Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Tickets are $26.00 (see our web site for ticket information)
Firehall Arts Centre - Doors open at 5:30pm for reception and silent auction
Variety music concert starts at 7:00pm
THE SHOW:Featuring MC/Host - Kevin Bergsma and 5 very talented local bands. You will be entertained with an eclectic selection of music from Folk to Cajun, Contemporary Rock, 50's/60's rock'n roll, Bluegrass and Latin. A little something for everyone while you enjoy guilt free shopping and supporting one of the many valiant organizations who help support and comfort the homeless and marginalized in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
VIVO Media Arts Centre Presents its signature interdisciplinary arts festival - Signal & Noise - this April 17, 18 and 19, 2008. Currently in it’s ninth-year, Signal and Noise is a blast of sonic dissidence and video trickery: three days of provocative, innovative and challenging interdisciplinary art. Showcasing a spectrum of audio, live action performances and immersive art, Signal and Noise is Vancouver’s alternative multi-disciplinary art event. We welcome artistry from across the gamut, slashing through tradition and highlighting the truly daring and original. Presented at VIVO Media Arts Centre (Video In/Video Out), Vancouver’s thirty-five year old backbone for media art production and support, Signal and Noise is the foremost celebration of its kind in the city.
Vancouver celebrates International Dance Day with a series of vibrant performances, events and displays presented by The Dance Centre at venues around town. The events – many of them free – will showcase the diversity of BC’s dance scene. Highlights include Jennifer Clarke’s new work and a group dance and music improvisation at Scotiabank Dance Centre; Pop Up Dances at various locations around Granville Island; site specific work by Raven Spirit Dance Company in and around Coal Harbour Community Centre; classical East Indian dance performances with Mandala Arts and Culture at the Vancouver Public Library; and One Enchanted Evening, a South Pacific-themed fundraising event at Scotiabank Dance Centre.
Full details with the event schedule, locations and times can be viewed at www.thedancecentre.ca.
xPod is a new online game and interactive story which is the extension of CBC’s jPod.
In keeping with the FAITH initiative and under the close, yet deeply caring, eye of our Chief Happiness Officer at Neotronic Arts, Chip Webster, I am pleased to announce the first annual FAITH Team Building Exercise.
The Team Building Scavenger Hunt will run through the streets of downtown Vancouver, Saturday, March 29, culminating with a live performance by Glass Slipper, fronted by Xpod’s own Aleksa Petrovic at an undisclosed location. It'll be rocking! Meet your fellow xPodders! Prizes will be won!
Vancouver composer Chad Nantais brings his band The Mystery Body to Chapel Arts to perform tracks from his debut release Zero Ground.
The Mystery Body is a group of 6 musicians with a diverse set of influences and styles playing the music of Chad Nantais. The music is stimulating, colorful, and pleasing to the ear, referencing a myriad of musical cultures.
Come out for High Tea or coffee, take in the Art Exhibit and enjoy the music which is sure to elevate and decentralize your mind.
This event will be recorded live as part of the Sunday Afternoon Podcast with The Mystery Body.
If any of you are interested in what is going on in the city these days I've been compiling a monthly event guide for Vancouver on my photoblog website. This month the highlights are the Celtic Festival (St. Paddy's Day!) and the Globe 2008 green technology and innovation conference at Canada Place.
There is also lots of great music this month with local bands like DNA6, The Manvils and Spirit of the West playing shows....and some bigger names like Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, 311 and the Greyboy All-Stars visiting our fine city. Check it out and if you have anything to add, feel free to drop me a line.
Honouring our Grandmothers - March 8 - This magical evening will celebrate International Women’s Day and honour our special guests: Joy Coghill and Jeni Legon. Featuring vocalist Dalannah Gail Bowen, African dancer Jacky Essombe, award-winning aboriginal vocal group M’Girl, internationally-known writer Addena Sumter-Frietag and and Pakistani novelist Fazia Rafiq. Jeni and Joy will perform and share some stories. MC is Leon Bibb. St. Andrew’s Wesley Church, Burrard and Nelson, March 8, 7:30pm, Tickets $15 / $12 - Ticketmaster. 604.280.4444.
A music/poetry event on Saturday March 8th at the Capri Hall 3925 Fraser Street.
It will feature :
A Weather (www.myspace.com/aweathermusic)
They are a beautiful band that create a lovely ambiance with their delicate sound and soft, humble voices. They are coming into Vancouver from Portland.
Mark Walters- a musical guest, his first time performing. Absolutely brilliant
Simon Hoskyn- a local Vancouver musician with powerful powerful words and a gorgeous sound.
Spoken word by Julien Bentley and Rc Weslowski
and a collection of art peices by Annie newton on womens anxiety.
Tickets are on sale at Zulu records, scratch records and ethical addictions, at the door, or through me. $10
Doors are open at 7pm and all proceeds are going towards the Vancouver Poetry House (youth slams)
A music/poetry event on Saturday March 8th at the Capri Hall 3925 Fraser Street.
It will feature :
A Weather (www.myspace.com/aweathermusic)
They are a beautiful band that create a lovely ambiance with their delicate sound and soft, humble voices. They are coming into Vancouver from Portland.
Mark Walters- a musical guest, his first time performing. Absolutely brilliant
Simon Hoskyn- a local Vancouver musician with powerful powerful words and a gorgeous sound.
Spoken word by Julien Bentley and Rc Weslowski
and a collection of art peices by Annie newton on womens anxiety.
Tickets are on sale at Zulu records, scratch records and ethical addictions, at the door, or through me. $10
Doors are open at 7pm and all proceeds are going towards the Vancouver Poetry House (youth slams)
World Poetry Gala Program 2008.
Feb. 29 at the Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC 350 West Georgia St,Vancouver , BC.
Hostas, Ariadne Sawyer, MA and Alejandro Mujica-Olea (the Peoples Poet)
Admission free!
6:30Pm Doors open for displays and light refreshments. Background music Rene Hugo y Sus Amigos. 7:pm Program starts.
Greetings from the library.
Presentation of World Poetry City Poets and Library Award.
Greetings from the City of Vancouver, Councilwoman Elizabeth Ball.
Short Blessings: Godwin Barton, First Nations, Dr. Douglas Bacon, Rene Hugo Sanchez, Spanish and Quechwa.
Welcome by Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
Thanks to volunteers, World Poetry Committee and sponsors.
Shout to World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Madge Kimball who passed on in 2008.
Welcome to the Lifetime achievement Award Winners by the winners of 2007, Victoria
Pascha and Jan Furst.
Presentation of the Lifetime Award to Bernice Lever.
Diego Bastianutti, poem and presentation of World Poetry Award.
Song by Jude Neal with guitar by Andrew Cameron.
Poems by Bernice Lever .
Welcome Music by Rene Hugo y Sus Amigos.
Intro by Ida Bhargava
Poem by Ahn Bong Ja
Presentation of World Poetry Lifetime Award for Ashok Bhargava
by Mrs. Sabrina Noorani from the Canadian Immigrant Magazine.
Poems by Ashok Bhargava.
