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AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile films people’s thoughts of Story Box projects at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile films people’s thoughts of Story Box projects at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
At the heart of the City’s Great Beginnings Initiative is the desire to go back to its roots and give each of the founding neighborhoods something to talk about. In one such community, the DTES Story Box Project highlights its rich and storied cultural diversity through oral and written tradition. Unique object/artifact boxes illustrate stories from various voices which are intermingled to create a new and visceral experience.
The Storybox Project at the Surge Festival is the sensational finish to a process that involved over eighty members of DTES community based writing groups who developed their individual stories utilizing personal artifacts as inspiration and illustration. The manifold stories held common threads bound to universal themes. StoryBox at Storyeum presents five such themes as representative of the powerfully spoken words by the most demo-diverse voices working in concert with some of Vancouver’s brightest lights in media arts.
In this video, Irwin Oostindie, Stephen Lytton and Councillor Heather Deal speak on Story Box Project in Surge Festival at W2 Storyeum
In this video, Hendrik Beune and Anne Marie Slater view projections at Story Box Project in W2 Storyeum
In this video, Hendrik Beune is a featured interview in a movie at Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver DTES
Below is a photo of Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd standing in front of Story Box description on the wall
Below is a photo of Jorge Campos, Quest Kabuki, Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd in front of W2 Storyeum
In this video, Erin de Zwart shares her thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd shares their thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Sid Tan shares his thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Story Box Project Opening Reception on Friday, August 6th from 7pm till late at W2 Storyeum
The Story Box Project featured at the Surge Festival
August 6 – 28th, 2010
W2 Storyeum – 151 West Cordova St. (at Abbott St)
Opening Reception: Friday, August 6th from 7pm till late
Regular Exhibition Viewing
August 7 to August 28, noon-6pm. Wednesday to Sunday, Free admission
At the heart of the City’s Great Beginnings Initiative is the desire to go back to its roots and give each of the founding neighborhoods something to talk about. In one such community, the DTES Story Box Project highlights its rich and storied cultural diversity through oral and written tradition. Unique object/artifact boxes illustrate stories from various voices which are intermingled to create a new and visceral experience.
The Storybox Project at the Surge Festival is the sensational finish to a process that involved over eighty members of DTES community based writing groups who developed their individual stories utilizing personal artifacts as inspiration and illustration. The manifold stories held common threads bound to universal themes. StoryBox at Storyeum presents five such themes as representative of the powerfully spoken words by the most demo-diverse voices working in concert with some of Vancouver’s brightest lights in media arts.
urban ink, an interdisciplinary theatre company connected artists with residents to create five video and sound installations:
A solely aural exploration of the Story Box themes, AudioVox simultaneously looks at the relationship between chaos, order and form. [Frederick Brummer/Rupinder Sidhu]
Resistance for Existence exposes four different realities of people forced to hold firm against adverse forces even as they need to shift their perspectives in order to survive. [Cease Wyss/Shawn Chappelle]
Natural beauty and magic have been lost within the distractions of materialism yet we conjure different illusions & myths to help make sense of things in Web We Weave. [Su-an Ng/Sepideh Saii]
A suspension of story, image and object triangulate as audience members weave their way inside and outside the Mother Tongue musings of four multilingual tellers. [Justin Sekiguchi/Lenke Sifko]
ShadowBox presents a random interplay of silhouetted actors with the stories and key phrases from StoryBox’s eighty participants. The results of this 6-month project are revealed to pedestrian onlookers in W2 Storyeum windows. [Krista Lomax/Sammy Chien]
Media Artists: Frederick Brummer, Shawn Chappelle, Su-an Ng, Sepideh Saii, Justin Sekiguchi, Rupinder Sidhu, Lenke Sifko, Cease Wyss, Krista Lomax and Sammy Chien.
Contributing Artists: Julia Aleynikova, Samuel Beaudry, Colin Beiers, Hendrick Beune, Afuwa Granger, Lenore Herb, Jezebel S. Jones, Quest Kabuki, Bill Lim, Joan Morelli and Antonette Rea. Community Group Animators/Facilitators: Hari Alluri, Lesley Ewen, MutyaMacatumpag, Omari Newton, Irwin Oostindie, Quelemia Sparrow and Naomi Steinberg.
The StoryBox Exhibition has been curated by urban ink and W2, with financial assistance of the City of Vancouver, and produced in association with: Vancouver Society of Storytelling, Raycam Community Centre, Interurban, Fearless City Mobile, Musqueam Nation Writer’s Group, DTES Women’s Centre Writing Group, Carnegie Centre’s Thursday Writing Collective, Life Skills Centre, Native Court Workers’ Saturday Family Storytelling, Ugnayaan Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance, Surrey Urban Youth Project, Gathering Place Megaphone project, Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society (ACCESS).
W2 Community Media Arts at Vancouver Folk Festival 2010
W2 Community Media Arts and Fearless City Mobile will be having an info table set up during Vancouver Folk Festival 2010, July 16 – 18, please come over and say hello to us! 🙂
W2 brings spaces to life with the arts and creative technology in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
W2 Storyeum will also be hosting the After-Party for the Vancouver Folk Fest Volunteers this Sunday night July 18 with DJ Dolores (BR) http://ow.ly/2ceho Les Boukakes (FR) http://ow.ly/2cekx
Come visit us at our 31,000 sq ft project site:
W2 Storyeum
151 W. Cordova
Vancouver BC V6B 1G8
DUKOT’s Media Conference at W2 Storyeum livestreamed by Peter Davies of Fearless City, W2 and AHA MEDIA
Please see our Peter Davies’ of W2, Fearless City and AHA MEDIA’s Livestream of DUKOT’s MEDIA CONFERENCE
MEDIA CONFERENCE FOR DUKOT
WHAT: Media conference for the controversial political thriller Dukot
(Desaparecidos) in Vancouver with the artists in attendance
WHO: The film Dukot’s producer Dennis Evangelista, scriptwriter Bonifacio Ilagan, lead actor Allen Dizon from the Philippines, and U.S.-based poet and artist Melissa Roxas, survivor of abduction and torture, will be joined by members of the Dukot Organizing Committee-Vancouver.
WHEN: June 2, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.-11 a.m. WHERE: W2 at Storyeum, 151 West Cordova St., Vancouver, BC V6B 1E1 WHY:Dukot is a powerful and gripping cinematic experience that reveals the reality of the forced disappearances and ongoing human rights violations in the Philippines.
Dukot is based on the stories of real life desaparecidos (the disappeared) as well as the first-hand experience of scriptwriter Bonifacio Ilagan, a former political detainee, who was twice forcibly abducted.
INTERVIEWS: Dukot guests and members of the Dukot Organizing Committee will be
available to answer media questions.
A backgrounder will be available at the media conference. Co-sponsored by COPE and W2.
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile is proud to be at VIDWEEK 2010 – Vancouver Interactive Digital Week W2 Launch Party on Tuesday May 25 7 – 10 pm at W2 Storyeum
Time: May 25, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: W2 Storyeum
Street: 151 W Cordova
City/Town: Vancouver
Phone: 604-689-9896
Event Type: reception, party
Organized By: W2
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Event Description
Celebrate the launch of VIDWeek 2010 at Vancouver’s celebrated Storyeum site. This is the kickoff to an exciting week of networking, learning, and parties for the digital media and wireless industries, with Canada, USA, Asia Pacific and Europe represented.
Tired of ‘Rock Band’ parties? Try the real thing at The Wailing Wall of Sound, the largest guitar amp in the world, at 40 foot long. Feeling digital street-wise and artistic? Try Tangible Interaction‘s interactive grafitti wall, and be entertained with our DJs and VJs. Enjoy hors d’ouevres from the W2 Cafe, and local ales from Storm Brewing.
Entry free with Conference Registration, $10 for everyone else. Parking upstairs at EasyPark(enter off Cordova or Water), bike parking inside.
The Party is the evening program that follows the day-long Digital Media Day (WIP Jam format), 9-4pm at W2 Storyeum.
If you are a W2 member and wish to attend this evening Launch Party RSVP via 604.689.9896.
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