Here you will find photos of the past events we have hosted at our McBride Fieldhouse!

NOVEMBER 2025

Jessica Gnyp is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. During her three-month residency at the McBride Fieldhouse artist Jessica Gnyp has created a site-specific sculptural installation inspired by the façade of this former park caretaker’s residence. Gnyp’s recent work is informed by research conducted at the Vancouver Archives tracing the fieldhouse’s original layout, as well as other photographic documentation of this building completed in 1953.

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SEPTEMBER 2025

GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP with @cheung_kristin 💫September 27, 2025
Learn how to identify funding opportunities, write strong proposals, and understand what funders look for. Bring a draft of your grant application to share and receive constructive feedback. The session includes a mock peer-assessment jury, giving you valuable insight into how grants are evaluated.
Leave with practical tools, clearer language, and greater confidence in applying for funding.

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AUGUST 2025

A joyous afternoon facilitated by @alexkmasse and @jamie_aartsy ! They helped folks channel their inner creativity and created a comfortable space for co-creating within the community.

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Nickie Lewis facilitated a wonderful weaving workshop. It was a playful low-pressure workshop where you crafted an enchanting woven heart for your home or garden.

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Comedy Evening was a full house! This event was for stand-up acts that practiced ‘clean comedy’. Everyone had a blast! The Fieldhouse was left simmering with laughter.

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Musicians seated in a circle in the grass area, playing acoustic string instruments such as guitar, fiddle, and mandolin. The musicians played without microphones or speakers, creating a low-key, acoustic music experience that blends naturally into the setting.

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JULY 2025

Víctor Ballesteros is an artist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Ballesteros was our first artist in residence at The Fieldhouse. Find out more below!

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Artist Residency Program

• Víctor Ballesteros – May – July, 2025
  • Víctor Ballesteros is an artist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. During his time at the McBride Fieldhouse artist residency, Ballesteros has further developed his project Arauco Plywall (2023–present), which inquires into the production of plywood and its use in the architecture of galleries and museum display. The use of this material in art exhibitions, through backing in regular and modular walls, shelving, and projection screens, is of particular interest to his practice, as it provides a critical lens through which to examine the geopolitics and extractive economies of the Americas in relation to the history of art display and exhibition architecture. Ballesteros began his residency at McBride Fieldhouse on May 7, 2025, and will continue through to the end of July.

• Jessica Gnyp – September – November, 2025
  • Jessica Gnyp works with a range of materials and media including digital and analogue photographic techniques, scanning, digital processes, video, drawing, sculpture and installation. Jessica Gnyp received an MFA from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia a BFA in photography from Emily Carr University and a BA in anthropology from the University of Victoria. She is a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin and completed a residency at Salzburg International Summer Academy, Austria. She has received Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council awards as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Graduate Scholarship. She has taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and currently teaches at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC. Gnyp started her residency at McBride Fieldhouse on September 1st, 2025, and will be the artist-in-residence until the end of November, during which he will host a public artist talk.