Sunday October 28
Music
SWEET SOUNDS SUNDAY BRUNCH
Sunday October 28, 10am - 1:30pm
radha yoga & eatery, 728 Main
Radha presents musicians from the Black Crow Project including Pawnshop Diamond, Jessie Turner and more experimental, folk and progressive music in a fundraiser for the Portland Hotel Society. The Black Crow Project was developed out of the belief that music is a powerful tool to reach across social boundaries and unite people toward a common good, and to raise awareness of housing and mental health issues in our downtown east side. To achieve these objectives, the Project is compiling a CD of songs by local musicians, about the crows that fly over Vancouver and about the city itself. Witnessing the daily flight of the crows provides an image of togetherness and movement towards a common goal. For more info please visit: www.myspace.com/blackcrowproject. Fabulous vegan brunch menu. For more information 604-605-0011 or www.radhavancouver.org. Sliding scale cover: $5 + (does not include brunch)
Nature Walk
MEDICINAL PLANTS WALK
Sunday October 28, 11am – 12:30pm
Meet at NE corner of Gore & Keefer
Squamish Ethnobotanist T’Uy’Tanat will take you on a walk through Strathcona to the community gardens and wind your way back through to Chinatown, where you can share a cup of herbal tea with some friends and hear about the new Medicinal Plant Garden that is being implemented at Keefer & Gore. $10 for non-residents, pay-as-you-can for local residents
Workshop
GOSPEL CHORAL WORKSHOP
Sunday October 28, 1pm – 3:30pm
Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender
The Heart of the City Festival presents a Choral Workshop that features Beverly Dobrinsky and the Barvinok Choir, and jazz & blues singer Dalannah Gail Bowen, along with community members. The focus will be on exploring gospel music with the result to be performed at the finale celebration of the festival on Sunday afternoon November 4 at the Ukrainian Hall. Everyone welcome to participate. Free
Theatre
GRAVITY
Sunday October 28, 2:30pm
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy
Information: www.urbanink.ca.
Today’s performance is a pay as you can matinee
Chants
SATSANG
Sunday October 28, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
radha yoga & eatery, 728 Main
Songs, chanting, inspiration - chanting for the neighbourhood and for world peace. All are welcome. For more information 604-605-0011 or www.radhavancouver.org. By donation
Film
SLEEPING TIGERS:
THE ASAHI BASEBALL STORY (2003)
Sunday October 28, 7pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
401 Main
In pre-WWII Vancouver the Asahi baseball team was unbeatable, outplaying the taller Caucasian teams and winning the prestigious Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, the Canadian government sent every person of Japanese descent to internment camps. Faced with hardship and isolation, the former Asahi members survived by playing baseball. Their passion for this game soon attracted the interest of the local townspeople, helping to break down racial and cultural barriers. In Sleeping Tigers, director Jari Osborne skillfully weaves rarely seen archival film and dramatic recreations, along with candid interviews with the last of the Asahi. Thank you to the National Film Board of Canada. Running time: 51 minutes. Free
Short Films
AFTER THE RIOTS
Sunday October 28, 8pm – 9:30pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
401 Main
One hundred years after the Vancouver anti-Asian race riots, we reflect upon the past and question what the future holds for Asian migrants and First Nations people in Canada. A special program of works by Asian, Aboriginal and South Asian media artists have been selected from the Riot in Vancouver Film Series which commemorated four significant anniversaries that affected Asian migration and citizenship in Canada from 1907, 1947, 1967 and 1997. This program of short films confronts and questions notions of displacement, family, language, race, culture and sexuality. It includes documentaries, experimental works and animation by senior and emerging Canadian or Vancouver-based filmmakers and video artists. It includes documentaries, experimental works and animation by senior and emerging Canadian or Vancouver-based filmmakers and video artists including Paul Wong, Richard Fung, Cherie Valentina Stocken, Lillian Chan, Dorothy Christian, Michael Fukushima, Shani Mootoo and Yun Lam Li. Curated by Karin Lee. Curated by Karin Lee.Presented with support from Anniversaries of Change 2007. Total running time: 90 minutes. Free
History Tour
PANTAGES AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD: A TOUR IN THREE PARTS
Sunday October 28, 12pm – 4pm
PART ONE – A TOUR OF THE PANTAGES THEATRE
12pm – 1:30pm
Pantages Theatre, 150 E. Hastings
This is an extraordinary opportunity to visit the inside of the famous Pantages Theatre, the oldest remaining theatre in Vancouver. The tour includes a history talk with Chuck Davis, local history aficionado, freelance writer and long-time member of the Vancouver Historical Society, with guest Basil Pantages of the Pantages theatre family. You will also have an opportunity to see the 1907 movie footage shot by filmmaker William Harbeck of downtown Vancouver streets with live narration by Jim McGraw of VHS. A nonprofit society has been established to restore the theatre. By donation
PART TWO – CHINATOWN & JAPANTOWN:
A SHARED BUT SEPARATE HISTORY
with John Atkin
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Meet at steps of Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main
A walking history tour of the two largest immigrant communities surrounding the Pantages, bound together through hardship: two different but linked communities. Author, historian, DTES/Strathcona resident and walking-history-encyclopedia, John Atkin will lead a look at the two districts and their place in the Downtown Eastside: why they are where they are, what has happened to them and their distinct histories and architecture. $10 for non-residents, pay-as-you-can for local residents
PART THREE – RETURN TO PANTAGES
3:30pm – 4pm
Pantages Theatre, 150 E. Hastings
Return to the Pantages Theatre for a special presentation by the Vancouver Cantonese Opera, one of three resident companies of the Pantages Theatre. Incorporated in 2000 by Artistic Director Rosa Cheng together with a group of friends who love Cantonese opera, the Vancouver Cantonese Opera provides an opportunity to experience and appreciate this traditional art form with a short episode from their repertoire. Free