{"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.14288\/1.0379807":{"http:\/\/vivoweb.org\/ontology\/core#departmentOrSchool":[{"value":"Non UBC","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/dataProvider":[{"value":"DSpace","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/creator":[{"value":"Vancouver Moving Theatre","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"Carnegie Community Centre (Vancouver, B.C.)","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"Association of United Ukrainian Canadians","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/issued":[{"value":"2019-07-09T16:36:50Z","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"2011","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/aggregatedCHO":[{"value":"https:\/\/circle.library.ubc.ca\/rest\/handle\/2429\/70955?expand=metadata","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2009\/08\/skos-reference\/skos.html#note":[{"value":"Vancouver Moving Theatre in association with Carnegie Community Centre & the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians presents, with a host of community partners 8TH !\\NNU!\\L DOWNTOWN EJlSTSIDE \u00b7 OCTOBER 26 TO NOVEMBER 6 2011 Featuring over 100 events at over 30 locations throughout the Downtown Eastside Music \u2022 poetry \u2022 stories \u2022 media and visual arts \u2022 workshops \u2022 food \u2022 celebrations \u2022 history walks www.heartofthecityfestival.com 604.628.5672 .,, (D \"' rt--\u00b7 < DJ -a -, 0 00. -, DJ 3 \" C -\u00b7 C. (D 8TH !\\NNULll DOWNTOWN ELlSTSIDE. HE.\u00a3\\RT 1\u00b0!E CITY FESTIVAL OCTOBE.R 26 TO NOVE.MBE.R 6 2011 www.heartofthecityfestival.com 604-628-5672 Welcoming Statements 2 & 3 Locations & Venues, with Map 4 Founding Communities 5 Schedule at a Glance 6 & 7 Pre-Festival Events 8 & 9 Festival Events 1 o -35 Music in the Streets 13 Carnegie Scavenger Hunt 22 Festival Yoga 22 AHAMedia 25 Downtown Eastside Food Charter Visual Arts 36 & 37 Post-Festival Events 38 Upcoming Events 39 Legendary Places ... and still going... 40 Oppenheimer Park 41 125 years Ago 42 & 43 Milestone 44 In Memorium 44 & 45 Credits&Thanks 46&47 Take a Walk on the Downtown Eastside 48 The OTES Heart of the City Festival acknowledges and honours that our community lies within the Traditional Territory of the Coast Salish people. Ticket Information Most festival events are free, by donation or pay what you can. Tickets must be purchased for some events. Please consult each event description for ticket information. Cover Photo: David Cooper Design: Big Wave Design Appearing on the cover: Carnegie Jazz Band Phoenix illustration: Diane Wood Mosaic: from Footprints Community Art Project Our Government knows how im-portant arts and culture are to the strength of our communities, our * identity, and our economy. As Van-couver-a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2011-celebrates its 125th anniversary, the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival will highlight the city's dynamic arts scene and give residents and visitors a chance to discover the heritage at the heart of this vibrant community. On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Government of Canada, I would like to thank Vancouver Moving Theatre and all the organizers, artists, and volunteers whose efforts helped bring this year's Heart of the City Festival to life. The Honourable James Moore Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages On behalf of the province of Brit-ish Columbia, con-gratulations to the Vancouver Moving Theatre, Carnegie Community Centre and the Association of United Ukrain-ian Canadians for presenting the 8th Annual Heart of the City Festival. The Festival celebrates the artistic energy and creative spirit thriving in the diverse com-munities of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the theme this year - \"Telling Our Story, Building our Community\" - expresses beau-tifully the important link between a vibrant, inclusive local culture and a strong sense of community pride. The Festival will help build community spirit by bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds in a celebration of arts and culture. I commend festival organizers and support-ers for their commitment to the arts, culture and community. Best wishes to the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival for every success in 2011 and in the future. Ida Chong, FCGA Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development 2 Heart of the City Festival 201 1 Welcome to the Downtown East-side Heart of the City Festival! It is with great pleasure that I greet the participating artists, volunteers, and guests of the 8th Annual Down-town Eastside Heart of the City Festival. The Festival will showcase and celebrate the talent, the voices and the beauty of the many artists and activists in this neighbourhood. The Downtown Eastside has a rich his-tory of friends and neighbours coming together to take on difficult challenges that members of our community face. In the face of these challenges, strong and unbreakable bonds are formed. Whether through telling stories of struggle or stories oflove, stories of perseverance or stories of hope, the stories of the Downtown Eastside are rooted in place and tell a story of an ex-traordinary neighbourhood that is an agent for progressive changes and continues to be a beacon of hope. I look forward to joining you in enjoying another year in the Heart of the City! Sincerely, Jenny Wai Ching Kwan, MLA Vancouver-Mount Pleasant On behalf of the City of Vancouver it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to the 8th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. As the City of Vancouver cel-ebrates our125th anniversary this year we are pleased to join with the Heart of the City Festival to also celebrate the 125th year of the heart of our city, the Downtown Eastside. Congratulations to the producers, produc-tion teams, residents, artists, community partners and volunteers on the success of the Festival. Thank you for your vision, leader-ship and commitment to the Downtown Eastside and to the City of Vancouver. Your contribution to our city is greatly valued and appreciated. Enjoy the Festival everyone! And enjoy the heart of our great city! Yours truly, Gregor Robertson Mayor of Vancouver Dear friends, I am delighted to welcome you to The 8th Heart of the City Festival. This festival is truly a wonderful experi-ence and celebrates and shares the gen-uine community expression of our local gifted artists and activists, on the culture, history, activism, people, and great stories from the Downtown Eastside. I hope you will take pleasure in the great array of arts, culture, music, and soul search-ing that awaits you. And thank you to all the dedicated community members who put it together! Hope to see you there. Yours sincerely, Libby Davies, M.P. Vancouver East On behalf of the BC Arts Council, I want to congratulate eve-ryone involved with the eighth Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. The festival embodies what the arts are all about: communities coming together to celebrate their culture, diversity and creative energy. This year's theme says it all: \"Telling Our Story, Building Our Community:' The BC Arts Council is pleased to have supported the festival over the years. Through its ability to engage thousands of local artists, volunteers and art lovers across the community, the Heart of the City Festival is helping to build a renewed spirit across Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The BC Arts Council has a mission to engage all British Columbians in a healthy arts and cultural community that is recog-nized for excellence, and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival supports this important objective. Congratulations to the Vancouver Moving Theatre, the Carn-egie Community Centre, the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, the volunteers and everyone who helps make this festival one of the cultural highlights of year. Stan Hamilton, Chair BC Arts Council W elcome to the 8th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival! The Downtown Eastside is the founding neighbourhood where Vancouver began, and home to thousands of residents. To celebrate the city's 125th anniversary, we are telling stories of our past and present as we reach out to build our community. In the words of poet and historian the late Sandy Cameron, \"each of us has something to tell, something to teach:' And we invite you to join us. Since time immemorial stories have been told on this land and they are still being told today - in all kinds of traditions and forms: as paintings, poetry, songs and ceremonies . . . words and walks, workshops and talks ... as memories, murals, jazz and media ... from hip hop, rap, dance to opera ... from food and clothes to celebration ... from cultural expressions to cultural fusions. The over 100 events in this year's festival offer an astonishing testament to the talent, wisdom and power of this community and its capacity to give voice to the concerns of today and the heritage of yesterday; to celebrate our diversity and achievements; to honour those we have lost; to stretch out a hand to neighbours across the city and province; and to advocate for our visions and dreams. May the stories of our festival provide understanding and inspiration as together we build our future, in the heart of our city. Our immense appreciation goes out to all the festival partners, organizations and individuals who have helped to realize this year's festival. A special heartfelt thanks to the festival team who work with such passion and commitment to produce this cultural feast for our community. See you at the festival everyone! Terry Hunter Executive Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre Artistic Producer, DTES Heart of the City Festival Savannah Walling Artistic Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre Associate Artistic Director, DTES Heart of the City Festival The Carnegie Community Centre Association is once again thrilled to welcome all of Vancouver to the 8th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival! Carnegie Centre is proud to be the home-away-from-home of so many very talented Downtown Eastside artists. Through them, we are able to share the authenticity and good-neighbourliness that underlies our approach to all the hardships we face. Through Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Heart of the City Festival, we remember our history, celebrate our strengths, and look toward a future that honours the best of what we are. Thank you all for being a part of that journey. Enjoy the festival and the hospitality of the Downtown Eastside! Gena Thompson, President Carnegie Community Centre Association Get Social! Facebook page: Heart of the City Festival Facebook Event: Heart of the City Festival 2011 Twitter: @HeartofCityFest Twitter: @VanMovTheatre Heart of the City Festival 2011 3 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Admiral Seymour Elementary School (34) 1130 Keefer, 604-713-4641 Axe Capoeira Studio (4) 45 W. Hastings, 604-537-8943 www.axecapoeira.com Carnegie Community Centre (18) 401 Main, 604-665-2220, www.carnegie.vcn.bc.ca Centre A (10) 2 W. Hastings, 604-683-8326, www.centrea.org Chinese Cultural Centre (13) 50 E. Pender, 604-658-8850, www.cccvan.com Chinese Cultural Centre Museum &Archives (15) 555 Columbia, 604-658-8880 Co-op Radio(-) CFRO 102.7FM, www.coopradio.org District 319 (20) 319 Main, 604-899-1077, www.district319.com 88 E. Cordova, 604-687-2468, www.gachet.org Hastings Street Early Learning Centre (32) 881 E. Hastings, 604-569-2787 Interurban Gallery (9) 1 E. Hastings, 604-683-0073 Maple Tree Square (5) SW corner of Carra II & Water NW Corner of Dunlevy & Railway (23) Oppenheimer Park (26) 488 Powell, 604-253-8830 Pigeon Park (8) Carrall & E. Hastings Pigeon Park Savings (11) 92 E. Hastings, 604-678-8276 Radha Yoga (16) * 728 Main 2nd floor, 604-605-0011, www.radhavancouver.org Raven's Eye Studio (27) 456 E. Hastings Dr. Sun Vat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (14) 578 (.arrall, 604-662-3207, www.vancouverchinesegarden.com Russian Hall (33) DTES Neighbourhood House (28) 573 E. Hastings, 604-215-2030, www.dtesnh.wordpress.com EWMA Studio (6) 54 E. Cordova, 604-685-8043, www.atira.bc.ca 4 Heart of the City Festival 2011 600 Campbell, 604-253-9932 SE Corner of E. Pender & Carrall (12) SE Corner of Powell & Jackson (25) SFU Woodwards, World Art Centre (2) 149 W. Hastings 303 E. Cordova, 604-685-2532, www.stjames.bc.ca Strathcona Community Centre (30) 601 Keefer, 604-713-1838 Strathcona Elementary School & Community Library (29) 592 E. Pender, 604-713-4630 & 604-665-3967 U BC Learning Exchange (17) * 612 Main, 604-408-5164, www.learningexchange.ubc.ca Ukrainian Hall (31) * 805 E. Pender, 604-254-3436 Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre (35) 1607 E. Hastings, 604-251-4844, www.vafcs.org Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japa-nese Hall (24) 487 Alexander, 604-254-2551, www.vjls-jh.com Vancouver Police Museum (21) * 240 E. Cordova 2nd floor, 604-665-3346, www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca Victory Square (1) 200 block W. Hastings & Cambie W2 Media Cafe & Woodward's Atrium (3) 111 W. Hastings, 604-689-9896, www.creativetechnology.org ( ) number corresponds with map .. Most festival venues are wheelchair accessible. l!i1 *venue is not wheelchair accessible is Vancouve neighbourhoo ounding community, h st Salish le since time immemorial, and site of major events in the city's history. Our munity has been multi-cultural since irst newcomers arrived from the four ers of the globe. Today we're home to gest urban Aboriginal \"reserve\" in a and to th est historical British immigrant Gassy Jack) arrive Marion, a Squamis tQ set up shop a tide on a Co re in th ighton (aka ith his wife of the land, t from high site. \u00b7 MAPLE TRE \"spirits\" to lumbermen Hastings Mill. One year later just down the street-Portuguese immigrant Joe Silvey and his wife Khaltinaht (Mary Ann) opened a grocery store and saloon (the Hole-in:the-Wall). She was Chief Kiapilano's granddaughter and of Musqueam and Squamish descent. African Canadian immigrants Josephine Sullivan and her husband Phillip, a piano player, arrived i rly 1870s and opened a tiny r n.t and general or to ole-i - all. hur formed the t block on Cordova Street and signed petition for incorporation of the city of Vancouver. In 1872, Louis family originally from arrived in Gastown up a general store on e Chinese immigrant family operated the Wah Chong Laundry i on Water Street facing thew rrard Inlet. Jennie Wa hon was the first Chinese e immigran at Hasting Sawmi h immigrants fro Punjab were working at the False Creek and Burrard Inlet. the East was home to ly. A Jewish thesynagog and Japanese gathered around Powell S Afro-American community f the CPR train station. There of Norwegians, Swedes, Fin Ukrai \u00b7 ns and Arab Christia Gastown's pion families from many d' ten years of its foun BC passed legis the vote to '.'Chinese denied the op land. T eral go First Nations children and put them into re prohibited indige including Coast Salish and the Potlatch. Althoug the city's po own an ing from town they were halted by h clubs and bottles. SCHEDULE n T n GLANCE FiddleStix Pre-Festival Events October 14 to October 30 Undead Double Feature, 45 West Hastings Wednesday October 19 2pm-4pm Day of the Dead Workshop, Oppenheimer Park Thursday October 20 1pm-3pm Mehndi + Bhangra & Doh I Workshop, Carnegie Gym 7pm-9pm Community Currency for Community Food?, Strathcona Community Centre October 20 to November 12 Us And Them, The Cu Itch Friday October 21 11am-1pm Voice, Body, Presence Workshop, Carnegie Theatre 1 :30-2:30pm Microphone Technique Workshop, Carnegie Theatre 5pm Carnegie Street Band, starts at Carnegie 5pm-7pm Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show Parade, Oppenheimer Park 7pm-9pm At Our Kitchen Table: The Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show Opening Reception, Gallery Gachet October 21 to October 23 Reel Recovery Film Festival, District 319 Saturday October 22 3:30-Spm Get Animated! Screenings, Carnegie Theatre 5:30\u00b77:30pm Get Animated! Workshop, Carnegie Theatre 11pm-late Rain City Rap After-Party, W2 Media Cafe 6 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Festival Events Wednesday October 26 10am-1 pm Image Theatre Workshop, Oppenheimer Park 2pm-3pm Festival Opening Ceremony, Carnegie Theatre 2pm-4pm Day of the Dead Workshop, Oppenheimer Park 3pm Carnegie Street Band, starts at Carnegie 3:30-5:30pm Potluck Panel, Gallery Gachet 5pm-9pm Axe Capoeira Open House, Axe Capoeira Studio 7:30-9:30pm Sweet Soul Sisters of the Downtown Eastside, Carnegie Theatre 7:30-l0pm Strathcona Unplugged!, Russian Hall Thursday October 27 10am-12pm Dream Catchers Workshop, Aboriginal Front Door 1 pm-2pm Opening Doors Conversation, Carnegie Reading Room 1 :30-4pm Making Art Through Dialogue, EWMA Art Studio 3:30-4:30pm An Investigation in Motion Dance Workshop, Carnegie Gym 6:30-7pm Magic Comedy, Hastings Street Early Learning Centre 9pm-10pm Arts Rational, Co-op Radio Friday October 28 11am-12pm Grandpa's Girls Reading, Strathcona Community Library 11am-12:30pm St. James' Bargain Sale, St. James' Anglican Church 12pm-2pm Historic East Hastings Street Walking Tour, Victory Square 3pm-4:30pm My Fascinations With This Place Walking Tour, meet at SE corner E. Pender & Carra II 7pm-10pm Hallowe'en Dance, Carnegie Theatre 7pm-10pm Eastside Friday, EWMA Art Studio 8pm Sophisticated Ladies, A Tribute to Women in Jazz, Rad ha Yoga 10:30pm Hallow2een, W2 Black Light Series, W2 Media Cafe October 28 to November 19 VIMY, Firehall Arts Centre Saturday October 29 1 0am-12pm History on the Verge - Shining Light on Our Old East End Houses Walking Tour, meet at NW corner Dunlevy & Railway 10am-1pm (12:30pm open to public) Burning Issues Workshop, Aboriginal Friendship Centre 11am-1pm Guided Meditation, Radha Yoga 11am-2pm Hallowe'en for Kids, Oppenheimer Park 11 :30am Moments of Community History Walking Tour, meet at entrance SFU Woodwards 11:30am-5pm Seniors Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Vancouver and the Chinese Cantonese Opera, Chinese Cultural Centre 12pm-4pm Open House, St. James' Anglican Church 1 pm-2pm Tales of Powell Street History Talk, Vancouver Japanese Language School 2pm-3:30pm Chibi Taiko & Fusion of the Hearts: lshizue, Carnegie Theatre 2pm-4pm Hallowe'en Rock 'n Roll, Oppenheimer Park 2pm-4:30pm The Squaw Hall Project- A Community Remembers, Aboriginal Friendship Centre 2:30 & 3:30pm Carnegie Street Band, starts at Carnegie 4pm-5:30pm Somewhere Else Is Here Film & Conversation, Carnegie Theatre 6pm-9:30pm Documentaries for Thinkers, Carnegie Theatre 6:30\u00b79pm 4th Annual Family Hallowe'en Dance, Strathcona Community Centre Gym 7pm-9pm Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short, Raven's Eye Studio 11 pm Hallow2een, W2 Black Light Series, W2 Media Cafe Sunday October 30 1 0am-11 :30am An 1886 Walking Tour, meet at Maple Tree Square 12pm-5pm Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council Street Market & Fair, Pigeon Park 12:30\u00b7 1 :30pm Carnegie Jazz Band with Dal Richards, Carnegie Theatre 1 :30-2:30pm Bones, Beads and Dolls Closing Reception, Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery 1 :30-4:30pm Food Preservation: Drying Foods Cooking Class, Rad ha Yoga 2pm-3:30pm Writing Our Stories Reading, lnterUrban Gallery 2:30\u00b73:30pm Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra Small Ensemble, Dr. Sun Vat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden 2:30-3:30pm Aboriginal Artist Showcase, Carnegie Theatre 3pm & 4pm Carnegie Street Band, starts at Pigeon Park 7pm-1 0pm Music and Spoken Word Showcase, Interurban Gallery SCHEDULE. 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Workshop for Kids, W2 Media Cafe 3:30\u00b75:30pm The Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference OTES Roundtable, Carnegie Theatre 6pm\u00b710pm Strathcona Annual Pub Social Nite, Strathcona Community Centre Seniors Lounge 7pm OTES Poets Open Mic, Carnegie Theatre 8pm\u00b7 10:30pm Trisurgence Music Concert, Ukrainian Hall 10pm Hallow2een, W2 Black Light Series, W2 Media Cafe Sunday November 6 Note: daylight savings time change - fall back! 10:30am-12pm Powell Street Walking Tour, meet at SE corner of Powell & Jackson 11am Seance with Zombie Artists & Gentri-F**kation Tour, meet in Carnegie Theatre 1 :30\u00b74:30pm Fermenting Foods Cooking Class, Rad ha Yoga 3pm AUUC Community Concert & Supper, Ukrainian Hall 7:30-9pm Community Dance, Ukrainian Hall I Post-Festival Events Thursday November 10 1 :30-4pm Making Art Through Dialogue, EWMA Art Studio 7:30pm Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival Opening Reception, W2 Media Cafe Saturday November 12 7pm The Only Poetry That Matters Book Launch & Reading, W2 Media Cafe Sunday November 13 12pm-4pm The New Frontier is Interactive Media Workshop, W2 Media Cafe Monday November 14 1:30-3:30pm Grant Writing for OTES groups involved with Community Arts Workshop, W Room, 111 W. Hastings 7:30-9pm How To Make An Opera: the Annen berg Project and the War in Iraq, Carnegie Theatre Thursday November 17 1:30-4pm Making Art Through Dialogue, EWMA Art Studio Saturday November 26 12pm-9pm Community Arts - The Future, Display & Celebration, Woodwards Atrium December 2 to 4 Shadow Catch, Firehall Arts Centre December 14 to 17 Bah Humbug! A Staged Reading of an Eastside Adapta-tion of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Faye and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Woodwards January 20 to 29, 2012 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC Heart of the City Festival 2011 7 PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS Workshop DAY OF THE DEAD with Marta \u2022 Wednesday October 19, 2pm-4pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Here's an opportunity to make some things for the Day of the Dead celebrations. Marta is from Colombia. and will share how to make paper skulls and skeletons. Everyone welcome, bring your ideas as we will learn from each other. Free Workshop MEHNDI + BHANGRA & DOHL \u2022 Thursday October 20, 1 pm-3pm Carnegie Gym, 2nd floor, 401 Main Join the festivities at this Diwali mini-festival workshop. Learn about the wonderful festival oflights and participate in activities such as mehndi tattooing, bhangra dance and dhol drumming! A Vancouver Celebrates Diwali Festival workshop, in partnership with the Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation. For more Diwali Festival info visit www.vandiwali.ca. For all ages! Free Workshop COMMUNITY CURRENCY FOR COMMUNITY FOOD? \u2022 Thursday October 20, 7pm-9pm Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer Some of our economic system's deepest flaws are laid bare in the vital matters of food production and distribution. Could a new form of money - community currency - help change the economics of food? Join us for an exploratory look at the possibilities for a more just, local and environmentally friendly food economy. Instructor: Jordan Bober. This session is part of Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community, a fall workshop series at Strathcona Community Centre. To register please call 604-713-1838. Free 8 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Opening Night & Parade E OPPENHEIMER PARK COMMUNITY ART SHO ay October 21, 5pm-7pm enheimer Park, 488 Powell Oppenheimer Park artists, com w Opening Night & Parade. Ga Oppe eat the delights presented by Oppenheimer and join by Brad Muirhead and the Carnegie Street Band.:. th to Gallery Gachet, Free ctober 21, 7pm-9pm achet, 88 E. Cordova ition October 21 to November e 4th Annual Oppenheimer showcases work by new, emergi , tnat t nt and creative community in and around the Par~,. including th~ ltl3.~f ~>of Ill.any individuals who utilize the year round programs at Oppenheimer Park. With Food Security initiatives growing throughout the neighbourhood, this year's Ult:.Ult:lVV:l\\.i>J; t}i~~Ic:~~~{ate~;food': what it means to our sense of community; the h andaivisivepower of the kitchen table; how foodcan be a creative and p medium; and the cultural, traditional, and historical practices a~so~!~ted ~th food. Drinks and desserts served at the reception. For information: 60'1\u00b0687 -2468 \u00b7 or www.gachet.org. Free Films REEL RECOVERY FILM FESTIVAL \u2022 Friday October 21 to Sunday October 23 District 319,319 Main The Orchard Recovery Center and Writers in Treatment present the Canadian debut of the Reel Recovery Film Festival. This exciting three-day festival showcases realistic, honest and inspiring films about addiction and recovery, and screens both groundbreaking new films and classic features. Interactive discussions follow each screening.Admission proceeds help non-profit Intersections Media for at risk-youth. Information available at 604-947-0420 or orchardrecovery.com\/filmfest. Sat & Sun all-films pass $20, individual films $5 PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS Workshop VOICE, BODY, PRESENCE with Noah Drew \u2022 Friday October 21, 11 am-1 pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main A wonderful introduction to intense voice work: for actors, singers, storytellers, public speakers, teachers, broadcasters and you! Stand up to voice what matters, when it matters. Noah is a sound designer, actor, director and voice teacher in the technique of Fitzmaurice Voicework. This voice technique is a whole body approach that helps you to transform fear of the spotlight into vibrancy and fuel for communication. Dress comfortably. Please pre-register at the Carnegie third floor program office. Space is limited. Free Workshop MICROPHONE TECHNIQUE with Simon Garber \u2022 Friday October 21, 1:30pm-2:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Here's an opportunity to brush up your microphone technique without the pressure of an audience. Sound man extraordinaire Simon Garber, also the Heart of the City Festival Production Manager, will teach you the basics of how to handle a microphone. We'll have microphones out so you can put instruction into practice. For singers, hosts, public speakers, poets, and anyone who faces that mic with trepidation. Free Film Screenings & Workshop GET ANIMATED! \u2022 Saturday October 22 3:30pm-5pm Screenings 5:30pm-7:30pm Workshop Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Get Animated! is a Canada-wide series of free screenings, master classes and activities marking International Animation Day. Join the Carnegie Library and the National Film Board for an amazing selection of new NFB films: from boldly experimental to flat-out funny, including Wild Life, the latest offering from Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, plus the dizzying abstractions of Marv Newland's CMYK. Meet the director: Marv Newland will attend the screening, and then lead a hands-on workshop. Marv will also demonstrate the basics of animation and give you the chance to make your own short animated film! Free Party THE CYPHER, RAIN CITY RAP AFTER-PARTY \u2022 Saturday October 22, 11 pm to late W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings . Rain City Rap: The History of Hip Hop in Vancouver ends its two day conference at W2 with this late night party. This ground-breaking conference, October 21- 22, is produced by Miscellaneous Productions and features live music, dance, video, panel discussions, networking opportunities. For more information visit www. miscellaneousproductions.ca. Advance tickets $7, $10 at the door Theatre UNDEAD DOUBLE FEATURE \u2022 October 14 to October 30 Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun7:30pm 45 West Hastings, look for ushers and signs Enemies of the Stage premieres Undead Double Feature, a dou-ble bill that features the work of local writers, actors and designers in two original short comedies about life, death, and life-after-death! Playing Dead, by Keegan Flick-Parker and Ruben Tillman, tells the story of two brothers who just can't put their past behind them even in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. In Dead Sexy, by Andrew Ferguson, Doug (played by DTES born-and-raised Montana Hunter) is stuck wandering the earth as a ghost who must reconcile the fact that not everyone thought so highly of him as he thought they did. For information on how you can help support local theatre, visit www.udf.eofthes.com. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 students, matinees by donation Theatre US AND THEM Preview Thursday October 20 Performances 8pm & 2pm \u2022 October 21 to November 12 The Cultch, 1895 Venables Headlines Theatre explores the mystery of grassroots, interac-tive and physical theatre in Us and Them. This is a fun, moving and gutsy exploration of how we understand ourselves, and how we create divisions between \"ourselves and others:' Last year Headlines produced a series of public inquiries, three of which took place during last year's Festival. These enquires, along with further workshops, has now resulted in this new theatre produc-tion. Congratulations to our friends Headlines Theatre on their 30th Anniversary! For more information call 604-871-0508 or visit www.headlinestheatre.com. Tickets are available through The Cultch: 604-251-1363 or www.tickets.thecultch.com. $20\/15\/10 plus venue service charge. Heart of the City Festival 2011 9 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2 6 Workshop IMAGE THEATRE with Angelo Moroni Wednesday October 261 Oam-1 pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Come explore and share with the public your ideas, strengths and concerns using your body and voice to create a space for reflection, action and solidarity. Image Theatre is a base technique of Theatre of the Oppressed; a form of social theatre to raise awareness of the struggles, concerns and empowerments we are living, with the aim to inform and motivate the community in taking the necessary steps for social\/personal change for the better. Workshop led by Angelo Moroni. Participants must commit to two sessions Wed Oct 26 and Wed Nov 2; a street presentation will be determined at the workshop. Free Special Event FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONY 1i> \\YtdDesday October 26, 2pm-3pm C \u00b7 \u00b7 le Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main J \u00b7 . iends from the neighbourhood, Mayor Robertson, Cqgpcillors Anton, Reimer and Woodsworth and other \u00b7 ests from around the city for the grand opening of annual festival: a celebration oLour . 's anniversary! Sam George (Tse-at2sul- e ish Nation opens with a Welcome Song; DT poet, artist and activist Diane Wood read~. an excerpt from the poem 100 Years of Struggl~ by Sandy Cameron, dearly \u00b7 . Th~ .. S,.unshine Choir, Chinese Canadian regularly at Oppenheimer Park, fill the eir en usiasm and love of singing; new friend, gwriter andJuno nominee Wayne Lavallee ( Cree\/ ings stories apd song together with his unique rary voice; and the Carnegie Street Band led by ad swings us to the grand finale. Everyone eshments. Free 10 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Workshop DAY OF THE DEAD with Marta Wednesday October 26, 2pm-4pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Here's an opportunity to make some things for the Day of the Dead celebrations. Marta is from Colombia and will share how to make paper skulls and skeletons. Everyone welcome, bring your ideas as we will learn from each other. Free Discussion POTLUCK PANEL Wednesday October 26, 3:30pm-5:30pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova The Potluck Panel offers conversations on food and culture hosted by Dr. Legumes, a.k.a. artist Pierre Leichner. This panel features an assortment of speakers who work with food as a cultural medium. Join the conversation, join the feast, and eat some of Dr. Legumes special ratatouille. Free Open GRUPO AX~ CAPOEIRA Wednesday October 26, Spm-9pm Axe Capoeira Studio, 45 W. Hastings Grupo Axe Capoeira began in Recife, Brazil in 1982. Today, as Canada's first academy of Capoeira, the group continues to rise as one of the world's leading Capoeira organizations. Grupo Axe Capoeira is also renowned as a traveling group that promotes the history, music, art, and culture of Brazil in interactive and educational demonstrations. Axe Capoeira headquarters is located in the DTES and the Festival is pleased they have opened their doors for us to share in their classes for an evening. They offer Capoeira classes, MMA\/Jiu-Jitsu classes, Brazilian dance classes, Brazilian music classes, fitness classes including Yoga, Zumba and Brazilian Dance Fit. Check it out! Free WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2 6 Dalannah Gail Bowen Music I SWEET SOUL SISTERS OF THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE Wednesday October 26, 7:30pm\u20229:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 \u00b7\u00b7 Main, <\u00b7 xx rcv<::11 \"\"' of blues, jaz~ iijc:i \u00b7 speaks to the of our neighbourhood. << \/ of the strong women's voices of the D[ES;including Dalannah Gail Bowen, Rosanne Gervais, Beidi Morgan and Peggy Wilson accompanied by local musicians Michael Bellwood on guitar, John Cote on bass, Murray Black on piano and Gary Wildeman on drums. You can feel the excitement around Carnegie as the musicians and singers rehearse for what is sure to be a fabulous evening of women's voices and the men who back them up! Free Visit our website @ www.heartofthecityfestival.com to learn more about the Festival and find a complete listing of events. From there you can find links to our Facebook page and AHA MEDIA, so you can follow us using your favourite social media. Heart of the City festival 2011 11 THURSDAY OCTOBER 27 Workshop DREAM CATCHERS with Sandra Pronteau ThursdayOrtober 27, 10am-12pm Aboriginal Front Door, 384 Main Here's a chance to make your own dream catcher - if you never had the time to produce one, now is the time! Sandra is a Metis-Cree born and raised in The Pas, Manitoba. A resident of Vancouver since the 80s, Sandra has found the importance of her lost Cree identity, seeks the traditional ways, and has come to understand that the tradition of the dream catcher originated with the Ojibway and is practiced by all Aboriginal nations in North America. The story goes that bad dreams will get caught in the web and your good dreams will be released through the centre hole. Come and be part of this story to pass down to your family and friends. Supplies provided. Free Conversation OPENING DOORS with Daphne Marlatt and Carole ltter Thursday Ortober 27, 1 pm-2pm Carnegie Reading Room, 401 Main This is an incredible opportunity to meet, talk and ask questions in an informal and relaxed atmosphere with Daphne Marlatt, novelist and poet, and Carole Itter, sculptor and author, editors of Opening Doors in Vancouvers East End: Strathcona. Originally published in 1979, the book was out-of-print long ago and owners of the book kept their cherished copies together with elastics and scotch tape. Praise be that Opening Doors was recently republished by Harbour Publishing and is one of ten classic books brought back into print for Vancouver's 125th Anniversary. Joining in with questions is James Johnstone,historian and heritage activist who wrote the foreword to the new edition. Free Workshop MAKING ART THROUGH DIALOGUE Series Launch Thursday Ortober 27, 1 :30pm-4pm EWMA Art Studio, 54 E. Cordova Last year's Making Art Through Dialogue was such a great success that EWMA is happy to launch year two of this collaborative mixed media art workshop series that combines artistic creativity and dialogue. The theme of this workshop series for women follows the festival theme Telling Our Story, Building Our Community. After the Thurs Oct 27 workshop launch, women can drop into the studio from 1:30 to 4pm on Thurs Nov 10 and 17 to continue to work on this living piece of art and dialogue. No experience is necessary, just a willingness to explore, to be open, to discuss, to create and to have fun! EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art) is a program of Atira Women's Resource Society. Free Open Dance Workshop AN INVESTIGATION IN MOTION with Helen Walkley Thursday Ortober 27, 3:30pm-4:30pm Carnegie Gym 2nd floor, 401 Main How does our love of spontaneous motion translate into vital expression in dance? This workshop is for anyone who loves to move and is curious about improvisational dance: the possibility to create and relate movement in the moment. Helen Walkley MFA is a contemporary dance artist, certified Laban Movement Analyst and registered Somatic Movement Educator who has taught, created and performed for the past thirty-one years in United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada. She is currently based in Vancouver. This work at Carnegie reflects her desire to work in diverse populations with the possibility of the expression of movement and its impact on our lives. Today's class is open to all. Free CONGRATULATIONS!!! 12 Heart of the City Festival 2011 The Heart of the City Festival congratulates residents Daphne Marlatt and Carole ltter on the republication of their landmark book Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End. Originally published in the Provincial Archives Sound Heritage series, it has reemerged as a Vancouver 125 Legacy Book. From 1977-78, the two editors interviewed over 50 immigrants and children of im-migrants who grew up in Chinatown, Japantown, Strathcona, and around Main and Hastings, and transcribed those interviews into an amazing collection of oral histories. Tod Greenaway, the late father of John Endo Greenaway (designer of this Festival pro-gram), joined Daphne and Carole and took photographs to go along with the histories. Over 20 years ago, the producers of Vancouver Moving Theatre discovered this gold mine of oral history that opened doors into the memories and cultures of this East End community. The life stories and hard-won wisdom of these residents have been a monumental inspiration to the staff of Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Heart of the City Festival and profoundly informed and enriched years of productions, festivals and research. Find copies of the new book at Benny's Market, the Wilder Snail Cafe and People's Co-op Bookstore on the Drive! THURSDAY OCTOBER 27 It's rainy season so be snap on your rain coat, and put on your dancin' rain boots! Heart of the CityF all~ tHrilledf6 present an exciting program of two Downtown Eastside music groups perfornihlg on the sidewalks and in the by professional musici singer Dalannah Gail of ~~,1peighbq~rhood for your street entertainment arid enjoyment. These groups are led \u00b7 \u00b7\u00b7 mitted to training, mentoring and performing with local DTES inv riginal women's Snowy Owl Drummers; and tJ;omb \u00b7st Brad Muir \u00b7 Street Band S involved musicians with guest musicians. Children MAGIC COMEDY with Gerardo Avila Thursday Odober 27, 6:30pm Hastings Street Early Learning Centre, 881 E. Hastings It is a delight to present a Magic Comedy show with Gerardo Avila for the families of the Bright Family Futures program at RayCam. Gerardo has been performing for thirty-seven years and he is skilled in mime, clown, magic, theatre, poetry, circus and storytelling. Who can forget his street hockey playing clown? Or his spirited poems for Day of the Dead? And we get him all to ourselves! Hold on to your hats kids, now you see it, now you don't! Everyone welcome. Free n 5pm Oppenheimer 6pm Carnegie 2pm, 3pm pegie 2:30pm, 3:3Qpm igeon Park 3pm, 4pm Radio ARTS RATIONAL Thursday Odober 27, 9pm-1Opm Live Broadcast Co-op Radio CFRO 1O2.7FM Listen in as artists of the Downtown Eastside discuss the state of the arts at the level of the street. How do community artists use their talent for political action and change? Can art speak to power? Does power listen? What if your art takes you to pressing areas that are not mainstream but urgent and provocative? What if you don't fit in? The artists of the DTES face many of these questions and answer them in different ways. The so-called \"Dead Artists\" and other guests give their perspective on Co-op Radio's Arts Rational with grassroots interviewer Jay Hamburger. Heart of the City Festival 2011 13 FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 Reading GRANDPA'S GIRLS Nicola I. Campbell Friday0dober28, 11am-12pm Strathcona Community library Join children's author Nicola Campbell as she reads from her just-released third children's book, Grandpa's Girls. Nicola is Interior Salish on her mother's side, Metis from Saskatchewan on her father's side, and she gets her name from her home community of Nicola Valley, BC. In her two previous books Nicola worked with elders and survivors of residential schools to document the tragic experiences that many endured. Her new book is a sunny, joyful story based on her own childhood memories. \"I heard an elder speak of the importance of our languages and our culture. He said that our words are powerful; our stories are elastic; our languages are music: they dance, they move and they are medicine for our people. He said they are a spirit within themselves and we are only the channel that brings them to life. I write because I know what he said is 'true.\" Free Theatre VIMY by Vern Thiessen Friday 0dober 28, 8pm, free preview Community ST. JAMES' BARGAIN SALE & FUNDRAISER Friday 0dober 28, 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. 0d 29\/8pm, 0d 30\/2pm, Nov 1\/8pm half price previews November 2 to November 19 Fireball Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova \"VIMY is not a play about war,\" explains playwright Vern Thiessen. Rather, VIMY illustrates \"how small actions can define us as individuals and as a nation.\" Thiessen creates characters with extreme depth and feeling in this exploration of friendship, responsibility and nationalism set during the battle at Vimy Ridge. A Firehall Arts Centre Production, directed by Donna Spencer. For more information or to purchase tickets: call 604-689-0926 or go to www.firehallartscentre.ca 14 Heart of the City Festival 2011 FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 J.EltLADIES, A TRIBUTE TO WOMEN IN JAZZ bet28,8pm oga, 728 Main 2nd floor Heart of the City Festival is thrilled to present this special event featuring the soulful voices oflocal favourites and Dalannah Gail Bowen in a musical n. of jazz. With Michael Creb~,; on erop on bass and Chris Nordquist ms. The ttta grew up in The East End and started ging as a chUd: it was all her family did - at family reunions and picnics. With big brother Leonard leading the she tOll;fe~ i\u00b5ternationally as an actor, singer, dancer choreographer, and worked in nightclubs in Canada, Europe and th st Indies. Recently Thelma has returned ' 'frto her home co unity of Strathcona\/Downtown Eastside played al art in the success of Vancouver Moving atre's Bas Blues and All That Jazz. Dalannah has ost as lo ist of credentials as Thelma! One of ancouver's l';emier vocalists, she is a proud Downtown Eastside resident and loves working for and in the arts in this community. Now sit back and listen to these ladies \u00b7 g:'For yo \u00b7 ation - Radha is no longer a bar and tery. Non- ic refreshments available by donation. suggested donation at door. All Welcome! Community Celebration HALLOWE'EN DANCE The Mortimers Friday October 28, 7pm-1 Opm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Tonight is Hallowe'en Dance Night and the spooky Carnegie Community Centre invites you to put on your most frightful face and join in the dance! Brush up your best scary moves and frighten the old Carnegie Mummy. Shake, rattle and roll to the live music of The Mortimers, an old time rock n roll band singing tunes from the 70s and 80s. A great dance band! Join the ghouls at Carnegie and jangle those bones about! Free Showcase EASTSIDE FRIDAY Friday October 28, 7pm-1 Opm EWMA Studio, 54 E. Cordova The Downtown Eastside is a community rich in art and culture. Enterprising Women Making Art (EWMA) is honoured to showcase some of the local talent during the Heart of the City Festival this year. Join us to celebrate our rich culture and tradition of \"womens art:' We invite you all to a night of music and art, featuring work by local artisans. EWMA is a development initiative of Atira Womens Resource Society and works with local women to provide a safe space for the creation of marketable artwork. For more information go to www.atira.bc.ca\/enterprising-women-making-art. Free Electronic Music and Media Arts HALLOW2EEN, W2 BLACK LIGHT SERIES Friday October 28, 10:30pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings W2 presents the Black Light Series, four separate events that showcase distinct and artistic directions of electronic music and media arts, and feature emerging and established artists and producers from Vancouver and abroad. This Friday Oct 28 event during the festival features a three floor, two room indoor black light festival with eight plus performers and installations, including Michael Red, Max Ulis, Amanda Rude. Also featuring Emika, a UK producer and emerging star in the international contemporary electronic music scene. For more information visit www.creativetechnology.org. Early bird $15, $20 advance Heart of the City Festival 2011 15 SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 Talk & Walks VERGE\u00b7 SHINING LIGHT ON OUR OLD EAST END HOUSES Walking with James Johnstone Saturday0ctober29, 10am-12pm Meet at NW ~~mer of Dunlevy and Railway James Johq$toneis a Strathcona-based house history researcher and blogger, history walk guide and heritage advocate. Olilr!N~ tour James highlights Vancouver's oldest houses and the stories of the people who lived in them. This informative.tour is made all the more interesting as J~es \u00b7 mber of 'before' pictures of 18.9 use~~at we will route ry old house has lY\u00b7 You will be amazed at some of ose beat upnl~poors:$10 for non-MOMENTS OF COMMUNITY HISTORY with Je Saturday October 29, 11 Meet at entrance to SFU wards, 111 astings Join Jean Swanson e Carnegie Community Ac \u00b7 a walk through the Downtown Eastsi ere moments in communi tor be marked. Learn about the actions o e WoodSquat, the Women's Memorial ch, Canada's first Safe Injection Site, camping for CRAB Park, redressing the Head Tax, and the death of Olaf Sollie~, an~ the impact and ~o~sequences on the Downtown Eastside community of the~e hist moments. This is fa planned commem \u00b7 e plaque pro1ect. $ non-residents, pa \u00b7 ts History TALES OF POWELL STREET Saturday October 29, 1pm-2pm Vancouver Japanese Language School &Japanese Hall, 487 Alexander Powell Street was the pr~-war business centre of the Japanese Canadian community in Vancouver. From boardm s,here is your oppo ityto learn about this vibrant histo ' see a new permanent exh the foyer of the Language Scho You will hear about other projec to preserve Japanese Canadian history. Presen e Japanese Canadian Nati useum and the Vancouver Japanese Language School. Guest speakers. Free 16 Heart of the City festival 2011 Workshop BURNING ISSUES with Nicola Harwood Saturday October 29, 10am-1pm Public welcome at 12:30pm Aboriginal Friendship Centre Theatre Room, 1607 E. Hastings This workshop brings together youth and elders from the Aboriginal Friendship Centre to explore issues of importance, and to build connections between the youth and elders. Facilitated by Nicola Harwood (Twin Fish Theatre, Nelson), a collaborating artist with The Squaw Hall Project: A Community Remembers. The workshop participants will share their work at 12:30pm when the doors will be open to the public. This workshop is one in a series of workshops and community-engaged events produced in conjunction with the Storyweaving Project. For more details see the Thurs Nov 3 event page. Free Workshop GUIDED MEDITATION Saturday October 29, 11am-1pm Radha Yoga, 728 Main 2nd floor Renew yourself and explore meditation practices to bring awareness and to calm the mind in this two hour workshop. Take the opportunity to reflect and listen to your inner voice. Please bring a journal. For more information: 604-605-0011 or www. radhavancouver.org. Pay what you can Community HALLOWE'EN AT OPPENHEIMER PARK Saturday October 29 11am-2pm For Kids 2pm-4pm Rock 'n' Roll Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell What better way to have fun on the Saturday before Hallowe'en than spend the day at Oppenheimer Park. Join Park staff for children's activities of crafts, treats, food, workshops, and spooky decorations -whoooooooo! At 2pm we will hear some good old rock 'n' roll with SCOW and the Oppenheimer Music Jam Program, with special guests The Jay Sea Band. That's singer\/songwriter Joe Chow on guitar, Arnold Penniard on bass and Richard McDonald on drums. Skulls will roll - it is Halloween! Everyone welcome! Free 1 SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 ST.JAMES' ANGLICAN CHURCH Saturday October 29, 12pm-4pm St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova Open Houses at St. James' are a wonderful opportunity to see first hand this heritage building and to take in a variety of parish activities! 12pm-4pm Photo Exhibit\/Church Treasures Display Artists in our Midst: Chris Loh and Christine Hatfull - a photographic exhibit featuring the interplay of light and architecture. Curated by Anne Kennedy. Take in this rare opportunity to see the ancient Ethiopian processional cross up close and admire its detailed engraving. View the vessels used in celebrations of Holy Communion. Learn what patens and chalices are and how they are cared for. 12:30pm Guided Tour Long-time parishioner Allan Duncan leads a guided tour of the Church that includes fascinating details, century-old artifacts and intriguing stories about the parish and the construction of the church. 1 :30pm A Sermon by John Donne Hear a stirring sermon of one of the greatest English-speaking preachers. Professor Paul Stanwood offers a dramatic presentation of John Donne's Second Prebend Sermon on Psalm 63:7. Donne's striking language and imaginative figures will challenge and surprise you. Find out how the gospel was preached and what people flocked to hear in seventeenth century England. 3pm A performance by members of the Saint James Music Academy, which offers free high quality classical music training to children living in the Downtown Eastside. Get in on one of the best good news stories to come from the neighbourhood. Everyone welcome! Free CHIBI TAIKO and FUSION OF THE HEARTS: !SHIZUE Saturday October 29, 2pm-3:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main In 20 I 0, thirteen young Canadian taiko drum players, most with roots in Japan, travelled to Onomichi, Japan for a cultural exchange with a traditional, inter-generational Japanese taiko group. The young Nikkei Canadians, aged 6 to 23 years at the time, are part of the group Chibi Taiko based here in the Lower Mainland. Filmmaker Linda Ohama, who lives part time in Vancouver and part time in Onomichi, captured what happens when two different cultures with shared roots meet and interact. The resulting film is Fusion of the Hearts: Ishizue. What did they learn? As one of the taiko players says: \"Reconnecting with your roots is important because it gives you a chance to see what makes me ME!\" Members of Chibi Taiko will be at the screening and will share some thoughts about their experience. We will end with a performance oflive taiko drumming. What could be better? We love taiko! Everyone welcome. Free \u2022 ' '' ' SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 Still: Something to Eat 18 Heart of the City festival 2011 thii:gsxou don't understand.And that's why I decided to do this lni, to explore an issue that I didn't understand that n s to ith:' Director \u00b7 be in.atten \") pm The Road Forward (2010) Ibis beautiful and inspiring film of a musical live performance recaptures the Aboriginal political and social Tovements of British Columbia and envisions a road forwardwhere no will be left behind. Created and directed by Marie Clements, e film features Tuscarora singers Pura Fe and Jennq:ei.Kreis-erg, singer Leela Gilday and performer Michell~u~l;. John. Also featuring the renowned dancer\/chor,eogra~h~r,~yr<~Jl Chief-Moon, playwright\/actor Kevin Loring, hipb,opf!:17ti~,l\u2022' OsTwelve and Independent Spi1:ft Award ~~nne a If schegules allow, performers ~nd fil (10\", Frog Girl Films) 8:~0p Poor ore (2010) We were always told, \"If you work hard thingfwill get But hard-working Canadians have only~e~p. th~ij~s ~et.~9fse. Corporate profits soared, but only~~ rich~ot richer. The ieces-i~p. took awayjobs and piled up more. debt;l:a~g peo t;insecure;PoorNoMore offers solutions tctCanada' oor. lhe film takes three Cana?~~~ to a i~rldwhere do not have to beg, where hou~ing is ~ffordable, and education is free. They ask themselves: if other cou can do this, why don't we? Hosted by TV and film star Mary wWalsh, the film offers an engagi,J;lg l99~u~t nadians \u00b7 low paying jobs wi~ no se~M;fity and re hope to tho.se who have to work d ,, n who cannot even find work ... thereis a way out. (53wDeveaux BabinPrPductions) SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 Still: Somewhere Else Is Here Community Celebration SENIORS CELEBRATING THE 1251\" ANNIVERSARY OF VANCOUVER AND THE CHINESE CANTONESE OPERA Saturday October 29, 11 :30am-5pm Chinese Cultural Centre, 50 E. Pender Seniors from the Asian Canadian Benevolent Association for the Elderly and the Vancouver Seniors' Singing Club Association join with senior artists and musicians to present this special performance celebrating both the 125th anniversary of the City of Vancouver and 125 years of Cantonese Opera and Chinese culture in our city and community. This performance is presented with support from the City of Vancouver's 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada. Tickets at the door: adults $10, seniors $8 Film & THE SQUAW HALL PROJECT -A Community Remembers Saturday October 29, 2pm Aboriginal Friendship Centre Theatre Room, 1607 E. Hastings The film Squaw Hall - A Community Remembers captures the memories of Secwepemc and Tsilhqot'in elders about being young and growing up in the Cariboo Chilcotin. The festival is thrilled to welcome some of the youth and writer Sage Birchwater from Williams Lake who participated in the creation of this , community building film. Following the screening we'll have a conversation about the experience of connection and reconnection. A powerful element of the film is the connection between youth and elders, when the elders speak powerfully to their youthful interviewers, with words of wisdom directed to all First Nations youth of today.A Storyweaving Project event: for details see the Thurs Nov 3 event page. Everyone welcome. Free A Streets CARNEGIE STREET BAND Saturday October 29, 2:30pm-4:30pm Starts at Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main Look out, can you hear them coming? It's music in the streets with the Carnegie Street Band. Led by multi-instrumentalist Brad Muirhead on sousaphone, the band is formed again and ready to play. Favourite dance and marching tunes are their repertoire so brush up on your moves. Free Film & Conversation SOMEWHERE ELSE IS HERE Saturday October 29, 4pm-5:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Austrian artists and filmmakers Marina Leblhuber and Jasmina Hirsch! were in the Downtown Eastside in 2008 and spent a lot of time talking with local artists and residents about their home and their work. The result: the powerful documentary Somewhere Else Is Here which shows the DTES through the residents' eyes rather than from the outside looking in. The Festival showed a rough-cut of this film in 2009 and we are honoured to debut the final version. All the best to Marina and Jasmina who are now back in Europe; we thank them for producing a film that portrays our community with dignity. Participants in the film will attend the screening. Free Community Celebration 4th ANNUAL FAMILY HALLOWE'EN DANCE Saturday October 29, 6:30pm-9pm Strathcona Community Centre Gymnasium 601 Keefer Dance the monster mash, decorate some ghoulish cookies and have your face painted at this spooktacular all ages event. This community event is organized with love by neighbourhood parents and has become a favourite Strathcona family tradition. For more information or to volunteer contact: milisa@strathconaevents.ca or call 604-713-1838. Admission by cash or food donations to support the SCC Food Security Programs. Charles and Gary, Squaw Hall Project Music v HAISLA with NASTY, BRUTISH & SHORT Saturday October 29, 7pm-9pm Raven's Eye Studio, 456 E. Hastings Last year a landmark mural project was painted on the west wall of the newly-renovated Orwell Hotel. Inspired by the creative energy of the artists working together, the Vancouver Native Housing Society moved forward to open the Raven's Eye Studio in the same ground floor location. Come hear music from one of the mural artists, Haisla Collins and her acoustic blues band - Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short. Specializing in blues and ballads with flavours of gospel, jazz and country, Haisla is joined by Lorenzo Watters on lead guitar and mandolin, the Reverend Gabriel Hebert on slide guitar and banjo, and Father Theo on rhythm guitar and twelve-string. That's urban blues! See you there! Free Electronic and Media Arts HALLOW2EEN, W2 BLACK LIGHT SERIES Saturday October 29, 11 pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings W2 presents the Black Light Series, four separate events that showcase distinct and artistic directions of electronic music and media arts, and feature emerging and established artists and producers from Vancouver and abroad. Tonight W2 presents Yours Truly No. 3 with resident DJ Prison Garde and special guests. For more information visit www.creativetechnology. org.$20 HeartoftheCityFestival 2011 19 SUNDAY OCTOBER 30 Walking Tour AN 1886 WALKING TOUR with John Atkin Sunday Odober 30, 1 Oam-11 :30am Meet at Maple Tree Square, Carrall and Water Take a walk with John Atkin, author, OTES\/Strathcona resident and walking-history-encyclopedia as he travels along the streets and alleys of Vancouver as the city existed 125 years ago. Who lived here, what were the early businesses and how did the area evolve into the fascinating and complex community we have today? A walking tour looking at the evolution of the early city from the incorporation in 1886. $10 for non-residents, pay what you can for local residents In the Streets DNC STREET MARKET & FAIR Sunday Odober 30, 12pm-5pm Pigeon Park, Carrall & E. Hastings Since June 2010 the resident based Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council and a great team of volunteers have produced a wildly successful Street Market and Fair in Pigeon Park every Sunday afternoon. There is much to see and hear! Start the afternoon with songs from the Sunshine Choir, a Chinese seniors choir led by Swallow Zhou who meet weekly in Oppenheimer Park, followed by bass guitarist Sean Gunn who performs original material in his own eclectic way. We'll close the afternoon outside with the popular Carnegie Street Band, playing horns, percussion and other music makers. Free 20 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Visual Arts BONES, BEADS AND DOLLS Closing Reception Sunday Odober 30, 1 :30pm-2:30pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Exhibition Odober 6 to Odober 30 A show of three artists with very different work but coming from a similar way of working: the beadwork of Ron Horsefall, Ron J. Ward's spectacularly detailed Native regalia, and art dolls by Diane Wood. For more information about the artists, see Visual Arts section. Free Cooking Class FOOD PRESERVATION: DRYING FOODS with Andrea Potter Sunday Odober 30, 1 :30pm-4:30pm Radha Yoga, 728 Main 2nd floor You don't need an expensive food dehydrator to dry food; a conventional oven can be used for all recipes. Join Andrea Potter, one of Radh'a past chefs, to make herbed oven-dried tomatoes, apple and pear chips, naturally sweet fruit leather and dry herbs and chillies. Andrea's love of nutrition, whole foods and a healthy lifestyle led her to Radha and now to her own holistic education business, Rooted Nutrition. For more information: 604-802-1201 or www.rootednutrition.ca. Book early, as seats are limited. $55, please pre-register ( 3 seats pay what you can for the Festival, pre-register) Reading WRITING OUR STORIES Sunday Odober 30, 2pm-3:30pm Interurban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings The Downtown Eastside is flowing with creative writers and we'll hear from participants of three writing groups: the Megaphone Magazine Writing Group, Intrepid Pens and the DTES Studio Society. Along with vendors who sell the magazine on the streets of Vancouver, Megaphone also runs a series of writing workshops in the DTES and downtown Vancouver for marginalized writers. Much of this work is published in the magazine and finds its way across the city - giving voice and helping break down stereotypes. Intrepid Pens DTES Reading & Writing Society believe in the power of storytelling as a real vehicle for change and the Studio Society provides workshops and is a publishing house for creative work. This is a great opportunity to hear what just a few of the wonderful writers in our community are saying. Everyone welcome! Free THE VANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA SMALL ENSEMBLE Sunday Odober 30, 2:30pm-3:30pm Dr, Sun Vat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, $78 Carrall The ... F~stival is pleased to .. presenta small ensemble of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, a creative and relevant voice of musical innovation, diversity and under-standing. Musicians appearing today include Jonathan Bernard (percussion), Moshe Denburg .(guitar\/vocal), Bic Hoang (danbau\/vocal), Laurence Mollerup (bass), Ali Razmi (far\/vocal) and Lan Tung (erhu\/vocal). The VICO is a professional concert orchestra devoted specifically to performing new inter cultural music on a grand scale. VICO was one of the first such ensembles in the world, and is currently the only one of its kind in Canada. \" ... Music that sounds like Vancouver looks:' - Alexander Varty. Admission by donation to the Garden t SUNDAY OCTOBER 30 6i' g cial guest DAL RICHARDS MUSIC & SPOKEN WORD SHOWCASE Sunday October 30, 7pm-10pm se-at-sul-tu d award-winning singer , o ers; Mike Dangt;liand the powerful rap artists Christie Crunsb ;,s< \u00b7 ; and local DTES poet and maste \u00b7 \" Heart of the City Festival 2011 21 MONDAY OCTOBER 31 Open Workshop CARNEGIE VILLAGE CHOIR MondayOdober 31, 1pm-2:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main The Carnegie Village Choir Project is a community cultural endeavor with voice as its focus - particularly the singing voice. The village includes all ages and abilities, cultures and ethnicities and is for everyone who wants to contribute and explore their own voice and experience. Join choral leader Beverly Dobrinsky and members of the Choir in an open workshop where you can listen or join in if you're so inspired. They are developing new repertoire including a Rap for Peace with Beverly's son Nik Dobrinsky, accompanied by percussionist Russell Shumsky and guitarist Ken Tabata. Everyone welcome. Free Cultural Sharing ABORIGINAL CELEBRATION & FEAST Monday Odober 31, 5pm-8pm Carnegie Community Centre Gym & Theatre, 401 Main Culturally specific events bring a sense of belonging and camaraderie to an otherwise isolated and disen-franchised Aboriginal population. Carnegie's weekly Cultural Sharing Program, now in its twenty-third year, offers First Nations people from across North America an opportunity to share cultural events such as Pow Wows, cultural trips, singing and drumming, and to make arts & crafts. This year we have a special Aboriginal celebration with dancers,singers and drum-mers from the Coast Salish Territory. At 5pm First Nations dancers and singers will perform in the Carnegie gym on the second floor. Come early to get a spot, this will be very exciting. Everyone welcome. Free At 5:45pm in the theatre on Carnegie's main floor there will be entertainment with drummers from the Coast Salish Territory and a special feast to share. Admission is free but you will need a ticket, which you can obtain on a first come first serve basis at the Cultural Sharing group on the afternoon of Monday, October 24. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1 Workshops ORIGAMI with Yoko Tomita Tuesday November 1 11am-1pm DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings 2:30pm-4:30pm Aboriginal Front Door, 384 Main Origami (meaning \"folding\" and kami meaning \"paper\") is the traditional Japanese art of folding paper. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpture techniques. During this Origami session Yoko Tomita will provide instructions on how to fold three traditional figures: a Crane, a lily and a box. Yoko is from Osaka, Japan and works as a community artist in East Vancouver. Over the last seven years, she has created community engaged art projects in murals, street banners, mosaics, lanterns, textile art, origami, acrylic and watercolour painting, and photography. Supplies provided. Free Presentation HEALTHY AGING THROUGH THE ARTS Puppet Presentation Tuesday November 1, 12:30pm-1 pm Strathcona Community Centre Seniors Lounge, 601 Keefer Healthy Aging Through the Arts is a project for seniors interested in working with professional artists to explore their stories through art. The Strathcona Seniors group, led by artists Sharon Bayly and Maggie Winston, will present Guest House, an ensemble performance with puppets and video. Using a simple form of puppetry known as Toy Theatre, this piece explores different perspectives on the places we call \"home.\" Come out and see this delightful performance at the Strathcona Community Centre. Free Community Celebration DAYOFTHE DEAD Tuesday November 1, 2pm-4pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell In the Downtown Eastside , Lat in Americans celebrate Day Of The Dead with music, love and humour. We throw a party and invite the dead to join us for a couple hours before returning to \"the other side.\" Watari Research Association presents an afternoon of music and celebration. Bring flowers, candles, and photographs for the ofrenda (altar), noisemakers, costumes or musical instruments. We'll share some folk music and a few stories with DTES community members. Everyone welcome. Free Mass ALL SAINTS' DAY MASS Tuesday November 1, 6:30 pm St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova Visit with the congregation at St. James' in High Mass for All Saints' Day. You will find a glorious celebration of the gifts and love of God present in those now living among us and in all those who have gone before us. A time to gather in thanksgiving. If you haven't visited St. James' before, this is a wonderful time to come by. Everyone is welcome to the Mass and to the community pot-luck supper which will follow immediately afterward. CARNEGIE CABARET COFFEE HOUSE Tuesday November 1, 6:45pm-1 Opm Carnegie Community Centre Theatre 401 Main Participate in one of the longest running regular community music programs in the neighbourhood. Open mic and featured performers. Sign up at 6:45pm and show your stuff. Basic musical instruments provided. You may even entice a backup band to accompany you. Musicians and singers of all styles and skill level welcome! Free Heart of the City festival 2011 23 WEDNESDAY NOVE.MBE.R 2 Workshop IMAGE THEATRE with Angelo Moroni Wednesday November 2, 1 Oam-1 pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Come explore and share with the public your ideas, strengths and concerns using your body and voice to create a space for reflection, action and solidarity. Participants must commit to two sessions Wed Oct 26 and Wed Nov 2; a street presentation will be determined at the workshop. See Wed Oct 26 for details. Free Panel & Walking Tour S~ANCE WITH ZOMBIE ARTISTS & GENTRI-F\"KATION TOUR Wednesday November 2, 11am Meet In the Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Calling the 100-block of East Hastings a \"dead zone\" is absurd enough to wake the dead. Meet Zombie Artists Against Gentri-F**kation Salvador Deli, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh - in a satiric talk show expose hosted by the controversial Jerry Springboard.Audience members who survive the talk show will be guided on a Gentri-F**kation Tour of the so-called \"four blocks ofhell\"by notorious developer stooge Ratzo Rizzo. Presented by the STOP PANTAGES CONDOS coalition: dtesnotfordevelopers. wordpress.com. Free for DTES residents, donations accepted from guests Workshop VERTICAL GARDENS with Michael Corbin Wednesday November 2, 11am-1 pm DTES Neighbourhood House 573 E. Hastings Originating in 2004 in Costa Rica, Gardeners Without Borders have come to Canada with the goal to provide local initiatives with capacity building frameworks and a best practices approach to food security planning. What better group to come to the DTES Neighbourhood Right to Food program with a workshop on the \"biorope micro garden\" technique combined with \"Le-go Garden\" frameworks. Join urban gardener Michael Corbin in a workshop where you will build a simple and practical vertical garden. For more information about the techniques visit www.gwb4u. wordpress.com. For more information about the workshop call 604-215-2090. Supplies provided. Free Follow on Facebook: Heart of the City Festival 2011 - Become a friend - Be part of the conversation 24 Heart of the City Festival 2011 in the Streets SNOWY OWL DRUMMERS V Wednesday November 2, 12:30pm-1 :30pm Starts at Pigeon Park, Carrall & Hastings Led by singer and community activist Dalannah Gail Bowen, the Snowy Owl Drummers are a committed group of Aboriginal women playing hand drums and singing traditional songs. The community's heartbeat on the street. Feel the rhythm, sing the songs! Presented with the support of Vancouver Moving Theatre, Community Arts Council of Vancouver and the City ofVancouver Great Beginnings Program. Free Workshop ORIGAMI with Yoko Tomita Wednesday November 2, 2pm-4pm EWMA Art Studio, 54 E. Cordova During this Origami session Yoko will provide instructions on how to fold three traditional figures: a Crane, a lily and a box. See Tues Nov 1 for details. Supplies provided. Free Workshop Showcase DTES HIP HOP SHOWCASE WORKSHOP with Quin Martins Wednesday November 2, 4pm-6pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings Join local media and film artist Quin Martins for a workshop and discussion revolving around Hip Hop culture. For more information call 604-689-9896 or visit www.creativetechnology.org. Free I Mass ALL SOULS' DAY MASS Wednesday November 2, 6:30pm St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova The St. James' Choir sings at this spiritual gathering to give thanks for all the departed, no matter who they were, or what they believed. Pray for all, especially for those who may not have had anyone to pray for them. You are welcome to come and remember all of your beloved ones who have moved on from this life. If you have names of the departed you would like read aloud during the prayers, please contact the church office by Friday October 28 at 604-685-2532. Everyone welcome. W2 Community Media Arts W2 is an artist-run, globally networked media arts and broadcast centre in Vancouver's inner-city, connecting residents and artists through dig ital culture, food and dialogue. Mandated to promote social inclusion, encourage cross-cultural dialogue and advance issues of redress, W2 is built by and for its members to assist the local community in bridging the digital divide through training and workshops, community events and shared public space. W2 Media Cafe is located in the historic Wood-ward's building, 111 W. Hastings. To find out more, visit www.creativetechnology.org AHA Music & Dance BARRIO FLAMENCO: Flamenco for the People Wednesday November 2, 7:30pm-9:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Celebrate the spirit of the Downtown Eastside with an unforgettable night of live flamenco music and dance! Flamenco is originally an art form by and for the people, danced and played with ferocity, joy, laughter and tears. 'Barrio' refers to the vibrant and tight-knit neighbourhoods in southern Spain where flamenco originated. The evening, organized by Kelty McKerracher, features some of the most compelling flamenco artists in the city and performances to honour Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. As the divide between this world and the spirit world blurs, join us for an exciting juerga (flamenco party) to play, pray, laugh, cry, enjoy, and stamp your feet! A wildly-popular event so come early to sit near the front to see the dancers feet! Ole! Free www.AHAMEDIA.ca w.facebook.com\/AHAMEDIA ickr.com\/AHAMEDIA Heart of the City festival 201 1 25 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3 in the Streets SNOWY OWL DRUMMERS Thursday November 3, 12:30pm-1 :30pm Starts at Pigeon Park, Carra II & Hastings A committed group of Aboriginal women playing hand drums and singing tradition-al songs. See Wed Nov 2 for details. Free Digital A KEEPER OF MEMORIES Thursday November 3, 1pm-3pm Carnegie Learning Centre 3rd floor, 401 Main The participants of the Shire Project, a digital storytelling success of the Carn-egie Learning Centre present stories and discuss their work, both past and present. Adrienne, a recent recipient of a DTES Small Arts Grant, talks about new works-in\u00b7progress and the experiences she has had since she embarked on her journey with this new and exciting medium. Bob will show his new project about Elders of the community and talk about the tech-niques of putting a story together using different computer programs. This is a great opportunity to learn about digital storytelling and see how this new art form can help just about anyone keep their own memories alive. Free Workshop DREAM CATCHERS with Sandra Pronteau Thursday November 3, 2pm-4pm EWMA Art Studio, 54 E. Cordova Here's a chance to make your own Dream Catcher - now is the time! See Thurs Oct 27 for details. Free 26 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Workshop BREAKING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE with Irwin Oostindie Thursday November 3, 4pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings Irwin Oostindie, W2 Executive Director, presents and discusses why W2 believes communication is a human right. Join in on this regular workshop offering DTES residents an orientation to social media, mobile, and web-based tools and strategies to engage in the information society. For more information call 604-689-9896 or visit www.creativetechnology.org. Free Adrienne Macallum Opening Reception CARNEGIE PORTRAITS Wende L. Davis Thursday November 3, 5pm-7pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Exhibition November 2 to 30 In 2008 Wende Davis visited the Carnegie Centre on Fridays to make use of the drawing sessions and the models who were the visitors to the Centre. Her sketches were done on manila paper and sketched with conte crayon. The resulting portfolio consists of sixty portraits. Seen as a whole, this series represents a larger portrait of some of those who live in the Eastside of Vancouver. Sadly, Wende passed away in August 2009 at the age of 63. Everyone welcome. Free Clothing & long Dinner CHINDI NATION, CHINDI REVOLUTION Karenza T. Wall Thursday November 3, 6pm-8pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings In hindi dialect \"chindi\" means scraps or rags, and rags is the traditional name for clothing. In this tradition Downtown Eastside resident and instinctive artisan Karenza T. Wall presents original surface designs on reclaimed clothing modeled by \"real\" women who live or work in the neighbourhood. The designs are one-of-a-kind hand-worked on clothing and acces-sories using recycled and remnant materi-als. Two garments will be raffled off. For more info visit www.needleworkdesign. blogspot.com. We are pleased that W2 Me-dia Cafe is partnering with the Festival on this community long table dinner centred around a single heritage. While we enjoy a gourmet South Asian menu the models will present the wearable art. Sliding scale for dinner $3-20 Wende L. Davis THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3 STORYWEAVING PROJECT The Heart of the City Festival is excited to announce the Storyweaving Project (working title), produced with Van-couver Moving Theatre in partnership with the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association. Through the voices of lived experience the Storyweaving Project attempts to make sense of contemporary and his-torical relationships with land, water and community to address physical, mental, emotional and spiritual concerns of today's Aboriginal urban community in Vancouver. When completed, the interdisciplinary theatrical presentation will combine Aboriginal traditional symbolism of the medicine wheel with music, dance and stories from the West Coast. The Storyweaving Project is a community-supporting event for here and now to help make sense of urban Aboriginal experience. Over the next eight months the Festival and our partners will undertake a series of workshops and events, three of which are presented at this year's festival. These events culminate in a full production early May 2012 at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre. The cast will include Aboriginal performers and elders from the Downtown East-side community and lower mainland, and groups associated with the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre. The lead artists on the team are Renae Morriseau (Script Director}, Rosemary Georgeson (Artistic Coordinator), Sa-vannah Walling (Artistic Director}, Terry Hunter (Producer) and Sherry Small of the Aboriginal Friendship Centre (Cultural Liaison). Script Reading STORYWEAVING PROJECT SCRIPT READING Thursday November 3, 2pm-4:30pm Aboriginal Friendship Centre Theatre Room, 1607 E. Hastings The Storyweaving Project weaves together original material with poems, testimonies, personal memories, and selections from the Downtown Eastside Community Play (2003). The script is co-written by Renae Morriseau with Rose Georgeson and Savannah Walling and contributions from urban Aboriginal artists, James Fagan Tait, and Adrienne Wong. The script reading features elders Sam George and Marge C. White, Wes Nahanee, and DIES Abo-riginal community members Sue Blue,Stephen Lytton, Kat Norris, Brenda Prince, Priscillia Tait, Herb Varley, and Muriel Williams. Please come and listen to this new script in development, and join the post reading discussion to provide your thoughts on how we can develop a strong and truthful script. Refreshments. Free Two other Storyweaving events during the festival are the Burning Issues workshop, and a presentation and discussion of the film The Squaw Hall Project -A Community Remembers. For more details see Sat Oct 29 event page. L-R: Marge C. White, Muriel Williams, Priscillia Tait, Kat Norris THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3 Reading WRITING ACROSS BORDERS: An ESL-Based Creative Writing Group Thursday November 3, 6pm-8pm UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main A premiere of readings from a unique creative-writing group, along with an opportunity to explore your own written-word creativity. What happens when the goal is to tell stories in English, but the writers' experiences and personalities have always been expressed in, and formed by, languages other than English? The result is border-crossing, and innovative creative writing. Join us and find out how surpris-ing and playful the English language can be when freed of traditional boundaries and expectations. For more info: www. learningexchange.ubc.ca. Free Workshop PREPARING FOR AN EMERGENCY: FOOD STORAGE Thursday November 3, 7pm-9pm Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer For a minimum level of preparedness, every family should have at least three days of food on hand ( three weeks according to the US FEMA!). What kind of food? How much? What kind of storage and how long? This workshop will cover all these topics along with resources to help provide suffi-cient food for your family with some extra for neighbours. Instructor: Ann Pacey. This session is part of Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community, a fall workshop series at Strathcona Community Centre. To register, please call 604-713-1838. Free 28 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Music & Story AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY DOBRINSKY AND ZEELLIA Thursday November 3, 7:30pm-9:30pm Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender This evening of extraordinary music, musicianship, song and history begins with Dolya, a solo show of spoken word, song and hurdy gurdy music played by Beverly Dobrinsky. 'Dolya' means fate or destiny in the Ukrainian tongue. During this profound show Beverly reflects on her life's journey, her recent trip to Ukraine, and the storied and tragic history of Ukrainian hurdy gurdy musicians. The second half of the show features Beverly with her group Zeellia, Vancouver's own Slavic soul band. Zeellia specializes in Eastern European traditional music, playing songs and dances from Ukraine, the Balkan states and the Canadian prairies. The music is rooted in the traditional with a contemporary edge, connecting the past with the present and the old country with the new. Nothing can prepare you for the beautiful vocal harmonies of Zeellia. $10 suggested donation at door. All welcome! Beverly Dobrinsky Fund raiser PASSION FOR JUSTICE Thursday November 3, 8pm Distrid 319,319 Main Passion for Justice is Pivot's annual char-ity auction and one of Vancouver's hottest events. This year Passion will feature an ex-panded drag show, DJ K-Tel, amazing live and silent auction items, and much, much more. Passion is an amazing evening of fun, celebration, and social change - with all proceeds supporting Pivot's community legal work for residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Licensed event\/adults only. Tickets: www.passionforjustice2011. eventbrite.com. $25 Radio Play ARTS RATIONAL Thursday November 3, 9pm-10pm Live Broadcast Co-op Radio CFRO 102,7FM On the long lasting Arts Rational Co-op Radio program, Theatre In the Raw comes up with an original live radio drama. Cho-sen from TITR's Biennial One-Act Play Contest chest of scripts - and directed by Jay Hamburger -hear local actors do their thing along with special radio sound effects over the airwaves. The broadcast will take you back to the times when radio was the popular medium. A radio play not to be missed. For your listening pleasure. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3 Reading WRITING ACROSS BORDERS: An ESL-Based Creative Writing Group Thursday November 3, 6pm-8pm UBC learning Exchange, 612 Main A premiere of readings from a unique creative-writing group, along with an opportunity to explore your own written-word creativity. What happens when the goal is to tell stories in English, but the writers' experiences and personalities have always been expressed in, and formed by, languages other than English? The result is border-crossing, and innovative creative writing. Join us and find out how surpris-ing and playful the English language can be when freed of traditional boundaries and expectations. For more info: www. learningexchange.ubc.ca. Free Workshop PREPARING FOR AN EMERGENCY: FOOD STORAGE Thursday November 3, 7pm-9pm Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer For a minimum level of preparedness, every family should have at least three days of food on hand ( three weeks according to the US FEMA!). What kind of food? How much? What kind of storage and how long? This workshop will cover all these topics along with resources to help provide suffi-cient food for your family with some extra for neighbours. Instructor: Ann Pacey. This session is part of Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community, a fall workshop series at Strathcona Community Centre. To register, please call 604-713-1838. Free 28 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Music & Story AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY DOBRINSKY AND ZEELLIA Thursday November 3, 7:30pm-9:30pm Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender This evening of extraordinary music, musicianship, song and history begins with Dolya, a solo show of spoken word, song and hurdy gurdy music played by Beverly Dobrinsky. 'Dolya' means fate or destiny in the Ukrainian tongue. During this profound show Beverly reflects on her life's journey, her recent trip to Ukraine, and the storied and tragic history of Ukrainian hurdy gurdy musicians. The second half of the show features Beverly with her group Zeellia, Vancouver's own Slavic soul band. Zeellia specializes in Eastern European traditional music, playing songs and dances from Ukraine, the Balkan states and the Canadian prairies. The music is rooted in the traditional with a contemporary edge, connecting the past with the present and the old country with the new. Nothing can prepare you for the beautiful vocal harmonies of Zeellia. $10 suggested donation at door. All welcome! Beverly Dobrinsky Fund raiser PASSION FOR JUSTICE Thursday November 3, 8pm District 319,319 Main Passion for Justice is Pivot's annual char-ity auction and one of Vancouver's hottest events. This year Passion will feature an ex-panded drag show, DJ K-Tel, amazing live and silent auction items, and much, much more. Passion is an amazing evening of fun, celebration, and social change - with all proceeds supporting Pivot's community legal work for residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Licensed event\/adults only. Tickets: www.passionforjustice2011. eventbrite.com. $25 Radio Play ARTS RATIONAL Thursday November 3, 9pm-10pm live Broadcast Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7FM On the long lasting Arts Rational Co-op Radio program, Theatre In the Raw comes up with an original live radio drama. Cho-sen from TITR's Biennial One-Act Play Contest chest of scripts - and directed by Jay Hamburger -hear local actors do their thing along with special radio sound effects over the airwaves. The broadcast will take you back to the times when radio was the popular medium. A radio play not to be missed. For your listening pleasure. Downtown Eastside Food Charter Applying the Right to Food in a low-income Vancouver Neighbourhood The Downtown Eastside Food Charter exists because access to secure water and Food is a Human Right, a determinant of our personal and community health and well being. Our experiences of food must reinforce our inherent dignity, deservedness and welcome. DTES Right to Food Actions \u2022 We act on the Right to Food by questioning the current food system and its gaps; \u2022 We create Urban Farms and food gardens and join Right to food conversations.; \u2022 We voice our food related concerns to the people who create Policies and Programs that impact OTES food; \u2022 OTES resident and organizations educate corporate and private food donors about what kinds of food we need them to contribute; \u2022 OTES Food Providers endorse the OTES Food Charter and continue participating in the OTES Kitchen Tables Project (www. dteskitchentables.org); \u2022 All levels of government embrace the OTES Food Charter, creating and implementing Policies and Programs that reinforce a healthy, sustainable OTES Food System. The Downtown Eastside Right to Food Philosophy upholds the Human Right of Downtown Eastside residents to: \u2022 Abundant, local, fresh, nutritious and affordable food that's available across the neighbourhood and delivered in a dignified and respectful manner; \u2022 Adequate housing with cooking facilities & a living wage so that they have the choice of eating at their own kitchen tables; \u2022 Food Provider kitchens that are \"green\", support compost\/ recycling social enterprises, and employ OTES residents; \u2022 \"Food-smart\" education around nutrition, growing, harvest-ing, cooking and storing foods. Banana Smoothies: Nutritious, Delicious and Affordable Ingredients: 1-2 Ripe Bananas 1 Box of Rice Milk (Plain, Vanilla, or a mix of both) - lactose free and easy to digest 1-2 Shakes of Cinnamon (Optional) Blend all together until smooth and creamy. Makes about seven smooth-ies so drink up, or share with friends. Please remember that the more brown spots on the banana skin, the better it is suited for the world of smoothies. Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House The Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House at 573 E. Hastings welcomes Downtown Eastside residents of all ages, descriptions and ancestries. They mirror the entirety of this community: in its beauty and its harshness, its poetry and frustration. Following a principle of 'cheap 'n cheerful', while subscribing to 'low tech' techniques and beauty and fun, they are strong supporters of the Downtown Eastside Right to Food Philosophy and Food Charter. They strive to do their part in raising nutritional standards in the OTES where far too many good people remain nutritionally vulnerable and live in housing with no cooking facilities or storage for food stuffs. Storefront venue: 573 E. Hastings. For more information visit www.dtesnh.wordpress.com Heart of the City festival 2011 29 --~~==----------------------------~-- ---FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 Open House VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM Friday November 4, 9am-5pm Vancouver Police Museum, 240 E. Cordova 2nd floor One of Vancouver's fastest-growing attractions, the Vancouver Police Museum is located in the former Coroner's Courtroom. Built in 1932, the building is a municipally designated heritage structure and houses an extensive collection relating to the history of policing in Vancouver. Here you will find exhibits about some of the city's most famous criminals and the men and women who enforce our laws. There are also special displays on some of the teams that make up the police force, including the Mounted Squad, the Dog Squad, the Marine Squad and others. For more information: 604-665-3346 or www. vancouverpolicemuseum.ca. Everyone welcome. Today is free admission Schools METAPHOR: Diversity through Hip Hop Friday November 4 10:50am Admiral Seymour Elementary School, 1130 Keefer 1 :30pm Lord Strathcona Elementary School, 592 E. Pender Metaphor performances are energizing, exciting, and engaging. Experience positive hip hop right in front of your eyes. The Metaphor crew illuminates hip hop as a tool for media awareness, community building and self-empowerment. Intelligent and heart-warming lyrics, freestyle raps, body-rocking beat-boxing and audience interaction combine to create a show that deals with real-life issues and leaves the students inspired. Metaphor is a crew of artists who build community empowerment and social justice through their art, teaching and facilitation. The team has brought hundreds of performances and workshops to high schools, universities and community groups. Please note: these school performances are for students, parents and teachers only. 30 Heart of the City Festival 2011 FRIDAY\u00b7 NOVEMBER 4 TRISURGENCE Friday November 4, Spm-10:30pm Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender Also on Sat Nov 5, 8pm This special concert celebrates the meeting and cultural exchange between Vancouver's Aboriginal, Chinese and European communities in the Downtown Eastside and East Vancouver. The word 'trisurgence' refers to the convergence and upward momentum created through ongoing collaboration in this exchange between artistic leaders and their ensembles. Chinese-jazz group Koan (led by Brad Muirhead), New World Chinese Orchestra (led by Jin Zhang), Chinese choir Huayi (led by Yaling Yang) and the Renfrew Collingwood Aboriginal Youth Canoe Club song and drum circle (led by Matthew Sheena) present individual group pieces and a variety of collaborative works. Joining Matthew as a special guest co-leading the group is his mentor Wes Nahanee.A Squamish singer and carver, Wes holds the traditional name Chiaxsten (Chee-ox-tin) translated;\"the one that looks after the people:' Adding local flavour to this trisurgence are Carnegie Jazz Band musicians Ken Tabata (guitar) of Carnegie security staff fame, and Strathcona resident and former teacher Gerry Teahan (keyboard). Trisurgence has been made possible with the support of the City of Vancouver 125th Anniversary Program. $10 suggested donation at door. All welcome! SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 Dialogue COMMUNITY ARTS DIALOGUE Saturday November 5, 9am-4:3Opm World Art Centre, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings Celebrate and discuss community art: a one-day dialogue about the state of community arts in Vancouver. Presentations and dialogue to facilitate networking; share tools, resources and best practices; identify needs for community arts in Vancouver; and to explore and increase awareness of community arts -what are its forms and what are the benefits. Discussion in the morning; keynote speaker and open space in the afternoon. More than twenty artist presenters, community members, facilitators , and scribes will be involved. Presented by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver in partnership with SFU Woodwards. For information and registration visit www. cacv.ca\/dialogue. Free Animation Workshop for Kids GET ANIMATED! Saturday November 5, 2pm-5pm W2 Media Cafe and NFB Theatre, 111 W. Hastings Get Animated! is a Canada-wide series of free screenings, master classes and activities marking International Animation Day. Join W2, in association with Reel to Real and the National Film Board, for this Stop Motion Animation Workshop for children. Please register with W2: call 604-689-9896 or by email: info@creativetechnology.org. Free Poetry The VANCOUVER 125 POETRY CONFERENCE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE ROUNDTABLE Saturday November 5, 3:3Opm-5:3Opm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main As part of the year-long celebration of Vancouver's 125th birthday the City of Vancou-ver is hosting one of the largest poetry conferences in Canadian history. From October 19-22, twenty poets from the poet rich Downtown Eastside will attend the conference, take in the discussions, and refine their craft. Today's roundtable is an opportunity for the DTES poets who attended the conference to share with each other and the public their thoughts on the conference, and how it may have shaped their ideas concerning poetry in the Downtown Eastside. Join Governor General's Award winning poet Fred Wah and City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Brad Cran as they lead a roundtable discus-sion on contemporary poetry and its craft as practiced in the Downtown Eastside, the heart of our City. Free 32 Heart of the City festival 2011 7 I SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 fund raiser STRATHCONA ANNUAL PUB SOCIAL NITE Saturday November 5, 6pm-1 Opm Strathcona Community Centre Seniors Lounge, 601 Keefer Come on down as old meets new at the Friends of Strathcona evening of fun, friends, fundraising and big music entertainment. The highlight of the night is the music of singers and musicians with long time Strathcona Elementary school music teacher Mark Wardrop and company. Silent auction, 50\/ 50 draw and raffle prizes. Tickets can be purchased at the Strathcona Community Centre. For further information call 604-713-1838. All proceeds to the After-School Children and Food-Security Programs. Tickets are $20 Poetry DTES POETS OPEN MIC Saturday November 5, 7pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Downtown Eastside poets and writers meet on the first Saturday of every month to read original poetry, plays, prose and work-in-progress. It's free, it's friendly, it's packed with local talent, both on the mic and in the audience. The personal stories can be quite raw and powerful ... Sign up for a 10 minute spot at the Open Mic. Hosted by Diane Wood. Free Music TRISURGENCE Saturday November 5, 8pm-10:30pm Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender Also on Fri Nov 4, 8pm This special concert celebrates the meeting and cultural exchange between Vancouver's Aboriginal, Chinese and European communities in the Downtown Eastside and East Vancouver. See Fri Nov 4 for full details. $10 suggested donation at door Electronic Music and Media Arts HALLOW2EEN, W2 BLACK LIGHT SERIES Saturday November 5, 10pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings W2 presents the Black Light Series, four separate events that showcase distinct and artistic directions of electronic music and media arts, and feature emerging and established artists and producers from Vancouver and abroad. Tonight's program includes Mimesis featuring The Sundance Kid, That African, Calamalka, Eames, and Ben Westergreen. For more information visit www.creativetechnology.org. $15\/10 Heart of the City Festival 2011 33 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 Walking Tour \u00b7 POWELL STREET WALKING TOUR with Raymond Nakamura Sunday November 6, 10:30am-12pm Meet SE corner of Powell and Jackson Join Raymond Nakamura as he takes you back in time to the vibrant pre-war com-munity of Japanese Canadians and Japa-nese immigrants who lived and worked in the area. The community grew and thrived over a fifty-year period from the 1890s until its forced removal in 1942. The tour will focus on the 300 and 400 blocks of Powell Street, the commercial heart of the community. Raymond's knowledge of the area is both personal and fact-based: his family lived on Powell Street and he worked as Education Coordinator at the Nikkei Centre. We will end the tour at the Vancouver Japanese Language School ( 487 Alexander). $10 for non-residents, pay what you can for local residents 34 Heart of the City Festival 2011 ................................................................ .......... ............................................................. ........ .............................................. 1 Panel & Walking Tour S~ANCE WITH ZOMBIE ARTISTS & GENTRH-KATION TOUR Sunday November 6, 11am Meet in the Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main See Wed Nov 2 for details. Free for DTES residents, donations accepted from guests Cooking Class FERMENTING FOODS with Andrea Potter Sunday November 6, 1 :30pm-4:30pm Radha Yoga, 728 Main 2nd floor Join Andrea Potter, one of Radha's past chefs, in this popular introduction to the world of pickled, fermented vegetables. Fermentation is an ancient method of preserving 'the harvest. Reclaim this skill and learn how to make sauerkraut, kimchi and brined pickles at home. Please bring one 500ml wide-mouthed mason jar to take home your own sauerkraut. And-rea's love of nutrition, whole foods and a healthy lifestyle led her to Radha and now to her own holistic education business, Rooted Nutrition. For more information: 604-802-1201 or www.rootednutrition.ca. Book early, as seats are limited. $55, please pre-register (3 seats pay what you can for the Festival, pre-register) - ----- - - - -SUNDAY NOVE.MBE.R 6 VISUAL ARTS ASIA & PACIFIC FOLK MASKS September 28 to November 6 Dr. Sun Vat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall Be sure to catch this incredible exhibit presented by the Canadian Society for Asian Art and curate by Sam Carter, Professor Emeritus, Emily Carr Uni-versity of Art and Design. The folk masks collected during visits to the Americas, Northern and Southern Asia and Oceania were found mostly in shops, street-stalls and maker's studios, and reflect a wealth of form, symbols, materials, dimensions and creative inventiveness. The exhibition provides a glimpse of the unlimited expression and beauty of Asia and Pacific masks and may contribute to the continuation of the traditional and the creation of new ones. View daily: 10am-430pm. For more information: 604-662-3207 orwww.vancouverchinesegarden.com. Included with regular admission to the Garden. BONES, BEADS AND DOLLS October 6 to October 30 Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Closing Reception Sunday October 30, 1 :30pm-2:30pm A show of three artists with very different work but coming from a similar way of working: the beadwork of Ron Horsefall, Ron J. Ward's spectacularly detailed Na-tive regalia, and art dolls by Diane Wood. After overcoming a drug and alcohol dependence and surviving residential school, Ron Horsefall started to string his life back together with beadwork and reconnected with his stolen culture. Sparked by the Carnegie Small Arts Grant program of 2009, he created a beadwork project dedicated to his niece, Lorraine Horsefall, who died of AIDS in 2006. Ron now calls himself an artist. \"Creating is a spiritual process for me and what comes out is a tapestry of my life. When I sit still and bead, \"me\" catches up with \"me'' - feelings from the past begin to flow and they go into each piece I create. As I continue to walk in and with the Light and to expand spiritually, my work expands along with me:' Ron J. Ward was born in northern BC and is ofTlingit ancestry. When he was 5 years old, he was sent to residential school and what he learned was to value what you love to do. A self-taught artist, Ron's success has been his ability to balance colours and mediums. In the 70s he attended Pow Wows and was inspired to make dancer's regalia. Now he works in traditional and original forms with bone, bead, leather and feathers. Diane Wood is a Downtown Eastside resident, artist, poet, community activist and gardener. In her most recent creations she draws from an early life-long fascination with Surrealism and Fellini films. The art dolls remind us that it's never too late to have a happy childhood. View seven days a week. Free 36 Heart of the City Festival 2011 YOUR STORY, MY STORY, OUR STORY James Cumming October 17 to November 30 Pigeon Park Savings, 92 E. Hastings A 100-year history of the Downtown Eastside painted on a large canvas by the late artist and community member James Cumming will be on display at Pigeon Park Savings. James was inspired to start the project in 2003 by the Carnegie Community Centre's 100th anniversary and it took him eight years to complete the epic 25-foot-high by 12-foot-wide mural Your Story, My Story, Our Story. Sadly, James passed away earlier this year. It would please him greatly to know that\u00b7his artwork was now on display in the community during the Heart of the City Festival, which over the years provided support to James and his mural project\/dream. See a small colour reproduction of the mural on the back cover of this program guide. James' compelling wish was that the mural would engage viewers in remembering their role in the history of our city, and encourage us to share our stories with our children . and friends. Thanks to Sarah and Lifeskills for following through on James' wishes. The bank is open to view the mural Monday to Thursday llam-6pm, and Fridays 12pm-5pm. DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HISTORIC HEART OF VANCOUVER Photo-graphs by Louise Francis-Smith October 19 to November 12 Radha Yoga, 728 Main 2nd floor Local artist Louise Francis-Smith exhibits photographs of Strath-cona as it looked thirty years \u00b7 ago captured before it fades from memory. The photographs reveal engaging accounts of Strathcona, including disrepair, decline and gentrification, and focuses on the architecture and the buildings. She also shows recent images of Chi-natown from a series called 'Up My Alley; an intimate portrait that captures the spontaneous spirit of daily life. Louise's work uncovers layers of complexities that exist in this historic heart of our city, our home. You can see some of her work here: www.louisefrancissmith. com. Viewing times at Radha Yoga Mon-Fri 1 lam-4:30pm or call 604-605-0011, www.radhavancouver.org. Free .&. VISUAL ARTS AT OUR KITCHEN TABLE: The Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show Odober 21 to November 13 Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Opening Reception -see Pre-Festival Friday Ortober 21 The 4th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show, ''.At Our Kitchen Table\" showcases artists from the vibrant and resilient community of Oppenheimer Park. See Pre-Festival for details. View Wed-Sun, 12pm-6pm. Information: 604-687-2468 or www.gachet.org. Free CARNEGIE PORTRAITS Wende L. Davis November 2 to 30 Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Opening reception Thursday November 3, 5pm-7pm In 2008 Wende Davis visited the Carnegie Centre on Fridays to make use of the drawing sessions and the models who were the visitors to the Centre. See Thurs Nov 3 for details. MARAYA PROJECT November 5 to December 17 Centre A, 2 W. Hastings Opening Reception Friday November 4, 8pm Maraya Project (from the Arabic m'raya for mirror or reflection) examines the surprising reappearance of Vancouver's False Creek in the United Arab Emirates, as the Dubai Marina. Three Vancou-ver based interdisciplinary artists, M. Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and Henry Tsang, have spent five years researching the phenom-enal movement of architects, urban planners and development between the two cities and have produced a new body of artworks. Centre A is organizing five free public talks and a walking tour to engage professional artists, architects and social activists from Vancouver and Dubai. Participants include one of Canada's most prominent contemporary artists, Christos Dikeakos, Dubai-based cultural collaborator Hetal Pawani, sound artist Jean Routhier, cultural theorist Eugene McCann and Am Johal, SFU Community Engagement Office. Gallery hours Tue-Sat, l lam-6pm. For more information: www.centrea.org CHINESE CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUM Permanent Exhibition Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia The Chinese Canadian Military Museum can be found on the second floor of the Cultural Centre, and its exhibits range from the contributions and sacrifices oflocal Chinese Canadians to how their service as soldiers in the Canadian military spurred political and social change. Before WWII, many Chinese -both immigrated and Canadian-born - could not vote and were not considered Canadian citizens. Following the war, veterans led the successful fight for voting rights. The Museum exhibits a wide range of artifacts from period uniforms, medals and weaponry, and honours both past and present members of Canada's Armed Forces and Navy. Regular hours Tues - Sun, l lam-5pm, admission $5.50, Tuesdays free Footprints Community Art Project Between 2001 and 2003 the Carnegie Street Program designed, managed and operated the Footprints Project as a community art project. Out of this project grew the monumental Old Vancouver Townsite WalkingTour,a series of thirty-one historical mosaics that link the original downtown east side neighbourhoods. While the mosaics are works of art on their own, they also portray the people, places and events that have formed the rich history of Vancouver's Original Townsite. The Footprints Project operated as a workplace-based training program with work\/life skills development for street entrenched and addicted individuals. The mosaic art was developed through community art processes. Local artisans and instructors, community historians, and community groups collaborated on and agreed to the final designs. The historic mosaic tile markers were designed, constructed, and assembled using traditional methods. The project was coordinated by Sandy MacKeigan and Bob Moss of the Carnegie Street Program and sponsored by the Carnegie Community Centre Association. You'll see photos of the mosaics on the cover of this Festival program and throughout these pages. We thank and acknowledge the scores of artists, historians, businesses, individuals and organizations who created this series of mosaics for our community's enjoyment. We still marvel 10 years later. For your own Old Vancouver Townsite Walking Tour booklet, enquire at the Carnegie 3rd floor program office. Heart of the City Festival 2011 37 POST -FESTIVAL Workshop MAKING ART THROUGH DIALOGUE Thursday November 10 & 17, 1:30pm-4pm EWMA Art Studio, 54 E. Cordova After the launch of the Making Art Through Dialogue series on Thurs Oct 27, women can drop into the studio on two more Thurs-days to continue to work on this living piece of art and dialogue. See Thurs Oct 27 for details. Free Opening VANCOUVER INDIGENOUS MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Thursday November 10, 7:30pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings Festival November 10 to 13 Welcome to the opening film and reception at W2 Cafe for the Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival, which features diverse works from local and international Indigenous media artists, working in film, video, new media or multi-media. Sponsored by W2, City of Vancouver's 125th Anniversary, with assistance from SFU Woodwards. For more information, please call 604-689-9896, or email us at info@creativetechnology.org. Advance tickets at W2 Media Cafe. Opening Reception tickets $25, Weekend Pass $50 Book launch & THE ONLY POETRY THAT MATTERS Clint Burnham Saturday November 12, 7pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings The Kootenay School of Writing with Arsenal Pulp Press is pleased to present the book launch reception and reading of The Only Poetry That Matters by Clint Burnham. Vancouver writer, poet and teacher in the English Department at SFU, Burnham offers the first book-length examination of the Kootenay School of Writing, the notorious group of poets who came to international attention in Vancouver during the 1980s. One of the resident companies in the W2 community space, KSW is a writer-run centre that presents courses, talks and reading series. By donation Workshop THE NEW FRONTIER IS INTERACTIVE Sunday November 13, 12pm-4pm W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings Join W2 for Media Democracy Day with - The New Frontier is Interactive: advancing progressive storytelling and journalism with multi-platform and social media tools. The title says it all! For emerging and professional media artists and filmmakers. Details still developing. For more information: call 604-689-9896 or email: info@creativetechnology.org. Preregister with W2. 38 Heart of the City Festival 2011 1 Workshop GRANT WRITING for DTES groups involved with Community Arts Monday November 14, 1:30pm-3:30pm W Room, 5th floor, 111 W. Hastings Join facilitators Sonja Embree, Community Arts Council Board Secretary, and Mary Bennett, Administrator, to discuss how to write a winning grant proposal. For anyone who wants to write a grant proposal for a community arts project that would enliven the Downt.own Eastside. We will cover opportunities, criteria, hands on writing and sh\u00a5ing, and look at next steps. Includes handouts and resources for further research. Please register at: www.cacvgrantwriting.eventbrite.com. Free HOW TO MAKE AN OPERA: the Annenberg Project and the War in Iraq Monday November 14, 7:30pm-9pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main City Opera Vancouver gives a sneak preview of their latest commission: a new chamber opera based on the real life ex-periences of US Marine Corps Sergeant Christian Ellis (retired) at the Battle ofFallujah in Iraq in 2004. The new chamber opera (still untitled) is the work of librettist Heather Raffo, composer Tobin Stokes and many others. Join the discussion about the entire process of creating a contem-porary opera on an enduring and universal subject: war and the pity of war. City Opera received a creation grant for this project from the Annenberg Foundation of Los Angeles. Join Artistic Director Dr. Charles Barber for a peek behind the curtain to see an amazing piece in its first iteration. Free Display & Celebration COMMUNITY ARTS -THE FUTURE Saturday November 26, 12pm-9pm (drop by, stay for a while) Woodwards Atrium, 111 W. Hastings A dozen organizations who encourage community arts with children and youth will participate in the day. Each will have a display table of information and engage people in an activity or share a performance. Come out and play with us. Meet kids and youth actively engaged in community and in art. Presented by Community Arts Council of Vancouver, celebrating its 65th anniversary this year - with no plans to retire! We were the first community arts council in North America. This event is the third in the series of Celebrating Community Arts - Past, Present and Future. Check out www.cacv.ca\/future, to register and as the date draws closer for a full schedule of activities. Free UPCOMING E. VENTS Eastside involved artists Kuei Ming Lin Mike Richter Stephen Lytton We are pleased to announce that in December and January, Downtown Eastside involved performers Stephen Lytton and Mike Richter will appear in the production Bahl Humbug!, and then Kuei Ming Lin joins them in the production The Idiot. Bah! Humbug! A Staged Reading of an Eastside Adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Adapted by Michael Boucher and Savannah Walling Directed by Max Reimer with Musical Direction by Neil Weisensel December 14-17, 2011 Faye and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre SFU Woodwards. Tickets- tba Featuring Jay Brazeau, Margo Kane, Tom Pickett and percus-sionist Jospeh Pepe Danza among others This benefit for Downtown Eastside community arts and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is produced by SFU Woodward's Cultura l Programs in partnership with Van-couver Moving Theatre and in association with the Vancouver Playhouse and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot Adapted and directed by James Fagan Tait Music by Joelysa Pankanea January 20-29, 2012, 7:30pm 2pm Matinee Saturday & Sunday Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC Tickets: 604-822-2678 \/ theatre.ubc.ca A Neworld Theatre Production in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre. Presented by the Push International Performing Arts Festival and Theatre at UBC. \"In a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, is a sanatorium the only place for a saint?\" James Fagan Tait Kevin MacDonald Heart of the City Festival 2011 39 LE.GE.NDJlRY FLJlCE.S ... !\\ND STILL GOING ... Historic Markets TOSI ITALIAN FOOD COMPANY (624 Main) Opfrated by the Tosi family since 1906, it's the oldest family-run business in the neighbourhood. BENNY'S MARKET (598 Union) opened in 1909 as an ice cream palace; ninety years later it's still run by the Benedetti family. The UNION MARKET (810 Un-ion) site started as the Gin Lee Laundry in 1913, but has been operated as a grocery store by Portuguese families since 1962. The SUNRISE MARKET (378 Powell) has been operated by the Chinese Canadian Joe family since the early 1960s, providing affordable produce, groceries and tofu; today the Sunrise Soya Manufacturing Plant is Canada's largest tofu manufacturer. Historic Eateries FOO'S HO HO RESTAURANT (102 E. Pender), the oldest Chinese Restaurant in Chinatown serves authentic Cantonese village cooking originating in the Pearl River Delta Region of South China. THE OVALTINE CAFE (251 E. Hastings) under the landmark neon sign has been offering classic, cheap fare since 1942; The PATRICIA CAFE (403 E. Hastings) opened in 1919 with a jazz band featuring Oscar Holden and Jelly Roll Morton; a home for black enter-tainers during the Golden years of jazz, today PAT'S PUB AND BREWHOUSE still hosts live bands. Historic Businesses MODERNIZE TAILORS (5 W. Pender) Known for fine tailoring for all walks of life from movie stars to lumber jacks, Chinatown's last tailor shop is operated by the Wong family in the shop opened by their dad in 1913. MING WO COOKWARE (23 E. Pender), established in 1917, is one of the longest operating businesses in Chinatown. CANFISCO HOME PLANT (North foot of Gore) has operated a cannery and cold storage facilities since 1918. HASTINGS STEAM AND SAUNA (766 E. Hastings) was founded in 1926 to provide traditional Finnish style saunas for longshoremen and loggers. The first LONDON DRUGS (800 Union) was opened in 1945 by Sam Bass, son of Jewish immi-grants from the Ukraine; he dreamed of offering good quality at low prices; ARMY & NAVY (36 W. Cordova) Founded by Sam Cohen in 1919, Canada's original discount store is the last of the retail chains that started in Vancouver in the early 20th century. BC SUGARY REFINERY (123 Rogers) Founded in 1890, Vancouver's oldest industrial site is the largest sugar refinery in Canada. Opened in 1957, the much-loved SAVE ON MEATS (43 W. Hastings) has resurrected as a butcher shop and diner offering cheap good meals. by Savannah Walling 40 Heart of the City Festival 2011 Historic Gathering Places Eleven heritage CHINATOWN BENEVOLENT AS-SOCIATION SOCIETY BUILDINGS (1901-1926) still provide services to the Chinese Canadian community today. Established in 1906, the VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL & JAPAN.ESE HALL (487 Alexander) have provided Japanese language casses, sports and arts programs for over 100 years. Built in 1928, the UKRAINIAN HALL (805 E. Pender) served as a community kitchen and infirmary in the labour struggles of the 1930s and today is home to music, dance and the city's longest running folk orchestra; STRATHCONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (592 E. Pender) is the oldest school in Vancouver; founded in 1891, it's been nicknamed \"The League of Nations\" for diversity of its student population. LORD SEYMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (1130 Keefer) is the oldest wooden school building in Vancouver. THE FLYING ANGEL'S CLUB (401 E. Waterfront), built in 1906 in the last remaining Hastings Mill building on site, provides a warm \"home away from home\" for Seafarers from around the world. HASTINGS AUDITORIUM (828 E. Hastings) aka THE SILVER SLIPPER was built in 1928 by Societa Veneta; today it hosts flamenco dance and table tennis. Opening in 1940 as the Croatian Educational Centre, today's RUSSIAN HALL (600 Camp-bell) hosts events of all kinds. The CARNEGIE BUILDING (401 Main) has served the community for over 100 years since 1903, first as a library and city museum and finally - after six years of bitter struggle to save the abandoned building by people who believed the neighbourhood needed recreational and social facilities - as a community centre and reading room. @ K'emk'emlay'. Paueru Groundo. Oppenheimer. Powell Street Grounds. \"Hastings Reserve.\" These are some of the names this ground has gone by. They range from pre-settlement Squamish (Musqueam a close vari-ant), through city government and local names, along with their Japanese-Canadian variant, to a contemporary colloquial nick-name that signals the ongoing use of the park by urban First Na-tions people. These names form the opening chant of \"Shadow Catch,\" a new chamber opera set on this ground. Why this park? Outside of the Downtown Eastside, many Van-couver residents, speeding past along Cordova and Powell, see merely a green block in a shabby part of town. They don't recog-nize the oldest surviving park in the heart of the city, a tree-stump vacancy designated a sports ground in 1902 and named after Vancouver's second mayor, David Oppenheimer. There is nothing left of the grove of large-leafed maples and salmon streams that preceded it. There is nothing left of the loggers or of Hastings Mill nor of its large crew that included Japanese mill hands who generated the thriving community of shops, cafes, and rooming houses known as Nihonmachi before the notorious internment years of World War II and today remembered as Japantown. There are only a couple of tiled entranceways with women's names to recall the stately row of brothels that once occupied Alexander Street in the 191 Os and 20s. The Old Powell Street Grounds has a distinguished protest his-tory. It was the site of mass demonstrations in 1931 and 1938 (\"Bloody Sunday\") by the unemployed during the Depression. It was the only park designated by the Parks Board as a site for free speech in that decade of marches, sit-ins, and mass demon-strations. Neighbouring houses saw violence as mounted police Dec 2 & Dec 3, 8pm; Dec 4, 2pm Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova beat citizens up front steps in the wake of the 1935 Ballantyne Pier dockers' strike. Thanks to the induction of the Asahi baseball team in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame (2003) and the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame (2005), the park is remembered as the famous team's home base for training that took them to league championships in the 1920s and 30s. In 1977 half a dozen sakura (cherry) trees were planted in the park by returned Japanese Canadians to commemorate both their century-long presence on this coast and their once-flourishing Nihonmachi. That same year also inaugurated the Powell Street Festival, a \"coming home\" for the community that attracts a multi-ethnic and multi-racial audience for its annual celebration of Japanese culture. From time immemorial, this area was a gathering place for Aboriginal people, a place to hunt and gather and meet others. First Nations people who felt unwelcome in Stanley Park after its founding in 1887 made this park \"their home\". A memorial totem pole carved in 1997 pays tribute to people who have died unnecessarily in the area and to the courage and strength of those who have survived. This year a Western red cedar \"tree of life\" was planted: a living monument to the long history and ongoing presence of Aboriginal people in this place. For over 100 years, this ground has been a gathering place for the city's founding Aboriginal, Asian and Anglo communities. It is a vital and welcoming presence today; the park is heavily used, hosts many sports and arts events and is a site for prayer and healing ceremonies. Powell Street Grounds\/Oppenheimer Park is drenched in city history.@ by Daphne Marlatt, with contributions by Savannah Walling Catch a night of disturbed dreams in a neighbourhood setting where the present dissolves in the past. A new and distinctly local chamber opera, Shadow Catch recounts the dreams of a young runaway's first night in Oppenheimer Park. As the night progresses, he is visited in turn by the spirits of four troubled souls who once inhabited the area: the spirit of an old maple tree whose grove was decimated by loggers, a member of the brilliant Asahi baseball team whose play-ers were sent off to Japanese internment camps, the madame of a 1920s brothel who is haunted by her tragic past, and a roughneck policeman from the 1930s who fell to corruption. Using elements of Japanese Noh theatre under the direction of Colleen Lanki, with music direction by Marguerite Witvoet, Shadow Catch is a story about the journey and transformation that must take place in order to confront one's greatest fears and regret. Music composed by Dorothy Chang, Benton Roark, Jennifer Butler, and Farshid Samandari. Libretto by Strathcona poet Daphne Marlatt. Developed and co-produced by Vancouver Pro Musica and Tomoe Arts Society. To follow the production process, see shadowcatch.blogspot.com For more information or to purchase tickets: call 604-689-0926 or go to www.firehallartscentre.ca Heart of the City Festival 2011 41 18 8 6Granville (aka Gastown) transforms! Granville will be the end of the line for the transcontinental railway. Situated on a long-standing Coast Salish seasonal site, the tiny cultur-ally mixed lumber village explodes into a frenetic boomtown. Overnight, real estate replaces lumber as the primary economic driver. Scores of speculators and railway agents arrive from East-ern Canada. Winning the biggest poker game of the century, the Canadian Pacific Railroad receives a provincial grant of 6400 acres of taxfree land - from Gore to Stanley Park, Burrard Inlet to False Creek- becoming the city's biggest landlord for 100 years! As the New Year begins, maple trees, towering cedars, skunk cabbage and swamp surround Granville Townsite; salmon en-ter the streams of False Creek. Residents assemble on the shell midden under Gastown's old maple tree for town meetings and performances. Most of the sawmill workers and longshore-men are Native, Metis, Hawaiian; the rest come from the four 42 Heart of the City Festival 2011 corners of the globe. Chinook is as common as English. 1\/10 of the population is Chinese. Half of the children are part native; Asian, Anglo and Aboriginal children sit alongside each other in school. 75% of the residents have no permanent homes and live in hotels, boarding houses and float houses. Although immi-grant entrepreneurs need the cooperation of the First Peoples, they want helpers not competitors. Ch inese and Natives are prohibited from voting in provincial elections, buying or work-ing crown land or entering certain professions. Traditional Coast Salish Winter Dances and Potlatches have just been forbidden. By the end of the year, a new elite who believes in the superior-ity of British civilization will control the town. JANUARY -on New Year's Day, Aboriginal residents hold a dance at the Indian Rancherie just east of Hastings Sawmill at the foot of Campbell Avenue. 125 men (most of them newcomers) peti-tion the province to incorporate the City of Vancouver, a name suggested by the CPR general manager. I FEBRUARY - Granville swells to 600 people and 100 buildings, including sixteen saloons and eight legal opium factories (com-monly used to ease pain and soothe the mind.) Trees west of Cambie are cut down. Land from Carra II to Gore is cleared for settlement. Cedar trees that provided for every need for thou-sands of years are disappearing. The air is thick with smoke from burning stumps. MARCH - the CPR is selling lots around Burrard Inlet and False Creek. It clears them by the bowling pin method, smashing smaller trees with big ones, five acres at a time. Left behind are vast matted pyramids of branches, stumps and leaves; piled 10 to 20 feet high, they spread in every direction. APRIL- Granville Townsite incorporates as the City of Vancou-ver; a city statute directs that no Chinese or Indian is allowed to vote. A property boom takes off. The reported sale of two businesses to Chinese entrepreneurs sparks indignation among settlers worried that property values will drop. Newly arrived immigrant workers strike at Hastings Mill for a 10-hour workday: Burrard Inlet's first official labour dispute. Meeting a concilia-tion committee under the Maple Tree, mill manager Alexander makes bitter enemies when he plans to replace strikers with a few extra Indians and Chinese declaring \"Canadians are on ly North American Chinamen anyway.\" The strikers lose (but will win a year later). MAY-the city has400 new residents and 500 new buildings. The city's first election campaign gets under way pitting unpopular Alexander against real estate dealer Malcolm Maclean, newly arrived from Winnipeg. Alexander attempts to send 50 of his Chinese employees to vote at the polls but they are chased away with shouts and fists. Maclean wins the election by sev-enteen votes in a closely contested election. Accusations of vote stuffing are rampant. Rebuffed in their attempt to buy today's Stanley Park land, the CPR lobbies behind the scenes to turn the peninsula into an urban park and keep it off the market. At their first meeting, the new City Council agrees to lease the peninsula as a city park. To obtain funds for operating costs, city councilors impose fines on \"drunk and disorderly people\" and prostitutes such as Birdie Stewart (who regard the fines as business licenses.) A potlatch for 4,000 people takes place down the road at Second Narrows opposite George Black's hotel. JUNE-Jonathan Miller leaves his job as constable to become the town's postmaster; he's the last man for the next twenty years to leave his job in the police department without prodding from the citizens. The new police chief tears out the benches around Maple Tree Square to discourage loitering. Columbia Hall opens with an acrobatic song and dance team. With no rains since May, it's a hot dry summer; the air is thick with smoke from CPR brush fires. 1000 wood buildings - most of them hotels, saloons and real estate offices - are hemmed in with trees, underbrush and the decapitated stumps of monumental cedars. Not one fire engine. JUNE 13- Sunday. Just after church, a clearing fire escapes from the C.P.R. crew working near the Roundhouse site. It's whipped into a fury by gale winds gorging on 100 acres of massed brush. Flames race down wood sidewalks faster than a man can run. The city doesn't burn - it explodes! Members of a Squamish congregation, dedicating the new mission church across the inlet, paddle to help as they sing a song for protection and guidance that is still sung today. Forty-five minutes later, the winds die. The flames fizzle out just before Hastings Mill and the Indian Rancherie. 1000 people are homeless. Gardens and livestock are consumed. The city is crowded with strangers. No one is sure how many died. By dawn, wagon loads of supplies arrive from New Westminster for the homeless. Twelve businesses are back in business. The overnight apocalyptic removal of stumps and shacks clears the way for rapid development. One week later, resolutions are passed with the Mayor's support to prevent Chinese immigrants from re-establishing themselves. These attempts are unsuccess-ful. Chinese farmers provide most of the city's fresh vegetables. A small Chinese district forms around Shanghai Alley and Carra II and Main Streets. Squamish long shore crews are known for speed and stamina. JULY - a new town arises from the ashes as real estate specula-tion soars. The town survey names streets after CPR officials, British naval heroes, and developers. The Oppenheimer Broth-ers open the first wholesale grocery in the city's first brick building. Their Vancouver Improvement Company is the third largest landholder in the city after Hastings Mill, and the C.P.R. Keefer Hall opens at Alexander and Water Streets, doubling as a skating rink, theatre, church and United Workman's Hall. BC's first floating fish processing plant that manufactures oil to grease skid roads - Spratt's Ark - has closed due to failed her-ring migration. Natives blame the failure on Spratt's method of fishing with dynamite. AUGUST - the city's first fire engine arrives. Ten days later, the new brigade fights its first major fire: they can't save the aban-doned Spratt's Oilery but do manage to save a few surrounding houses. Hastings Mill operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and sends huge timbers to rebuild the Imperial Palace of China. The crown colonies of Vancouver Island and BC unite. NOVEMBER - the fire chief takes off for the USA with all the funds of the fire brigade. A white worker's group known as the Knights of Labour organizes a boycott of Chinese produce and businesses. DECEMBER - Vancouver has expanded from a population of 400 to 5,000 in one year. Law enforcement is near breakdown. Burglaries are common, gangs roam the streets at night robbing sleeping drunks, saloons are open 24n, and four breweries work around the clock to keep up with the demand. City Councilors are hard at work promoting development, assisting businesses, building housing and improving civic amenities. @ by Savannah Walling Heart of the City festival 2011 43 Milestone 85 years in the DTES \u2022 1926 to 2011 The Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement On October 26, 1926 four Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement arrived on Cordova Street to take charge of the Mission House and assist Katie O'Melia San (aka Sister Mary Stella O'Melia). She had worked in the Japantown area since 1902, creating a Mission School for Japanese of all ages. Soon the Sisters moved into 385 E. Cordova where they set up English classes, a daycare program and kindergarten, visited the sick, served hot meals and lunches and provided religious instruction. After the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, despite no evidence of disloyalty by anyone of Japanese ancestry in BC, thousands of innocent people were removed from their homes on the coast and deported to camps in the BC Interior. After the Mayor of Greenwood agreed to accept deportees if the Sisters could guarantee the safety of locals, some of the Sisters accompanied Japanese families to Greenwood to assist in a difficult and painful transition. The Sisters stored families' furniture and other belongings and remained in Greenwood with the Japanese Canadians, opening a school and community hall to serve the internees. At the end of the war a few families remained in Greenwood, but most were forced to leave for eastern Canada or Japan. Not until 1949 were they allowed to return to the West Coast. Over the years, the Sisters maintained strong connections with the Japanese Canadian community and supported the entire community of the Downtown Eastside. In recent years they served monthly Sunday dinners and 1,000 sandwiches each day to hungry people in long lineups, provided work clothing for men, and alcohol and drug counseling. But these days few people are joining the Sisterhood. Only four sisters were left in the convent on Cordova at Dunlevy- not enough to continue their service in the community. The situation forced a rethink of the operation and the ultimate closing of the convent. The Sisters have now moved to Edmonton to continue their work. The Downtown Eastside will miss the Sisters. In particular Sister Elizabeth Kelliher, who has been an active and vocal participant in the community's fight for housing and social justice. The Franciscan convent closed its doors this August, after serving the community for 85 years. The new tenants of the convent are four sisters who belong to the Missionaries of Charity, a mission established by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. @ 44 Heart of the City Festival 2011 SANDY CAMERON Prospector, miner, logger, teacher. Historian, poet, visionary, and conscience of a community. Deeply involved in the Downtown Eastside for many years. Gentle soul and strong anti-poverty, housing and human rights activist. , Sandy encouraged our writers to voice and record their own histories; witness our performances, cheer on the artists; and publish poetry to feed our spirit. Together with his life partner Jean Swanson, Sandy was one of those who make a difference, preserving the history that anchors the Downtown Eastside and keeps us connected to each other- and our location. - Savannah Walling To A Prospector Who Found Real Gold For Sandy Cameron It was no burning bush but your hand put the words of communal liberation in my life. \"The Prophetic Imagination\" -a book like a blueprint revealing how revolution is ignited by public expression of suffering -a powerful cry enabling enslaved and afflicted human beings to live beyond the system. And now we are old and share pain that makes us surrogates with all who suffer in this horrific time and who fight back with the long unbeaten army of poets. Bud Osborn 2011 In memory of DENIS SIMPSON There are so many words needed to describe my great friend and a friend of many, Denis Simpson. Passionate, caring, funny, generous, downright silly, creative, compassionate, goofy, the consummate entertainer, talented, up-lifting and the list goes on. When he left us last year around this time, many of us were affected deeply and as the year has gone on I have had numerous people come up to me to tell me stories about their connection to Denis - people I had no idea he would have ever known. I met Denis in the early '80s and he has been a part of my life ever since. We were good friends but also had great fun work-ing together on a number of different projects - the first being the Western Canadian premiere of Colored Museum and, of course, the last being our collaborative work with Savannah Walling and Bill Costin on High Flying Bird - a musical in devel-opment. Denis acted as a host at my sons' sixth birthday party and remembered all of the names of each child present and made them feel welcome and loved. He served on the Firehall Board of Directors for six years and made us laugh when things seemed just a bit too challenging. Our connection was deep -personally and professionally, as I know it was for many others. Denis made everyone feel special and his commitment to the Downtown Eastside community showed through his work with \u2022 both the Firehall and Vancouver Moving Theatre. He genuinely : cared about people, about experiences and about enjoying j life. He wanted people to care for others; he wanted people j to smile and enjoy their lives w ith grace and most of all, I think he wanted everyone to feel loved. - Donna Spencer, Artist ic Producer, Firehall Arts Centre Denis Simpson was a strong supporter of the Heart of the City Festival; he shared his creativity w ith the Downtown Eastside community through t eaching, facilitating, and celebrat ing the East End's historic black community in East End Blues & All That Jazz. JAMES CUMMING Born and raised in and around Vancouver. A grade school drop-out, who educated him-self by reading voraciously, travelling to far away places, and living with passion. A life-long \"scribbler,\" as he called himself, he took part in several art projects in the D,TES, culmi-nating with his over 250 sq. ft. canvas, \"Your Story, My Story, Our Story, \" completed, after eight years, shqrtly before his death. The canvas was his heartfelt tribute to this very special community that was his home for over 20 years. James appreci-ated everything about the Downtown Eastside, the history, the architecture, the location and, above all, the people. He would often say, delightedly, \"You can 't buy ambiance like this!\" James lives on in the hearts of those who loved him and in the works he leaves behind. - Sandra Jean McPhee You can view James' epic mura l at Pigeon Park Savi ngs during the Festival. JOHANNES \"JAN\" BESSELING The Festival was saddened to hear of the passing this June of Jan Besseling, a longtime Gallery Gachet volunteer member who gave so much of his time and effort to the gallery over the years. He was known as a generous and giving person in so many areas of his life. We will miss Jan's positive outlook and his cheer on opening nights: \"Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.\" Ou r condo lences to his friends and family. I knew Jan as a volunteer and a vital help to us. He was also a wonderful man that was always looking to improve the mar-keting and enjoyment of art here at Gachet. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him as one always committed to our cause at Gachet. He helped me navigate areas of socializing that I had serious difficulty with, such as serving alcohol. I had a hard time with it. As he had been a seasoned bartender and server, he helped us a great deal with that kind of supportive and assertive training. He was warm, friendly and practical, a truly hospitable person. That's how I knew Jan. Thanks. - Bill Pope Heart of the City festival 2011 45 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Executive Artistic Producer Terry Hunter Associate Artistic Producer Teresa Vandertuin Associate Artistic Director Savannah Walling Publicist Jodi Smith (JLS Entertainment) Designer John Endo Greenaway Production Manager\/Data Management Simon Garber Studio Photography David Cooper Administrative Assistant Carrie Campbell Community Outreach Doug Vernon Program Guide Contributors Bud Osborn, Sandy Cameron, Terry Hunter, Daphne Marlatt, Sandra Jean McPhee, Bill Pope, Donna Spencer, Teresa Vandertuin, Savannah Walling Production Staff William Butler, Steve Edwards, Liisa Hann us, Cameron Miller, Neal Miskin, Phil Schulze, Doug Vernon, Elxin Xie Guest Programmer (The Storyweaving Project} Rose Georgeson On Site Artistic Assistance Khari McClelland On Site Photography Terry Hunter, Liisa Hannus Social Media AHA Media, Liisa Hannus CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE Director Ethel Whitty Assistant Director Sharon Belli Arts & Education Programmer Rika Uto Seniors &Cultural Sharing Programmer Marlene George Carnegie Street Outreach Coordinator Bob Moss Oppenheimer Park\/Recreation Programmer Sandy MacKeigan Carnegie Reading Room Beth Davies, Randy Gatley Volunteer Coordinator Colleen Gorrie Security Coordinator Skip Everall Kitchen Coordinator Catriona Moore CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION Board of Directors: Gena Thompson President; Pat Mcsherry Treasurer; Adrienne Macall um Secretary; Priscillia Tait Member at Large; Robert Bonner, Lisa David, Ava Eder, Dolores Gray, James Pau, Ludvik Skalicky, Fraser Stuart, Phoenix Winter 46 Heart of the City Festival 2011 VANCOUVER MOVING THEATRE Executive Director Terry Hunter Artistic Director Savannah Walling Accountant Lucy Lai Managerial Intern Carrie Campbell Board of Directors: Ann McDonell President; Lynne Werker Vice President; John Atkin Secretary; Dara Culhane Treasurer; Renae Morriseau THANK YOU to the Association of United Ukrainian Canac;lians for their continuing support, and to SFU Woodwards for co-producing Bah! Humbug!, an annual benefit for the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival and community arts in the Downtown Eastside. THANKS for the guiding strategy developed in 2007 by the Heart of the City Festival Strategic and Sustainability Plan Advisory: Allan Cappo, Joe Dzatko, Sophia Freigang, Leslie Kemp, Rick Lam, Renae Morriseau, Robert Olsen, Ruth Sam, Barbara Small, Sid Tan and Kira Gerwing. HATS OFF TO OUR SPONSORS The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of our many sponsors. This festival could not happen without their enthusiastic and generous support. Thank you! INDIVIDUAL DONORS (as of March 2011) Anonymous, Glen Anderson, Russell Anthony, Rick Archambault and June Seto, John Atkin, Evans Architecture, Michael and Barbara Clague, Georgie Cribb, Rosanne Gervais, Thelma Gibson, Susan Gordon, Frank Harris, Laurie Hunter, Terry Hunter, Rick Lam, Angela Lands, Stephanie Layton, Louise LeClair, David Lee, Peter Feldman, Vincent Fodera, Dorothy McFarlane, Ginette Nelson, Robert Sarti, Mike Stack, Kelty Stewart, Grace Eiko Thomson, Doug Vernon, Marilyn Young, Savannah Walling, jil p weaving, Heather Wilkinson ~YOF VANCOUVER '~ BRITISH C OLUMBIA ~Best Plau on Earth Canadian Heritage Patrimoine canadien Canada Council for the Arts Vancity The printing of this program has been made possible with the generous support of Port Metro Vancouver. PORTMSTRO ~:.i,,, vancouver Conseil des Arts du canada Friends of DTESArts PHOTO SHOOT PARTICIPANTS Dalannah Gail Bowen, Yvon Paul Chartrand, Candus Church i ll, Beverly Dobrinsky, Cassandra Eastman, Hannah Gao, Mountain Gao, Maggie Gau, Rosanne Gervais, Thelma Gibson, Jo-Ann Howard, Terry Hunter, Cisilia Lao, Fred Lee, Jasmine Shi, Robyn Liv ingstone, Rob MacDermot, Muriel Marjorie, Khari McClelland, Joan Morelli, Randy Morrison, Brad Muirhead, Kat Norris, James Pelehos, Brenda Prince, Robin Prince, Makwa Prince, Sandra Pronteau, Tom Quirk, Tom Pickett, Mike Richter, Matthew Sheena, Bob Sung, Ken Tabata, Priscillia Tait, Gerry Teahan, Karenza T. Wall, Savannah Walling, Susan Wang, Marge C. White, Gary Wildeman, Elwin Xie, River Wu, Tracy Xu, Emily Yao, Steven Zhang, Swallow Zhou, Henry Zhu, Nancy Zhu PROGRAM GUIDE IMAGE\/PHOTO CREDITS Sharon Bayly, Paige Birnie, David Cooper, Tiffany Cooper, courtesy of Git Hayetsk Dancers, courtesy of Thelma Gibson, courtesy of Todd Wong, Graham Elvidge, John Endo Greenaway, Louise Francis-Smith, Sarah Godoy, Liisa Hannus, Terry Hunter, Sharon Johns@n, John Kerr, Dee Lippingwell, Ali Lohan, Mark McGregor, Peter Mey, Raymond Nakamura, Chris Randle, Adam PW Smith, Nathan Strijack, Ken Tabata, Ken Villineuve, Don Xaliman, and many more unknown artists and photographers. COMMUNITY PARTNERS Aboriginal Front Door, Admiral Seymour Elementary School, Atira\/EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art), Axe Capoeira Vancouver, Carnegie Community Action Project, Carnegie Learning Centre (Capilano University) & the SHIRE Project, Centre A, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, City Opera Vancouver, Community Arts Council of Vancouver, Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7FM, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, DTES Neighbourhood House, DTES Neighbourhood Council, DTES Studio Society, Enemies of the Stage, Firehall Arts Centre, Gallery Gachet, Gardeners Without Borders, Headlines Theatre, International Web Express, Intrepid Pens, Japanese Canadian National Museum, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Megaphone Magazine, National Film Board of Canada, Network of Inner City Community Services, Oppenheimer Park, Orchard Recovery Center, Pigeon Park Savings, PIVOT Legal Society, Protech Industrial Movers, PHS Community Services (Interurban Gallery, Lifeskills Centre), Radha Yoga, Raven's Eye Studio, RayCam Co-operative Centre, RayCam Media Lab, Rooted Nutrition, Russian Hall, St.James' Anglican Church, SFUWoodwards, Strathcona Community Centre, Theatre in the Raw, UBC Learning Exchange, Urban Ink Productions, Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre, Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall (VJLS & JH), Vancouver Police Museum, Vancouver Public Library (Carnegie Reading Room, Strathcona Community Library), Vancouver Senior's Singing Club Association, W2 Community Media Arts, Walking Home Projects, and Watari Youth & Family Services SPECIAL THANKS Behind the Scenes Staff and patrons of the Carnegie Community Centre, Steve Edwards\/Carnegie Music Program, Paul Taylor\/Carnegie Newsletter, staff and patrons of Oppenheimer Park, Lucy Alderson, Louie Alexander,Julie Ali, Sheila Allan,Julia Aoki, Delanye Azrael, Charles Barber, Sharon Bayly, Calvin Bee, Mary Bennett, Hendrik Beune, Rebecca Bishop, Lyn Black, Jason Bouchard, Michael Boucher, Eugene Boulanger, Dalannah Gail Bowen, Carrie Campbell, Colleen Carroll, Beth Carter, Michael Clague, Haisla Collins, Sarah Common, Sean Condon, Brad Cran, Gary Crista II, Coco Culbertsoh, Alison Cunningham, Linda De Ci antis, Beth Davies, Beverly Dobrinsky, Ivan Drury, John Endo Greenway, Lara Fitzgerald, Robert Gardiner, Milisa Gardy, Marlene George, Kathy Gibler, Bob Gilson, Sarah Godoy, Amanda Grondahl, Jay Hamburger, Makiko Hara, Darren Holobowich, Muriel Honey, Janet Hamilton, Joey Hartman, Kate Hodgson, Pamela Jeacocke, James Johnstone, Margaret Jorgensen, Swami Jyotihananda, Debbie Karras, Sister Elizabeth Kelliher, Dianna Kleparchuk, Gerry Kowalenko, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Vee Krisp, Megan Langley, Caroline Lay, Diane Le Claire, Ali Lohan, Stephen Lytton, Adrienne Macallum, Sandy MacKeigan, Doug Masuhara, Suzu Matsuda, Erica Mattson, Kelty McKerracher, James McLean, Sandra Jean McPhee, Ingrid Mendez de Cruz, Lani Morden, Heidi Morgan, Angelo Moroni, Renae Morriseau, Brad Muirhead, Wes Nahanee, Jessica Numminen, Nichola Ogiwara, Lisa Okada, Irwin Oostindie, Bud Osborn, Lianne Payne, Wendy Pedersen, Bill Pope, Catherine Pulkinghorn, Jessica Quan, Bill Quinn, Isabel Ramirez, Esther Rausenberg, Max Reimer, Chief Henry Robertson, Henry Robertson Jr., Bob Sarti, Salima Shakoor, Sherry Small, April Smith, Yoshihiro Soran, Melanie Spence, Donna Spencer, Ron Suzuki, Jean Swanson, Eric Szeto, Liza Tam, Sid Chow Tan, Paul Taylor, Susan Tatoosh, Richard Tetrault, Richard Tylman, Rika Uto, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation (jil p. weaving, Margaret Naylor), Kathy Walker, Karenza Wall, Ben Wevers, Todd Wong, Diane Wood, Mona Woodward, Natasha Wright, Fanna Yee, Yue Zhang, Swallow Zhou ... to those we may have unwittingly forgotten, and those who helped after this program guide went to print. An extra thank you to Sandra Pronteau and Yoko Tomita who contributed workshops and Anne Kennedy who contributed cu ration in exchange for leadership training provided by last fall's Oppen-Art: The 2nd Downtown Eastside Arts For All Institute. Heart of the City f estival 2011 47 TnKE. n WnLK ON T~tE. ,DOWNTOWN EnSTSIDE. Take a walk on the Downtown Eastside, Vancouver's historic district in the heart of the city. Once known simply as the East End, today's Downtown Eastside is made up of several districts: Victory Square, the Hastings corridor, Chinatown, Strathcona, Japantown (aka Oppenheimer), North Hastings, Gastown and the port of Vancouver - Canada's largest and busiest port. Located on unceded COAST SALISH TERRITORY, the spit of land is bounded by Burrard Inlet on the north, the former tidal flats of False Creek to the south, and on the east and west between tidal streams that once flowed through the gullies of today's Campbell and Carrall\/Columbia Streets. Ancestors of today's Coast Salish have used this area for thousands of years, establishing seasonal villages among the big leaf maples including K'emk'emlay'\/Q'umq'umal'ay (where the Hastings Mill set up at the foot of Dunlevy and Burrard Inlet) and Luq'luq'i\/Lek'lek'I (Maple Leaf Square, where Gassy Jack set up the first saloon). Three Coast Salish First Nations - the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh - exercised overlapping usage rights over this area, a hub of trade routes between the coast and interior nations. False Creek was four times the size it is today. GASTOWN, designated a national historic site, was the neighbourhood's earliest commercial and residential district. It contains 19th century buildings converted from warehouses into retail, offices, galleries and \"down home and upscale\" housing. Gastown backs onto the home of the area's newest arrivals - the renovated Woodward's complex and the Simon Fraser University School of the Contemporary Arts. VICTORY SQUARE'S heritage and character buildings-offices and residential - surround a Cenotaph dedicated to those who've fought and died in wars. Victory Square has served as a rallying point for workers and social causes, for May Day celebrations of labour str\u00b5ggles, and for Remembrance Day ceremonies. For over a hundred years, people have gathered at the corner of HASTINGS AND MAIN to find lost friends, catch up on the news and connect to community. The nearby 19th century and new buildings provide housing for low-income residents and the Carnegie Commun ity Centre is their living room. 48 Heart of the City Festival 2011 1942 - Footprints Community Art Project POWELL STREET (JAPANTOWN) was once the site of a bustling vibrant Japanese Canadian community; today it is home to the city's oldest buildings and light industry, home to families and seniors and home to OPPENHEIMER PARK, the neighbourhood's back yard. Once the only place in Vancouver that you could go to freely voice a political opinion, the park has been home to many major events in the city's history, is still a mini-pilgrimage site for Japanese Canadians and is sometimes called the \"United Native Nations\" or \"Hastings Reserve.\" CHINATOWN, one of the oldest Chinatowns in North America, is a thriving shopping district with heritage buildings, residential apartments, stores and galleries, and a classical Chinese Garden. It has applied to be designated a national historic site. STRATHCONA, one of the city's densest neighbourhoods, is a family oriented community of diverse, closely packed homes and social housing mixed with light industry, corner grocery stores and community gardens - a community in which generations can live and work and shop and play. For over 60 years, Vancouver's only black neighbourhood was centered around the Fountain Chapel at Jackson and Prior and extended to the eateries and nightclubs surrounding the elusive HOGAN'S ALLEY, bulldozed by the installation of the Georgia Viaduct in the early 1970s. Look around and listen as you walk through the streets of the Downtown Eastside. Every street, park, building, window, doorway and front porch has a story to tell. @ by Savannah Walling Canada Congratulations Port Metro Vancouver annually funds a variety of outreach projects and educational programs in our community and has been a long standing sponsor of the Heart of the City Festival. We proudly congratulate all the event organizers, performers and volunteers for creating such an important community celebration. Your dedication and effort has made this annual event a huge success. \"O UTWARD B O U N D\" I S U NNY STRI NG ER IN. VANCO UVER B C ctvbc.ca PORT METRO vancouver por t metrovan couver.co m Proud me 1a .. . Easts1 e d. sponsor .d 8th Annual Downtown c t f the City Festival Hear o Vancouv _ .. , ., \u00b7c,\u00b71TD AT ST . (,(,_\u00b7 lc,\u00b71d1ncJ arts source,. RAIGHT COM (f )(l:)'1;) (~) STAY CON NE , _. 6 Only Yesterday 1916 7 Vimy Ridge ,1917 8 Brothers 1918 9 Army & Navy 1919 10 The Market Crashes 1929 11 Shot And Forgotten 1932 12 Hard Times 19331 13 Hallelujah, I'm A Bum 1934 14 Strike AtThe Carnegie 1935 15 March On Ottawa 1935 35 The Sisters 1988 36 Getting By 1990 37 United We Can 1995 {2Panels} 38 Crab Park 1995 39 The Dragon 1996 40 Rain Vancouver \u2022 Wind Vancouver 1997 41 The Woodward's Squat 1998 42 Lost Friends 1999 43 The Kiss 2000 44 Leave Us Alone 2001 45 The End 2002 46 Heart OfThe City Parade 2003 (2 panels} 47 The Reaching Hand; The Cigarette Butt James' mural depicts 100 years in the history of the Downtown Eastside. During the Festival, view the 78-square-foot original mural at Pigeon Park Savings, 92 E. Hastings. The UBC Library and UBC Learning Exchange would like to thank the following participant for her contributions to digitizing this community-generated document: Erica Grant This community-generated work was digitized and deposited to cIRcle, UBC's open access digital repository, as part of the Digitizing Community Memories project of the Making Research Accessible in the Downtown Eastside initiative (MRAi). In collaboration with the UBC Learning Exchange and UBC Library, the project provided training and support for community members in the Downtown Eastside to digitize and make openly available community-generated materials.  This project aimed to increase access to historic Carnegie Centre publications and preserve these unique materials for years to come.  For more information on this project and the UBC Learning Exchange, please visit learningexchange.ubc.ca.  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