We are very honoured that the family of the late Chief Dan George will present a special reading of his A Lamentįor Confederation. Join friends from the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood and special guests for this year’s Opening Ceremony with a focus on the 2018 Festival theme "Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope".įeaturing Les Nelson, Carnegie’s Elder in Residence and Kat Norris, Festival Elder in Residence leading the afternoon’s cultural work the newly formed Cultural Sharing Drum Group from the Carnegie Centre, an exciting addition to our community gospel and blues singer Tom Pickett will sing the classic, Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime, accompanied by pianist Bill Costin (from East End Blues & All That Jazz) festival artist in residence Earle Peach will sing the much-loved Hastings Street Ramble with lyrics by Bob Sarti (from Bruce: The Musical) Dalannah Gail Bowen will read her new poem Dignity in the Downtown Eastside and Love Medicine drummers and fancy dancer Madeline McCallum will lift our spirits. Sponsored by Kokoro Dance Theatre Society/KW Studios. Guest panelists include Susanna Uchatius from Theatre Terrific and Terreanne Derrick, Gitxsan filmmaker. Followed by a panel discussion with the artist creators and community members around disability and access in theatre. Join us for a workshop presentation of this work in progress. The presentation style blends poetry, narrative, song, stylized gesture, movement, live drumming and incorporates ASL interpretation. Participating artists include Caroline Hebert, Stephen Lytton, Kat Norris, Kaitlyn Pedersen, Sandra Pronteau, and director Julia Siedlanowska. Unsettled is an intergenerational multi-arts theatre project created with and performed by community artists who live with and experience disability(s). Come at 5pm to pick up a ticket to the October 29 Aboriginal Feast. Michelle recently completed a Master of Arts in Communication from Simon Fraser University where she wrote “Decolonizing Identity: Indian Girl to Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Matriarch.” Play the game with friends at Carnegie and we will have a springboard for lively conversation. A twist on the well-loved game Snakes and Ladders, the purpose of the game is to provide a framework for developing decolonizing practices and to better Indigenous to non-Indigenous relations, making sure we are holding each up – not sliding down the double-headed serpent, called Sínulhkay in the Squamish language. Join Carnegie Cultural Sharing to play Sínulhkay and Ladders, a giant board game designed by Michelle Nahanee that promotes the Squamish practice of Chen chen stway (holding each other up) while working through neocolonial scenarios of oppression. SINULHKAY AND LADDERS: DECOLONIZING BOARD GAME Contact Julia at to register for the entire weekend workshop. Presented by Julia Siedlanowska, Kat Norris, Allie Pev. The body maps will be displayed for an invited audience giving participants the option to share their stories and maps from their perspective. Tracing Histories is a weekend workshop where youth, together with their parents/caregivers, create a life sized tracing of their bodies to depict real and imagined family and ancestral history.ĭay 1: Coast Salish welcome, singing and drumming, theatre games discussion about history and ancestry.ĭay 2: Participants trace their body onto paper, colouring it with images and impressions from their family and ancestral history. Children welcome.ĭTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. The workshop is led by Karen Thorpe, a volunteer with the Listening Post and a contributor to many previous Festivals. We will celebrate and be inspired by the Heart of the City Festival theme “Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope”, and make mini-rustic creations mounted on cedar shingles art that will only last as long as the season. Join us for music in the French romantic tradition.Ĭome and create artwork using seeds, roots and found natural materials gathered in the neighbourhood. This recital is all about treasuring the moment. Linking the cycles are interludes of piano music by Debussy and Ravel. How precious, how sweet and sometimes how brief is love. Featuring Don Quichotte à Dulcinée by Maurice Ravel, Trois Poèmes D'amour by Erik Satie, and Poème d'un Jour by Gabriel Fauré. Community Arts in Action in the Downtown EastsideĬliff Ridley, baritone, and Danielle Marcinek, piano, present three French art song cycles of three songs each – the “triptyque” as the French called it.Welcome to the 12th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City!.Jenifer Reads: Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl”.50 Years of Creative Collaboration: Terry Hunter & Savannah Walling.Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey.
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