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Vertical Orchestra 2011

Vertical Orchestra

Date: November 5, 2011
Location: Downtown Vancouver Public Library Atrium
Website: www.redshiftmusic.org

As part of the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Celebration, and in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library, Redshift presents Vertical Orchestra 2011 with the Vancouver Bach Choir. This is a free public event.

In keeping with the city’s anniversary celebrations, the theme for this year’s event is UTOPIA. Five Vancouver composers – Kristopher Fulton, Christopher Kovarik, Jacqueline Leggatt, Jordan Nobles and Jeffrey Ryan – will explore texts that reflect on our potential as a civilization to embrace cultural diversity and to better understand our environment. With this spirit in mind, the combined forces of the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Negative Zed Ensemble and the Vancouver Public Library are a manifestation of civic cultural fraternity: a multi-ethnic and multi-generational living tapestry comprised of nearly 200 musicians — the largest forces ever to be employed for a Vertical Orchestra event.

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

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“Creative Content” Emily Carr University and the City of Vancouver together since 1925


Date: October 2011 onward
Location: Canada Line – Waterfront Station; Emily Carr University Theatre; Queen Elizabeth Theatre Mezzanine Gallery; www.ecuaa.ca
Website: www.byanyothername.ca and www.ecuad.ca/people/alumni

The Emily Carr University of Art + Design Alumni Association is celebrating Vancouver’s 125th anniversary. As the oldest post secondary institution in British Columbia (1925) we would like to draw attention to the significant contributions of our graduates to this city’s growth for 86 of its 125 year history and to commemorate the important role the arts play in the development, richness and identity building of our community of Vancouver. Emily Carr University of Art + Design encompass the Vancouver School of Art and Vancouver School of Applied and Decorative Arts.

By Any Other Name…
Commemorative Poster Exhibition Celebrating Vancouver’s 125 Year History
By Emily Carr Design graduates
October 2011 – March 2012
Public Art Exhibit – Canada Line – Waterfront Station

November 21, 2011 – January 23, 2012
Queen Elizabeth Theatre Mezzanine Gallery

A showcase of the Canada Line Poster Exhibition.
A look at Vancouver’s history through the eyes of Design graduates from different decades. This poster exhibition recognizes the pioneering role Emily Carr University played in the development of the cultural identity of Vancouver. In partnership with InTransit BC Public Art.

As symbols that represent time and place, names reflect the prevailing attitude of the culture in which they are given. While full of meaning, the attempt to capture complex traditions in a single word often neglects the numerous, conflicting characteristics of a city and its people.

Like many other cities, Vancouver’s diverse, multicultural background has given way to the creation of several alternate names. These names given in admiration, as matter-of-fact descriptors, or in jest observe the many facets of our local industry, culture and geography. Bestowed by both residents and visitors, they suggest the multitude of histories that collectively define Vancouver.

By Any Other Name considers the unique narratives hidden within some of these alternate names. The exhibition comprises seven Vancouver-based graphic designers, all graduates of Emily Carr University, who occupy an important role in shaping Vancouver’s visual culture. byanyothername.ca

Animated
A Small Splice of Emily Carr University Animation History
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Emily Carr University Theatre (Room 301 South Building) Granville Island
$5 admission at the door

Hosted by: Rubén Möller and Martin Rose

Featuring Animated Films by Emily Carr Graduates: Anne Marie Fleming, Amanda Forbis, Pablo Gonzales, Jill Harris, Heui Won Jeong, Jody Kramer, Katherine Lee, Rubén Möller, Su An Ng, Gail Noonan, Martin Rose, Kunal Sen, Keith Slade, Wendy Tilby

Animated is part of Creative Content - a series of exhibitions and events celebrating the significant contributions of Emily Carr University of Art + Design and its graduates throughout 86 years of Vancouver’s 125 year history. Emily Carr has one of the most recognized university film and animation departments in Canada. This retrospective will reveal the contributions of our talented artists to the significant landscape of Vancouver film & animation and its international reputation.

Emily Carr, under its first incarnation as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts opened in 1925, and is one of the oldest post secondary institutions in British Columbia. The Vancouver School of Art Animation Department opened in 1968 and is one of the oldest animation schools in Canada. With that in mind we developed Animated, delving back as far as our current archives allowed: to the 1980s when the school changed its location to the newly developed Granville Island and changed its name to Emily Carr College of Art + Design. When Emily Carr opened its doors again, it included a new media department providing courses in animation and film. We have chosen to highlight our animation graduates in this edition of the series.
http://escene.ecuad.ca/news/animated-present-by-the-emily-carr-alumni-association

Creative Content
Online Catalogue
October 2011 (launch of site) and ongoing
www.ecuaa.ca

Profiles of all artists and partners involved with “Creative Content” and provides information about the artists and upcoming events.

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

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Artists Walking Home

Date: June – December, 2011; upcoming walk on Sunday, November 13, 2011,  Saturday, December 3, 2011
Location: Downtown Eastside
Website: artistswalkinghome.ca and www.walkinghomeprojects.com

Artists Walking Home is a year-long collaboration between Walking Home Projects and 221A Artist Run Centre comprised of a series of walks guided by local artists, designers, and architects that will invite public participants to learn about the complex historical and social conditions of Vancouver through the embodied experience of the cities cultural producers. Participants will experience a direct connection to the city’s immediate environment – both natural and constructed – and to gain an understanding of how ideas and intention become policy, resulting in action and infrastructure which shape our social and lived experiences in public spaces.

Join Artists Walking Home for upcoming walks in November and December:

Tacit Past: Marks of Vancouver’s History
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Presenter: Samantha Knopp
http://artistswalkinghome.ca/tacit-past

“I think, therefore I am.” Is it right to privilege the mind over the body?

In this walk, Artists Walking Home invites you to experience the alternative and embrace embodied learning. By going into the heart of Vancouver’s beginnings (Gastown, Chinatown and the Downtown East Side), Samantha Knopp will highlight the tangible layers of history and the contestations that surround their physicality. Drawing upon her interests in three-dimensional representation, the walk will invite viewers to share their experiences as they interact with the marks of the past, present and future.

Walk Information
Arrive at: 1:45pm
Walk Starts: 2:00pm (2 hours max, no latecomers)
Rain or Shine, Dress Weather Appropriate
Limited Capacity: 20
Cost: $21

Maraya
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Presenter: M. Simon Levin
http://artistswalkinghome.ca/maraya

Maraya comes from the Arabic word for reflection; image, mirror – mirage; it is meant to make you wonder. Like Narcissus’s deep wondrous gaze, Maraya asks us to reflect, to look again at our own civic mirroring – at what it is that makes here special. It asks, how is here any different from there? The Maraya Project is a dialogue between a network of weary travellers, local pundits, aspiring artists, curators, public intellectuals, writers, photographers, academics, conversationalists, programmers, bloggers, silent walkers, anarchists, and urban planners. We need you to help us reflect on how cities move, how the ground beneath our feet is in constant motion. In an age when the material city has become thoroughly enmeshed in virtual representations, the singularity of place is occluded by a multiplicity of mass-mediated images.

Join M. Simon Levin on False Creek for a walk that both reflects and distorts the Vancouver seawall, and gives us pause to see ourselves. Please bring a camera or an image capturing device—we’ll provide the reflection.

Walk Information
Arrive at: 10:45am
Walk Starts: 11:00am (2 hours max, No late-comers)
Rain or Shine, Dress Weather Appropriate
Limited Capacity: 20
Cost: $21
Walk starting point: Davie at Pacific Boulevard

The starting point for the walk will be emailed to participants after pre-registration.

For registration inquiries visit artistswalkinghome.ca/tacit-past or email hello@artistswalkinghome.ca.

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

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