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AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile to help set up John Lee’s Wailing Wall of Sound in Downtown Vancouver today Aug 10, 2010
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile to help set up John Lee’s Wailing Wall of Sound in Downtown Vancouver today Aug 10, 2010
Part of Surge Festival of W2 Community Media Arts
THE WAILING WALL OF SOUND LIVE/ONLINE Exhibition
August 10 Free Preview Downtown YVR @ Granville & Georgia 3 to 8pm
Friday August 13 Live Soundstage Gig @ W2 151 W. Cordova 7 to 11pm ; $ 7
Journey into a unique, Sound-Art & Music Adventure with The Wailing Wall Of Sounds’ online and live event on Friday, August 13th, 7-11pm, at W2 Storyeum.
A free preview showing will also take place on Granville Street on Tuesday, August 10 from 3pm.
The show will be an interactive, all-ages music/art/tech performance showcasing sound submissions from local and international artists. The WWOS Expo presents an opportunity for audiences and artists to listen and interact in a creative sound environment using a forty-foot, 168-speaker wall – the largest guitar amp in the world. Entrance to the August 13 show is $7 from 7 to 11pm.
Guest Soundsmiths & DJs from 8pm – B-Monster @ 9pm & 10:30.
To Submit Song or Sound-Art for the WWOS Expo please visit;
twitter.com/wailwallofsound
Guest Soundsmiths & DJs from 8pm – B-Monster @ 9pm & 10:30
W2 Community Media Arts at Under the Volcano 2010 on Sunday Aug 8th in North Vancouver
Please come see Facing the Wind – W2’s Under the Volcano archive and art exhibit at the Festival site today
Make plans to go to North Vancouver for the final (20th) Festival of Art & Social Change http://volcano.resist.ca/ 12-10pm. Bring a light jacket for some drizzle, but otherwise should be sun and clouds. Great music from around the world. Come say hi at the W2 tent (we have it covered) and see some of the Under the Volcano archives on display.
· 12:00pm – 9:00pm
Location Cates Park
Dollarton Highway
North Vancouver, BC
The 20th and FINAL Under The Volcano Festival
After 20 years UTV has decided to close this chapter of our history by making our 20th anniversary our final event. For two decades we have organized in solidarity with local and global social justice movements and have staunchly supported marginalized peoples struggles. We have survived and thrived and now it’s time to say goodbye. Come celebrate cultures of resistance, activism and community!
2010 HIGHLIGHTS:
* Naomi Klein and Arthur Manuel: Paying our Debts, At Home and Abroad: A Discussion with the award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author Klein and Secwepemc Nation activist Manuel, moderated by journalist & documentary film-maker Avi Lewis
* Olmeca: Xicano MC returns in support of new album “La Contra Cultura”
* Plus Joey Only Outlaw Band, Delhi2Dublin, Los Migrantes and lots more!
Plus:
Malcolm Lowry Stage, Dragonfly Kid’s Festival, Artisans Market, Community Info Fair, Workshop Tent, and more…..
Sunday August 8th, 2010
Cates Park (Whey-ah-Wichen) North Vancouver Gates Open @ 12noon.
ADMISSIONS: @ Gate Only (no advance tickets) BY-DONATION $10-$20
Low income admissions by-donation suggested $5 available @ Main Gate ONLY
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).
Surge Festival – 1st Annual Festival of Urban Digital Culture at W2 Storyeum – July 30 to Aug 28, 2010
At the core of this year’s inaugural Surge Festival program are four exhibitions, plus weekly live DJ and VJ events, film screenings, workshops, parties, and youth summer camps.
More than 50 artists are showing including: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Indigo, Take5, the dark, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Ange Sterritt, Frederick Brummer, Shawn Chappelle, Su-an Ng, Sepideh Saii, Justin Sekiguchi, Rupinder Sidhu, Lenke Sifko, Cease Wyss, …Krista Lomax and Sammy Chien.
Opening night reception July 30th, 8-11pm, free
After-party 11pm with DJ Kilocee, Take5 & The Phonograff, part of the W2 Summer Nights series, $5 at door.
The centrepiece of the Surge Urban Digital Culture Festival is a massive mural installation for ‘All our Walls’ (opening July 30) by the dark, Take5, Sensr and Indigo, alongside a graffiti & street art exhibit featuring established and emerging Canadian artists. Coast Salish-based Aboriginal artists represent the urban experience for the 50% of First Nations living off reserve in Rezilliance (opening July 30). Facing the Wind: Whey-ah-Wichen looks at 20 years of the Under the Volcano Festival taking place on Tsleil-Waututh Nation Territory (opening July 30). StoryBox makes inner-city voices digital in this collaboration between 80+ residents and professional media artists (opens one week later on Aug 6).
Formerly street-wise and counter-culture, urban art has found its way into powerful institutions, advertising, and art market galleries. This mainstreaming also exposes that street art traditions are connected globally across borders, and open up space to contest the privatization of public space, battles for free speech, while building creative inner cities. Urban art has its roots in the undercurrents of social alienation and resistance to power, and artists can create relevant and transformative cultural experience for neighbourhoods and people of all ages.
Surge exhibition viewing hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm. W2 Summer Nights kick off at 10pm. The Festival takes place in one of Vancouver’s best exhibition and festival venues, W2 Storyeum at 151 W Cordova, just steps north of W2’s future media centre site in the Woodward’s Atrium. Program subject to change. For updates and new screening and workshop announcements check our website.
Weekly performances in our W2 Summer Nights series feature some of Vancouver’s most innovative urban DJs and VJs, with all proceeds supporting the development of W2’s inner-city community media programs.
For more information on the exhibits RSVP on the Facebook event or read:
http://www.creativetechnology.org/profiles/blogs/surge-first-annual-urban
Time: July 30, 2010 at 8pm to August 28, 2010 at 11:45pm
Location: W2 Storyeum
Street: 151 W Cordova Street
City/Town: Vancouver
Website or Map: http://www.facebook.com/event…
Phone: 604-689-9896
Event Type: festival, exhibition, party
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