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some new, some inscribed with theirhistories, others uprooted – their origins,makers and journeys erased orforgotten.Museum of Vancouver1100 Chestnut St, Vanier Park✆604-736-4431www.museumofvancouver.catues-sun 10am-5pm, thurs 10am-8pm. Admission: adults $12, seniors& students $10, youth 5-17 $8,children 4 and under free, family (2adults & 2 youth) $35. Thru Jan 1Bhangra.me: Vancouver’s BhangraStory, interactive exhibit chroniclesBhangra music, dance and politics inVancouver. Dance in the Performers’Lounge, listen to local DJ-curatedplaylists and hear about Bhangra’ssocial, political and anti-racism history;Thru Aug 12 Neon Vancouver/UglyVancouver, Vancouver’slove/hate relationship with neonsigns – look at the colour, light anddazzle of the 50s, 60s and 70s, andthe visual purity crusade that virtuallybanished neon signs from Vancouverstreets; Ongoing VancouverHistory Galleries stories from theearly 1900s to the late 1970s.Omega Gallery4290 Dunbar St ✆604-732-6778www.omegagallery.camon-sat 10am-5pm. Nov 1-Dec 31Bortolo Marola, Tian Xing Li,Jeanette Jarville, Yuen Yen Yip,Hugo, Tong-Xin Liang, Roz Marshalland Ai Wei Zhang, “WinterGroup Show”, works in oil, acrylic,watercolour and pastels.Jutai Toonoo, One Eyed Season, oil stickon paper [Madrona Gallery, Victoria BC,Nov 5-19]ON MAIN @ Gallery 19651965 Main St ✆604-872-7713www.onmaingallery.comwww.youtube.comoffonmainwed-fri 12pm-5pm and by appt.Thru Nov 4 Vancouver Part 2, salonstyle exhibition featuring works celebratingVancouver art and artistsfrom the collection of Rick Erickson,curated by Michael Turner; CANADALINE SUBWAY VIDEO SCREENS “10 Seconds”,year-long series of 10-secondmedia artworks by Vancouverartists, Dec 5-18 Tony Pantages;Jan 16-31 Douglas Coupland,curated by Paul Wong, commissionedby the City of Vancouver PublicArt Program.Or Gallery555 Hamilton St ✆604-683-7395www.orgallery.orgtues-sat 12-5pm. Thru Dec 10 Studiesin Decay: Raymond Boisjoly,Jordy Hamilton, Laura Piasta, theworks offer a meditation on decay,while simultaneously seeking touncover the transformative potentialhidden within the patterns of everydaylife; Jan 14-Feb 18 Annika Rixen,“Sciences of Observation”.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 57