Queering the 29th annual Eastside Culture Crawl
Culture Crawl 2024 - Gore Studio
The 29th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival, returning to the Eastside Arts District from November 20-23, 2025.
Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl is an annual 4-day visual arts festival in November that involves 500+ artists on Vancouver's Eastside opening their studio to the public. The event is focused on the area bounded by Columbia Street, First Ave, Victoria Drive, and the Waterfront and involves painters, jewellers, sculptors, furniture makers, weavers, potters, printmakers, photographers, glassblowers, and more; from emerging artists to those internationally established.
The festival will welcome visitors into the studios and workshops of Eastside artists in more than 80 registered buildings (including 20 added just this year!) across the Eastside Arts District. One of the city’s largest and most popular cultural events of the fall season, the Culture Crawl open studios attract and inspire more than 45,000 visitors annually.
All three of these 2SLGBTQiA+ artists are in the festival for their first time.
Hal Riso
A visual artist and music maker, Hal Riso continually exposes his mental fixations through geometric lines & shapes, primary colours, and graphic prints.
Each piece of artwork reflects inner monologues associated with relationships, love, self-worth, and explores the depths of his ongoing pursuit of clarity, homosexuality, & mental health.
https://culturecrawl.ca/artists/theartsofriso
Claire Anderson
Calire creates concept driven multimedia sculptures with the primary focus being glass. Also silly and fancy stemware. She recently had her first solo show in Montreal and has been in a number of reputable group and two person shows,
https://culturecrawl.ca/artists/clairea-glass
Yvonne Hanson
A Vancouver-based fashion and street photographer. Yvonne works as full time as a fashion photographer, and travels often to work in different cities. She spends hours on foot in each city capturing street photography on film, and strives to create pieces that put her unique spin on famous locations around the world. The majority of her street photography is captured on 35mm film, and many of her works feature multiple exposures captured in-camera. In addition to her work as a photographer, Yvonne creates educational youtube videos and short form content related to photography where she discusses the history, process, and science of the art.