Blim presents:

Blim Monthly Community Market

Sunday February 26 | 12 – 5 PM | Free
@ Heritage Hall (15th Ave. × Main St.)

Blim will be presenting a monthly Market this month to take place back at the Heritage Hall for the third year.

This Months market will include 48 vendors, music, hot food, beverages, and entertainment. Vendors will include food, fashion, accessories, supplies, fine art, vintage items and records, and not be limited to crafts, and there will be a focus on nurturing and promoting creative production in our community. We want to appeal to young, old, hip, plain, babies, animals, men, women, everyone.

We are very excited about this event and what it can contribute to Mount Pleasant's artistic vitality, and how it can help support and encourage the local creative community.

Featuring:
Blim
Gypsy Wolf
Open Sesame
Farmer's Daughter
Sassy Vintage
Cute Cards
Army of Rokosz
Zula
Silver Trumpet
Little Lamp
Cardero Collective
Vancouver is Awesome
Drowning in Mud
Seth Macbeth
Suzan Marczak
The Last Crumb
Akashic Aromatics
Affera Cosmetics
Everything Handcrafted
Yoshie and Akemi
The Nautilus
Mandi and Stevi
Domestic Diva Aprons
Sara Mulder
Foliage

and many more…

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

Blim and Dan Kibke present:

Ejaculation Death Rattle, Day Glo Mardi Gras, Corner

Saturday February 25 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $8–10

Corner plays cosmic improvised music with a pinch of psych and a dash of krautrock.
soundcloud.com/contactcornertheband

Ejaculation Death Rattle
An unholy poisoning of ambient, free-folk and pseudo psychedelic primitivism amid sweeping tides of noise, drone music worship, spastic panning, bent and decayed notes, and assorted digital debris meant to keep everyone off balance. Deceptively improvised, and/or intentionally contrived? An atypical journey through uplifting murk and lurid bliss.
ejaculationdeathrattle.com/

Day Glo Mardi Gras is a joint operation between Ejaculation Death Rattle and Corner. The bands and the set will be decorated with day glo paint and there will be a black light for a vibrant experience for viewers who we will hope will come suitably costumed to the event. Both bands will be exploring the themes of excess and indulgence and encouraging the audience to enter this mental space in the grand traditions of Carnival in Brazil and Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Beads not included. We will provide day glo paint for participants to decorate their face and bodies.

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.

Blim and Paul Elam present:

FIELDHEAD, CHRIS TENZ, MONGST

Friday February 17 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $8–10

FIELDHEAD | www.fieldheadmusic.com
Fieldhead produces ambient/electronic music that delights in tape hiss, geography, bleak landscapes and decaying
analogue loops. Fieldhead’s live show combines the grainy textures and dusty loops married with brevity
and melody to be found in their recorded work with a slow burning sense of purpose and beauty communicated
through a mix of electronics and ‘live’ instruments.

CHRIS TENZ | mini50records.bandcamp.com/album/frozen-arms
Chris Tenz’s music tells tales in a whispering voice set against panoramic soundscapes: it’s the music of aimless
late night neon wanderings that brings to mind Mt. Eerie/Microphones set in a more desolate place.

MONGST | www.myspace.com/mongst
Mongst is the solo output of JV Dub (also of Shearing Pinx and Aerosol Constellations). His music is vast, minimal,
hugely engaging and a touch unsettling: long drawn out samples blend effortlessly with guitar drones to
stunning effect.

www.facebook.com/events/234293253312782/
www.last.fm/event/3157027+Fieldhead+at+Blim%2C+115+East+Pender+on+17+February+2012

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.

For the Month of February 2011 @ Blim Gallery

Blim presents:

New Works

New work by Allison Karow (aka. sunny)

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday February 3 | Runs February 3 – 25

Sunny is an artist from Phoenix, AZ, currently in the Fine Arts stream of the Master of Applied Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, here in Vancouver. She has been displaying work in group and solo shows since 2004 and has participated in curating shows in alternative art spaces. She is the founder of a community bike shop in Tempe, AZ and ran a small house/venue, YOBS, for five years with a small group of friends before moving to Vancouver to go back to school.

My work looks at the difficulty of defining the natural. I use hybrids, taxonomy and invented landscapes to build an absurd narrative around a heterotopia where natural and constructed elements become ambiguous. Currently I am exploring drawing as a metaphor for genetic copying; creating creatures and environments based on mutations in the work itself until a biome emerges. I am rooted in the traditions of the handmade but my practice is interdisciplinary and includes painting, drawing, print-making and animation in addition to book binding.

www.megaspora.us

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

Blim and Sean Parker present:

Payday Millionaire & Friends New Record Show

Saturday January 28 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $8–10 (sliding scale)

Featuring:
Thee Ahs
Payday Millionaire
Francis
The Sylvian Fissures: an atmospheric guitar trio feat. Lee Hutzulak, Todd Hutzulak, and John Mutter

This is a once in a lifetime gathering of some truly remarkable DIY Monsters from the neighborhood — and all under one glorious BLIM roof — don’t miss it!!

theeahs.bandcamp.com/album/thee-ahs-nation
paydaymillionaire.com
leehutzulak.com

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.

Blim and Sean Parker present:

Lucas and Jesse Henderson, Wolf, Olav

Saturday January 7 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $10

Olav harnesses the 2-step beat structure of UK garage music and melds it with a variety of electronic soundscapes and textures. He has seized some esteemed openings for The Field and Dan Deacon, and has demonstrated his affinity for remixes of Humans and Kastle.
www.olav.ca

Wolf is a solo act who weaves freak-folk inspired layers over sassy, swaggering beats and psychedelia. He enhances his guitar and vocals with a chaotic variety of delays, samples, and loops; all triggered with his toes.
www.monsieurwolf.com

Lucas Henderson and his brother Jesse are a folk/anti-electronica duo. They are both vagrant musicians from Vancouver Island.
lucashenderson.bandcamp.com

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.

For the Month of January 2011 @ Blim Gallery

Blim presents:

Because

New work by Christina Kenton and Brody McKnight

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday January 6 | Runs January 6 – 28

First art show between husband and wife involving photography, painting and music. Brody’s new work will explore an idea of chance in movement paired with that of predictibilty in still life. Christina’s paintings will display tons of over lapping color and accents of gore and felines.

Brody was born a baby in Vancouver in 1982.
At 8 years old his family moved north to the small, redneck infested sawmill capital of the world, Quesnel BC. After high school he found himself back in Vancouver, apart of the local music scene playing with Heavy Chains, Sex Negatives, Eating Out and most recently joining Nu Sensae. He is a self-taught photographer who appreciates auto functions. His works has previously been shown at his first solo show at Lucky’s in 2008.

Christina was born in Vancouver April 30 1979.
She has been painting roughly 16 years, self taught and lucky to have grown up around great surrealist art. She works with mostly acrylic and ink on canvas. Her fascination with cold cases and nocturnal paralysis are some of the inspiration behind her work. Besides creating busy, colorful paintings she hand makes lighter covers and free small art booklets. This will be Christina’s 4th art show in Vancouver.

http://easternthirst.tumblr.com/ | Christina Kenton's Facebook page

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

Blim and Mount Pleasanet BIA present:

Blim Monthly Community Market

Sunday December 18 | 12 – 5 PM | Free
@ Chinese Cultural Center (W. Pender St. × Carrall St.)

Blim will be presenting a monthly Market this month to take place back at the Chinese Cultural Center for the second year.

This Months market will include 70 vendors, music, hot food, beverages, and entertainment. Vendors will include food, fashion, accessories, supplies, fine art, vintage items and records, and not be limited to crafts, and there will be a focus on nurturing and promoting creative production in our community. We want to appeal to young, old, hip, plain, babies, animals, men, women, everyone.

We are very excited about this event and what it can contribute to Mount Pleasant’s artistic vitality, and how it can help support and encourage the local creative community.

Featuring:
Blim
Army of Rokosz
Bowterflies
Brittany Yolkie
Caboose Juice
Cardero Collective
Celeste Brousseau
Crystal Wesolowski
Cute Cards
Double Trouble
Dove Grey Dawn
Farmer’s Daughter
Gypsy Wolf
Hitching Post
Hudsonny
Jennifer David
Jennifer Witterberg
Jesse Gray
Just Jingo
K-Mat
Karen Hull & Laura Crompton
Karly Thompson
kaytee kilgour
Kiyomi Shoji
Laura Evelaigh
Laura Mawhinney
Lemonade
Lexie Owen
Linda Lewis
Lisa Cinar
Lisa Nguyen
Little Dominos
Little Lamp
Lucy Yu
Mandi and Stevi
Marlene Ginader
Marnie Christoffersen
Megan Gray
Melanie Hardbattle
Mon Wongsaw
Nautilus
One Leaf
Open Sesame
Peter Schade
Pillow Talk
Prospero Pottery
Rho your Boat
Ripe Soap
Sara French
Sari Fujikawa
Sassy Vintage
Sean Karemaker
Sparrow Bijoux
Sweet Valentine’s Tea Time
Tala Designs
Tom Time Designs
Trudy Ann Chai
vanessa feather
yookyoung yong
Zula

with special guest DJs and many more…

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

For the Month of December 2011 @ Blim Gallery

Blim presents:

Chotto Motto

New work by Kaori Kasai

Opening: 8 – 11 PM, Friday December 2 | Runs December 2 – 29

Chotto (little) Motto (more)
Little creatures pop out of Kao's brain around midnight and tell her, “more, more…”. They demand more room, so she puts them onto large canvases. Other creatures do not stop moving, so she makes a short animation of them. Come to BLIM to see Kao's work. Enjoy chotto motto holiday gifts by Kao, including prints, dolls, lucky-charms, and a little more.

Kaori Kasai (a.k.a. Sleepless kao), artist-in-motion, graduated from Setsu Mode, Tokyo, for fashion illustration, traveled to live and work in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and now Vancouver. She creates her own world of eccentric creatures and personalities which bloom into the void: gigantic space dotted with tiny, intimate kinships and spirits bumping into one another, narrating signs of life across a dreamt universe. Her works have been exhibited at gallery 1 (Japan), Giant Robot, Little Otsu and SOMARTS (San Francisco), Compound Gallery (Portland), Helen Pitt Gallery and Blim (Vancouver). In 2007, Kao was invited to accompany the screening of her new animated short “Duet” at San Francisco's Asian American Film Festival and AAIFF (NY). Graduated from BCIT, Burnaby, in New Media Design. Published her 1st children's book, Monchan's Bag for Simply Read Books, Vancouver

www.kaorikasai.com

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for more information.

Blim and Bradley Post present:

Molly Nilsson with Koban

Saturday November 26 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $10

Swedish-born and Berlin-based singer and songwriter Molly Nilsson has found a home in many ears, thanks to her simple but strong synth-loops and melodies, hooking into her intimate vocals and lyrics. Molly Nilsson has spent the last years releasing three full-length albums on her own label DARK SKIES ASSOCIATION, and travelling round Europe with her one-woman-symphony. This Summer the American singer
John Maus covered her nocturnal ballad “Hey Moon!”on his latest album released on UTR/Ribbon, originally found on her 2008 debut album These Things Take Time. In November 2011 Molly Nilsson will tour North America for the first time.

Molly Nilsson:
noisy-pig.com/press-new.html
darkskiesassociation.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2OmGJVtPO8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ594IL_wyw&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-mXDsSQpF4&feature=related

Koban:
koban.bandcamp.com

Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.