Steph Wong Ken peers at the enclosing pressure to extend the life of our arts organizations, where Alberta’s charitable gaming model provides artist-run centres thousands of dollars of provincial funding in exchange for volunteer shifts at licenced gambling establishments. Wong Ken notes that this casino funding model is at least more transparent than the often-confusing gamble of bureaucratic government granting processes.

Steph Wong Ken asks if the influx of online open letters addressed to the Canadian art world might gather a form of social power, even as implicated parties remain materially unaffected.

Guest Editor Steph Wong Ken reflects on the issue’s theme: Chinatown

Steph Wong Ken surveys five organizations working at the intersections of art, activism, and community building in Canada’s Chinatowns—integral hubs for generations of newcomers from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Vietnam which continue to evolve in the face of racism, gentrification, and displacement.

Steph Wong Ken reviews Alyssa ‘Sikapinakii’ Duck Chief’s exhibition, I’m Only Going to Show You Once, Now You Try, at Stride Gallery Project Space, Calgary.

Steph Wong Ken reviews Varvara & Mar’s exhibition Chameleon at The New Gallery, Calgary. (April 6 – May 11, 2019).

Steph Wong Ken reviews Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal’s three-month long project Mekinawewin, to give a gift at Untitled Art Society, Calgary. (January 12 – March 23, 2019).