Art in the Streets
AMBULANT RESPONSE TEAM Planning Meeting
Thursday October 17, 4pm – 6pm
Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova
It’s an Emergency! Call a Doctor! Call a Nurse! Call a Paramedic! Somebody call an ambulance! Better yet, CALL OUT to Downtown Eastside artists and poets. Come to a planning meeting for a mobile performance and fun night out with the Art Cart during the Heart of the City Festival (date to be determined at the meeting).
The Art Cart, a joint project between Gallery Gachet and Oppenheimer Park, is a mobile art gallery and vending cart for artists to transport and sell their work. It is also a hub for curated exhibitions, projects, community workshops and public events. For this event bring your most urgent poems, props and costumes (doctors, nurses, patients); bring your megaphones, placards, first aid supplies, flashlights, sirens, gauze, lots and lots of bandages…and your poetry. Watch for further announcements! Free
Visual Arts
THE WEARING WANT Jorden & David Doody
Opening: Thursday October 17, 7pm – 12midnight
InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings
Exhibition October 17 to November 7
This exhibition is the most recent installment of The Wearing Want: Luxury, Entropy & the Lust for Legacy, a series of mixed media paintings and art objects created by Vancouver based artistic collaborative Jorden & David Doody. The Doody’s unique approach to art making moves freely between painting, sculpture, textiles and new media. As gallery-goers feast on a smorgasbord of the duo’s subconscious they are sure to be snared in an elaborate web of Contemporary Surrealism. Musical entertainment: Gay Nineties & special guests. Gallery hours: Wed to Sat, 1pm – 5pm. Free
Workshop
USING YOUR FEAST HALL VOICE with Mike Dangeli
Friday October 18, 1pm – 2pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main
How do you communicate without a microphone and retain strength of purpose? With artist-carver Mike Dangeli (Nisga’a, Tlingit, Tsetsaut, and Tsimshian Nations) as your guide, learn the principles of vocal awareness and how to speak in a feast hall with volume and intention. From an early age, Mike attended feasts, potlatches and other ceremonies in BC and Alaska, trained in languages and began to study art forms, histories and cultures. The Festival is thrilled that Mike has agreed to share his experience – and his booming feast hall voice – with our community. Everyone welcome. Free
Workshop
CREATING A COMIC CHARACTER with Gerardo Avila
Friday October 18, 2:30pm – 5pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main
Here’s a great opportunity to learn techniques and aids for creating comic characters with Gerardo Avila. Gerardo has performed for over thirty-five years as a solo clown, mime, magician and storyteller, and he has been a co-director, writer and performer for numerous groups, including Oh Sweet Clown, Electro Tecno Teatro, La Ratatouille, Snake in The Grass Moving Theatre and Cirque du Soleil. The workshop will cover walking, posture, gestures, rhythm, entrances and exits, ridiculous vs sublime, imagination and creativity. Space is limited. First come first serve. Free
Visual Arts
READING PEOPLE, NEW COLLAGE WORK Jessie McNeil
Opening: Saturday October 19, 7pm
Project Space, 222 E. Georgia
Exhibition October 16 to 26
Reading People marks Jessie McNeil’s first solo exhibition in Vancouver and the last exhibition in Project Space’s brick-and-mortar. Inspired by the image of people browsing through publications like Hannah Höch’s book Bilderbuch at fairs, bookstores and publication spaces like Project Space, interdisciplinary artist McNeil re-introduces texts and images into collage and portrait forms of people reading. The future Project Space may not occupy the physical space on East Georgia, but will continue to thrive throughout local spaces, as well as international, printed and virtual ones. For more info: jessiemcneil.ca. Viewing hours: Wed to Sun, 1pm – 5pm, or by appointment. Free
Cultural Sharing
CARVING DEMONSTRATION
Tuesday October 22, 9am – 4pm
Aboriginal Front Door, 384 Main
Anywhere you wander in the Downtown Eastside, you will see artists carving wood, bone, stone or who knows what. In recognition of the importance of carving in our community, the Front Door is hosting a day-long demonstration with carvers who are residents of the Downtown Eastside. Stop by to talk and see what they’re up to. Carvers include Ralph E Hill, Stanley Paul and more to be confirmed. This is a day-long event and the carvers will come and go. If the weather’s nice, the carvers will be outside. Please note: from 1-3pm, men-only inside the Front Door. Other times of the day: Everyone Is Welcome! Free
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