Lunar New Year ✿ Year of the Monkey!

Vancouver Art and Leisure presents ✿ YEAR OF THE MONKEY ✿ Lunar New Year Celebration 7000sf Warehouse Exhibition Music, Art, Installations, and Performances Asian artist showcase! 10pm-late! For this very unique event we have put together an extraordinary showcase of contemporary Vancouver Asian artists including installation, drag, performance, video, DJs, and producers. They will present works in a variety of spaces: The Dragon’s Den, The Monkey Forest and the Red Lantern Lounge. This is a cross-cultural, post-colonial, queer-friendly, liberated space! WE WISH YOU GOOD FORTUNE, LUCK, AND HAPPINESS THIS LUNAR NEW YEAR VANCOUVER! ✿ MUSIC ✿ Move to the beats of 5 DJs offering an electic range of sounds from Nu Disco, House & Techno. Sound sponsored by Application Audio! ❀ Kevin Kao ❀ (UnderG) https://soundcloud.com/hideout-music-1/hideout-podcast-001-kevin-kao ❀ Mattilda Ho ❀ (BluePrint) https://soundcloud.com/mattildaho ❀ Bey ❀ (Denim Vest) https://www.facebook.com/heydjbey ❀ Don Chow ❀ https://www.facebook.com/donchow.net/ ❀ The Sly Virus ❀ https://soundcloud.com/the-sly-virus ❀ Curated by Paul Wong ❀ http://onmaingallery.com/ ❀ Hosted by Natasha Neale ❀ https://twitter.com/nneale ✿ ART ✿ Join us in multiple unique rooms, specially curated and decorated to make a wonderous Lunar experience! ❀ Special Performances by Dynasty ❀ https://www.instagram.com/empress.dynasty/ ❀ Custom Installations by Instant Coffee ❀ https://twitter.com/instantxcoffee ❀ Video Art by Jennifer Chan ❀ http://jennifer-chan.com/ ❀ Visuals by Paul Wong Projects ❀ http://paulwongprojects.com/ ❀ Video Screening by Nancy Lee ❀ http://nancylee.ca ✽ There will be special Red Lucky Money Bags for all Monkeys born 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992. ✽ People born in a year of the Monkey are witty, intelligent, and have a magnetic personality. Personality traits, like mischievousness, curiosity, and cleverness, make them very naughty! ✿ SAFETY ✿ Please join us for this cross-cultural mashup of art of Vancouver diverse communities. This is anti-racist, safe space for all genders, shapes, sizes ,ages and sexualities. 19+. Wheelchair accessible. ✿ TICKET INFO ✿ $15 Advance through Ticketzone. Tickets go on sale Monday Feb 1 at 2pm. This eveny will sell out! ✿ MORE INFO ✿ Paul Wong is an artist and curator, known for producing some of the best art happening and parties in Vancouver including the Mainstreeters Drag Ball (Fox Cabaret 2015), Revolution Counter Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery FUSE (2014), Thru The Trapdoor (On Main Gallery 2014) and for his spectacular series of site specific events ‘5’ staged during the 2010 Winter Olympics Vancouver Art and Leisure is a non-profit artist group located at 1965 Main Street in the building formerly occupied by VIVO Media Art Centre and On Main Gallery. VAL is one of many new emerging art centres supported by City of Vancouver Indoor Arts and Culture program.