Painting By Lisa Ochowycz
http://www.lisaochowycz.ca/


*Opening Night: Friday November 24th 5-10pm
25th, 26th 11am-6pm

infotainment by Dorothy-June Fraser

The 10th anniversary of the Crawl has arrived! As for those of us who were born and bred here, I have memories of going to open studios in Strathcona from the time I was an annoying teenager; that's not just because my father used to play in a kazoo band and my mother is a hula dancer. I swear.
But for those among us who have transplanted (so many; after all, it is a port city), the Crawl is a staple of East Van. In this year's message form the Executive Director, Val Arntzen, she congratulates the festival as becoming one of the best "Visual Arts Festivals in Western Canada…"
Seeing that we have, here in Van, such a population of artists, and such a saturation of them in East Van, why not celebrate that for ten years, there's been the Crawl?
Couple that with the fact that the West Side has Artists in Our Midst in the summer, the Crawl stands out to myself at least as one of our good ol' People's Republic of East Vancouver events. The year excitement is upon me, as it is the organizers of the festival:
"…when I took over 8 years ago, we had 150 artists in 14 buildings… now we have 43 buildings, almost 300 artists and we are a non-profit society with 9 of our 10 board members being artists", said exec Arntzen.
So, any highlights and plugging you say?
I say walk it all, and not to mention, you could also the do the very chicest of chic and have a couple tallboys in your bag, to make the distance seems less, or the pockets lighter. But I have to say, it is a good chance to do that xmas shopping outside of mall.
Celebrate the Crawl, it's decade, and decades to come…

*opening night has cheese and wine usually.
What starving East Van artist can resist that?