About this Event
The Invitation:
Join us for a one-night exploration of visual art, written art and performance art by over thirty artists from across Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
Hosted by Reclaiming Art Collective and in collaboration with Oldhand Coffee and The Imagination Forge and Oblique Media, our artists will invite you to reflect on the relationships all around us. From poets to painters, to musicians, weavers and dancers, this artist cohort will take you on a journey of sensuality, embodiment and reclamation.
Desire is an artist showcase exploring longing, aliveness, and the wisdom held in our bodies. The things we reach for. The things that call us closer. Pleasure. Curiosity. Attraction. Intimacy. The desire we name freely and those we were taught to silence, fear, or feel ashamed of.
Desire invites us to come home to ourselves: to heal from the messages of shame, reclaim sexual wholeness, and listen to our bodies without judgment. It asks us to explore the difference between what we have been told we should want and what is genuinely ours. To honour consent, not simply as permission, but as an embodied practice of choice, boundaries, communication, and mutuality.
This event is an opportunity for artists, and all of us, to explore desire through the lens of personal sovereignty: the freedom to want, to not want, to change our minds, to experience pleasure, and to belong fully to ourselves. It is a space to consider desire not as something that needs to be controlled or justified, but as something we can meet with curiosity, presence, and reclamation.
What do you want?
Program:
Doors & Gallery Open: 7:00pm
Performances Begin: 7:30pm
Performances End: 10:30pm
Gallery Closes: 11pm
About Reclaiming Art:
We are a collective of artists and creatives located in the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley Region of Southern BC. We reclaim art to explore all the parts of ourselves. Reclaiming art as our voices. Reclaiming art as a protest. Reclaiming art as healing. Reclaiming art as part of what it means to be a person in the world today.
About the Venue:
Nestled in the middle of McBurney Plaza in the center of Downtown Langley, Oldhand Coffee has quickly become a cozy community hub of nostalgic vibes and delicious drinks. Free parking is available on the one-way section of Fraser Hwy and throughout the surrounding neighbourhood.
*Please be aware that photos and video will be taken during the event.
To learn more about our collective, visit reclaimingart.ca
Event venue & nearby stays
Oldhand Coffee Downtown Langley, 20528 Fraser Highway, Langley, Canada
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