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HOMELESSNESS AND GENTRIFICATION Walking Tour with CCAP – Carnegie Community Action Project for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Saturday Oct 30, 2010
Walking Tour
HOMELESSNESS AND GENTRIFICATION with CCAP
Saturday October 30, 11:30am–1pm
Meet at steps of Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main
Learn for yourself how gentrification causes homelessness in the Downtown Eastside. Led by Wendy Pedersen and volunteers from the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), this walking tour will go past new market housing that is pushing up land values and rents in 100 year old hotels. Learn how low-income residents are organizing to slow gentrification and preserve the good things about their community while working for more social housing. CCAP is building consensus within the community for a vision of the Downtown Eastside that hopefully the city will adopt. Visioning reports and information on gentrification can be found on their blog: www.ccapvancouver.wordpress.com. $10 for non-residents, pay what you can for local residents
Below is a video of Terry Hunter at Homelessness and Gentrification Walking Tour for Heart of the City Festival 2010
Below is a video of Wendy Pedersen at Homelessness and Gentrification Walking Tour for Heart of the City Festival 2010
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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
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
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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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
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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Arts in the Neighbourhood Documentaries at Chapel Arts for the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Thursday Oct 28, 2010
ARTS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Thursday October 28, 7pm-8:30pm
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy Free
The Heart of the City Festival is pleased to show a selection of documentaries made by students of the Vancouver Film School under the guidance of instructor and documentary filmmaker Cari Green. A second program of films will be shown on Saturday November 6, 4pm in the Carnegie Theatre.
No Light at Midnight (2010)
This short documentary tells the story of the Pantages Theatre on East Hastings, the oldest remaining vaudeville theatre in Canada, and its struggle for revitalization in the DTES. Directed by Jay Macmillan, No Light at Midnight is about the death of history and historical significance and speaks strongly to a specific case of preventable displacement and decay. (8:45”)
The Laughing Drum (2010)
A short film directed by Isaac Carter about Uzume Taiko, Canada’s first professional taiko drumming group. Their name is derived from taiko, the Japanese word for “big drum” and from the goddess of laughter, Ame No Uzume No Mikoto, who according to legend first began taiko drumming. The film gives a taste of the techniques, tools and drive that makes Uzume Taiko unique in the world of taiko. (9:23”)
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