2024 Year-End

VIVO will be closed for the winter break from Dec 21, 2024 to Jan 6, 2025 and pause on equipment rental until spring 2025.

As we wrap up a milestone year celebrating our 50th anniversary, VIVO Media Arts Centre is taking a brief pause to recharge and prepare to launch our 2025 programming. We will be closed for the winter break from December 21, 2024, to January 6, 2025, and we will be pausing equipment rentals until spring 2025. During this time, we will focus on cleaning, maintaining, and preparing everything for the spring season.

Please note that this pause applies only to new equipment rentals. If you have previous rentals and for those with confirmed bookings, you can still pick up or return equipment as originally scheduled.

Reflecting on a Year of Celebration, Community, and Creative Growth: VIVO Media Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary & Looking Ahead to 2025

We were so honoured to be a partner in fantastic events such as Crossing Fonds Symposium 2024, the Vancouver New Music Festival 2024, the Performance and XR Conference, the F-O-R-M Festival, and the Heart of the City Festival, and celebrated with lineup of such amazing artists as Sarvenaz Ahmadi, Rosamunde Bordo, Mona Hatoum, Simone Lucas, Mandana Mansouri, Conal McStravick, Alessandro Cortini, Giorgio Magnanensi, Sara Diamond, Mia Chi Vu, Pamila Matharu, Terry Haines, Onyeka Igwe, Karin Lee, Jennifer Dysart, Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Dana Claxton, Chase Joynt, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss, Andy Zuliani, Magneticring, prOphecy sun, Joy On Drums, Soledad Fátima Muñoz, Nancy Lee 李南屏, Alejandra Gómez Díaz, Rodrigo Suárez Madariaga, Lorelei Williams, Butterflies in Spirit, Kendra Place, Anju Singh, Reylinn, Hot Snack, Jane Harms, Donna Allen, Markus Floats, baptized.in.prison, El Ángel Exterminador, Wasauksing Sniper, DJ Zygote with GOGO Dancers, FITNESSS, Pegah Tabassinejad, Olumoroti Soji-George, Rachel Stuckey, Jayce Salloum, nazanin oghanian, Joseph Clark, Zachery Longboy, Pablo Griff, Clark Nikolai, Genki Ferguson, Soloman Chiniquay, and jaz whitford.

We were also fortunate to collaborate with a diverse range of organizations, including the MENA Film Festival, OCAD University, Simon Fraser University, City of Vancouver Archives, Royal British Columbia Museum, BC Labour Heritage Centre, Black Arts Centre, CURRENT Symposium, CHAPEL SOUND Art Foundation, Moniker Press, Vancouver Prison Justice Day Committee, The Fig Tree Palace, and Single Thread Theatre, each of whom helped to enrich our programming and broaden our impact within the community.

We want to send another HUGE thank you to everyone who came out to support our rental crisis. Your voices were strong, and you helped us find a more favourable rent. If you love VIVO, you still have time to donate before the end of the year. All donations go directly to artist fees and programming.

In the longest night of the year and as we look forward to longer days, we have so much planned for the future. We wish everyone the best in 2025.

The VIVO Team - Arman, Carla, Clark, Clara, Genki, Karen, Kendra, Lauren, Lief and nazanin.