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
She organizes ECHO-ECHO, a 55-square-foot project space at 1469 Venables—u: remote artist talk will be open every Saturday in November (1, 8, 15, 22, 29), noon–4pm, with a mid-exhibition celebration on Saturday, November 15, 6–8pm.
She is co-host, with Ratna Dhaliwal, of sleep and her brother death, a monthly screening series from bed, on the last Sunday of the month, on Zoom.
“My grandmother lived through the avant-garde,”, edited by Emily Fedoruk, will be published in Dedications, the fall issue of The Capilano Review.
In December, ECHO-ECHO will share a table with Khan Lee and Hazel Meyer at Toque Craft Fair, a fundraiser for Western Front.

💾 ➰ past work and projects
In October, Saturday, October 25, 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—calendars can be ordered by contacting Yas.
In September, “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, she 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, she 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, she 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, she 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.