Laiwanette
@laiwanette.bsky.social
Artist, writer, educator, cultural planner, fig. Toisan ancestry. Based on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Of The Tao, The Way, Wu Wei, Wabi Sabi countering what is existentially ill advised in contemporary production / performance of doing / overdoing — hyper digital intelligence not from 400BCE nor from 1423, but accelerating the last 31 of 200 years of waste in the name of doing 💅
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Of The Tao, The Way, Wu Wei, Wabi Sabi countering what is existentially ill advised in contemporary production / performance of doing / overdoing — hyper digital intelligence not from 400BCE nor from 1423, but accelerating the last 31 of 200 years of waste in the name of doing 💅
A few pieces now up at the exhibition “En Route: mobile forms of art & education” that opened at the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University on Sept 11, 2025
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
September 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A few pieces now up at the exhibition “En Route: mobile forms of art & education” that opened at the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University on Sept 11, 2025
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
Sign and share 🔥 www.cjpme.org/no_more_loop...
September 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sign and share 🔥 www.cjpme.org/no_more_loop...
Please join us for the opening of En Route: mobile forms of art & education on Thurs, Sept 11, 6pm.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
August 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Please join us for the opening of En Route: mobile forms of art & education on Thurs, Sept 11, 6pm.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
Gratitude for abundance and generosity of the earth when left to do what she does - fruit picked from the backyard of a friend’s house that’s a rental with over a dozen different fruit varieties and a vegetable garden 🦋💕
August 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gratitude for abundance and generosity of the earth when left to do what she does - fruit picked from the backyard of a friend’s house that’s a rental with over a dozen different fruit varieties and a vegetable garden 🦋💕
Enthusiastic giant zucchini from our backyard 💕
July 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Enthusiastic giant zucchini from our backyard 💕
Stormy clouds late afternoon, sea swoons, dramatic storm now thunder and lightning 💫
June 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Stormy clouds late afternoon, sea swoons, dramatic storm now thunder and lightning 💫
Lives of little clouds, hover and over, little islands ✨
June 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Lives of little clouds, hover and over, little islands ✨
why plant beds are called beds as the shape of the body that lay here imprints leaves for me a breath of rest an arrest of flower friends invading dreams within this little body bed
May 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
why plant beds are called beds as the shape of the body that lay here imprints leaves for me a breath of rest an arrest of flower friends invading dreams within this little body bed
Advance voted. Done. 💫
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
April 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Advance voted. Done. 💫
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
April 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
March 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Flowers for ancestors, with gratitude ✨🪷💫
March 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Flowers for ancestors, with gratitude ✨🪷💫
And Arts & Culture 🔥
I literally want my tax dollars to support national, provincial and city parks, Arts & Culture, science, education, conservation, mental health, and helping marginalized people.
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I literally want my tax dollars to support national, provincial and city parks, Arts & Culture, science, education, conservation, mental health, and helping marginalized people.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
And Arts & Culture 🔥
I literally want my tax dollars to support national, provincial and city parks, Arts & Culture, science, education, conservation, mental health, and helping marginalized people.
🔥💕
I literally want my tax dollars to support national, provincial and city parks, Arts & Culture, science, education, conservation, mental health, and helping marginalized people.
🔥💕
Did you know that Spartacus Books is a nonprofit, volunteer-run bookstore & resource centre in Vancouver that has been run collectively for 50 years, where you can hangout, read books & magazines, use the free computer, make friends, circulate zines, access local skill sharing & mutual aid networks?
February 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Did you know that Spartacus Books is a nonprofit, volunteer-run bookstore & resource centre in Vancouver that has been run collectively for 50 years, where you can hangout, read books & magazines, use the free computer, make friends, circulate zines, access local skill sharing & mutual aid networks?
Each year on February 14, communities across Canada & United States gather for the Women’s Memorial March to honour the lives of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit & Gender-Diverse People (MMIWG2S+). This day offers a space to collectively mourn, hold ceremony & call for action.
February 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Each year on February 14, communities across Canada & United States gather for the Women’s Memorial March to honour the lives of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit & Gender-Diverse People (MMIWG2S+). This day offers a space to collectively mourn, hold ceremony & call for action.
No more stolen sisters. Blessings to the strength and courage of warrior sisters and organizers 34 years on. End all colonial violence🧡
February 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
No more stolen sisters. Blessings to the strength and courage of warrior sisters and organizers 34 years on. End all colonial violence🧡