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THERE ARE THEMES SO SOUL CRUSHING
and yet so consistently, quintessentially Vancouver
that you could almost set your watch to them.
Rent goes up, art space goes down. Lease expires,
rehearsal space goes silent. Music venue opens, nearby
condo owners protest endlessly.
Look no further than the disappearance of the
Media Club, Richard's on Richards, 901 Main St. and
any number of East Vancouver arts spaces for proof of
the erosion of the city's cultural mosaic.
But one Vancouver institution has somehow been
able to punch up and keep fight-
ing the good fight.
Little Mount ain Galler y
ce lebrated its re-opening on
Gastown's Water Street on April
12 with a 24-hour comedy show
featuring Juno-nominated comic
Graham Clark and jokes from a
rotating cast of his fellow local
comedians.
It was something of a full-
circle moment, as Clark headed
up a similar marathon before the
group was demovicted out of its
old digs in late 2021.
Despite
cost
overruns,
relocation
problems
and
red
tape
disasters,
Vancouver
comedy
staple
Little
Mountain
Gallery
has
found
new
life
in
Gastown
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