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Fonds consists of administrative records, event documentation (photographic and moving images), artist information, and publicity created by CURRENT organizers and volunteers, from June to August 2017.

Fonds consists of administrative records, collective meeting minutes, event documentation and outreach, program planning, publicity, as well as contact and correspondence files created by the First Nations Video Collective. Records primarily relate to special projects and initiatives carried out when San Dee Doxtdator was the coordinator for the Collective. Materials also include photographs and videos produced during the course the 1997 First Nations Intensive Video Production Course.

The collection consists of episodes, specials, and much of the surviving raw footage from the 1980s TV series Gayblevision. The collection also contains writing and photographs documenting the history of Gayblevision. Gayblevision was Canada’s first TV series produced “by gay people for gay people”. It was broadcast on Vancouver Cable 10 through its West End Neighbourhood production centre (located in the West End Community Centre) between 1980 and 1986. Gayblevision is a priceless window into Vancouver’s LGBTQ communities during years of tremendous growth and upheaval, documenting the LGTBQ people, organizations, businesses and events that defined Vancouver West End’s Davie Village in the early 1980s. The series aired monthly on the first and third Tuesday of the month. In addition to regular episodes, Gayblevision also produced a series of in-depth specials.

The collection is divided into 3 series:

1. Episodes and specials
2. Textual records and graphic materials
3. Oral histories

Fonds contains books from the personal library of John Grayson. The fonds contains 24 publications (primarily books and journals) on the topic of music theory, sound sculpture and soundscape, and unorthodox musical creations/instruments. The majority of the publications in the fonds were published by Grayson's organization The Aesthetic Research Centre. Some of the publications include sheet music, and one publication includes an accompanying musical recording on tape cassette. Titles and authors/editors are as follows:

1. An Environment of Musical Sculpture - ed. John Grayson
2. Biofeedback and the Arts: Results of Early Experiments - ed. David Rosenboom
3. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2
4. The UNESCO Courier, November 1976
5. Cultures, Vol. 1, No. 1
6. Desert Plants: Conversations with 23 American Musicians - Walter Zimmermann
7. Environments of Musical Sculpture You Can Build - ed. John Grayson
8. Five Village Soundscapes - R. Murray Schafer
9. The Gitalamkara: L'ouvrage Original de Bharata sur la Musique
10. Handbook for Acoustic Ecology - ed. Barry Truax
11. Interval: Exploring the Sonic Spectrum, Fall 1983
12. Journal of Experimental Aesthetics, Vol. 1, No. 1
13. The Music of the Environment - ed. Murray Schafer
14. La Musique du Cambodge et du Laos - Alain Danielou
15. New Directions, Nos. 24 & 25
16. Paysage Sonore Urbain: Deux Journees d'Exposition, d'Ecoute, et de Communications - Plan-Construction
17. Pieces: An Anthology - ed. Michael Byron
18. Recherches sur l'Histoire de la Gamme Arabe - J.P.N. Land
19. Sound Sculpture - ed. John Grayson
20. Sound/Sculpture - ed. John Grayson
21. Sound : Space - Bernhard Leitner
22. Soundings, Nos. 7 & 8
23. Toning: The Creative Power of the Voice - Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
24. Vibrations: Making Unorthodox Musical Instruments - David Sawyer

The collection consists of a selection of Meg Torwl's artworks, and the documentation of her artworks, including video and audio, writings (poetry, scripts, and essays), performances, and drawings/paintings. It also includes publicity, biographies, resumes, and proposals. The collection also consists of materials of commemoration, written by people close to Meg following her passing, along with documentation of the 2013 BOLD Fest Woman of the Year Award, bestowed upon Meg posthumously. Finally, the collection includes photographs, primarily snapshots of Meg throughout her life along with her partner Adrienne Bradley. The collection is divided into 6 series:

1. Media
2. Documents
3. Performance Documentation
4. Drawings and Paintings
5. Personal Binders
6. Photographs

Further information about individual items can be found at: http://www.vivomediaarts.com/the-meg-torwl-collection/.

This box is the residue of mail art activity undertaken by Lois Klassen, during the years 1996-1998. In keeping with the project theme, all of the items meet two criteria: the creators identified them as "books" ; and, their creation was enabled by some kind of "collaborative" process. Each book item is labeled with a catalogue number that corresponds to information about it in the box's index, as well as in the original exhibition catalogue. The books found within the box are:

1. Cobaterate This - E.F. Higgins III (USA)
2. Song to the Spirit - Ruggero Maggi (Italy), Marilyn Dammann (USA), Keiichi Nakamura (Japan)
3. A Book of Seals - Dottie (USA), Shmuel (USA)
4. With You - Keiichi Nakamura (Japan), 82 artists from various countries
5. Fertilized Eggs - David Dellafiora (USA), Keiichi Nakamura (Japan)
6. Mail Art Scenarios for Possible Futures - Sophia Martinou (Greece), 96 artists from various countries
7. Summer Rites - Guido Vermeulen (Belgium), Marilyn Dammann (USA), Richard Campbell (USA), Liza Leyla (Belgium)
8. Workball - Serge Segay (Russia), John M. Bennett (USA)
9. [Untitled] - Alfio Fiorentino (Italy), Anna Boschi (Italy)
10. We Challenge You to Top This! - A1 Waste Paper Co. (England), Art Nahpro (England)
11. A Little Book of Words and Pictures - Dotty Seiter (USA), Shmuel (USA)
12. Madonna & Child - Elaine Rounds (Canada), Lois Klassen (Canada)
13. [Untitled] - Baron (USA), John M. Bennett (USA), Robin Crozier (England), Fran Rutkovsky (USA)
14. PIPS 1/98: Engelbox - Claudia Putz (Germany), 38 contributing artists from various countries
15. The Little Book of Fruits and Vegetables - Rhonda (USA), Shmuel (USA)
16. [Untitled] - David Cole (USA), Lavona Sherarts (USA)
17. Books on Fire: the Documentation of the Renegade Library - Lois Klassen (Canada). Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Canada)
18. Bar Stool - David Dellafiora (Australia), 38 additional mail art contributors (Australia)
19. 21 Tulipa - Magda Lagerwerf (Netherlands), various other mail art contributors
20. No Panic - Dietmar Vollmer (Germany)
21. [Untitled] - Emily Joe (USA)
22. VIDAL - Shmuel (USA), Hugo Rene Vidal (Argentina)
23. Só Objetos de Uso Pessoal / Only Personal Things - José Roberto Sechi (Brazil), 355 listed participants
24. Assembling Magazines - Stephen Perkins (USA), numerous contributors of publications in "assembling" format
25. Draw - Marian Butler (Canada), Sylvia Legris (Canada), Judy Bowyer (Canada), Dena Decter (Canada), Lois Klassen (Canada), Jean Klimack (Canada), Catherine MacDonald (Canada), Vida Simon (Canada)

The contents of the Sara Diamond fonds spans her years in Vancouver as a member of the Revolutionary Workers League, Bread and Roses Collective, Amelia Productions, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the Coalition for the Right To View. There are extensive materials related to Diamond’s Women’s Labour History Project, Code Zebra, curatorial projects, critical writing, educational materials, and independent video art.

Types of materials include photographic negatives (35mm) and prints, documents and publications (approx. 30m), audio recordings ( 200+ 1/4″ and compact cassette), video recordings (500+ 3/4″ Umatic, Betacam, Mini-DV), wearable art, and ephemera.

Fonds consists of materials related arising from Terry Ketler's association with the Metro Media Society of Greater Vancouver (Metro Media), of which he was a founding member. Materials include photographs of Metro Media production activities (some in the form of contact sheets, some in the form of larger prints), a personal recollection of the history of Metro Media (written in 2015), and a summary of Metro Media's activities in 1971 and 1972. Also included in the fond are seven 1" video tapes, primarily documenting the Vancouver theatre company Savage Gods, and a Sony AVC-3400 DC 12V Portapac videorecorder.

The fonds consists of records generated by the Satellite Video Exchange Society throughout its history.

Fonds consists of materials related to the life and career of Margaret Dragu, spanning her years as an artist in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. These materials include audio-visual recordings of her many performances, photographs related to both her art and her personal life, and textual records ranging from correspondence and financial statements to creative writing drafts and chapbooks. There is also a substantial amount of newspaper clippings, programs, promotional materials, and general ephemera. Records in this fonds also document her collaborations with artists and organizations such as Tom Dean, Susan Macpherson, Randy Gledhill, The Western Front, and Breakthrough Films.

Types of materials in this fonds include: printed documents and publications, photographs (printed and digital), photographic negatives and slides (35mm), moving image recordings (MiniDV, DVD, VHS, Betacam SP, 3/4 inch videotape: U-matic, 16mm film, 8mm film), and audio recordings (audio cassette tapes).