Where ART Thou? Sardines in Chinatown

In today’s episode of ‘Glo Says Let's Talk Local’ podcast - Season 5 - What ART thou? Where ART thou? (A weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Arts Podcast) host Gloria Chong brings listeners to Chinatown today. Gloria discusses and explores along with co-host Kristen about all the art that we can see and enjoy in this neighbourhood Chinatown.  Gloria also shares whom she will be interviewing in the upcoming episodes.Episode Highlights02.50: - Gloria asks Kristen a little bit about any offer in Chinatown galleries, big installations, some special exhibition or what they should see.07:00: - The host & the guest both talk about the size of these ‘Art & Media Galleries’ in Chinatown, Centre A, Canton Sardine08:45: - Kristen states that there are several Artist Run Galleries located across Lower Mainland like ‘The Western Front’, ‘Grunt Gallery’, etc.10:50: - Kristen mentions that besides the Artist Run Galleries is the Rennie Museum.12:50: - “We touched on this when we were talking before, ‘Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden’, which is a garden, but it also has contemporary art things  15:06: - Gloria says, “It's not just an ordinary garden that we would think of as a beautiful garden with lots of beautiful colours & lots of different patterns and different types and blooming at different times.”17:00: - Kristen also mentions "A Seat at the Table"  at the  ‘Chinese Canadian Museum’ and ‘Museum of Vancouver’ (old Planetarium)20:30: - She says that in recent years there have been a whole slew of new businesses, eateries, coffee shops opening-up a whole bunch of vegan restaurants.22:40: - Kristen says that there are a few food joints/ eateries she has wanted to try including ‘Thank you pizza’ and ‘Honeybee’.24:40: - Gloria states that she thinks it's time to spend the day down Chinatown and check it out.Key PointShe says that when you go to Chinatown, there are all these things you can see in terms of Art but of course, people also go to Chinatown for food! Hosts Quotes:Centre A is the only Public Art Gallery in Canada dedicated to contemporary Asian Art and Asian Diasporic Art – Gloria ChongBob Rennie is  a very established Art Collector, very serious Collector, and he collects artists from sort of when they're emerging and throughout their entire career – Kristen LimFind usInstagram @glosaysInstagram @kristin.art.travel