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Generating art production, study and exchange between and among multiple generations of artists, Collective Acts presents new work by Dana Claxton, Jeneen Frei Njootli and the ReMatriate Collective, Christine D鈥橭nofrio and Heather Kai Smith. With a focus on labour and the spirit of intergenerational knowledge exchange, workshops and social events will explore self-organization, as they intervene in the site of the Gallery. Resulting from research into the archive of the Service, Office and Retail Workers鈥� Union of Canada (SORWUC), Dana Claxton reinterprets a photograph from the Union鈥檚 1978 protest action against the Muckamuck Restaurant in collaboration with members of ReMatriate Collective, and creates a workspace for the production of ribbon skirts in collaboration with Jeneen Frei Njootli. Sourced from photographic archives, Heather Kai Smith鈥檚 drawings cite women鈥檚 gatherings and protests, the collaborative production of art, as well as consciousness-raising and collective organizing. Using multiple scales and formats, the drawings schematize the spirit of self-organization that persists into the present day. Christine D鈥橭nofrio presents an interactive online databasel 鈥� www.intuitioncommons.com 鈥� installed in the Gallery in which contributors nominate their influencers with visual connections and overlapping stories, keywords and links, in a tangled rhizomatic archive. The history of the Salish Weavers Guild, a collective most active in the 1970s, is examined in a project by Jordan Wilson, and beyond the Gallery walls, Frei Njootli鈥檚 sound piece permeates the vicinity while ReMatriate Collective contributes an exterior banner festooning the Belkin鈥檚 south fa莽ade.