The Documentary Media Society, which presents the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, will be moving into new digs in late November. DOXA will be sharing its offices with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Music on Main Society, and Touchstone Theatre Society, all named tenants of the approximately 8,500-square-foot City-leased cultural hub space at the CBC Vancouver broadcast centre in February.

By phone, Kenji Maeda, DOXA’s executive director, explained that half of the space will be dedicated to administrative offices, with shared multipurpose rooms on the other side that DOXA may use for private screenings.

“It’s really going to be an opportunity for us to make use of the downtown core as an arts section...especially in that area because the art gallery is going to be moving in sometime in the future…and we have the Queen E[lizabeth Theatre] and Playhouse. So it’s very exciting for us.”

Maeda said that the move will also enable them to collaborate with the other three arts organizations. “We’re not really overlapping too much as to what we practise in our art, so for me, that’s more exciting than being in an office where it’s all…film festivals.”

What better way to celebrate the move than with its fall fundraiser on Friday (November 14) from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the CBC building (700 Hamilton Street)? Entitled Curio, the circus-themed event will include performers ranging from a magician to an accordionist, a silent auction, fairground food (attention, corn dog fans), drinks, and local archival-footage clips.

For tickets or information about the fundraiser, visit the DOXA website.