Wednesday October 24
Special Event
FESTIVAL LAUNCH
Wednesday October 24, 2:30pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
401 Main
Help launch our Festival with special guests including a welcome from Sam George (Tse-at-sul-tuxch) of the Squamish Nation and guest dance performers Mike Dangeli and Mique’l Askren of Nisga’a, Tlingit and Tsimshian descent. Performing from her jazz and blues repertoire is DTES resident and one of Vancouver’s premier blues singers Dalannah Gail Bowen accompanied by DTES piano wizard Stan Hudac. Inspiring us with their big drums are the Seymour Taiko Drummers - young performers from Admiral Seymour Elementary led by project teacher Doug Masuhara. All welcome. Refreshments provided. Free
Cabaret
WATER CABARET
Wednesday October 24, 7:30pm – 10pm
radha yoga & eatery, 728 Main
Opening night of the 4th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. Join Ya-wen V. Wang as she leads more than a dozen local artists in a cabaret that celebrates one of our most precious terrestrial substances – water! Inspired by the stunning water crystal work of Japanese writer and researcher Dr. Masaru Emoto, the Water Cabaret is a free flow of poetry, spoken word, songs and music from a variety of cultures and styles. Accompanied by water image projections by award-winning photographer Eydis S. Einarsdottir, the evening features a three-piece band with Ya-wen V. Wang (piano), Russell Sholberg (bass), and Joel Lower (percussion/drums), along with Colin MacDonald (sax), DTES residents Rachel Davis (pop vocals) and Gena Thompson (poetry & songs), Melissa Elton (jazz vocal), the Treble-Makers (vocal ensemble), Claire McLaughlin and Mori Zuit¨¥n (classical voice) and Jessica Jone (dance and movement). Welcome and song with Dalannah Gail Bowen. Co-hosts: Gena Thompson and actor-singer-theatrical wizard Hector Johnson. Suggested donation $10
Theatre
GRAVITY
Wednesday October 24, 7:30pm
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy
The Heart of the City Festival is thrilled to promote urban ink’s world premiere of Gravity, written and performed by Tricia Collins and directed by Maiko Bae Yamamoto. Information: www.urbanink.ca.
Tonight’s performance is a free preview
Television
FEARLESS TV #10:
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL
Wednesday October 24, 8pm – 9pm
Shaw Cable 4
Fearless TV is pleased to present community television as part of the Heart Of the City Festival, on Shaw cable 4 in Metro Vancouver. This broadcast features the video Heart and Home: Inner City directed by Anne Marie Slater (2006), alongside interviews with Festival artists and participants, including Anne Marie that were recorded at Gallery Gachet this September. Initiated in February 2007 by ACCESSTV (Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society) at the Carnegie Community Centre, Fearless TV is a regularly scheduled community television program on people and issues in the Downtown Eastside—a concrete result of the perseverance and hard work of volunteers of the DTES Community Arts Network Film and Video cluster (CAN-FV).