11TH A N N U A L

Oct.29-Nov.9 2014

Produced by Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians & a host of community partners

KEEPING THE FIRE IGNITED Ancestors, ghosts Fill the entire house And along with the present Join together www.heartofthecityfestival.com Sharing beauty in art and culture 604-628-5672 Spreading love, joy, compassion, passion, Dance, poems, testimonies, drums and songs INSIDE The heart beat of the community The very heart and soul of the Downtown Eastside Welcoming Statements ...... 2 & 3 Is free because of and in spite of our struggles Schedule at a Glance ...... 4 & 5 We continue onward in being challenged Locations & Venues, with Map ...... 6 We are the fl aming force Keeping the home res burning ...... 7 The fl ame fl ickers on Keep the fi re ignited Pre-Festival Events ...... 8 & 9 Our nations share one message Festival Events ...... 10 – 42 Committed to standing above and in harm’s way The Raymur Mothers ...... 12 & 13 Forces in the world are sounding the answer Handy Guide to Walking Tours ...... 44 The call Visual Arts ...... 46 & 47 The plight of the Downtown Eastside Longing for Light ...... 48 Does not lessen our courage We struggle forward in spite of it all Post Festival Events ...... 49 The festival of arts In Memorium...... 50 & 51 Moving Vancouver Moving Theatre: Since 1983 ...... 52 &53 Innocent gifts for all Credits & Thanks ...... 54 & 55 Stephen Lytton, to celebrate the 2006 Festival Gala My Heart in the Heart of the City ...... 56

Ticket Information Most festival events are free, by donation or pay what you can. The DTES Heart of the City Festival acknowledges and honours Tickets must be purchased for some events. that we live and work on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Please consult each event description for ticket information. Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh, Sel̓ íl̓ witulh and Xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm Nations.

FRONT COVER BACK COVER Photo: David Cooper clockwise from 12 o’clock: Robyn Livingstone, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Stephen Lytton, Design: Big Wave Design Joan Morelli, Antonette Rea, Muriel Marjorie, Bob Sarti, Bill Wong, Evelyn Lau, Appearing on the cover: Sam Snobelen Kevan Cameron aka Scru Mouth, Wendy Pedersen, Diane Wood Phoenix illustration: Diane Wood Mosaics: from Footprints Community Art Project Dear friends, Welcome to the 11th Annual Heart of the City On behalf of the City Coun- Welcome to the Heart of Festival! cil of Vancouver it is my the City Festival! It is a delight and an hon- pleasure to welcome eve- I hope you have a won- our to mark the beginning ryone to the 11th Annual derful time and enjoy of a new decade for this Downtown Eastside Heart this feast of arts, culture, most creative and partici- of the City Festival. community and history patory celebration of local Th e Downtown Eastside in the Downtown East- stories and talents. Heart of the City Festival o those of you who read these things, thank you. And side. Th is year’s theme, Th is year’s theme, “Keep- is greatly valued for its welcome to the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City ing the Home Fires Burn- signifi cant contribution to “Keeping the home fi res Festival on behalf of the Carnegie Board of Directors. We burning” is apt – this is ing”, is a fi tting metaphor building community in the Downtown Eastside; look forward to showcasing the talents of the Downtown a neighbourhood that is thriving, inspiring and for the love and devotion illuminating the rich culture, heritage and great T welcoming to all. that people feel for the Downtown Eastside, stories about the heart of our City; and providing Eastside. I’m especially excited about the production for their place in this neighbourhood and for multiple opportunities for diverse Downtown Oft en we hear about the negative side of our community -- now it's of e Raymur Mothers. Th is story is an excel- its continued future as the “Heart of the City”. Eastside residents and organizations to partici- an honour and a pleasure to share the more realistic face that we lent example of what can be achieved when Th is theme also pays a wonderful tribute to the pate in the culture and heritage as both audience see every day. Whether it is music, spoken word, comedy, stage or many roles that members of this community and creators. a community decides to collectively mobilize art, I am constantly amazed at the gift s of people around me. Now their eff orts, challenge the people in power and take on in building and tending to their home in Congratulations to the entire festival team and overcome the odds. It’s a story by which we can this place, acting, in turn, as keepers of the fi re; partners for your wonderful accomplishment in we can share them with you. all be inspired. sometimes sharing together in the warmth and establishing over the last decade the Heart of the Th e Carnegie is the living room of the Downtown Eastside, so kick Th e festival is an opportunity for us to enjoy light of the home fi re, sometimes employing the City Festival as a fl agship event for the Downtown off your shoes, grab a seat and be prepared to be amazed! the richness of the Downtown Eastside, and to hearth to provide for each other. Eastside. It is through your leadership, vision celebrate a venerable community that is integral I send my very best wishes to all of the and dedication, and the extensive support and Phoenix Winter to our city. Th e lively atmosphere, entertainment performers, participants, volunteers, and audi- involvement of the Downtown Eastside com- elcome to the 11th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart President, Carnegie Community Centre Association and enthusiasm all combine to make a fantastic ence members who make this Festival possible munity, that our City can boast such a wonderful of the City Festival; and welcome to the fi rst year of experience. – especially to those of you who will play many neighbourhood-based festival. the second decade of the Festival! I wish to express my enormous gratitude to or all of these roles over the course of the week. May your next decade be as successful as your Wishing a great Festival to one and all! fi rst decade. And may your new home at the WTh is year’s theme, "Keeping the Home Fires Burning," the many indivdiuals and organizations who Woodward's cultural amenities building serve reaffi rms Vancouver Moving Th eatre’s commitment to work with our worked so tirelessly to create a memorable Sincerely, in the decades to come as a strong base from community to produce a festival that gives voice to our local culture, festival for all of us. Congratulations to you all! Jenny Wai Ching Kwan, MLA which to support, develop and give voice to the heritage and values for decades to come. Th is theme also speaks to Yours sincerely, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Downtown Eastside community. Libby Davies, M.P. our commitment to support local stories so our community can Vancouver East Enjoy the Festival everyone! carry forward the fl ame of our heritage and values amidst the wave On behalf of Premier of rapid change and development we are experiencing. Yours truly, Christy Clark and the Gov- Gregor Robertson We are so grateful to our community for keeping the fl ame of the ernment of British Co- Mayor of Vancouver On the road to Cana- lumbia, congratulations to festival alive over the last decade. And we look forward with passion da’s 150th birthday in Vancouver Moving Thea- Th e success of the Heart and commitment to working with you in the coming years. Th e peo- 2017, we have a won- tre, Carnegie Community of the City Festival, now ple of the Downtown Eastside keep the fi re of our community alive. derful opportunity to Centre, and Association of in its 11th year, is testa- Th ank you so much to our producing partners the Carnegie Com- celebrate everything United Ukrainian Cana- ment to the power of the that makes this such a arts community com- munity Centre, Association of United Ukrainian Canadians and dians for presenting the all our arts and non-arts community partners. Th ank you to all remarkable country — 11th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the ing together with local including the vibrant City Festival. business, residents and the wonderful artists and DTES-involved residents who bring the arts and culture that Th is festival celebrates Vancouver’s Down- organizations whose festival alive as presenters and audience, and to our local audience bring vitality to our town Eastside through dynamic cultural ex- collective strength and and friends and visitors from Vancouver and beyond. And thank communities and help pression, showcasing community diversity and talent both celebrates you to the Board of Directors of Vancouver Moving Th eatre for your defi ne who we are as Canadians. Th is is why our creativity. It off ers an ambitious exploration of community pride and strong belief and support of our work; and all the dedicated staff for Government is proud to support the Downtown the arts, including music, poetry, story-telling, helps bring about positive change. your amazing work keeping the fi re of the festival burning smoothly. Eastside Heart of the City Festival, a gathering visual arts, theatre, fi lm and dance. Th e festival Bravo to all of the participating artists whose that shines a spotlight on the talented artists of builds community pride; provides a wonderful eclectic work can be enjoyed at more than 90 And, a big thank you to Associate Artistic Producer Teresa Vander- Visit our website @ this city and the creative energy they bring to opportunity for residents and visitors alike to events throughout the Downtown Eastside over tuin, Festival and community fi re keeper extraordinaire, who over our cultural landscape. appreciate local artistic and cultural heritage this 12-day festival. Through music, stories, the last decade has become an invaluable partner and colleague. www.heartofthecityfestival.com On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper songs or poetry or in cultural celebrations, fi lms, through forums, workshops and discussions; and May the spirit of the DTES Heart of the City Festival contribute to to learn more about the Festival and fi nd a complete listing of and the Government of , I would like to supports inclusivity and understanding between theatre and dance, the challenges and inspira- events. From there you can fi nd links to our Facebook page and thank the Vancouver Moving Th eatre Society tional stories found in this culturally-diverse keeping our homes fi res burning bright in the years to come. Enjoy varied cultural traditions and social perspectives. AHA MEDIA, follow us using your favourite social media and sign and all the organizers, artists, and volunteers Th e Government of is a neighbourhood can fi nd a voice. the Festival everyone! up for our newsletter. whose eff orts helped bring this year’s Heart of proud supporter of the festival through fund- Special thanks to the organizers, volunteers Terry Hunter the City Festival to life. ing for the BC Arts Council. Congratulations to and sponsors for helping to keep “the home fi res Executive Director, Vancouver Moving eatre festival organizers and supporters for their com- burning” for another great festival celebrating e Honourable Shelly Glover Artistic Producer, DTES Heart of the City Festival Follow on Facebook: Minister of Canadian Heritage and O cial mitment to arts, culture and the community. the heart of the city. Languages Best wishes to the Downtown Eastside Heart On behalf of the BC Arts Council, with fund- Savannah Walling Heart of the City Festival of the City Festival for success this year and in ing made possible by the Province of British Artistic Director, Vancouver Moving eatre the future. Columbia, we are proud to support Heart of the Associate Artistic Director, DTES Heart of the City Festival - Become a friend City and its incredible artistic talent. Sincerely, - Be part of the conversation Coralee Oakes, Minister of Community, Sport Stan Hamilton, Chair and Cultural Development, BC BC Arts Council

2 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 3 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE PreFestival Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday PostFestival Events October 29 October 30 October 31 November 1 November 2 November 3 November 4 November 5 November 6 November 7 November 8 November 9 Events Hallowe'en All Saints Day All Souls Day Day of the Dead Daylight Savings Time ends PAGE 11am 11am-12:30 10am 12pm & 1pm 11am 10am-5pm 10am PAGE Compaigni Bargain Sale Walking tour Hastings Snooker Art Market Jade Peony 8-9 V'ni Dansi St. James' Church Victory Square Street Band Tournament Woodward's Walking tour 49 Admiral Pigeon Park Carnegie Atrium 10am-12pm Seymour PAGE Workshop 11am October 12 to 18 Elementary 12:30-2pm 26-27 Slam Poetry 11:30am-12pm Renovictions Sun Nov 16 Homelessness Action Week Carnegie Accordions 12pm-3pm InterUrban Healthy Walking tour 1:30pm 1pm-3pm Food Bazaar 10am-3pm Gallery Aging Through Carnegie Thurs Oct 16 Compaigni Poetry & Music Vancouver Japanese Language School 11am-3pm Workshop Open House the Arts V'ni Dansi Lifeskills 11am & Japanese Hall Big House Aboriginal Front Door Police Museum 1pm 1pm-3pm SCC PAGE Lord Black Strathcona Strathcona 10am-5pm Walking tour Expressive Arts November 20 to 23 Raymur Mothers 30-31 Walking tour 1pm-3pm Fri Oct 17 Elementary Art Market Gallery Gachet Eastside Culture Crawl Russian Hall Hendrix Shrine Urban Cloth 7pm-11pm Opening Woodward's Atrium Numerous Locations Gam Gallery 1pm-3pm Hastings 10:30am 2pm PAGE 1pm 11am-3pm Urban Farm Meet the Artist Open House December 10 to 20 Sun Oct 19 5pm-8pm Mass St. James' Walking tour School only PAGE Gam Gallery 28 Evelyne Saller Bah! Humbug! A Story to Tell Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Raymur 1:30-3:30pm 12pm-5pm SRO Tenant Convention 12pm & 1pm 1pm-2pm SFU Woodward's 10-11 UBC Learning Chinese Garden Mothers Hastings Japanese Language School Hastings St. Band Great Fire Exchange Russian Hall 12pm & 1pm Street Band Carnegie outside Slide Show Mon Oct 20 2pm-3pm Hastings RayCam CC Carnegie Street Band 5:30-8pm Workshop Big House Carnegie PAGE 12pm-4pm Sawagi Taiko 2:30-5:30pm 2pm-3pm 5:30-8pm Open House & Tzo'Kam Scraps & Stitches Carnegie outside 2pm 7pm SFU Woodward's Talk Festival 2nd Story 16-17 St. James' SFU Carnegie Closing Woodward's 12pm-3pm Raymur Mothers Opening InterUrban 1pm-2:30pm 2pm Tues Oct 21 Gallery 4:30-5pm Fieldhouse Hop Russian Hall Ceremony Poetry Slam! Mystery Play 1:30-4:30pm 2pm-5pm MacLean Park Carnegie Carnegie Magic Stories Carnegie Workshop Indian Acts! Carnegie Workshop PAGE DTES NHouse 3pm 2pm-3pm 2pm-4pm 1:30pm-3pm Posters 29 Concert & Supper Wed Oct 22 Poetree Carnegie 4:30-7:30pm Artist Talk Ukrainian Hall 1:30-4:30pm Workshop Workshop Raven's Eye 7pm-9pm Big House Carnegie outside Reception PAGE Indian Acts! Carnegie 2:30-4pm Studios Louis Riel's Carnegie 2pm-3pm Gallery Gachet 170th Birthday Music 32-33 7pm Panel SFU Woodward's A Year In China Floral & Hardy InterUrban 2pm-4pm Dr Sun Yat-Sen 5pm-7pm Gallery Opening Thurs Oct 23 5pm-8pm Gather Round 6pm-7:30pm PAGE 3pm-5pm UBC Learning CCC Museum 1:30-4:30pm Workshop Indian Acts! Barnyard Bash! Feast Your 5pm-6pm Celebration of 3pm 41-42 Carnegie Coastal Church Eyes Too! Opening Bud Osborn Panel 2pm-4:30pm 7pm Women's Centre InterUrban Gallery Celebrating Fri Oct 24 7pm Carnegie Raymur Mothers Talk 7pm-9:45pm Russian Hall Black Strathcona 12:30-2:30pm Workshop Indians 6pm-10pm SFU Woodward's 6pm-10pm Hallowe'en Carnegie Indian Acts! Carnegie 6pm & Cowboys Shrines 5:30-8pm Pub Social Dance 4pm-4:45pm Performance Chapel Arts Day of the Dead The Big House 7pm-9pm SCC 2pm-4pm Workshop Carnegie 4pm-6pm Audain Gallery Carnegie outside Dance Studio Carnegie Women's Art Big House Carnegie Carnegie Right to Remain DTES NHouse 7pm Theatre in the Neighbourhood 7pm-9:45pm Gallery Gachet 3:15pm-5pm Hallowe'en Carnival 7:30-9:30pm 7:30-9:30pm Comedy DTES Poets 4:30-5:30pm 7pm SCC Gym Hot Jazz PAGE 6:30pm DTES Gallery Gachet October 21 to 31 Carnegie Reading & Poetry Salt Water 6pm-9:45pm PAGE Carnegie Mass Front & Centre Judge Dee’s Chinatown Haunted House InterUrban 6:45-9:45pm Reconciliation 15 Sat Oct 25 14-15 7:30pm St. James' City Stories 7pm Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden Cabaret Carnegie Moving Forward 10:30am-10:30pm Gallery Chapel Arts Women in Coffee House Mozart Together World Poetry Film Festival the Round Carnegie October 29 to November 9 5:30-7pm Carnegie 7pm Carnegie PAGE UBC Learning Exchange 8pm 8pm 8pm InterUrban Gallery 8pm The Raymur Mothers Opening Indians & 12-13 Preview Opening Raymur Mothers Raymur Mothers 7pm-10pm The Russian Hall 12pm-3pm Pumpkins MacLean Park 8pm Carnegie Gallery Cowboys 6:30-9:30pm Raymur Mothers Raymur Mothers 2 for 1 Eastside Friday Russian Hall Raymur Mothers 7pm-9pm Sing Along Choir 6pm-9pm Family Dance SCC Gym pay what you can Russian Hall Chapel Arts EWMA November 1 to 29 Conversation Russian Hall Carnegie PAGE Russian Hall Russian Hall 7pm-9pm Urinetown: The Musical Barrio Flamenco PTC 17 Mon Oct 27 8:30pm 8pm 8pm The Firehall Arts Centre The IronWorks Raymur Mothers 8pm 5:30-8pm Workshop Thee Ahs Raymur Mothers Raymur Mothers Big House Carnegie SFU Woodward's Russian Hall Russian Hall 8pm Russian Hall 7pm-9pm 10pm Music Raymur Mothers PAGE 8pm-11pm 8pm Visual Arts in the Neighbourhood Workshop Drumming China Cloud Russian Hall 9pm 46-47 Panic Starr Comedy SFU Woodward's Studio String bands Fortune China Cloud Sound Club China Cloud Tues Oct 28 Studio Studio 1:30-4:30pm Workshop Indian Acts! Carnegie PAGE PAGE 18-21 22-25 PAGE 34-39 4 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 5 Railway 35 38 KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING 15 Water

Alexander Gore Dunlevy Hawks Jackson N Heatley Powell Princess This year’s Downtown Eastside Heart of When days are dark and the light of and schools, nourish our spirits with the City Festival – our eleventh – is taking our spirits flicker, we gather together art-making and sports, pass down Franklin place during a year of rapid change in the

Abbott to share stories around fires real and cultural traditions, create memorials Cambie Cordova Main 33 Cordova Downtown Eastside. As we move into metaphorical, to generate warmth and honouring our displaced, and spark 11 20 14 39 18 25 the festival’s second decade, we hear ensure we keep small sparks burning for new art out of today’s situations. 4 6 concerns that the community's light – its hope and for future generations. Our festivals gather the community’s 41 Carrall distinctive identity, heritage and creative fire to share stories, mark 28 23 Columbia Hastings 13 Hastings 40 diversity – will be doused by a flood important occasions, milestones, 22 Hamilton 16 21 5 30 17 31 of new voices and construction. communities and people; they help Pender

Gore us to remember and pass memories 19 Pender 10 37 Sometimes, when days are dark, on from generation to generation. 8 26 Glen we feel our homes fires burning 7 Raymur Individuals, organizations and civic Campbell low; days when, more than ever, we Keefer 34 Keefer Vernon leaders are working to create new 9 32 OVERPASS need their flames to keep our spirits 27 relationships of respect, reciprocity 12 36 3 strong and shed light on pressing and reconciliation; the City of Taylor 1 Georgia Beatty concerns. Vancouver acknowledged this 2 The W2 Community Media Main 24 29 Union Union year that it is founded on ancestral, Arts Society was shut down in unceded territory and has the December 2012, but some of its Georgia Viaduct responsibility to observe traditional programs have continued to grow Prior protocols. as legacy pieces elsewhere in the We keep our home fires burning Venables Downtown Eastside, including the Vancouver Indigenous Media for growth, inspiration and renewal. 1 221A 15 Evelyne Saller Centre 29 Playwrights Theatre Centre * Arts Festival and W2Media. The Sometimes however, the 221 E. Georgia, 604.568.0812, www.221a.ca 320 Alexander, 604.665.3075 739 Gore 2nd floor, 604.685.6228, www.playwrightstheatre.com Portland Hotel Society faltered creative fires that drive renewal, 2 Access Gallery 16 EWMA Studio 30 Raven's Eye Studio but survives. The city’s homeless 222 E. Georgia 56 E. Hastings, 604.685.8043, www.atira.bc.ca 456 E. Hastings, 604.716.1339 reorganization and growth burn too count has doubled; nearly one- fiercely, damaging individuals, the 3 Admiral Seymour Elementary School 17 Floral & Hardy Edible Plants 31 Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre 1130 Keefer, 604.713.4641 688 E. Hastings, 604.255.7199 920 E. Hastings, 604.257.6949, www.raycam.org third is Aboriginal. A tent city set community and the very landscape up for months at Oppenheimer 4 Audain Gallery SFU 18 Firehall Arts Centre 32 Russian Hall on which they reside. Yet fire is a 149 W. Hastings 280 E. Cordova, 604.689.0691, www.firehallartscentre.ca 600 Campbell, 604.254.9932 Park is visible evidence of our gift for our survival and continued L-R: Carmen Rosen, Kraig Tait, Carrie Campbell 5 Carnegie Community Centre 19 Fortune Sound Club 33 St. James’ Anglican Church community’s urgent need – and the renewal. We hold the responsibility 401 Main, 604.665.2220 147 E. Pender, 604.569.1758 303 E. Cordova, 604.685.2532, www.stjames.bc.ca city’s urgent need – for affordable, to maintain the gifts that life has 6 Chapel Arts 20 Gallery Gachet 34 Strathcona Community Centre safe, supportive housing for low income Community members are working with given us, to protect their diversity and 304 Dunlevy, 604.682.1611, www.chapelarts.com 88 E. Cordova, 604.687.2468, www.gachet.org 601 Keefer, 604.713.1838 residents and jobs with living wages. each other to build community – from take care of our community. 7 China Cloud Studios * 21 Gam Gallery 35 The Ironworks Condominium units increase; rental the Oppenheimer Park campers to 524 Main, 2nd floor Each of us carries the light of our own 110 E. Hastings, 778.235.6928, www.gamgallery.com 235 Alexander, 604.681.5033, www.theironworks.ca units disappear. During the prolonged the Downtown Eastside Street Market, stories and lived experiences: a light that 8 Chinese Cultural Centre courtyard 22 Hastings Urban Farm 36 UBC Learning Exchange school strike, Strathcona Community from the Carnegie Community Action 50 E. Pender, 604.658.8850, www.cccvan.com 58 W. Hastings 612 Main, 604.408.5164, www.learningexchange.ubc.ca is unique and has a reason to be here, Centre struggled to feed eighty young Project and Revitalizing Japantown? honoured as it is like no other. Together 9 Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives 23 InterUrban Gallery 37 Ukrainian Hall * people daily. Project to the Strathcona Residents 555 Columbia, 604.658.8880, www.cccvan.com 1 E. Hastings, 604.629.8396 805 E. Pender, 604.254.3436, www.auucvancouver.ca we carry our community’s light, passing Association. Community initiatives support 10 Coastal (Strathcona) Church This year our neighbourhood lost beloved it onto future generations like flames 24 Jim Hendrix Shrine 38 Vancouver Japanese Language School food sustainability and eco-harvesting: 431 Princess 207 Union & Japanese Hall “keepers of the flame”: activist artists like arising from a single torch igniting a long urban farms, community gardens, bee 11 Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, 25 Lifeskills Centre 487 Alexander, 604.254.2551, www.vjls.jh.com John Niechoda and Isabel Ramirez; and line of torches into our future. Whatever projects to nourish pollinators, and fibrous SFU Woodward's 412 E. Cordova, 604.678.8278 39 Vancouver Police Museum * poets Bud Osborn and Zaccheus Jackson happens, we need to keep our home 149 W. Hastings plant cultivation for cloth production 26 Lord Strathcona Elementary School 240 E. Cordova 2nd floor, 604.665.3346 – “stars” whose lights are visible long fires burning and remember– no matter www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca and habitat restoration. With the help 12 Dr. Sun Yat.Sen Classical Chinese Garden 592 E. Pender, 604.713.4630 after they’ve left us. how dark the night – light always returns. 578 Carrall, 604.662.3207, www.vancouverchinesegarden.com 27 MacLean Park 40 Victory Square of Squamish Streamkeepers, herring 13 DTES Neighbourhood House 710 Keefer, 604.713.1838 200 block W. Hastings & Cambie “An ember hovering above a combustible, are returning to in record Savannah Walling 573 E. Hastings, 604.215.2030, www.dtesnhouse.ca Possibility is the epitome of potential, but, 28 Pigeon Park 41 Woodward's Atrium numbers, bringing shore and sea birds 111 W. Hastings 14 DTES Women’s Centre Carrall & E. Hastings eventually we either burn out or we burn.” and harbour seals. Artists, community 302 Columbia, 604.681.8480, www.dewc.ca Zaccheus Jackson, twitter, July 22, 2103 and cultural organizations, galleries Most festival venues are wheelchair accessible. * venue is not wheelchair accessible 6 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 7 PRE-FESTIVAL PRE-FESTIVAL

WORKSHOPS TALK PANEL DISCUSSION KIDS BIG HOUSE WORKSHOPS ART MUSIC'S INDIGENOUS INCLUSIONS AND THE POLITICS OF RED SKIN, WHITE MASKS: MACLEAN PARK PUMPKIN PATCH PARTY Thursdays October 9 & October 16, 11am – 3pm FORM with Dylan Robinson Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Saturday October 25, 12pm – 3pm Aboriginal Front Door, 384 Main Monday October 20, 7pm Wednesday October 22, 7pm or until the pumpkins are gone Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward's, 149 Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward's, MacLean Park, 710 Keefer Free Mondays October 20 & October 27, 5:30pm – 8pm W. Hastings 149 W. Hastings Rain or shine! For the children of the Downtown Eastside. Lots Cultural Sharing, Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Admission is on a fi rst come, fi rst serve basis. Free Admission is on a fi rst come, fi rst serve basis. Free of fun things to do – free pumpkins, face painting, arts and Concerti for throat singers, operas on Indigenous subjects, Red Skin, White Masks, by Glen Coulthard, is a work of crafts, pumpkin carving and refreshments. Come dressed in Fridays October 24 & October 31, 2pm – 4pm your Hallowe’en costume. Don’t be disappointed, come early! Oppenheimer Ladies Tea Party, Carnegie Art Room, 401 Main and powwow symphonies. Despite collaborations between critically engaged political theory that challenges the Indigenous artists and classical music ensembles, the political commonplace assumption that settler-colonization can be Only one pumpkin per family. A Strathcona Community Centre Free exigencies of First Nations communities across Canada are reconciled through a process of cultural recognition and program. For workshop descriptions – see page 27 scarcely referenced in such work. Dylan Robinson, a Stó:lō accommodation. Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene scholar and Banting postdoctoral fellow in the First Nations and is an assistant professor in the First Nations Studies COMMUNITY CELEBRATION Studies Program at UBC, talks about the space between clas- Program and the Department of Political Science at SFU. THE ANNUAL FAMILY HALLOWE’EN DANCE sical and Indigenous musical forms, and the attendant politics Panelists: Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Sarah Hunt, Jarrett Martineau, ACTION Saturday October 25, 6pm – 9pm Homelessness Action Week of recognition that often celebrates Indigenous inclusion at Matt Hern. Moderated by Daniel Heath Justice. Presented the cost of political engagement. Presented by SFU's Vancity by SFU's Vancity Offi ce of Community Engagement. Sup- Strathcona Community Centre Gym, 601 Keefer October 12 to 18 Offi ce of Community Engagement as part of Vancouver New ported by UBC First Nations Studies Program, SFU's Offi ce Admission by cash or food donation Homelessness Action Week is an annual event focused on Music's Alternative Energies: Sound and Sustainability Events for Aboriginal Peoples and SFU's Institute for Humanities. Come dance the monster mash and have your face painted at bringing public awareness and understanding to the issue of in the Community. this spooktacular all ages family dance. Organized by neighbour- homelessness in the Greater Vancouver region. This week is COMMUNITY CELEBRATION hood parents, this community event has become a favourite an opportunity to get involved in homelessness action in your Strathcona family tradition. Get into costume and party with your community by attending events, and spreading the word about WORKSHOPS HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL & HAUNTED HOUSE neighbour-ghoul families! Admission by cash or food donation homelessness action through education, advocacy and social INDIAN ACTS! COMING TO THE FIRE Friday October 24, 3:15pm-5pm to support the SCC Food Security Program for families. media activity. For event information: www.stophomelessness.ca Tuesday October 21, Wednesday October 22, Thursday October Strathcona Community Centre Gym, 601 Keefer 23, Tuesday October 28, 1:30pm – 4:30pm Cost is 50 cents or a can of food for the Food Bank & Friday October 24, 12:30pm – 2:30pm Come out to the annual Hallowe’en Carnival and Haunted House WORKSHOP VISUAL ARTS and have a Spooktacular time! Organized by the Strathcona COAST SALISH SINGING & DRUMMING with Russell Wallace Carnegie Community Centre Gym, 401 Main Free Youth Council and Leadership Groups, the Carnival will have WINDOW/COMMUNITY Louise Francis-Smith Ignite your imagination! Be part of a new theatrical performance Monday October 27, 7pm – 9pm Opening: Friday October 17, 7pm – 11pm fun games and challenges. Participate, play and everybody being developed by renowned Canadian actor and artist, Margo leaves with a prize! Do your best to help out the Food Bank and Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre Gam Gallery, 110 E. Hastings Kane (Cree-Saulteaux). Open to people from all walks of life, all families in need; if you can’t, that is all right too! SFU Woodward's, 149 W. Hastings Drop-in. Free Exhibition October 18 to November 14 Free cultural backgrounds and all ages. An interest in performing is Everyone welcome! Join us and learn social songs, drum- For full description of Window/Community, please see Friday all that is required. Through a series of workshops, you will work ming and dance. Russell Wallace is a board member for War- October 31. alongside professional artists to create a work that celebrates FILM riors Against Violence Society and is a composer, producer the Aboriginal practices of gathering and sharing and ensures WORLD POETRY PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL and a traditional Lil’wat singer. Currently Russell works and the voice of the community is Idle No More! Presented by Full Saturday October 25, 10:30am – 10:30pm teaches at the Native Education College, and works for the Circle: First Nations Performance in association with Vancouver UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Free Offi ce for Aboriginal People for which he holds these Singing CONVENTION Moving Theatre and the Heart of the City Festival. Participants & Drumming workshops. This is a monthly workshop – watch DTES SRO TENANT CONVENTION are encouraged to attend all workshops in the series. For more for it again on November 20. Free and open to the public Sunday October 19, 12pm – 5pm information contact: Kwasuun at Full Circle #604-683-0497 or on a drop-in basis. Japanese Language School, 487 Alexander Free email: [email protected] SRO Tenants and Friends: Come together to achieve housing justice! Join us for a day of solidarity speakers, workshops on housing issues, and prizes! Meet other tenants and work together to stop renovictions and improve conditions in SROs. Enter the Crummiest Cockroach Haven Contest where the SRO hotels with the worst living conditions will be voted on and help This one-day festival of fi lm celebrates the courage and per- pressure the City to make landlords improve them. For contest sistence of young fi lmmakers from across the world, including details contact the CCAP offi ce on the second fl oor of Carnegie. Canada, India and Afghanistan. Featuring themes of poetry, Stew and bannock, on-site childcare and ASL interpretation will peace and human rights in confl ict areas, some of these fi lms be provided. The Hall is wheelchair accessible. For more info: were created against all odds. Join in for a day of documenta- [email protected] or 604-665-2105. Organized by the ries and Q&As with fi lmmakers and poets. Emcees are Ariadne Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP). Sawyer and Victor Schwartzman plus other hosts. For full fi lm schedule and show times please visit www.worldpoetry.ca.

8 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 9 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29

SPECIAL EVENT RECEPTION & THEATRE EXHIBITION MUSIC THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONY CONTEMPORARY QUILTS Diane Wood HOT JAZZ AT THE CARNEGIE Wednesday October 29, 8pm Opening: Wednesday October 29, Wednesday October 29, 7:30pm – 9:30pm Russian Hall, 600 Campbell 5pm – 6pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Preview, pay-what-you-can InterUrban Gallery, I E. Hastings See page 12 for full description. We kick off Festival opening night with a Downtown Eastside Exhibition October 15 community favourite, the Carnegie Jazz Band and their fi nger until November 5 Free snappin’, toe tappin’, head boppin’ hot music. The band is One of the Downtown Eastside’s comprised of enthusiastic amateur jazz musicians under the favourite artists, Diane Wood off ers wonderful tutelage of multi-instrumentalist and composer Brad a show of Contemporary Quilts, Muirhead. mixed media fabric pieces that tell Join the band for an evening of jazz standards, original songs stories and relate to current issues by Brad Muirhead and new jazz tunes by band members Mark of the community. Diane’s art work Boreen, Gil Mattila, Gerry Teahan and Festival producer Terry is down to earth, yet will fi re up your Hunter. Sam George imagination to see what can be created with fabric scraps and Expect something diff erent, as each composition, just like our Wednesday October 29, 2pm – 3pm the passion to experiment. A DTES community, is as unique as the composer! The band is Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Free DTES resident, poet, community also thrilled to welcome special guest, local pro jazz-man Brian Join friends from the neighbourhood, dignitaries, Phoenix activist and gardener, Diane loves to Harding on trombone. Winter (President, Carnegie Community Centre Associa- share the process of creating quilts. tion) and special guests for this the grand opening of our Hours: Wed to Sat, 12pm – 5pm. Diane Wood 11th annual festival! Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of the Downtown Eastside community and the artists in our midst. PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION Sam George (Tse-at-sul-tuxch) of the will COLLECTIVE-CONVERSATION with Ricardo Basbaum open with a Welcome Song; Mike Dangeli of the Git Hayetsk Wednesday October 29, 6pm Dancers will share celebratory songs; and emerging rising Audain Gallery, SFU, 149 W. Hastings stars Jamie Elliott and the Downtown Eastside’s own Hannah Exhibition October 16 to December 13 Free Walker perform as Twin Bandit. There is more! The commu- As part of his residency at the Audain Gallery, Brazilian artist nity’s favourite The Carnegie Jazz Band, led by trombonist Ricardo Basbaum will teach a course within SFU’s School for Brad Muirhead, will play a short selection of new songs the Contemporary Arts with Sabine Bitter entitled, The produc- written by members of the community, including Patrick tion of the artist as collective conversation. The course will Foley’s Sandstone Lady, sung by the Carnegie Community provoke a conversation amongst students through reading, Choir led by Mike Richter. Refreshments! Everyone welcome. writing, editing and speaking on how the role and image of the artist is constructed. The culmination of this collective conversation will be performed live in the Audain Gallery. A recording of the performance will then be installed in the gallery for the remainder of the exhibition. Presented with the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU, as part of their Audain Visual Artist in Residence Program. For more information: www.sfu.ca/galleries/audain-gallery/ current.html.

Mike Dangeli

Carnegie Jazz Band

10 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 11 THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For an Answer

October 29 to November 9 The production features thirteen rousing original songs and Wed to Sun, 8pm, except Sun Nov 9, Closing matinee 2pm brings to life the experiences of the women as they defend Russian Hall, 600 Campbell their personal dignity; stand up to the railway company; and become active participants and non-violent demonstrators in Adults $22, Students $17 an action that results in a positive resolution and strengthens Wed Oct 29 – Pay what you can Preview the community. Wed Nov 5 – 2 for 1 The Heart of the City Festival is honoured to present this In 1971, forty-three years ago, a group of single mothers in Theatre in the Raw production of The Raymur Mothers, writ- the Raymur Place Social Housing Project (now Stamps Place) ten by former Downtown Eastside resident Bob Sarti, with on Campbell Avenue carried out one of the most iconic and music by Bill Sample, and directed by Jay Hamburger, Artistic successful feats of direct action in Vancouver history: they Director of Theatre in the Raw; the same artistic team who blockaded and shut down all rail traffi c to the Port of Vancou- created Bruce: The Musical and Yippies in Love. ver in a desperate measure to ensure their children’s safety. For tickets or more information call 604-708-5448, or go to The Raymur Mothers musical play tells the story of this ex- the website www.theatreintheraw.ca. Tickets also available traordinary group of mothers and their successful eff ort to at the door. have a pedestrian overpass built over railroad tracks to en- able their children to safely walk to Admiral Seymour School on the other side of the tracks.

Militant moms (and kid) on the tracks. In the distance is the overpass they fought to get built! L to R – Muggs Sigurgeirson, Barbara Burnet, Liisa Atva (one of the kids), Joan Morelli, Carolyn Jerome.

They Wouldn't Take No For An Answer The Raymur Mothers were a group of women from the Downtown Eastside who challenged some of Canada's most powerful corporate interests on behalf of their chil- dren – and won! The women, residents of the Raymur Place (now Stamps Place) public housing project, wanted a pedestrian over- pass to be built so their children could safety cross the railroad tracks to get to school. They wrote letters, made phone calls, went to meetings, lobbied politicians – all to no avail. Finally, they took matters into their own hands. They stood in front of a 40-ton locomotive and wouldn't let it pass. That stopped all rail traffi c to the Port of Van- couver. Only then did they get their overpass. It was a real testament to the eff ectiveness of pluck, ingenuity and direct action. Bob Sarti murray bush-fl ux photo

Poster by Atty Gell 12 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 13 THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 THURSDAY OCTOBER 30

COMMUNITY A STORY TO TELL CELEBRATION Thursday October 30, 5pm – 8pm LOUIS RIEL’S 170th BIRTHDAY PARTY UBC Learning Exchange Thursday October 30, 7pm – 9pm 612 Main Free Floral & Hardy Edible Plants, 688 E. Hastings Free Following up on the Portraits of Strength exhibition, The newest and hippest fl ower shop ‘slash’ gallery in the Down- community members town Eastside opens their doors to celebrate what would have are invited to talk about been Louis Riel’s 170th birthday. A controversial Canadian hero, a challenging experi- Riel was founder of the province of Manitoba, a political leader of ence beyond the Métis people of the Canadian prairies, and fi erce advocate their own for Métis rights and self-determination. Forced into exile in 1870, control and Riel was elected a Member of Parliament three times, and upon how they his return to Canada he was arrested, tried and executed. Join got through guest drummers Harmony of Nations, master of ceremony Bill SCHOOLS it. Portraits of Beauregarde, dancer Yvonne Chartrand and fi ddler Kathleen COMPAIGNI V’NI DANSI Strength pho- Nisbett to share music, stories and history of Louis Riel and Thursday October 30 tographer Tony Tony Hoare the Métis people of Canada. Coff ee and dessert by donation. Theatre 11am Admiral Seymour Elementary School, 1130 Keefer Hoare shares stories from his work overseas, and helps partici- 1:30pm Lord Strathcona Elementary School, 592 E. Pender pants share their stories in photos and video. Participants can choose to have their story fi lmed. MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE The Festival is thrilled to be able to present Compaigni V’ni Dansi JUDGE DEE’S CHINATOWN HAUNTED HOUSE to the students and staff of our two local schools. Compaigni & EXHIBITION October 21 to 31, 7pm – 10pm (entry every 2 minutes) V'ni Dansi holds the distinction of being the only Canadian INDIANS & COWBOYS Closed Mon Oct 27 company to teach and to perform both traditional Métis and Opening: Thursday October 30, 7pm Warning: Not for young children or the faint of heart! contemporary dance. Established by Yvonne Chartrand in 2001, Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall this professional dance ensemble has extensive training in Thursday evenings until November 27 By donation traditional Métis dance, a unique blend of European reels and Adults $12, Students $10 Chapel Arts presents a month long project of Indian & Cowboy waltzes with dances of Aboriginal heritage – creating one of the Art with music and DJs; Aboriginal hip hop, cowboy bands; carv- most intricate and diffi cult of any Aboriginal peoples dances. ings and paintings; and Jeff Burnette’s Blown Glass RayGuns Traditional Métis jigging is highly celebratory and refl ects the and Urban East Youth Totem Competition! DTES native youth festive and social nature of the Métis people. will compete for the design and established mentors will help Please note: these school performances are for students, realize the carved totem. The log is provided by Chapel Arts parents and teachers only. and will be put up for auction. Proceeds to be divided among the participants. Runs Thursdays in November and by appoint- VIDEO ment; contact www.chapelarts.com 2ND STORY: Blood Alley Thursday October 30, 5:30pm – 8pm InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings Free 2nd Story maps personal stories onto local places using various media, including video and mobile technology. For this edition, personal stories from the area known as ‘Blood Alley’ in the It’s Hallowe’en … and the Garden … is HAUNTED. Join Downtown Eastside have been gathered and documented. The Seven Tyrants Theatre again this year at Vancouver’s area has been chosen for its long history and as a microcosmic fastest growing Hallowe’en treat. The theatre company example of a neighborhood in transition: a Single Room Oc- transforms the Classical Chinese Garden into a terrifying cupancy hotel and shelter stands across the alley from a new Haunted House. Featuring over a dozen actors, dancers condo development with boutiques and restaurants. and musicians, this one-of-a-kind experience is inspired Over sixty stories were documented, and nine of those were Tasha Faye Evans in "Sweeping" by the gruesome stories of Judge Dee: China’s Sherlock crafted into short videos by a team of fi lm and theatre artists. For THEATRE Holmes. Brave the Garden’s haunted pathways, uncover this screening a selection of stories and adapted videos will be the clues and attempt to solve the crime. Due to the THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer increasing popularity of the event, fright seekers are shown, with storytellers and artists in attendance. More stories Opening Thursday October 30, 8pm are sure to be exchanged! Presented by The Only Animal, in advised to arrive early. For more information go to www. development with PHS Community Services and SFU Offi ce of Russian Hall, 600 Campbell seventyrants.com. Tickets available at the box offi ce each Community Engagement. Everyone welcome. See page 12 for full description night or in advance at www.ticketstonight.ca and ticket information

14 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 15 FRIDAY OCTOBER 31 FRIDAY OCTOBER 31

COMMUNITY SHOWCASE ST. JAMES’ BARGAIN SALE LIFESKILLS SLAM POETRY & MUSIC THERAPY Friday October 31, 11am – 12:30pm Friday October 31, 1pm – 3pm St. James’ Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova Lifeskills Centre, 412 E. Cordova Free A Bargain Hunter’s Bonanza! Eagerly anticipated throughout the Artists from the Downtown Eastside craft poetry, mix it with year, the St. James' Women's Guild Bargain Sale is the gold mine music, and perform their own original work. Led by Devon event to catch. Don't miss this hour and a half opportunity of Bar- Martin aka “Dr. Metro”, the leader of the regular Slam Poetry gain Sale Heaven to pick up household items, gifts, electronics, and Music Therapy program at Lifeskills. For the Festival, they clothes and other items, for cheap, cheap, cheap prices. Think open their doors to an audience. Participate or sit back and aff ordable! Find a last minute Hallowe'en costume or perhaps enjoy. Everyone welcome! that long desired I’ve-been-looking-for-this-but-could-never- SeaSmoke aff ord-it kitchen item! Everyone welcome. WORKSHOP COMMUNITY MEET THE ARTIST YELLOW ROSES AND A CUP OF TEA HALLOWE’EN DANCE & COSTUME PARTY with Rosemary Georgeson, Ali Lohan WINDOW/COMMUNITY Louise Francis-Smith Friday October 31, 7pm – 9:45pm & Sarah May Redmond Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Friday October 31, 1pm – 3pm Friday October 31, 2pm – 4pm Gam Gallery, 110 E. Hastings Tonight is Hallowe’en and the spooky Carnegie Centre invites you Carnegie Community Centre, basement Art Room to put on your most frightful face and join in the dance! The band, Exhibition October 18 to November 14 Free 401 Main Free SeaSmoke, plays a wide range of dance music and rock ‘n roll! Meet artist documentarian Louise Francis-Smith and view Win- Please come out and share some thoughts, words and memo- Featuring neighbourhood darlings Peggy Wilson (guitar, vocals dow/Community, an exhibition of her photographs. For over ries with us over a fragrant cup of tea at the Oppenheimer Park and bass), Rose Eide (vocals and percussion), Murray Black (vocals, thirty years Louise has focused her lens on the architecture and Ladies Tea Party – a workshop for self-declared women. keyboard and bass), Russell Styles (sax), and Robert Inglis (vocals, people in the streets of historic Chinatown and the Downtown “I can see my memories dancing in the gentle wisps of steam drums and percussion). It’s all about dancing, so brush up your scary Eastside. Her work captures the streets half-undressed, when fl owing up from my cup of tea, my grandmother’s yellow roses moves and join the ghouls at Carnegie for a bone-rattling good time! Carnegie Hallowe'en Dance "a ghoul" morning light brings its warmth and beauty to old wood and are here today.” What words and memories play for you? brick buildings. The derelict and the patina, old and new, ruin and renovation, collide in images that belong to the decades- old genre of street photography, revealing the human condition below the surface of things. Her work refl ects and uncovers lay- COMMUNITY Theatre ers of complexity in this vibrant and sometimes heartbreaking BARNYARD BASH! neighbourhood. Hours: Fri and Sat, 1pm-5pm and by appoint- Friday October 31, 5pm – 8pm ment; www.gamgallery.com Coastal Church (Strathcona Church), 431 Princess Free URINETOWN: The Musical All are welcome to Barnyard Bash!, a Coastal Church Hallowe’en November 1 to 29 event for kids and families in the community. Participate in indoor games, a live petting zoo and a pie eating contest! New to the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova Downtown Eastside/Strathcona, the congregation of the Coastal Tickets $21 – $42 Church is made up of individuals from all walks of life who are Tues to Sat, 8pm passionate about community and putting their principles into Matinees – Sat & Sun, 3pm action. For more information: call 604-684-8475 or visit www. Half price previews – Nov 1 & 4, 8pm; Nov 2, 3pm; coastalchurch.org Nov 5, 1pm Wed – pay what you can Photos by Louise THEATRE Thurs – Talkback Francis-Smith THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer Cast of "Urinetown" Friday October 31, 8pm “One of the best productions in Firehall history. It’s a pisser” – The Province Russian Hall, 600 Campbell WINNER – TWO Jessie Awards 2006 – Best Large Theatre Production & Best Direction See page 12 for full description One of the Firehall’s most popular shows returns with an all-new production. A Broadway smash hit with a politically incorrect and ticket information title, this laugh-out-loud comedy pokes fun at everything in its path. In a dystopian, drought-fi lled future, a large corpora- tion has a monopoly on all toilets and people must pay for the privilege to urinate. Hero Bobby Strong steps in to fi ght for people’s right to pee in this hilarious send-up of corporate greed, ecological disaster and musical comedy. So irreverent, so fresh, so original and so funny that – you gotta go! Directed by Donna Spencer with music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann and book and lyrics by Greg Kotis. For ticket information: www.fi reahallartscentre.ca or 604-689-0926.

16 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 17 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1

KEEPERS OF THE FLAME: A DAYLONG CELEBRATION OF POETRY MASS WALKING TOUR ALL SAINTS’ DAY MASS The Downtown Eastside is blessed with a wealth of great poets; poets who speak their truth with soul and fi ery conviction. To THE GREAT VANCOUVER FIRE OF 1886 WALKING TOUR Saturday, November 1, 10:30 am pay tribute to, and to profi le the great poets of the community, the festival features a daylong Celebration of Poetry where we with Lisa Anne Smith St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova honour the poets around us. And, we remember two extraordinary poets who have sadly left us: the much loved friend of the Saturday November 1, 10am (approx. 90 minutes) festival and extraordinarily talented slam poet Zaccheus Jackson; and the Downtown Eastside’s, and the City’s, most remarkable Everyone welcome and passionate poet and social activist, Bud Osborn. Meet at SW corner of Victory Square, W. Pender & Hamilton Visit with the congregation at St. James’ in High Mass for All $10, pay-what-you-can for local residents Saints’ Day. The High Mass Choir will be singing the mass set-

Bud Osborn at Women's Memorial, March 2014. Photo: Sharon Kravitz ting Missa aeterna Christi munera (1590) by Giovanni Pierluigi WORKSHOP da Palestrina. If you haven't visited St. James' before, this is a On June 13, 1886, an out-of-control clearing fi re destroyed SLAM POETRY Workshop wonderful time to gather in a spirit of thanksgiving. Everyone most of the newly-incorporated city of Vancouver in less is welcome to the Mass and to the Open House that will follow Saturday November 1, 10am – 12pm than one hour. Author Lisa Anne Smith shares stories from immediately afterward. Carnegie 3rd fl oor Classroom, 401 Main Free her newly-released book Vancouver Is Ashes: The Great In anticipation of Carnegie’s 2nd Poetry Slam! Pamela Bentley Fire of 1886. Revisit the Great Fire with Lisa as she brings and Sho Wiley, both creative writing teachers and long-time to life stories of numerous fi re survivors: visit the sites and OPEN HOUSE slam poets, lead a workshop where they’ll share advice and discover why! Learn how Vancouver rose from the ashes techniques. Bring two of your favourite poems or write one within weeks of the fi re’s aftermath. The walking tour will ST. JAMES’ ANGLICAN CHURCH in the workshop; you’ll get an opportunity to try out your slam progress from the east end of , through to the Saturday, November 1, 12pm – 4pm poetry ideas and with one-on-one mentoring you’ll be ready to fi nal commentary on the Main Street overpass leading to St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova step up and go for it! This workshop is useful for anyone who CRAB Park. Everyone welcome wants to improve how they present their poetry in public. Sho says “Poetry is meant to be heard, poetry for the people!” and who knows that better than the poets of Carnegie! Following the All Saint’s Day High Mass, St. James’ invites you OPEN HOUSE to their open house: a wonderful opportunity to see fi rst-hand the heritage building, take in a variety of parish activities, and POETRY VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM to share some exciting presentations! Saturday November 1, 10am – 3pm CARNEGIE’S 2nd POETRY SLAM! 12:30pm, Demonstration with Organist and Music Director Vancouver Police Museum, 240 E. Cordova 2nd fl oor Gerald Harder Saturday November 1, 1pm – 2:30pm MUSIC & POETRY Today is free admission Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free In the choir gallery Gerald Harder will give a demonstration A CELEBRATION OF BUD OSBORN One of Vancouver’s most interesting attractions, the Vancouver on the extraordinary 1,760 pipe Casavant organ. Join him for a In celebration of the Carnegie newsletter and its long history of Saturday November 1, 3pm – 5pm Police Museum is located in the former Coroner’s Courtroom. close-up look at the console and a more intimate communication encouraging writers and poets in the Downtown Eastside, and Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Built in 1932, the building is a municipally designated heritage of the history and workings of the instrument. in honour of our much loved friend Zaccheus Jackson (2013 A tribute and celebration of Bud Osborn – our inspiring, pas- structure and houses an extensive collection relating to the Vancouver Slam Poetry Champion), we present Carnegie’s 2nd 1:15pm, Guided Tour led by Allan Duncan sionate, fi ercely committed, poet, activist and friend. Join us for history of policing in Vancouver. Here you will fi nd exhibits Poetry Slam! Have you slammed a poem before? You’ll have three Long-time parishioner Allan Duncan leads a guided tour of this an afternoon of music and poetry with saxophonist Graham Ord, about some of the city’s most famous criminals and the men minutes to say your poem. Memorize it, improvise it, rant or sing unique church: learn about the church’s history, architecture bassist Paul Blaney, guitarist Tony Wilson, musician and friend and women who enforce our laws. Join our museum staff for a it out. Then fi ve random audience members chosen to judge and the personalities who were involved in its construction in James Ash, and other guests who shared many hours of creative free guided tour at 11am and 1pm. For more information: 604- will give you a score. The rules still have to be decided on, so be the 1930s. synergy with Bud. We will also be showing photos and videos. 665-3346 or www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca or check out the prepared for surprises. Featured host and MC is Jillian Christmas. Come and read a poem of Bud's and share your memories. Facebook and Twitter page! Everyone welcome. 2pm, Reading of The Second Shepherds’ Play Be part of the audience – laugh, cheer, cry, clap – or step up and Copies of some of Bud's poetry will be available at the event. The guided tour will return to the Sanctuary for an animated slam it, you know you want to! To quote intrepid newsletter editor reading of The Second Shepherds’ Play presented by UBC Paul Taylor “Don’t let your greatness daunt you!” ART MARKET English professors Dr. Paul Stanwood and Dr. Leslie Arnovick. POETRY EASTSIDE ARTISTS COMPANY The anonymous author of The Second Shepherds' Play inverts DTES POETS OPEN MIC Saturday November 1, 10am – 5pm the Nativity story and gives voice to three humble shepherds POETRY ON THE STREET in this famous medieval mystery play. Although boisterous and POETREE with Magdelanye Saturday November 1, 7pm – 9:45pm Saturday November 8, 10am – 5pm farcical, it is also sophisticated in its address of the gripes of Saturday November 1, 1:30pm-3pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Woodward’s Atrium, 111 W. Hastings day-to-day medieval existence. Carnegie Community Centre, sidewalk under the tent Downtown Eastside poets and writers meet on the fi rst Saturday For eighteen months now, the Eastside Artists Company has of every month to read original poetry, plays, prose and works- held regular Saturday art markets inside and outside the Atrium • Photography Exhibition 401 Main Free in-progress. The evening is free, it's friendly, and it's packed at Woodward’s. The initiative provides a place for Vancouver Historian and photographer Christine Hatfull exhibits new Join Magdelanye for an interactive poetry memorial; a living with local talent, both on the microphone and in the audience. artists and artisans to display and sell their work. Diane John- photographs of the ongoing architectural project across the shrine of words in memorium to Bud Osborn. Write your own The personal stories can be quite raw and powerful. Featured ston, owner and operator of the company, is passionate about street from St. James’. From the church’s bell tower, Christine poem; contribute to a group poem; bring your own poem; col- guest for the evening is long-time Open Mic volunteer and poet the opportunity for artists to be self-sustaining in the Downtown is capturing the transformation of the former Remand Centre laboratively write a poem together. It all depends on you – the Antonette Rea, a “delightful transgender, intersex poet and activ- Eastside. Come to the Saturday market and see what the art- as it is re-purposed into social housing. people passing by. Facilitated by Magdelanye; poet and pilgrim, ist” living in the Downtown Eastside who says her poetry is “...the ists have for sale. For more information: dianecaroljohnston@ • Saint James Music Academy long-time DTES community activist and ambassador for the most valuable thing. That is my soul, that was my heart.” Sign up hotmail.com or phone 604-616-5531. Throughout the day, students from the Saint James Music Camino World Peace Project. for a ten minute spot at the Open Mic. Hosted by Diane Wood. Academy will entertain with music and song.

18 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 19 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1

MUSIC IN THE STREETS ART IN THE STREETS HASTINGS STREET BAND SHRINES FOR DAY OF THE DEAD MUSIC Saturday November 1, 12pm & 1pm Saturday November 1, 6pm – 10pm WOMEN IN THE ROUND Indigenous Women’s Voices Starts at Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main Free Carnegie Theatre & Sidewalks of Main and Hastings Free Saturday November 1, 7:30pm Get your dancing shoes ready. It’s music in the streets with In the spirit of Diwali, All Souls Day and Dia de los Muertos, InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings By donation the Hastings Street Band and their upbeat jazz and blues New proceed into the theatre and around Hastings and Main to visit Orleans style. Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Brad shrines. Bring a candle, a photograph, fl owers or fruit to add to Women In The Round is a rare and incredible opportunity to Muirhead, the Band is comprised of enthusiastic Downtown a shrine. In special celebration of the life of our beloved Isabel celebrate the voices of indigenous women who have trav- Eastside involved amateur and semi-pro musicians playing with Ramirez: friend, and for many years, the leader of numerous elled the world sharing their lives and stories through their professional musicians from across Vancouver. Day of the Dead celebrations in the Downtown Eastside. We songs. The evening presents Juno award-winning vocalist, remember those who have gone before and honour their lives. actor, director and general powerhouse Renae Morriseau; musicologist, technique expert, teacher and vocalist Sandy READING & BOOK LAUNCH Scofi eld; rising star with loads of talent Niska Napoleon; and A YEAR IN CHINA: Bill Wong’s Diaries in His Father’s Home Village 1936-37 Downtown Eastside’s own Dalannah Gail Bowen, a veteran Saturday November 1, 2pm – 3pm of the Vancouver music scene and recent winner of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall right to represent BC at the International Blues Challenge By donation to the Garden in Memphis. Accompanied on keyboard by Simon Kendall. Filled with variety and commonalities, the evening promises Join us this afternoon as elder Bill Wong and his son Steven Wong read excerpts the sound of rich voices and magical moments. Sandy Scofi eld of the newly-published A Year in China, by Bill Wong and Joanne Poon. Joanne will also share stories related to the journal. With guest speaker Dr. Henry Yu, UBC History Associate Professor; and Todd Wong, long- time family friend and musical guest on accordion. Owner Bill Wong operates Modernize Tailors in Chinatown and has done so for over sixty-fi ve years. It seems like he has been in the neighbourhood for as long as anyone can remember. But in 1936-37, when Bill was fourteen years old, he and his brother Jack spent a year in China in his father’s home village. Bill kept a journal where he wrote about his daily experiences in a small rural village in the voice of a young Chinese-Canadian teenager. His journals are fascinating, not only for the glimpse into another time but also because they are written in older Chinese calligraphy. The sheer art of translation posed a pleasurable challenge for Joanne Poon who met and talked with Bill for a number of years as they translated and transcribed the journals that were written over seventy-fi ve years ago. Niska Napoleon Dalannah Gail Bowen Copies of A Year in China will be available for sale at the reading. Renae Morriseau

Bill and Zoe Wong THEATRE MUSIC THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer MUSIC CAST w/ TINY PYRAMIDS (Music of Sun Ra) Saturday November 1, 8pm Saturday November 1, 10pm (doors 9:30pm) NEW SPARK: Thee Ahs Russian Hall, 600 Campbell China Cloud Studios, 2nd fl oor 524 Main Saturday November 1, 8:30pm (doors 8pm) See page 12 for full description Suggested donation $10 Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre and ticket information CAST: While their sparse instrumentation enables the duo to SFU Woodward's, 149 W.Hastings Free speak simply, Cast's fi erce rapport on stage creates a dynamic SFU's Vancity Offi ce of Community Engagement is pleased to present performance. With her striking voice and soaring vibrato, Jes- Thee Ahs, a local quartet: Dahn plays bass, Sarah is the lead singer, sica Leger (voice, guitar, percussion) intertwines evocative lines Mareesah plays drums and Davinah plays guitar, sings and writes all Get Social! around Ben Brown's creative drumming (drums, pitched percus- the music. Thee Ahs has recorded and self-released three full length sion). TINY PYRAMIDS: Drawing on the vast and diverse cata- albums: Thee AHs Nation, Future Without Her, and Corey’s Coathang- Facebook page: Heart of the City Festival logue of Sun Ra, one of music’s most prolifi c, pioneering, and ers. We love what the Georgia Straight says about the quartet: "Thee confounding fi gures, Tiny Pyramids go from in the pocket swing Ahs’ catchy melodies and punchy guitars mean that they are forever Facebook Event: Heart of the City Festival 2014 to controlled cosmic chaos and intergalactic improvisation. With Thee AhsThee Ahs destined to be fi led in the pop-rock section of record stores, but the Daniel Gaucher, Colin Edward Cowan and Tyson Naylor. local four-piece has a better term to describe its sound: black bub- Twitter: @HeartofCityFest blegum." Twitter: @VanMovTheatre

20 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 21 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

MUSIC IN THE STREETS WALKING TOUR HASTINGS STREET BAND CONTOUR WALKING TOUR with Pierre Leichner Sunday November 2, 12pm & 1pm Sunday November 2, 2pm Starts at Pigeon Park, Carrall & E. Hastings Free Meet at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Public Park, 50 E. Pender Free Get your dancing shoes ready. It’s music in the streets with the Pierre Leichner is one of the exhibiting artists in Contour, an SONG & DRUMS Hastings Street Band and their upbeat New Orleans style jazz installation and interactive community project taking place this SAWAGI TAIKO & TZO'KAM and blues. Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Brad fall in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Public Park by Art is Land Network. Sunday November 2, 2pm – 3pm Muirhead, the Band is comprised of enthusiastic Downtown Pierre will lead a walking tour of the Park and the site specifi c Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward's, 149 Eastside involved amateur and semi-pro musicians playing with installations. Learn a bit about the ’s Dr. Sun W. Hastings Free professional musicians from across Vancouver. Yat-Sen Park and Gardens, the Chinese traditions that inspired The Heart of the City Festival is excited to present for our the builders, and how both the space and the plantings informed community this unique collaboration of singing and drumming the Contour artists in the works they created. For more informa- between the all-women Japanese drum group Sawagi Taiko and tion: artislandnetwork.com/upcoming-events-for-conduit the First Nations performance group Tzo'Kam. Led by composer, producer and traditional singer Russell Wallace, Tzo'Kam is a Lil- wat family group who off er traditional and contemporary songs MUSIC including drumming and dancing. The combination of these songs with the exploratory nature of Sawagi Taiko’s approach ACCORDIONS ON FIRE…AT HOME! Sunday at the InterUrban to the taiko art form makes for a fascinating afternoon of world Sunday November 2, 12:30pm – 2pm culture and indigenous rhythms. InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings Free Fire! Never yell this in the theatre but with a gathering of accordions, you’ve got lots to cheer about. Join the creative musicians of the Squeezebox Circle, mild and wild people of your neighbourhoods. They are planning a program of Members of Sawagi Taiko “songs of fi re”, “fi ery songs” and “home fi re songs” and in and Tzo'Kam true accordion diversity, will include classical, folk, ethnic and popular song traditions. Bring your hot pants as there is no PANEL DISCUSSION limit to the wealth of material that the versatile and always WALKING TOUR surprising mighty accordion can set on fi re! A popular event; RAYMUR MOTHERS WALKING TOUR THEY WOULDN’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER stay for the afternoon. Sunday November 2, 1pm Sunday November 2, 3pm Meet at Russian Hall, 800 Campbell Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Free $10, pay what you can for local residents Join some of the women, grown-up children and friends who READING & POETRY Take a walk with Carolyn Jerome and more “militant moms took part in one of the most iconic and successful feats of BUD OSBORN AND POEMS FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD and kids” who participated in the Raymur Mothers direct direct action in Vancouver history! In 1971 a group of single action in 1971 to ensure the children’s safety. The one-hour mothers from the Downtown Eastside challenged some of Thursdays Writing Collective & Mariner Janes Haisla Collins walking tour will visit main historic points of interest and will Canada's most powerful corporate interests on behalf of Sunday November 2, 4:30pm-5:30pm their children – and won! Share histories, refl ections and MUSIC share some of the stories that inspired Bob Sarti in the writ- InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings Free ing of his new play The Raymur Mothers. observations for the future. Moderated by Jay Hamburger, Poet Mariner Janes situates Bud Osborn’s life and poetry HEIDI MORGAN and HAISLA COLLINS director of the new musical The Raymur Mothers, by Bob in the Downtown Eastside, to be followed by readings from Sarti and Bill Sample. Sunday November 2, 2:30pm – 4pm Photos from UBC Special Collection Thursdays Writing Collective of new and published works InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings Free from the neighbourhood Bud called home. Poet, writer, We have a real treat for you! Two amazing singers with their editor and East Vancouver resident, Mariner Janes works in accompanying bands will take the stage this afternoon. First the DTES and aims to bring the multitude of voices he fi nds on the program is Heidi Morgan and Friends. Songstress and here into his work, through found poetry, transcription and bringer of soul, Heidi off ers a sultry set of blues sure to grab at storytelling. your heartstrings. Accompanying Heidi is Michael Bellwood Thursdays Writing Collective is comprised of 150 activists, on guitar and Joe Bourchier on stand up bass. Rounding out academics, slam poets, novelists and storytellers who ex- the afternoon is neighbourhood favourite Haisla with Nasty, plore issues of self-determination through creative writing. Brutish & Short, a roots acoustic band specializing in blues THEATRE The Festival congratulates founder Elee Kraljii Gardiner and and ballads, with fl avourings of gospel, jazz and country. Led THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer the Collective who, since 2008, continue to hold free, drop-in by Haisla Collins (harmonica, kazoo and lead vocals), featur- writing sessions at Carnegie, have published six chapbooks ing Lorenzo Watters (lead guitar and mandolin), Reverend Sunday November 2, 8pm and perform at events throughout the city. For more info: Gabriel Hebert (slide guitar and banjo) and Father Theo Russian Hall, 600 Campbell www.thursdayswritingcollective.ca (rhythm guitar and twelve-string). See page 12 for full description and ticket information

22 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 23 Flamenco. MUSIC & DANCE SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 Music, Dance, Song, Rhythm. BARRIO FLAMENCO: Flamenco for the People A history. A way of life. Sunday November 2, 7pm – 9pm Flamenco is a story of the people of southern Spain and of the The Ironworks, 235 Alexander By donation Celebrate the spirit of the Downtown Eastside with an unforget- strength of the human spirit to transform suff ering. It was born table evening of live fl amenco music and dance! Flamenco is an WORKSHOP in the taverns and living rooms of the barrios, or poor neigh- art form by and for the people, danced and played with spirit, POSTER WORKSHOP with Murray Bush bourhoods — a song of the street, a cry, and a celebration. ferocity, joy, laughter and tears. Sunday November 2, 2pm – 5pm Flamenco is a multicultural art form, with roots in Moor- Hosted by fl amenco dancer and teacher Kelty McKerracher, Carnegie 3rd fl oor Gallery, 401 Main Free ish, Jewish, Christian, and Gypsy cultures. The Moors, Barrio Flamenco features some of the most compelling Here’s a great opportunity to learn tips and fi ne-tune ideas for who were persecuted in Christian Spain, and the Spanish fl amenco dancers, singers and musicians in the city. This year community/political posters with activist/graphic designer Mur- Gypsies (gitanos) who lived at the margins of society, were we welcome guitarist Peter Mole, singer Jafelin Helton, dancers ray Bush. Murray urges you to bring ideas for real posters you central to the development of a new style of singing based Maria Avila, Andrea Williams, Michelle Harding, Liat Harlev, want to work on. Or, you can start with a blank page! Supplies on resistance to oppression, rejection of the status quo and young favourite Sophia Ludwig, and special guests. And a big provided. If you have one handy, bring a laptop. Sponsored by pride in being outsiders. The cante jondo, or deep song, 'ole!' to our Carnegie Flamenco students! the Community Arts Council of Vancouver and funded by the is at once desperate and defi ant – full of pain yet also joy. BCGEU. Following the workshop, join Murray for the opening Following last year’s performance, DTES resident and poet Traditionally, fl amenco is improvised by the singers, danc- of his exhibit In Flux: Community/Political Posters at 5:30pm. Stephen Lytton was so inspired he wrote: “The dance ers, and guitarists. The compas, or rhythm, is kept by reinvigorates people who want to be involved….We want to dance hand clapping called palmas. The fl amenco juerga (party) but don’t or can’t. The performers dance, and through them happens in informal places, with everyone in the commu- everybody dances. The love is dance, is the romance…Dance me EXHIBITION & RECEPTION nity taking part. More recently, fl amenco has become an away Barrio Flamenco. In the spirit of dance, we dance.” IN FLUX: COMMUNITY / POLITICAL POSTERS by Murray Bush internationally recognized contemporary art form, some of Opening: Sunday November 2, 5:30pm – 7pm whose most respected dancers are elders. To celebrate Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, our Barrio Flamenco includes a shrine to honour those who have gone be- Carnegie 3rd fl oor Gallery, 401 Main A word exists for the mysterious spirit of fl amenco – duende. fore. Bring a photograph of a dearly departed, a fl ower or candle Exhibition November 2 to 30 Free It is considered a rare privilege when it decides to visit. The to contribute to the shrine. On the night when the divide between The Festival is pleased to present an exhibit of some of Murray Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca says of duende: this world and the spirit world blurs, join us for this exciting juerga Bush’s fl ux design community action posters. Murray is an artist, To fi nd duende, there is neither map nor exercise. (fl amenco party) to laugh, play, pray, cry, enjoy, and stamp your feet! activist, photographer, graphic designer and longtime DTES One only knows that it burns the blood... resident who loves making posters almost as much as he loves The enthusiastic audience at the Barrio Flamenco 2013 Festival When you feel moved by duende – that is the moment to canoeing. You have probably seen Murray’s posters over the event overfl owed out the doors of the Carnegie Theatre, so shout “Óle”! years in the DTES, on everything from Woodward’s to Insite to please note: this popular event will take place this year at The the Olympics. His posters are challenging and bold and grab Kelty McKerracher Ironworks, a larger venue on Alexander at Main. Ole! our attention to the cause. Murray will lead a poster workshop at 2pm earlier today. Poster for 2008 benefi t for Insite DANCE MILESTONE OPEN DANCE STUDIO Sunday November 2, 4pm – 4:45pm Carnegie Community Centre Gym, THIRTY YEARS! 401 Main Free Karen Jamieson Dance Company Watch and move! Come see Karen Jamie- is thirty years old! son Dance Company and the Carnegie Dance Troupe in action! Watch the danc- A lot of dances, a lot of dancers and a lot of art- ers as they show you the inner workings ists have passed through since the 1983-1984 of their dance workshops and get a fi rst season of Karen Jamieson’s new company. sneak peak of Karen has created ninety dance works, toured how they are Canada, the U.S., Europe and Japan. Her work creating their Sisyphus was named one of the top ten Canadian new dance Choreographic Masterworks of the 20th Century piece for 2015. by Dance Collection Danse Magazine. Karen Jamieson Join the group Did you know her fi rst company (Terminal City Dance) was co-founded with and learn some Savannah Walling and Terry Hunter back in 1975? And look at where they are simple dance now! ... still creating great art together with the Heart of the City Festival. moves – experi- Karen Jamieson Dance Company is happy to be celebrating the start of their ninth ence the joy of year with the Carnegie Dance Troupe and their 30th Year as a company. They dance! thank you for all your support over the years. Come experience the joy of dance!

Carnegie Dance Troupe

24 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Sophia Ludwig at Barrio Flamenco 2013 Heart of the City Festival 2014 25 COMING TO KNOW: MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 WORKSHOP MASS CULTURAL SHARING IN THE BIG HOUSE EXPRESSIVE ARTS with Katherine Somody ALL SOULS’ DAY MASS Monday November 3, 1pm – 3pm Monday November 3, 6:30pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova Kiindosowin Yyewints Tel'nexw The Expressive Arts Group meets on a drop-in basis every Everyone welcome Monday afternoon at Gallery Gachet to play with paint, make This year the Oculus Chamber Choir joins the St. James' High 学 んで 伝 える collages, use mark-making tools, do printmaking or sculpting. Mass Choir in singing the transcendent Requiem, op.9 (1947) Узнавання 發覺 There are about thirty members, both men and women, in the by Maurice Duruflé. This extraordinary and meditative mass group and no previous art experience is necessary to participate. setting is based primarily on Gregorian chant and was written Monday, November 3, 5:30pm – 8pm Art materials provided; leader Katherine Somody is available in memory of the composer’s father. At this spiritual gathering to give instruction if needed and desired. Come see what the we give thanks for all the departed, no matter who they were, Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main group is all about and express yourself in a supportive, safe and what they believed, and especially for those who may not have { By invitation { creative atmosphere. Call 604-687-2468 for more information. had anyone to pray for them. You are welcome to come and remember all of your beloved ones who have moved on from A Theatrical Feast for the Carnegie Cultural Sharing Program this life. If you have names of the departed you would like read aloud during the prayers, please contact the church office by To Honour First Nations and Immigrant Presence in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Monday October 27 at 604-685-2532. Everyone is welcome.

In cultural traditions of Downtown Eastside residents, feasts are a time for nourishing relationships, marking important events, offering gifts and acknowledgements, sharing learning and teaching, poetry and music: a storehouse of memories for the future.

“Coming To Know is about how we come to understand and then how we pass on those understandings. It is not only about re-learning how to be in relationships with one another, but with all of creation. There were times in our histories when our ways of coming to know were a way of life. Today we have to search hard to reclaim and restore processes and make them appropri- ate to our situation and time. These ways of coming to know manifested in traditional practices and ways of sharing that were done through teachings encoded in ceremony, feasting, song, dance, and storytelling. This evening we will come to know and understand one another through sharing good food, cultural teachings, lived experience, poetry and song, drumming and design, and stories of intersections where our cultures have met and meet. In this re-membering process, we re-claim one another as members of the human family and re-story our past in the present for the future. In taking care of the seven generations behind us and the seven generations to come, we plant relevant and necessary seeds.” Lisa Yellow-Quill, Carnegie Community Programmer

Please Note: This is a ticketed event by invitation. Any extra tickets can be claimed on a first come, first serve basis on the day of the event.

This fall 2014 Big House Project acknowledges in-kind support from the following partners: Aboriginal Front Door, Carnegie Com- munity Centre Cultural Sharing Program, Full Circle, Raven's Eye Studio and VPL’s Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence Program.

Fall 2014 Creative Team: artistic direction – Savannah Walling; Big House projects are theatrical feasts created for, with and dramaturgy – Renae Morriseau; design – Candice Curlypaws about the Downtown Eastside founding Coast Salish and im- Aboriginal Feast (2013) with Bill Beauregarde and Haisla Collins; music facilitation – migrant communities: a thank you from Vancouver Moving BIG HOUSE WORKSHOPS Beverly Dobrinsky; storytelling/menu facilitation – Rosemary Theatre to the neighbourhood in which it was created. Coming Celebrate our cultural communities through story-sharing, snacks, hands-on crafting and exploring what keeps the home fires Georgeson; hospitality facilitation – Sarah May Redmond; tech- to Know is the fifth of a series of feasts produced at neighbour- burning. Learn to make simple, elegant “light carrier” lanterns on the theme of what keeps your spirit alive in dark winter times. nical assistance – Mark Eugster; creative consultation – Ruth hood gathering places in partnerships with Downtown Eastside Make one for the Heart of the City Festival, make one for yourself, or join in on crafting a large community phoenix lantern. No Howard; producer – Terry Hunter. Guest presenters include Larry based organizations and Toronto’s Jumblies Theatre. This fall’s experience necessary. Free Grant, Jirong Huang, Evelyn Lau, Woodrow Morrison, Wes Na- event has been supported by six art-making and story-sharing hanee, Robert Sung, Mona Woodward, Carnegie Village Quartet, workshops taking place at the Carnegie Community Centre and AUTUMN LEAF MOBILES and LIGHT-CARRIER MAKING YELLOW ROSES AND A CUP OF TEA with Rosemary Georgeson, Oceanside Dakota Drummers, Oppenheimer Park Ladies Tea the Aboriginal Front Door. with Bill Beauregarde and Candice Curlypaws Ali Lohan and Sarah May Redmond Party and Margo Kane with the Coming to the Fire Ensemble. Thursdays, October 9 & 16, 11am – 3pm Fridays, October 24 & 31, 2pm – 4pm Aboriginal Front Door, 384 Main Carnegie Community Centre, basement Art Room, 401 Main Carnegie Community Centre Cultural Sharing Program Please come out and share some thoughts, words and memo- Culturally specific events bring a sense of belonging and camaraderie to an otherwise isolated and disenfranchised popula- LIGHT-CARRIER MAKING ries with us over a fragrant cup of tea at the Oppenheimer Park tion. Carnegie’s weekly Cultural Sharing Program, now in its twenty-sixth year, offers First Nations people from across North with Haisla Collins and Candice Curlypaws Ladies Tea Party – a workshop for self-declared women. America an opportunity to share cultural traditions and learn from each other, participating in activities such as Pow Wows, I can see my memories dancing in the gentle wisps of steam special feasts, elders gatherings, singing and drumming, and arts and crafts. Mondays, October 20 & 27, 5:30 – 8pm flowing up from my cup of tea, my grandmother’s yellow roses Carnegie Theatre – Cultural Sharing, 401 Main are here today. What words and memories play for you?

26 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 27 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5

GAMES CONVERSATION PRESENTATION THEATRE HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL SNOOKER TOURNAMENT GREAT VANCOUVER FIRE Slide Show THE RAYMUR MOTHERS WHOSE FIRES? WHICH HOME? Tuesday November 4, 11am Wednesday November 5, 1pm They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer An evening of conversation with Vancouver playwrights Carnegie Centre Pool Room, 401 Main Free Carnegie Learning Centre, 3rd fl oor, 401 Main Free Wednesday November 5, 8pm Tuesday November 4, 7pm – 9pm (doors 6:30pm) Games, fun, prizes! The Carnegie Pool Room hosts a sixteen Join Vancouver author Lisa Anne Smith as she brings Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Playwrights Theatre Centre Test Kitchen Studio player single elimination Snooker Tournament. Sign up at 10am to life stories from her newly-released book Vancouver Tickets tonight: 2 for 1 with referee Al H. in the pool room. First come, fi rst serve. First, 2nd fl oor, 739 Gore Free Is Ashes: The Great Fire of 1886. Re-visit the Great Van- See page 12 for full description second and third prizes! For further information contact Colleen, couver Fire of June 13th, 1886 through vintage digitized and ticket information Carnegie Volunteer program 604-606-2708. Everyone welcome! What alchemy inspires writers to transform their worlds photos and recollections of survivors. Discover how an and their stories? How is a real life community re-imagined out-of-control clearing fi re reduced Vancouver to ashes in the fiction of new plays? Writers whose work has in less than one hour — and galvanized a remarkable arisen from this place on Coast Salish territory share recovery in the days and weeks following. See photos their thoughts about the interplay between personal of before and after the fi re; and fi nd out how much we story and ancestral memory, inspiration, place and have learned since 1886 in the fi eld of fi re management. fi ction. Join writers Beverly Dobrinsky (Bread & Salt), Hiro Kanagawa (Indian Arm, upcoming with Rumble SHOWCASE Theatre), Renae Morriseau (Storyweaving), Brenda Prince (Masters student), and Quelemia Sparrow (Xwayxway, in DTES FRONT AND CENTRE: O Muses, light my fi re! development with Full Circle) for an interesting and sure Wednesday November 5, 7:30pm – 9:30pm to be lively conversation. Hosted by Playwrights Theatre Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Centre and presented with the Heart of the City Festival. PUPPETS Please note there are stairs leading up to this venue, and The Downtown Eastside is home to talented musicians, and it is HEALTHY AGING THROUGH THE ARTS alas, there is no wheelchair access. always exciting for the Festival to present a thrilling evening of Tuesday November 4, 11:30am – 12pm Hiro Kanagawa Quelemia Sparrow local women and their spirited music. Strathcona Community Centre, 601 The fi rst musician to light our fi re is Corinthian Clark, who, with her Keefer Free powerful vocals, had the audience on their feet with a standing This year the Strathcona Seniors’ Pup- ovation the last time she performed at the Festival. Then, Carnegie Corinthian Clark peteer group explores their relationship regular and musician Joyce Morgan takes to the stage. Last year to the neighborhood through the eyes Joyce charmed the audience with her delightful interpretation of of simple hand-made glove puppets. classical songs. This year, Joyce is going contemporary! The seniors came together with the A new group to spring from Laura Barron’s Women Rock! Strathcona Youth Leadership Program workshop is Firekeeper and the Wild Mares; with Angela Zenk in a series of puppet-building work- (vocals, keys), Purple (vocals, percussion), Geetha Subramaniyam shops led by artists Sharon Bayly and (guitar, percussion) and Justina Vanovcan (movement coach, Maggie Winston. As the glove puppets percussion). This dynamic quartet performs an eclectic mix of were constructed, both seniors and covers and originals, rock, country, punk, all delivered with a youth explored their personal relation- dramatic (and sometimes humorous) fl air. ships to places in the neighbourhood that held particular signifi - cance. Stories were shared which led to the creation of a short The Festival is pleased to present local musical favourite, singer performance and video. Come see this delightful performance. and guitarist Shannon Bauman, singing original songs to the Twin Bandit Everyone welcome. theme of love, healing and recovery. And in their fi rst Festival ap- pearance we welcome Twin Bandit, with the DTES’ own Hannah Walker and Jamie Elliott, a young and new duo who bring to their MUSIC original songs an intimate folk and roots performance style with CARNEGIE CABARET COFFEE HOUSE strong harmonies. Hannah and Jamie met at our community’s highly praised Saint James Music Academy on Gore and Cordova Tuesday November 4, 6:45pm – 9:45pm where they bonded over their love of singing. Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Free Stoking the evening fi re for the uplifting fi nale is Vancouver blues Come and listen, or participate in one of the longest running queen, and the Downtown Eastside’s own, Dalannah Gail Bowen regular community music programs in the neighbourhood. with bass man Owen Owen Owen. This is a great opportunity to You will be delighted by the range and diversity of talented hear blues at its best: Dalannah and Owen recently won the solo/ musicians in the Downtown Eastside. Open mic and featured Beverly Dobrinsky Brenda Prince duet category of the International Blues Challenge for BC and performers. Sign up at 6:45pm and show your stuff . Coordinated are heading to Memphis in January to compete in the 2015 Inter- by singer/guitarist Steve Edwards. Basic musical instruments national Blues Challenge! Congratulations Dalannah and Owen! provided. You may even entice a backup band to accompany you. Musicians and singers of all styles and skill levels welcome! Firekeeper and the Wild Mares

28 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 29 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6

THEATRE CHILDREN WORKSHOP MUSIC & MEDIA THE RAYMUR MOTHERS Cabaret for Admiral Seymour School MAGIC COMEDY STORIES with Gerardo Avila DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN’S ART COLLECTIVE PANIC STARR Thursday November 6, 1pm Thursday November 6, 4:30pm – 5pm Thursday November 6, 7pm – 9pm Thursday November 6, 8pm – 11pm Russian Hall, 600 Campbell DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings Free Fortune Sound Club, 147 E. Pender Tickets at the door $15 A special performance for students, parents and teachers Free The Downtown Eastside Women's Art Collective holds bi- Enjoy a night of great music and inspiring of Admiral Seymour School. Gerardo Avila is a professional monthly art sessions at the DTES Neighbourhood House and images from Indigenous artists as Van- The company of The Raymur Mothers has invited the students of comedian and storyteller. With the they encourage women to attend. They aim to provide a safe couver Indigenous Media Arts Festival Admiral Seymour Elementary School to visit them at the Russian aid of his hand puppets, a marionette environment for women to express themselves freely, while also (VIMF) pulls the community together Hall for a narrative and excerpt of the full length musical written and some magic, Gerardo tells funny making art. The sessions are free, all materials are provided for a fall party! On stage: provocateur, by Bob Sarti and Bill Sample. The students will hear some of children stories. This performance is geared and there is a facilitator at each workshop. The Collective is still rapper and singer Kinnie Starr and the original music that tells the story of how, forty-three years for young kids and their families. The children new and fi nds the workshops to be fun and creative. Women Bohemian-Métis pop artist Janet Panic. ago, the mothers of students their age took direct action and will be able to participate and play characters only please. Live Stock Room: self taught electronic blocked the railway tracks to get the overpass built so their like princesses, knights, rabbits, giants, kites bass music DJ Kookum and guests. On children could walk safely to school. The students coming to and more. The children will hear stories about screen: Haida Raid series Just Say No, inspiring stop-motion this show will walk back and forth on that very overpass! Pedro de Urdemales and the Giants; Juanito MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION from Indigenous fi lmmakers confronting oil culture. Produced Gerardo Avila Laguna and his Kite; The Trickster Rabbit; INDIANS & COWBOYS by VIMF and Salish Coast LIVE. Presented by W2Media, Co-op The Knights and the Magic Objects; and the Thursday November 6, 7pm Radio, Late Night with Savages, Think NDN, with the DTES Heart WORKSHOP Magic Spaghetti. It is an afternoon of laughs, of the City Festival. No guest lists; everyone’s a VIP tonight. Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy By donation Ticket includes appetizers, photo booth and door prizes! Tick- SCRAPS & STITCHES: bewilderment, participation and just plain fun. Children and Chapel Arts presents a month long project of Indian & Cowboy ets: panicstarr.eventbrite.ca – advance $12.50, at the door $15. Karenza’s Chindi Nation caregivers welcome! Art: with music and DJs; Aboriginal hip hop, cowboy bands; Thursday November 6 carvings and paintings; Jeff Burnette’s Blown Glass RayGuns; 2:30pm – 5:30pm and Urban East Youth Totem Competition! DTES native youth W2 Media Mornings WORKSHOP will compete for the design and established mentors will help Carnegie 3rd fl oor Gallery GATHER ROUND FOR A STORY: realize the carved totem. The log is provided by Chapel Arts Founded in 2011, W2 Media Mornings pro- 401 Main Free Our Journey of Reconciliation So Far and the completed totem will be put up for auction. Proceeds vides independent news, culture & analysis Hanukkah, Diwali, Solstice, Christmas, Thursday November 6, 5pm – 7pm to be divided among the participants. Runs Thursday evenings from its homebase in East Van. It broadcasts and the Winter Fest holiday season are in November and by appointment; contact www.chapelarts/com local, regional and international news and just around the corner: be prepared! UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Free analysis that you won’t hear on mainstream morning Inspired by the past year of Truth and Reconciliation, the patrons Make gifts and decorations from fab- shows. They received the Georgia Straight ‘Best of Van- of the UBC Learning Exchange have been discussing themes of ric with Downtown Eastside artisan Karenza couver’ award in 2012. healing, connection and exchange of traditional wisdom. Join us THEATRE Karenza T. Wall. All fabric donated T. Wall for a storytelling workshop and an interactive exhibit showcasing THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer The radio show is broadcast weekdays Monday – Friday, by DTES residents; workshop sponsored by Carnegie. Look for medicine-making, songs and button-blanket creation. 6am – 8am on 100.5 FM and podcast at w2media.ca. Their more of Karenza’s workshops on Dec 4 at Carnegie, on Dec 6 Thursday November 6, 8pm Russian Hall, 600 Campbell best of the week show, Democracy North is syndicated at Britannia, and on Dec 9 at the UBC Learning Exchange. For Thursdays across Canada on community and campus more information: www.chindi-nation.net. The more the merrier! See page 12 for full description and ticket information stations. Everyone welcome! TALK SPORTS, CREATIVITY AND THE RADICAL IMAGINATION: RECEPTION Matt Hern MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION ASYLUM TO ACTIVISM Readings and Photo Exhibit Thursday November 6, 7pm SALT WATER CITY STORIES Thursday November 6, 4:30pm – 7:30pm Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Thursday November 6, 7pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free SFU Woodward's, 149 W. Hastings Chapel Arts Theatre, 304 Dunlevy Free Digging into history can unearth surprising treasures. Come Admission is on a fi rst come, fi rst serve basis. Free down to Gallery Gachet and view two unique sets of archival From Ray Rice to Michael Sam, and from Caster Semenya to Vancouver by another name: Huam Siu Fao (Salt Water City), the images that document mad history in the deinstitutionalization the Washington Redskins, sports is always front-and-centre name Chinese immigrants called Vancouver back in the day, retains era. One box of photographs was discovered in a Vancouver in our most pressing social conversations. Often derided as a a memorable place in the hearts of Chinese Canadians. Sid Chow bedroom closet, while a photographer who chronicled the van- subaltern opiate, sports need to be understood as containing Tan, longtime east-sider, videographer and community activist, hosts ishing world of the asylum left the second box. The evening also huge social and cultural power. Matt Hern argues for a vastly this evening of stories, music, video and tribute to those who came features author readings from the new collection Mad Matters: expanded defi nition of creativity that includes sports and all before – the mighty Lo Wah Kiu (old overseas Chinese). Special A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies, an anthology of kinds of everyday and common activities. Radical social change guests include Faye Leung, retired realtor, native Strathconian and writings on contemporary mental health by activists, survivors relies on our imaginations, and we need to nurture creative personality extraordinaire; artist, educator and fi lmmaker Karin Lee, and scholars. An evening program of After the Asylum? Legacies activity, especially material collisions, as we make and remake whose interest in Chinese Canadian identity informs her work; and of Community Mental Health, conference presented by SFU’s the world around us. Matt Hern is a former sportswriter and Sean Gunn, longtime activist and singer/songwriter performing on Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental legend-in-his-own-mind athlete. Presented by SFU's Vancity electric bass. Health. Everyone welcome. Offi ce of Community Engagement. Sid Chow Tan & Sean Gunn

30 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 31 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7

THEATRE FUNDRAISER THEATRE WHO STOLE THE SPIRIT OF THE CARNEGIE STRATHCONA PUB SOCIAL NITE Friday November 7, 2pm Friday November 7, 6pm – 10pm THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer Friday November 7, 8pm Welcome to an exciting new feature for the Festival and for the Carnegie Theatre Tickets are $25 Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Workshop! Downtown Eastside residents Adrienne Macallum and Jim Dewar, of no Come on down as old meets new at our Friends of Strathcona See page 12 for full description mercy productions, present their fi rst-ever theatrical adventure, Who Stole the Spirit social evening of fun, food, friends, fundraising and big musical and ticket information of the Carnegie, a mystery detective play that takes place in the Carnegie Community entertainment with a fun group of local musicians. Silent auction, Centre. Playwriting workshops and rehearsals have been ongoing every Friday since 50/50 draw and raffl e prizes. Proceeds to support Strathcona September. Come on out and enjoy this work-in-progress, an original and fun event. Community Centre activities. Tickets can be purchased at the COMEDY Community Centre. For more information, please call 604-713- HIP.BANG! presents A Very Fine Evening 1838. Friday November 7, doors 8pm China Cloud Studios, 2nd fl oor, 524 Main Suggested donation $10 Canadian Comedy Award-nominated comedy duo Hip.Bang! presents a brand new night of sketch comedy featuring spe- cial guests from the best of the Vancouver alternative comedy OPERA scene. Laughs guaranteed. "Girl with fl owers" by Adrienne Macallum THE MOZART MIRACLE COMMUNITY Friday November 7, 7pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free FEAST YOUR EYES TOO! City Opera Vancouver presents a special Festival event examining the name and nature of Mozart Friday November 7, 6pm – 7:30pm using CDs, DVDs and live performance. Was Mozart really the prodigy he is claimed to be? What was DTES Women’s Centre, 302 Columbia unique about his work? What is his style? What might he have achieved had he lived longer than his Free, donations welcome! thirty-fi ve years? And why does Mozart remain so alive today? Join soprano Bahareh Poureslami, The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre is excited to host pianist David Boothroyd and narrator Charles Barber for this intimate and exciting look at one of another version of Feast Your Eyes, a Fashion Show celebration. Bahareh Poureslami the most important composers who ever lived. You will hear music you never believed possible. Elders from the DTES Women’s Centre model clothing from the clothing room and other fashion treasure troves; fashion show at 6:30pm. Come and see what the most fashionable elders SHOWCASE in the neighbourhood are wearing this season. There will be EASTSIDE FRIDAY: Creative Magic! many other activities this evening including an arts and crafts table, art exhibition, 50/50 draw, tea and snacks. Women and Friday November 7, 7pm – 10pm men welcome! EWMA Studio, 56 E. Hastings Free

Join EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art) for Eastside Friday: COMEDY Creative Magic!, showcasing EWMA artists and community members ROARING COMEDY in an evening of music, dance and circus arts that blends art, creativ- Friday November 7, 7pm ity, personal insight and inspiration. Featured artists include, among others: rap and spoken word artist Janice Jacinto who delves deep Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free into personal odyssey and artistic experience; Renee Mak perform- Peggy Wilson Rose Eide ing circus arts; costume artist and dancer Montana King; and special Roar with laughter and amazement at this evening of magic musical guest Resonance, a duo with vocalist Rose Eide and singer and comedy: join host David Granirer; comics from Stand Up and guitarist Peggy Wilson. They deliver original tunes and carefully for Mental Health, including our favourite local funny guy Paul selected classics with their own special vocal blend – a community joy! Decarie; with special guest the inventive and witty Merlin and his hilarious comedy and amazing magic. A magician of many- EWMA is a development initiative of Atira Women’s Resource Society. years-standing Merlin brings fun and fantasy, comedy and It focuses on supporting women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to emotion to his awe-inspiring magic. Stand Up For Mental Health work together to develop an alternative form of business or employ- was founded by award-winning counselor, stand-up comic and ment that is grounded in their needs and realities. The EWMA retail author David Granirer who teaches stand-up comedy to people store showcases designs created by emerging local women artists, with mental illness. David and his comics look at the lighter and is the perfect place to shop for locally-made products and support side of taking meds, seeing counselors, getting diagnosed sustainable art and design practices. For more info please see www. and surviving the mental health system. For more info: www. atira.bc.ca/enterprising-women-making-art or join us on facebook at Merlin standupformentalhealth.com www.facebook.com/EWMAstore.

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ART MARKET OPEN HOUSE EASTSIDE ARTISTS COMPANY HEART OF THE CENTRE WALK Saturday November 1, 10am – 5pm Saturday November 8, 11am – 3pm FIELDHOUSE STUDIO HOP Saturday November 8, 10am – 5pm Evelyne Saller Centre, 320 Alexander Free Saturday November 8, 12pm – 3pm Woodward’s Atrium, 111 W. Hastings Various Studios, start at MacLean Park Fieldhouse For the last eighteen months the Eastside Artists Company has 710 Keefer Free held regular Saturday art markets inside and outside the Atrium at Woodward's. The initiative provides a place for Vancouver The Vancouver Parks Board’s Artists Fieldhouse Studio program artists and artisans to display and sell their work. Diane John- has brought artists to the MacLean Park Fieldhouse and the ston, owner and operator of the company, is passionate about Strathcona Park Fieldhouse for the past few years. The Festival the opportunity for artists to be self-sustaining in the Downtown is pleased that the artists will open their studios for you to drop Eastside. Come to the Saturday market and see what the art- by and see what they’ve been up to; it’s fascinating and you’ve ists have for sale. For more information: dianecaroljohnston@ got to see it to believe it! The Studio Hop will also visit Trillium hotmail.com or phone 604-616-5531. Saint James Music Academy Park, a corner park newly-built on False Creek East. Start the Studio Hop at the beginning – or meet up with the Hop along the way! WALKING TOUR 12pm – 1pm, MacLean Park Fieldhouse (710 Keefer) – Urban DTES RENOVICTIONS WALKING TOUR The Evelyne Saller Centre has an exciting line up of events and Weavers Studio, artists Sharon Kallis and Todd DeVries. See with Carnegie Community Action Project activities for this year’s Heart of the Centre Open House. Learn to demonstrations of drop spindling and spinning using locally Saturday November 8, 11am (approx. 90 minutes) craft your own arts ‘n craft project, view the art show of original grown fi bres. Local fi bre and dye samples will be on display. paintings, Legacy Wall Murals and the new Heritage art display Meet on front steps of Carnegie, 401 Main This is your chance to ask about the weavings and gatherings with contributions from talented local artists. Test your skill at the we’ve seen over the past few years. $10, free for local residents Heart of The City Hearts Tournament. Discover the story of the “Renoviction”: it might be a new word but it’s already an old Evelyne Saller Centre with photos, facts, text and a self-guided 1:15pm – 2:15pm, Strathcona Park Fieldhouse (across from story for many low-income people in the Downtown Eastside. walking tour. Snacks and beverages. Everyone welcome! 830 Malkin) – Onkle Hoonki’s Fabulous Horn Shop, artist Mr.

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H H Louise Francis-Smith – Army & Navy u u Big Print Project 2014 from the DTES and fueling the escalating rate of homelessness harvesting, preparing, curing, and carving wooden trumpets. across the city. Join members of the Carnegie Community Action MUSIC IN THE STREETS This is your opportunity to see horn making demonstrations and to hear those trumpets! Project on a walking tour of renoviction sites and learn more HASTINGS STREET BAND ARTIST TALK & EXHIBITION about how to work to make sure that the DTES remains a low- 2:30pm – 3pm Trillium Park (corner of Thornton & Malkin) – income neighbourhood. Saturday November 8, 12pm & 1pm BIG PRINT – Steamroller Woodprints co-managed by non-profi t EartHand Gleaners Society and the Artist talk: Saturday November 8, 2pm – 3pm Starts at Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Vancouver Parks Board, for environmental art and learning op- Main Free portunities. The unique Park, designed with input from the artists Raven's Eye Studios, 456 E. Hastings Get your dancing shoes ready. It’s music in the streets and local community with space specifi cally for community use, Exhibition October 29 to November 9 Free with the Hastings Street Band and their upbeat New was built with the intention to involve community in the tending, Orleans style jazz and blues. Led by multi-instru- harvesting and exploring of traditional use of plants on site. Drop This past summer, several local artists participated in The Big mentalist and composer Brad Muirhead, the Band is by to see what’s growing in your neighbourhood. Print Project, a sensational event that resulted in 4’ X 8’ wood- comprised of enthusiastic Downtown Eastside involved blocks being printed with a steamroller on Granville Island. The amateur and semi-pro musicians playing with profes- resulting works, several of which will be shown in the gallery, sional musicians from across Vancouver. Jo-ann Howard are by local artists Jerry Whitehead, Richard Tetrault and Cody Lecoy. These artists also have collaborated on mural projects in the Downtown Eastside. Jerry and Richard collaborated with RECEPTION & EXHIBITION Haisla Collins and others on the massive Through the Eye of CHINESE PAINTING EXHIBITION the Raven mural located on the west wall of the Orwell Hotel. Opening reception: Saturday November 8, 2pm – 4pm Last year, Jerry and Richard worked on the mural called Radius, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia located in the courtyard of Firehall Arts Centre, at Cordova and Exhibition November 7 to 9 Gore. See below for ticket information An addition to the art exhibition will be a series of paintings An exhibition of Chinese painting from Hung Yuk Ying and by Whitehead and Lecoy, and painter Haisla Collins. Big Print students from the Chinese Cultural Centre’s own Chinese Project was co-produced by Creative Cultural Collaborations painting class. Hung Yuk Ying is a Richmond member of the Society and New Leaf Editions. A presentation of the video Chinese Canadian Artists Federation. For more information: that was made of the Big Print Project will be shown during the 604-658-8880 or www.cccvan.com. Admission: $3/adult, $2/ Artist Talk on Sat Nov 8. student & senior. Admission to the reception on November 8 Hours: Wed Oct 29 – Sun Nov 9, 12pm – 4pm; Rod Chow Mr. Fire-Man is free. Hours: Fri – Sun, 11am – 4pm closed Mon & Tues, Nov 3 & 4

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PAYING TRIBUTE TO BLACK STRATHCONA SONG One Community / Six Decades / Ten Stories CARNEGIE SING ALONG CHOIR Saturday November 8 The Downtown Eastside/Strathcona is blessed with a rich history of Black Canadians who made signifi cant contributions to our 6:30pm – 9:30pm community and the City of Vancouver. Carnegie 3rd fl oor Gallery To pay tribute to the black community of Vancouver’s historic 401 Main Free Everyone’s favourite gentleman east-end, Strathcona’s Creative Cultural Collaborations Society, and guitarist Mike Richter leads in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre, recently a brand new version of the Car- produced the Black Strathcona Interactive Media Project, the negie Choir. They meet twice a centre piece of which is ten short videos that celebrate some of week and for the Festival, they the extraordinary people and places that made the community bring the regular session to vibrant and unique. Performers present the stories, combining you, the audience. It’s a choir; oral history with rarely seen archival photographs and fi lm. it’s a sing-along. Pull up a chair, Although viewers from anywhere in the world can take a fi nd the lyrics or the sheet mu- virtual web tour at www.blackstrathcona.com, we invite you to sic and raise your voice with experience history come to life at the following activities. the Choir. You won’t be alone!

INTERACTIVE MEDIA BLACK STRATHCONA SELF-GUIDED TOUR Online at www.blackstrathcona.com Free Use your smart phone or iPad to lead you on an interactive walk- Carnegie Choir ing tour. As you walk the neighbourhood, follow the map on the website with story locations. Use the QR codes on the street signage to download videos to your mobile device and see the past and present of Vancouver’s vibrant black community. Fielding Spotts Jr. – City Archive Vancouver – AM54-S4-Port N3.2 The Heart of the City Festival – An Open House for our community and beyond

WALKING TOUR COMMUNITY CELEBRATION The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is fi rst and foremost a festival BLACK STRATHCONA HERITAGE WALKING TOUR CELEBRATING BLACK STRATHCONA by the Downtown Eastside community for the Downtown Eastside community: an annual open house where we share with each other our stories, venues, with Kevan Cameron Saturday November 8, 2pm – 4:30pm neighbourhoods, artistic practice, concerns, culture and heritage. As an open Saturday November 8, 11am (approx. 90 minutes) Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free house we also welcome and encourage residents, visitors and friends from out- Meet at Jimi Hendrix Shrine, 207 Union The festival is thrilled to present all ten Black Strathcona videos, side our community to visit and attend our Festival and other activities through $10, pay what you can for local residents including among others: Vie’s Chicken & Steaks – Late night the Downtown Eastside. Walk the neighbourhood together, follow the map, use the QR haven; Militant Mothers – Beating the power brokers; Jimi & codes on street plaques to access the videos on your, or a fellow Nora – Seminal musician with local roots; and Leona’s Kids – Over the last decade we have been amazed at the diversity of our audiences. walker’s cell phone and share with each other the black history Great talent runs in the family. From local residents of all the neighbourhoods in the greater Downtown Eastside of the historic East End. A tour will leave at 11am, with special Also joining us for the afternoon are: Gordon McLennan, writer (Victory Square, Gastown, Chinatown, Powell Street/Oppenheimer, Strathcona, guest Kevan Cameron (Scruff Mouth) who performs in the video and director of the Black Strathcona Interactive Media Project; Hastings); to folks from Vancouver’s East End, Greater Vancouver and the Lower #5 – Jimi & Nora: Seminal musician with local roots. writer and poet Wayde Compton, co-founder of the Hogan’s Mainland; and to visitors from the Sunshine Coast, BC Interior and as far afi eld as Alley Memorial Project and consultant on this project; guest the USA, Mexico, England, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Rumania, musicians and performers including Scruff Mouth, Bertha Clark Pakistan and Hong Kong. aka Adelene da soul poet, Edo Friends of BC Cultural Group; invited VIPs from the black community; and special guest Thelma A common theme that runs through the comments we receive from our audiences Gibson, award winning entertainer and one of Leona’s kids. Your is their appreciation for the opportunity to connect and be welcomed and nour- emcee: multi-disciplinary artist Vanessa Richards. This event ished by our community; to learn about our rich and diverse culture and heritage; supports the new United Black Canadian Community Associa- and to discover and experience the indomitable spirit and vibrant sense of our tion and their dream to establish a black Canadian community Downtown Eastside community. Photo Terry Hunter centre near the historic Hogan’s Alley.

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PRESENTATION ‘Revitalizing Japantown?’ TALKUMENTARY A RIGHT TO REMAIN COMMUNITY FAIR PRESENTATION A Unifying Exploration of Human Rights, RECONCILIATION – MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER Saturday November 8, 4pm – 6pm Branding and Place. Saturday November 8, 6pm – 9:45pm Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Everyone welcome. Free The Right to Remain Community Fair has been the main Colonized, racialized, stigmatized and gentrifi ed – Down- town Eastside residents have continuously resisted Hu- focus of the Revitalizing Japantown? community research It has been a year since the extraordinary Reconciliation Week man Rights violations by rallying for social justice. project since June, uncovering the Human Rights history of of 2013 and the reconciliation walk across the Georgia Viaduct the Downtown Eastside and creating art and performance Understanding and strengthening the common links that took place in Vancouver. The Festival carries forward this with current residents to express their Right to Remain in a between Human Rights struggles past and present tells important initiative between First Nations and settler com- rapidly changing DTES. There will be workshop artwork on those who want to “revitalize” the neighbourhood that the munities with a “talk-umentary” evening of fi lm, stories, guest display, a slideshow and Q & A with the participating artists. DTES is not just a planners’ grid of buildings, streets and speakers and live performance. Project members Greg Masuda (fi lmmaker), Kristin Lantz (Gal- parks. It is its people, and the people of the DTES do not Grace Eiko Thomson Join host Angela White of the Indian Residential School Survivors lery Gachet) and Beth Carter (Nikkei National Museum) will need to be “revitalized” because they are already “vital.” also discuss their role in this exciting arts-based community Society for a conversation about the need for all communities research project-in-progress. Everyone welcome! “Revitalizing Japantown?” (2012-2015) is a community to work together towards reconciliation. Guest speakers will research project with DTES organizations, artists and include, among others, Stephen Lytton, Grace Eiko Thomson, researchers who are working to reconnect and re-enliven and Naveen Girn. the Human Rights history of the DTES across cultures, To mark the Centenary of the Komagata Maru, Imtiaz Popat will concerns and periods in history. share a classical chant to the track Crossing Pacifi c, composed Currently working with a fantastic team of artist residents by Neelamjit Dhillon from the album Komagata Maru, with of the DTES as The Right to Remain Community Fair we actress Leena Manroe performing a selection from Sharon Pol- want to ensure that the history of the DTES can continue lock’s 1976 play The . to teach Canadians about our Human Rights legacy and The fi lms shown this evening are: present-day challenges, including Human Rights issues taking place around housing, health, food, and the right • Yummo Comes Home, A Residential School Healing Journey to the city. (2013, 28 min) produced by Don Klaassen and the Mennonite Church Canada. This is the story of an Okanogan/Thompson “The Right to REMAIN in Vancouver’s Nihonmachi/Down- Aboriginal man who revisits the residential school building to town Eastside” by Jeff Masuda with Aaron Franks, for The reclaim his boyhood confi dence and fi nds what it means to Bulletin: a journal of Japanese Canadian community, experience reconciliation. history + culture, March 2014 Link www.revitalizingjapantown.ca/wp-content/up- • Rex versus Singh (2008, 30 min) directed by Ali Kazimi, Richard loads/2014/07/The-Right-to-Remain_The-Bulletin_ Fung and John Greyson. A provocative fi lm that shows how, in March-2014.pdf 1915, police in Vancouver used laws against homosexuality to Andi Mori at Gallery Gachet Workshop jail some South Asian men and to discourage others in their communities from making Vancouver home. MUSIC • Stolen Memories (2012, 45 min) produced and directed by TISHOMINGO STRING BAND w/ 5 ON A STRING Kagan Goh, and producer Imtiaz Popat. About Goh’s quest to Saturday November 8, doors 9pm return a photo album “stolen” from a Japanese Canadian family China Cloud Studios, 2nd fl oor 524 Main during the Japanese Canadian internment during WWII. Suggested donation $10 It’s the offi cial CD release party of Tishomingo String Band’s album DANGERFIELD. Tishomingo will share the stage with the MILESTONE legendary Vancouver based 5 On A String bluegrass band. The The Komagata Maru album will be unveiled. Strings will sing. Banjos will be ringing. One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, a Japanese ship called the Komagata Maru travelled from Hong Kong For more information: www.tishomingostringband.com to Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet in opposition to the racist “Bill of Direct Passage” law preventing them from immigrating to Canada. Offi cials refused to let 376 potential immigrants from India disembark, so the passengers sat aboard the ship as it THEATRE was anchored in Vancouver Harbour for two months while the Indian community and immigration offi cials fought over the passengers’ admission into the country. The law was ultimately upheld in the courts and the ship was turned away, dooming THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer the passengers to meet with a grim fate at the hands of British troops in India. Saturday November 8, 8pm Tishomingo String Band This history exposes the racism and injustice in Canada and unveils some of the more sinister aspects of human nature. Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Exploring this part of our history gives us a sense of where we are today and helps us to shape our future. See page 12 for full description and ticket information - from Komagata Maru, Neelamjit Dhillon Quartet

38 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 39 enix The Pho Artist in our midst SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9 Sharon Kallis WALKING TOUR MUSIC IN THE STREETS THE JADE PEONY WALKING TOUR with John Atkin HASTINGS STREET BAND For years I felt like I was missing my creative community in Sunday November 9, 10am (approx. 2 hours) Vancouver. I felt like I was just doing my own little thing in my Sunday November 9, 1:30pm & 2:30pm studio with nobody really caring or understanding the work. Meet at Chinese Cultural Centre courtyard, 50 E. Pender Starts at Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre, 920 E. Hastings When I stepped outside, and made city parks my studio in $10, pay what you can for local residents Free The novel The Jade Peony, by Strathcona/Chinatown born and 2007 everything changed. Then I found both my community Get your dancing shoes ready. It’s music in the streets with the raised writer Wayson Choy, is much loved by Strathcona and of friends and creative colleagues here in Strathcona and Hastings Street Band and their upbeat New Orleans style jazz Chinatown residents. The stories in the book are under our feet the Downtown Eastside through the Maclean fi eld house and blues. Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Brad in the streets, homes and shops throughout our neighbourhood. residency when the Urban Weaver Project began in 2011. Muirhead, the Band is comprised of enthusiastic Downtown Join John Atkin, author, historian, DTES/Strathcona resident and That community has supported me in various ways as we Eastside involved amateur and semi-pro musicians playing with walking-history-encyclopedia on this walking tour that brings have discovered the local plant fi bres together while shar- professional musicians from across Vancouver. ing ideas, meals and skills. alive the stories and places of The Jade Peony. Since 2008, I have been fortunate to partner with the John Atkin Hastings Street Band Vancouver Parks Board on many projects, and have the skills and knowledge of the city gardeners, groundskeepers and arts programmers on side as we have sorted out how best to work together. I have now written a book, Common Threads: weaving community through collaborative eco- arts, which documents my community-engaged projects You want to build a new world in Vancouver using green waste and invasive plants as art that will fi re the imagination material. The book encompasses the philosophy behind and free the hearts of your children? working with local plants in a weaving circle style; has past Build it around something solid, project narratives; and a large technique section to help something real, others in various communities connect with people and do like the Carnegie Centre, their own plant investigations. like the Learning Centre.... The idea of fi nding nature in urban places feels so neces- At the Centre we’re building sary for all of us. The ability to fi nd art materials for free is an alternative to living alone of course very liberating for low income individuals looking At the Centre we’re making to learn skills and fi nd ways of personal expression. a success out of failure. There is that added self empowerment of learning how to Day by day – year by year make useful things for ourselves that otherwise feels very PRESENTATION & DEMONSTRATION Growing up all over again lost in our consumer society; so it feels good to fi nd ways URBAN CLOTH PROJECT: Terroir Making it happen down here. to give that back to ourselves while being good land stew- Sunday November 9, 1pm – 3pm From the ashes of ards. And sharing those skills with others is even better yet. yesterday’s tragedy Hastings Urban Farm, 58 W. Hastings Free - Sharon Kallis, Downtown Eastside resident since 1999 “What fi bre lies at my feet? How do I name it, gather and pro- burning in the streets – cess, so cloth can spin from my fi ngertips, and cover my skin. Climbing out of the dark Sharon's book launch and talk is at the Vancouver Public Where do I begin?” Library in the Alice MacKay room on Monday November Join the Urban Cloth Project research artists, dancer and cho- From the poem “Carnegie” by Tora, 10, 7pm. reographer Mirae Rosner, cedar / fi bre Squamish spinner and a Downtown Eastside community member weaver Tracy Williams, community eco-artist Sharon Kallis, and community participants, as they perform a work-in-progress MICHAEL: What’s a phoenix, mama? gestural dance. Through the dance they share what they have learned so far about growing plants, foraging, harvesting and LEANNE: A phoenix is the most beautiful bird in the world. It processing fl ax for linen. lives forever. Whenever people chase it, to steal its glorious feathers, the phoenix fl ies to a distant land to sing in peace. The Urban Cloth Project weaves together First Nation gathering Woven Canoe in Crab Park When its wings grow heavy with age and death approaches, traditions, early settler agricultural methods and contemporary envi- the phoenix builds itself a nest of sweet scented twigs …There it ronmental art practices, through shared investigations for urban cloth THEATRE sits on the nest and waits for the sun’s rays to ignite into fl ame. production. They’re exploring connections between labour, land THE RAYMUR MOTHERS They Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer Out of the fl ames emerges a beautiful young phoenix. Out of and community as the growing season has inspired their dances. Closing Matinee Sunday November 9, 2pm yesterday’s tragedy, the phoenix will always return. This ongoing project is building layers as they continue towards Russian Hall, 600 Campbell From In the Heart of a City: The Downtown Eastside Community next spring. The Arts Trust of the Community Arts Council of See page 12 for full description Play, produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Carnegie Vancouver has provided funding for this project. For more and ticket information Community Centre (2003) information: http://urbanclothterroir.wordpress.com/events/

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COMMUNITY CELEBRATION UKRAINIAN HALL COMMUNITY CONCERT & SUPPER Sunday November 9, 3pm, Supper follows Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender Tickets $25

The festival ends on a high note at the East End’s historic Ukrainian Hall with lively music, high energy dance, haunting harmonies, exquisite costumes and cultural sharing at the Ukrainian Hall Community Concert & Supper. This annual favourite, produced with the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, features the Barvinok Choir led by choral director Beverly Dobrinsky, the Vancouver Folk Orchestra – one of the oldest and largest folk orchestras in Van- couver, and the award-winning Dovbush Dancers. Special guests include: Vancouver’s own Slavic soul band Zeellia (led by Beverly Dobinsky) playing songs and dances from Ukraine, Balkan states and Canadian Prairies; emerging rising stars Jamie Elliott and the Downtown Eastside’s own Hannah Walker perform as Twin Bandit with strong harmonies and original songs; and The Git Hayetsk Dancers (People of the Copper Shield) led by Mike and Mique’l Dangeli with ties to the Haida, Tlingit, Haisla, and Musqueam Nations. Sam George (Tse-at-sul-tuxch) of the Squamish Nation will open with a Welcome song. After this cultural feast, we gather downstairs for a delicious traditional Ukrainian Supper! Concert and supper $25. Be sure to book your tickets in advance for this very popular event. For tickets call 604-254-3436. DTES Survivors’ Totem Pole Downtown Eastside resident and carver Skundaal. Photo: Rafal Gerszak.

A new grassroots community art and action project has emerged in the Downtown Eastside out of discussions between immigrant and Aboriginal groups: stories of exclusion, displacement and resistance in the shadow of Canada’s history of colonialism; and memories of shared struggles, common bonds and helping hands to survive in hard times. The Survivors’ Totem Pole Project is led by long-time resident of the Downtown Eastside: Haida and Coast Salish carver Skundaal (Bernie Williams), the only female apprentice of the late master carver Bill Reid. Working in a space donated by the Portland Hotel Society, Skundaal and her three apprentices have carved the pole from a 980 year old, 30 foot log of red cedar from Haida Gwaii. "Once that pole is up," elder Woody Morrison said to interviewer Jarrett Poole, "We call it ‘Gyáa-aang’ (Your history is standing straight up). It's going to give us a marker so we can see where we've been, and so we know where were going." Git Hayetsk Dancers Barvinok Choir The Survivors’ Totem Pole has been created to celebrate the survival of the Downtown Eastside, its healing and its hope. All of the residents of the neighbourhood who have faced displacement and exclusion are represented, honoured and protected by its message of hope. “I’m hoping [that] this pole will unify us. It’s about what all of us have gone through and how we’re transforming [ourselves] every day,” Skundaal has said, “This community has a big history. The Survivors’ Pole is about the history of who we are. We're here to stay." For more information: 604-839-0379 or www.survivorstotempole.wordpress.com

TAKE A WALK ON THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE By Savannah Walling Take a walk on the Downtown Eastside, the heart of Vancouver. Founded on unceded Coast Salish Territory, the city’s old- est neighbourhood is situated on the former seasonal village sites of K’emk’emlay’/ Q’umq’umal’ay (Squamish / Musqueam orthography), where the set up on Burrard Inlet at the foot of Dunlevy; and Luq’luq’i / Lek’le’I (Squamish / Musqueam orthography), today’s Maple Tree Square where Gassy Jack established the fi rst saloon. Embedded within and around Greater Vancouver are three Coast Salish First Nations – the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh – whose ancestors exercised overlapping usage rights over the area. Once known simply as the East End, today’s Downtown Eastside is made up of several historic districts: Victory Square, the Hastings corridor, Chinatown, Strathcona, Powell Street/ Oppenheimer (aka Japantown), North Hastings, Gastown and the . Ancestors of today’s Coast Salish people have lived here since time immemorial. The spit of land was originally bounded by Burrard Inlet on the north, the former tidal fl ats of False Creek to the south, and on the east and west between salmon-bearing tidal streams that once fl owed up ravines near today’s Campbell and Car- rall/Columbia Streets. False Creek was four times the size it is today, fanning all the way towards Clark Drive from a narrow isthmus of land at today’s Main Street. Coast Salish people had a saying, “When the tide was out, the table was set.” Zeellia

42 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 43 photo courtesy Canada Council, Ron Fehling

Vancouver Heritage Foundation The Festival is pleased once again to partner with the PLACES THAT MATTER Plaque Project Downtown Eastside’s AHA Media to provide social me- Places That Matter is all about collaboration – and sharing dia coverage (video/photos/ the unique and lesser known history of the people, AHA blog) of the Heart of the City places and events that have shaped Vancouver since its Festival. incorporation as a city in 1886. MEDIA AHA Media gives voice to The project began as part of Vancouver's 125th anniversary our local community and pro- of incorporation in 2011, with public nominations to mark and social media vides services for individuals 125 historic sites that matter to Vancouverites. Plaques and organizations to share have been presented at community celebrations coverage their news and special events throughout Vancouver ever since. For more information: of the Festival on a broader scale through www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org social media. 11th Annual DTES Heart of the City Festival Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Handy Guide to Walking Tours New Plaque since last year Beune and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated • Smilin’ Buddha, 109 E. Hastings with Fearless City Media and W2 Community Media Arts, HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE WALKS and has an ongoing working relationship with various Plaques that have been placed to date in the DTES An always popular component of the festival. other organizations and individuals in the DTES commu- • First City Hospital, 150 W. Pender Put on your comfy shoes, grab an umbrella nity. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as Congratulations • Science World – Expo Legacy, 1455 Quebec and come along. “defi nitely not mainstream media.” Based in Vancouver’s • Save On Meats, 43 W. Hastings Downtown Eastside, their style is described as non- The Great Vancouver Fire of 1886 Walking Tour • Nellie Yip Quong House, 783 E. Pender invasive and unassuming. with Lisa Anne Smith Congratulations Jayce Salloum! • Hogan’s Alley, Union at lane east of Main Saturday Nov 1, 10am (approx. 90 min) • Mary and Walter Lee Chan House, 658 Keefer Say hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. Meet at SW corner of Victory Square, Downtown Eastside artist and recipient • First United Church, 320 E. Hastings They’ll be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the W. Pender & Hamilton of the 2014 Governor General’s Award in • Former City Hall Site at 125 Powell, now Four Sisters Festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of festival $10, pay what you can for local residents Housing Co-op events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; Visual and Media Arts. or follow one festival event while you attend another! Raymur Mothers Walking Tour • Strathcona Community Gardens, Hawks & Prior with Carolyn Jerome The grandson of Lebanese-Syrian immigrants, Jayce creates • Benny’s Market, 598 Union Website: www.AHAMEDIA.ca • Louvre Hotel, now Gospel Mission, 333 Carrall Sunday Nov 2, 1pm videos, giant multi-media installations and photographs, engag- www.twitter.com/AHAMEDIA Meet at Russian Hall, 800 Campbell ing with people and place to preserve history that needs to • Dr. Sun Yat –Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall $10, pay what you can for local residents be documented, remembered and talked about. His projects www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA have ranged from Afghanistan and Lebanon to the impact of And more still to come in the Downtown Eastside! www.youtube.com/AHAFILM Contour Walking Tour Kelowna’s settlement on Westbank and Okanagan First Nations. with Pierre Leichner www.fl ickr.com/AHAMEDIA Sunday Nov 2, 2pm (approx. 30 min) Jayce was a founder of the Downtown Eastside artist collec- Meet at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Public Park, 50 E. Pender tive desmedia, which ran a free drop-in arts program for DTES Free involved community members. They provided tools and training Black Strathcona Heritage Walking Tour for self-producing media representations; created collaborative with Kevan Cameron paintings; assembled a large video archive of interviews, po- Support the DTES Heart of the City Festival… Saturday Nov 8, 11am (approx. 90 min) ems and stories; and as part of the Carnegie Street Program/ Meet at Jimi Hendrix Shrine, 207 Union Footprints community arts project, designed and produced the Downtown Eastsiders love the arts! $10, pay what you can for local residents The Heart of the Community mosaic embedded in the sidewalk We work really hard to support this passion and vitality. DTES Renovictions Walking Tour at Hastings and Main. with Carnegie Community Action Project Financial donations from our friends like you help fuel this passion. Megaphone Saturday Nov 8, 11am (approx. 90 min) Jayce said in an interview with , working in the Join us! Donate via Canada Helps: www.heartofthecityfestival.com Meet on front steps of Carnegie, 401 Main Downtown Eastside “has helped impress upon me that eve- And sign up for our informative newsletter at the same time! $10, Free for local residents ryone has many stories in their lives...We all carry diff erent knowledges.” The Jade Peony Walking Tour Or by cheque to: with John Atkin In his acceptance speech Jayce said: “I wish to dedicate this Vancouver Moving Theatre Sunday Nov 9, 10am (approx. 2 hours) award to the displaced, to the dispossessed, to indigenous Chinatown Postal Outlet Box 88270 Meet at Chinese Cultural Centre courtyard, 50 E. Pender people here and elsewhere fi ghting in a multitude of ways for Coast Salish Territory $10, pay what you can for local residents many of the same things, their rights, self-determination, their Vancouver BC, CANADA V6A 4A5 land and the protection of ‘our’ land and lives." For full descriptions of the walking tours, go to the page with that day’s events. Charitable Tax receipts provided

44 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 45 VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS

EXHIBITION EXHIBITION EXHIBITION THE CORRUPTION OF TIME’S DUST HERE AND GONE Artists from Carnegie Art Room THE ESSENCE OF ART: The First Annual Exhibition of the MILESTONE Until October 25 Until October 30 Zhao Hatong Academy of Art 221A, 221 E. Georgia Free Carnegie 3rd fl oor Gallery, 401 Main Free Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia The Corruption of Time’s Dust is an exhibition of work by Nadia A showcase featuring artists and artisans who regularly attend Exhibition October 18 to November 4 UBC Learning Exchange Belerique, Richard Fedoruk, Steven Hubert, Sylvain Sailly and and create art with Carnegie’s Aboriginal Artisans Program See below for ticket information Tegan Moore inspired by James Rosenquist’s Time Dust (1992), a led by artist Haisla Collins. See paintings, drawings, sketches, Established in 2013, the Zhao Relationships and Art: work that uses the layering of several diff erent printing methods beadwork and other art created at Carnegie. Hours: seven Hatong Academy of Art presents Powerful Fuel for the Next Fifteen Years to form a gigantic image of a delirious pop spacescape. Where days a week work created by the students who Rosenquist’s title Time Dust suggests the possibility of stepping have been studying for over a The UBC Learning Exchange was initiated in 1999 to out of time and being able to look at time objectively, ‘Time’ in year with the Academy. A variety create a place where people from the community and the this exhibition is personifi ed as if it could itself gather the dust EXHIBITION of media is represented in the university could get to know each other, pursue shared of delirium and be corrupted; as if it could be bribed into a FAR AWAY SO CLOSE: PART I exhibition: paintings, drawings, interests, and learn from each other to bring about positive collaboration. Hours: Tues – Fri, 10am – 5pm; Sat 12pm – 5pm Until November 1 photography, graphic design, change. Since then we've grown and learned a lot about Access Gallery, 222 E. Georgia Free fashion design, interior architecture the power of art as a vital avenue for social transformation. Far Away So Close is an exhibition and publication series that design, industrial design and EXHIBITION explores iterations of distance and the particular relationship to illustration. This is an opportunity for We've also learned about the importance of sustaining CROSSING BOUNDARIES: art making. Presented over the course of 2014-15, each install- the students to demonstrate their relationships and partnerships, about the enduring The 7th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show ment showcases emergent artists working in diff erent modes knowledge of theory, technique, strengths and talents of people in the Downtown Eastside, Until October 26 and media. Part I of Far Away So Close showcases work from originality and creativity. For more information: 604-658-8880 or and about how we can best support the development of Sarah Stein with Hyemin Kim, Erdem Taşdelen, Jim Verburg, www.cccvan.com. Admission: Wed-Sun: $3/adult, $2/student & strong learning communities. There’s been a lot of fun too, Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova Free making the past fi fteen years rewarding and memorable. Oppenheimer Park and Gallery Gachet are pleased to present Nicole Kelly Westman, and Hyung-Min Yoon, and focuses on senior. Tuesdays are by donation. Hours: Tues – Sun, 11am – 5pm language and the “dark magic” of communication. Each of the six Crossing Boundaries, an exhibition showcasing artworks from From digital storytelling in a project called Snap Happy, to the Oppenheimer Park community. Over thirty-fi ve artists are artists is concerned with describing the gulf that exists between utterance and comprehension, and the always inadequate writing bi-lingual poems in many languages, to workshops featured in the show and many of the works showcase their drawing the human form, to using tin to produce a life- diverse interpretations of boundaries – of neighbourhood means we employ in our perpetual drive to defi ne ourselves Congratulations and to connect with others. Hours: Tues – Sat, 12pm – 5pm sized horse lantern, residents have come out in full force boundaries, artistic boundaries, and boundaries between life to share their passion, skills and friendship in creating art. and death. Included are paintings, drawings, print, sculptures, The process and the artworks have touched us all and carvings, mixed media and video works. In addition, the exhibi- EXHIBITION 2014 Mayor’s Arts Awards have helped explain who we are, what we desire for our tion includes petite BONHOMME (little fellow): dozens of small future, and how we care about one another. DRESSED IN DRAMA: A Peking Opera Exhibit come to the Downtown Eastside! paper mâché dolls decorated and painted through community The Mayor’s Arts Awards honour and recognize art workshops. Make sure you catch the show before it closes Until November 2 Vancouver senior and emerging artists. At the October To celebrate our past and current achievements we have on October 26! Hours: Wed – Sun, 12pm – 6pm Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall 7, 2014 award ceremony numerous current and former put together an exciting program of activities that highlight Included in garden admission Downtown Eastside involved residents were recognized. the range of what we do and who we partner with. In Dressed in Drama is an exhibit of Peking Opera theatrical cos- Congratulations to the recipients! the Learning Exchange’s Poetry Group, newly emerging EXHIBITION tumes, shoes, head-pieces and jewelry. Last seen ten years ago • Al Neil jazz pianist, writer, visual and performance artist, writers are sharing their poems. The World Poetry Film BETRAYED, PORTRAITS OF STRENGTH in Toronto, this is our chance to appreciate gorgeous pieces of received the Lifetime Achievement Award Festival is bringing together international perspectives Exhibition October 20 to 31 art sewn with great consideration to design and colour. The ex- • Maria Horstead fi bre artist, received the Emerging Artist on issues of social justice. The second annual literASIAN UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Free hibition is in multiple rooms. Collection of William Lau, acclaimed Award in Craft and Design festival is showcasing Asian Canadian writing from both BETRAYED, Portraits of Strength features photographs and Chinese-Canadian artist specializing in the art of Peking Opera. • Karin Lee fi lmmaker, whose father ran the Chinese new and established writers. Each of these groups support personal stories of human traffi cking survivors from Bangladesh Hours: Mon – Sun, 10am – 4:30pm; after Nov 3, closed Mondays. communist bookstore at 33 E. Hastings for thirty years, creative communities in their own right. and Sierra Leone. The exhibition is co-curated by local residents received the Film and New Media Award who chose the stories with the greatest resonance for people • Gladys Lee who was born across from Oppenheimer We welcome all of you to join our celebrations, and, facing similar challenges in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Park and volunteers at Downtown Eastside organizations perhaps more importantly, help us to shape our activities The exhibit features the work of photographer Tony Hoare, is including the DTES Women’s Centre, the Mission over the next fi fteen years! We are delighted to be part co-curated by Drew Ann Wake, and shows how people from Possible Studio and Oppenheimer Park, received the of the Heart of the City Festival for the sixth year in a row. any country can end up in challenging situations beyond their Volunteer Award For more information about the Learning Exchange's 15th control and yet regain their lives with dignity and honour. Hours: • Paula Jardine who was living in Strathcona when she Anniversary please visit learningexchange.ubc.ca/15years. regular business hours co-founded the Public Dreams Society, received the Community Engaged Artist Award Bon festival. • Candice Curlypaws who works with the Portland Hotel Society as a front-line mental health and housing The Learning Exchange Team support worker, received the Emerging Community Engaged Artist Award

Costumes from "Dressed in Drama" exhibit 46 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 47 LONGING FOR LIGHT POST FESTIVAL

In 2009, Sandy Cameron (1931-2010), a Downtown Eastside historian, poet and community visionary, participated in a panel called COMMUNITY CELEBRATION ART 'The Fight for Community Recognition' at Vancouver Moving Theatre’s mini-festival Eastside Stories – The People, The Voices. VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL & JAPANESE HALL EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL An audience member posed a number of questions to Sandy: “Have things changed? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Is it FOOD BAZAAR November 20 – 23 getting vicious and harder to fi ght? You get the same people fi ghting the issues. What can we do for the future for the community?” Sunday November 16, 12pm – 3pm Numerous locations Free The 18th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl is Vancouver’s four- This article, written by Sandy, became his answer. Japanese Hall, 487 Alexander By donation day visual arts, design and crafts festival. This event involves more than 20,000 people visiting artists in their studios in the Come early to the popular semi- area bounded by Main Street and Victoria Drive, north of First annual Japanese feast and eat, by Sandy Cameron Avenue to the waterfront. The Eastside Culture Crawl Society eat, eat! VJLS & JH volunteers work provides opportunities for the public to engage with member feverishly over many days to make “Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?” a thoughtful person A good example of a determined commitment to the rightness artists through the ongoing creation of events and program- and serve a wide variety of menu asked at a gathering of people telling Downtown Eastside sto- of a cause is the fi ve hundred year old resistance movement ming that support the growth of Eastside artists. For more items, hot, fresh, seasonal and aff ord- ries. How many times have we asked ourselves that ques- of first Nations people against injustice. This inspir- information go to www.eastsideculturecrawl.com. tion, “Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?” Are ing struggle will continue from one generation to able. This fundraising event is always we getting anywhere with our work, or are things another until justice is done. Leonard Peltier of popular, with children’s games corner, door and raffl e just as bad as ever? Is gentrifi cation crushing the Anishinaabe and Lakota Nations has been prizes, and a silent auction. the low-income community of the Downtown unjustly imprisoned for over thirty years, yet At 1pm, for a hot and spicy Heart of the City Festival treat, Eastside in spite of all our eff orts? Will Insite he does not despair. He wrote in his book, the popular Barrio Flamenco led by fl amenco dancer and be destroyed by people who are unable Prison Writings – My Life is My Sun Dance, teacher Kelty McKerracher, bring music, song and fl amenco to understand the extensive research on “Never cease in the fi ght for peace, justice dance to the heart of the Japanese Canadian community. harm reduction? Is the light at the end of and equality for all people,” and “I know Danced and played with spirit, joy and laughter! Ole! the tunnel really a train coming right at us? that without compassion and respect for all Sometimes we are overwhelmed with sor- of Earth’s inhabitants none of us will survive Kelty McKerracher row, although we want justice to prevail. –nor will we deserve to.” Leonard Peltier has turned his life into a prayer, and he wrote, “No We work to make our community a better place, prison bars can stop a prayer.” not a perfect place, but a better place. If we look for immediate results in this work, we are in danger of falling A wise Inuit poem recognizes our longing for light. The poem An Eastside adaptation into despair. Society does not change quickly, and our commit- goes like this: “In the eternal darkness\the crow\unable to fi nd of Charles Dickens’ ment is for the long haul. food\longed for light\and the earth was illumined.” A Christmas Carol Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk, a peace activist, and a This poem is telling us that the light is not at the end of the tunnel. writer. A friend of his was falling into despair because he couldn’t The poem says that light arises out of our longing. It is within us, Bah! Humbug! features, among others, Juno award-winning see the light at the end of the tunnel. Merton wrote to his friend, A SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs / but we need silence and full attention in order to see it. When singer Jim Brynes as Scrooge, Margo Kane as Mrs. Cratchit, saying, “Do not depend on the hope of results…you may have Vancouver Moving Theatre co-production asked what he taught his children, the Lakota Chief Standing Tom Pickett as Bob Cratchit, Sam Bob as Spirit of Christmas to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and in support of the DTES Heart of the City Festival Bear replied, “They were taught…to look when there was appar- Present and Dumpster Diva, and Downtown Eastsiders even achieve no result at all….As you get used to this idea, you Featuring over twenty seasonal and popular songs ently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly Stephen Lytton as Spirit of Christmas Past, Mike Richter as start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on… t the darkest hour of a winter’s night, Scrooge was quiet.” People who follow that path will see the light. Scrooge’s nephew Fred and Savannah Walling as Spirit of the rightness, the truth of the work itself…in the end, it is the confronts spirits of the past, present and future. Christmas Future; also featuring the Downtown Eastside’s reality of personal relationships that saves everything.” Emerging from Coast Salish land buried under city own Saint James Music Academy Children’s Choir. A spe- sidewalks, the spirits bring the old pawn broker cial addition this year is projected images of award-winning Aface to face with memories he cannot bear and relationships Downtown Eastside artist Richard Tetrault. Directed by Max he may never be able to heal. NEWS FROM Reimer, with music direction by Neil Weisensel. Bah! Humbug! is a bittersweet twist on On June 25, 2014, just a few days after the conclusion of Vancouver’s Year of Reconciliation and its focus on relationships Don’t miss this festive and seasonal favourite where Victorian a cherished classic that celebrates with the First Nations community, Vancouver City Council passed a motion stating: “The modern city of Vancouver was England meets Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. the transformative power of human founded on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations [and] these territories Each show features a turkey draw and an audience sing-along redemption. Now more than 150 were never ceded through treaty, war or surrender.” This motion passed by City Council also invited First Nations leaders of holiday favourites before show start. years old, Dickens’ haunting to work with the Mayor to develop protocols for conducting city business that “respect the traditions of welcome, blessing years old, Dickens’ haunting ghost story is filled with social Preview: December 10, 7:30pm ($10) and acknowledgement of the territory.” ghost story is filled with social satire, heartbreak and compassion. December 11 – 13 & December 16 – 20, 7:30pm “Here we are in this ambiguous place,” Councillor Andrea Reimer said, “where the City of Vancouver also has a legal title We hope that our music fi lled ad- Saturday matinees December 13 & 20, 2pm and right of the city as well through the Canadian constitution and provincial charter. How do we fi nd a pathway forward? We aptation shines the light of truth Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, felt that the strongest step we could take was to acknowledge that we were not here fi rst, that this is a traditional territory on this old tale and today’s SFU Woodward's, 149 W. Hastings for these three Nations, and seek to fi nd ways to properly acknowledge that this is their territory and honour their traditional Downtown Eastside. Tickets: $29 general/ $15 students & seniors protocols. We acknowledge that we live and work on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh, Sel̓ íl̓ witulh Tickets: www.sfuwoodwards.ca, or at the door one hour and ̓ Nations.” Xʷməθkʷəyəm Jim Byrnes before show time

48 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 49 IN MEMORIUM IN MEMORIUM

ISABEL RAMIREZ BUD OSBORN RH MAXWELL Our “amiga” Isabel RH Maxwell was a long-time resident of the Downtown Eastside, and a talented and dedi- April 21, 1943 – May 31, 2014 cated community actor who participated Unique. Beautiful. Strong. Courageous. with great enthusiasm in the Downtown She was a natural comedian, with an Eastside Community Play (2003). RH infectious smile and a passion for the loved to perform, and his ability to arts and her community. She was well- speak with a big voice served him known for promoting Mexican music well; he played numerous roles in the and folklore in Vancouver. She was Community Play, including Reverend dedicated to performing, as a singer, Turner, a Logger and the Judge in the dancer and actress. After her appearance Militant Raymur Mothers' scene. RH and on the X-Files, she was off ered work in I enjoyed running into each other on the California, but chose to stay here. street; we had a bond that comes from sharing the incredible experience of being She brought the Day of the Dead Celebration to The Downtown Eastside lost its poet, prophet and activist, Bud ZACCHEUS NYCE JACKSON part of a community play. the Downtown Eastside, stressing its pre-Conquest origin Osborn (1947-2014) last May. Bud was a founding member of I will always appreciate RH and his courage to act and to with the Indigenous people of Latin America. She always made the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) and a 1978 – 2014 give back to our community. He did this in the Downtown East- pinatas, and led many workshops so everyone could create member of the Vancouver Richmond Health Board, driving the I loved Zaccheus Nyce Jackson the poet. And I loved having side Community Play. And, he did this when he ran for Mayor decorations for the fi esta. Board to declare a health emergency in the DTES in the 1990s him at the Festival. I loved his cracker-jack-fi re-cracker-spit- of Vancouver in 2008 on a platform of legalizing prostitution, because of drug overdose deaths. He also wrote six books of She loved to have fun, and wasn’t shy about expressing her fi re-spoken word slam poems that fl ew through the air on the decriminalizing drugs, treating addiction as a health issue and poetry. Revered in the DTES, Bud worked tirelessly to human- feelings. She was politically active; outspoken about racism, and wings of truth and passion, swallow dipping and diving across providing aff ordable housing and public transportation. violence against women. In the last year of her life, she was help- ize people who use drugs and counteract the discriminations landscapes most of us fear to travel. I loved his spirit, his ability ing pregnant refugees who were denied healthcare. caused by the war on drugs. He wrote: to bare his soul and carry his big-eared jaw-dropped-listeners Terry Hunter Isabel died of lung cancer in May, quite a twist of fate, because YOU CAN CRlMlNALlZE OUR PAIN along narrative lines that often led us to dark hard places, yet she never smoked, to protect her exquisite voice; it was the PULVERIZE OUR HUMAN RIGHTS always led us back to laughter, compassion and light. result of her ex-husband’s work in the asbestos mine in Kitimat. DEHUMANIZE US WlTH CHARITY I cried for days after I heard the news of his sudden, tragic pass- NEIL BENSON BUT Diane Wood ing. I cried for his passing and what we as a community, a city, April 17, 1957 – July 28, 2014 WE ARE SOMEBODY a nation has lost – one of Canada’s fi nest young poets with a Neil Benson (Gitxsan First Na- brilliant future ahead of him. YOU CAN TERRORIZE WlTH HATE tion) spent the last years of his PETER SIAH DEMONIZE WITH LIES Zaccheus, who in his words was ‘raised by wolves since birth life at the Orwell Hotel, and he’d LOCK US UP and came to age on the streets of Vancouver’, discovered slam frequent the nearby Drug Users 1949-2013 TEAR US DOWN poetry, survived and thrived and become a six time Van Slam Resource Centre, where he was Little Big Man I'd call him, Wounded Cub in YOU CAN DRIVE US OUT OF TOWN team member, two time Vancouver Indie Champ and two time a regular participant in creative the inside, Gentle Bear on the outside. BUT Grand Slam Champion. writing workshops held there. Known traditionally as “PIP”. Given name WE ARE SOMEBODY Zaccheus is now howling his poetry on the other side of the He wrote prolifi cally in a thick Peter Siah. river. I am able to take solace when I refl ect on his spirit, passion ledger hundreds of pages long. His lifeline was the Drum. Self-con- AND IF YOU CAN'T BE WHO YOU OUGHTA BE and conviction to bring light to the world. Writing poetry, to him, was a IF WE AREN'T WHO WE OUGHTA BE sciously only knew two drum songs, Terry Hunter therapeutic creative practice he'd sing them proudly. NOBODY CAN BE ANYBODY that he dedicated himself to wholeheartedly. ALL BY THEMSELVES Struggling so hard to become a pool SO WHETHER YOU DENY IT When he wasn’t writing, he could be found almost daily in the player he'd never give up. OR WHETHER YOU EMBRACE IT Hastings Folk Garden, where he tended the medicinal plants. He was also a familiar face at the Hastings Urban Farm. He loved He also drummed for Karen Jamieson and WE ARE EACH OTHERS' ONLY BROTHERS AND SISTERS watching things grow, and he loved the peaceful beauty of the Carnegie Dance troupe. WE ARE EACH OTHERS' ONLY CHANCE natural spaces—precious resources he worked hard to preserve. When called upon to drum, there he IS, drumming FOR A LIFE IN COMMON AND REAL BEAUTY In both his writing and in his life, he explored the parallel lega- with a smile! WE ARE ALL EACH OTHER HAS cies of colonialism and the erosion of natural resources that had Les Nelson WE ARE ALL been central to his experiences. He was aware of, and privy to, SOME-BODY life’s complicated cruelties. Rest in peace, Bud and thanks for saving so many lives. But he also sought out and created space for beauty, for eve- Jean Swanson ryday moments of reverence, and joy — something he shared with the people he loved, and for which he’ll be dearly missed. For more information on Bud, including some of his poems, go to the Bud Osborn facebook page. Jackie Wong

50 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 51 VANCOUVER MOVING THEATRE: SINCE 1983 VANCOUVER MOVING THEATRE THIRTY-ONE YEARS IN THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE UPCOMING VMT EVENTS by Savannah Walling PRESENTATION SYMPOSIUM & BOOK LAUNCH THE BIG HOUSE 7TH CANADIAN COMMUNITY PLAY and ARTS SYMPOSIUM Back in the 1970s, Terry Hunter and I arrived in May 9 – 10, 2015 May 10 – 12, 2015 Vancouver/Coast Salish Territory the Downtown Eastside (DTES) looking for afford- Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender May 14 – 15, 2015 Enderby BC/Secwepemcul’ecw Territory able housing and studio space. We discovered Downtown Eastside Vancouver Moving Theatre (VMT) is honoured to partner with a neighbourhood that welcomed diversity and Big House Projects are theatrical feasts created for, with and CoV Board of Parks and Recreation, Jumblies Theatre (Toronto), was home to cultural events, cultural centres, and about the area’s founding Coast Salish and immigrant communi- Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, and Runa- cultural traditions from Coast Salish peoples and ties: a thank you from Vancouver Moving Theatre (VMT) to the way Moon Theatre (Enderby) to produce this national community the four corners of the globe. After rehearsing at neighbourhood in which it was founded. engaged arts symposium that brings together indigenous and the Theatre Coop (772 Prior) with Doug Vernon/ non-indigenous artists from across Canada who are creating In cultural traditions of Downtown Eastside residents, feasts Mime Caravan, we rented a live-work studio in a art with, for and about communities. warehouse across the street from Raymur Sugar are a time for nourishing relationships, marking important Refinery. Here we rehearsed with Terminal City events, offering gifts and acknowledgements, sharing learning Hosted by two BC communities, one urban, one rural – both on Dance, co-founded with Karen Jamieson, before and teaching, poetry and music: a storehouse of memories for unceded First Nation territories – artists, educators, planners moving on to a live-work studio on Carrall Street the future. Big House events are about connection: creating and the public will come over five days to learn, teach and in Chinatown’s Lim Sai Hor Kow Mock Association meeting places where people come and share with one another inspire; to create new understanding; and to explore ways we clan house. In 1983, Terminal City Dance evolved through food, stories and art, nurturing relationships in the can/will/do live together in the shadow of colonialism. into the Vancouver Dance Centre, Karen started community and in ourselves. During the feasts, the serving of The symposium will launch VMT’s new book From the Heart of a her own company, and Terry and I co-founded food interweaves with oral history, cultural teachings, poetry City: Community-Engaged Theatre and Music Productions from Vancouver Moving Theatre (VMT). and song, drumming and design, theatre and dance. Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside 2002-2013. The final day of the Over the last number of years VMT, with our community partners, Symposium in Vancouver (May 12) launches the Train of Thought. After witnessing the annual return of Chinese Lion has been hard at work on The Big House. These projects Dancers bringing blessings to Chinatown, Terry have been evolving since 2010 in workshops, community and I were inspired to create ‘Drum Mother’, a arts/leadership training institutes and feasting events at local TOURING COMMUNITY ART PROJECT masked character who danced and played music gathering places – four produced in partnerships with City of TRAIN OF THOUGHT on big drums built into her skirt. “Drum Mother” Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling on Pender Street, 1982 Vancouver Dialogues Project, Oppenheimer Park, Downtown was launched at the Chinatown New Year’s May 12 – June 10, 2015 Vancouver to Halifax on Via Rail Eastside Heart of the City Festival, Downtown Eastside Train of Thought, a month-long national touring community art Parade, performed on the steps of Carnegie Centre and at In 2002, alongside a host of collective grassroots actions for Neighbourhood House, Vancouver Native Housing, Dr. Sun Yat- project, travels by Via Rail from Vancouver to Halifax to collect Oppenheimer Park, and led 30,000 people on the 1984 Peace community renewal, we accepted an invitation from Carnegie Sen Classical Chinese Garden and Jumblies Theatre (Toronto), and create ways of living together on this land in the wake of March. Two years later, inspired our touring produc- Community Centre to co-produce a play for, with and about the and this fall a fifth at the Carnegie Community Centre. The Big Canada’s history of colonialism. Many delegates from the 7th tion Samarambi: Pounding of the Heart and we participated in Downtown Eastside: the result, In the Heart of a City: The Down- House Project concludes with closing feasts at the Ukrainian National Canadian Community Play and Arts Symposium will UK’s Welfare State International-led production, False Creek: a town Eastside Community Play, was created and produced with th Hall May 9 -10, 2015, of which the final day launches the 7 travel on segments of the Train of Thought. Artists, educators Visual Symphony. For the next seventeen years, VMT toured over 2,000 volunteers and 80 community performers. In 2004, Canadian Community Play and Arts Symposium. and interested individuals can hop on board for all or a por- across Canada, USA, Europe, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and the play’s huge success launched the Downtown Eastside Heart tion of the trip across Canada. Produced by Jumblies Theatre Korea, presenting over 3000 performances to over half a mil- of the City Festival. lion spectators. (Toronto) in association with Vancouver Moving Theatre and thirteen-plus Canadian arts organizations and artists across All of which led to a series of productions specially tailored for Canada/Turtle Island. During the 1990s we became parents, staying home long this community: We’re All In This Together, A Downtown East- enough to develop East End-based collaborations, from Brecht’s side Romeo and Juliet, Minotaur Dreams, and three tributes to NEWS Good Person of Setzuan with Ruby Slippers and Touchstone the neighbourhood’s historic black, Aboriginal and Ukrainian Theatre to Tales from the Ramayana with Mandala Arts and Hot communities: East End Blues and All That Jazz; Storyweaving Vancouver Moving Theatre (VMT) / Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Music/Cool Tales: the Art and Science of Sound in partnership and Bread & Salt. Moving into new territory we produced art soon to be resident tenants in the Woodward's Heritage Building. with Science World. As we raised our son Montana Blu in the institutes to provide leadership training in community arts; an On Wednesday October 1, 2014, Vancouver City Council approved the recommendation from staff and a Woodward's ad- Downtown Eastside, we developed deeper roots. Terry co- indigenous art market (Artists in the Atrium); and co-produced visory that Kokoro Dance, in partnership with Raven Spirit Dance, Vancouver International Dance Festival and Vancouver organized a community marimba group and founded Strathcona music theatre productions placing DTES community actors Moving Theatre/DTES Heart of the City Festival, become resident tenants in the non-profit cultural amenity space in the Kids Dragon (percussion) band. We taught drum dancing work- onstage with professional actors (from Dostoyevsky’s Crime Woodward's Heritage Building. VMT is delighted to partner with organizations who share roots in the neighbourhood, con- shops for dancers-in-training at 828 E. Hastings; and produced and Punishment and The Idiot to Bah! Humbug! an East End nections to its cultural forms, and commitments to accessibility and community building. Occupancy is expected to begin seven intimate Strathcona Artist at Home Festivals, uncovering version of Dickens’ Christmas Carol with SFU/Woodward's). January 2015. Stay tuned for further news. a rich vein of the history, cultures, struggles and stories of our We are currently working on The Big House, a theatrical feast. neighbourhood. The more we learned and participated, the Vancouver Moving Theatre acknowledges and honours that we are building upon a legacy space fought for by the 2002 more involved, connected and committed we became. Downtown Eastside born and bred, Vancouver Moving Theatre Woodward's Squat, and then the idea was kept alive for eight years by the W2 Community Media Arts Society. From our is still hard at work, thirty-one years later. Woodward's home the Festival team looks forward to working with and for the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood to pro- vide accessible and inclusive programming that serves diverse local residents, artists and organizations of our community.

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HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL VANCOUVER MOVING THEATRE THANK YOU to the Association of United PHOTOSHOOT PARTICIPANTS COMMUNITY PARTNERS Executive Artistic Producer Terry Hunter Executive Director Terry Hunter Ukrainian Canadians for their continuing Liisa Atva, Barbara Burnet, Wendy Chew, Kailin Tesla Choo, 221A, Aboriginal Front Door, Access Gallery, ACCESS TV Associate Artistic Producer Teresa Vandertuin Artistic Director Savannah Walling support, and to SFU Woodward’s for Don Chow, Merlin Cosmos, Edward Dardis, Greg Derksen, (Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Associate Artistic Director Savannah Walling Bookkeeper Miyra Onley co-producing Bah! Humbug!, in support Joyce Fossella, Sean Gunn, Dave Gyurkovics, Jay Hamburger, Society), Admiral Seymour Elementary School, AHA Media, Publicist Jodi Smith (JLS Entertainment) Accountant Lucy Lai of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the Demitri Harris, Leith Harris, Linda Uyehara Hoffman, Terry Hunter, Atira/EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art), Audain Gallery Designer John Endo Greenaway (Big Wave Administrative Assistant Doug Vernon City Festival. Carolyn Jerome, Jennifer Ju, Anita Lo, Lisa Mah, Gil Mattila, SFU, Carnegie Community Action Project, Carnegie Learning Design) Strategic Planning Consultant Lori Baxter Jeannie McKerracher, Kelty McKerracher, Joan Morelli, Joyce Centre, Chapel Arts, China Cloud Studios, Chindi Nation, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, City Opera Production Manager Robert Wilson Board of Directors: President Ann McDonell; PROGRAM GUIDE IMAGE/PHOTO CREDITS Morgan, Lynda Morrison, Randy Morrison, Brad Muirhead, Ellie Vancouver, Coastal Church, Community Arts Council of Operations Manager Jen Castro Secretary John Atkin; Treasurer Louise Murray Bush, City Archive Vancouver, O’Day, Antonette Rea, Catlin Renay, Mike Richter, Bill Sample, Vancouver, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, DTES Community Outreach Leith Harris David Cooper, Maura Doherty, Atty Gell, Sam Snobelen, Geetha Subramaniyam, Priscillia Tait, Sid Chow Leclair; Members at Large: Renae Neighbourhood House, DTES Women’s Art Collective, DTES Social Media Liisa Hannus courtesy of Git Hayetsk Dancers, John Tan, Gerry Teahan, Jan Tse, Edmilson Vieira, Freda Wallace, Gary Morriseau, Todd Wong Women’s Centre, Eastside Artists Company, Evelyne Saller Administrative Assistant Doug Vernon Endo Greenaway, Ron Fehling, Louise Wildeman, Sachiko Yamaguchi, Angela Zenk Centre, Firehall Arts Centre, Floral & Hardy Edible Plants, Full Production Staff Gerardo Avila, Bill Francis-Smith, Rafal Gerszak, Sarah THANKS for the guiding strategies Circle: First Nations Performance, Gallery Gachet, Gam Gallery, Beauregarde, Steve Edwards, Marian Godoy, Mark Haracka, Kevin Hollett, Terry developed by the Heart of the City SPECIAL THANKS BEHIND THE SCENES Indian Residential School Survivors Society, International Greksa, Liisa Hannus, Duffy McWhirter, Hunter, Sharon Kallis, Sharon Kravitz, Festival Strategic and Sustainability Plan Staff and patrons of the Carnegie Community Centre, Steve Web Express, Jimi Hendrix Shrine, Karen Jamieson Dance Neal Miskin, Mark Oakley, Andy Smith, Advisory (2007): Allan Cappo, Joe Dzatko, Ali Lohan, Adrienne Macallum, Sandy Company, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Modernize Edwards and the Carnegie Music Program, Paul Taylor and the Elwin Xie Sophia Freigang, Leslie Kemp, Rick Lam, MacKeigan, Mark Montgomery, Duncan Tailors, Oppenheimer Park, PHS Community Services (Hastings Carnegie Newsletter, Lisa Yellow-Quill and the Carnegie Cul- Studio Photography David Cooper Renae Morriseau, Robert Olsen, Ruth Sam, Murdoch, Melanie Orr, Tom Quirk, Chris Urban Farm, InterUrban Gallery, Lifeskills Centre), Playwrights tural Sharing Program, staff and patrons of Oppenheimer Park, On Site Photography John Endo Greenaway, Barbara Small, Sid Tan and Kira Gerwing; Randle, Ken Tabata, Liza Tam, Richard Theatre Centre, Raven's Eye Studio, Russian Hall, Seven Tyrants Liisa Hannus, Terry Hunter, Mark the DTES Heart of the City Festival Tetrault, UBC Special Collections, Doug Doug Alder, Lucy Alderson, Tomi Asakawa, Charles Barber, Bill Theatre, SFU’s Office of Community Engagement, Squeezebox Montgomery, Tom Quirk, Chris Randle Succession and Sustainability Strategic Vernon, and many more unknown artists Beauregarde, Dalannah Gail Bowen, Michael Boucher, Carrie Circle, Stand Up For Mental Health, St. James’ Anglican Church, On Site Social Media AHA Media Plan (2012) developed by Dawn Brennan and photographers. Campbell, King-mong Chan, Haisla Collins, Colin Cowan, Brady Strathcona Community Centre, The Ironworks, The Only Animal, Program Guide Contributors Sandy Cameron, and Linda Gorrie; the VMT Sustainability Cranfield, Andrea Creamer, Candice R. Curlypaws, Lisa David, Theatre in the Raw, Thursdays Writing Collective, UBC Learning Aaron Franks, Terry Hunter, Sharon Kallis, and Succession Implementation Plan Jim Dewar, Neelamjit Dhillon, Tanya Dixon-Warren, Beverly Exchange, United Black Canadian Community Association, Vancouver Heritage Foundation Places That Matter Project, Stephen Lytton, Kelty McKerracher, Les created with Lori Baxter; and Vancouver Dobrinsky, Cal Drysdale, Nathan Edelson, Kathleen Flaherty, Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall (VJLS Nelson, Bud Osborn, Bob Sarti, Jean Moving Theatre’s Board of Directors who Aaron Franks, Rosemary Georgeson, Kathy Gibler, Mary Ellen & JH), Vancouver Police Museum, Swanson, Teresa Vandertuin, Savannah have provided guidance and support Glover, Colleen Gorrie, David Gowman, David Granirer, John (Carnegie Reading Room, Strathcona Community Library, Walling, Phoenix Winter, Jackie Wong, with good will ever since the company’s Endo Greenaway, Jay Hamburger, Mark Haracka, Christine Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence), W2Media Diane Wood founding over thirty years ago. Hatfull, Anastasia Hendry, Francis Heng, Tamara Herman, Keith Higgins, James Highet, Tarah Hogue, Darren Holobovich, Jen CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE MISSION, MANDATE & PROGRAM PRACTICE Director Ethel Whitty HATS OFF TO OUR SPONSORS Hong, Carolyn Jerome, Am Johal, Diane Kadota, Sharon Kallis, Assistant Director Sharon Belli Margo Kane, Deb Karras, Cody Kenny, Yasin Kiragamisago, Di- The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is an The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival gratefully acknowledges the generous Arts & Education Programmer Rika Uto anna Kleparchuk, Gabby Korcheva, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Sharon annual cultural and heritage flagship event with the mis- contributions of our many sponsors. This festival could not happen without their Seniors, Recreation & Cultural Sharing Kravitz, Kristin Lantz, Caroline Lay, Kathleen Leahy, Ali Lohan, sion to serve as a bridge-building force that gives voice enthusiastic and generous support. Thank you! Programmer Lisa Yellow-Quill Stephen Lytton, Adrienne Macallum, Sandy MacKeigan, Fari to the Downtown Eastside and its low income residents, Carnegie Street Outreach Coordinator INDIVIDUAL DONORS Maghami, Kelty McKerracher, Steve McKinley, Gordon McLen- cultural communities and neighbourhoods. Bob Moss Anonymous, Russell Anthony, John Atkin, Elizabeth Ball, Michael Clague, Yulanda Faris, nan, Ruth Meta, Anthony Meza-Wilson, Brad Muirhead, Bruce The mandate of the Festival is to promote, present, and Oppenheimer Park Programmer Wes Fung, Frank Harris, Ruth Howard, Terry Hunter, Louise Leclair, Stephen Lytton, Lou Murton, Lou-ann Neel, Suzie O’Shea, Irwin Oostindie, Leslie facilitate the development of artists, art forms, cultural Sandy MacKeigan Ann Neel, Mary MacCauley, Elmer Morishita, Grace Eiko Thomson, Savannah Walling, jil Ottavi, Lianne Payne, Wendy Pedersen, Kimberly Phillips, Katie traditions, history, activism, people and great stories about Carnegie Reading Room Natalie Porter p weaving, Robert Wilson, Marilyn Young, Gerry Zipursky the Downtown Eastside. Volunteer Coordinator Colleen Gorrie Piasta, Andrea Pieters, Sharon Pollock, Imtiaz Popat, Natalie Por- Security Coordinator Skip Everall ter, Esther Rausenberg, Eric Rhys Miller, Mike Richter, Harjinder Program choices are developed via collaborative consen- Kitchen Coordinator Steve McKinley Sandhu, Bob Sarti, Ariadne Sawyer, Victor Schwartzman, April sus with community partners and artists, some of whom Smith, Mark Smith, Geetha Subramaniyam, Ron Suzuki, Anna partner with additional organizations for additional sup- CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE Swanson, Jean Swanson, Pamela Tagle, Priscillia Tait, Liza Tam, port. Some events are produced by the festival; some are ASSOCIATION Sid Chow Tan, Heidi Taylor, Richard Tetrault, Karina Tselnik, Rika presented in partnership with other organizations, artists Board of Directors: President Phoenix Uto, Linda Uyehara Hoffman, Kwasuun Vedan, Karenza T. Wall, and residents; and some are self-produced and presented Winter; Vice President Priscillia Tait; Amy Wertz, Angela White, Carol White, Jerry Whitehead, Ethel under the festival umbrella. The festival also supports and Treasurer Pat McSherry; Secretary Adrienne Whitty, Nathan Wiens, Sho Wiley, Erica Wilk, Peggy Wilson, partners with art-based community development projects Macallum; Member at Large Sharon Kravitz; Phoenix Winter, Steven Wong, Todd Wong, Diane Wood, Mona that give birth to new art and voice local concerns. Lisa David, Thelma Jack, Wilson Leung, Woodward, Kazuho Yamamoto, Fanna Yee, Fiona York, Dr. Henry If you have a project or program idea for future festivals, James Pau, Sam Snobelen, Fraser Stuart, The printing of this program has been made possible Yu, Toni Yue Zhang McAfee … and thanks to those we may have please contact Terry Hunter at 604-628-5672. Margaret Teng with the generous support of Port Metro Vancouver. unwittingly forgotten, and those who helped after this program guide went to print. 54 Heart of the City Festival 2014 Heart of the City Festival 2014 55 MY HEART IN THE HEART OF THE CITY by Bud Osborn now each beat of my battered and wounded heart a cry against what blocks community brings me closer to the community that fi lls my heart a cry for compassion with joy and activism and friends a cry past poverty a community I’ve given my heart to sustain and protect a cry full of beauty because you have strengthened my heart with yours a cry of anguish but also, now my heart begins to feel loss a cry for nature – like the places I knew so well a cry for its fl ock fl ying outside – lost to alien condos shops galleries cafes and people I have little in common with for the sparrow trapped itself behind a window of blinds and so now my heart also beats with anger knowing its cry could bring me bleeds with fear the giant of doom screams with rage towards it my heart would hurl fi rebombs but I slid open the glass door gather shopping carts into heavy barricades cupped the sparrow from behind the blinds and empty condominiums for our most vulnerable as gently as I could in my hands low income citizens and free our community – felt soft smooth silken feathers and the bird’s little heart pounding faster and faster for life like the sparrow that fl ew into my small suite one night and in one swift motion through the open sliding glass door released the sparrow and though I searched among piles of boxes and notebooks where it immediately winged freely into the sky I couldn’t fi nd the bird before I went to bed as sometimes in life and was awakened in the morning by a desperate what seems to be fi nal courageous loud cry is a new beginning a cry for freedom unexpected a cry for help propelled by a heart a cry of desire pumping the blood a cry of rebellion of an indomitable community a cry of great risk like the downtown eastside – the heart of the city

written for Heart Of The City Festival Opening Ceremony 2012

Bud at Main & Hastings The Killing Fields demonstration / 1000 crosses (1997) Photo Duncan Murdoch.

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