Each location for FLEET will bring different contexts and opportunities for arts and culture programs. FLEET programs are guided by place, local community needs, and how to best advocate for and alongside ongoing arts and culture activities in each location. FLEET explores collaborative models for how the studios are used, engaged with, and activated over the course of the studio’s stay in a location.
Programs are delivered by a small team consisting of artists, arts workers, curators, planners, and architects. The team’s approach is to build and sustain responsive, respectful, and reciprocal relationships with artists, community partners, municipalities, and the public with a priority of removing and/or reducing systemic barriers to access FLEET as a resource.
The inaugural year of FLEET programming reflects these ongoing relationships through the lenses of care and community.
Upcoming Programs
Visiting Artist: Kay Slater
During Slater’s October 2024 residency at FLEET: Granville Island, they will explore creative access and wayfinding using low-fi and AR technology, prototype an accessible exhibition space, and continue their practice of non-verbal/radical silence within this visible and active public space.
Open Call for Emerging Artists from xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwxwú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ and Urban Indigenous Communities
FLEET is seeking applications from emerging artists from xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ and Urban Indigenous Communities for artist residencies at FLEET: Granville Island. This is a self-directed residency for artists and cultural practitioners to develop their practice, create work, or engage with the community. Residency periods are four weeks long, and will take place in winter 2024-2025.
FLEET: Granville Island Open House with Kay Slater
Join Kay Slater at FLEET: Granville Island for an Open House. A lightly programmed evening at the FLEET mobile artist studios on Granville Island. When the patio is not engaged in performance and presentations, visitors are welcome to tour the trailer at their own pace. An interactive video game is available throughout the evening for visitors to try on their devices (using free wifi on the island), and a small print series will be available for sale by donation. See program and access notes below.
