World Poetry Reads at West End Car Less Festival June 15th!
2 pm, June 15th, The Spoken Word Tent at the corner of Denman and Barclay streets.
World Poetry hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea (Spanish/English.
Bernice Lever,
Diego Bastianutti, Italian/English
Jacqueline Maire, French/English
Ibrahim Honjo Serbian.
Free event!
All are welcome!
Info 604-526-4729
Eurofest BC – all day family fun!
Where: Scandinavian Community Centre,
6540 Thomas St, Burnaby, BC
Website: www.eurofestbc.ca
A truly unique Canadian celebration of European cultures thriving in British Columbia. With over 30 countries showcased, the European Festival offers 15 hours of continuous family fun and entertainment!
Highlights include: Folk dancers, singers & musicians in authentic costume performing non-stop throughout the day; children’s tent with face-painting & balloon-twisting and crafts; cultural displays, European marketplace, European food tent, beer garden and a finalé with live dance band, The S-Bahn!
Admission is $7, and children under 12 - FREE! Tickets available at gate. Gates open at 10 a.m.
General Inquiries – Phone: 1-866-749-9208 or email: info@eurofestbc.ca
Presented by the Eurofest B.C. Society: a not-for-profit volunteer organization.
The 11th Annual European Festival BC
When: May 31, 2008 – all day family fun!
Where: Scandinavian Community Centre,
6540 Thomas St, Burnaby, BC
Website: www.eurofestbc.ca
A truly unique Canadian celebration of European cultures thriving in British Columbia. With over 30 countries showcased, the European Festival offers 15 hours of continuous family fun and entertainment!
Highlights include: Folk dancers, singers & musicians in authentic costume performing non-stop throughout the day; children’s tent with face-painting & balloon-twisting and crafts; cultural displays, European marketplace, European food tent, beer garden and a finalé with live dance band, The S-Bahn!
Admission is $7, and children under 12-FREE! Tickets available at gate. Gates open at 10 a.m.
General Inquiries – Phone: 1-866-749-9208 or email: info@eurofestbc.ca
Presented by the Eurofest B.C. Society – a not-for-profit volunteer organization
Thats right! RBC desiFEST is now going to Montreal and Vancouver in 2008. We are travelling across the country to find the BEST South Asian artists and showcase them in their home cities AND bring them to Toronto’s main event. [www.desifest.ca]
For the first time ever and making HISTORY, Gastown closes its streets for a South Asian Festival. 10 hours of free programming including local superstars: Cassius Khan, en Karma, Jagua, Bombay Sapphire, Bharatnatayam and Kathak dancers, a-slam, and many more. Come experience the flavour of India in Vancouver's oldest heritage district.
Saturday May 3, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM on Water Street between Cambie & Richards.
Brought to you by the good people at RBC Financial Group, TELUS, Blueband Media, Urban Mixer, A-town Productions, South Asian Arts and Virsar Media.
2008 DATES:
MONTREAL - March 29th, 2008
- National Desi DJ Competition
VANCOUVER– May 03, 2008
- National Desi DJ Competition
- National South Asian Talent Search
- 10 hour FREE outdoor music festival
TORONTO GRAND FINALE– May 31st, 2008
- National Desi DJ Competition
- 12 hour FREE outdoor music festival
Wandering around enjoying community entertainment along Commercial Drive during the Parade of Lost Souls festival during the pagan Halloween in Vancouver, BC, Oct. 2007. Features drums, fireworks, mariachis and conversation snippets.
Follow along on Aural Wanderings at the Parade of Lost Souls (.mp3, 30MB, 37:35)
Cross-posted at Ephemeral Feasthouse
Chunky Move Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek and German interactive software engineer Frieder Weiß have together created an intimate interactive solo performance in which the motion of the human body is used to trigger and control music, lighting and animation. A digital landscape is generated in real time in response to the dancer’s movement, with the body’s gestures extended by and in turn manipulating the surrounding video world.
The relationship between the light and graphics and the human body changes throughout Glow. At first the dancer seems to control the magical display of light and geometric patterns, but gradually it becomes difficult to separate the elements of body and light, as movement, graphics and sound powerfully meld into a single entity. Then eerily, projected shadows take on a dramatic form of their own and begin to impact on the dancer’s behaviour.
Palace Grand is a unique solo show which takes place in a theatre within the theatre: a miniature vaudeville stage which floats in space, inhabited by a single oppressed actor. An utterly physical evocation of an ill-fated expedition and a reliquary of sublimely beautiful and iconic artifacts from a mythic northern terrain, the play investigates a uniquely human condition: cacoethes scribendi—the incurable passion for writing. A sort of Yukon Heart of Darkness, Palace Grand cuts deep into the northernmost reaches of Canada on the trail of two men: Walker, a writer who disappears into the wilderness and The Tracker, a bounty hunter hired to find him. Together the two represent separate halves of a single narrative. What remains of this narrative is brought to life by a third man, The Operator of a remote transmitting station whose presence has little to do with their story, but without whom it would be lost.
Caught somewhere between Beckett and Chaplin and taking the mythic Klondike gold rush as its setting, this delirious snowbound fantasy reminds us of our frightening ever present quest for self. The play won three Jessie Awards for Performance, Set Design and Lighting in 2004. This PuSh-commissioned presentation reimagines the critically acclaimed original production.
Rumble Productions/Theatre Replacement (Vancouver)
In the summer of 2005 actor/writer James Long salvaged a collection of seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. What started as a simple trip to the country carried the creators on narrative jags across propriety, oceans, and beyond.
January 30-February 2, 9pm; February 2-3, 4pm
Tickets: $28/$22
Tickets Tonight www.ticketstonight.ca
More info: www.pushfestival.ca
Haircuts by Children
Mammalian Diving Reflex (Toronto)
Co-presented with the grunt gallery in association with the students of Bridgeview Elementary, Surrey
Following successful runs in Los Angeles, Toronto and Birmingham, Haircuts By Children invites you to take part in an event that will test your courage and faith in the future. Surrender your preconceptions (and your scalp) to the aesthetic choices of these mini-barbers. A whimsical piece that plays with the enfranchisement of children and the level of trust we afford them, creating a dialogue between groups not used to such a reversal of power, especially one in which our vanity is put to the test! Let them cut your fears away as they prove themselves leaders of the future, capable and responsible citizens and dedicated coiffures in a show that’s been described as “one of the highlights of LA’s cultural calendar.”
January 26 & 27, 12-4pm
NuNu’s Salon and Spa
FREE
Check out the
Photo Exhibit at Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery
January 14–February 3, 2008, 10am–5pm Monday to Friday
and before evening performances at VECC
Save the Date: Thursday Oct 11, 2007
The SFU Sustainability Network will be holding the SFU Sustainability Festival at SFU in the Convocation Mall!
Free live music, fashion show, speakers will be there as well as a Beer Garden, Food and some of Vancouver's top environmental organizations all in the name of lessoning our ecological footprint!
Open from 10a-5p to everyone! For more information:
