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From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother.

It is an enthralling and unexpected selection, and the anthology resonates beyond this showing. It is from the Eric and Louise Franck collection, which has been donated to the Tate, and is part of the process by which the gallery has very belatedly, but with almost overwhelming enthusiasm, entered into collecting and showing photography as a medium in in its own right, with a very active patrons group supporting acquisitions. One of the benefits of Tate joining the fray is evident in the installation of this show.

Only eight hours til doom. Nick and Sal are faced with a madman who wants nothing more than to burn Bandon to the ground - for the second time since 1936. It's a race against the clock. Unravel clues leading to the arsonist's plan. Call on truckers to battle the inferno. Capture the crazed pyromaniac in a mad-dash train chase. And save a town from an impending firestorm that could kill hundreds and leave Bandon once again in smoldering rubble.

Sometimes, the things that come the easiest are the hardest to keep. Lesson learned. In a bold move, Olivia risks everything to put her name on the lips of the wealthiest art collectors in New York. But before she can achieve her career goals she must reimagine herself as a person, an artist, and a lover.

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