Workshop
NET TUESDAY
Tuesday November 6, 5:30pm – 8pm
W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings
W2’s Net Tuesday brings together community organizers and residents interested in the use of technology to bring about positive social change. Today’s session looks at how an individual can organize a digital campaign of websites, emails, and newsletters. For more information: www.nettuesday.ca. Free
Media Arts
VANCOUVER INDIGENOUS MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
November 6 to 11
W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings
The 2nd Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival is a forum for all people to celebrate and enjoy Indigenous culture. Check out the program online at www.vimaf.com and attend workshops, screenings, receptions, children’s workshops, and late-night media arts events. Vancouver’s only Native Media Arts Festival, VIMAF screens works in shorts, experimental, documentaries, video art, animation, as well as feature length films. The 2012 Festival will screen film and media arts from across Turtle Island from emerging and established media makers. VIMAF contributes to the cultural discourse in independent production and disseminates Indigenous production.
Workshop Series
MAKING ART THROUGH DIALOGUE & MOSAIC PROJECT
Thursdays November 8, 15, 22 and 29, 10am – 2pm
EWMA Studio, 54 E. Cordova
Enterprising Women Making Art (EWMA), a program of Atira Women’s Resource Society, is happy to announce the 3rd Annual Making Art Through Dialogue Series. The project for this year is a three panel mosaic inspired by the theme of this year’s Heart of the City Festival, “Voices from the Heart.” Ann Thorsteinsson, the lead artist, with co-facilitator Jessica Numminen, will create a design based on the dialogue “Telling Herstories of food in the Downtown Eastside” and on visual material created at the workshops. The series is open to women on Thursdays November 8, 15, 22 and 29 from 10am to 2pm. The community will then build and install the mosaics in the sidewalks of the Downtown Eastside in the spring of 2013. No experience necessary; refreshments provided. Space is limited; sign up at the EWMA studio, call 604-685-8043 or email: jessica_numminen@atira.bc.ca. Series is free
Video
MORTAL COILS: Video exhibition
Friday November 9, 6pm – 10pm : artists in attendance
The Nines, 99 W. Pender
Mortal Coils is a video exhibition from a group of artists from Toronto exploring bodies and the contexts that surround them. These short videos are themselves part of a whole, a landscape at work, a living and breathing entity that is a body in its own right. The group show is curated by Sarah R. D’Angelo and Sylvana D’Angelo and features work by Feliz Kalmenson, Cameron Lee, Zoe Solomon, Joele Walinga, Marisa Hoicka, Filip Anton, Henry Faberge, Jordan Tannahill, Nitasha McKnight, Jonathan Mayhew, Reid Jenkins, Alicia Nauta, David Graham, Basil Alzeri, and Chris Boni. Presented by DOVA (Drop Out Video Arts, www.niners.ca). Everyone welcome. Free
Panel, Launch & Party
PANEL DISCUSSION, CATALOGUE LAUNCH AND CLOSING PARTY
Saturday November 10, 2pm – 5pm
Centre A, 2 W. Hastings
Join a few of the artists from the Centre A exhibition To/From BC Electric Railway: 100 Years, including Raymond Boisjoly (text based with maps), Vanessa Kwan (postcard messages), and Cindy Mochizuki (installation of memory), for a discussion about their work, with moderator Ashok Mathur. Followed by Catalogue Launch and closing party, 7pm to 10pm. Free
Visual Arts
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL
Friday November 16
to Sunday November 18
Various locations
The 16th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl – a three day visual arts phenomenon. This event involves more than 10,000 people visiting artists in their studios in the area bounded by Main Street and Victoria Drive north of First Avenue in Vancouver. For more information go to www.eastsideculturecrawl.com. Free
Workshop
THE ART OF MENTORSHIP
with Ruth Howard
Monday November 12, 2pm – 4pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main
Ruth Howard has had a long distance love affair with the Downtown Eastside since flying in to see the 2003 Downtown Eastside Community Play. She’s given talks, workshops and leadership training here ever since. Come and learn about Jumblies Theatre’s award-winning process of supporting and nurturing new arts leaders: learn about challenges, strategies of management and evaluation, with examples; participate in interactive activity with lots of time for Q & A. As the Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre – a company that makes art with, for and about the people and stories of Toronto – Ruth also leads one of the finest mentoring/internship programs in Canada in the field of community-engaged arts. Free