Art Market
EASTSIDE ARTISTS COMPANY
Saturday November 8, 10am – 5pm
Woodward’s Atrium, 111 W. Hastings
For the last eighteen months the Eastside Artists Company has held regular Saturday art markets inside and outside the Atrium at Woodward’s. The initiative provides a place for Vancouver artists and artisans to display and sell their work. Diane Johnston, owner and operator of the company, is passionate about the opportunity for artists to be self-sustaining in the Downtown Eastside. Come to the Saturday market and see what the artists have for sale.
For more information: dianecaroljohnston@hotmail.com or phone 604-616-5531.
Walking Tour
DTES RENOVICTIONS WALKING TOUR with Carnegie Community Action Project
Saturday November 8, 11am (approx. 90 minutes)
Meet on front steps of Carnegie, 401 Main
$10, free for local residents
“Renoviction”: it might be a new word but it’s already an old story for many low-income people in the Downtown Eastside. Renovictions are displacing more and more low-income people from the DTES and fueling the escalating rate of homelessness across the city. Join members of the Carnegie Community Action Project on a walking tour of renoviction sites and learn more about how to work to make sure that the DTES remains a low-income neighbourhood.
Open House
HEART OF THE CENTRE
Saturday November 8, 11am – 3pm
Evelyne Saller Centre, 320 Alexander
Free
The Evelyne Saller Centre has an exciting line up of events and activities for this year’s Heart of the Centre Open House. Learn to craft your own arts ‘n’ craft project, view the art show of original paintings, Legacy Wall Murals and the new Heritage art display with contributions from talented local artists. Test your skill at the Heart of The City Hearts Tournament. Discover the story of the Evelyne Saller Centre with photos, facts, text and a self-guided walking tour. Snacks and beverages. Everyone welcome!
Music In The Streets
HASTINGS STREET BAND
Saturday November 8, 12pm & 1pm
Starts at Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main
Free
Get your dancing shoes ready. It’s music in the streets with the Hastings Street Band and their upbeat New Orleans-style jazz and blues. Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Brad Muirhead, the Band is comprised of enthusiastic Downtown Eastside involved amateur and semi-pro musicians playing with professional musicians from across Vancouver.
Walk
FIELDHOUSE STUDIO HOP
Saturday November 8, 12pm – 3pm
Various Studios, start at MacLean Park Fieldhouse 710 Keefer
Free
The Vancouver Parks Board’s Artists Fieldhouse Studio program has brought artists to the MacLean Park Fieldhouse and the Strathcona Park Fieldhouse for the past few years. The Festival is pleased that the artists will open their studios for you to drop by and see what they’ve been up to; it’s fascinating and you’ve got to see it to believe it! The Studio Hop will also visit Trillium Park, a corner park newly-built on False Creek East. Start the Studio Hop at the beginning – or meet up with the Hop along the way!
12pm – 1pm, MacLean Park Fieldhouse (710 Keefer) – Urban Weavers Studio, artists Sharon Kallis and Todd DeVries. See demonstrations of drop spindling and spinning using locally grown fibres. Local fibre and dye samples will be on display. This is your chance to ask about the weavings and gatherings we’ve seen over the past few years.
1:15pm – 2:15pm, Strathcona Park Fieldhouse (across from 830 Malkin) – Onkle Hoonki’s Fabulous Horn Shop, artist Mr. Fire-Man. They have spent the last year tool-making, wood harvesting, preparing, curing, and carving wooden trumpets. This is your opportunity to see horn making demonstrations and to hear those trumpets!
2:30pm – 3pm Trillium Park (corner of Thornton & Malkin) – co-managed by non-profit EartHand Gleaners Society and the Vancouver Parks Board, for environmental art and learning opportunities. The unique Park, designed with input from the artists and local community with space specifically for community use, was built with the intention to involve community in the tending, harvesting and exploring of traditional use of plants on site. Drop by to see what’s growing in your neighbourhood.
Artist Talk & Exhibition
BIG PRINT – Steamroller Woodprints
Artist talk: Saturday November 8, 2pm – 3pm
Raven’s Eye Studios, 456 E. Hastings
Exhibition October 29 to November 9
Free
This past summer, several local artists 
participated in The Big Print Project, a sensational event that resulted in 4’ X 8’ woodblocks being printed with a steamroller on Granville Island. The resulting works, several of which will be shown in the gallery, are by local artists Jerry Whitehead, Richard Tetrault and Cody Lecoy. These artists have also collaborated on mural projects in the Downtown Eastside. Jerry and Richard collaborated with Haisla Collins and others on the massive Through the Eye of the Raven mural located on the west wall of the Orwell Hotel. Last year, Jerry and Richard worked on the mural called Radius, located in the courtyard of Firehall Arts Centre, at Cordova and Gore. An addition to the art exhibition will be a series of paintings by Whitehead and Lecoy, and painter Haisla Collins. The Big Print Project was co-produced by Creative Cultural Collaborations Society and New Leaf Editions. A presentation of the video that was made of The Big Print Project will be shown during the Artist Talk on Sat Nov 8.
Exhibition Hours: Wed Oct 29 – Sun Nov 9, 12pm – 4pm; closed Mon & Tues, Nov 3 & 4
Reception & Exhibition
CHINESE PAINTING EXHIBITION
Opening reception: Saturday November 8, 2pm – 4pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia
Exhibition November 7 to 9
Admission to the reception on November 8 is free.
An exhibition of Chinese painting from Hung Yuk Ying and students from the Chinese Cultural Centre’s own Chinese painting class. Hung Yuk Ying is a Richmond member of the Chinese Canadian Artists Federation.
For more information: 604-658-8880 or www.cccvan.com.
Admission: $3/adult, $2/ student & senior.
Hours: Fri – Sun, 11am – 4pm
Paying Tribute To Black Strathcona
One Community / Six Decades / Ten Stories
Fielding Spotts Jr. – City Archive Vancouver
The Downtown Eastside/Strathcona is blessed with a rich history of Black Canadians who made significant contributions to our community and the City of Vancouver. To pay tribute to the black community of Vancouver’s historic east-end, Strathcona’s Creative Cultural Collaborations Society, in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre, recently produced the Black Strathcona Interactive Media Project, the centre piece of which is ten short videos that celebrate some of the extraordinary people and places that made the community vibrant and unique. Performers present the stories, combining oral history with rarely seen archival photographs and fi lm. Although viewers from anywhere in the world can take a virtual web tour at www.blackstrathcona.com, we invite you to experience history come to life at the following activities.
Interactive Media
BLACK STRATHCONA SELF-GUIDED TOUR
Online at www.blackstrathcona.com
Free
Use your smart phone or iPad to lead you on an interactive walking tour. As you walk the neighbourhood, follow the map on the website with story locations. Use the QR codes on the street signage to download videos to your mobile device and see the past and present of Vancouver’s vibrant black community.
Walking Tour
BLACK STRATHCONA HERITAGE WALKING TOUR with Kevan Cameron
Saturday November 8, 11am (approx. 90 minutes)
Meet at Jimi Hendrix Shrine, 207 Union
$10, pay what you can for local residents
Walk the neighbourhood together, follow the map, use the QR codes on street plaques to access the videos on your, or a fellow walker’s, cell phone and share with each other the black history of the historic East End. A tour will leave at 11am, with special guest Kevan Cameron (Scruff Mouth) who performs in video #5 – Jimi & Nora: Seminal musician with local roots.
Community Celebration
CELEBRATING BLACK STRATHCONA
Saturday November 8, 2pm – 4:30pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main
Free
The festival is thrilled to present all ten Black Strathcona videos, including among others: Vie’s Chicken & Steaks – Late night haven; Militant Mothers – Beating the power brokers; Jimi & Nora – Seminal musician with local roots; and Leona’s Kids – Great talent runs in the family.
Also joining us for the afternoon are Gordon McLennan, writer and director of the Black Strathcona Interactive Media Project; writer and poet Wayde Compton, co-founder of the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project and consultant on this project; guest musicians and performers including Scruff Mouth, Bertha Clark aka Adelene da soul poet, Edo Friends of BC Cultural Group; invited VIPs from the black community; and special guest Thelma Gibson, award winning entertainer and one of Leona’s kids. Your emcee is multi-disciplinary artist Vanessa Richards. This event supports the new United Black Canadian Community Association and their dream to establish a black Canadian community centre near the historic Hogan’s Alley.
Presentation
A RIGHT TO REMAIN COMMUNITY FAIR PRESENTATION
Saturday November 8, 4pm – 6pm
Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova
Free
The Right to Remain Community Fair has been the main focus of the Revitalizing Japantown? community research project since June, uncovering the Human Rights history of the Downtown Eastside and creating art and performance with current residents to express their Right to Remain in a rapidly changing DTES. There will be workshop artwork on display, a slideshow and Q & A with the participating artists. Project members Greg Masuda (filmmaker), Kristin Lantz (Gallery Gachet) and Beth Carter (Nikkei National Museum) will also discuss their role in this exciting arts-based community research project-in-progress. Everyone welcome!
‘Revitalizing Japantown?’ A Unifying Exploration of Human Rights, Branding and Place.
Colonized, racialized, stigmatized and gentrified – Downtown Eastside residents have continuously resisted Human Rights violations by rallying for social justice.
Understanding and strengthening the common links between Human Rights struggles past and present tells those who want to “revitalize” the neighbourhood that the DTES is not just a planners’ grid of buildings, streets and parks. It is its people, and the people of the DTES do not need to be “revitalized” because they are already “vital.”
“Revitalizing Japantown?” (2012-2015) is a community research project with DTES organizations, artists and researchers who are working to reconnect and re-enliven the Human Rights history of the DTES across cultures, concerns and periods in history.
Currently working with a fantastic team of artist residents of the DTES as The Right to Remain Community Fair we want to ensure that the history of the DTES can continue to teach Canadians about our Human Rights legacy and present-day challenges, including Human Rights issues taking place around housing, health, food, and the right to the city.
Click HERE to read “The Right to REMAIN in Vancouver’s Nihonmachi/Downtown Eastside” by Jeff Masuda with Aaron Franks, for The Bulletin: a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history + culture, March 2014.
Talkumentary
RECONCILIATION – MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER
Saturday November 8, 6pm – 9:45pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main
Everyone welcome. Free
It has been a year since the extraordinary Reconciliation Week of 2013 and the reconciliation walk across the Georgia Viaduct that took place in Vancouver. The Festival carries forward this important initiative between First Nations and settler communities with a “talk-umentary” evening of film, stories, guest speakers and live performance.
Join host Angela White of the Indian Residential School Survivors Society for a conversation about the need for all communities to work together towards reconciliation. Guest speakers will include, among others, Stephen Lytton, Grace Eiko Thomson, and Naveen Girn.
To mark the Centenary of the Komagata Maru, Imtiaz Popat will share a classical chant to the track “Crossing Pacific,” composed by Neelamjit Dhillon from the album Komagata Maru, with actress Leena Manroe performing a selection from Sharon Pollock’s 1976 play The Komagata Maru Incident.
The films shown this evening are:
- Yummo Comes Home, A Residential School Healing Journey (2013, 28 min) produced by Don Klaassen and the Mennonite Church Canada. This is the story of an Okanogan/Thompson Aboriginal man who revisits the residential school building to reclaim his boyhood confidence and finds what it means to experience reconciliation.
- Rex versus Singh (2008, 30 min) directed by Ali Kazimi, Richard Fung and John Greyson. A provocative film that shows how, in 1915, police in Vancouver used laws against homosexuality to jail some South Asian men and to discourage others in their communities from making Vancouver home.
- Stolen Memories (2012, 45 min) produced and directed by Kagan Goh, and producer Imtiaz Popat. About Goh’s quest to return a photo album “stolen” from a Japanese Canadian family during the Japanese Canadian internment during WWII.
Song
CARNEGIE SING ALONG CHOIR
Saturday November 8 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery 401 Main
Free
Everyone’s favourite gentleman and guitarist Mike Richter leads a brand new version of the Carnegie Choir. They meet twice a week and for the Festival, they bring the regular session to you, the audience. It’s a choir; it’s a sing-along. Pull up a chair, find the lyrics or the sheet music and raise your voice with the Choir. You won’t be alone.
Theatre
THE RAYMUR MOTHERS – They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer
Saturday November 8, 8pm
Russian Hall, 600 Campbell
See Wednesday October 29 for full description and ticket information.
Music
TISHOMINGO STRING BAND w/ 5 ON A STRING
Saturday November 8, doors 9pm
China Cloud Studios, 2nd floor 524 Main
Suggested donation $10
It’s the official CD release party of Tishomingo String Band’s album DANGERFIELD. Tishomingo will share the stage with the legendary Vancouver based 5 On A String bluegrass band. The album will be unveiled. Strings will sing. Banjos will be ringing. For more information: www.tishomingostringband.com.