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CAFÉ FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

wordsby tim sedo

Let’s start off with the name – “Café for Contemporary Art.” If you are anything like me, the name likely conjures up images of rotating community art, questionable open-mic nights and mediocre coffee. The Café for Contemporary Art, however, is nothing like this at all. To get an idea of what’s going on here, you first need to know something about the Café/Gallery’s owner and curator, Tyler Russell, and what he envisioned before he opened up this space in the newly emerging Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood of North Vancouver, BC.