Instant Coffee artist collective video trailer for Feeling So Little Yet Doing So Much, their prospective retrospective at the Western Front, Vancouver

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Feeling So Much International Prospective Lecture Series
For this series Instant Coffee has invited a number of international curators representing key moments in the collective's 12 year history, as well as moments to come. Moderated by Caitlin Jones.

This International Prospective Lecture Series is presented with the generous support of Jane Irwin and Ross Hill

Bernd Milla
Thursday, March 8, 7pm
Bernd Milla, Director of the Kunststiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg will reflect on exhibition praxis and possibilities for artists’ work and presentation.

Lise Nellmen
Thursday, March 22nd, 7pm
Lise Nellmen of Sparwasser HQ, a not-for-profit project and exhibition space in Berlin, will speak about Instant Coffee and collaborative curatorial practices.

Rackett
Friday, April 4th, 7pm
Rakett (Ase Lavgren and Karolin Tampere) is an ongoing mobile arena for various activities, ranging from curatorial practice to collaborative art projects. Their work touches on a range of questions around (co)authorship, (im)material production, the role of the artist and curator, and the potential of mobile and changeable platforms in the institutional infrastructure of art and of society at large.

STORE FRONT
Every Saturday Instant Coffee will be selling necessary accessories and other special items from their new "West Coast Modern" furniture collection, and will on occasion be joined by other designers and artists, including Robert Kleyn and Samuel Roy Bois.

As part of STORE FRONT each Saturday Instant Coffee has invited artists, critics and curators to host a series of low key events.

Making Sense of Things Together
Saturday, February 25th, 12-5pm
As a response to IC’s motto “Get Social or Get Lost,” join artist and critic Amy Fung for an endurance performance/lecture for which she will assembling a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle of a Jackson Pollock painting she inherited at an Edmonton garage sale.

Paper Folding Doodle
Saturday, March 10th, 2-5pm
Kim Kennedy Austin and Graham Kaye will distractedly origami.

General Joke Store
Saturday, March 10, 2-5pm
Artists Aaron Carpenter and Jonathan Middleton have been honing their joke-writing skills over the past year or two. The General Joke Store provides the opportunity to purchase some their recently crafted jokes. An assortment of jokes will be on offer in the “knock-knock”, “lightbulb”, and “chicken crossed the road” genres, as well as a selection of rude and off-color jokes, sure to alienate you from your friends and co-workers.

Paint it Pink
Saturday, March 17th, 12-5pm
Bring it in, Instant Coffee will paint it pink

Pyrography (woodburning) Workshop
Saturday, March 24th, 2-5pm
Come, burn a design on a piece of wood and make a button!

Track Day
Saturday, March 31st, 5-9pm
A slot-car race tournament hosted my Matt Smith.

OTHER EVENTS

Bild N Sound
Goethe Satellite @ Instant Coffee
Saturday, March 10, 8pm
A project by the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with Instant Coffee and Revised Projects

Instant Coffee together with Bernd Milla brings together German artist videos with Vancouver musicians. Milla has programmed a selection of silent videos by German artists, including Hans-Christian Dany, Mirko Martin and Sebastian Stumpf, and in response, Instant Coffee will program Canadian musicians to play a live score.

Island Pavilion Launch
Friday, March 16th, 7pm
Island Pavilion is a Vancouver based production studio specializing in the printing of original and limited edition artworks. The artworks produced with IP are distributed online through www.islandpavilion.org, including work by Christian Oldham, Krist Wood, Nicolas Sassoon, Petra Cortright, Robert Lorayn, Sara Ludy, Francoise Gamma, Laura Brothers, Alexander Peverett, Tabor Robak and Sylvain Sailly.

GOOD NEWS Issue 05 Launch
Saturday, April 7th, 2pm
Instant Coffee will publish the next in their series of "one question" handmade journals. GOOD NEWS Issue 05 will address the question "What constitutes a successful failure?"

Wood Whittling Club
Feb 29th, March 14th, March 18th, 7pm
Every second Wednesday Instant Coffee will host an informal gathering of artists and anyone who wants to whittle and socialize. Wood will be provided, but bring your own carving tools.

Classical Reading Group
March 6, 13, 20, 27, 7pm
Every Tuesday in March Instant Coffee will host a reading group for TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens, a relevant classic for discussing present economic issues. By the way it is the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens.