Arts & Culture
Light and Sound at the New Media Gallery
A free contemporary gallery on the third floor of the Anvil Centre, programming international artists who work in light, sound and code.
Downtown, Anvil Centre
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A free contemporary gallery on the third floor of the Anvil Centre, programming international artists who work in light, sound and code.
Downtown, Anvil Centre
More infoThe New Media Gallery is the most surprising thing in downtown New Westminster: a small municipal gallery on the third floor of the Anvil Centre that consistently books artists you would expect to find in a European kunsthalle, all of them working in light, sound, video and code. Admission is free. Rooms go dark, things hum, and twenty minutes disappear while you work out how one of the pieces is done. Through 2026 the space is handed to an artist in residence, Ben Bogart, making work in the gallery itself, so what is on show is the making rather than a finished exhibition.
Take the lift to the third floor of the Anvil Centre and walk straight in, because admission is free and there is no desk to negotiate. It opens Thursday to Saturday, ten to five, so check the site before you commit the trip. Give it an hour: the works are large, dark and time based, and the whole thing falls flat if you march through. Through 2026 the gallery is given over to artist in residence Ben Bogart making work on site, so expect a studio in progress rather than a hung show. Columbia Street, the SkyTrain and the Pier Park boardwalk are all within two minutes when you come out.
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