-6pm
Opening Reception: Friday, September 14, 2012, 8-10pm
Co-curators: Makiko Hara and Annabel Vaughan

Centre A is pleased to present TO|FROM BC ELECTRIC RAILWAY: 100 YEARS, a group exhibition celebrating the historic BC Electric Railway (BCER) building’s centennial anniversary, the current home of Centre A.

Sitting below the six-story Second Empire Renaissance styled building, the early 1900s saw the BCER terminal blossom into a bustling interurban railway station. Addressing the building’s importance to the collective memory of Vancouver, six contemporary artists will draw on the site and the neighborhood’s expansive history to consider the building’s significance as a cosmopolitan centre for new immigrants.