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Livestream Events 2021

Livestream Events 2021

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Archived videos can be viewed here once they are over.

October 27 4pm | Opening Ceremony 2021

October 27 7pm | Sandy Cameron Memorial Contest Award

October 27 8pm | The Story of the Carnegie Newsletter According to Paul Taylor


October 28 7pm | "In Person: Telling Our Stories"


October 30 7pm | Merlin Cosmos: Magic - It’s Personal


November 1 4pm | Finding Grounds for Goodness


November 2 12pm | Hearts Beat 2021

November 2 3pm | My Art Is Activism: Part III

November 2 7pm | DTES Front & Centre: In Memory of Joyce Morgan


November 3 7pm | Indigenous Journeys: Solos by Three Women


November 4 2pm | Windows (Theatre Terrific)


November 5 7:30pm | 100 Block Rock II


November 6 3:30pm | Wildfibres: Clothing from Undomesticated Plants in the City

November 6 8pm | Incarcerated: Truth in Shadows


November 7 10am | Ukrainian Kitchen - Pyrohy Making

November 7 11:30am | Ukrainian Day - Elder Stories

November 7 1pm | Ukrainian Day, Costume Treasures: From Baba's Trunk to the Stage

November 7 3pm | Festival Closing Ceremony 2021

The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival acknowledges and honours that we live and work on traditional Coast Salish lands including the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations.

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Producers
Vancouver Moving Theatre Society
250 – 111 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4
info.hotcf@gmail.com

Media inquiries
Jodi Smith
JLS Entertainment
ph. 604.736.4939
cel. 604.838.9844
jls@jlsentertainment.ca

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