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A unique floating artist residency is coming to False Creek in August.

The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency is a historic squatters cabin turned into an artist’s studio. Placed on a floating platform, it is being towed to a dock near the Plaza of Nations.

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By late August, the cabin and deckhouse will be open for tours. By September, it will welcome its first artist, an indigenous artist from Australia named Vicki Couzens.

Glenn Alteen, program director at grunt gallery, has overseen the project during the past four years.

“It really resonates with a lot of people,” Alteen said about the Blue Cabin.

“It’s generated all kinds of media attention. It’s amazing for that. It’s kind of developed a brand in a certain way and it hasn’t come here yet.”

Photo by Francis Georgian / PNG

Alteen’s involvement started with a phone call. Carole Itter called him up to say she and fellow artist Al Neil, who was in the hospital with a broken hip, were getting threatening letters from Port Metro about their cabin next to Cates Park. The federal body that overseas the port wanted to not only evict them immediately but also charge them the cost of removal.