Community
ST. JAMES’ BARGAIN SALE
Friday October 29, 11am–12:30pm
St. James’ Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova
Eagerly anticipated throughout the year, the St. James’ Women’s Guild Bargain Sale is the gold mine event to catch. Don’t miss this hour and a half opportunity in bargain sale heaven to pick up household items, gifts, electronics, clothes and other items, for cheap, cheap, cheap prices. Find a last minute Hallowe’en costume or perhaps that long desired I’ve-been-looking-for-this-but-could-never-afford-it kitchen item! Everyone welcome.
Music in the Streets
SNOWY OWL DRUMMERS
Friday October 29, 2pm-3:30pm
Starts at Pigeon Park, Carrall & Hastings
A project of Music in the Streets, the Snowy Owl Drummers are a committed group of Aboriginal women playing hand drums and singing traditional songs, led by Dalannah Gail Bowen. They will be the community’s heartbeat on the street. Feel the rhythm, sing the songs! Free
Community Celebration
HALLOWE’EN DANCE Maria in the Shower
Friday October 29, 7pm-10pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main
Tonight is Hallowe’en Dance Night and the spooky Carnegie Community Centre invites you to put on your most frightful face! Brush up your best scary moves and frighten the old Carnegie Mummy away. Shake, rattle and roll to the live music of Maria in the Shower and their spine tingling swing, samba, folk and gypsy music. We’re talking “music to make you smile and maybe dance, to touch your soul and feel your heart beat.” (www.mariaintheshower.com) Join the ghouls at Carnegie and jangle them bones about! Free
Reading
KOOTENAY SCHOOL OF WRITING
Friday October 29, 8pm
W2 Storyeum, 151 W. Cordova
The Kootenay School of Writing presents a reading with Tom Raworth. Since 1966 Tom has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations in several countries. During the 1960s he also ran two small presses—Matrix and Goliard. Since the early 1970s Tom has read his work in more than 20 countries. (www.kswnet.org) By donation
Opening Reception
NOT MY LOVE(R) Bernadine Fox
Friday October 29, 7pm-10pm
InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings
Exhibition October 26 to Nov 13
Bernadine Fox (BFA) hails from a place on this planet that is so flat you can see company coming from over ten miles away. She raised two girls as a single parent and is now a single nana raising her granddaughter. Bernadine paints, draws, teaches, curates, writes, and organizes art events. In this exhibit of paintings, Bernadine explores a broken heart and discovers that the act of facing and working through tremendous pain always (always) brings back the positive: large, bright, and very much alive. Her work is created for and about the modern woman. (www.bernadinefox.ca) The gallery is open Wed to Sat, 1:30pm to 5pm. Free
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Multi media Performance
SHADOW MACHINE
Friday October 29, 8pm
W2 Storyeum, 151 W. Cordova
See PreFestival for show description. For tickets call 604-684-2787
or www.ticketstonight.ca
Art Talk
THROUGH THE EYE OF THE RAVEN
Friday October 29, 2pm-4pm
Urban Aboriginal Gallery, 456 E. Hastings
Meet the team of artists who created, designed and painted the extraordinary Through the Eye of the Raven, Western Canada’s largest mural recently completed on the west wall of the newly-renovated Orwell Hotel. Hear their ‘mural stories’ in the informal setting of the new Urban Aboriginal Gallery, followed by a 3pm slideshow presentation featuring the community and artistic process of this landmark project. Mural co-artistic directors were Richard Tetrault and Jerry Whitehead, and participating artists included: Richard Shorty, Northern Tutchone; Sharifah Marsden, Anishnabe; Haisla Collins, Tsimshian; Eric Parnell, Haida; and the poet Nicola Campbell, Interior Salish of Nle7kepmx (Thomson) and Nsilz (Okanagan). All artists are residents of Vancouver’s Eastside. The mural is a Vancouver Native Housing Society project created with support from the City of Vancouver, BC Housing, Britiannia Community Centre, Strathcona BIA, General Paint, the Royal Bank, VanMar Constructors and others. The best views of the mural are either from across the street in the Patricia Hotel parking lot, or looking east from Gore up the alley between Hastings and Pender. (www.urbanaboriginal.org) Everyone welcome. Free
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Music
GALLERY OPENING Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short
Friday October 29, 7pm-9pm
Urban Aboriginal Gallery, 456 E. Hastings
During this past summer a landmark mural project was painted on the west wall of the newly-renovated Orwell Hotel. The ground floor of the Orwell was the planning space for the artists and organizers. Inspired by the creative energy of the artists working together, the Vancouver Native Housing Society moved forward to open the Urban Aboriginal Gallery in the same ground floor location. Join the artists to celebrate with music from one of the participating artists, Haisla Collins and her roots acoustic band—Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short. Specializing in blues and ballads with flavours of gospel, jazz and country, Haisla is joined by Lorenzo Watters on lead guitar and mandolin, the Reverend Gabriel Hebert on slide guitar and banjo, and Father Theo on rhythm guitar and twelve-string. That’s urban blues! See you there! Free