Archive for November, 2011

BOLD 125 Celebration

Date: September 11, November 26, December 15
Location: September 11: VanCity International Theatre, November 26: The Western Front, December 15: Rhizome Cafe
Website: www.boldfest.com

The BOLD 125 Celebration celebrates the culture, heritage, and achievements of older lesbian women in Vancouver. These include the political activism, theoretical analyses, and cultural contributions that have emerged from a period of great change for women, for seniors, and for queers, in terms of rights, legislation, and societal attitudes. As Vancouver celebrates this important birthday, we look forward not only to joining the party, but to enhancing and expanding it through a special series of unique and exciting events. Please click here for more information.

FORBIDDEN LOVE: A Retrospective
Sunday September 11, 2 pm, Doors, 1:30 pm
Featuring a screening of Director Aerlyn Weissman’s film Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Pulp Fiction “Queen” Ann Bannon plus Amanda White and Reva Hutkin, 2 of the women interviewed and in this classic, award-winning film.
VanCity International Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street
Tickets: $10 at Little Sisters, 1238 Davie Street

Art Against the Grain: By, For, and About Queer, Lesbian Women Artists
Saturday November 26th, 7:30- 10:30 pm, doors at 7pm
The Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue
Tickets $10 -$20 sliding scale available at Little Sisters 1238 Davie St or online, http://www.boldfest.com/bold-125-celebration.php

Lesbians in Politics
December 15
Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway
More information TBA

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Posted on: November 24th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Songs of the False Creek Flats


Date: November 23, 2011, 8pm
Location: SFU Woodwards, World Art Centre
Website: www.theatrereplacement.org; www.vedahille.com

SFU and Theatre Replacement are pleased to present a performance of a new song cycle by Veda Hille, accompanied by a visual narrative by Annabel Vaughan. In honour of the City’s 125th birthday, the work will animate a vast area of the city that currently lies dormant – the False Creek Flats.

Annabel Vaughan is an intern architect and city thinker. Veda Hille is a musician and city singer. Together they turn their attention to the False Creek Flats, to create an evening of song, stories, and thought. Looking at both the history and mythology of the Flats, Annabel and Veda will present a view of the area. The audience will be given an artist-drawn map of False Creek at the end of the night, so that they can take themselves on a self-directed walk and see this part of the city from a new perspective.

$20 – tickets on-line and at the door: https://www.2mevents.com/index.php/event/songs-of-the-false-creek-flats/store
SFU students by donation

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Posted on: November 17th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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The Geist Vancouver Literary Roots Special Issue

Date: September – November 2011; issue launch Friday, November 17, 2011 at 7pm at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Location: Newsstands and Geist subscribers’ homes across Canada
Website: www.geist.com

The Geist Vancouver Literary Roots Special Issue will feature book excerpts, stories, correspondences, letters to editors, photographs, promotion posters and other literary relics from publishers who were central to the 1970s literary renaissance in Vancouver. Publishers included in this special issue come from the feminist movement, Makara magazine and Press Gang Publishers; the counter-culture movement, Pulp Press and Vancouver Community Press/NewStar Books; and the avant-garde movement, Talon Books, blewointment and Periodics, which grew out of the journal TISH. The issue will also feature a literary map of Vancouver, produced by Rebecca Dolen of the Regional Assembly of Text.

You’re invited to the Geist issue launch!
If you’re in Vancouver this Friday, drop by the Roundhouse Community Centre for the launch of Geist 82, celebrating Vancouver’s 125th anniversary and the 2011 Memory Festival. With readings of 1970s literary Vancouver, staff stories and adult beverages. Hope to see you there!

Friday, November 18, 7pm
Roundhouse Community Exhibition & Performance Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews,
Vancouver, B.C.
Info 604-713-1800
Admission is Free

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Posted on: November 17th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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