Creativity Workshop

September 13, 2022 @ 4:30pm – 5:30pm

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George Vergette is a visual artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He studied at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver as well as Kwantlen University College in Richmond. Working with a range of traditional and contemporary mediums, Vergette draws formal and thematic parallels between art history and forgotten or discarded aspects of contemporary society. He is known for his large scale process based paintings utilizing layers of epoxy resin or sprayed on acrylic as well as text work that investigates common assumptions of understanding.
Vergette’s work is held in many public and private collections across Canada and the United States including The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Cannacord Collection, The Canadian Art Bank, The Nordstrom Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, The Tanenbaum Collection and Holt Renfrew.

Chef Angus An is one of Vancouver’s most influential chef-restaurateurs, with six restaurants and eateries comprising his restaurant family: Fat Mao Noodles, Freebird Chicken Shack, Longtail Kitchen, Maenam, Popina Canteen, and Sen Pad Thai.

Chef Angus’s flagship restaurant, Maenam, has received many local and international accolades, among them 2016 Restaurant of the Year (Vancouver magazine), 2018’s Top 25 Restaurants in Canada (En Route magazine), and has been named one of Zagat’s Top 200 restaurants in the world. Chef Angus has also twice been invited to cook at a prestigious culinary showcase at James Beard House. In May 2020 Chef Angus will publish his first cookbook, Maenam: A Fresh Approach to Thai Cooking.

A flavour-driven chef, Angus’s cuisine is rooted in technique; his combined fine-arts and French culinary training allow him to see cooking as a balance of art and science, resulting in recipes built on tradition, innovation and presentation.