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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
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
The Cheaper Show at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver, 200 Artists – 400 pieces of art, each $200!
Time: June 26, 2010 all day
Location: W2 Storyeum
Street: 151 W. Cordova Street
City/Town: Vancouver
Website or Map: http://www.thecheapershow.com
Event Type: exhibition, art
Organized By: The Cheaper Show
Event Description
The Show
The Cheaper Show returns once again.
In June of 2010, the ninth installment of The Cheaper Show will take place in Vancouver, BC
The concept of The Cheaper Show is very simple: 200 multi-disciplined international artists presenting 400 pieces of art, each priced at $200 for one night only. Far from being an ‘art sale,’ each exhibiting artist consciously makes a sacrifice by selling their work for less than its potential value. This creates united support for the event, the arts community, and an opportunity for this show to take place in an environment that is accessible to everyone. In turn, many walk away with sales, exposure, commissions and gallery representation, as well as having an opportunity to connect with peers on an even playing field.
Visitors are drawn to the show, discovering a rare display of exceptionally diverse talent where someone from almost any financial background may own a piece of art. These people include the curious, the first time buyer, and the well-seasoned collector.
The Cheaper Show is a salon style exhibition that focuses on quality and diversity rather than category. Works of art, regardless of medium, are displayed so as to activate one another; oil paintings and illustrations hang next to contemporary photographs with content that ranges from the urban to the academic.
The Cheaper Show has never been a profit-based event. Admission is free and the artists receive 75% of the sale with the remainder going to offset the production costs. The focus of the show is to create a greater observance of talent with both established and underexposed artists.
This year’s artists:
http://thecheapershow.com/artists/no9-artists/
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.
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