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Utopia Festival: Women in Digital Culture Celebrating women in music on March 5, 2011 at Vancouver’s creative hub W2 Storyeum!
Utopia Festival: Women in Digital Culture
Celebrating women in music on March 5, 2011 at Vancouver’s creative hub W2 Storyeum!
Showcase | Concert | Mobile Dance Party | Unconference | Music Maker Workshops
Showcase features 25 artists + 3 rooms | Electro | hiphop | bass |
Showcase and unconference featuring: Peaches, Tanya Tagaq, Isis Salam, Betti Forde, B-Traits, Librarian, Lynx, Zenobia Salik, She, Blondtron, Lady Lane, Tank Girl, Miss M, Just Sheila, Bles-sed, The Square Root of Evil, JNL, Miss Innocent, Tapes + more TBA. Media artists include VJ Electrabelle, Julie Gendron, Sebnem Ozpeta, Claudia Medina, and Krista Lomax.
Follow along on Twitter: @W2Utopia
Tickets available now at Beatstreet, Little Sister’s, Puff, Zulu, People’s Coop Bookstore, The Fall, W2 and online http://utopiafestival.eventbrite.com
The evening concert and showcase program is open to men and women, while the daytime is women-only. Note program subject to change.
For women interested in electronic music and media, Utopia Unconference wristbands provide all-access and 3 meals: Breakfast, Music Maker Workshops, Lunch, Mobile Dance Party, Unconference, Dinner Reception, Concert, and Showcase. We are anticipating 150 women participating in five creative streams: electro, hip hop, bass, electro-acoustic and live cinema.
Check out this background article on Granville Online. Produced by W2, and curated by Betti Forde, Irwin Oostindie, Librarian, and Nina Mendoza.
The Festival coincides with the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day and its theme: 100 Women, 100 Artworks. Proceeds support W2’s Second Annual Girls Creative Tech Summer Camps (8-14 years).
Call for workshop proposals: DJs and live PA; media art performers & installations for this showcase of electronic leaders and emerging artists. Inquiries:irwin@creativetechnology.org or call W2 office: 604.689.9896
SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 5, 2011
• Purchase a Festival wristband if you wish to participate! Workshop details will be coming soon.
• Unconference registration table opens 9am
• Youth delegates welcome 9am-9pm
• Childcare provided on-site 9am-9pm
• While the unconference and workshops are open to women only, for everything else men are welcome.
10am-12noon Morning Music-Making Workshops Hands-on creative technology workshops electronic music production, turntabling, video production, music journalism. All levels of experience welcome including youth (15-19 year olds)
12 – 1pm Lunch
12:30 – 2:00 Mobile Dance Party
Public, free. Meet at Broadway skytrain 12:30pm for a live pirate radio broadcast and dance party down Commercial Drive in celebration of the 100th anniversary International Women’s Day Parade.
2-8pm Unconference
2:00 – registration opens
2:30 conference welcome
2:45 opening keynote
3:00 opening panel
3:45 open space intro
3:45 coffee break provided by W2 media cafe
4:00 open space sessions I + II – (5 concurrent)
6:00 production workshops (5 parallel streams: electro; bass; hip hop; electro-acoustic, live cinema)
7:00-8:00pm dinner reception
8pm Evening Program
Keynote address: Peaches (Berlin) and music by Tanya Tagaq (NWT) with guests, plus Women Writers – readings in association with W2 Real Vancouver Writer’s Series.
10:30pm Showcase!
Electro, Bass, Hip Hop starring Peaches, Isis Salam, Betti Forde, Librarian, Lynx, Tanya Tagaq, Zenobia, B-Traits, DJ She, Tank Girl, plus more! Media artists include VJ Electrabelle, Julie Gendron, Sebnem Ozpeta, Claudia Medina, and Krista Lomax.
AHA MEDIA at With Glowing Hearts the Movie Screening in Vancouver
With Glowing Hearts: A Vancouver 2010 Social Media Story explores what it means to be human, #hashtags, hockey and homlessness.
See you there. Tell us about your Olympic Experience on Twitter @WGHTheMovie
The one year anniversary of the games is fast approaching but the effects that it had on our local culture are still largely unexplored. This documentary
After the screening there will be beverages and celebrations at W2
Rocky Dal Passo asks for donations for his cat’s surgery in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Rocky Dal Passo’s beloved cat Alicia needs surgery to fix her back hind legs after she was thrown out of a 5 story window during a break and enter! The vet’s bill is $5,000!!
We are seeking public donations to help with the cover the Vet bill
Alicia is currently at the SPCA hospital in Vancouver.. Her client ID number is 701738
BC SPCA Hospital
1205 East 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC, V5T 1R1
604 879 3571
The SPCA is currently investigating this act of Animal Cruelty
Below is a video of Rocky speaking about his cat
Donations can be made to the BC SPCA Hospital 604 879 3571 or email us at HelpmyAlicia@gmail.com
John from Australia and his thoughts on Olympics 2010 and Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Below are photos and video of John from Australia and his thoughts on Olympics 2010 and Vancouver Downtown Eastside
“With Glowing Hearts” – Screening this Saturday Feb 12, 2011
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This Saturday, the Wait is Over!Though it’s doubtful that any of you have been waiting as long for this day as Andrew and I, we hope that you’re equally excited. We can’t wait to finally present the film to everyone and have been overwhelmed by the amount of interest we’ve had so far since announcing the screening a few weeks ago. If you’ve already signed up on our Eventbrite page, great, but if you haven’t don’t despair because you might still be able to get in just by showing up (or join us for the afterparty at W2). We know that there are lots of other great Olympic related events going on that day, but we hope that you’ll include us in your schedule. Here are the details:
We’ll also be hosting our friends from W2, Hope in Shadows, Megaphone Magazine and OpenMedia.ca, as well as raising money for the construction of a wireless mesh network in the DTES Reserved tickets will be held until 15 minutes before showtime and then released on a first come – first served basis. If you miss this screening, keep your ears open for other opportunities throughout the coming year, and we’ll keep you posted as well |
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