In Picnic For a N(n)ervous System, Von Coffin and Warren Neidich, two artists who each work across a wide gamut of media to explore processes of attention, sense-making, and cognition. Critically engaging with emerging theories of the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended mind, the artists use painting, neon, and sculpture to activate uncommon neural pathways, modulating our world-making capacities towards the emergence of diverse neural architectures—and, correspondingly, new modes of thought and action.

July 11–September 20, 2025

The Gachet Writers Group is a democratically run inclusive writers group that provides space to share stories, receive feedback from peers, take part in writing exercises, and hold discussions. Each session includes time for stream of consciousness writing. Facilitated by Bruce Ray.

Fridays, 10:00am to Noon at Carnegie Community Centre (until Gachet's renovation is completed), 401 Main St, Vancouver, BC V6A 2T7.

Mondays 2-4pm at Gallery Gachet

Community members are invited to drop-in and participate in an open studio environment with facilitators (Kat & Indigo), art materials, and snacks. The facilitation is supportive and there to expand artists' material and conceptual repertoire if desired, or simply there to provide a safe space to create artwork and social connections, on their own terms.

Materials available for participants include pastels, acrylic paint, brushes, felt pens, paper, collage materials, and canvases (dependant on availability).