A selection of works from Andriy Mishchenko's year-long URBANITIES project documenting Vancouver, NYC, Toronto, Montreal, and points in between (more info below).
When: Friday, November 6, 8pm - late Where: Rootdown Cafe, 128 East Broadway, Vancouver Who: Andriy Mishchenko, Photographer
What: URBANITIES|09 - This photography series examines our urban spaces + how we inhabit and perceive them. There will also be a preview of an Olympic-related series that's in progress. The photos will be on display (and for sale) at Rootdown Cafe for the month of November 09.
Come on down, check out some photos, have a drink or two, and indie/electro dance dance dance courtesy of DJ Pat Lok! Feel free to invite friends, it promises to be a good party.
Pick up some affordable holiday gifts here - 1/3 of all sales go to a great local cause! You can also sign up for my photo-a-week list, delivering neatness right to your inbox.
* fantastic indie/dance/electro tunes from DJ Pat Lok. You can check out Pat's tunes at http://www.DJPatLok.com
* 1/3 of all proceeds from photos will be donated to the BC Civil Liberties Association, who are helping protect our right of dissent during the 2010 Games.
Affluenza: The Prodigal Children of Consumer Culture
Discussion and Exhibition www.affluenzaevent.com
An evening of inspired debate and exhibition among leading thinkers about the impact of consumer values on society.
The Affluenza Event is an evening of fun that opens up a dialogue and allows people to reflect on our why we buy what we buy and how our consumer behavior affects our quality of life.
AGENDA
6:30 – 7:30 – Red carpet, cocktail reception and exhibition
7h30 – Affluenza: The Panel Discussion
8h30 - Affluenza: The Party - Mix, Mingle and Live Music
Seattle ’s Standup Poet and Minimalist Jug Band Among 100 Unique Performers at the Summer Dream Festival (August 19 – 29)
Vancouver, BC – Once again, this unique festival packs it stages with some of the most dynamic and eclectic performers in the arts community. Among them are Seattle’s Jack McCarthy and Al Mader – Vancouver ’s one-and-only Minimalist Jug Band.
In the name of art, summer time and cherry blossoms, Stratagem Pacific
is proud to present:
'Dual', a collection of works by San Francisco-based artist Robert Jarrell.
Please join Stratagem Gallery and Robert Jarrell as
we celebrate a discreet opening / exhibition / closing party :
ROBERT JARRELL
"DUAL"
at Stratagem Pacific Consulting Gallery
SATURDAY MAY 30TH, 2009
6 - 9 PM
710-318 Homer Street
Vancouver
Office: 604 999 9656
(Call the above phone number when you arrive and we will see you in-
it is all quite mysterious)
About DUAL:
"...DUAL is appropriate for most of my art. There is an opposition
that often exists in my work, a tension. This is sometimes in regards
to light and dark, or bodies in space, among other things. Perhaps it
is about unfulfilled desire or searching for utopia. I suppose it can
sum up existence (life and death). My art seems to be about these
things."
About ROBERT JARRELL:
Robert Jarrell is a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer
living in the San Francisco Bay Area (California). He has been
creating art for over 20 years and works in many mediums including
painting, printing, installation, photography and digital art. With a
DIY attitude he has also experimented with writing, publishing, and
music. From 2000-2006 he published HeadLight Journal, a cultural arts
Internationally acclaimed Montreal choreographer Lynda Gaudreau brings her innovative brand of dance to Vancouver with her newest work, 0101. Two dancers perform three versions of the same material, executing simple movements punctuated by the beat of a drummer on stage, in a work of dry minimalist wit which challenges ideas of what dance can be. This examination of details and time is quiet and playful, and full of absurd glimpses.
0101 demonstrates Gaudreau’s distinctive approach to dance: based in in-depth research, her work is known for its intellectual rigour, often subverting what an audience expects in a dance performance. At the same time its simplicity and directness, interspersed with flashes of quirky humour, create a powerful emotional response. 0101 continues her research on the body in movement, examining subtle differences in time and duration. The piece premiered at ImpulsTanz Festival, Vienna in 2006 and has since toured in Italy and France. Gaudreau’s Vancouver performances complement her interdisciplinary research project Clash, where she will work with a number of local choreographers and other artists in February and June at Scotiabank Dance Centre.
Performance Works, Granville Island February 7, $20 at door, 11pm show FREE, 19+ with ID
Invisible Atom, 2b theatre, 7pm
Written and performed by Anthony Black
Directed by Ann Marie Kerr
Suspended in a very precise moment in space and time, Atom tells his story of fortune and misfortune, taking the audience on a wild journey of the imagination and covering topics from economics to classical physics. You'll laugh as you question the nature and acceleration of our progress.
Woodpigeon, 9pm
Woodpigeon is a collective of Calgarians—seven officially, but for this Vancouver appearance, nine— playing band leader Mark Hamilton's episodic orchestral pop confections. Modern roots/pop edged with psychedelic tinges, unusual instrumentation (baritone ukulele anyone?) and impeccable musicianship prompted NOW Magazine to call the collective "the next great Canadian breakout band."
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family.
How can you help?
Your used mobile phones - preferably with video, camera, wi-fi
Cash donations (* tax deductible) or new phone donations
Conversation - tell your friend on your blog, twitter, etc. - post a badge
Action Plan: First, Gather phones!
Collect all the un-used mobile phones at your office and home - dig into your boxes of stuff, ask you friends! Digital cameras gratefully accepted too.
Next, Arrange Pick-up:
Let us know via Twitter: Fearless City, email: info (at) fearlessmedia (dot) ca, Phone/SMS: 604.644.4349, Voice mail: 604.682.3269 xt 8320
We'll come by on purple Yahoo bikes on Tues. Dec. 23rd & 30th to collect your devices
We'll take your photo, bring treats, and thank you publicly with a link
Notes to Nourish is a grassroots project featuring original art by Lower Mainland artists and designers. The contributing artists are: Chris Allen, Sarah Cavanaugh, Nova Hopkins, Luke Krienke, Jean Lee, Anne Pearce, Robyn Sommerville and Kathryn Wright.
We are selling two limited-edition sets of four holiday greeting cards to raise money for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and British Columbia SPCA. The cards present a unique way to give back during the holidays; you are supporting two non-profit organizations, local arts and culture, and presenting sustainable greetings to your friends and family.
A set of four cards costs $10, or buy both sets for $15. Visit www.notestonourish.com to purchase. Cards will be shipped in the first week of November.
Marie Brassard returns to Vancouver with a theatrical exploration of appearance and disappearance, of the double and of otherness. The city of Berlin, ectoplasms (vaporous emanations of the body supposedly visible tomediums) and the literary hoax involving JT LeRoy, a writer dreamed up by a woman hoping to get published, provide Brassard with material to reflect on art and creation, on the porous boundary between the creator and the resultant creature.
In collaboration with Finnish artist Mikko Hynninen and composer and sound designer Alexander MacSween, the singular and yet very plural Marie Brassard bring minds and the bodies that live therein to life, making their ghostly voices resonate, rendering the invisible visible.
In June 2001, Brassard created her first one-woman show, Jimmy créature de rêve, a black surrealistic comedy which was a huge success and has, since then, been presented in many cities in Europe, America and Australia. That same year, she founded the production company Infrarouge. She's also its artistic director. In 2003, she created a show hinging on the themes of real estate development, exploitation and friendship; entitled La Noirceur, it was followed by Peepshow, staged in English in Toronto in May 2005, and in French in Montréal in June of that year.
Uganda’s Children Images of the human spirit by Peter Eastwood
Exhibition opening
December 12, 2008, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition of original photography
December 12-17, 2008
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon-6:00pm
Eastwood Onley Gallery, 2075 Alberta Street
For more information, call 604.739.0429
In Uganda’s Children, Vancouver-based portrait photographer Peter Eastwood documents the daily struggles of the world’s most vulnerable children, as well as the startling endurance of the human spirit in some of the most horrific scenarios imaginable.
In August 2007, Eastwood traveled to Soroti, Uganda with volunteers from a United Kingdom-based charity to document the determined efforts of special needs educators, the building of a school for 250 orphans and also a community hall that seats over 600 people.
Eastwood also visited the local government hospital, an institution that has yet to be addressed by the charity. “While photographing the hospital, I was overwhelmed by the lack of hygiene, the overcrowded wards, the stench of urine-soaked mattresses, the understaffing and the desperate need for medical supplies,” said Eastwood. “Simple medications that could save a life were just not available. It was heartbreaking.”
