Intro

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hi i’m sue mcarthur and i’m one of the

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coordinators of aaron artspace

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and i’ve been involved with this group

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for about 10 years

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we started we started down on cook

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street

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in a place called galleries 1580

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and the intent really had been

History

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people were looking for a space an empty

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space to have an art show

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so we saw this building that had a for

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rent sign on it and we

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phoned them and they said oh artists do

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you guys want to write us a proposal and

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maybe you could have a studio here

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so we did and we were there for four and

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a half years

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and then they sold the building so we

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moved over to rock bay and we were there

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for a year and then they sold that

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building

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and then luckily we found this one so

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we’ve been here for four years

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we have eight artists six studios

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and a small exhibition space yeah

What we do

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basically what we wanted to do was we

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wanted to have

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a space that where we could provide

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affordable

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studios for artists so the main focus

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was really the

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the artists studios but then the side

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was the

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was the gallery exhibition space so um

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here at errant we have um

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shows monthly shows from the artists

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that are here the erin artists but then

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also community artists supply to do

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shows

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so we’ve had quite a lot of people

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doing shows here and now that people are

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getting to know us more we’re really

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busy and we have quite a wait list to

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have shows

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so often people want to just do a

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quickie so we’ll have a quick

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weekend pop-up show and that’s been

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popular and it’s been popular with

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some of the grad students at visa

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vancouver island school of art had their

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grad show here

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just last month and that’s kind of how

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we started it was a good it was a space

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for emerging artists

Artists

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and the artists that are here some of

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them have been with us ever since

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we started at um gallery 1580

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and lately we’ve had a turnover so we do

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have some new artists

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i just moved from toronto

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in march and i had a space in toronto

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and so this was such a great place to

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land

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and meet community and

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i feel really grateful that i can be

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included

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in this and in the being able to show my

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work

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and this allows me to

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to keep working and i come here almost

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every day of the week

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so it’s fantastic the show in the

Exhibition

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exhibition space right now is a pop-up

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show so there’s

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pieces from all the eight artists and

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from amber mcgregor who’s our social

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media coordinator my name is amber

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mcgregor

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and i am the social media coordinator of

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aaron artspace

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um i’m not actually an active

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artist within the space itself um

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but i got involved uh because my husband

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is one of the artists here

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kyle lebinski so i’m here kind of

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supporting

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him and supporting all the other artists

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that are here and i just um

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kind of work to make the

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space more i guess noticed it’s

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interesting to see

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kind of what happens when artists move

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into the space and like how they kind of

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interact with each other and each

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other’s work and

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how that changes their work and um

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i know that’s always really interesting

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to kind of be a part of the gallery has

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been open

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um since last september like

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so cobot happened and then everything

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kind of shut down and then um

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we were kind of given the the green

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light to reopen as long as we followed

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the protocol so that’s been really good

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like just to have

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like the space open and have artists

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able to show their work and

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um have the public able to come in and

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look at work um safely

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which has been kind of an important

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thing just over the last little while

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because a lot of

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places have you know had to shut down or

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you know haven’t had

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um that ability so it’s been i think

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like a really good kind of thing and

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also for the community here just to have

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a space to kind of

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be able to go do something you know like

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go outside

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yeah so that’s been really good

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