Workshop
DTES WOMEN’S LETTERPRESS WORKSHOP
Saturday October 16, 1pm-4pm
W2 Letterpress Studio
W2 Storyeum, 151 W. Cordova
The W2 Letterpress Studio is fortunate to be the home of the original Woodward’s printing press. As part of the Heart of the City Festival, DTES artists Honey Mae Caffin and Ali Lohan are pleased to introduce the Studio and encourage and support community member access. Workshops on this historic printing press provide an opportunity for mentors to access the equipment, for beginners to obtain training, and for W2 to contribute to the development of a community of printers and typographers. Work produced during this letterpress workshop will be included in the exhibition Love Letters From The Downtown Eastside at the Carnegie Community Centre in the 3rd floor Gallery. For more information please visit: w2letterpressstudio. Free
Opening Reception
LOVE LETTERS FROM THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE
Friday October 22, 6pm
Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main
Exhibition October 16 to November 14
The original printing press used by Woodward’s Department Store has found a home with the W2 Community Access Letterpress Studio. Many local artists are working on the press to create prints of words and images unique to the DTES. The Downtown Eastside Women Ad-Hoc Printmakers Collective offers an exhibition of prints created over the previous year and at the October 16th DTES Women’s Letter Press Workshop led by DTES artists Honey Mae Caffin and Ali Lohan. Echoing the Festival’s theme of Heart and Home, they present Love Letters from the Downtown Eastside. Tea & Refreshments served. Everyone welcome! Free
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ALLERES
PARA HACER DECORACIONES PARA EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
Lunes, 18 y 25 de octubre de las 11:30m a las 1:30pm, en Watari, 877 E. Hastings, con Victor Mejico
Miercoles, 20 de octubre de las 2pm a las 4pm y Sabado, 23 de octubre de las 10am a las 12pm, en el Parque Oppenheimer, 488 Powell, con Diane Wood
Martes, 26 de octubre de las 10am a las 2pm, en la Casa Vecinal del Centro Este de Vancouver, 573 E. Hastings, con Jesus Cristobal.
Unase con nosotros en la preparación de adornos, decoraciones, de cestas poco de azucar, etc. Se estarán haciendo unos talleres en los cuales Jesus Cristobal un guatemalteco muy talentoso, Victor un artista y pintor mexicano y Diane Woods una talentosisima artista Canadiense nos estarán enseñando a hacer decoraciones para la fiesta, venga y aprenda a hacer decoraciones también para sus fiestas y llenelas de mucho color y alegria. No se olvide llamar para saber hora y fecha.
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Workshops
DAY OF THE DEAD DECORATION WORKSHOPS
Monday October 18 & October 25, 11:30am-1:30pm, Watari, 877 E. Hastings, with Victor Mejico
Wednesday October 20, 2pm-4pm & Saturday October 23, 10am-12pm, Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell, with Diane Wood
Tuesday October 26, 10am-2pm, DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings, with Jesus Cristobal
Here is your opportunity to make papier mache music shakers, little sugar baskets, and traditional paper decorations for the Day of the Dead Celebration at Oppenhiemer Park on Tuesday November 2. These decoration workshops are led by DTES artists and residents Jesus Cristobal, Victor Mejico and Diane Wood. Staff at Oppenheimer Park will also lead workshops throughout the days leading up to el Día de los Muertos. All levels of experience are welcome. Bring your ideas, as we will learn from each other. Free
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Film/Video
EVENING OF DOCUMENTARIES #1
Saturday October 23, 6pm- 10pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
401 Main Free
6pm–7:30pm Festival Selections
Selections of work commissioned by the DTES Heart of the City Festival and Vancouver Moving Theatre including: Heart and Home: Inner City (2006, 25”) a documentary directed by Anne Marie Slater, about the DTES and the Heart of the City Festival through the eyes of DTES First Nations artists Stephen Lytton and Kat Norris; Eastside Stories (2009, 30”), a digital aural history slide show documented by Projections during four story sharing sessions in June 2009 at Carnegie; and Bringing Shadows Into Light (2007, 25”), Cease Wyss’ film about the making of Vancouver Moving Theatre’s community arts project We’re All In This Together: The Shadows Project – Addiction and Recovery.
7:30pm-8pm The Sharing Farm (2007)
Join us for the screening of The Sharing Farm followed by a conversation about the new Right to Food Program at the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House with food activist Melanie Spence.
Directed by Michael Gazetas and Keith Berhman, The Sharing Farm tells the story of a small group of determined volunteers and grandmothers whose fruit tree sharing project grew to include a community garden on some unused agricultural land. The project expanded to include other members of the community—including an agrologist, a school teacher and his elementary students, who work in the garden while learning about nature, food and food security. What began as a project to collect surplus fruit going to waste in Richmond BC has grown into an inspiring community movement that helps the poor and aids food security. (14”)
8pm-8:30pm Skidrow (1956)
The name comes from skid road, the track where logs were skidded down from the forest to the water, to be towed to sawmills, hewn into lumber and shipped around the world. Skid road evolved over time to “skidrow” which was what those who lived there called it. Directed by Alan King for CBC Vancouver, Skidrow was King’s first documentary. He lets the people talk: they tell stories about survival on the streets, about spending money earned by panhandling for alcohol, and of hopelessness about day-to-day existence on Vancouver’s “skid row” of 1956. (30”)
8:30pm-9:57pm Dirt! (2009)
Directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow Dirt! takes you inside the wonders of the soil and tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility—from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants, animals and us, “dirt is very much alive.” Dirt! brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. The film profiles the stories of experts from around the world who not only study soil, but are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with this ‘precious skin of the earth’. (1 hr 27”)