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BER 8 ·2015 . 25 LOCATIONS COMMUNITY PARTNERS 221 A I Aboriginal Front Door I Admiral Seymour Elementary School I AHA Media Atira/EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art) I Capilano University Carnegie Community Action Project I Carnegie Cultural Sharing I Carnegie Learning Centre Carnegie TV with ACCESS Community Television (Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society) I China Cloud Studios I Chinese Cuitural Centre Museum & Archives City Opera Vancouver I Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5FM I Creativa International I Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden DTES Centre for the Arts I DTES Neighbourhood House I DTES SRO Collaborative - DTES Street Market I DTES Women's Centre I eartHand Gleaners I Eastside Artists Company Evelyne Saller Centre I Firehall Arts Centre I Floral & Hardy Edible Plants Gallery Gachet Garn Gallery I lmagi'NATION I International Web Express Instruments of Change Jim Sands Presents I Jumblies Theatre I Jump for Joy! Photo Project Karen Jamieson Dance Company I Kokoro Dance I Listening Post Lord Strathcona Elementary School I Megaphone I Oppenheimer Park • PHS Community Services (Culture Saves Lives, Drug Users Resource Centre, lnterUrban Gallery) Playwrights Theatre Centre I Raven Spirit Dance I Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre Red Fox Healthy Living Society I SBC Restaurant I Seven Tyrants Theatre SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement I Stand Up For Mental Health St. James' Anglican Church I Strathcona Community Centre I The Ironworks Theatre in the Raw I Templeton Secondary School - Theatre Temp Thursdays Writing Collective I UBC Learning Exchange Union Gospel Mission I UNIT/PITT Projects Vancouver Asian Film Festival I Vancouver Biennale Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation (Healthy Aging Through the Arts) I Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) / W2 Media Hub Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall Vancouver Police Museum Vancouver Public Library (Carnegie Reading Room, Strathcona Community Library, Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence) I Vancouver Taiko Society I Watari Woodward's Atrium (West Bank Corporation) Women Transforming Cities Debbie Blair & Sue Blue. Photo: David Cooper. 12th ANNUAL DOWNTOWN EASTSID-E · OF THE FESTIVAL OCTOBER ::= 28 - NOVEMBER 8 2015 Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians & a host of community partners www.heartofthecityfestival.com 6 04. 628.5672 INSIDE Welcoming Statements .............................................. 2 & 3 Schedule at a Glance .................................................. 4 & 5 Locations & Venues, with Map .......................................... 6 Nourished by Community ................................................. 7 Pre-Festival Events ..................................................... 8 & 9 Festival Events ......................................................... 10 - 41 Handy Guide to Walking Tours ...................... , ................ 23 Against the Current ........................... ; .................... 34 & 35 Visual Arts ............................................................... 42 & 43 Post Festival Events ................................................ 44 & 45 Sparks of Recovery on False Creek ................................. 46 Other Performances ........................................................ 47 Community News & Congratulations .................... 48 & 49 In Memorium ........................................................... 50 & 51 Va'lcouver Moving Theat_re News .............. ; ........... 52 & 53 Credits & Thanks ................ : .................................... 54 & 55 poems ............................................................................... 56 Ticket Information Many 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; "The most beautiful things in I if ea re not s,een with the eyes but are felt with the heart." blackboard, Carnegie third floor classroom, Sept 29, 2015 Dalannah Gail Bowen ., •••••• · - ••••••••• ••••••••••••• • •••••• • ••••••••••••••••••• " •••••••••••••••••••• •• The DTES Heart of the City Festival a,~knowledges and honours that we live and work on the um:eded ancestral territory of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the xwm:;iekw:;iy:;im (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), and selilwitulh (Tsleil-Wautith) First Nations. .... •• • •••••• • ••• • •••• • • •• • • •• • ••••• · - . .... .. ... . . .. ................... . ................ . .. .. ..... . ................ . ......... " •••••••••••••• ,. •••• ••• . .. ••• ... ••• FRONT COVER Photo: David Cooper Design: Big Wave De~ign Appearing on the cover: Stanley M. Paul Phoenix illustration: Diane Wood BACK COVER Participants iri the 2015 photoshoot Photo: David Cooper Mosaic: from Footprints Community Art Project On behalf of Pre-mier Christy Clark and the Government of British Columbia, welcome to the 12th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. The diversity of the many talented participants and the array of activities available during this 12-day celebration speaks to the heart and soul of this community which has found creative and profound ways to nourish its residents through dynamic and creative expression. Congratulations to the Vancouver Moving Theatre, the Carnegie Community Centre and Assocation of United Ukrainian Canadians in providing this wonderful festival that draws visitors from outlying areas and brings locals together in celebration, building community pride and mutual respect. Providing more than 90 events at over 25 locations throughout the Downtown Eastide could only be achieved through the hard work and enthusiasm of the many volunteers dedicated to celebrating the artistic talent and socio-cultural diversity of this unique part of Vancouver. Thank you all for your ongoing contributions to our arts and culture community. Sincerely, Peter Fassbender Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development nity pride. Celebrating its 12th year, the Heart of the City Festival is a shining beacon of hope, understand-ing and inspiration found through the joining of artistic talent, cultural di-versity and commu-Congratulations to area businesses, or-ganizations and residents, as well as the many artists and volunteers who continue to bring about positive change through this festival. Whether in songs, music and poetry or through films, theatre and dance, thought-provoking and inspirational stories give voice to both the day-to-day challenges fought and overcome and the many ways this community comes together to celebrate its strengths and successes. On behalf of the BC Arts Council, with funding made possible by the Province of British Columbia, we are proud to support Heart of the City and its incredible artistic talent. Merla Beckerman, Chair BC Arts Council MISSION, MANDATE & PROGRAM PRACTICE On behalf of the City of Vancouver and City Council, it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to the 12th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. The Downtown East-side Heart of the City Festival is greatly valued by Vancouver for its vital role in giving voice to the Downtown Eastside community, cultures and neigh-bourhoods. The Festival shines a light on the diverse people and great stories from our founding community, and provides an opportunity for diverse Downtown Eastside residents and organizations to participate in their community as both audience members and creators. Congratulations to the entire festival team and partners for your wonderful accomplish-ment establishing the Heart of the City Fes-tival as a City of Vancouver and Downtown Eastside flagship event that is recognized across Canada as a leader in community-engaged practice. Have a wonderful time at this year's 12th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival - and enjoy the great heart of our City! Yours truly, Gregor Robertson Mayor of Vancouver The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is an annual cultural and heritage flagship event with the mission to serve as a bridge-building force that gives voice to the Downtown Eastside and its low income residents, cultural communities and neighbourhoods. The mandate of the Festival is to promote, present, and facilitate the development of artists, art forms, cultural traditions, history, activism, people and great stories about the Downtown Eastside. Program choices are developed via collaborative consensus with community partners and artists, some of whom partner with additional organizations for additional support. Some events are produced by the festival; some are presented in partnership with other organizations, artists and residents; and some are self-produced and presented under the festival umbrella. The festival also supports and partners with art-based community development projects that give birth to new art and voice local concerns. If you have a project or program idea for future festivals, please contact Terry Hunter at 604-628-5672. 2 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 W elcome to the 12th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City! This year's Festival theme, 'Nurtured by Community' has emerged from a deep appreciation of community and the vital role it plays in our lives - in particular the people of the Downtown Eastside who nurture and strengthen the fabric of our community. People nurture community. And communities also nurture people. On a personal level, our lives and the work of Vancouver Moving Theatre have been profoundly nurtured by the experiences ofliving, working and raising a child on the Coast Salish territories of the Downtown Eastside. This is the community that gave birth to our practice and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. For this we are deeply grateful. We are also deeply appreciative of our producing partners: the Carnegfo Community Centre, the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians and all our arts and non-arts partners. Thank you to all the wonderful artists, DIES-involved residents and audiences who nurture the festival; to our Board of Directors, who for,over thirty years, have nurtured and supported our work; and to our funding partners, with whose support the festival is made possible. Thank you to all the dedicated and hardworking festival staff for your care, passion and support of this festival and community. And last but not least, a big thanks to Associate Artistic Producer Teresa Vandertuin for her enormous, much appreciated and valued con-tribution to the success of the festival. Enjoy the Festival everyone. May this year's festival nurture your im-agination, spirit and appreciation of the unique and vital Downtown Eastside community and of all your communities. 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 W elcome everyone to the Heart of the City festival -- the chance to showcase the incredible talents of people who call the Downtown Eastside home or who are part of this community. I am grateful to all the participants and organizers and the valuable volunteers and artists that take the time and risks to make this event happen, here in Carnegie and around our precious neighbourhood. And of course, it couldn't happen without our audiences! The neighbourhood is facing the challenges and onslaught of new developments displacing residents and small businesses, threaten-ing the very fabric of our predominantly low-income community. But we are survivors and our artwork and performances show this. Kudos to all who take part in the Heart of the City, an annual event that we look forward to every year. Cheers Phoenix Winter President; Carnegie Community Centre Association 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, follow us using your favourite social media and sign up for our newsletter . . Follow on Facebook: Heart of the City Festival - Become a friend - Be part of the conversation HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 3 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE PreFestival Events October 13 to 25 Sustenance Festival Fri0ct16 7pm-9:30pm, CarnegieTV Variety Show Recording, Carnegie Sat0ct17 10am-6pm, The Hello Neighbour Project Oppenheimer Park Sun0ct18 10am-5pm SRO Tenant Convention Japanese Language School Mon0ct19 2pm-4pm, Flourish Workshop Gallery Gachet Wed0ct21 1:15pm-3pm, Sharon Shorty Strathcona Library 7pm-9pm Workshop, Drumming SFU Woodward's 7pm-9pm, Exhibit & R~eption lnterUrban Gallery Thurs0ct22 2pm-4pm, Workshop EWMA Studio 9pm-11pm, Arts Rational Co-op Radio 100.5 FM Sat0ct24 12pm-3pm, Pumpkins Maclean Park · 6pm-9pm, Family Dance sec Gym, SFU Woodward's Wednesday October28 4 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 Thursday October29 Friday October30 Saturday October:31 Hallowe'en Sunday November1 All Saints Day Day of the Dead Monday November2 All Souls Day Daylight Savings Time ends , SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE TuHday November3 Wednffday November4 Thursday November& Friday November& Saturday November7 Sunday Novembers PostFestival Events ThursNov12 2pm-4pm, Workshop EWMA Fri Nov13 7pm, Film Screening SFU Woodward's SatNov14 4pm-5pm, Lost Operas Carnegie 8:30pm, Dalannah & Owen SFU Woodward's SunNov11 12pm-3pm, Food Bazaar VJLS &JH 7pm-8pm Lost Operas Carnegie TuesNov17 8pm,SWITCH District 319 November 18 to 29, Twelve Angry Jurors lnterUrban November 19 to 22, Eastslde Culture Crawl SatNov21 1pm-4pm, Festival Wrap Carnegie December 10 to 20, Bahl Humbug! SFU Woodwards HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 S Powell Cordova m D "' :s E ::, ·I]] 0 u m Hastings m 1 221A 221 E. Georgia, 604.568.0812, www.221a.ca 2 Aboriginal Front Door 384 Main, 604-697-5662, www.abfrontdoor.com 3 Admiral Seymour Elementary School 1130 Keefer, 604.713.4641 4 Carnegie Community Centre 401 Main, 604.665.2220 5 China Cloud Studios * 524 Main, 2nd floor 6 Chinese Cultural Centre Museum &Archives 555 Columbia, 604.658.8880, www.cccvan.com 7 Distrid 319 319 Main, 604--899-1077 8 Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward's 149 W. Hastings 9 Dr. Sun Vat.Sen Classical Chinese Garden 578 Carrall, 604.662.3207, www.vancouverchinesegarden.com 10 DTES Neighbourhood House S73 E. Hastings, 604.21S.2030, www.dtesnhouse.ca 11 DURC (Drug Users Resource Centre) 412 E. Cordova, 604-678-8278 12 Evelyne Saller Centre 320 Alexander, 604.665.307S 13 EWMA Studio 800 E. Hastings, 604.685.8043, www.atira.bc.ca ' 14 Firehall Arts Centre 280 E. Cordova, 604.689.0691, www.firehallartscentre.ca 15 Floral & Hardy Edible Plants 688 E. Hastings, 604,255.7199 16 Gallery Gachet 88 E. Cordova, 604.687 .2468, www.gachet.org 6 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 II 17 Gam Gallery 110 E. Hastings, 778.23S.6928, www.gamgallery.com 18 Interurban Gallery 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall, 604.629.8396 19 Listening Post 382 Main 20 Lord Strathcona Elementary School S92 E. Pender, 604.713.4630 21 Maclean Park 71 O Keefer, 604.713.1838 22 Oppenheimer ParkFieldhouse 488Powell 23 PHS Community Services Residences, Sky Room 131 W. Hastings, 10th floor 24 Pigeon Park Carrall & E. Hastings 25 Playwrights Theatre Centre * 739 Gore 2nd floor, 604.68S.6228 www.playwrightstheatre.com 26 Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre 920 E. Hastings, 604.2S7.6949, www.raycam.org 27 SBC Restaurant (aka Smilin Buddha) 109 E. Hastings, 778-846-677S, www.sbcrestaurant.ca 28 SE corner Abbott & Pender 29 SE corner Alexander & Jackson 31 St. James' Anglican Church 303 E. Cordova, 604.68S.2S32, www.stjames.bc.ca 32 Strathcona Community Centre 601 Keefer, 604.713.1838 Hastings Keefer Union 33 Strathcona Community library S92 E. Pender 34 Templeton Secondary School 727Templeton Drive, 604--713-8984 35 The Ironworks t N anklin m Venables 23S Alexander, 604.681.S033, www.theironworks.ca 36 Thornton Park 1150 Station Street 37 Trillium North Park Malkin & Thornton Street, www.trilliumnorthpark.com 38 UBC Learning Exchange 612 Main, 604.408.5164, www.learningexchange.ubc.ca 39 Ukrainian Hall * 805 E. Pender, 604.254.3436, www.auucvancouver.ca 40 UNIT/PITT Projects 236 E. Pender, 604-681-6740, www.helenpittgallery.org 41 Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall 487 Alexander, 604.254.2551, www.vjls.jh.com 42 Vancouver Police Museum * 240 E. Cordova 2nd floor, 604.665.3346 www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca 43 Vancouver Public library 350 W. Georgia, 604-331-3603, www.vpl.ca 44 VIMAF / W2 Media Hub 877 E. Hastings, 3rd Floor 45 Woodward's Atrium 111 W. Hastings Co-op Radio ( •) CFRO 100.SFM Shaw TV Cable 4 (-) .. Most festival venues are wheelchair accessible. (g * venue is not wheelchair accessible "Can we re-imagine the city and public space as a wholeness, inclusion, healing, integrating art and life, freedom and justice?" - Gallery Gachet: Mad Pride Call for Submissions The gathering places that give us strength. As the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival enters our twelfth year, we would like to acknowledge and give thanks to those around us who are working to nourish community. We know that our Downtown Eastside community - like inner cities com-munities all over the world - has enormous challenges. But we also know that we have a lot to celebrate. l-\OURISHEo BY providing cultural, social, educational, recreational and healing activities for residents while serving as anchor points for cultural communities across the lower mainland: stewards of the community's cultural treasures; COMMUNITY The gardeners and caretakers of the green spaces that provide serenity solace, healthy foods, fibrous plants by Savannah Walling We salute: The many invisible heroes who look after community members and community needs; The historians who keep our collective memories alive, honour-ing challenges and achievements that have gone on before; The knowledge-keepers who are sharing their culture, language, arts and wisdom with the next generation and their neighbours; The activists who speak out, advocating for human rights, for national and provincial housing policies, for social and affordable housing, for jobs and treatment programs, for enforcement of hotel bylaws, for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women, for people's right to live with dignity and meaning; The hundreds of street vendors who are removing tons of waste annually from landfills while working independently to earn much needed extra income; The landlords who maintain and improve housing without displacing tenants, ratcheting up rents or destroying existing buildings; The architects and builders who come up with innovative pro-jects combining social and affordable housing with the commu-nity's needs and character, its heritage building forms and scale; The neighbourhood groups who have good ideas about solving problems themselves, based on plans they have developed for themselves; and bee pollinators; The stream-keepers working to restore ma• rine life in False Creek; The artists giving voice to our stories old and new, throug~ spoken word and text, through music and dance, through visua and media arts; The fathers and mothers and teachers caring for the next generation The family businesses contributing to the community generatior after generation; The young generation who are stepping forward with initiativei to protect the cultural communities, improve economic anc environmental sustainability and help the family businessei and cultural centres; The people who build alliances among individuals and groupi to further common goals; All those who are working to repair damaged and broken rela tionships and to forge new relationships where none existed; The diversity, variety and cultural wealth of the Downtown Eastside The abundant talent, wisdom, power, compassion of member: of this community; Hand in hand, working one-on-one, working in networks, part nerships and alliances, members of the Downtown Eastside an working together. We know that to build inclusive, sustainable and healing com munities, we are all needed. What is Community? '~ •. community is care, care for one another, care for those leas: able to care for themselves, care for all, care in action." - Bud Osborn, Downtown Eastside poet and activis COMMUNITY SUSTENANCE FESTIVAL Odober 13 to 25 Various loc'ii1tions throughout Vancouver Join the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation for a city-wide festival with local food-inspired workshops, exhibitions, talks, walks, dances and more - all taking place in community centres and public spaces throughoutVancouver. Founded in 2009, Sustenance is about food, art, sustainability, celebration, discussion and food security. It's dynamic, creative,s delicious, educating, and timely. Jhe theme .of Sustenance 2015 is "As we are, toget,her ... " For more infor-mation go to www.sustenancefestival.ca or visit the Strathcona Community Centre. LIVE RECORDING CARNEGIE TV-DOWNTOWN VARlmSHOW Friday Odober 16, 7pm - 9:30pm, doors open6:45pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Join the studio audience! See how a television program gets made!! Eie part of the ACTION! Attend a live recording of the Downtown Variety Show on Carnegie TV slated for broadcast on Shaw TV during the Heart of the City Festival. Cheer on local favourite musicians and spoken word artists, including Les Nelson, Dalannah Gail Bowen, Owen Owen Owen, Brad Muirhead, Terry Hunter, Gary Wildeman, Diane Wood, Muriel Marjorie Williams, Bob Sung, Mike Richter, Steve Edwards, magician Merlin Cosmos and your host Mr. Sam Snobelen. Join us for posterity! COMMUNITY CELEB THE HELLO NEIGHBOUR PROJECT Saturday Odober 17, 10am - 6pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free ON Drop in to Oppenheimer Park and join Union Gospel Mission and friends to build understanding and to get to know your Downtown Eastside neighbours. It's free and open to any who wants to join in. Come with an open heart, ready to learn, and explore a vibrant, but often-misunderstood neighbourhood: Enjoy games, stories, art and music, and watch exhibition soccer games between 11am to 2pm. Sign up in advance for a Neighbourhood Walk: www.ugm.ca/haw/sign-up/. Sponsored by Save On Meats, A Better Life Foundation and Vancouver Street Soccer League. 8 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 WORKSHOP FLOURISH CONVENTION DIES SRO TENANT CONVENTION Sunday Odober 18, 10am - 5pm Japanese Language School, 487 Alexander Free The SRO Collaborative is organizing the second annual SRO Tenant Con-vention at the Japanese Hall. From 10am-12pm, you can obtain help filing BC Housing applications, ask ques-tions of City inspectors, and connect with other service providers. This is also your opportunity to get snack bags and stamps for the cash draws! The afternoon 12pm-5pm is full of ac-tivities: Elders Ceremony, performance by lion dancers, presentation by the SRO Collaborative, open mic of most pressing problems, eviction prevention workshop, collective decision-making about next year, and a cash draw. Don't miss the Wheels of Misfortune perfor-mance by CCAP volunteers at 4.30pm! Everyone welcome. Monday Odober 19, 2pm - 4pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free Time to Flourish! Transform the humble bottle cap into beauti-ful art! Your creations will be used to decorate the children's playground at Oppenheimer Park. STORYTELLING SHARON SHORTY Wednesday Odober 21, 1:15pm - 3pm Strathcona Community Library, 592 E. Pender Free The Vancouver Public Library is pleased to present Sharon Shorty, speaker of the Teslin Tlingit Council and award-':"inning playwright and actor, as the 2015 aboriginal storyteller in residence. Sharon has deep roots in the storytelling tradition of the southern Yukon, and has fused this tradition with h~r acclaimed performance on stages around the world. She says "I am fortunate to have the mentorship of my grandmothers and be part of an unbroken series of oral traditions." Sharon will present two storytelling sessions atthe Strathcona branch: 1:15pm-2pm and 2:15pm-3pm. Suitable for approximately ages nine and up, including adults. EXHIBIT & RECEPTION IMAGES & REFLECTIONS: PIGEON PARK PROUD Wednesday Odober 21, 7pm - 9pm lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Exhibition October 21 to 31, Gallery hours 1pm to 5pm Free Images and Reflections: Pigeon Park Proud, is an exhibition of photo-portraits, art and photo-documentation that celebrates the people of the historic Pigeon Park and the community of the Downtown Eastside. Through art, the photographic eyes of Tom Quirk and Anthony Zdansky, and the reflections of OTES residents on the phrase "An elder once told me ... .", we connect with the diversity and exceptional strength, power and support that makes this community special. Presented by Vancouver Moving Theatre/Heart of the City Festival in partnership with Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts, and in cooperation with Portland Hotel Society and Culture Saves Lives. WORKSHOPS WOMEN'S ZINE WORKSHOP SERIES Thursday October 22, 29, November 5 & 12, 2pm - 4pm EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings Free · The workshop series, facilitated by artist Whess Harman, provides women the opportunity to tell their own stories while exploring this year's Heart of the City Festival's theme "Nourished by Community." Women who attend are encouraged to bring drawings, photos, stories, journal entries or poems to share. Each workshop will cover different binding techniques including construction of unique layouts and designs. The results will be showcased at Atira Women's Resource Society: COAST SALISH SINGING & DRUMMING with Russell Wallace Wednesday October 21, 7pm - 9pm Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre SFU Woodward's, 149 W. Hastings Drop-in. Free Everyone welcome! Join us and learn social songs, drum-ming and dance. Russell Wallace is a board member for War-riors Against Violence Society and is a composer, producer and a traditional Lil'wat singer. Currently Russell works and teaches at the Native Education College, and works for the Office for Aboriginal People for which he holds these Singing & Drumming workshops. This is a monthly workshop - watch for it again on November 25. Free and open to the public on a drop-in basis. Enterprising Women Making Art Eastside Friday Cultural Crawl IDS Celebration on November 20, 3:30pm - 6pm. MACLEAN PARK PUMPKIN PATCH PARTY -RADIO ARTS RATIONAL Thursday October 22, 9pm -11pm Co-op Radio 100.SFM Join the folks at Arts Rational for interviews and commentary on the local arts scene, including theatre, cinema, music and dance, galleries and festivals. If you want to know what's happening in town, tune in for Gerry Kowalenko's commentary. Jay Hamburger leads a special in-studio interview with actor Luisa Jojic and cast members from For a Muse of Fire to be presented during this year's Heart of the City Festival at the lnterUrban Gallery. We're interested to see what the rubber chicken has to say! Heart of the City Festival Heart of the City Festival 2014 Twitter: @HeartofCityFest Twitter: @VanMovTheatre Saturday October 24, 12pm - 3pm, or until the pumpkins ar1 gone Maclean Park, 710 Keefer Free For the children of the Downtown Eastside. Lots of fun things ti do -free pumpkins, face painting, arts and crafts, pumpkin carvin! and refreshments. Come dressed in your Hallowe'1:;n costume Don't be disappointed, come early! Only one pumpkin per famill A Strathcona Community Centre program. Rain or shine! NITY CELEBRATION 6th ANNUAL FAMILY HALLOWE,EN DANCE Saturday October 24, 6pm - 9pm Strathcona Community Centre Gym, 601 Keefer Admission by cash or food donation Come dance the monster mash and have your face painted c this spooktacular all ages family dance. Organized by neighbou, hood parents, this community event has become a favourit, Strathcona must-go-to family tradition. Get into costume an, party with your neighbour-ghoul families! Admission by cash c food donation to support the Strathcona Food Security Prograr for families. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 SP T FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONY Wednesday October 28, 2pm - 3pm Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Free Join friends from the neighbourhood, dignitaries, Phoenix Winter (President, Carnegie Community Centre Association) and special guests for this grand Opening Ceremony of our 12th annual festival! Today we celebrate the artists in our midst, the strength and resilience of the Downtown Eastside community, and the theme of this year's Festival, Nourished by Community. William Nahanee (Kwel-a-a-nexw) of the Squamish Nation will open with a Welcome Song; DTES favourite Dalannah Gail Bowen and Owen Owen Owen will nourish our souls with their heart-felt music; Sylvi MacCormac will share her new soundscape on the Festival accompanied by a slide show of festival photographs; poet-extraordinaire Muriel Marjorie Williams will stir things up with trombonist Brad Muirhead; John Endo Greenway, Rosemary Georgeson and Grace Eiko Thomson will present an excerpt from Against the Current, along with a hopeful surprise! And the Hastings Street Band will have us ready to boogie with their toe-tappin' hot jazz. Refreshments! Everyone welcome. 10 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 GAMES HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL SNOOKER TOURNAMENT Wednesday October 28, 11am Carnegie Centre Pool Room, 401 Main Free Games, fun, prizes! The Carnegie Pool Room hosts a sixteen player single elimination Snooker Tournament. Sign up at 10am with referee Al H. in the pool room. First come, first serve. The day ends when the game is finished. First, second and third place prizes! Pool room open to the public. For further infor-mation ask Al or contact Colleen, Carnegie Volunteer program 604-606-2708. Everyone welcome! WOR p FELTED MINIATURE CREATURES & MONSTERS Wednesday October 28, 3:30pm - 5pm EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings Free Learn the basic felting techniques to create your very owr one-of-a-kind felted creature or monster. Women are welcomE to bring their children to this workshop. All ages. Facilitated b) Jessica Numminen. THEATRE JUDGE DEE'S CHINATOWN HAUNTED HOUSE October 21 to 31, 7pm -10pm (entry every 2 minutes) Closed Mon Oct 26 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden 578Carrall Warning: Not for young children or the faint of heart! Adults $14, Students $12 It's Hallowe'en ... and the Garden ... is HAUNTED. Seven Tyrants Theatre transforms the Classical Chi-nese Garden into a terrifying Haunted House. Featur-ing over twenty actors, dancers and musicians, this one-of-a-kind experience is inspired by the gruesome stories of Judge Dee: China's Sherlock Holmes. Brave the Garden's haunted pathways, uncover the clues and attempt to solve the crime. Due to the increasing ·popularity of the event, fright seekers are advised to arrive early. Pre-purchase ticket holders must queue for entry, but will avoid the box office line. Tickets available at the box office each night or in advance at www.ticketstonight.ca. For more information: www. chinatownhauntedhouse.com 0 THEATRE FOR A MUSE OF FIRE Wednesday October 28, 8pm lnterUrban Gallery 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carran Street Also October 29 & 30 Tickets at the door, sliding scale: 5 cents to $20 Set on the #20 Bus, For a Muse of Fire weaves quirky dialogue, wild humour and personal stories with adaptations from William Shakespeare. Led by Luisa Jojic, this is the second creation by the community theatre group that brought us Much Ado About Something (2014). The Muse of Fire team, made up of folks who live and work in the Downtown Eastside, is dedicated to exploring the themes of community, diversity and homelessness through the art of theatre. For a Muse of Fire is presented by Creativa International, in partnership with Lookout Emergency Aid Society, RainCity Housing and Vancouver Moving Theatre/Heart of the City Festival, with support from the City of Vancouver. There will be a talkback discussion following the performance. For more info go to www.creativainternational.com For a Muse of Fire cast members HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 11 BOOK LAUNCH & CELEBRATION INVISIBLE HEROES: Aboriginal Stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Thursday October 29, 1pm -3:30pm Carnegie Learning Centre, 3rd floor, 401 Main The beloved Carnegie Learning Centre is launching its new book Invisible Heroes: Aboriginal Stories from Van-couver's OTES. This book is a collection of stories from our 'Invisible Heroes', a group of community-nominated aboriginal community members who are making daily positive contributions in many areas of neighbourhood life. The 'Invisible Heroes' group met for six months to explore storytelling and to reflect on personal journeys: their stories document the personal and the political. The book will be made available to learning centres across the country as curriculum material that reflects the experience of inner-city aboriginal community members. Join us in celebrating the launch of the book, and the courage and resilience of our 'Invisible Heroes.' Meet the authors, hear their stories, join in the discussion. Stanley Paul, one of the Invisible Heroes, is featured on this year's Festival program guide cover! Clockwise from 12 o'clock: Lucy Alderson, Stanley M. Paul, Emma Charleson, Victoria Bull, Sue Blue, Herb Varley WORKS OP WOMEN'S ZINE WORKSHOP SERIES Thursday October 29, 2pm - 4pm EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings _ Also Thursday October'22, N~v~~be,r 5 & 12 Free See page 9 for full workshop descr.iption.~ WORKS p OPPEN-ARTS STUDIO Thursday October 29, 2:30pm - 4:30pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free · Come to the park and the Opi:,en-Arts studio for last minute Hallowe'en costume making. Led by Park staff member Kazuho Yamamoto. RKSHOP REMEMBERING OUR DTES WOMEN Thursday October 29, 2pm - 4pm Also October 30 Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free The Vancouver Public Library is working with community mem-bers to develop Remembering Our OTES Women: The Stories Behind the Women's Memorial Quilt, an on line gallery where the quilt can be shared by friends and family alike from anywhere in the world. Community and family members who knew and cared for these women made the Women's Memorial Quilt with love and respect, and carry it in the February 14th Annual Women's Memorial March. Diane Wood and Rosemary Georgeson will lead craft workshops to create a memorial altar to honour our murdered and missing friends; add your voice to this living memorial to our women. A celebration of life will be held on Monday November 2 in col-laboration with Watari and VPL in Oppenheimer Park. For more information about the project or this event, leave a message for Diane or Rosemary at the Carnegie front desk. & HAND IN HAND WE JOURNEY TOGETHER Closing: Thursday October 29 5pm-7pm Listening Post, 382 Main Free Lead artist Karen Thorpe and commu-nity participants welcome you to the closing reception of Hand in Hand We Journey Together, a project funded by Neighbourhood Small Grants. Through a simple art project that involves mak-ing plaster hand casts, people found the opportunity to express a tender and personal statement of who they are through their hands. s E Karen Thorpe & Robert Simpson OPEN SPACES: THE MUSICAL Thursday October 29, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, doors open 5pm UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Free Join us for a nourishing evening of music and culture that celebrates our rich local talents. From open mic to live performances, including jazz piano, poetry, live podcasts, drumming and more - there's something for everyone. All will be revealed on the night! Hosted by UBC Learning Exchange. Sign up for open mic at 5pm, first come first serve. SONG WOODWARD'S COMMUNITY SINGERS Thursday Odober 29, 6pm - 7:30pm PHS Community Services Residences, 10th floor Sky Room, 131 W. Hastings Free Sing with the Woodward's Community Singers during The Heart of the City Festival. We are a fun, easy-going, drop-in choir. More campfire than cantata . No experience or auditions required. Enjoy songs from folk, popular and contemporary traditions. You are also welcome to just listen . We sing in the beautiful PHS/Woodward's Skyroom on the 10th floor: a room with a beautiful twinkling view. THEATRE 0 FOR A MUSE OF FIRE Thursday Odober 29, 8pm lnterUrban Gallery 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Street Also Odober 28 & 30 Tickets at the sliding 5 cents to $20 See page 11 for full description. ARTS RA~IONAL - ThursdayOdober 29 9pm-11pm Live Broadcast Co-op Radio 100.SFM This year's Heart of the City Festival is alive with theatre and, as Jay Hamburger of Arts Rational says, "go and see some live theatre today!" Live radio is the next best thing. This evening's broadcast fea-tures a live interview with Jim Sands, who will also perform excerpts from his thea-tre production The Shakuhachi Quest: An Epic Journey into the Soul of Music to be presented during this year's Festival. Also featured are members of the Carnegie Theatre Workshop who present a reading of Gim and Rudy an original short play by Sid Chow Tan, DTES community leader extraordinaire. As a simple slice of life, the play dramatizes early sparks of love in Battleford, Saskatchewan. Tune in to a program that is sure to be fascinating. NCH D CELEBRATION FROM THE HEART OF A CITY: Community Engaged Theatre and Music Produdions from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 2002 to 2013 Thursday Odober 29, 7pm - 9pm PTC Test Kitchen, 739 Gore, 2nd floor Join Vancouver Moving Theatre and Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC) to launch the book From The Heart of A City. The celebratory history and resource of community-engaged theatre and music productions created by, for and about Vancouver's Downtown Eastside between 2002-2013 features ten produc-tions:/ Love the Downtown Eastside; In the Heart of a City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play, Condemned - The Carnegie Opera; East End Blues & All That Jazz; We 're All In T_his Together, The Returning Journey, A Downtown Eastside Romeo and Juliet; Bruce - The Musical; Storyweav-ing; and Bread & Salt. Whether you're in the book or you were part of the audience of more than a decade of theatre and music productions -or just want to find out more about them - you are invited to celebrate the launch of the book ed ited by Savannah Walling, Terry Hunter and John Endo Greenaway. There will be a panel discussion on Community and Theatre, featuring contributing writers Renae Morriseau; James Fagan Tait, Ethel Whitty and John Endo Greenaway, moderated by Heidi Taylor (PTC) - followed by an opportunity to mingle and interact with "drop-by" mini-events, including art activity with special guest Ruth Howard from Toronto's Jumblies Theatre. ············· It's music in the streets! Join the Hastings Sheet Band and their upbeat New Orleans style jazz and blues. Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Brad Muirhead, the band is composed of enthusiastic Downtown Eastside involved amateur and sem-pro musicians playing with professional musicians from across Vancouver. . ........................................................................................... .. .................. .. ......... ... ...................... ............... . HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 13 NITY ST. JAMES' WOMEN'S GUILD BARGAIN SALE Friday October 30, 11am -12:30pm St. James' Parish Hall, 230 Gore An hour and a half in bargain sale heaven! Eagerly anticipated, the Women's Guild Bargain Sale is a gold mine; here's your chance to pick up household items, gifts, Christmas presents and decorations, books, music, electronics, clothes, a. last minute Hallowe'en costume and oodles of other items for cheap, cheap prices. It's fast and furious so come early! WORKSHOP REMEMBERING OUR DYES WOMEN Friday October 30, 11am -1pm Also October 29 . Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell . See page 12 for full workshop description. SLAM POETRY & MUSIC THERAPY Friday October 30, 1pm - 3pm Drug Users Resource Centre, 412 E. Cordova Artists from the Downtown Eastside craft poetry, mix it with music and perform their own original work. Led by Devon Martin aka "Dr. Metro", the leader of the regular Slam Poetry and Music Therapy program at the Drug Users Resource Centre (DURC). For the Festival, they open their doors to an audience. Participate or sit back and enjoy. Everyone welcome! 14 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 OPEN USE HEART OF THE CITY OPEN HOUSE Friday October 30, 12pm - 4pm Evelyne Saller Centre, 320 Alexander The Evelyne Saller Centre has an exciting line up of events and activities for this year's Heart of the City Open House. Discover the story of the Evelyne Saller Centre through photos and facts. Learn to make Hallowe'en skull cookies. View the art show of original paintings and the Legacy Wall Murals painted with con-tributions from talented local artists. Test your skill at the Heart of the City 9-Ball Pool Tournament Challenge. Enjoy the Hallowe'en decorations. Snacks and beverages. Everyone welcome! ELEB LADIES TEA PARTY Friday October 30, 2pm - 3pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Thanks to a Neighbourhood Small Grant, the women of the La-dies Tea Party of Oppenheimer Park have spent the spring and summer making their own hand drums. This fall they learned a welcome song, and invite you to celebrate with them the drum-making project and to hear them perform what they have learned. Everyone welcome. COMMUNITY CE B HALLOWE'EN CARNIVAL & HAUNTED HOUSE Friday October 30, 3:15pm-Spm ION Strathcona Community Centre Gym, 601 Keefer Cost is .50 cents or a can of food for the food Come out to the annual Hallowe'en Carnival and Haunted House and have a Spooktacular time! Organized by the Strathcona Youth Council and Leadership Groups, the Carnival will have fun games and challenges. Participate and play and you will have a chance to win a big prize. Everyone leaves with a candy bag! Do your best to help out the Food Bank and families in need; if you can't, that is all right too! .-· ··. . . . .. .... ,...... . . . . . . . ............. ..., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..~~-- . SWALLOW ZHOU Friday October 30 3:30pm Ray-Cam, 920 E. Hastings 4:30pm EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings We welcome a new treat this year: Swallow Zhou will twist wonderful balloon creations. Swallow is very active in the Downtown Eastside and brings joyful enthusiasm to whatever she does . . . . . ,. ,. ......... ,. ........ ,. ....... ,. ,. ........ ,. ......... ,. ,. ........ ,. ,. .... .. ,.,. ..... . CH ILDREN MERLIN THE MAGICIAN Friday October 30, 4:15pm - 5pm Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre, 920 E. Hastings Free The inventive and witty Merlin Cosmos offers hilarious comedy and amazing magic. A magician of many-years-standing, Merlin brings fun and fantasy, comedy and delight to his magic. Especially for children and families. SHOWCASE EASTSIDE FRIDAY: Collective Expressions Friday October 30, 3:30pm - 6:30pm EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings Free Join Enterprising Women Making Art (EWMA) for the Heart of the City Eastside Friday: Collective Expressions, a community open mic that showcases EWMA artists and community members in an evening of poetry, spoken word and acoustic accompaniment. All are welcome to participate! The host is multi-media artist Veronica lza. Eastside Friday is a free monthly event hosted by EWMA, a program of Atira Women's Resource Society that blends art, creativity and entertainment. We welcome the neigh-bourhood to a family friendly community celebration. Dress up for Hallowe'en if you feel inspired! For more information go to www.atira.bc.ca/enterprising-women-making-art or facebook at www.facebook.com/EWMAstore. Everyone welcome, all ages! WORKSHOP LA VOZ: TU GRITO AL MUNDO (The Voice: Your Cry to the Worl Friday October 30, 2pm - 4pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Your voice is an instrument, a portal, and a source of person and collective power. In this workshop you, will your whole body to develop your voicE ' quality, strength, and expression with experiential exercises inspired by flamenco cante (song). Facilitated by Spanish guest artist and rising star Naike Ponce, and Expressive Arts Therapist Kelty McKerracher, this workshop will lift your spirit and inspire your courage. All welcome: no singing experience or knowledge of flamenco necessary. Ole! Workshop limit is 25 participants - first come first served! Naike Ponce HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 15 COMEDY COMEDY IS THE BEST MEDICINE Friday Odober 30, 7pm - 9pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Feeling under the weather? Here's your prescription - have some comedy! Join . host David Granirer and comics from Stand Up for Mental Health , includ-ing our favourite local funny guy Paul Decarie. Special guests are the Highs & Lows Choir, a choir for people with mental health issues, and their friends and supporters, who know a comic song when they sing one. Stand Up For Mental Health was founded by award-winning counselor, stand-up comic and author David Granirer who teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental illness. David and his comics look at the lighter side of taking meds, seeing counselors, getting diagnosed and surviving the mental health system. For more info: www.standupformentalhealth.com 16 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 201S WORKSHOP INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT TERRAIN OF THOUGHT with Ruth Howard & other artists Friday Odober 30, 1pm - 4pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Also Odober 31 & November 2 Free Last spring, over 75 artists travelled across Canada fron: Van-couver to PEI on the Train of Thought, with stops in 25 cities, towns and First Nation communities: a journey of reconciliation and collaboration through participatory art-making between First Nation and settler-immigrant artists and communities. Launched with a Leave-taking Ceremony in the Downtown Eastside, Train of Thought was produced by Jumblies Theatre (Ontario) and partners across Canada, including Vancouver Moving Theatre. To move forward on this vital work, Ruth Howard - one of the festival's favourite visiting artists and the artistic director of Jum-blies Theatre - returns to the Downtown Eastside to collaborate with Train of Thought artists on creating Terrain of Thought for the Carnegie 3rd floor gallery. The artistic team will work with Carnegie patrons and festival guests to build a mini-landscape out of assorted materials, text and images from the national tour and the Downtown Eastside. The exhibit will be created over four days in three display cases, through open workshops. Come and contribute to an emerging imaginative terrain woven from thoughts on how we can live together on shared territory. The artists: Ruth Howard, Bill Beauregarde, Columpa Bobb, Priscillia Tait, and Savannah Walling. COMM ITY BEAUTY WITHIN FASHION SHOW Friday Odober 30, 6pm - 7:30pm Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre SFU Woodward's, 149 W. Hastings Free The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre is excited to host another celebratory Beauty Within Fashion Show, in which women and elders from the DTES Women's Centre model clothing from the Centre's clothing room and donated by My Sister's Closet. Come and see what the most fashionable women and elders in the neighborhood are wearing this fall season. The fashion show starts at 6pm with light refreshments. Thanks to SFU's VanCity Office of Community Engagement for their support. Women and men welcome! FILMS REVITALIZING JAPANTOWN? Friday October 30, 7pm - 9:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free The Festival is proud to present two films by award-winning documentary filmmaker Greg Masuda - The Spirit of Nihonmachi and The Right to Remain. The Spirit of Nihonmachi (2012, 28 min) Commissioned by the Powell Street Festival for their 35th Anniversary, this commemorative film uses an experiential documentary approach to show the festival through the eyes of two Downtown Eastside volunteers. The Right to Remain (2015, 45 min) The CBC documentary looks at the Downtown Eastside residents and the fight to save community from development. Started as an idea five years ago, Greg Masuda accumulated over 300 hours of footage. He says "The Right to Remain is a culmination of my entire career as a filmmaker. As a Japanese Canadian, I could not resist participating in the advocacy for the Downtown Eastside community as it looked down the barrel of the real estate industry in the second most expensive city in the world." A talkback panel will follow the films with a discussion about the broader topic of community displacement; what is our responsibility to the Downtown Eastside? Panel guests include Wendy Pedersen, Grace Eiko Thomson, Herb Varley, Ethel Whitty and filmmaker Greg Masuda; moderated by Cecily Nicholson. Members of the Powell Street Festival Advocacy and Outreach Committee will also attend. THEATRE 0 FOR A MUSE OF FIRE Friday October 30, 8pm Interurban Gallery 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carran Street Also October 28 & 29 Tickets at the door, sliding scale: 5 cents to $20 See page 11 for full description. THEATRE BENEATH THE SURFACE Friday October 30, 7pm Theatre Temp, Templeton Secondary School, 727Templeton Pay what you can The Festival is honoured to partner with the native theatre company lmagi'Nation (AD, Jenifer Brousseau) and Temple-ton Secondary School to present Beneath the Surface, an original teen suicide prevention play developed in response to the tragic suicide of a young native student from Britannia Secondary. Performed by an all-native cast, the purpose of this powerful and moving presentation is, in the words of Jenifer Brousseau, 'to educate youth [and community] and bring awareness and understanding on related topics about how to heal through art and live in optimal health.' Talking circle to follow. DID YOU KNOW ? The Downtown Eastside Street Market began as a protest action in 2010 by low-income street vendors who felt unfairly targeted for by-law infractions during the lead up to the Olympics. In response. two Downtown Eastside advocacy groups - the DTES Neighbour-hood Council and Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users - established a street market: welfare rates are so low that people need safe vending zones to supplement their in-come. Operated and self-governed by street vendors, the market has operated on Sundays for five years at Pigeon Park at Carrall and Hastings. Today, working in partnership with the city, the market supports hundreds of vendors to be more independent, while re-cycling 2nd hand goods and removing over 20 tons of waste destined for landfill. The DTES Street Market is now transitioning to a new location at 501 Powell where they soon hope to be open three days a week. Current hours: Saturdays 501 Powell from 10am to 3pm; Sundays Pigeon Park from 10am to 5pm. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 17 KIDS INSIDE OUTSIDE: KIDS HALLOWE'EN PARTY Saturday Odober 31, 10:30am -12pm 11am Lost & Found Puppets Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free It's a Hallowe'en Party! What better way to have fun than spend the morning at Oppenheimer Park. At 11am, puppeteer and community-engaged artist Maggie Winston of Lost & Found Puppets will present Just Enough: a Puppet and Clown Show, which is based on a traditional Yiddish folktale - although a grandmother may not have much, she will always have "just enough" for a great story. Join Park staff for children's activities of crafts, treats, food, workshops. Whooooo! All kids welcome. COMMUNITY CELEBRATION HOWL'EEN Dance Party Saturday October 31, 1:30pm - 4pm 4pm Great Big Howlin' Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free ,It's Hallowe'en and everyone's ready to party. Come to Oppen-heimer Park in costume for DJ mix, dancing, refreshments - get your groove on! At 4pm there will be a great big Howlin '. Let the ghoul out and hear the howls echo through the neighbourhood. Everyone welcome. OPEN HOUSE ST. JAMES' ANGLICAN CHURCH OPEN HOUSE Saturday Odober 31, 12pm :-- 4pm St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova Free WALKING TOUR HOUSING CRISIS TOUR with Carnegie Community Adion Projed Saturday Odober 31, 11am (approx. 90 minutes) Meet on the front steps of Carnegie, 401 Main $10; free for local residents Homelessness has been growing in the Downtown Eastside: this year 836 people were recorded as homeless in the neighbor-hood - the most ever - despite 458 homeless people being housed in new social housing units throughout the city. Next year homelessness could grow by hundreds, and rents in single room occupancy hotels continue to escalate. Herb Varley and other members of CCAP will lead the 'housing crisis' tour; they will visit places where homeless people are forced to sleep, the hotels from which they are being reno-victed, and the key sites where, if there was the political will, governments could buy, lease or build housing where homeless people could make their homes. WORKSHOP & INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT TERRAIN OF THOUGHT with Ruth Howard & other artists Saturday Odober 31, 1pm - 4pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Also October 30 & November 2 Free See page 14 for full workshop description. Since the 1880s, St. James' has welcomed and ministered to the community, offered liturgical traditions and provided a place of sanctuary. The Heart of the City Festival is a wonderful opportunity to visit St. James': see the heritage building, learn of its his-tory, experience a variety of parish activities, and share some exciting presentations. 12pm In the Parish Hall, the Kwhlii Gibaygum Nisga'a Traditional Dancers offer a dynamic, high-energy performance which incorporates the stories, songs and dances of their Wahlingigat (ancestors) into contemporary performance. Refreshments to follow. 12:30pm Guided tour of the church led by long-time parishioner Allan Duncan: learn about the unique art-deco design, the building's history, and the personalities who were involved in its construction in the 1930s. Organist and choral director Gerald Harder will offer a demonstration of the church's renowned 1760-pipe Casavant organ. An outreach group from St. James' will talk about their work in the community, including a project to support a family from Syria seeking refuge. 2pm It has become a tradition during the Heart of the City for St. James' to stage medieval morality plays; this year's offering is the first play Kings in Judea from the 1942 BBC radio play cycle The Man Born to be King by Dorothy L. Sayers. By setting the story of Christ's life in England in the 20th century, Sayers brings a sense of immediacy and relevance to the biblical narrative. Times are approximate. Everyone welcome! 18 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 AN AFTERNOON OF FREE FILM SCREENINGS Saturday Odober 31, 2pm - 5:30pm Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Woodward's 149 W. Hastings Free 2pm Part1 Raising Sh*T: Bud Osborn Film Screenings Bud Osborn was the poet laureate of the Downtown Eastside and a remarkable, articulate and passionate social activist who left a profound legacy of advocating for social justice-particularly for low-income people and those suffering from addiction. When he passed away last year, over 200 people attended a 'public memorial for him in the neighbourhood. Bud was involved in many film projects over the years - we look back at some of the work that he was featured in. This afternoon we celebrate and remember Bud and his amazing contribution to the neighbourhood. For Bruce Eriksen (Sniin) A group of film and video makers in the DTES formed the Lifeskills Collective in 2010 to make short videos reflecting the impact of Vancouver's Olympics. Inspired by Clay Van Sant's short film on William S. Burroughs, the Collective col-laborated with Bud to produce a post-Olympic testimony to the ongoing struggles of the community. Linda Gains· (2014) Local filmmaker Colin Askey created a film that animates one of Bud's poems. Keys to Ki~gdoms (1998) A filmspoem based on Bud Osborn's famous poem about living in a run down DTES hotel. Directed by Nathaniel. Geary. Down Here (1997, 52:09 min) Poet, political activist and former addict Bud Osborn tells his story of survival and how it has inspired his struggle to defend Canada's most impoverished community where the worst epidemic of HIV/AIDS among drug users in the western world is occurring. Down. Here is a sustained cry of pain and rebellion from those who are homeless, those who COMMUNITY CELEBRATION HALLOWE'EN DANCE & COSTUME PARTY Saturday Odober 31, 7pm - 9:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main free Tonight is Hallowe'en and the spooky Carnegie Centre invites you to put on your most frightful face and your most inventive costume, and join in the dance! Playing tonight is Brad Colwell and Still Wagg in' - rock 'n. roll dance music. Brush up your scary moves and join the souls at Carnegie for a bone-rattling dance! · are being driven from their meager housing by gentrifica-tion - those most vulnerable among us. Bud: " ... community is care - care for one another, care for those least able to care for themselves, care for all, care in action ... and there is no one to care, if you do not care and there is no one, no one at all to care - if I do not care ... " Produced and directed by Veronica Alice. Bud Osborn at 1000 crosses 4pm Part 2 Documentary Screening Estate, A Reverie (2015, 83 min) A spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity: Filmed by director Andrea Luka Zimmerman over seven years, Estate, a Reverie reveals and celebrates the resilience of people who are overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. The film "documents the last days of a London, UK public housing estate and exhibits deep feelings of community and solidarity." Interweaving intimate portraits with historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatized scenes, Estate, a Reverie asks how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography. ORKESTAR SLIVOVICA Saturday Odober 31 12:30pm & 1:30pm Starts at Carnegie, 401 Main With their contagious Balkan Brass sound, the Festival welcomes Orke-star Slivovica to the streets of the Downtown Eastside. The band plays a diverse repertoire, from insanely fast dance tunes to heartwrenching songs; the music is played from the heart and soul. .................................................................................. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 1 MASS ALL SAINTS' DAY MASS Sunday November 1, 10:30am St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova Everycme welcome Visit with the congregation of St. James' for a glorious All Saints' Day Solemn High Mass and Procession to celebrate the Saints of Christendom with pageantry and age-old ritual. For those not used to high church liturgy, this is a chance to bathe your senses. On high holy days such as this, even the incense is special! Hear the full St. James' Choir sing Palestrina's Missa aeterna Christi munera and Healey Willan 's OKing all glorious. WALKING TOUR STROLLING THE HEART OF THE CITY with John Atkin and Bob Sung Sunday November 1, 10:30am (1½ to 2 hrs) Meet at SE corner of Jackson & Alexander. $10; pay what you can for local rHidents Join walking-tour masters extraordinaire John Atkin and Bob Sung for an extensive and entertaining tour of the historic areas of Downtown Eastside, Strathcona and Chinatown. Stroll the Heart of the City and explore the sites of Oppenheimer Park, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Chinese herbal medicine stores, pastry shops, bbq meat stores andjhe tranquil Dr. Sun Yat Sen Park. After the tour, John and Bob will head to the Jade Dynasty Restaurant for a no-host dim sum lunch ($15 per person). 20 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 PIGEON PARK PROUD Sunday November 1, 11am - 3pm Pigeon Park, NW corner of Carran & E. Hastings Free Since August 2015, Vancouver Moving Theatre in partnership with Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts and in cooperation with Portland Hotel Society/Culture Saves Lives, has produced arts activity every Sunday in Pigeon Park. This free activity features photographing and portrait drawing of over 300 local people, and providing multiple beading, drawing, graffiti art, jewelry making workshops along with poetry and music pres-entations. Come down and enjoy the arts activity in the Park! On this Sunday we will present special surprise performances at 12pm and 1:30pm. All welcome. TALK WALL OF JOY with Eyoalha Baker Sunday November 1, 11am (approx. 1 hr) Meet at SE corner of Abbott & Pender Free Artist and project leader Eyoalha Baker will share her experi-ence creating the Wall of Joy mural installed on the West wall of The Arco Hotel at 81 West Pender. The public art installation is a paste-up collage of 6ft x 6ft posters of photographs of approxi-mately 300 people "Jumping for Joy" all around Vancouver. The project is about uplifting ourselves and others, taking a positive perspective on life, and spreading JOY. Created in partnership with Atira Women's Resource Society and partially funded by BC Housing. Thanks to crowdsourcing, grants, donations and volunteers the project was installed August 2015. SONG SOLIDARITY NOTES LABOUR CHOIR Sunday November 1, 1:30pm - 2pm Woodward's Atrium, 111 W. Hastings Free Solidarity Notes Labour Choir is a group of activists who know that music is more than pleasurable sound: it is a powerful language that educates, connects and reminds us of our strength and history. The ongoing struggle for labour and human rights has produced music that inspires and reconnects us to hope and possibility. Solidarity Notes sings at rallies, picket lines, performances, memorials and sky train stations, throughout Vancouver and other spots in the Lower Mainland wherever the message is needed. l . ..,.""'..,...,. .. ; j UT ........... ~j , MUSIC IN THE STREETS , l Sunday November 1, 2pm, 3pm & 4:30pm ....... I I Starts at lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings -..i1a11• 1 : : I Get your dancing shoes ready. It's music in the streets! This I I year the Heart of the City Festival presents two different I 1 bands for your dancing in the streets pleasure . . . 1 : : ' 2pm & 3pm the Hastings Street Band leads with their ' I upbeat New Orleans style jazz and blues. Led by multi- I · instrumentalist and composer Brad Muirhead, the Band · j is composed of enthusiastic Downtown Eastside involved j ; amateur and semi-pro musicians playing with professional ; j musicians from across Vancouver. j j 4:30pm Orkestar Slivovica takes the streets in their first 1 : appearance at the Festiva l. We are pleased to present ' 1 Vancouver's own Balkan Brass band, led by Oliver Schnei- 1 : der, playing Roma-influenced wedding and festive music : I from Serbia and Macedonia where no such occasion is I ( complete without it. : 1 ............... ................................................. ........ .. ..... ......................................... 1 WORK-INmPROGR CARNEGIE DANCE TROUPE & KAREN JAMIESON DANCE Sunday November 1, 4pm - 5pm Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward's 149 W. Hastings Free Experience and enjoy the Carnegie Dance Troupe and Karen Jamieson Dance in action! This informal work-in-progress pres-entation is a great opportunity to see the beginning stages of a new dance piece slated for premiere in 2016; and to witness people of all ages, cultures and abilities working together to create a work of art. Presented in partnership with Carnegie Community Centre and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. M SIC SUNDAY AT THE INTERURBAN Sunday November 1, 12:45pm to 4:30pm lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Free Come to the lnterUrban for a wonderful afternoon of mu-sic from some of the community's favourite -performers. 12:45pm Michael Edwards, a stalwart at Oppenheimer Park, opens the show with original and alternative folk rock in a bluesy-jazzy mix. 1pm Rose Shraa Ttha Siccama and David Stone of Red-SoulBluez take the mic. Rose, a Northern Tutchone singer, songwriter, musician, poet and artist, has been creating and living on Coast Salish Territory, aka Vancouver, BC for over 20 years and David is a multi-award winning, platinum and gold recording artist and musical wizard. , 2:15pm we welcome Beaver T and the Divas; that is Beaver Thomas, a fabulous Cree guitarist who grew up playing at Carnegie and has been a professional musician since he was old enough to be on the road, and Peggy Wilson, everyone's favourite bass player and harmonic vocalist. We look forward to a set of classic country, rock, blues, jazz and more. 3:45pm Orkestar Slivovica will cap the afternoon in the Interur-ban. The Balkan Brass ensemble plays and sings a diverse repertoire, from insanely fast dance tunes to heart-wrenching songs, often in crooked rhythms and exotic scales. Sure to be an exciting afternoon! HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 2 [ :·MUSI & DANCE . . ! ! :' BARRIO FLAMENCO: Flamenco for the People ! !L,,Sunday November 1, 7pm -1Opm j l.' The lronwor~s, 235 Alexander · l l By donatic:m at the door l j . 'Celebrate the spirit of the Downtown Eastside with an unforgettable evening of l l .live flamenco music and dance! Flamenco is an art form by and for the people, l l danced and played with spirit, ferocity, laughter and tears. Flamenco is an art form l l by and for the people, danced and played with spirit, ferocity, laughter, and tears. l j' .It was born in the taverns and living rooms of the barrios, or poor neighbourhoods, j ;',,_!,, of southern Spain - a song of the street, a cry, and a celebration. l,',,,,_ Hosted by flamenco artist and teacher Kelty McKerracher, Barrio Flamenco fea-tures s·ome of the most compelling flamenco dancers, singers and musicians in the city, alongside the Carnegie DTES Flamencos. This year Kelty hosts, direct ' 1 · from Spain, singer Naike Ponce, in her first Canadian appearance. · Also featured this evening are guitarist Peter Mole, singer Farnaz Ohadi, dancers Michelle Harding, Andrea William, Maria Avila, young favourite Sophia Ludwig, , and many' more! To celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, our Barrio Flamenco includes a shrine to honour those who have gone before. On the night when the divide betwee.n this world and the spirit world blurs, join us for th is exciting juerga (fla-menco party) to laugh, play, pray, cry, enjoy and stamp your feet! 'An annual venue-packed favourite. Ole! Barrio Flamenco 2014 DID YOU KNOW ? Since 1986, over 1800 people have contributed writing, poetry, graphic art and energy to the beloved Carnegie Newsletter. This free publication is produced entirely by volunteers, and comes out on the 1st and 15th of every month twenty-three times a year, with 1200 copies per issue. The Carnegie Newsletter is one of the most widely read and respected publications of the Downtown Eastside, providing a voice for the neighbourhood's life and struggles, its' concerns and creativity. 22 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 STORY STEALING LIGHT: STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Sunday November 1, 2pm - 3pm Dr. Sun Vat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carran By donation to the garden In this remarkable solo show, Steal-ing Light: Stories of Transformation, Columpa C. Bobb (Artistic Director, Urban Indigenous Theatre, Winni-peg) enacts the story of a long-ago greedy chief who hoarded and would not share the life giving light of the stars, moon and sun. Raven stole these gifts from the power hungry chief and set them free for all people. Weaving stories and wisdom from her ancestors (Columpa is a great-granddaughter of Chief Dan George) mixed with contemporary stories of the wounded earth today, Columpa calls for Raven to once again steal the light. n Q. C 3 'O "' n m 0 CF u -"I•:::; it.~ .. -- -~,,. I,,~ ~,· 12th Annual OTES Heart of the City Festival Handy Guide to Walking Tours HISTORY, ART & SOCIAL JUSTICE WALKS An always popular component of the festival. Put on your comfy shoes, grab an umbrella and come along. Housing Crisis Tour with Carnegie Community Action Project Saturday October 31, 11am (approx. 90 min) Meet on the front steps of Carnegie, 401 Main $10, Free for local residents Strolling the Heart of the City with John Atkin and Bob Sung Sunday November 1, 10:30am (1½ to 2 hours) Meet at SE corner of Jackson & Alexander $10, pay what you can for local residents Wall of Joy, with Eyoalha Baker Sunday November 1, 11am (approx. 1 hour) Meet at SE corner of Abbott & Pender Free Walk Around the Block, with Brian McBay Saturday November 7, 11am (approx. 90 min) M~et at;221A, 221 E. Georgia $10, pay what you can for local residents Amazing, Brave and Extraordinary Women in the Downtown Eastside, with Ellen Woodsworth Sunday November 8, 10:30am (approx. 2 hours) Meet c)t Thornton Park, 1150 Stations Street $10, pay what you can for local residents For full descriptions of the walking tours, go to the page with that day's events. TAKE A WALK ON THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE By Savannah Walling Take a walk on the Downtown Eastside, the heart of Vancouver. Founded on unceded Coast Salish Territory, the city's oldest neighbourhood is situated on the former seasonal village sites of K'emk'emlay' / Q'umq'umal'ay (Squamish / Musqueam orthography), where the Hastings Mill set up on Burrard Inlet at the foot of Dunlevy; and Luq'luq'i / Lek'le'I (Squamish / Musqueam orthography), today's Maple Tree Square where Gassy Jack established the first saloon. Embedded within and around Greater Vancouver are three Coast Salish First Nations - the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh - whose an-cestors exercised overlapping usage rights over the area. Once known simply as the East End, today's Downtown Eastside is made up of several historic districts: Victory Square, the Hastings corridor, Chinatown, Strathcona, Powell Street / Oppenheimer (aka Japantown), North Hastings, Gastown and the port of Vancouver. Ancestors of today's Coast Salish residents lived and worked in this area since time immemorial. The spit of land was originally bounded by Burrard Inlet on the north, the former tidal flats of False Creek to the south, and on the east and west between salmon-bearing tidal streams that once flowed up the ravines at today's Campbell and Carrall / Columbia Streets. False Creek was over twice the size it is today, fanning all the way towards Clark Drive from a narrow isthmus of land at today's Main Street. Coast Salish people had a saying, "When the tide was out, the table was set." HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 2 WORKSHOP TERRAIN OF THOUGHT with Ruth Howard & other artists Monday November 2, 11am - 2pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Also October 30 & 31 Free See page 14 for full workshop description. WORKSHOP EXPRESSIVE ARTS Monday November 2, 1pm - 3pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Join the Expressive Arts group for a fun, open and inclusive arts class. This group began as a program of the West Coast Mental Health Network, and there are now about thirty participants who meet on a drop-in basis every Monday afternoon to paint, make collages, use mark-making tools and participate in print-making and/or sculpture. No previous art experience is necessary to participate. This program operates on the belief that engaging in creative activities is physically and emotionally healing. Art materials provided, instruction (if needed and desired) and sup-port in an inclusive, accessible and safe atmosphere. If you are interested in attending, please call 604-687-2468 for more info. SHOWCASE WOMEN ROCK Monday November 2, 1pm -1:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Women Rock is a fun, encourag ing, and accessible forum for women from the Downtown Eastside to learn to play rock mu-sic instruments and to collaboratively write their own songs. Funded by the non-profit Instruments of Change and led by multi-instrumentalist and artist facilitator Geetha Subramaniyam, these women meet each Monday, at the Carnegie Centre, from 1-4 pm. They showcase their cre.ative work at the end of each 12-week session in a Carnegie Theatre performance. This diverse group of budding musicians is thrilled to be invited back to the Heart of the City Festival to share their passion for music with their community. For more information, instrumentsofchange.org MASS ALL SOULS' DAY MASS Monday November 2, 6:30pm St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova Everyone Al l Souls' Day Mass features the St. James' Choir singing Tomas Luis de Victoria's beautiful Renaissance setting of the Requiem Mass, with special devotions for the faithful departed. Here is a chance to remember passed friends and family. lfyou have names of the departed you would like read aloud as part of the service, please submit by Wednesday October 28 to the church office at 604-685-2532 or office@.stjames.bc.ca. Everyone is welcome. 24 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 201S DAY OF THE DEAD In Mexico, on November 1 and 2, it is an honour and a duty to commemorate family and friends that have died. This tradition can be traced back to the Aztecs, who believed that death was not an ending, but the beginn ing of a new and eternal existence. To respect this cycle of life they honoured the dead. Every culture must learn to deal with the loss of life to survive. Feelings of abandonment, guilt and fear must be released before we can go back to the business of living. Through centuries of poverty, oppression, violence, death has been very present. The sense of being vulnerable in a life full of dangers, chaos and demonic spirits has made generations feel that to live is to suffer. Latin Americans celebrate the communion between the living and the dead with beauty, music, love and humour. The living invite the dead to join them in the party, to come home for a few hours, before returning to the "other side." They visit the graves from "sunset" until midnight with candles, food and drink. The ghosts are offered their favourite food, cigarettes and alcohol, and the living help them drink! Strolling musicians or family members play the ghosts' favourite tunes. It's a time to make fun of the living and how seriously we take ourselves. We suffer, the dead "rest in peace." Home altars, called ofrendas, are built to commemorate the dead. They are decorated w ith candles, special food, sugar cane stalks and marigolds. Flower peta ls carpet the floor to the ofrenda, where photos of those who have died are placed alongside religious icons to invite the ghosts in. by Diane Wood First published, Carnegie Newsletter, November 1, 2001 COMMUNITY DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION OF LIFE Monday November 2, 3pm - 4pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free In the Downtown Eastside, Latin Americans celebrate Day of the Dead with pageantry, music, love and humour. We throw a party and invite the dead to join us for a while before returning to "the other side." Music by Alfredo Flores, Jose Alberto, Alarcon Cruz, Ovidio Gonzalez and Jesus Cristobal. Hot chocolate and cookies. Bring flowers, candles and photographs for the ofrenda (altar) to honour our murdered and missing friends. Share in a celebration of their life, and maybe tell a story or two about them. In collaboration with WATARI and Vancouver Public Library. Everyone welcome. RALSHARING ABORIGINAL FEAST Monday November 2, 5pm - 7:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main See below for ticket information Free Culturally specific events bring a sense of belonging and camaraderie to an otherwise isolated and disenfranchised Aboriginal population. Carnegie's weekly Cultural Sharing Program, now in its twenty-seventh year, offers First Nations people from across North America an oppor-tunity to share cultural events such as Pow Wows, cultural trips, singing and drumming, and to make arts and crafts. The Cultural Sharing program invites you to share this Aboriginal Feast with them. The Carnegie kitchen is cooking up a delicious menu for the feast, and the Festival presents singers and drummers from the Coast Salish Territory and beyond. Harmony of Nations will open and close the feast. Other guests include the pow wow drum group Starchild; Joe Chats is will do a hoop dance; and Columpa Bobb, a special visiting artist from Winnipeg, will share stories about Raven. Our emcee is Ian Bee. Admission is free, but you will need a ticket for the dinner. Tickets are available on a first come first serve basis at the Cultural Sharing group on the afternoon of Monday October 26. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door 9fthe Theatre on a first come first serve basis. CULTURAL SHARIN TEACHING POW WOW Monday November 2, 1:30pm - 3:30pm Carnegie Centre Gym, 401 Main Free This cultural sharing event is led by Ian Bee with the pow wow drum group Starchild, and features dancers in regalia. The mu-sicians and drummers will teach different styles of music and dance, and share protocols that take place during a Pow Wow. Open to the public; everyone welcome. WORKSHOP FLOURISH Monday November 2, 2pm - 4pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Free Time to Flourish! Transform the humble bottle cap into beauti-ful art! Your creations will be used to decorate the children's playground at Oppenheimer Park. TELEVISION CARNEGIE TV DOWNTOWN VARIETY SHOW Monday November 2, 12midnight (Tues Nov 3, 12am) ShawCable4 Recorded earlier this month in the Carnegie Theatre, the Carnegie TV Downtown Variety Show is a not-to-be-missed-stay-up-late-to-watch-hour of local music, story, poetry and magic featuring Brad Muirhead and Friends, Dalannah Gail Bowen and Owen Owen Owen, Bob Sung, Merl in the Magician, Steve Edwards, Mike Richter, Les Nelson, Diane Wood, Muriel Margorie Williams and host Mr. Sam Snobelen. Produced and recorded by Carnegie TV, a team cif DTES involved community members working with Sid Chow Tan. IBIT & RECEPTION TERRAIN OF THOUGHT Monday November 2, 7:30pm - 9pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Exhibition November 2 to November 30 Join Columpa Bobb, Ruth Howard, Kelty McKerracher and Savannah Walling as they share stories, images and video from their journey across Canada on the national Train of Thought (Spring 2015). This evolving community arts journey, produced by Jumblies Theatre with over 95 partners, visited over 25 Canadian cities, towns and First Nation communities. Included in ton ight's reception is a 25-minute video on the TRACKS: 7th Canadian Commu-nity Play & Art Symposium, which launched the Train of Thought. Edited by Brian Ley, the video features excerpts from the symposium opening in Stanley Park, The Big House cultural sharing feast, and words from Indigenous and settler/immigrant artists on their experiences collabo-rating to create art with, for and about their communities. Photo: Liam Coo, Jumblies Theatre HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 25 FU NDRAI SER MEGAPHONE & HOPE IN SHADOWS BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER Tuesday November 3, 7am - 9am Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 W. Georgia Join Megaphone and Hope in Shadows for their annual Breakfast . Fund raiser at the Central Library Branch. The breakfast brings to-gether vendors, staff, board, supporters and community partners to recognize the accomplishments of the magazine and calendar vendors, and to talk about the organization's goals. This year's keynote speaker is the wonderful Judy Graves, who was the City of Vancouver's homeless advocate for more than three decades. Emcee is Pat Kelly, co-host of the CBC Radio One satirical show This is That. Plus: the presentation of the second annual Vendor of the Year Award! For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.megaphonemagazine.com/events. PUPPETS HEALTHY AGING THROUGH THE ARTS Tuesday November 3, 11:30am -12pm Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer Free After nine years of exploring the art of puppetry with seniors, facili-tating artists Sharon Bayly and Maggie Winston found themselves searching for a new style of puppetry for this year's project. This year the Strathcona Seniors' Puppeteer group made a simple style of marionette puppet, with a papier mache head, feet and hands, a single rectangle of fabric, three strings and a crossbar! They will share a story on the theme of wishes ... what we wish for ourselves, our family, our communities and our planet...what we wish for the future to live happily and peacefully together. All ages welcome. 26 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 PANEL DISCUSSION COAST SALISH PROTOCOL IN THE ARTS Tuesday November 3, 2pm - 4pm VIMAF/W2 Media Hub, 3rd floor, 877 E. Hastings Free Are you working in the arts and wantto learn about Coast Salish protocol? Want to make "territorial acknowledgements" mean something? Learn about opportunities for non-Coast Salish artists to explore reconciliation and redress, while promoting Coast Salish culture and identity here in the Unceded Territory. Speakers: Charlene Aleck (Tsleil-Waututh), Khelsilem (Squamish), Columpa Bobb (Sto:lo/Tsleil-Waututh), and Irwin Oostindie (Dutch Settler). Presented by Heart of the City Festival and Coast Salish Cultural Network. Refreshments. SPEAKER SERI ES SUPER COOL TUESDAY Tuesday November 3, 6pm - 7pm lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Super Cool Tuesdays, also known as Contemporary Arts 101, is a drop-in speaker series involving local and visiting artists in con-versation with SFU students, faculty, and residents of the DTES. Super Cool Tuesdays fosters informal conversations about art and art practices, addresses a range of social and political topics, and responds to the interests and concerns of the members of the DTES community. Todays' speaker is Columpa Bobb (Artistic Director, Urban Indigenous Theatre, Winnipeg), special guest of the Heart of the City Festival. Super Cool Tuesdays is a commu-nity program organized by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Space is limited. SI CARNEGIE CABARET COFFEE HOUSE Tuesday November 3, 6:45pm - 9:45pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Listen or participate in one of the longest running regular community music programs in the neighbourhood. You will be delighted by the range and diversity of talented musicians in the Downtown Eastside. Open mic and featured performers. Sign up at 6:45pm and show your stuff. Coordinated by singer/ guitarist Steve Edwards. Basic Signing up with Steve musical instruments provided. You may even entice a backup band to accompany you. Musicians and singers of all styles and skill level welcome! TELEVISION CARNEGIE TV DOWNTOWN VARIETY SHOW Tuesday November 3, 8pm - 9pm Also November 2, 7 & 8 ShawCable4 :;::2:-:,:-:::vAri·o·Ns···* ··· .. : . . : Three long-time Festival community partners are under : ; renovation and capital improvement this year: Russian · Hall, Chapel Arts and Co-op Radio Studio. We wish them · the best and look forward to working with them next year to present events at their improved facilities! . . ............................................................................... HASTINGS STREET BAND Tuesday November 3, 11am & 12pm Starts at Carnegie, 401 Main Join the Hastings Street Band and their upbeat New Orleans style jazz and blues. See page 21 for full description. ················································· PANEL DISCUSSION 1975-2055: ART AND COMMUNITY Tuesday November 3, 7pm - 9pm UNIT/PITT Projects, 236 E. Pender Free Representatives of five community-driven arts or-ganizations in the Down-town Eastside present their perspectives on the last and the next forty years and ask: looking at the past, what kind of future do we want to build? What would a future look like that takes into account cul-tural diversity, community history, and social and en-vironmental justice? What is the role of the arts and of community in building this future? Panelists: Michael Clague (Community Arts Council of Vancouver), Andrea Creamer (SFU's Office of Community Engagement), Keith Higgins (UNIT/PITT Projects), Terry Hunter (Vancouver Moving Theatre/Heart of the City Fes-tival) and Cecily Nicholson (Gallery Gachet). Moderator: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte (UNIT/PITT Projects). An open invitation to discuss the history of arts and community; present a reflection on the challenges that are faced by community arts organizations in the Down-town Eastside; and elaborate a framework to sustain the communities and practices driving these organizations. Co-presented by UNIT/PITT Projects (part of 2055 public programs) and the Heart of the City Festival. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 27 DRUMMING STRATHCONA RED FOX DRUM GROUP Wednesday November 4, 1pm - 2pm Aboriginal Front Door, 384 Main The Strathcona Red Fox Drum Group from Strathcona Elementary School are mentored by Kat Norris and Donna Lokhorst. The stu-dents, from grades 2 to 7, have made their own pow wow drum and are very excited to share their drumming and song with the Downtown Eastside community. Everyone welcome. A -RADIO WAX POETIC Wednesday November 4, 2pm - 2:30pm Live Broadcast Co-op Radio 100.SFM Join hosts RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley live as they visit with poet laureates from across the country; the latest up and coming poetry slammers; the most seasoned touring spoken word artists; and poets with new books hot off the presses! They let each poem guide them in conversation to see how the words and the world inspire. Who knows what they will talk about? To-day's program welcomes special Heart of the City Festival guest Muriel Marjorie Williams, a bold, brave and passionate poet living and surviving in the Downtown Eastside. Tune in why don't you! SHOWCASE DYES FRONT & CENTRE: BOYS' NIGHT OUT Wednesday November 5, 7pm-9:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main GALLERY SHOW AND AU CTION CULTURE SAVES LIVES!: SLAX'IN [MEDICINE] PROJECT Wednesday November 4, 7pm -10pm lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Exhibition November 4 to 7, Gallery hours 1pm to 5pm Free Located on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peo-ples, Culture Saves Lives provides space for community members, especially First Nation people oppressed by the mechanisms of colonization, to rediscover and celebrate their roots. The Festival is honoured to support this vital program (Portland Hotel Society, lead Patrick Smith, commu-nity artist Larissa Healey) and the Slax'in [Medicine] Project Gallery Show, which features over thirty 4 foot tall wood feathers uniquely painted by community artists, and then sold via live auction at the gala. Funds raised will support the artists, future Cultural Saves Lives street level programs, and contribute to a community memorial fund. Learn more at culturesaveslives.com The Downtown Eastside is alive with talent and the Festival brings together a wildly diverse evening of music, comedy and storytelling. Carl McDonald aka Mr. McBinner offers us a taste of musical comedy; singer-songwriter Andy Kostyniuk sings of the urgency for free love, free drugs, and g*dd*mn freedom; stand-up artist John Cameron brings his bri lliant dry humour; the Shawn Giroux Band will punk your socks off; and storyteller musician Yvon Paul Chartrand will make you groan from fear with stories of trolls and strips of flesh. We are thrilled to present the band MSG, led by long-time Carnegie music program leader and stellar guitar-player Steve Edwards. Steve will also join Cliff (Chico) Gibson and his guitar 'Goldie', in Chico & the Band for a rousing selection of R & B blues, funk and soul. It's sure to be a memorable boys' night out! Everyone welcome! Yvon Paul Chartrand •••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••• ......................... . .... . ...... . ... . ........................ . ............... •••••••••••• • ••••••••• " •••• .............. . 28 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 CARRIGKTV Carnegie TV supports the social participation and inclusion of sen-iors and community members by developing a media skill-building project that produces episodes for a community television series and its on line portal. A key theme is to bring stories together from the founding communities of the Downtown Eastside: Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese, and European communities. CarnegieTV shares neighbourhood stories and perspectives of low income seniors with the broader community. CarnegieTV, a project of the Carnegie Community Centre As-sociation initiated by the Carnegie Community Action Project, is partially funded by the federal New Horizons Seniors Program. Partners include the Carnegie Community Centre, Access Com-munity Television, Carnegie Learning Centre, Capilano University, Head Tax Families Society of Canada, and Vancouver Moving Theatre/DTES Heart of the City Festival. CarnegieTV will cablecast on scheduled Access Community Television timeslots on Shaw Cable 4 in Metro Vancouver & Fraser Valley. The specially produced CarnegieTV/Heart of the City Festival Downtown Variety Show will broadcast in the time slots from November 3 to 8 (unless pre-empted) and many times thereafter! Monday November 2, midnight (12am Tuesday) Tuesday November 3, 8pm - 9pm Saturday November 7, 11pm -12am Sunday November 8, 3pm - 4pm Carnegie TV crew AHA and social media coverage of the Festival The Festival is pleased once again to partner with the Downtown Eastside's AHA Media to provide social me-dia coverage (video/photos/ blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and pro-vides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and W2 Community Media Arts, and has an ongoing working relationship with various other organizations and individuals in the DTES commu-nity. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as "definitely not mainstream media." Based in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming. Say hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They'll be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the Festival with AHA's links - see photos/videos of festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you attend another! Website: www.AHAMEDIA.ca 0 www.twitter.com/AHAMEDIA 0 www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA • www.youtube.com/AHAFILM flickr· www.flickr.com/AHAMEDIA Fl 19th ANNUAL VANCOUVER ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL November 5 to 8 Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas 88W. Pender Tickets available atwww.vaff.org With a film lineup that invites the viewer to examine the complications within the search for personal and cultural identity, the Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) asks, "What's Your Role [in your community]?" The festival's nine film programs include feature-length and short films of all genres (with English dialogue or English subtitles) from the Asian diaspora, including a world premiere, four North American premieres, thirteen Canadian and nine Vancouver premieres. Tickets, more information, and film schedule are available at www.vaff.org. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 29 S OWCASE LEARNING CENTRE LIVE Thursday November 5, 1pm - 3pm Carnegie Learning Centre, 3rd floor, 401 Main Enjoy a showcase of poetry, stories, skits and digital storytelling from the diverse group who frequent the Carnegie Learning Centre. Student and tutors work together in this encouraging environment to bring a love of learning to the people of the Downtown Eastside. Gentrification is making places like the Learning Centre even more important as we stand our ground in this fast-changing neighbourhood. WORLD ~OETRY CAFE - Thursday November 5, 1pm - 2pm Co-op Radio 100.5FM Ariadne Sawyer, host of World Poetry Cafe, is pleased to cel-ebrate the Heart of the City Festival with poetry, interviews, creative tips and music. Tonight Ariadne welcomes the multi-talented and fascinating Gerardo Avila, a professional clown, mime, magician, storyteller, poet and mime, dance, physical theatre and clown teacher! WORKSHOP WOMEN'S ZINE WORKSHOP SERIES Thursday November 5, 2pm - 4pm EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings Also Thursday October 22, 29, & November 12 See page 9 for full workshop description. WORKSHOP OPPEN-ARTS STUDIO Thursday November 5, 2:30pm - 4:30pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free Come to the park and the Oppen-Arts Studio to decorate your own travel or coffee mug. Led by Park staff member Kazuho Yamamoto. .-····· .. ·· ................. ...................................................................................... ............... ...... .. ....... . . •WiiiiN~ll(lllljilliililll'I HASTINGS,STREET BAND . Thursday November 35 3pm & 4pm ) Starts at Carnegie, 401 Main i Join the Hastings Street Band and ( their upbeat New Orleans style jazz : and blues. · : See page 21 for full description ......................................................................................... .. ............ • 30 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 CHILDREN LOST & FOUND PUPPET CO. Thursday November 5, 4:30pm - 5:30pm DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings Free The Neighbourhood House is excited to welcome Maggie Winston of Lost & Found Puppet Co. and her presentation Just Enough - a Puppet and Clown Show. This show is based on a traditional Yiddish folktale that has spread, transformed and been retold in many cultures around the world. Just Enough gives a whole new spin to the notion of recycling, as beloved objects find new uses. The story involves a grandmother who gives her granddaughter a quilt made from the materials she has collected over the years. With each piece of fabric a memory is shared. Although the grandmother may not have much, she will always have 'just enough' for a great story. Suitable for ages 3 and up. Children and caregivers welcome! SONG WOODWARD'S COMMUNITY SINGERS Thursday November 5, 6pm - 7:30pm PHS Community Services Residences, 10th floor Sky Room, 131 W. Hastings Free Here is your chance to sing with the Woodward's Community Singers, a fun, easy-going, drop-in choir. More campfire than cantata. No experience or auditions required. Enjoy songs from folk, popular and contemporary traditions. You are also welcome to just listen. The choir sings in the beautiful PHS/Woodward's Skyroom on the 10th floor: a room with a beautiful twinkling view. ARTS RA~~NAL - Thursday November 5, 9pm -11pm Live Broadcast Co-op Radio 100.5FM Theatre in the Raw presents a reading of scenes from Twelve Angry Jurors. This live radio broadcast features dramatic high-lights from the larger, theatrical work, which will be presented November 18 to 29 as a fully staged play at the Interurban Gallery. Tune in to hear how the jurors debated over a life and death decision . THEATRE THE SHAKUHACHI QUEST: An Epic Journey Into the Soul of Music Thursday November 5, 8pm - 9:30pm Interurban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carran Also November 6 Tickets at the door, sliding scale: 5 cents to $20 The Festival is pleased to partner with Jim Sands Pre-sents on Jim's one man show that tells the story of three friends, one long weekend, and how a casual search for a legendary Japanese flute turns into a life and death journey: a journey that would change their lives forever. The play is inspired by the life and questing spirit of Dan Meichel, a Calgary-based jazz musician whose music touched many lives. DTES musician Mike Richter and multi-instrumentalist Michel Vies join Jim for a moving evening of theatrical storytelling. Michel Vies. Jim Sands M ZIK CROWMAN and HYMNS FROM THE MOON Thursday November 5, 10pm, doors at 9:30pm China Cloud Gallery, 524 Main, 2nd floor $10 1! d@!)r Crowman rises again, w ith Hymns of the Moon, for a one-of-a-kind musical experience. Crowman's improvisat ions weave together fragments, sounds, textures and innuendos for meta-physical music of now. Played by Chris Gestrin on synthesizers and electron ic wizardry, Meredith Bates on viola with effects peda ls, and Ben Brown on drum kit and other percussive devices. The root of the music composed for Hymns from the Moon was inspired by Canadian educational documentaries from the 30s/40s about then modern industrial processes. All compositions by Colin .Edward Cowan (bass) with Tom Wherrett (guitar), Meredith Bates (violin), Sam Davidson (clarinet and bass clarinet) and Daniel Gaucher (drums). READING & MUS IC IF I FALL, IF I DIE Michael Christie Thursday November 5, 7:30pm -11pm SBC Restaurant, 109 E. Hastings Free Come to a fun evening with a writer, with musicians, and with skateboarders! The Carnegie BranchNancouver Public Library is pleased to present local author Michael Christie for an interview, book signing and reading from his first novel If I Fall, If I Die (2015). Prior to earning an MFA from UBC, Michael was a sponsored skateboarder and travelled throughout the world skateboarding and writing for skateboard magazines. The VPL gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canada Council. At 9pm, following the reading, the bar will open and the Festival and SBC Restaurant are pleased to present: Murray "Cretin" Acton of Dayglo Abortions in a rare appearance with his three-piece roots/country/blues band Hearts of Stone; and seasoned Canadian songwriter and storyteller Shiloh Lindsey who will offer an intimate, acoustic glimpse into her music. Hosted by the SBC Restaurant, located in the former Smilin Buddha Cabaret and now the home of the DTES HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 31 OPE OUSE I VANC~UVER POLICE MUSEUM Friday November 6, 10am - 5pm Vancouver Police Muse~m, 240 E. Cordova, 2nd floor See also Saturday November 7 Free admissiH One of Vancouver's most interesting attractions, the Van-couver. 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 col-lection relating to the history of policing in Vancouver.Her!= · you will find exhibits about some of the ,;;jty's rnost famous criminals and the men and women who. enfor~e our laws. Join museum staff for free 45 minute guided .tours at 11am · and 2pm. For more information: 604-6_65-3346 o·r WWW. vancouverpolitemuseum.ca or check out the Facebook and Twitter page! Everyone welcome. l GIT HAYETSK DANCERS Friday November 6, 1:30pm Lord Strathcona Elementary School, 592 E. Pender The .Festival is honoured to present Git Hayetsk Dancers for the students and staff of Strathcona Elementary. 'Git Hayetsk' means 'the people of the copper shield' in Sm'algyax which is spoken by the Nisga 'a, Tsimshian, and Gitxsan Nations. The dance group shares songs and dances of their ancestral villages and takes pride in being traditionally contemporary. They sing the songs of ancestors as well as create new songs, dances, drums, rattles, masks, and regalia to reflect and record their experiences as First Nations people today. Please note: this school petiormance is for students, parents and teachers only. 32 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 SCHOOL ~:::::!!:mber 6, 11am Admiral Seymour Elementary School, 1130Keefer The Festival is tickled silly to present Mike Battie, physical comedian and nice guy, for the students at Seymour. Mike has been performing for thirty years and is the most experienced jugging instructor in BC, having ·~ personally introduced more than 10,000 people to the joy of juggling. For this show, Mike blends virtuoso juggling choreo-graphed to music with other circus skills; interacts with the audi-ence, and encourages the students to participate. Mike brings out the best, not only in himself, but also in those he performs for. Please note: this school petiormance is for students, parents and teachers only. PREVI EW STAGE READING TWELVE ANGRY JURORS mww Friday November 6, 1pm '.'" 3pm . farnegie Theatre, 401 Main Ftli!li! . A young man faces execution and hfs fate is in the hands of twelve jurors. Eleven are.ready to get Or) with it and pronounee him guilty, but one among them wants to re-examine the evidence. This is your opportunity to see a preview stage reading of the play while the actors are still in rehearsal. Feedback welcome and encour-aged. This thrilling classic will be · presented by Theatre in the Raw at the lnterUrban Gallery November 18 to 29. For more infor-mation about this production see Post Festival events in this program guide or go to www.theatreintheraw.ca. FUNDRAISER STRATHCONA PUB SOCIAL NITE Friday November 6, 6pm -10pm Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer Tkkets$25 Come on down! Old friends meet new friends at this Friends of Strathcona social evening of fun, food, fundraising and big musical entertainment with a fun, group of local musicians. Silent auction, 50/50 draw and raffle prizes. Proceeds to sup-port Strathcona Community Centre activities. Tickets can be purchased at the Community Centre. For more information, please call 604-713-1838. DAN CREATIVE MOVEMENT OPEN STUDIO Friday November 6, 1pm - 3pm Carnegie Gym, 401 Main Dance! Discover the joy of creative dance with older adults and professional dancers from Karen Jamieson Dance. This is a regular program presented by Healthy Aging Through the Arts, a program of the Vancouver Board of Parks ,and Recrea-tion. The workshop promotes good health for seniors through movement and expression in the form of dance, and can break through barriers of isolation due to lack of cultural u _erstanding and language. As part of the Heart of the City Fesfival, every-one is invited to attend an Open Studio. All abilities, everyone welcome to join in! R E 10 IBIT REGULAR EXPRESSIONS Opening: Friday November 6, 7pm 221A, 221 E. Georgia Exhibition November 7, 2015 to February 6, 2016 A blinking vertical line-an empty cursor inside a search field is the elemental form of this exhibition. A "regular expression" in computer science defines a set of symbols, which describe a specific search pattern. Here, the term also captures the irony of outcomes when artists work with digital systems governed by the grammars of the searchable and the scrapeable. Artists: Aleksandra Domanovic, David Horvitz, Jeremy Hutchison, The Lincoln Collection and Oliver Laric, Lindsay Lawson, Xiaoshi Viv-ian Vivian Qin, Solid Gold Bomb, Jesse Russell and Ronald Cohn (VDM Publishing). Curated by A.E. Benenson and Kristen Chappa THEATRE THE SHAKUHACHI QUEST: An Epic Journey Into the Soul of Music Friday November 6, 8pm - 9:30pm lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Also November 5 Jidtets at the door, sliding scale: 5 cents to $20 See page 31 for full description. LAUNCH & RECE SALMON STREAM MOSAIC PROJECT Friday November 6, 1pm - 3pm Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell FirH Join Mosaic artist Bruce Walther as he unveils the Salmon Stream Mosaic, a community masterpiece created to connect the two recently installed poles by Chief Henry Robert-son and Wes Nahanee in the NE corner of Oppen-heimer Park. Bruce led workshops every Friday for the last six months where community par-ticipants learned the story beh ind the carvings and N the ancestry of the carvers to link the poles together; the Salmon Stream Mosaic meets in the middle. Inspired by the Oppenheimer Commemoration group, a grant from the Vancouver Parks Board Neighbourhood Matching Fund made the project possible. Join honoured guests to celebrate this beautiful community project; everyone welcome! AN EXPERIENCE OF CANTONESE HERBAL MEDICINE Friday November 6, 10am -12pm DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings FrH Join Yolanda and Godfrey, two seniors who participate in th, Seniors' program at the DTES Neighbourhood House, for a introductory workshop on Chinese heritage and Cantones, herbal medicine. You'll make and taste Cantonese herbal tea an, herbal soup, and at the end of the workshop the group will vis i an authentic Chinese Herbal Store. The workshop is in Englist Everyone welcome! HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 33 M USIC AND STORYTELLING Against the Current Friday November 6, 8pm Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall 487 Alexander $15 regulart $10 concesimm at the door, A collaborative cross-cultural performance, Against the Current, is created by Chibi Taiko, Katari Taiko, Sansho Daiko, Sawagi Taiko and Vancouver Okinawa Taiko, with storytellers Grace Eiko Thomson and Rosemary Georgeson (Sahtu Dene/Coast Salish), Salish singing group Tzo'kam led by musician and composer Russell Wallace, narrative contributions by John Endo Greenway, Hiromi Goto and Savannah Walling, .and over 25 Downtown Eastside community participants with community-made papier-mache salmon. Against the Current celebrates the role of salmon, in Salish arid Japanese history, cultl.)re, fishing industry, and the shared ·experier-ice of swimming against the current. Produced in partnership with theVancouver Taiko Society. VANCOUVER'S TAIKO GROUPS The majority of Vancouver's taiko groups can trace their roots directly back to Katari Taiko, Canada's first taiko group. Formed in 1979 following a performance by the San Jose Taiko Group at the Powell Street Festival, Katari Taiko represented the birth of a new; and vita l, ljving tradition . In the years since, groups have sprung up across the country, including many right here in Vancouver. Against the Current features five local groups, including Katari Taiko. Formed in 1993, Chibi Taiko is Canada's first youth taiko group: Sansho Daiko, with a focus on original works, was formed in 2010. Sawagi Taiko, fortned in 1990, is the first allsAsian·'women's ta iko group·in Canada, Vancouver _Ok-ina~a Taiko, fo.rmerly known as Yuaikai Ryukyu Taiko, is an Okim;iwan taiko-dance woup that was formed in 2004. All groups ar_e members of the Vancouver Ta iko Society. "The taste of racism Bitter on the tongue But the dream endures: A new life In this new land" - Against the Current 34 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 Chinook, coho, sockeye, chum and pink ... Swimming up 50 salmon-bearing streams Flooding down gullies Onto False Creek and the Fraser River, Spilling onto salt-water t idal flats "When the tide is out, the table is set" - Against the Current A COLLABORATIVE CROSS-CU URAL PERFOR ANC GROWING UP IN THE FISHING INDUSTRY by Rosemary Georgeson Fishing, tugs, boat building and being associated with the big water is how all my family and so many more families lived and survived here on our west coast. Being a woman and owning and operating your own boat wasjust another part of history that has been forgotten or gone unrecognized. My old aunties in the industry would build playpens on top of the wheelhouse of their old gillnetters (boats) for their children while they worked in the stern, hand-chucking and hand-pulling 200 fathom of gillnets. I was born into this industry like many other women and men. You grew up knowing that you were going to learn how to fish and you would learn how from your fam-ily. We fished on our family boats or worked in the fish plants to make a living to support our famil ies and to raise our children. We were people that followed the fish , living from what the ocean gave us, and always remembering and being taught from a young age to give back to the sea so we'd always have what we needed. We all need Rose Georgeson with 103Ib halibut, circa 1977. Courtesy Rose Georgeson to take responsibility and look to a future that sees a return of our fish and the possibilities of a stronger commercial fishing industry. TZO'KAM "Salmon bones, return to the sea, Bringing new salmon, year after year after year .... " - Against the Current In the Stl'atl'imx language, Tzo'kam means "chickadee" and "visitors are coming." Led by composer, producer, and traditional singer Russell Wallace, Tzo'kam is a Lil-wat family group who offer traditional ,md contemporary songs, drumming and dancing as they teach, share and maintain a tradition that has been kept alive by dedicated elders. The Right to REMAIN in Vancouver's Nihonmachi/Downtown Eastside "We don't live there anymore but we are coming to have our festival, commemorate our lives there but at the same time re-membering th.at there are people living there and that they must be brought into our community." - Japanese Canadian elder. Japanese Canadians working in the DTES - like many in the wider community - see the neighbourhood as a sacred space. The local allegiances they are forming are one reflection of their own responsibilities as Canadian human rights leaders, a legacy that itself was forged in part in the crucible of DTES neighbourhood activism going back to the 1970s and the first Powell Street Festival. -Jeff Masuda with Aaron Franks, from The Bulletin, March, 2013 Revitalizing 'Japantown'? - A Right to Remain Exhibit October 24, 2015 - January 31, 2016 Nikkel National Museum, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby A creative repossession of the human rights legacies of Van-couver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 35 ART MARKET WTSIDE ARTISTS COMPANY Saturday November 7, 10am - 5pm Woodward's Atrium, 111 W. Hastings The Eastside Art[sts Company holds regular Saturday art mar-kets inside and outside the Atrium at Woodward's. The initiative provides a place for Vancouver artists and artisans to display and sell their work. Diane Johnston, owner and operator of the company, is passionate about the opportunity for artists to be self-sustaining in the Downtown Eastside. Come to the Saturday market and see what the artists have for sale. For more information phone 604-616-5531. OPEN HOUSE VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM Saturday November 7, 10am - 5pm Vancouver Police Museum, 240 E. Cordova 2nd floor See also November 6 admission One of Vancouver's most interesting 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. Join museum staff for a free 45 minute guided tours at 11am. For more information: 604-665-3346 or www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca or check out facebook and twitter! Everyone welcome. SH E SUNSHINE CHOIR Saturday November 7, 11am -11:45am Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Free The Sunshine Choir is a regular program at Oppenheimer Park where seniors get together to share their love of singing and their love of community. They sing in Mandarin, English and sometimes Japanese. This delightful community choir has performed at Oppenheimer Park Cherry Blossom Festival and other community events in the Downtown Eastside. Join the choir today and listen as their voices come together in an enthusiastic sharing of song. Everyone welcome. DID YOU KNOW ? The Carnegie Library now has a "Bud Osborn Poetry Library" with 140 titles available for the public. Up on the Carnegie third floor, the Learning Centre hosts the "Bud Osborn Social Activism Library" in the bookcase outside the classroom. These books will be available soon for reading and enjoying in the Learning Centre. 36 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 201S ART WALK WALK AROUND THE BLOCK with Brian Mclay Saturday November 7, 11am (approx. 90 minutes) Meet at 221A, 221 E. Georgia $10; pay what you can for local residents Art plays a role in social transformation. The city block bound by E. Georgia, Main, Union and Gore is experiencing this right now as in-dependent art galleries and arts organizations have recently made their home around the block, new businesses have opened, and longtime business mainstays have shut down. Join artist, designer and 221A curator Brian McBay for a walk around the block that is a microcosm of the larger neighbourhood. Brian will talk about the role that arts can play in our community as we go through intensive change. The walk will stop at Vancouver Especially (A Vancouver Special scaled to its property value in 1973, then increased by 8 fold) by Canadian artist Ken Lum at 271 Union, 221A's new outdoor site. E E THIS OLD TOWN Ryan Lundy Saturday November 7, 1pm - 5pm Gam Gallery, 110 E. Hastings Exhibition Odober 24 to November 22 Free Ryan Lundy is a screen printer who has worked in several shops that deal both in large and small scale textile and art print production. His artistic practice involves screen printing photo-graphs on paper and wood panel using a halftone technique similar to that found in historical newspaper printing. With a focus on the area around his studio in the Downtown Eastside, This Old Town features images of Vancouver from the early 20th century, including the development of the now defunct interurban tram lines and historic moments such as the 1912 visit of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Meet Ryan and share in his interest in glimpses of the past. Gallery hours: Fri and Sat, 1pm - 5pm and by appointment; www.gamgallery.com RECEPTION & EXHIBITION TELLING STORIES, A VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION Opening: Saturday November 7, 2pm Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Exhibition November 7 to December 19 Free Nine Vancouver visual artists of BestB4 Collective open Telling Stories: a visual art exhibition, in collaboration with six other art-ists and community members. The gallery will be transformed into a meeting place where photography, painting, ceramics, fibre and video installations tell and evoke stories. The stories offer a starting point for a series of events to invite dialogue about essential contemporary questions between the artists, the Chinese community and other cultural groups. Activities throughout the exhibition include a Tea and Storytelling party, workshops in clay and printmaking, and a story exchange between youth and elders. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 5pm. For more information: 604-658-8880 or www.cc-cvan.com. Admission to the Gallery is free; donations welcome. PERFORMANCE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS: DEBATE COMPETITION Saturday November 7, 2pm 221A, 221 E. Georgia Free Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, one of the presenting artists in the exhibition Regular Expressions at 221A, hosts the Debate Com-petition, a collaboration with University Hill Secondary School. Through the fine art of rhetoric, the debaters will answer a question to be posed by the artist. COMM NI ASHKENAZI! E B Saturday November 7, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Floral & Hardy Edible Plants, 688 E. Hastings A little bit of music, a little bit of stories, a little bit of bagels! This year, the creative spirits at Floral & Hardy are celebrat-ing Ashkenazi, a festival of central European diasporic Jewishness. Rachel Mines, born and bred in Vancouver, will read from the stories of Abraham Karpinowitz (translated from Yiddish by Helen Mintz). These stories portray the dreams and struggles of the poor and disenfranchised Jews of Karpinowitz's native Polish city before the Holocaust. The ensemble Der Royshiker Krokves (The Creaking Planks) featuring accordionist Rowan Lipkovits and cellist Chris Rzepa, will in turn weave their music between the stories. How to describe their music? They say it's "an exciting collision between traditional [klezmer] music lifted directly from a bygone age and popular modern music undreamt of by the engineers of their old-timey instruments." Donations collected to sponsor a Syrian family. Everyone welcome! SION CARNEGIE TV DOWNTOWN VARIETY SHOW Saturday November 7, 11pm -12am Also November 2, 3 & 8 ShawCable4 See page 24 for description. CARNEGIE SING ALONG CHOIR Saturday November 7, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Free The Carnegie Sing Along Choir, led by local guitarist Mike Rich-ter, meets regularly twice a week to raise their voice in song. For the Festival they bring the regular session to you, the audience. It's a choir! It's a sing-along! Pull up a chair, find the lyrics or the sheet music, and raise your voice with the Sing Along Choir. We are harmony!! ART MR. FIRE-MAN PAINTS A PICTURE: Live Painting Tea House Saturday November 7, 5pm -10pm lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Free The Festival is pleased to present something a little differ-ent; something a little unexpected and improvised. David Gowman is Mr. Fire-Man and he paints a picture. 'In a hall, at the back, beside the music, local painter performs: Pacific Northwest landscape class: an oil painting step by step.' Musical guests: ldverb (Brad Muirhead, trombone plus composition/musical direction; Lisa Miller, piano; Chris Kelly, electronics; Kedrick James, text/spoken-word artist) will wax poetic with a kaleidoscopic collage of spoken word and music. Following their two hour set, the horn section of The Legion of Flying Monkeys will close the evening with an explora-tion of sound and rhythm. Legion of Flying Monkeys HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 37 POETRY AT CARNEGIE WORKSH OP SLAM POETRY Wo1kshop Saturday November 7, 10am -12pm Carnegie 3rd floor Classroom, 401 Main Free In preparation for Carnegie's 3rd Poetry Slam! Pamela Bent-ley, creative writing teacher and long-time slam poet, leads a workshop to share advice and techniques. Bring two of your favourite poems orwrite one in the workshop; you will get an opportunity to try out your slam poetry ideas, and with one-on-one mentoring you will be ready to step up and go for it! This workshop is useful for anyone seeking to improve their ability to present their poetry in public. Jillian Christmas POETRY CARNEGIE'S 3rd POETRY SLAM! Saturday November 7, 1pm - 2:30pm Carnegie The~tre, 401 Main Free Judging at Poetry slam 2014 In celebration of the Carnegie newsletter and its long history of encouraging writers and poets in the Downtown Eastside, we ·preserit Carnegie's 3,rd Poetry Slam! Have you slammed a poem before? You'll have three minutes to say your poem. Memorize it, improvise it, rant or sing it _out. Five random audience. mem-bers chosen to judge will then give you a score; be prepared for surprises. Featured host and MC is Jillian Christmas, a GrcJnd Slam Poetry Champion. Be part of the audience - laugh, cheer, cry, cl~p - or step up and slam it, you know you want to! R SUSTAIN AND NOURISH Saturday November 7, 4:30pm - 5:30pm Carnegie Theatrer 401 Main Free Thursdays Writing Collective reads short texts from their new project, Sustpin and Nourish - an investigation into where and how the topic of food intersects with literature. Personal and political, these pieces respond to questions posed by Poet Laureate Rachel Rose's three-year Food and Poetry community-building initiative. Thursdays Writing Collective is a non-profit or-ganization of drop-in creative writing sessions held at Carnegie. The Collective is comprised of more than 150 activists, academ-ics, slam poets, novelists and storytellers and explores issues of self-determination through creative writing, Founded in 2008, the Collective has published seven anthologies, collaborates with internationally-recognized artists and performs at festivals, literary events and readings. www.thursdayswritingcollective.ca 38 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 THE COURAGE TO HEAL Saturday November 7, 3pm to 4:15pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free After their dynamite appearance at the Festival last year, the Festival is thrilled ' to welcome back Queenie aka Valerie Mason-John, and Bertha Clark aka Adelene da soul poet for an afternoon of poetic stories that resonate with audiences. Traumatic and abusive experiences are some of the main causes of addiction. Or living on the streets, in prison or in the mental health system. It is not surprising that it takes enormous courage to heal. Hosted by editor and award-winning author Valerie Mason-John. Also fea-turing Jillian Christmas, Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words, and author, editor and teacher Reg Johanson. As Adelene da sou l poet says - "If you're feelin' down, try laughing ... tis medicine for your soul!" PO DIES POETS CABARET & OPEN MIC Saturday November 7, 7pm - 9:45pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Mai11 Free Downtown Eastside p·oets and writers meet on the first Saturday of every month to read original poetry, plays, prose and works-in-progress. The evening is free, it's friendly, and it's packed with local talent both on the microphone and in the audience. Featured guests for the evening'are Queenie, aka Valerie Mason-John and Bertha Clark, aka Adelene da soul poet. Sign up for a ten minute spot at the Open Mic. Hosted by Diane Wood. t l ••. 9 I, I SPECIAL EVENT ALL OF ME: An evening with Dalannah Gail Bow~n and Friends Saturday November 7, 8pm -10:lOpm Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender · $10 regular/$5 concession at the door The Festival has the honour of presenting an evening devoted to Dalannah Gail Bowen and her truly unique and power-ful voice, described as 'Billie Holiday meets Howlin' Wolf.' The musical line-up is stellar: Simon Kendall on piano, Rene Worst on bass, Chris Nordquist on drums, Dave Say on saxophone, Jim Salmon on percussion, with backup singers Jessi Nicholson, and Carlos Arias . For the second half of the evening, Owen Owen Owen is on bass. Join Dalannah and friends for an evening of jazz, blues and gospel. A not-to-be-missed event! CONGRATULATIONS & THANK YOU DALANNAH The Festival is thrilled at the news that the DTES's own Dalannah Gail Bowen was recently honoured as 'Master Blues Artist' in the Blues Hall of Fame in the United States. Congratulations Dalannah! Dalannah has been singing for over 45 years, and , since 2004, has been an integral contributor to the Festival. In 2008, to support the low income and marginalized residents of the DTES, Dalannah founded the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts, creating opportunities for the artist in everyone. Once homeless and living a life of active addiction, Dalannah powerfully knows of the pain, hope and love she sings about in her songs. Dalannah's dedication to the residents of DTES, and her leadership and willingness to offer her talents, life experience and knowledge to the benefit of the community is an inspiration. Dalannah is a leader, a fine artist, a wom_an of courage, inspiration and heart. Thank you Dalannah for aHyou do! HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 39 WALKIN R AMAZING, BRAVE AND EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN IN THE DOWN-TOWN WTSIDE with Ellen Woodsworth Sunday November 8, 10:30am -12:30pm Meet at Thornton Park, 1150 Station Street $10; pay what you can for local residents From a national memorial to social enterprise, Amazing , Brave and Extraordinary Women in the Downtown Eastside explores the stories of extraordinary women who have contributed to improved community and quality of life for women in the DTES. Ellen Woodsworth is a speaker, writer, activist and former Van-couver City councilor, and is passionate about social justice, economic equality and environmentally sound planning. This walk was originally organized in the spring for Jane's Walk by Women Transforming Cities. Learn more at womentransform-ingcities.org. u PIGEON PARK PROUD Sunday November 8, 11am - 3pm Pigeon Park, NW corner of Carra II & E. Hastings Free Since August 2015, Vancouver Moving Theatre in partnersh ip with Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts and in cooperation with Portland Hotel Society/Culture Saves Lives, has produced arts and culture activity every Sunday in Pigeon Park alongside the DTES Street Market. The free activities include poetry and music presentations; workshops in beading, drawing, graffiti art, jewelry making; take-home illustrated portraits with Felic-ity Don; and local photographer Tom Quirk taking to date over 300 take-home photographs of local people. Come down and enjoy the arts activity in the Park! All welcome. FILM LIFE IN MULTICULTURE: Canadian Shorts Sunday November 8, 2pm - 4pm Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, 88 W. Pender Tickets available at www.vaff.org The Vancouver Asian Film Festival presents Life In Multicu/-ture: Canadian Shorts, a program that celebrates 'la vie est multicolore' in every sense of the term. This program offers a melange of genres, styles, topics and themes both familiar and fresh, reflecting the myriad cultural, sexual and individualistic identities of Canadian Asian and hapa diaspora. Included in the program are the winning entries for this year's Vancouver Asian Film Festival's RedPacketChallenge, an ultra short and micro film contest, and a curated film from USC's Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies filmmaking course. 40 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 SION CARNEGIE TV DOWNTOWN VARIETY SHOW . Tuesday November 8, 3pm - 4pm Also November 2, 3 & 7 ShawCable4 See page 24 for description. SHOWCASE BLUE VINE TALENT SHOW Sunday November 8, 7pm - 9pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free Blue Vine, an organizer of safer space events where people come together to build community, has been hosting warm, welcoming and inclusive talent shows, music nights and poetry nights in East Vancouver since fall 2014. They are excited to develop a new connection with Gallery Gachet, and to join with them to present this community Talent Show with featured acts. Support our community! Cheer on new and emerging talent! ..... . .. .. .. ......... ........ ....... ••••••• " .... . ............... . ......... . ....... . . . . . . . : DEMONSTRATIONS & WORKSHOPS : TRILLIUM NORTH PARK: Seeding hand-skills in Our Community Sunday November 8, 12:30pm - 2:30pm Trillium North Park, Fals~ Creek East, Malkin & Thornton .• Free Visit Trillium North Park for demonstrations and informal workshops of wood carving, fibre spinning, processing locally grown linen, and eco-printing cloth. Other activities include impromptu musical collaborations with Brad Muirhead and the Hastings Street Band; a screening room featuring documentation of past local projects; and the Apothecary Tea Ro9m with Marina Szijarto. The eartHand Gleaners community brings many people together to share skills and research traditional knowledge and calls Trillium its new semi-permanent home. Come meet folks, see what is going on and get involved. eart-Hand Gleaners Society thanks the Vancouver Park Board and Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs for their support. Visit trill iumnorthpark.com or earthand.com to learn more. . . .................... . ............................................................... .. .... .. ........................................................... .:····· .......... .. ........................................................................................... .. .......................... ........ .. . . •.:::::::: ORKESTAR SLIVOVICA . Sunday November 8, 1pm & 2pm Stam at Pigeon Park ............ Carroll & E. Hastings With their contagious Balkan Brass sound, the Festival welcomes Orkestar Slivovica to the streets of the Down-town Eastside. See page 21 for full description . .............................. .. .................................. .. ................................. COMMU NITY CELEBRATION UKRAINIAN HALL COMMUNITY CONCERT & SUPPER Sunday November 8, 3pm, Supper follows Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender The festival ends on a high note at the East End's historic Ukrainian Hall with lively music, invigorating dance and colourful costumes at the Ukrainian Hall Community Concert & Supper. This annual favourite, produced with the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, features the Barvinok Choir led by choral director Beverly Dobrinsky, and the award-winning Dovbush Dancers. Special guests include: Downtown Eastside's rising stars Twin Bandit (Hannah Walker and Jamie Elliott) with young and talented student musicians from the acclaimed St. James Music Academy; First Nations performance group Tzo'kam, a Lil-wat family group who offer traditional and contemporary songs including drumming and dancing, led by composer, producer and traditional singer Russell Wallace; and Vancouver's home-grown Balkan Brass band Orkestar Slivovica play-ing an extravaganza of passionate and energetic Roma-style festive music. William Nahanee (Kwel-a-a-nexw "person who listens and does something") of the Squamish Nation will open with a blessing song. After this cultural feast, we gather downstairs for a delicious traditional Ukrainian Supper! Be sure to have a look at the newly-painted mural in the basement hall by artist Oksana Gaidasheva. Concert and supper $25. Book your ticket in ad-vance for this very popular event; for tickets call 604-254-3436. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 41 VISUAL ARTS REALM OF POSSIBILITIES - BETWEEN IMAGINATION AND ACTUALITY Until October 24 Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Realm of Possibilities explores shifting ways to address the meaning of life and our interface with the natural world : Wai Yee Chiu uses Chinese watercolour to convey passing seasons; Synn Kune Loh's painting installations juxtapose human experience with the vastness of the cosmos; and Hailein Tam challenges our perceptions with close-up colour photographs of natural forms. Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11am - 5pm, closed on Mondays. For more information: 604.658.8880, www.cccvan.com IN BETWEEN! The 8th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show Until October 25 Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free Oppenheimer Park and Gallery Gachet are pleased to present In Between!, this year's annual exhibition showcasing artworks from thirty-five artists of the Oppenheimer Park community. Included are painting, drawing, print, sculpture, carving, textile, mixed media and video works. This year the exhibition takes on "in between" as its focus and represents a variety of per-spectives (between languages, places, nations, cultures, life etc.). The Oppenheim_er Park Community Art Show began in 2008 in anticipation ofthe changes, challenges and loss in a pre-Olympic city; and recognizes the existing neighbourhood and the important role its residents and members have in creat-ing community; Oppenheimer Park artists represent a resolute community upholding a vision of the Downtown Eastside i'lS a place for art, education, recreation, health and healing. More info: www.gachet.org COLLAGES & HAND IN HAND WE JOURNEY TOGETHER Until October 28 Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Free An exhibition of Collages by Diane Wood and Hand In Hand We Journey Together, a Neighbourhood Small Grant project led by Karen Thorpe. Popularized in the Cubist, Dada and Pop Art movements, collages are a delight for Diane because she gets to use mucky glue and scissors! Diane responded to Gallery Ga-chet's call for their yearly Mad Pride show on the theme of the rapid gentrificatio~ of the DTES with one collage and then couldn't stop; there were so many things she wanted to say. Her collages illustrate this community's fight to remain. Hand In Hand lead artist Karen Thorpe and community participants made plaster hand casts and found a simple way to make connection in a significant way. The activity of making the hands is a tender and personal statement, and demonstrates how we journey together in life. 42 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA Until December 10 Dr Sun Vat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall in admissiOl'I Dawn and dusk on the Great Wall; gardens and temples; Suzhou canals to Shanghai skyscrapers: these are the im-ages captured in photographs by a fifteen-member cultural exchange delegation led last September by Vashon Island photographer, Ray Pfortner and photo stylist Nancy Wing. The locations and sites explored include UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as classical Chinese scholar's gardens, the Great Wall of China, the Summer Palace and many other sites from Shanghai to Suzhou and Hangzhou to Beijing. Hours: Monday to Sunday, 10am - 4:30pm; after Nov 1, closed Mondays. Susan Johnston - Boats Hui Cy i Canal Hangzhou Vancouver Biennale, Open Air Museum 2014 - 2016 Installations in the Downtown Eastside LET'S HEAL THE DIVIDE Toni Latour Vancouver Community College, 250 W. Pender Toni Latour, a queer feminist artist living in East Vancouver, works in photography, installation, text-based practices, drawing, video, sound, public and performance art. The site specific neon work let's heal the divide reflects on the history and current conditions of Vancouver and addresses the socio-economic, political and cultural points of discon-nect in the community. In the spirit of hope, this piece calls for action, collective healing, connectivity and inclusion. BIRD WRAP Ivan Eyre Thornton Park, 1150 Station Street Canadian artist Ivan Eyre has returned time and again to certain motifs. Central among these motifs is The Birdman, a figure Eyre remembers studying through scores of self-portraits. Eyre translated this figure into three-dimensional form, and the rendering of a man cloaked in the visage of a bird welcomes visitors to Thornton Park. Eyre draws from legend and archetype and this union of man and beast harkens back to mythological creatures, and to the bronzes of antiquity and more recent works of abstraction. IMAGES & REFLECTIONS: PIGEON PARK PROUD October 21 to 31 lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carran See Pre-Festival, opening reception THIS OLD TOWN Ryan Lundy October 24 to November 22 Gam Gallery, 110 E. Hastings See Sat Nov 7, meet the artist HAND IN HAND WE JOURNEY TOGETHER Until October 29 Listening Post, 382 Main See Thurs Oct 29, closing reception TERRAIN OF THOUGHT November 2 to 30 Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main See Mon Nov 2, opening reception CULTURE SAVES LIVES!: SLAX'IN [MEDICINE] PROJECT November 4 to 7 lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carran See Wed Nov 4, gala and auction REGULAR EXPRESSIONS November 7, 2015 to February 6, 2016 221A, 221 E. Georgia See Fri Nov 6, opening reception TELLING STORIES, A VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION November 7 to December 19 Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia See Sat Nov 7, opening reception HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 43 POST FESTIVAL WOR HOP WOMEN'S ZINE WORKSHOP SERIES Thursday November 12, 2pm - 4pm EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings Also Thursday October 22, 29, & November 5 Free See page 9 for full workshop description. FILM EL IN THE I.AND OF THE HEADHUNTERS Friday November 13, 7pm Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Woodward's 149 W. Hastings Film screening and panel discussion: In the Land of the Head-hunters (from CBC), the first feature film made in BC, and the oldest existing feature film made in Canada, celebrates 100 years. Edward Curtis, an ethnologist and photographer, made the film in 1914 in collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw (for-merly Kwakiutl) people of northern Vancouver Island. The film was the first feature made with an entirely indigenous North American cast, and mixed drama and documentary to record the traditions and rituals of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. OPERA THE LOST OPERAS OF MOZART Saturday November 14, 4pm - 5pm Sunday November 15, 7pm - 8pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Join City Opera Vancouver and Artistic Director Charles Barber for a sneak preview of a 'new' Mozart opera. In his early 20s, Mozart began three operas that he never finished. Two are Italian comedies and one is a German singspiel. City Opera Vancouver invites you to a concert performance of this wonderful music, one year before .the fully-staged production opens at The Playhouse. The music is wonderful and completely unknown. How often do you get to hea_r a Mozart premiere? Please join us. Made possible by the generous underwriting of the BC Arts Council, BC Gaming and the Government of British Columbia. 44 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 MUSIC IN CONCERT: DAI.ANNAH AND OWEN Saturday November 14, 8:30pm, doors open at 8pm Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward's 149 W. Hastings Tickets go to sfmM001dw,,m!!,.ca The reviews are in and they're all like this - "Dalannah Gail B?wen reveals herself as a master of phrasing; her voice is like an instrument unto itself. The quality is consistently high ... it's amazing what you'll hear in Owen's bass excursions. [The new CD] Been Around a While takes risks, and as a result it's a magnificent album that will bring lots of joy to listeners." - Rocktimes (Germany) Together, Dalannah and Owen were the first British Colum-bia act to make it to the finals at the recent International Blues Challenge held in Memphis. Blues and jazz-tinged, Dalannah's expressive, powerful vocals and Owen's master-ful bass lines promise for a fabulous evening. POST FESTIVAL COMMUNITY CE B ION VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL & JAPANESE HALL FOOD BAZAAR Sunday November 15, 12pm - 3pm Japanese Hall, 487 Alexander By donation Come early to the popular semi-annual Japanese feast and eat, eat, eat! VJLS & JH volunteers work feverishly over many days to make and serve a wide variety of menu items, hot, fresh, seasonal and affordable. This fund raising event is always popular, with children's games corner, door and raffle prizes, and a silent auction. 1pm For a Festival treat, the Strathcona Chinese Dance Compa-ny teens, children and toddlers will perform traditional Chinese dances. Strathcona Chinese Dance was founded in 1973 by Mimie Ho as a recreational dance program to promote Chinese dance art in Canada. Since then, the company has blossomed into a world-renowned folkloric dance troupe and the Heart of the City Festival is honoured to present this highly-regarded local dance company. FU NDRAISER SWITCH Tuesday November 17, 6:30pm Distrid 319, 319 Main Tickets by sponsorship SWITCH, the 4th annual fundraiser for the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, supports the nurturing of art and culture in the Downtown Eastside. This magical evening brings together patrons of the arts and Downtown Eastside artists. Proceeds go to the Community Arts Fund that provided funding this year to projects from Thursdays Writing Collective, Raincity Housing, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, and Strathcona Community Centre. This year, SWITCH honours the legacy of Yulanda Faris who gave enormous support to the CACV in their work to en-gage people in community arts. To learn about Sponsorship Opportunities or to find out how you can support community arts, go to www.cacv.ca/switch ART WTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL November 19 to 22 Numerous locations The 19th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl is Vancouver's four-day visual arts, design and crafts festival. This event involves more than 20,000 people visiting artists in their studios in the area bounded by Main Street and Victoria Drive north of First Avenue to the waterfront. The Eastside Culture Crawl Society provides opportunities for the public to engage with member artists through the ongoing creation of events and programming that support the growth of Eastside artists. For more information go to culturecrawl.ca THANK YOU FESTIVAL WRAP! Saturday November 21, 1pm - 4pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main free Now that we've caught up on our sleep and put everything t bed, this is an opportunity to say thank you! Artists, audienc members, crew, staff, volunteers, community partners, fello1 organizers - there are so many of us who put on the Festiv, in one capacity or another and we want to get as many of us i the Theatre as we can and say "That's a wrap! Another Festiv, under our belts and wasn't it fun!" Join us for music, video: photographs, entertainment, conversations and ideas for futur festivals, refreshments and more! Count yourself invited; se you there! Robyn Livingstone & Jeff Lomenda SPARKS OF RECOVERY ON FALSE CREEK By Savannah Walling Only 150 years ago, "there were more than 75 miles of streams in Vancouver, emptying into the sea or the Fraser [River] through perhaps 50 mouths, and supporting runs of coho, chum salmon, pink salmon, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout and steelhead"(Vancouver's Old Streams). Fifty salmon bearing streams flowed through the area, carrying over 100,000 fish. By 1915, a million cubic yards of fill were dredged from False Creek to pile onto a sandbar, creating the industrial site of Gran-ville Island. Vancouver agreed to become the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. By the 1920s over 200 acres of saltwater marsh east of Main Street were filled in for a rail yard. By World War ll's end, False Creek was the city's heaviest used industrial zone. Beehive burners generated thick smoke and Over ten miles of creeks converged into fast flowing streams smog, turning workers' shirts grey by the end of their shift. Creek pouring into deep gullies from the ridge now called Broadway. Some of the big-gest streams flowed into False Creek, draining into its eastern end including Brewery Creek, Still Creek, Mackie Creek and more. Over twice today's size, the False Creek salt water tidal basin was bounded on the East by today's Clark Drive. The creek was sur-rounded by swamp, grass-land, berry bushes, medicinal . plants, and towering forests: LOST STREAMS OF FALSE CREEK waters were toxic with oil con-taminants, rotting wood and raw sewage from sixteen outfalls. The city's garbage dump sat on the Eastern flat lands. Streams were used as garbage dumps until they were culverted. a home to bear, cougar, elk and deer. Salmon-bearing steams flowed up ravines at Campbell and Carrall/Colum-bia. The False Creek mud flats were abundant with shellfish, oolichon, seals, sturgeon and thousands of migratory birds. Thanks to the web site of the False Creek Watershed Society. Industry began moving out of the city in the 1950s. Thirty years later, as False Creek Flats were rezoned for Expo 86 and high-density residential development, the city began cleaning up the flats. Though residual pollution from heavy metals still oozes from the mud and groundwater, and sewage overflows during storms, wild life is beginning to return. Mussels and starfish are finding homes at the seawall. As the creek's water quality improves, small Since time immemorial, ancestors of Coast Salish people living here today gained their livelihood from these lands and waterways, living in villages every few kilometers along English Bay, Burrard Inlet, and False Creek. On a small beach at the foot of today's Carrall Street (where Gastown started), a summer camp lay on a midden of broken clam shells: evidence of generations of use. But within 15 years of the founding of Hastings Mill in 1865, cedar trees had disappeared; herring and seals abandoned Burrard Inlet. Yet even as late as 1900, the waters of False .Creek lapped the edges of today's Pender Street and First Avenue. Chinatown residents traveled to Kitsilano and Locarno beaches to scoop up smelt running in the thousands with dish pans and aprons. schools of fish are returning, bringing sea and shore birds, har-bour seals - even a recent grey whale. With the help of Squamish Stream keepers, who wrapped protective fabric around the toxic creosote-soaked pilings, 10-20 million herring have spawned for the first time in decades. Today 50 streams - an estimated 700 kilometers - flow through Vancouver's storm sewers, though only a handful still support fish life. In recent years, sections of a few creeks have been day-lighted and three years ago, for the first time in 80 years, full sized salmon returned to spawn in Still Creek near 29th Avenue. When will salmon return to the Downtown Eastside? OTHER PERFORMANCES Kokoro Dance is thirty years old! Thirty years ago, Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi co-founded Kokoro with their first office located at 314 Powell, a location where Japanese Canadians once had to register before being sent to camps in the Kootenay's during the Second World War. Today they are sharing office and production space as resident tenants with Vancouver Moving Theatre and Raven Spirit Dance at the Woodward's Heritage Building. One of the city's longest running and hardest-working dance companies, Kokoro has gained a loyal following, being nomi-nated year after year as a Vancouver best dance company by readers of the Georgia Straight. Many will remember Rage, their unforgettable piece combining butoh dance and taiko drumming to address the Japanese Canadian (and American) internments during and after WW II. In John Endo Greenaway's words, "From [Kokoro's] annual performances at Wreck Beach and the Powell Street Festival to their production of the (almost) annual Vancouver International Dance Festival, the company continues to plow their own path and create new works," as they discover what is humanity. TH RE TWELVE ANGRY JURORS November 18 to 29, 8pm DANCE BOOK OF LOVE November 25 to 28, December 2 to 4, 8pm Special Anniversary Dinner Performance December 5, 5pm Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews Kokoro Dance celebrates its 30th year creating viscerally engaging dance with a two-week premiere of Book of Love .at the Roundhouse. Book of Love features choreography and performance by Kokoro Dance founding directors, Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi, joined by dancers Molly McDermott and Billy Marchenski. Music is composed by Jeffrey Ryan, .'vrmer Composer in Residence with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and his score will be performed live by the Standing Wave music ensem-ble. Set and costumes by British artist Jonathan Baldock; lighting design by Gerald King who has worked with Kokoro Dance since its inception in 1986. Tickets/info: www.kokoro.ca or 604-662-4966 DAN lnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall RAVEN SPIRIT DANCE EARTH SONG November 26 to 28, 8pm Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie A young man faces execution. His fate hangs in the hands of twelve jurors. Eleven are ready to get on with it and pronounce him guilty. One wants to ask some questions and re-examine the evidence. Sparks fly during a hot summer day as the process of justice is truly tried and tested. Who wins out in the juror room? A well-known must see drama with a must see cast out of Vancouver by the reputable grassroots Theatre In the Raw. The thrilling classic play is by Reginald Rose, adapted by Sherman L. Sergei and directed by Jay Hamburger. For ticket information and show times, go to theatreintheraw.ca This double bill of contemporary Aboriginal dance moves fron spirit to form through currents of spatial tension and traverse: territories of impulse and memory- singing the land and bod} Michelle Olson's Northern Journey is inspired by the land wi carry inside of us. This internal landscape carves out the path ways that lead to our animal instinct and to images that hole our human experience. Starr Muranko's Spine of the Mothe, brings together Indigenous artists from Canada and Peru to tracE the inner terrain of our bodies as women, while creating ritua which spans mountain ranges we have shared for millennia Post-show artist talkback November 27. Tickets: 604-684-278i ticketstonight.ca; info 504-606-6400 www.thedancecentre.ca HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 47 CONGRATULATIONS Britannia Students Climb Mount Kilimanjaro After preparing by running marathons and fund-raising, fifteen students from Britannia Secondary School's Street Front alternative program climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, African's highest peak! Eighty percent of the students enrolled in the program are Aboriginal. This is the first in a series of expeditions that Street2Peak students will participate in over the next decade, sharing their stories of struggle and success with the rest of the world. During last year's expedition, they spent seven days on the mountain, .five days volunteering in an AIDS orphanage, watched the migration of Wildebeest in the Serengeti plains and traveled to Olduvai Gorge, one of the cradles of human kind. The First Aboriginal Person to Receive a PhD in Northwest Coast First Nation Art History! Mique'I Dangeli has completed her PhD in Art History at UBC: "Dancing Sovereignty: Politics and Protocols of Northwest Coast First Nations Dance." This is the first thesis to focus on Northwest Coast First Na-tion composers and choreographers vital to group dance performances. Mique'I is co-leader of Git Hayetsk Dancers, based at the Van.couver Aboriginal Friendship Centre; they share songs and dances of their ancestors as well as composing and choreographing new works to reflect challenges and victories of their experiences as First Nations people today. The Festival congratulates Cecily Nicholson, Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize! Cecily Nicholson's latest book, From the Poplars, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of BC. From the Poplars is a collection of documentary poetry that reflects on the storied history of Poplar Island in New Westminster. Rabble.ca hailed it as "a compelling blend of poetic research, personal infusion, and historical subjectivity while remaining urgent and insightful. It's a call to arms for environmental consciousness, and a text monument of loss and shame." Cecily is th," administrator of Gallery Gachet and has ,yvorked with women of the Downtown Eastside since 2000. Her work, both creative and social, engages conditions of displacement, class, and gender violence. Congratulations! SUPPORT THE OTES HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL ... Downtown Eastsiders love the arts! We work really hard to support this passion and vitality. Financial donations from our friends like you help fuel this passion. Join us! Donate via Canada Helps: www.heartofthecityfestival.com And sign up for our informative newsletter at the same time! Or by cheque to: Vancouver Moving Theatre Chinatown Postal Outlet Box 88270 Coast Salish Territory Vancouver BC, CANADA V6A 4AS Charitable Tax receipts provided 48 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 ATTENTION! ARTISTS LIVING IN THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE! OTES Small Arts Grants Applications are now on line at: vancouverfoundationsmallarts.ca/apply Applications are also available at the Carnegie Community Centre Info Desk (main entrance). Learn more about applying at an Info Session held on the third floor of the Carnegie: Saturday October 24, 1pm - 2:30pm Sunday November 15, 1pm - 2:30pm Deadline for submissions: Thursday, November 26, 2015, 4pm For more information, contact: Jason Bouchard, coordinator DTES Small Arts Grants dtesartsgrants@gmail.com or 604-665-2213 Viewing painting by Timothy Kirk • ,, j WOODWARD'S Congratulations to SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement as you celebrate your 5th year! We look forward to many more! HERITAGE VANCOUVER SOCIETY 15TH ANNUAL TOP TEN WATCH LIST 2015 In May 2015 Heritage Vancouver Society published their 15th Annual Top Ten Watch List and four out of the ten endangered heritage sites on the list are in the Downtown Eastside. #5Gastown In the late 1960s a committed group of citizens and local politicians were able to stop freeway construction that threatened to demolish the historic heart of Vancouver: Gastown, Chinatown and Strathcona. Thanks to their efforts Gastown was designated a "Historic Area" in 1971 and in 2009 was recognized as a "National Historic District." Today Heritage Vancouver says that Gastown is again threatened by development proposals unsympathetic to the height, profile and rhythm of the streetscape. #7 First block of East Hastings, South Side In recent years, the Downtown Eastside has weathered ever-increasing pressures for both residential and commercial developments, with mixed results, both socially and architecturally. Heritage Vancouver says this pressure affects two of the first four buildings in this block, that together present an undisturbed heritage streetscape that merits preservation. #8 Terminal Avenue - Industrial Buildings/ Vancouver's Disappearing Industrial Heritage The industrial heritage buildings on Terminal at Main are some of the last original industrial heritage buildings remaining in the Eastern Core and almost none have been recognized on the Heritage . Register. With development encroaching from all. sides, Heritage Vancouver says it is crucial to take a closer look at these buildings, and determine their importance to the False Creek Flats. #9 East Hastings - Heatley to Campbell: A main street for Strathcona The approval last year of the DTES Local Area Plan proposes the creation of a 'high-street' along East Hastings from Heatley to Clark as a part of the renewal of the area. Heritage Vancouver says this could impact critical heritage and cultural landmarks at an accelerating rate. Unrecognized but important heritage assets remain unprotected and could be lost, or could alternatively be retained and rehabilitated to serve as a basis for a renewed local shopping area. For more information: www.heritagevancouver.org HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 49 BEATRICE STARR d. 2015 Beatrice Lucy Starr, wolf clan of the Heiltsuk from Bella Bella, passed away on June 14 in the company offamily. As a community member, an organizer with the Power of Women group, a long-time volunteer of the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, and as a mother, auntie, grandmother and sister, she left a legacy to celebrate. She will not be forgotten. Linking issues of colonialism, violence and housing, Bea also spoke out for decent shelter and accessible social housing. We will remember her contributions to the tireless community fronts in defense of women, and particu-larly for the dignity and power of Indigenous women. - Cecily Nicholson 50 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 DALBERT (ALEX) WEIR 1941-2015 Alex was born in Haida Gwaii sixty-nine years ago. In the Village of Masset, he used to watch the elders carve as a young boy. He started working at the age of fourteen, going whereeverthe work was - fishing in Alaska, a security guard in Seattle and logging on Haida Gwaii. Some say he was a renowned dogsled musher. Alex learned to carve from master carvers in 'Ksan village near Hazelton. Alex ended up drunk and injured in Vancouver hos-pital over a decade ago. He started carving again as he began to heal; with the carving came the will to stop drinking. He was transformed with a block of cedar in his hands. His whole aura lit up as he began to shave away slivers of cedar that fall around his feet. Beneath the wood, he could see it, there is a mask waiting. - Sandy MacKeigan MIRIAM STUART d. 2015 A Carnegie volunteer for over a dozen years, Miriam could be found collating, stapling and folding hundreds upon hundreds of Carnegie Newsletters! We fondly remember Miriam in so many ways: she asked "Have you been to Sointula?" and that was the beginning of a road trip with Jean, Wendy and Agnes. "Banter brought to light that she was a cobbler; she knew how to make shoes," says Paul. Stories abound of sing ing and gardening, cy-cl ing and fiddling. Learning, growing, transforming, Miriam was a Heart of the City Festival enthusiast and she volunteered on the set building team of In the Heart of a City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play (2003). Thank you Miriam for your adventurous and generous spirit. - Teresa Vandertuin IN MEMORIUM STEVE "CODY BEAR" LENTINELLO 1951 - 2015 The entire community feels the loss of Cody; his contribution to our lives was immense. Over many years and in so many ways his initiative brightened our days; he introduced us to the wonderful world of 'DJ Mix' dances and became a Pied Piper to large dance crowds; his creative decorating to a theme was always a thrill to see. Cody did everything with heart, humour and gusto; he was perpetually eager to hold out his hand to those in need and was a vital member of the Carnegie community. He was awesome! - Colleen Gorrie ·····················································································································································• ····· EARL MAJESKI 1954 - 2015 I first met Earl when I hired him to work as Security for the DTES Community Play (2003) at the Japanese Hall. Earl was a friendly man, ready with a smile and a story to share. Over the years, our meeting place was on the streets where we would stop to say hello, catch up on the news and share a short anecdote or two. Earl was also a member of the extraordinary Living Footprints Mosaic Project that created the thirty-one stunning historic tile mosaics that are imbedded in sidewalks throughout our neigh-bourhood, one of which is on the back cover of this guide. Thank you Earl for your wonderful work on these informative and beauti-fully designed works of art and heritage. I will remember you with fondness every time I walk by one of your mosaics! - Terry Hunter KELLY STEWART 1944 - 2014 Although we say adieu with pain Memories of your kindness and smile will be recalled again and again. We will not forget too soon The image of your smile brightening up a room. We love you and miss you Kelly. - Colleen Carroll and Colleen Gorrie YULANDA M. FARIS 1937 - 2015 The DTES community lost a dear friend with the passing of the much loved and admired philan-thropist Yulanda Faris. Born in Jamaica, Yulanda loved people, arts and culture, and understood "The arts are a great equalizer; no matter your station in life, every-one needs ... the arts to grow and develop as a contributing member of society." Yulanda seNed on multiple arts boards, was a generous benefactor of the Heart of the City Festival, and seNed as the Co-chair of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver Community Arts Fund, which sup-ports local artists working with DTES organizations. Yulanda was awarded Canada's highest lifetime achievement in the performing arts, the R.J. Hnatyshyn Award for Volunteerism in the Perform-ing Arts (2010) at the Governor General Performing Arts Awards (Ottawa). Thank you Yulanda! You have left a wonderful lasting legacy in our community and in our hearts. - Terry Hunter HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 51 TRAIN OF THOUGHT CREATING - CONVERSING - TOURING - FEASTING - LEARNING - CHANGING TRACKS Protocol Enacted: Arlene Roberts, jil p. weaving (Vancouver Parks Board) TRACKS: 7th Canadian Community Play & Art Symposium (Vancouver) Arrival Ceremony, organized by Lib Spry, Clark Mackey (Kingston, Ontario) Treaty Canoe Project, led by Alex McKay, Tory James (Windsor, Ontario) Ii? MS:ADT ~S: TMS: CITY S:i::'~TIVAL ?015 Train ofThought Departure: Savannah Walling, Terry Hunter (VMT) (Pacific Central Train Station, Vancouver) Water Ceremony: Myths and Mirrors Community Arts (Sudbury, Ontario) Annie Smith, train traveler (Rock Barra, Prince Edward Island). Woven boots, initiated by Sharon Kall is & Rebecca Graham (Vancouver), weaved across Canada with fibres gathered from the land. Train Of Thought Completes Its Cross-Canada Coast To Coast Journey! This journey of reconciliation and collaboration through partici-patory art-making between First Nation and settler-immigrant artists,, . and communities featured: • 7 weeks: May 12 - June 23, 2015 • 25 cities, towns and First Nations communities • 75 travelers: emerging and veteran artists • Produced by Jumblies Theatre with 95 partners -including Vancouver Moving Theatre • Hundreds of people in projects big and small Our New Book If you would like to purchase of copy of our new book From the Heart of a City - Community-engaged Music and Theatre Productions from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: 2002-2013, phone 604-628-5672 or email vancouvermovingtheatre@shaw,ca BAH! HUM returns for a sixth season!! An SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs / Vancouver Moving Theatre co~production in support of the OTES Heart of the City Festival fe!'turing over twenty seasonal and popular songs At the darkest hour of a winter's night, Scrooge confronts spirits of the past, present and future. Emerging from Coast Salish land buried under city sidewalks, the spirits bring the old pawn broker face to face with memories he cannot bear and relationships he may never be able to heal. Bah! Humbug! is a bittersweet twist on a cherished classic that celebrates the transformative power of human redemption. Now more than 150 years old, Dickens' haunting ghost story is filled with social satire, heartbreak and compassion. We hope that our music filled ad-aptation shines the light of truth on this old tale and today's Downtown Eastside. VMT Woodward's Vancouver Moving Theatre, and our facility partners Kokoro Dance, International Dance Festival and Raven Spirit Dance have now taken up residence at the Woodward's Heritage Building. Vancouver Moving Theatre is currently waiting on a federal capital grant request to undertake the capital improvements to our dedicated VMT space. These improvements include the assembly of a Downtown Eastside Mobile Light and Sound Production Package, and the installation of multi-media work stations. Kokoro Dance has received funds to transform the Atrium cafe into a multipurpose studio for rehearsals and presentations, and to install in the base-ment theatre a dance floor, dressing rooms and light and sound equipment. These capital improvements will be completed spring 2016. We are very much looking forward to presenting multiple events in the atrium studio and base-ment theatre at next year's 2016 Heart of the City Festival. G! An Eastside adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Bah! Humbug! features, among others, Juno award-winning singer Jim Byrnes as Scrooge, Margo Kane as Mrs. Cratchit, Jonathan Holmes as Marley, Bill Croft as Bob Cratchit, Sam Bob as Spirit of Christmas Present and Dumpster Diva, Downtown Eastside's Stephen Lytton as Spirit of Christmas Past, Mike Richter as Scrooge's nephew Fred and Savannah Walling as Spirit of Christmas Future; the Downtown East-side's own Saint James Music Academy Children's Choir; and projected images of the art of award-winning Downtown Eastside artist Richard Tetrault. Directed by Max Reimer with music direction by Don Hardy. Don't miss this festive and seasonal favourite where Victorian England meets Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Each show features a turkey draw and an audience sing-along holiday favourites before shovy start. Preview: December 9, 7:30pm December 10-12 & December 15-19, 7:30pm Saturday matinees December 12 & 19, 2:00pm Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Woodward's, 149 W. Hastings Tickets: $29 general/ $15 students & seniors Tickets: www.sfuwoodwards.ca, or at the door one hour before show time HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 53 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Executive Artistic Producer Terry Hunter AssociateArtisticProducerTeresa Vandertuin AssociateArtisticDirectorSavannah Walling Publicist Jodi Smith (JLS Entertainment) Designer John Endo Greenaway (Big Wave Design) Production Manager Robert Wilson Operations Manager Jen Castro Community Outreach Leith Harris Social Media Liisa Hannus Administrative Assistant Doug Vernon Production Staff Andy McAvoy, Gerardo Avila, Bill Beauregarde, Marian Greksa, Liisa Hannus, Duffy McWhirter, Nea l Miskin, Mark Oakley, Andy Smith, Elwin Xie Against the Current Production Team Kougar Basi, Janet Georgeson, Ari Lazer Studio Photography David Cooper On Site Photography Liisa Hannus, Terry Hunter, Mark Montgomery, Tom Quirk On Site Social Media AHA Media Program Guide Contributors John Alan Douglas, Colleen Gerrie , John Endo Greenaway, Rosemary Georgeson, Terry Hunter, Sandy MacKeigan , Rika Uto, Teresa Vandertuin , Savannah Walling, Phoenix Winter, Diane Wood CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE Director Ethel Whitty Assistant Director Sharon Belli Arts & Education Programmer Rika Uto Seniors Program Coordinator Gloria Tsui Carnegie Street Outreach Coordinator Bob Moss Oppenheimer Park/Recreation Programmer Sandy MacKeigan Carnegie Reading Room Natalie Porter Volunteer Coordinator Colleen Gerrie Security Coordinator Skip Everall Kitchen Coordinator Steve McKinley CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION Board of Directors: President Phoen ix Winter; Vice President Priscillia Tait ; Treasurer Pat McSherry; Secretary Adrienne Macallum; Memberat Large Sharon Kravitz, Lisa David, Thelma Jack, Wilson Leung, Debra McNaught, Gary Moore, James Pau, Fraser Stuart, Margaret Teng, Mike Tapp THANK YOU to the Association of United VANCOUVER MOVING THEATRE Executive Director Terry Hunter Artistic Director Savannah Walling Accountant Lucy Lai Bookkeeper Miyra Onley ... ,"Ukrainian Can·adians for their continuing support, and to SFU Woodward's Cultural & Commu nity Programs (SFUW) for co-producing Bah! Humbug!, an annual benefit for the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival·and community arts in Administrative Assistant Doug Vernon Strategic Planning Consultant Lori Baxter Board of Directors: President Ann McDonell; Vice President Renae Morriseau, Secretary John Atkin, Treasurer Louise Leclair, Members at Large: Donna Dykeman, Todd Wong THANKS for the guiding strategie~ developed by the Heart of the City Festival Strategic and Sustainabil ity Plan Advisory (2007): Al lan Cappo, Joe Dzatko, Sophia Freigang, Leslie Kemp, Rick Lam, Renae Morriseau, Robert Olsen, Ruth Sam, Barbara Small, Sid Tan and Kira Gerwing; the DTES Heart of the City Festival Succession and Sustainability Strategic Plan (2012) developed by Dawn Brennan and Linda Gerrie; the VMT Sustainability and Succession Implementation Plan (2014) created with Lori Baxter; and Vancouver Moving Theatre's Board of Directors who have provided guidance and support with good will ever since the company's founding over thirty years ago. HATS OFF TO OUR SPONSORS the Downtown Eastside. PROGRAM GUIDE IMAGE/PHOTO CREDITS Cedar Bowers, Sharon Burns, Thosh Collins, Liam Coo, David Cooper, Scott Douglas, John Endo Greenaway, Atty Gell , Colleen Gerrie, Mark Haracka , ~hristine Hatfull , Susan Johnston , Vanessa Kay, Leslie Kennah, Aaron Leon, Clarke Mackey, Ammar Mahimwalla, Greg Masuda, Mark Montgomery, Margaret Naylor, Lou-Ann Neel, Melanie Orr, Tom Quirk, Chris Randle, Debra Sloan, Diane Smithers, UNIT/PITT Projects, Molly Winston, and many more unknown artists and photographers. 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 Anonymous, Leona Adams, Evan and Ingrid Alderson, Russell Anthony, John Atkin, Elizabeth Ball, Michael Clague, Brian Coleman, Fred and Marie Donatiello, Yulanda Faris, Frank Harris, Terry Hunter, Louise Leclair, Kelty McKerracher; Mary McCauley, Ellie O'Day Productions, Sandy Scofield, Patricia Shields, Robert Wilson, Carolyn Wong, Todd Wong, Marilyn Young, Gerry Zipursky Canadian Heritage Patrimoine canadien BRITISH COLUMBIA Canada Council for the Arts ~TYOF VANCOUVER Conseil des Arts du Canada A BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTS COUNCIL AnJgtf\.eyof!Ml'NMnetofBl'ltlshCOluml:Q Friends of DTESArts £TELUS ® City C~OMNI" ff{ _}Jj DIVERSITY TELEVISION •'l WOODWARD'S : ll'ilffl'ral ~:,,~ ,,, ">":\,':,,,;s<; <• .. , ·,,•N~•;;; ,>.:-'. 54 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 CREDITS + THANKS PHOTOSHOOT PARTICIPANTS Lucy Alderson, Erol Almelek, Tai Anderson, Ghia Aweida, Debbie Blair, Sue Blue, Dalannah Gail Bowen, Victoria Bull, Stella Castell, Emma Charleson, Yvon Paul Chartrand, Graham Cunningham, Doronn Dalzell, Joyce Fossella, Ernesto Garcia, Rosemary Georgeson, John Endo Greenaway, Wendy Havens, Stan Hudac, Terry Hunter, CJ Jandrew, Kelly Johns, Luisa Jojic, Cori Kelly, Wilson Liang, Debbie Lincoln, Robyn Livingstone, Anita Lo, Jeff Lomenda, Maria Rosa Lopez, Alex Martin, Quin Martins, Andy McAvoy, Mike McNeeley, Joan Morelli, Johnny Mustang (Larry Mustvedt), Michael Edwards (Nardachioni), James Oickle (with dog Mia), Sarah M. Ouellette (with dog Nyah), Stanley M. Paul, Natalia Popoff, Antonette Rea, Mike Richter, lrit Shimrat, Brayden Shinkawa, Kyle Shinkawa, Donald N. Simmers, Robert Simpson, Sam Snobelen, Roger Stewart, Priscillia Tait, Sid Chow Tan, Karen Thorpe, Teresa Vandertuin, Herb Varley, Freda Wallace, Ridley Wallace, Russell Wallace, Savannah Walling, Anne Watson, D. M. Williams, Chizuko Wilson, lchiro Wilson, Teresa Wong, Taninli Wright, Aly Yamamoto, Kazuho Yamamoto, Tara Yamamoto, Swallow Zhou COMMUNITY PARTNERS 221A, Aboriginal Front Door, Admiral Seymour Elementary School, AHA Media, Atira/EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art), Capilano University, Carnegie Community Action Project, Carnegie Cultural Sharing, Carnegie Learning Centre, Carnegie TV with ACCESS Community Television (Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society), China Cloud Studios, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, City Opera Vancouver, Community Arts Council of Vancouver, Co-op Radio CFRO 100.SFM, Creativa International, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, DTES Centre for the Arts, DTES Neighbourhood House, DTES SRO Collaborative, DTES Street Market, DTES Women's Centre, eartHand Gleaners, Eastside Artists Company, Evelyne Saller Centre, Firehall Arts Centre, Floral & Hardy Edible Plants, Gallery Gachet, Garn Gallery, lmagi'NATION, International Web Express, Instruments of Change, Jim Sands Presents, Jumblies Theatre (Ontario), Jump for Joy! Photo Project, Karen Jamieson Dance Company, Kokoro Dance, Listening Post, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Megaphone, Oppenheimer Park, PHS Community Services (Culture Saves Lives, Drug Users Resource Centre, Interurban Gallery), Playwrights Theatre Centre, Raven Spirit Dance, Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre, Red Fox Healthy Living Society, SBC Restaurant, Seven Tyrants Theatre, SFU's Van city Office of Community Engagement, Stand Up For Mental Health, St. James' Anglican Church, Strathcona Community Centre, The Ironworks, Theatre in the Raw, Templeton Secondary School - Theatre Temp, Thursdays Writing Collective, UBC Learning Exchange, Union Gospel Mission, UNIT/PITT Projects, Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF), Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation (Healthy Aging Through the Arts), Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) /W2 Media Hub, Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall, Vancouver Police Museum, Vancouver Public Library (Carnegie Reading Room, Strathcona Community Library, Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence), Vancouver Taiko Society, Watari, Woodward's Atrium (West Bank Corporation), Women Transforming Cities SPECIAL THANKS BEHIND THE SCENES Staff and patrons of the Carnegie Community Centre, Steve Edwards and the Carnegie Music Program, Paul Taylor and the Carnegie Newsletter, staff and patrons of Oppenheimer Park, Doug Alder, Lucy Alderson, Tomi Asakawa, Charles Barber, Laura Barron, Bill Beauregarde, Sharon Belli, Pamela Bentley, Dalan-nah Gail Bowen, Michael Boucher, Barbara Bourget, Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, Jenifer Brousseau, Carrie Campbell, Betty Carlson, Sean Condon, Colin Cowan, Carol Crabtree, Andrea Creamer, Daniel and Patricia, Linda De Ciantis, Kate Declerck, Daniel Deorksen, Jim Dewar, Beverly Dobrinsky, Cal Drysdale, Tina Eastman, Nathan Edelson, Barbara Edwards, Deanna Fer-guson, Kathleen Flaherty, Danny Fung, Rosemary Georgeson, Kathy Gibler, Chris Gilpin, Bob Gilson, Colleen Gorrie, David Granirer, John Endo Greenaway, Aliya Griffin, Jay Hamburger, Mark Haracka, Malcolm Eric Hassin, Larissa Healey, James Highet, Jay Hirabayashi, Tarah Hogue, Darren Holobovich, Ruth Howard, Am Johal, Diane Johnston, Luisa Jojic, Diane Kadota, Sharon Kallis, Shivani Kapur, Deb Karras, Cody Kenny, Sara Kinakin, Dianna Kleparchuk, Gerry Kowalenko, Elee Kraijii Gar-diner, Els Kushner, Christina Lahde, Kristin Lantz, Laurel Lawry, Caroline Lay, Ari Lazer, Kathleen Leahy, Janice Lee, Ali Lohan, Donna Lokhorst, Stephen Lytton, Adrienne Macallum, Sandy MacKeigan, Devon Martin, Valerie Mason-John, Greg Masuda, Jesse McKee, Kelty McKerracher, Steve McKinley, Natalie McNeill, Pat McSherry, Ruth Meta, Anthony Meza-Wilson, Kuei Ming, Audrey Moysiuk, Brad Muirhead, Bruce Murton, Cecily Nicholson, Jessica Numminen, Michelle Olson, Suzie O'Shea, Irwin Oostindie, Wendy Pedersen, Earle Peach, Katie Piasta, lmtiaz Popat, Natalie Porter, Shawn Punton, Brenda Racanelli, Esther Rausenberg, Vanessa Richards, Mike Richter, Harjinder Sandhu, Jim Sands, Ariadne Sawyer, Oliver Schneider, Kailin See, Rena Sharon, Kathy Shimizu, April Smith, Patrick Smith, Sam Snobelen, Chrystal Sparrow, Donna Spencer, Geetha Subramaniyam, Simin Sun, Ron Suzuki, Jean Swanson, Terez Szoke, Pamela Tagle, Cassie Tagseth, Priscillia Tait, Liza Tam, Sid Chow Tan, James Tanaka, Heidi Taylor, Grace EikoThomson, Karen Thorpe, Gloria Tsui, Andrew Turner, Rika Uto, Herb Varley, Hannah Walker, Russell Wallace, Maria Wallstam,jil p. weaving, Carol White, Ethel Whitty, Peggy Wilson, Phoenix Winter, Vincent Wong, Diane Wood, Kazuho Yamamoto, Fanna Yee, Anthony Zdansky, Toni Yue Zhang McAfee ... and thanks. to those we may have unwittingly forgotten, and to those who helped after this program guide went to print. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 55 Heart of the City Festival by Phoenix Winter The heart beats For two minutes To speak for Music Art Spoken word Poetry. Dance and theatre Walking tours Of our hood. Our heart beats In this community This place, This Carnegie Centre Feel the beating heart In our performances For each other and you Lift our hearts To the sky. Strength, Resilience & Hope by John Alan Douglas i th ink of these three when i muse on this festival free strength for us all to face material and other forms of chronic poverty resil ience to fight foes wanting to break us to systemically under-rate us hope to grasp futures of love, peace not wars, hate or bigotry ... 56 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2015 Priscillia Tait Vancouver's leading arts source. Proud Media Sponsor ~ BREAKFAST TELEVISION. BreakfastTelevision.ca I] STRAIGHT.COM rn [tJ WEEKDAYS 5:30-9am Proud Sponsor of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival City ~-~- 0 ROGERS' 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. January 21, 2019
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