The Blue Cabin

05/01/2026

We're Hiring! Could you be the Blue Cabin's Grant Writer and Donor Development Coordinator? We'd love to hear from you. Visit thebluecabin.ca/job-call-development-coordinator for full details and application requirements. Deadline to apply: May 10, 2026.

Term: 1 year contract
Hours: Remote, Part-time (20 hours/week) potential for hours to increase, funding dependent
Salary range: $35-40/hr based on experience
Reporting to: Blue Cabin Cooperative Board

The Blue Cabin Cooperative Grant Writer/Donor Development Coordinator (GW/DDC) works closely with Blue Cabin members to grow/strengthen the organization’s programming and operating capacity. Their work upholds the BCC’s mandate and public image and their actions contribute to delivering funding that supports the BCC’s mission and vision.

The GW/DDC works closely with Blue Cabin Cooperative’s (BCC) Board to grow the operating budget and revenue streams, and to develop future programming initiatives (2027- 2029). They will undertake grant-writing, and donor relations/management. They will connect with partners, funders, patrons, and other key partners. They will also work with the BCC’s facilities team for fundraising in relation to the cabin’s equipment and infrastructure needs. If fundraising efforts are successful there is potential for this role to extend longer than a year.

09/02/2025

Next week, the Blue Cabin Cooperative and grunt gallery welcome multidisciplinary artist Noelle Lee as artist-in-residence at the Blue Cabin from September 7 - October 18!

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆
Lee will use her time in residence from to further explore solo and group sound and movement improvisation for performance. She will also continue work on a hair felted head piece and a revised design for a set of hand made fish leather wings.

Stay tuned for programming announcements!

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗲
Noelle Lee is a local interdisciplinary, process-based artist, working predominantly with dance, performance, and visual arts. Her work is an exploration of improvisation, sound, movement, wearable sculptures, and land-based materials. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lee has a Cantonese-Hong Kongese mother, and a Fujianese father raised between Hong Kong and Makassar, Indonesia.

Lee’s work is influenced and guided by elders and teachers, Haruko Okano, David Zambrano, Horacio Macuacua, Mark Young, Hisao Ichikawa, those at the EDAM Dance Center, Delia and Billy Metcalf, and Indigenous elders Keith and Karen Chiefmoon of the Kainai Nation. In the past few years Lee has worked with Primary Colours/Couleurs Primaire, Full Circle: First Nations Performance, 221A, Arrivals Legacy Project, and Rungh Cultural Society; and has performed and exhibited at What Lab, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Eastvan Vodville Cinema, Lobe Studio, and the Vancouver Mountainview Cemetery. Lee has upcoming collaborations with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and Deer Lake Artist Residency.

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📷 Portrait of Noelle Lee. Photo by Kyra Fay.

07/30/2025

Performance Lecture with Simon Grefiel
Thursday, August 7
Starting at 6:00pm

📍 Blue Cabin is currently situated at Heritage Harbour, north of the Vancouver Maritime Museum (1905 Ogden Ave, Vancouver).

You’re invited to a special live performance by artist-in-residence Simon Grefiel on Thursday August 7th from 6 - 8pm at the Blue Cabin. Capacity is limited; please email [email protected] to register and secure your spot!

Simon Grefiel will present a speculative performance lecture, drawing on his recent experiences connecting with q***r artist communities in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore; as well as the story of Enrique de Malacca, who circumnavigated the world as a translator and slave on Ferdinand Magellan’s ship. The speculative opens space for stories beyond what has been recorded in history and what is too dangerous to record in the present, to share possibilities of what could have been, what might be, and how communities have connected, collaborated, transformed and endured.

You don’t want to miss this! Directions and accessibility information for the Blue Cabin can be found in our FAQ - link in our bio.

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📷 Photo of the Blue Cabin interior during Simon Grefiel’s residency. Courtesy of the Artist.

07/14/2025

This summer, the Blue Cabin Cooperative and grunt gallery are thrilled to welcome multidisciplinary artist Simon Grefiel as artist-in-residence at the Blue Cabin from July 20 - August 17!

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆
Simon has already begun his residency from across the Pacific and has been working closely with q***r Southeast Asian underground music communities, documenting their stories and practices, and exploring their cultural influence across islands and the Filipino diaspora. This project is rooted in Simon’s ongoing work around the concept of ‘Banua’ — encompassing the poetics of belonging, culture, village, customs, and also sometimes signifying heaven, placenta, sky, underworld, nation, and wild grass.

📅 On August 7th 6-8pm, you’re invited to a performance lecture by Simon Grefiel at the Blue Cabin. Stay tuned for details and RSVP information.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹
Simon Grefiel is an artist whose work engages with ancient and colonial histories and practices from Southeast Asia and around the Pacific. Working with sculpture, found objects, drawings, and plant life, his explorations of language, dreams, spirits, familial stories and speculative narratives propose new ways of experiencing the supernatural realm and material universe. Grefiel is a Waray-Waray speaker born and raised in Tacloban City, Philippines and currently lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His work has been exhibited and screened at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ground Floor Art Centre, the Libby Leshgold Gallery, Gallery TPW in Toronto, and grunt gallery.

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📷 Self portrait of Simon Gefiel. Courtesy of the Artist.

07/09/2025

Thank you to Carole Itter for spending the past six weeks in residence at the Blue Cabin. From May 21 to June 29, Carole returned to the cabin - a place she describes as “paradise,” and one that served as her home and studio with Al Neil for over three decades.

During her stay, Carole worked to refit the interior with many original furnishings and artworks, and focused on reconstructing the Stan Douglas photograph of the cabin’s interior as it was when she and Neil lived there. The residency also gave her the time and space to capture raw footage for a new film project, much of it on the beach near the cabin.

We’re honoured to have welcomed Carole back after 11 years away, and grateful to see the Blue Cabin once again serve as a place of solace and creation.

📷 1: Film shoot on Teetotaler’s Beach after the completion of Act Three— “Younger Goose with Oversized Wings (held up by four puppeteers) Struggles Across the Beach”. On the left wing: Beth Agosti, Ana Valine, Mo Gafney, Anna deCourcy as the younger goose, Carole Itter. On the right wing: Sharon Bayly, Esther Rausenberg, Allison Hrabluik, Karen Kazmer, Rachel Topham. Photographer unknown.

📷 2: Film crew working in in the Blue Cabin deckhouse. Credit: Carole Itter

06/18/2025

Thanks to everyone who came out to Carole Itter’s open house and artist talk events last Wednesday! We had over 25 people attend the talk, where Carole presented a slideshow on the many assemblages that Al Neil and her worked on at the Blue Cabin when it was located on the North shore near Cates park.

The Blue Cabin, along with being their home, was also an indoor and outdoor studio for Itter and Neil. They were able to create several large scale pieces mostly from the found objects that washed up on shore.

After 11 years, it’s wonderful to have Carole return to what has her place of solace and a place of creation for over 3 decades. Learn more about Carole Itter’s residency, their history with the Blue Cabin, and more through the link in our bio.

Presented by the Blue Cabin Cooperative and Creative Cultural Collaborations (C3), Carole Itter’s residency takes place from from May 21 to June 29. During her stay, Itter will be refitting the cabin with many of the original furnishings, works of art, and other objects. Two days of the residency will also include the production of a short film on the beach near the cabin.

📷 1-4: Photo of the Carole Itter’s open house at the Blue Cabin. Credit: Esther Rausenberg
📷 1-4: Photo of the Carole Itter’s talk at the Blue Cabin. Credit: Colin Griffiths

06/03/2025

Open House & Artist Talk with Carole Itter
Wednesday, June 11
Starting at 12pm / Artist Talk at 5pm

📍 Blue Cabin is currently situated at Heritage Harbour, north of the Vancouver Maritime Museum (1905 Ogden Ave, Vancouver).

Join us for an open house beginning at noon on Wednesday, June 11th, with an informal talk starting at 5:00pm with current artist in residence Carole Itter.

Itter will be refitting the Cabin with many of its original furnishings, works of art, and other objects during her stay. She is using as her template the iconic photograph by Stan Douglas, which was taken of the cabin interior in 2013. During her six-week residency, two days will include making a short film on the beach near the cabin. The eight-person cast and crew are all mid-career women filmmakers and photographers.

Seating is limited, as the barge may list. Please RSVP to [email protected] if you are planning to attend.

Carole will be in the Blue Cabin from May 21 through June 29th. If you are interested in booking an appointment to visit Itter, you can contact her by email while she’s there: [email protected]

📷 Photo of the Blue Cabin Interior by Esther Rausenberg

11/14/2024

https://vancouversun.com/news/blue-cabin-squatter-shack-vancouver-maritime-museum-heritage-harbour

The Blue Cabin has a new home at the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s Heritage Harbour. Not bad for a modest squatter’s shack built in the 1920s.

10/25/2024

The Blue Cabin is so pleased to support the weaving work and mentorship practices of Chief Janice George and Willard Buddy Joseph with a residency collaboration between The Blue Cabin, Vancouver Maritime Museum (official), and Museum of Vancouver, and Museum of Vancouver. Chief Janice George and Buddy Joseph are teaching a closed group of intermediate weavers throughout this October and November.

On November 2nd an artist talk will be held at the Museum of Vancouver to share their insights and explore the cultural significance of their weaving practice. Registration link available via Museum of Vancouver.

09/21/2024

We are on the move again... next stop Vanier Park.

For Immediate Release: The Blue Cabin is Moving - https://mailchi.mp/thebluecabin/for-immediate-release-the-blue-cabin-is-moving