Festival 2023 Schedule at a Glance
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Wednesday October 25
1pm-4pm
Festival Opening Ceremony
Carnegie Theatre
5:30pm-6:30pm
Tour of Historic Building
St James' Anglican Church
6pm-7:30pm
Salish Drumming Workshop
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
7pm-8:30pm
Open Rehearsal Vancouver Cantata Singers
St James' Anglican Church
7pm-9pm
DTES Front & Centre: Celebrating 20 Years!
Carnegie Theatre
Thursday October 26
1pm & 2pm
Hastings Street Band
InterUrban Gallery
1pm-3pm
DTES Writers Collective
Carnegie 3rd Floor Gallery
1pm-3pm
Day of the Dead Decorations Workshop
Carnegie Learning Centre
1pm-3pm
Art of Decorating Workshop
Evelyne Saller Centre
6pm-8pm
Leanne Simpson: Listening in Our Present Moment
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
6pm-8pm
Death Cafe
THIS Gallery
6pm-9pm
Gina Bastone Spaghetti Dinner (bring your own utensils!)
InterUrban Gallery
7:30pm-9:30pm
IRONWORKS IV: The Homeless Project
Carnegie Theatre
8pm-9:30pm
Concurrence Gathering #9
8EAST
9pm-11pm
Arts Rational
Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5 FM
Friday October 27
10am-3:30pm
Making Music
Carnegie Theatre
1pm-3pm
Spontaneous Street Poetry
Carnegie outdoor sidewalk
2pm-4:30pm
Knitting Circle Workshop
VJLS & JH
3pm-4:30pm
Art in the Park Artist Talk
Carnegie 3rd Floor Gallery
4pm-7pm
Gathering of Song and Dance
InterUrban Gallery
5pm-7pm
Open House at LOBE Studio
Lobe Spatial Sound Studio
4pm-8:30pm
Somewhere exhibit
RayCam Cooperative Centre
7pm-8:30pm
Raycam Live!
RayCam Cooperative Centre
7pm-10pm
Famous Last Words
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
7pm-10pm
Battle of Ballantyne Pier
Maritime Labour Centre
7:30pm-9pm
IRONFEST IV: Beatings are in the Body
The Ironworks
9:30pm-11pm
IRONFEST IV: Oceans And: Tim Berne, Aurroa Nealand, & Hank Roberts
The Ironworks
Saturday October 28
12pm-5pm
Art Market in the Atrium
Woodward's Atrium
1pm-3pm
Spontaneous Street Poetry
Carnegie outdoor sidewalk
1pm-5pm
Forever is Composed of Nows
THIS Gallery
1:30pm-3:00pm
The Awakening Workshop
KW Production Studio
3pm-5:30pm
Robyn's Nest
InterUrban Gallery
4pm-7pm
Hearts Beat 2023
Carnegie Theatre
7pm-10pm
Battle of Ballantyne Pier
Maritime Labour Centre
7:30pm-9pm
IRONFEST IV: Josh Cole's Kind Mind
The Ironworks
9:30pm-11pm
IRONFEST IV: Craig Taborn
The Ironworks
Sunday October 29
10am & 1pm
Two Amigos Walking Tour
Register for location
11am-12:30pm
Cultural Tributaries Building Tour
Lim Sai Hor Kow Mock Benevolent Association Building
11am-12:30pm
Learning Both Ways
Carnegie Theatre
12pm-12:30pm
Don't Feed 'da Pigeons
Woodward's Atrium
12pm-1pm
Introduction to Pipe Organ & Bldg Tour
St James' Anglican Church
12pm-5pm
Art Market in the Atrium
Woodward's Atrium
1pm-3pm
Spontaneous Street Poetry
Carnegie outdoor sidewalk
2pm-3pm
Accordion Crimes
InterUrban Gallery
2pm-3:30pm
Funny Side Up: Stand Up for Mental Health
Carnegie Theatre
3pm-4pm
Exhibition Tour, Bright Futures
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
3:30pm-5pm
Hate Can Kill
InterUrban Gallery
4pm-5pm
Evil Cult Singalong with the Legion of Flying Monkeys
MacLean Park Fieldhouse
7pm-8:30pm
Insite 20: Then & Now
Online
7pm-9pm
Your Style, Your Story, Your Community
Carnegie Theatre
Monday October 30
3pm-5:30pm
Robyn's Nest
InterUrban Gallery
5:30pm-6:30pm
Saint James Music Academy Open House
St James' Church Hall
6pm-8pm
Open Creative Making Space
InterUrban Gallery
7pm-9pm
Forbidden Literature
neca?mat ct Strathcona Branch
Tuesday October 31
11am-1pm
Seniors Storytelling
RayCam Cooperative Centre
12pm-2pm
Big Drum on the Patio
Carnegie - Patio
1pm-4pm
Meet & Greet the Artists
Downtown Community Health Centre
3pm-5:30pm
Robyn's Nest
InterUrban Gallery
6pm-8pm
Open Creative Making Space
InterUrban Gallery
7pm-8:30pm
Gospel According to Townes Van Zandt & A Story of Chemukh
Carnegie Theatre
Wednesday November 1
10am-3pm
Heart of the City Festival Snooker Tournament
Carnegie Pool Room
11am & 1pm
Paper Trail, Exhibition Tour
Chinese Canadian Museum
1pm-3pm
Day of the Dead Decorations Workshop
Carnegie Learning Centre
2pm-3pm
Sandy Cameron Memorial Writing Contest Award Ceremony
Carnegie Theatre
3:30pm-4:30pm
Solidarity Notes Labour Choir
Carnegie Theatre
4pm-5:30pm
COMMUNITY OF WORK Opening Reception
Carnegie 3rd Floor Gallery
6pm-8pm
Graffiti Digital Art Wall
InterUrban Gallery
6:30pm-8:30pm
Yinpin Native Chinese Orchestra
Carnegie Theatre
7pm-8:30pm
VANDU: Over 25 Years of Resistance and Resilience
312 Main
8pm-9:30pm
We Live Here II
Keefer & Columbia, NE corner
11pm-1am
Red Jam Slam at Late Night with Savages
Brandiz Bar & Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5 FM
Thursday November 2
10am-12pm
Strathcona Sings! Indoor Edition
RayCam Cooperative Centre
10am-3pm
9th Symposium on Reconciliation and Redress in the Arts
Creekside Community Recreation Centre
12pm-4pm
Day of the Dead Community Altar
Listening Post
1pm-3pm
Day of the Dead Community Ofrenda
Carnegie Learning Centre
2pm-2:15pm
Bells of St James'
St James' Anglican Church
2pm-3pm
Day of the Dead/Dia de muertos Procession
Meet at Watari Counselling & Support Services
3pm-6pm
Day of the Dead/Dia de muertos Fiesta
320 Alexander
4pm-7:30pm
Art Sale + Graffiti Digital Wall
InterUrban Gallery
5pm-6pm
Kla How Ya
Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5 FM
6:30pm
Requiem for All Souls'
St James' Anglican Church
7:30pm-9pm
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing
Firehall Arts Centre
8pm-9:30pm
We Live Here II
Keefer & Columbia, NE corner
9pm-11pm
Arts Rational
Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5 FM
Friday November 3
11am-5pm
Open House
Vancouver Police Museum
1pm & 2pm
Hastings Street Band
InterUrban Gallery
1pm-4pm
Reweaving our Words
Trillium North Park
2pm-4pm
An Ear for Dialogue Writers Workshop
Carnegie Learning Centre
2pm-4:30pm
Knitting Circle Workshop
VJLS & JH
2pm-5pm
Gallery Drop-In
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
3pm-5:30pm
Robyn's Nest
InterUrban Gallery
5pm-7:30pm
Music For Fun and Healing
Listening Post
6pm-7pm
From the Video Archives of Sid Chow Tan
Carnegie Theatre
7pm-11pm
Zabava Community Dance
Ukrainian Hall
7:30pm-9pm
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing
Firehall Arts Centre
7:30pm-9:30pm
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
Carnegie Theatre
7:30pm-9:30pm
Once Upon a Time on a Chinatown Night
Stretch Vancouver
8pm-9:30pm
We Live Here II
Keefer & Columbia, NE corner
Saturday November 4
11am-12:30pm
Wonder Walks: Vancouver Chinatown
Register for location
12pm
Sounds Fishy Parade
Meet at InterUrban Gallery
12pm-2pm
All Bodies Dance Project
Carnegie Theatre
12pm-5pm
First Saturday Open Studios
various locations
2pm-3pm
DTES Poets
InterUrban Gallery
3pm-4:30pm
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing
Firehall Arts Centre
3:30pm-5pm
Megaphone's Voices of the Street Writers
InterUrban Gallery
3:30pm-6:30pm
Stop the Sweeps
Carnegie Theatre
6:30pm-8pm
Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize Chapbook Launch
InterUrban Gallery
7pm-9pm
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing
Firehall Arts Centre
7:30pm-9pm
Smokey Devil - Underworld Street Reporter
Carnegie Theatre
Sunday November 5
11am-12:30pm
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing Workshop
Firehall Arts Centre
1pm-2pm
Karen Jamieson Dance & Carnegie Dance Troupe
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
2pm
Cultural Displays
Ukrainian Hall
3pm-4pm
Concert Building Community: 20 Years of Friendship
Ukrainian Hall