# Event Details - **Event Name**: Phil Lind Initiative: Dread Scott - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: As part of the 2026 Phil Lind Initiative, join us for an evening with acclaimed American artist and activist Dread Scott. The conversation will be moderated by The Polygon Gallery's Curator Elliott Ramsey. Doors at 6:30pm Event at 7:00pm Tickets will be released on Thursday, January 15 at 10:00am at www.thepolygon.ca About Dread Scott Interdisciplinary artist and activist Dread Scott has spent his career using art to disrupt norms, question corrupt systems of power, and ignite necessary political conversations. His work, he writes, “looks towards an era without exploitation or oppression,” challenging the notion that current political and economic structures of America as inevitable. In 1989, his now-iconic artwork "What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?" was denounced by President George H.W. Bush and the U.S. Senate. The resulting Supreme Court case cemented its place in art history as a touchstone for debates about patriotism and dissent. Scott works in a range of media from performance and photography to screen-printing and video, inviting audiences to confront the colonial and capitalist contradictions at the heart of American democracy. In 2024 The All African People’s Consulate was included in the Venice Biennial, and in 2019 Slave Rebellion Reenactment was profiled in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and CNN. His work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Cristin Tierney Gallery and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The National Gallery of Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a 2023 Rome Prize Fellow and has also received fellowships from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and United States Artists. www.dreadscott.net About The Phil Lind Initiative The Phil Lind Initiative is hosted by the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. The initiative’s mandate is to invite prominent U.S. scholars, writers, and intellectuals to UBC to share ideas with students, faculty, and the wider community on some of the most urgent issues of our time. This year's theme America First, America Alone? Global Politics in an Age of Uncertainty features events with Thomas L. Friedman, Charity Weeden, Hasan Piker, Dread Scott, Rachel Maddow, and Carlos Lozada. This series is made possible through a generous gift from the late Philip B. Lind, recently extended by the Lind family in his honour. www.lindinitiative.ubc.ca About Elliott Ramsey Elliott Ramsey is Curator of The Polygon Gallery, based on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ Nations and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Band. He holds a Masters of Arts degree in Comparative Media Arts (2015) from Simon Fraser University, and is an alumnus of the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Professional Alliance for Curators of Colour. He has sat on numerous panels, juries, and public art committees, including the Sobey Art Award, VIVA Award, Portfolio Prize, and Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography. Ramsey has curated over a dozen exhibitions, including the internationally touring exhibition As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, presented by Aperture and featuring work from the Toronto-based Wedge Collection. -- Find The Polygon Gallery online www.thepolygon.ca www.instagram.com/polygongallery www.facebook.com/polygongallery - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/north-vancouver/phil-lind-initiative-dread-scott/200029531498857 - **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, music, literary-art, entertainment, nonprofit, charities - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 12 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029531498857?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=north+vancouver-events ## Event venue details - **city**: North Vancouver - **state**: BC - **country**: Canada - **location**: The Polygon Gallery - **lat**: 49.310276021275 - **long**: -123.0807352066 - **full address**: The Polygon Gallery, 105 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver, BC V7M 3J4, Canada ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 2 - **organizer**: The Polygon Gallery (https://allevents.in/org/the-polygon-gallery/3242318) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/104b488ea184112db24a27b6f64eb6b09add0bfdfc54377ba0795a3e4b7ba9aa-rimg-w1200-h628-dcffffff-gmir?v=1771017242 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/8bca968d28ae3af4da7d802f70a668a7198cc512cef2e7b0028472f675c22c72-rimg-w300-h300-dcffffff-gmir?v=1771017243 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** The Polygon Gallery, 105 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver, BC V7M 3J4, Canada - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** The Polygon Gallery - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, exhibitions, music, literary-art, entertainment, nonprofit, charities - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Phil Lind Initiative: Dread Scott ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Phil Lind Initiative: Dread Scott", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/104b488ea184112db24a27b6f64eb6b09add0bfdfc54377ba0795a3e4b7ba9aa-rimg-w1200-h628-dcffffff-gmir?v=1771017242", "startDate": "2026-02-25", "endDate": "2026-02-25", "url": "https://allevents.in/north-vancouver/phil-lind-initiative-dread-scott/200029531498857", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "The Polygon Gallery", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "105 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver, BC V7M 3J4, Canada", "addressLocality": "North Vancouver", "addressRegion": "BC", "addressCountry": "CA" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "49.310276021275", "longitude": "-123.0807352066" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "As part of the 2026 Phil Lind Initiative, join us for an evening with acclaimed American artist and activist Dread Scott. 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