Vancouver AI Community Meetup poster with peach artwork, July 29 event details, and BC + AI branding.

Vancouver · gathering no. 31

Come for the stories. Stay for the unfinished poem.

An analog-hearted night about art, archives, memory, storytelling, and what it means to keep making human things while the machines get louder.

Date
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Time
6:00–10:00 PM PDT
Place
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

The July lineup

Two makers who keep the human signal intact.

Different practices, same essential question: what is worth making, sharing, and keeping when tools change faster than culture can catch up?

Dave Olson, community builder, storyteller, and archivist visiting from Okayama, Japan.

Visiting from Okayama, Japan

Dave Olson

Community builder, storyteller, archivist, postcard-maker, and poet. Dave’s work moves between zines and databases, field notes and campfires, internet culture and handmade archives.

Explore Dave’s creative archive ↗
Dorothy Pang, visual artist and AI filmmaker.

Visual artist + AI filmmaker

Dorothy Pang

Dorothy is a Vancouver-based visual artist, filmmaker, and creative director working across AI concepting, art direction, and hybrid production. Her work brings craft and story back to the centre of the AI-film conversation.

See Dorothy’s films and visual work ↗
Kris Krüg, host of the Vancouver AI Community Meetup and BC + AI ecosystem organizer.

Your host

Held by the community.

Kris Krüg and the BC + AI crew host a working room for artists, researchers, builders, students, founders, skeptics, teachers, organizers, public-sector folks, and anyone trying to understand what AI is changing.

No magic-machine worship. Bring your demos, doubts, questions, experiments, and half-finished sparks.

Vancouver AI Community manifesto welcoming artists, researchers, builders, skeptics, and curious people.

Why we gather

Curiosity, generosity, and better questions.

Some nights are technical. Some are philosophical. Some get messy in the best way. The through-line is learning in public and building relationships with people who care where this technology goes.

  • Short community talks and demos
  • Room for live questions and unfinished ideas
  • Open networking with Vancouver’s AI community
  • A local, grounded alternative to hype-only tech events

The practical bits

Wednesday night at the Space Centre.

When
July 29, 2026 · 6:00–10:00 PM PDT
Where
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut Street
Format
Community talks, demos, conversation, and open networking
BC + AI vision poster: multi-modal, multi-cultural, radically local, and future-facing.

See you under the dome

Build the future we actually want.

BC + AI is a community-driven nonprofit association turning local meetups into practical, public-interest infrastructure for British Columbia.