Mindscape: The Art of the Gallery Gachet Collective
In their first collaboration, Gallery Gachet and The Donnelly Fund present Mindscape, a showing of the Gachet Collective’s work. 100% of proceeds from auctioned work and ticket sales go directly to Gallery Gachet. Featured artists include:
Stephen Long
Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty
Lisa Walker
Quin Martins
Laurie Marshall
Robert Gardiner
Bonnito
Sharon Burns
Cherise Clarke
Sharon Smith
Kara Lee
Jay Peachy
Karen Ward
Bernadine Fox
Bruce Ray
Dylan Wolney
W.N. Pope
Leef Evans
Diane Thorn
Youngshin Lee
More on the Gallery Gachet, read below or visit www.gachet.org
Vancouver, BC – the Donnelly Pub Group, together with their charity arm The Donnelly Fund, hosts Mindscape: The Art of the Gallery Gachet Collective on May 19th at the Metropole. The event will feature an art exhibit and auction that benefits the philanthropic initiatives of Gallery Gachet, a unique artist institution in Vancouver’s downtown Eastside.
Featured artists at the event include: Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty, Bonitio, Cherise Clarke, Diane Thorn, Dylan Wolney, Jay Peachy, Kara Lee, Karen Ward, Laurie Marshall, Leef Evans, Quin Martins, Robert Gardiner, Sharon Burns, Youngshin Lee, Bruce Ray, Lisa Walker, Sharon Smith, W.N. (Bill) Pope, Bernadine Fox, and Stephen Long. All proceeds from the evening’s auctioned pieces, ticket and door sales go directly to the Gastown gallery.
Mindscape: The Art of the Gallery Gachet Collective takes place at the Metropole (320 Abbott Street, Vancouver BC) on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 from 7pm – 10pm. Tickets are available at the Gallery Gachet (88 East Cordova) , The Metropole (320 Abbott St) or www.clubzone.com.
Gachet provides artists who speak to mental health, trauma, or abuse experience with opportunities to collaborate, exhibit, curate, perform, publish and teach. They support these artists in the development of their professional art practices. Through artistic means they aim to demystify and challenge issues related to mental health and social marginalization in order to educate the public and promote social and economic justice. The space holds solo, group, juried and curated exhibits, featuring local, national and international artists with programming from a range of art practices. For more information on Gallery Gachet, please visit www.gachet.org.
The Donnelly Fund is a non-profit organization committed to assisting individual families in crisis, helping them stay together through a monthly support program, and supports the Salvation Army, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. For more info on The Donnelly Fund please visit: Donnelly Fund.
Donnelly Hospitality Management (DHM) is a creative, diverse management company. DHM owns and operates award-winning nightclubs: Pop Opera, Republic, Bar None, and the Modern; popular pubs: Biminis Public House, The Calling, The Library Square Public House, Smiley’s Public House, the Academic, the Lamplighter and Cinema Public House; the cocktail lounge The Granville Room, and the Metropole. The company’s attention to detail, impressive entertainment calendars, modern designs, community and charity support, and strict policies on patron safety have earned them a reputation as an industry leader in Vancouver. For more information please visit:
www.moderenpubculutre.ca
