Thursday October 25
Cultural Sharing
STORY SHARING & DRUM CIRCLE
Thursday October 25, 2pm – 4pm
Aboriginal Front Door, 384 Main
Bring your stories to a story sharing circle with local people of diverse backgrounds. The Daughters of the Drum will participate with a welcome and lead a drum circle. The Front Door is an accessible storefront that assists Downtown Eastside Aboriginal people to walk through life with love, honour, respect and compassion for all things in creation – including themselves. Ongoing activities at the Front Door include Elder capacity building, healing circles, arts and crafts and drumming circles. Everyone welcome. Free
Visual Art Exhibit
SEW WHAT? Diane Wood
Opening Reception Thursday October 25, 3:30pm – 5:30pm
October 25 to December 14
Potluck Café, 20 W. Hastings
Fabric Art by DTES resident, artist, poet and community activist Diane Wood. Having studied fine art as a young woman in Montreal, Diane’s creative work has been shaped by the streets, poverty, pop culture and the coffee house music scene. She has done front line crisis work in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and her involvement with the issues of addiction, abuse and recovery are the basis of her art. Mixing her Guerilla Girl sensibility with pre-Christian spirituality, Diane draws on a long history of women’s crafts. Some of her favourite fabric pieces and most recent fabric work will be on display. Open to the public. For café information www.potluckcatering.com. Free
Dinner/Dance
SALSA NIGHT WITH LA CANDELA
Thursday October 25
6pm – 12midnight
radha yoga & eatery, 728 Main
Dinner 6pm - 9:30pm, Salsa dance lesson at 9:30pm, followed by dancing from 10pm to midnight with the Cuban band La Candela featuring Mark Beaty (baby bass), Cary Garcia (piano), David Lopez (vocals/percussion), Paul Bray (congas), Malcolm Aiken (trumpet) and Gilberto Moreaux (timbales). Building community through music, food and dance, www.asilacandela.com. For more information 604-605-0011 or www.radhavancouver.org. $10 cover (does not include dinner)
Theatre
GRAVITY
Opening Thursday October 25, 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. $20/$15 Unwaged tickets: pay what you can
Performance
IWAN WIJONO
Thursday October 25, 8pm
Centre A, 2 West Hastings
While studying international law in Jogjakarta Java, Wijono became active in the pro-democracy movement against the Suharto regime. The student movement that opposed inequality brought Wijono to look for an efficient form to deliver political messages. In the 1990’s, he became known as a pro-democracy street performer with (or without) political demonstration. Besides a political awareness, Wijono gained an aesthetic understanding that performance art was a milieu that could be undertaken anywhere and was not restricted by exhibition space, the public, or even the time of the activity. His early performance art interventions evolved to include arts events both locally and internationally throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Since the 2006 earthquake in Java, Iwan has been working with the people of Gemblangan to build a traditional healing facility and a new cultural centre in the devastated zone. Presented by LIVE Performance Art Biennale in collaboration with Centre A Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Open to the public. Free
Radio Theatre
ARTS RATIONAL
Thursday October 25, 9pm - 10pm
Live Broadcast Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7FM
Listen to the Arts Rational for a special Heart of the City Festival program with live radio broadcasts of original One Act plays and interviews. Presented by radio master Jay Hamburger, Artistic Director of the grassroots theatre company Theatre in the Raw. The one acts are from the Mythical Voices For Our Time project and the Biennial One Act Play Writing Contests. Tonight’s one act is The Blue Room by Christine Yates, featuring DTES resident, actress and activist Joan Morelli, with Robert Dean Hoover and Serge Savoy. The state has decided an aging woman is a burden to society and pressures ensue. Have a listen to radio theatre.