Friday October 30

Community
ST. JAMES’ BARGAIN SALE
Friday October 30, 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.

Workshop
HOW ABOUT NOW?
Friday October 30, 1pm-4pm
PACE, 49 W. Cordova
Are you a sex worker? Let your voice be heard! Come to PACE, a safe place, and share in a theatrical storytelling workshop. Explore key questions, universal themes, celebrate your stories, and share your humour and talents. The How About Now Collective comprised of RainCity Housing, Peers, PACE, Hustle: Men on the Move and theatre artist Dawn Wendy Mcleod will host a storytelling workshop open to men, women and transgender sex workers in the downtown community. This workshop is the beginning of a community theatre development project, which you (yes you!) can be a part of. The project will hold auditions in winter 2009/10 to hire 8-10 sex workers in the community to be actors in a play to be produced next spring. Make the first move! For more information call 604-872-7651. Free

Community
QUILT OF HOPE
Reception Friday October 30, 1pm-5pm
DTES Neighbourhood House
501 E. Hastings
Stitching hope in the Downtown Eastside!  So easy when you are quilting and having a great time with friends and neighbours around a kitchen table. Residents at the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House have—through much talking, drawing, sewing and painting – combined their vision of our community to produce the Quilt of Hope.  This collaborative quilt reflects three words the participants chose to describe our vibrant and diverse community: Health, Happiness and Hope. Join the participants in a reception to celebrate their accomplishment and their new breathtaking work of fabric art. Everyone welcome. Free

Music
KHAC CHI BAMBOO MUSIC
Friday October 30, 2pm-3pm
SUCCESS Choi Hall, 28 W. Pender
Two premiere musicians, Chi Khac Ho and Bic Hoang, offer a rare insight into the wealth and sophistication of Vietnamese culture in an afternoon concert at SUCCESS Choi Hall. Khac Chi Bamboo Music has set out to bring their traditional music to western audiences in ways they can appreciate and enjoy. For Khac Chi this has meant coming up with lively new arrangements of Vietnamese traditional, folk and contemporary tunes. The group honours their music by performing mostly on instruments that are unique and indigenous to Vietnam. Added to this instrumentation are instruments invented by Khac Chi’s members. For information visit www.successbc.ca. Free

Community Celebration
HALLOWE’EN DANCE
Friday October 30, 6pm-9pm
Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer
Join all the spooks in this spooktacular all-ages Hallowe’en Dance in the Strathcona Community Centre gymnasium. There will be prizes for best group and individual costumes, as well as artfully carved pumpkins. Enjoy festive cupcake & cookie decorating and some ghoulish punch. This community event is organized with love by neighbourhood parents and sponsored by the Neighbourhood Small Grants Program. For more information visit www.strathconaevents.ca or email: info@strathconaevents.ca. Everyone welcome. Free

Community Celebration
HALLOWE’EN DANCE
Friday October 30, 7pm-10pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
401 Main
The Carnegie Community Centre invites you to put on your most frightful face because tonight is a Hallowe’en Dance! Brush up your best ghoulish moves and frighten the night away. DJ mix with Cody Bear will play scary tunes for you to jangle them bones about! Free

Performance
REDISCOVERY:
a night of performances and shamanic ritual
Friday October 30, 7pm-10pm
Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova
Julie Parrell and Shannon Rayne come together for a night of performance that combines different perspectives on addiction. Rediscovery obliterates the lines between audience and participant, poetry and rediscovery, shamanic ritual and performance art so that the line between addictions and healing is burned away. The audience is welcome to participate in the first half of the evening, although participation is not necessary for the enjoyment of the evening. Following a brief intermission there will be an intimate performance of work featured in the Re/Dis/Covery art exhibit. For more information visit www.gachet.org or call 604-687-2468. Free

Showcase
The Downtown Eastside Music Theatre Showcase:
Thirty Songs from Seven Productions
Friday October 30,8pm
also Wednesday October 28, 8pm
Russian Hall, 600 Campbell
Welcome to the Downtown Eastside Music Theatre Showcase, a celebration of thirty original songs from seven productions created for, by, and with the DTES. Musical Director Neil Weisensel is joined by a stellar group of musicians including Karen Graves, Jason Nichol, Steve Maddock, Beverly Dobrinsky and community members Corinthian Clark, Dalannah Gail Bowen, Jason Logan, Mike Richter, and many, many more.

The Downtown Eastside community is taking the initiative to define who we are, what we need and where we are going. We’re proud of our plays, proud of our stories and songs, and proud of all the hundreds of artists and community members who’ve brought them to life. Inspired by Downtown Eastside stories of “struggle and loss, of celebration and perseverance,” these plays are born out of a community of caring that struggles with marginalization, offers sanctuary, resists de-humanizing forces.

Vancouver Moving Theatre produces this feature performance in partnership with the DTES Heart of the City Festival and with the support of the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program. Sliding scale admission $0-10 at the door

For more information about the seven productions go HERE