Event Listings

Vancouver 125 Redress Series


Date: May 22 to November 27, 2011
Location: W2 Community Media Arts
Website: www.creativetechnology.org

W2′s Vancouver 125 Redress Series challenges the readiness of Vancouver to live with cultural harmony when for decades systemic barriers to citizenship have barred immigrants from calling Vancouver home. The program kicked off with the Komagata Maru anniversary in May, continues with A Time for Change (Woodward’s Atrium, June 17 – July 1), a photographic record of South Asian migrant farmworkers who pick our food but do not have equal rights to working conditions. Later this year W2 presents artists working on Japanese internment issues, and presents First Nations filmmakers during the November Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival.

Upcoming Redress Event
Saturday, Nov 12, 2pm | W2 Media Cafe – 111 W Hastings | By Donation

Vancouver 125 Panel & Screenings: Loretta Todd on NDN portrayal in mainstream media and representation throughout Vancouver’s 125 years. This event is part of the W2 Vancouver 125 Redress Series with short films screening: Siwash Rock, Dead Ground, The Last Family, Encroaching Vancouver, Oppenheimer Park and A Proud Lineage.

Earlier this year, at the VIMAF Kickstarter event, W2 and VIMAF screened Reel Injun examining how Indigenous People’s of Turtle Island are portrayed by Hollywood, now with this event, we go hyperlocal on the West Coast on the Unceded Coast Salish Peoples’ Territories.

W2′s mandate includes crosscultural dialogue and redress and therefore the W2/VIMAF rebuild a West Coast indigenous media arts festival, and this panel discussion specifically, is an appropriate use of funding from the City’s 125 grants program. W2 Board member, Sid Tan, a veteran of the Chinese Head Tax Redress movement and a community TV activist will join the discussion. Loretta Todd (Metis/Cree) is an award-winning director, writer and producer. She is a commanding presence known for her powerful, visual storytelling, the highest production standards and professional demeanor.

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

Posted on: August 17th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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GROW


Dates: May 7 – November 30, 2011
Location: South East False Creek area
Website: www.othersights.ca; Blog: www.grow-urbanagricultureproject.ca

Other Sights for Artists’ Projects is pleased to present Grow, a series of walks, workshops and creative experiments in urban agriculture. Focusing on Vancouver’s growing identity as a sustainable city, Grow explores various notions of sustainability through the site of South East False Creek (SEFC).

Visit the Grow project site, known as the Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab, along the seawall walkway in SEFC, adjacent to Habitat Island in the Olympic Village.

The Bulkhead sits on the periphery of public parks undeveloped and bristling with industrial remnants of the past. Taking up the transitional nature of this site, the Grow project is installing a series of provisional platforms for growing herbs, vegetables, fruit and mushrooms. Many platforms have been installed and new ones are being added as the Lab grows and expands over the summer.

Visit the Lab and take part in upcoming workshops and demonstrations. To learn about the Grow project and the Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab visit the Grow project website.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada. Other Sight’s also gratefully acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts, the Vancouver Park Board Neighbourhood Matching Fund and the Canon Community Urban Agriculture Grant.

Read more

Georgia Straight article: Two urban agriculture projects bring art to Vancouver’s gardens.

Canadian Art magazine: “Artists and Gardens: A Growing Concern”

Posted on: May 5th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Pioneers of Performance


Dates: Cabaret #1: July 15-16: Speeding & Rolling – A Celebration of the Film & TV Industry in BC
Cabaret #2: September 23-24
Cabaret #3:  November 10-11
Location: PAL Vancouver Studio Theatre
Website: www.palvancouver.org

In the spirit of celebrating Vancouver’s 125th and to reflect on our changing society, there is a move within the arts to be more inclusive and accessible to all. One element of our diverse society that must not be neglected includes our elders and pioneers, especially those who were instrumental in establishing the arts institutions that we cherish today. PAL Vancouver Studio Theatre Society will produce a series of three cabaret evenings. Each evening will be a unique two-hour program, with different presenters and exhibitions each night reflecting, celebrating and honouring the Pioneers of Performance in Vancouver.

As part of Vancouver’s 125 Celebration, The PAL Studio Theatre with David C. Jones present: Speeding & Rolling. The history of the film & TV industry in BC is a varied and odd one with mavericks and visionaries leading the charge. Starting in 1907 when William H. Harbeck mounted a camera to the front of a BC Electric Railway car to Sandy Wilson’s charming film My American Cousin the history of how we were filmed and how we filmed is a melodrama in and of itself. 

On Friday July 15th and Saturday July 16th there will be a multi-media exploration of Vancouver’s history as Hollywood North. Filmed interviews with people like independent filmmaker Larry Kent and former head of the CBC, John Kennedy, will tell of trials and setbacks, and the steps they took to overcome them. Interviews will give way to actors reenacting the stories and then short clips from films will unspool. Song and magic will add to the experience as we discover how the TV & film industry in BC began Speeding & Rolling in this two-night only cabaret directed by David C. Jones.

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

Posted on: January 15th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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