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CELEBRATION OF OPPENHEIMER PARK for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Saturday Nov 6 2010
Community Celebration
CELEBRATION OF OPPENHEIMER PARK
Saturday November 6, 11am-2:30pm
Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell
Join the community in a celebration of Chief Henry Robertson’s new carvings to be installed in Oppenheimer Park. Many trees fell during the devastating storm in Stanley Park four years ago, and with the help of Constant Arts Society and the DTES Heart of the City Festival, one of those large cedars has found a home in the Downtown Eastside. The cedar is being carved in two vertical halves by Chief Robertson, his son Henry Robertson Jr., local carvers and community youth. Join us for music, drumming, song, ceremony and celebration as we honour these two new carvings for the Downtown Eastside in the traditional territory of the Coast Salish.
Afternoon musical guests include: Sam George (Tse-at-sul-tuxch) of the Squamish Nation; the Snowy Owl Drummers with Dalannah Gail Bowen and Aboriginal women of the community; Oppenheimer Park’s Sunshine Choir led by Swallow Zhou; the Carnegie Village Choir conducted by Beverly Dobrinsky; and Patrick Smith with the Oppenheimer Drum Group.
This carving project and celebration is made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, City of Vancouver Great Beginnings Program, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, Vancouver Moving Theatre, Constant Arts Society and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. Everyone welcome! Free
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Opening Reception for The Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show IN OUR BACKYARD IS YOUR BACKYARD for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Friday Nov 5 2010
Opening Reception
The Oppenheimer Park
Community Art Show
IN OUR BACKYARD IS YOUR BACKYARD
Friday November 5, 6pm-9pm
Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Exhibition November 5 to 28
It is an honour to include in the Festival the 3rd Annual Community Art Show. When the Oppenheimer Park Art Show began in 2008 it helped to bridge the community through the challenging transformations of a pre-Olympic city. Today, on the other side of redevelopment, Oppenheimer Park remains a resolute community of people upholding the Park’s vision as a place for art, education, recreation, health and healing. This art show features work by new, emerging and established artists that reflects the vibrant and creative community in and around the Park and offers a unique perspective into the heart and home of the Downtown Eastside community. For information: 604-687-2468 or www.gachet.org. Free
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Opening Night Parade of The Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show IN OUR BACKYARD IS YOUR BACKYARD for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Friday Nov 5 2010
Opening Night Parade
The Oppenheimer Park
Community Art Show
IN OUR BACKYARD IS YOUR BACKYARD
Friday November 5, 5pm-6pm
Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell
At 5pm join Oppenheimer Park artists, community members and neighbours for the Art Show Opening Night Parade, led by Brad Muirhead and the newly formed Carnegie Street Band. Gather at the new Oppenheimer Park Field House and join the sidewalk procession to Gallery Gachet! Free
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WRITE TO THE CITY: Adventures in Social Writing for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Thursday Nov 4 2010
Interactive Writing
WRITE TO THE CITY: Adventures in Social Writing
Thursday November 4, 8:30pm-10pm
Brickhouse Bar, 730 Main
Join the Thursdays Writing Collective with guest author Michael Turner for 90 minutes of writing prompts, pencil-chewing, and laughter as they push the phrases and numbers that determine how we navigate Vancouver into a creative realm. Numbers, acronyms, forms: how can we repurpose these constraints and social controls into an act of creative liberation and change the way we experience civic space? Pencils and paper will be supplied and participants will have the opportunity to share their writing. Michael Turner is a Vancouver-based author of fiction, criticism and song. His books include Hard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem and most recently 8×10. He blogs at this address: http://mtwebsit.blogspot.com/. The Thursdays Writing Collective, directed by Elee Kraljii Gardiner, has been called by Geist magazine “the biggest, boldest, and by far the most vital conspiracy of writers operating in Vancouver at present.” TWC meets at Carnegie Community Centre every Thursday for drop-in creative writing sessions. More info at www.thursdayspoemsandprose.ca. Cash bar. Free admission
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Sustaining Memories Opening Reception by Colleen Carroll for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Thursday Nov 4 2010
Opening Reception
SUSTAINING MEMORIES Colleen Carroll
Thursday November 4, 6pm-8pm
radha yoga & eatery, 728 Main 2nd floor
Exhibition November 4 to 30
Downtown Eastside artist Colleen Carroll has lived at Main and Hastings for nine years after moving here from the north due to severe health challenges. She loves it here and says she’s “never looked back.” “Painting helps me in many ways. It makes me focus on things other than my pain and poor memory. It takes me back in time and place to where and when I had my health. It lets me record the beauty I have found, and still find, in my life, living here in the DTES.” She works in acrylic, mostly on canvas, with subjects from Haida Gwaii to Ecuador but mostly her work these days is of “the hood.” (Colleen Carroll) For tonight’s reception Stan Hudac will play some of Colleen’s favourite piano selections and as a special Diwali treat, Nazil Kara will do complimentary mehndi designs for the guests. The eatery is open for dinner 6pm-10pm. For information 604-605-0011 or www.radhavancouver.org
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