The Salient Group

In a town where sometimes cool can be hard to find, Pecha Kucha Night (PKN) over-delivers the goods. In short: 12-speakers; 20-slides each; 20-seconds per slide; any topic goes. It’s a great format with no time to die on the vine as a speaker. For PKN#4 in October 08, Salient showed up as joint sponsor with Bing Thom Architects. Robert also presented that night. His topic was (surprise) the importance of not losing our architectural heritage, and the amazing spaces that can be created when we save the buildings properly.

However, it was all the other presenters that blew us away. More than anything, the other presenters showed a diversity and talent in our cultural landscape that was hugely refreshing. It led us to the sponsorship of PKN5 in April.

We’ll be back there again, if they’ll have us. PKN#6 is May 21, 2009 – click here for more info (event will sell out, buy your tickets early).

The event series is organized by Cause+Affect and was a huge success with a sold out crowd and inspirational talks from all sorts of Vancouverites.

Belatedly, we’d like to thank the presenters from the evenings that we sponsored.

For PKN#3 on October 23, 2008, we’d like to thank and congratulate:

• Graeme Berglund (Curator/Creator) > The Cheaper Show
• Natalie Purschwitz (Designer) > Hunt & Gather
• Robert Fung (Developer) > The Salient Group
• Josh Dunford (Director) >Burnkit
• Alicia Grunert (Fashion Designer) > Alicia Grunert
• Bob Kronbauer (Art Director) > Mumble
• Ross MacMillian (Designer/Founder) > Industrial Artifacts Inc.
• Clinton Cuddington & Matthew Woodruff, principals, (Measured. Architecture. Inc.)
• Kierstin De West (Conscientious Innovation)
• Chris Allen (Graphic Designer)
• Dick Hardt (Sxip Inc)

For PKN#5, on March 26, 2009, we’d like to thank and congratulate:

• Kris Krüg (President) > Raincity Studios, Founder: Static Photography
• Kelly Deck (Director) > Kelly Deck Design
• Duane Elverum (Assistant Professor, Design) > Emily Carr University
• 1. Matthew Miyagawa (Founder) > Finale Design / VancouverSlop.com
• 2. Vince Chan (Founder, Graphic Designer) > Finale Design
• Dolly Hopkins  (Creative Architect) > Dolly Hopkins
• Jeff Topham (Photographer, Writer, Documentary producer) > Jeff Topham
• Alex Beim  (CEO/Creative Director) > Tangible Interaction
• Campbell McDougall (Owner/Art Director) > Komakino/ Darklands
• Rex Weyler (Independent Author, Journalist, TV and Film writer, Researcher) > Rex Weyler
• Dinka Pignon (Operations & Education Coordinator) > VIVO Media Arts Centre
• Shawna Cox (Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Independent Filmmaker) > iDream Films / CFilmGirl
• Oliver Lang (Architect) > LWPAC

To learn more about Pecha Kucha, see their site. www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/vancouver

Gallery Gachet’s Out of the Rain

Salient is pleased to announce our support of Gallery Gachet’s ‘Out of the Rain’ program.

As artists’ work space is at an all time low in Vancouver, we were pleased to support the program with subsidized work space at street level of our newly completed Flack Block at the corner of Hastings and Cambie. Participants will now have a consistent, dedicated space in which to create artwork for exhibition at Gallery Gachet June 5-28.

Initiated in 2005, the Out of the Rain program is an evolving unique initiative that brings together professional and marginalized artists to promote genuine solutions to homelessness, as well as develop new methods of art production, sustainable art practice, life stability planning, and dissemination. Special emphasis is working closely with those artists who face significant challenges (mental health, housing, addiction, poverty) to maintaining and sustaining a regular art practice but who, in the face of these challenges, persevere to make art as a means of survival and self-expression.

The Coordinators are also working to identify potential retail and internet art sales 

opportunities, and researching and exploring alternative funding sources and potential partnerships to support the program’s sustainability.

Visit the Gallery Gachet online here.