Date: December 13-15, 2011, Aboriginal Artisan Tables: 11am- 9pm; Dialogue events: 12- 2pm
Location: W2 Media Cafe & Woodward’s Atrium
Website: www.creativetechnology.org and https://www.facebook.com/events/249155485147299/
ALIVE Arts Winter Festival & Dialogue is a cultural showcase with Aboriginal performing artists, an urban aboriginal artisan Christmas sale, children’s art program, traditional dancers, and community meals prepared by W2 Media Cafe.
Produced by W2 Community Media Arts Society in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Society, ALIVE (Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement Society), Lower Mainland United Way, Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival, BCGEU, and RayCam Community Centre.
The series of cultural presentations and dialogues take place each lunch hour from 12-2:00 pm with discussions over healthy foods and then continue with evening cultural presentations. On Thursday, Dec 15, the Festival highlight is a dialogue and report back on the City’s Urban Aboriginal People’s Study/Vancouver 2011 with Ginger Gosnell and invited guests to hear back from members of the community.
HIGHLIGHTS
WINTER FILM NIGHT
Tuesday Dec 13, 6-9:30 featuring the NDN Classic ‘Smoke Signals’ directed by Chris Eyre. Presented by Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF).
HIP HOP BINGO
Wednesday Dec 14, 6-9pm featuring $1000 in prizes with yer Hosts Ostwelve & JB The First Lady.
ABORIGINAL BLUES REVIEW
Thursday Dec 15, 6:00-9:00 featuring Wayne Lavallee, Murray Porter, Dalannah Gail Bowen and Russell Wallace.
ALIVE DIALOGUE CIRCLES
Tuesday-Thursday Dec 13-15, 12-2pm. A series of cultural presentations and dialogue circles take place each lunch hour with discussions over healthy foods and then continue with evening cultural presentations. With a focus on School Board, Park Board and City of Vancouver and enhancing our relations.
ALIVE ARTS
Bone game, traditional crafts, drumming, songs and storytelling
WINTER CELEBRATION
The main event on Thursday, 5-9pm with POWWOW DRUMMERS! On Thursday, Dec 15, the Festival highlight is an evening of Powwow drummers, community meal, and dialogue and report back on the City’s Urban Aboriginal People’s Study/Vancouver 2011, with Ginger Gosnell-Myers and City of Vancouver representatives to share within the circle with members of the community. Check out the traditional games, Blues Review, the Artisan tables and more!
And did we say this is all free or by donation?! See you at the W2 Media Cafe and Woodward’s Atrium! On the Hastings and Cordova bus routes, with parking in the Woodward’s Parkade (enter eastbound on Cordova east of Cambie).
Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/249155485147299/ for full schedule details.
Image credit: Jerry Whitehead, A family dance together, 1998, acrylic on concrete, previously located at the corner of Carrall Street and Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC.
With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.
Posted on: November 30th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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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.
