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A highly unconventional residency that offers artists passage aboard cargo ships sailing across the Pacific from Vancouver to Shanghai.

Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Travelling Artist Residency

A highly unconventional residency that offers artists passage aboard cargo ships sailing across the Pacific from Vancouver to Shanghai.
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Access Gallery
Access Gallery
133 backers pledged $12,681 to help bring this project to life.
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First round of rewards ready for pick up in Vancouver!

Hello Vancouverite supporters!

If you selected any of the following rewards, they are ready and waiting for you at Access Gallery!
- postcard
- access rucksack
- blank journal
-... Read more

We're ready to go!


Donors,

Thank you so much for your patience! We wanted to give you an update on the status of your prizes and we're happy to announce that they are now... Read more

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Some thoughts from our first two artists-in-residence about their experience at sea...

Hello everyone,

The filmmaker and writer Lucy Hyslop recently spent some time with our first two artists-in-residence, Elisa Ferrari and Nour Bishouty, and published some of their thoughts in a... Read more

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WE'VE DONE IT! WE'VE MORE THAN DONE IT!

Thanks to your generosity and belief in Twenty-Three Days at Sea (all 133 of you), we've successfully funded this campaign, and raised $12,681 to send more wonderfully talented, critically-engaged emergent... Read more

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Successfully raised $12,682 CAD with 133 backers

We just had the artist proofs of your prints made, and they are gorgeous!!

 We are super proud to be working with the Vancouver-based printer Scott August to produce these limited-edition prints. His colour matching is masterful! We hope to have Vanessa Kwan's drawing... Read more

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Thanks to all of you, we're 100% funded, with one week to go!!

Whew, running a Kickstarter campaign is no small amount of work and worry! It is really gratifying to reach our stated goal of $11,000, but this campaign has achieved something... Read more

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WE ARE 97% FUNDED!!

As of 11:00pm PST, we are only $259 shy of reaching our fundraising goal!! An enormous thank you to all our supporters! Surpassing our campaign goal is now within our... Read more

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WOO HOO!! We've just hit 100 backers!!

Thank you all so much for your support!! That's a lot of friends. 

XO Access Gallery 

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More Press: Vancity Buzz speaks to our artists-in-residence!

This is a really lovely article, which gives particular voice to our residency artists. Thank you Daniel Chai! 

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/08/creative-cargo-access-gallery-artistic-voyage/

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Our campaign has been named one of the "Kings of Kickstarter" by Nubi Magazine!

Check it out! Thanks for the shout out, Nubi!
http://www.nubimagazine.com/kings-kickstarter-xi/

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Update from Nour Bishouty on the MV Hanjin Brussels!

We've just received word that our second resident, Nour Bishouty, currently aboard the MV Hanjin Brussels, is well and calling in at the port in Pusan, Korea. She had the... Read more

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Woohoo!! We are over 50% funded!

Halfway there! Thank you SO much to our generous supporters for backing Twenty-Three Days at Sea in the first weeks of our campaign! Let's keep it going...we can get there!

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Resident Update!

Our second residency artist, Nour Bishouty, currently on board the MV Hanjin Brussels was last tracked just off the coast of Vancouver Island, heading out towards the open Pacific! 

Based... Read more

Scout Magazine profiles Christopher Boyne's beguiling line drawing (with postage stamps)!

"Container ship" was created especially for Twenty-Three Days at Sea's fundraising campaign.The original ink-on-paper drawing is available for one lucky supporter, as are a limited edition series of archival inkjet... Read more

Yet more press on the project, this time from the CBC...

... emphasizing the fact that Vancouver's prohibitive real estate market has in this case helped us to develop a more innovative and unconventional residency program:

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/arts/vancouver-is-so-expensive-these-artists-are-living-at-sea-1.3187129

More press! The Asian art journal Art Radar covers Twenty-Three Days at Sea

http://artradarjournal.com/2015/08/07/twenty-three-days-at-sea-travelling-residency-from-vancouver-to-shanghai-attracts-global-interest/

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Wow! We are 28% funded!

An enormous THANK YOU to all of our supporters thus far! We are 28% of the way there. Whew...let's keep it going.

Hugs from all of us at Access...

xo

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More local press! Thanks to Amanda Siebert at The Georgia Straight for the feature!

http://www.straight.com/arts/504111/artists-will-spend-23-days-sea-during-access-gallery-cargo-ship-residency

Some local press for Twenty-Three Days at Sea

The Vancouver Courier's Cheryl Rossi interviews Elisa Ferrari, our inaugural artist-in-residence (who just returned from her voyage to Shanghai in mid-July) and project curator Kimberly Phillips:

http://www.vancourier.com/entertainment/state-of-the-arts/artists-at-sea-for-unique-residency-program-1.2008777

Important Shipping Information For Locals!

If you live in the Vancouver area and would prefer to pick up your prize from Access Gallery instead of pay for shipping, please select "Faroe Islands" at checkout! And... Read more

Bon voyage Nour Bishouty!

As it turns out, we are launching this Kickstarter campaign on a rather auspicious day, as our second artist-in-residence, Nour Bishouty (based in Beirut, Lebanon) has just boarded the MV... Read more

Woohoo! Our first project backers!

Many thanks to Kate Henderson, GH Dunbar, and Annie Briard, our very first campaign backers! Hugs to you three. xo
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