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CRAB PARK & THE NEST PROJECT Walking Tour with Greg Ferguson & Don Larson for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Thursday Nov 4, 2010
Walking Tour
CRAB PARK & THE NEST PROJECT
with Greg Ferguson & Don Larson
Thursday November 4, 4:30pm-6pm
Meet at Wendy Poole Park, NW corner of Main & Alexander
Environmental artist Sharon Kallis spent the summer in workshops with community members to create woven sculptures for the marsh pond located in CRAB Park. They wove perches and protection for park birds and helped to make the area more livable for birds in the DTES, www.crabparknest.wordpress.com. As they worked they learned about the history and stories of the favourite waterfront from Don Larson, activist and founder of CRAB Water for Life Society. Led by Don’s persistence in the mid-80s, determined residents set up a tent-city for almost three months to fight for the right to build a park in the DTES. Their persistence eventually paid off and we celebrate the results of their activism in this natural jewel of a park. Don and Greg Ferguson, biologist, will lead a walking tour of the park history, ecology, and various memorials and art works. $10 for non-residents, pay what you can for local residents
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ABORIGINAL CELEBRATION DANCE at Carnegie Community Centre for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Monday Nov 1, 2010
Cultural Sharing
ABORIGINAL CELEBRATION
Monday November 1, 5pm-8pm
Carnegie Community Centre
Gym & Theatre, 401 Main
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-second year, offers First Nations people from across North America an opportunity to share cultural events such as Pow Wows, cultural trips, singing and drumming, and to make arts & crafts. This year we have a special Aboriginal celebration with dancers, singers and drummers from the Coast Salish territory.
At 5pm First Nations dancers and singers will perform in the Carnegie gym on the 2nd floor. Come early to get a spot, this will be very exciting. Everyone welcome. Free
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SNOWY OWL DRUMMERS for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Saturday Oct 30, 2010
Music in the Streets
SNOWY OWL DRUMMERS
Saturday October 30, 2pm-3:30pm
Starts at Pigeon Park, Carrall & Hastings
A Music in the Streets project, the Snowy Owl Drummers drum the community’s heartbeat. Feel the rhythm, sing the songs! 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
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
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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