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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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Vancouver 125 Public Art: ‘Canoe’ by Donna Szoke


The City of Vancouver Public Art Program announces a new project and a new venue – the CBC screen on Hamilton at Georgia. Donna Szoke’s two-minute animation entitled Canoe will play amid other content on the screen from July 11 to October 2, 2011, to celebrate the City’s 125th Anniversary.

In this digitally altered image, the silhouette of a canoeist and a moving canoe are seamlessly replaced with the background image of the moving water and sky, so that the canoeist and the canoe are seen as a fluid visual extension of the moving water and sky. The outline of the motion itself remains visible. The two-minute animation was created by digitally redrawing 1800 frames.

“This work relates to its site near the Georgia Street Viaduct, situated at the historical end of False Creek and in proximity to Georgia Street, which was named in 1886 after the Georgia Strait. The artwork symbolically marks the entrance to what is now called the Salish Sea, via False Creek. The name Salish Sea is officially recognized in both the United States (2009) and Canada (2010). Its major bodies of water are the Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound. This work aims to connect the contemporary flow of urban traffic to the larger rural water based traffic of both historic and contemporary times.” – Artist’s statement

Donna Szoke received her MFA from Simon Fraser University in 2007 and is currently Assistant Professor at Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Art, Brock University. She has produced numerous video and film works and has shown her work internationally.

The 2011 Public Art Program focuses on opportunities for residents and visitors to enjoy unique images, objects and perspectives on Vancouver and British Columbia for the city’s anniversary year. Details about Vancouver’s Public Art Program can be found at vancouver.ca/publicart. The program has facilitated over a hundred projects in the past ten years, spanning large-scale permanent installations, design-team collaborations and artist-initiated artworks.

Posted on: July 12th, 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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