The Vancouver Foundation and the Carnegie Community Centre have teamed up to create the “Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grants” program. The one-year pilot program, which is funded by Vancouver Foundation donors, awards DTES artists up to $1000 toward developing their craft. The grant is designed to help showcase the talent of a wide variety of artists – in all practices – as well as help them take their careers to the next level.
Projects sponsored by the program include:
Installation
IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE Stan Proboszcz
Friday November 20, 6pm-10pm
Saturday November 21, 11am-6pm
Sunday November 22, 11am-6pm
SW corner of Jackson and E. Hastings
Stan Proboszcz is an artist and conservation biologist living in the DTES. Much of his work highlights his interest in humans as organisms of the animal kingdom and in exposing the stark realities of the science of life. This installation will transform a vacant lot into something strangely poignant and ephemeral to document daily life in the urban jungle and to explore the state of the urban primate in 2009 in Vancouver. Free
Visual Arts
THE EPHEMERAL OUTSIDE Sharon Burns
Opening Reception Thursday November 26, 7:30pm–10pm
InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings
Exhibition November 26 to December 5
An exhibition of colour digital photographs by Sharon Burns. The images focus on the DTES community’s disappearing street aesthetic and the often unnamed artist, paying tribute to ‘outsider art’ in its unpolished, unhomogenized beauty. A presentation of the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts. Free
Visual Arts
DTES SMALL ARTS GRANTS GROUPSHOW
Artists Reception Friday December 11, 7pm
Carnegie Community Centre, 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main
Exhibition November 19 – December 13
Here’s your opportunity to see an array of pieces from some of the first visual artists to participate in the Small Arts Grants program and to celebrate their accomplishments. Free
