Post-Festival

Workshop
MAKING ART THROUGH DIALOGUE
Thursday November 10 & 17, 1:30pm-4pm
EWMA Art Studio, 54 E. Cordova

After the launch of the Making Art Through Dialogue series on Thurs Oct 27, women can drop into the studio on two more Thursdays to continue to work on this living piece of art and dialogue. See Thurs Oct 27 for details. Free

Opening Reception
VANCOUVER INDIGENOUS MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
Thursday November 10, 7:30pm
W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings
Festival November 10 to 13

Welcome to the opening film and reception at W2 Café for the Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival, which features diverse works from local and international Indigenous media artists, working in film, video, new media or multi-media. Sponsored by W2, City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary, with assistance from SFU Woodwards. For more information, please call 604-689-9896, or email us at info@creativetechnology.org . Advance tickets at W2 Media Cafe. Opening Reception tickets $25, Weekend Pass $50


Book Launch & Reading
THE ONLY POETRY THAT MATTERS Clint Burnham
Saturday November 12, 7pm
W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings

The Kootenay School of Writing with Arsenal Pulp Press is pleased to present the book launch reception and reading of The Only Poetry That Matters by Clint Burnham. Vancouver writer, poet and teacher in the English Department at SFU, Burnham offers the first book-length examination of the Kootenay School of Writing, the notorious group of poets who came to international attention in Vancouver during the 1980s. One of the resident companies in the W2 community space, KSW is a writer-run centre that presents courses, talks and reading series. By donation


Media Workshop
THE NEW FRONTIER IS INTERACTIVE
Sunday November 13, 12pm-4pm
W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings

Join W2 for Media Democracy Day with – The New Frontier is Interactive: advancing progressive storytelling and journalism with multi-platform and social media tools. The title says it all! For emerging and professional media artists and filmmakers. Details still developing. For more information: call 604-689-9896 or email: info@creativetechnology.org. Preregister with W2.


Workshop
GRANT WRITING for DTES groups involved with Community Arts
Monday November 14, 1:30pm-3:30pm
W Room, 5th floor, 111 W. Hastings

Join facilitators Sonja Embree, Community Arts Council Board Secretary, and Mary Bennett, Administrator, to discuss how to write a winning grant proposal. For anyone who wants to write a grant proposal for a community arts project that would enliven the Downtown Eastside. We will cover opportunities, criteria, hands on writing and sharing, and look at next steps. Includes handouts and resources for further research. Please register at: www.cacvgrantwriting.eventbrite.com. Free

Opera
HOW TO MAKE AN OPERA: the Annenberg Project
and the War in Iraq
Monday November 14, 7:30pm-9pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main

City Opera Vancouver gives a sneak preview of their latest commission: a new chamber opera based on the real life experiences of US Marine Corps Sergeant Christian Ellis (retired) at the Battle of Fallujah in Iraq in 2004. The new chamber opera (still untitled) is the work of librettist Heather Raffo, composer Tobin Stokes and many others. Join the discussion about the entire process of creating a contemporary opera on an enduring and universal subject: war and the pity of war. City Opera received a creation grant for this project from the Annenberg Foundation of Los Angeles. Join Artistic Director Dr. Charles Barber for a peek behind the curtain to see an amazing piece in its first iteration. Free


Display & Celebration
COMMUNITY ARTS – THE FUTURE
Saturday November 26, 12pm-9pm (drop by, stay for a while)
Woodwards Atrium, 111 W. Hastings

A dozen organizations who encourage community arts with children and youth will participate in the day. Each will have a display table of information and engage people in an activity or share a performance. Come out and play with us. Meet kids and youth actively engaged in community and in art. Presented by Community Arts Council of Vancouver, celebrating its 65th anniversary this year – with no plans to retire! We were the first community arts council in North America. This event is the third in the series of Celebrating Community Arts – Past, Present and Future. Check out www.cacv.ca/future, to register and as the date draws closer for a full schedule of activities. Free


Downtown Eastside involved artists take to the Main Stage

We are pleased to announce that in December and January, Downtown Eastside involved performers Stephen Lytton and Mike Richter will appear in the production Bah! Humbug!, and then Kuei Ming Lin joins them in the production The Idiot.

Bah! Humbug!  A Staged Reading of an Eastside
Adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Adapted by Michael Boucher and Savannah Walling
Directed by Max Reimer with Musical Direction by Neil Weisensel
December 14-17, 2011
Faye and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre

SFU Woodwards. Tickets- tba
Featuring Jay Brazeau, Margo Kane, Tom Pickett and percussionist Jospeh Pepe Danza among others

This benefit for Downtown Eastside community arts and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is produced by SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre and in association with the Vancouver Playhouse and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot
Adapted and directed by James Fagan Tait
Music by Joelysa Pankanea
January 20-29, 2012, 7:30pm
2pm Matinee Saturday & Sunday

no show Monday January 23
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC
Tickets: 604-822-2678 / ubctheatre.universitytickets.com

A Neworld Theatre Production in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre.
Presented by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Theatre at UBC.