Francesca Bennett has supported artists’ practices as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations since 2003, mostly in collections, archives, appraisal, and administration.

🔮 ➰ upcoming and ongoing projects

This year, invited by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, and edited by Emily Fedoruk, I wrote a new text, “My grandmother lived through the avant-garde,”, for Dedications, the fall issue of The Capilano Review—available now.
Since January 2024, I have been co-host, with Ratna Dhaliwal, of sleep and her brother death, a monthly screening series from bed, held on the last Sunday of the month, on Zoom—sleep and her brother death will rest after a final screening on December 28, at 9am pacific.
Since April 2024, I have organized ECHO-ECHO, a 55-square-foot project space at 1469 Venables—ECHO-ECHO is closed for winter break until February or March 2026.

💾 ➰ past work and projects
In October, ECHO-ECHO hosted a one-night-only launch of A Kitchen in your Calendar, a recipe book-as-2026-calendar, for CLAM, a project of Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora—second-printing calendars are now sold out!
In September, my text “What is an exhibition, besides a roomful of temporary things?” was distributed as a broadsheet for Gwenyth Chao: /stāj/ 3.0 at Fort Langley Community Hall, organized by Fort Gallery.
In early August, with Woojae Kim and Khan Lee, I co-hosted Resonance through the haze, an evening of musical performances and readings, on Helena Gutteridge Plaza at City Hall, supported by the City of Vancouver Community Placemaking Program.
In mid-July, I was one of three readers—alongside Andrea Actis and SF Ho—celebrating the launch of The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross.
Last year, I was invited by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Kiel Torres to read for Dear Friends &, co-organized by Western Front and The Capilano Review.
In 2023, I wrote a review of Woojae Kim’s solo exhibition at dreams comma delta for the 2023 C New Critics Award, edited by Maandeeq Mohamed, and published in C 156.