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NOT MY LOVE(R) Opening Reception for Bernadine Fox at InterUrban Gallery for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Friday Oct 29, 2010

October 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Opening Reception
NOT MY LOVE(R) Bernadine Fox
Friday October 29, 7pm-10pm
InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings
Exhibition October 26 to Nov 13

Bernadine Fox (BFA) hails from a place on this planet that is so flat you can see company coming from over ten miles away. She raised two girls as a single parent and is now a single nana raising her granddaughter. Bernadine paints, draws, teaches, curates, writes, and organizes art events. In this exhibit of paintings, Bernadine explores a broken heart and discovers that the act of facing and working through tremendous pain always (always) brings back the positive: large, bright, and very much alive. Her work is created for and about the modern woman. (www.bernadinefox.ca) The gallery is open Wed to Sat, 1:30pm to 5pm. Free

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Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short at Urban Aboriginal Gallery Opening for the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Friday Oct 29, 2010

October 29, 2010 Leave a comment

GALLERY OPENING Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short
Friday October 29, 7pm-9pm
Urban Aboriginal Gallery, 456 E. Hastings

During this past summer a landmark mural project was painted on the west wall of the newly-renovated Orwell Hotel. The ground floor of the Orwell was the planning space for the artists and organizers. Inspired by the creative energy of the artists working together, the Vancouver Native Housing Society moved forward to open the Urban Aboriginal Gallery in the same ground floor location. Join the artists to celebrate with music from one of the participating artists, Haisla Collins and her roots acoustic band—Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short.  Specializing in blues and ballads with flavours of gospel, jazz and country, Haisla is joined by Lorenzo Watters on lead guitar and mandolin, the Reverend Gabriel Hebert on slide guitar and banjo, and Father Theo on rhythm guitar and twelve-string. That’s urban blues! See you there! Free

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Throught the Eye of the Raven at Urban Aboriginal Gallery for the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Friday Oct 29, 2010

October 29, 2010 Leave a comment

THROUGH THE EYE OF THE RAVEN
Friday October 29, 2pm-4pm
Urban Aboriginal Gallery, 456 E. Hastings

Meet the team of artists who created, designed and painted the extraordinary Through the Eye of the Raven, Western Canada’s largest mural recently completed on the west wall of the newly-renovated Orwell Hotel. Hear their ‘mural stories’ in the informal setting of the new Urban Aboriginal Gallery, followed by a 3pm slideshow presentation featuring the community and artistic process of this landmark project. Mural co-artistic directors were Richard Tetrault and Jerry Whitehead, and participating artists included: Richard Shorty, Northern Tutchone; Sharifah Marsden, Anishnabe; Haisla Collins, Tsimshian; Eric Parnell, Haida; and the poet Nicola Campbell, Interior Salish of Nle7kepmx (Thomson) and Nsilz (Okanagan). All artists are residents of Vancouver’s Eastside. The mural is a Vancouver Native Housing Society project created with support from the City of Vancouver, BC Housing, Britiannia Community Centre, Strathcona BIA, General Paint, the Royal Bank, VanMar Constructors and others. The best views of the mural are either from across the street in the Patricia Hotel parking lot, or looking east from Gore up the alley between Hastings and Pender. (www.urbanaboriginal.org) Everyone welcome. Free

Below is a video of  Savannah Walling at Through the Eye of the Raven Art Talk at Heart of the City Festival 2010

Below are photos of  Former Premier Mike Harcourt at Through the Eye of the Raven Art Talk at Heart of the City Festival 2010

Below is a photo and video of  Richard Tetrault at Through the Eye of the Raven Art Talk at Heart of the City Festival 2010

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The Rev. Chan Family Legacy: Five Generations of Vancouver Chinese History 1888 to 2007 at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Thursday Oct 28, 2010

October 29, 2010 1 comment

THE REV. CHAN FAMILY LEGACY: Five Generations of Vancouver
Chinese History 1888 to 2007
Thursday October 28, 7:30pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, 555 Columbia

The Chan family first came to Canada to help start the Chinese Methodist Church and every generation since has made contributions to Canadian society. In 2007, filmmaker Halya Kuchmij interviewed members of one of the oldest families on the West Coast and made a documentary about the stories and achievements of Reverend & Mrs. Chan, their sons Luke Chan (Hollywood actor) and Jack Chan (golfer); grandchildren Helen Lee and Victor Wong (WW2 veteran); great-grandchildren Gary Lee (entertainer) and Janice Wong (artist); and great-great grandchildren Todd Wong (community and cultural activist) and Tracey Hinder (high school student). The many turns of the Chan family reflect the challenges of exclusion, the fight for rights, the strength of family and citizenship, and the right to vote. The festival is pleased to show The Chan Legacy, directed by Halya Kuchmij, from the CBC Learning Generations Series (2007, 43:37) and we are fortunate to have Todd Wong moderate the conversation afterwards. Todd is a descendent of Reverend Chan and the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, the annual celebration of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day (www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com) – an event that marries two cultures that once lived completely separate in the early days of British Columbia. Everyone welcome.

Below is a photo and videos of Gary Lee (crooner and entertainer)  and Todd Wong  (community and cultural activist)

Below is Gary Lee, Janice Wong ( artist ) and Todd Wong

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The Returning Journey of Dalannah Gail Bown at Centre A for the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Thursday Oct 28, 2010

October 29, 2010 Leave a comment

Book Launch
THE RETURNING JOURNERY
Dalannah Gail Bowen
Thursday October 28, 8pm
Centre A, 2 W. Hastings

Join one of Vancouver’s premier vocalists Dalannah Gail Bowen and friends to celebrate the publication of a poetry collection based on the music and songs of her original show The Returning Journey. In 2007, Dalannah and Michael Creber presented a heart-breaking and soul-stirring performance of poetry and song to share her journey through abuse, addiction, homelessness, illness and return. She has now collected that material in book form and invites you to share in the continuing journey. Dalannah, a proud Downtown Eastside resident, revived her singing career in 2003 when she participated in the landmark In The Heart Of A City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play (Vancouver Moving Theatre/Carnegie). Her first CD Mamma’s Got the Blues, of which the title track was a finalist in the 2008 International Songwriting Awards, continues to receive international airplay. Along with readings of some of the poems, this is a great opportunity to hear great music with a great singer accompanied by great musicians, including Michael Creber on piano. (www.dalannahgailbowen.com) Settle in on a cold evening and listen to some fine words and music.

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