Music
CARNEGIE JAZZ BAND
Friday November 6, 12pm-2pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
401 Main
The Downtown Eastside is home to many a fine musician, and many of them love to play at the Carnegie. Come to the latest incarnation of the Carnegie Band, under the wonderful tutelage of multi-instrumentalist and composer Brad Muirhead. A fine afternoon program of jazz featuring DTES musicians from the Carnegie Jazz Band class. Sit back, have a listen and feel the rhythm. Free
Open House
VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM
Friday November 6, 12pm-5pm
Vancouver Police Museum
240 E. Cordova 2nd floor
One of Vancouver’s fastest-growing attractions, the museum is located in the former Coroner’s Courtroom. Built in 1932, the building is a municipally designated heritage structure and houses an extensive collection relating to the history of policing in Vancouver. Here you will find exhibits about some of the city’s most famous criminals and the men and women who enforce our laws. There are also special displays on some of the teams that make up the police force, including the Mounted Squad, the Dog Squad, the Marine Squad and others. At 2pm join Chris Mathieson, the museum’s Executive Director, for “If these walls could talk,” an indoor walk that shares the history of the building as the City morgue and Coroner’s Court. For more information: 604-665-3346 or www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca. Everyone welcome. Free
Workshop
TAIKO BASICS
Friday November 6, 5pm–8pm
DTES Women’s Centre, 302 Columbia
The Heart of the City Festival is thrilled to support the development of taiko in our community with workshops for both men and women age 16 and over. Blow off the November rainy-day blahs! A workshop on the basics of Japanese taiko drumming with the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre Taiko Group. Light meal provided at 5pm, doors close at 5:30pm. Registration limited, to pre-register call Cynthia at 604-831-6815 or cpllow@gmail.com. Everyone welcome. By donation
Visual Arts
WE CALL IT HOME
Oppenheimer + Headlines + PIVOT
Opening Reception Friday November 6, 6pm-9pm
Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova
Parade 5pm, starts at Oppenheimer Park, 400 block Powell
Exhibition November 6 to 29
Show your spirit and join the Homeless Band, artists, community members and neighbourhood families in the parade that leaves at 5pm from Oppenheimer Park and travels to Gallery Gachet. The group show at Gallery Gachet offers a unique perspective into the heart and home of the Downtown Eastside community, inviting artists to express and critique their inner and outer worlds. See Visual Arts section for full description about the exhibition. For information: 604-687-2468 or www.gachet.org. Free
Reception
ARTISANS CATALOGUE LAUNCH
Friday November 6, 6pm-9pm
EWMA Store, 802 E. Hastings
A program of Atira, Enterprising Women Making Art (EWMA) encourages women to create and sell art and handmade products as an act of personal, community and economic empowerment. The EWMA Store recently celebrated its grand opening, generating a rare fair-trade opportunity for EWMA artisans to sell their handmade goods and visual art. As a way to further empower the artisans and integrate the community and local businesses, EWMA has created a catalogue from a selection of the inventory with graphic design by Leah Vlemmiks. Come to the reception to celebrate the work of the artisans and introduce the catalogue to the community. This project received a Small Arts Grant, thanks to the Vancouver Foundation and Carnegie Community Centre. For more information: www.ewma.info and www.atira.bc.ca. Free
Visual Arts
THE EVOLUTION OF INSPIRATION
Opening Reception Friday November 6, 8pm-1am
Gallery Atsui, 602 E. Hastings
Exhibition November 6 to 28
“If history had worked out differently, and Michelangelo had been commissioned to paint a ceiling for a giant Museum of Science, mightn’t he have produced something at least as inspirational as the Sistine Chapel?” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
With that question in mind and with 2009 being the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth, and November coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s seminal work On the Origin of Species, Gallery Atsui sets out to explore contemporary visual artists whose work is “science inspired.” For more information: www.galleryatsui.com or email: info@galleryatsui.com. Free