Date: June 15-16, 2011
Location: CBC Studio 700, 700 Hamilton Street
Website: www.mundomundo.com

Beat Nation Live make their first Vancouver appearance in Vancouver prior to flying to Paris to appear at Futur-en-Seine festival for digital life and creativity. Dedicated to making First Nations material available to the world, Beat Nation Live is a groundbreaking cross platform digital art and live music experience.

Beat Nation Live is hip hop chanteuse Kinnie Starr: MC and rapper Ostwelve; boss loopmeister and electronic cellist Cris Derksen; video mash-up artist Jackson 2Bears: performance artist, singer and co-curator Skeena Reece; Haida artist Corey Bulpitt and the Tangible Interaction Digital Graffiti Wall; and storyteller and creator of the digitally triggered video drum Archer Pechawis.

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