HiVE partakes in this year's Capture Photography Festival exhibiting "The Great Big Vancouver Paradox" featuring works by Vitor Leão and Emilia Wilson
Date/Time: Apr 6 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Vancouver, HiVE VancouverCost: Free
Through the power of photography, this exhibition analyzes two issues Vancouver is tackling in disparate ways; environmental sustainability and gentrification. Vancouver is thriving in the former, on track to be the greenest city in the world by 2020, actively building a sustainable culture. However Vancouver is also one of the most expensive cities to live in, and the gentrification rates are skyrocketing naturally displacing lower income and impoverished communities which consist of mainly First Nations peoples and minority groups. Most of these communities are concentrated within the DTES neighbourhood; the heart of Vancouver's opioid crisis.
Further exploring the dichotomy of these two extremes will allow viewers to question the processes of how Vancouver decides what issues to prioritize, what groups/individuals directly benefit from said decision, the resources provided and actively used/not used for each, and the aftermath on the entire city as a collective whole. The goal is for viewers to leave the exhibition contemplating the status of health and justice in Vancouver to best to determine its suitability for inhabitance. Are you proud to live in Vancouver?
Curated by: Krystal Paraboo at HIVE for Capture Photography Festival
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