Arts Features

MUNCH 14:

ART, RESISTANCE, AND COMMUNITY CELEBRATION: A public art presentation and
community dialogue with Favianna Rodriguez

Sunday, March 8th
2:00 – 4:00 pm
W2 Launchpad (116 W Hastings)
Free

Artist activist Favianna Rodriguez is one of Utne Reader magazine’s ‘Top
50 Visionaries’ of the year. She’ll talk about her art practice and how
the Oakland Eastside Arts Alliance Center she’s co-founded – combining a
community centre, youth programs, a media arts collective plus social
housing – offers an inspiring model for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Sponsored by DTES Community Arts Network and Tides Canada Endswell Fund.

WACK! Fuse November 28 2008 6pm-1am

http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/events_and_programs/fuse.html

Mobile Fuse

For ten days leading up to Fuse, Montreal New Media Artist and Studio XX Production Director Bérengère Marin Dubuard (Beewoo) with collaborate with women from Fearless City Mobile in the Downtown Eastside. Fuse visitors will witness the culmination of this residency performed and streamed on live screens featuring a multichannel montage of mobile video, digital images, and mms text. All this digital data celebrates, critiques, and provides visitors with a chance to comment on the Wack! exhibit and Fuse performances. A VJ will remix live mobile video and images shot by Fearless City Mobile, with mms text sent by you!

The leadup residency with Studio XX explores feminist interventions, the class realities of differing Vancouver neighbourhoods, and repurposing of interactive & mobile technology. It provides women with an opportunity to advance skills in open source multimedia software, collaborative Web tools, real-time video processing, and VJ performance.

Experimental Video & Mobile Video class: Composition, with Dylan Cree

At the LifeSkills Centre | 410 E Cordova | 1-3pm 

The LifeSkills Experimental Video Program is an artist and community collaboration program for members of the Downtown Eastside to recount their experiences and stories.

Experimental Video & Mobile Video class: Technical Production & Post Production, with Brady Marks & Christoph Runne

At the LifeSkills Centre | 410 E Cordova | 1-3pm 

The LifeSkills Experimental Video Program is an artist and community collaboration program for members of the Downtown Eastside to recount their experiences and stories.

Experimental Video & Mobile Video class: Composition, with Dylan Cree

At the LifeSkills Centre | 410 E Cordova | 1-3pm 

The LifeSkills Experimental Video Program is an artist and community collaboration program for members of the Downtown Eastside to recount their experiences and stories.