Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family.
How can you help?
Your used mobile phones - preferably with video, camera, wi-fi
Cash donations (* tax deductible) or new phone donations
Conversation - tell your friend on your blog, twitter, etc. - post a badge
Action Plan: First, Gather phones!
Collect all the un-used mobile phones at your office and home - dig into your boxes of stuff, ask you friends! Digital cameras gratefully accepted too.
Next, Arrange Pick-up:
Let us know via Twitter: Fearless City, email: info (at) fearlessmedia (dot) ca, Phone/SMS: 604.644.4349, Voice mail: 604.682.3269 xt 8320
We'll come by on purple Yahoo bikes on Tues. Dec. 23rd & 30th to collect your devices
We'll take your photo, bring treats, and thank you publicly with a link
Notes to Nourish is a grassroots project featuring original art by Lower Mainland artists and designers. The contributing artists are: Chris Allen, Sarah Cavanaugh, Nova Hopkins, Luke Krienke, Jean Lee, Anne Pearce, Robyn Sommerville and Kathryn Wright.
We are selling two limited-edition sets of four holiday greeting cards to raise money for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and British Columbia SPCA. The cards present a unique way to give back during the holidays; you are supporting two non-profit organizations, local arts and culture, and presenting sustainable greetings to your friends and family.
A set of four cards costs $10, or buy both sets for $15. Visit www.notestonourish.com to purchase. Cards will be shipped in the first week of November.
Marie Brassard returns to Vancouver with a theatrical exploration of appearance and disappearance, of the double and of otherness. The city of Berlin, ectoplasms (vaporous emanations of the body supposedly visible tomediums) and the literary hoax involving JT LeRoy, a writer dreamed up by a woman hoping to get published, provide Brassard with material to reflect on art and creation, on the porous boundary between the creator and the resultant creature.
In collaboration with Finnish artist Mikko Hynninen and composer and sound designer Alexander MacSween, the singular and yet very plural Marie Brassard bring minds and the bodies that live therein to life, making their ghostly voices resonate, rendering the invisible visible.
In June 2001, Brassard created her first one-woman show, Jimmy créature de rêve, a black surrealistic comedy which was a huge success and has, since then, been presented in many cities in Europe, America and Australia. That same year, she founded the production company Infrarouge. She's also its artistic director. In 2003, she created a show hinging on the themes of real estate development, exploitation and friendship; entitled La Noirceur, it was followed by Peepshow, staged in English in Toronto in May 2005, and in French in Montréal in June of that year.
Uganda’s Children Images of the human spirit by Peter Eastwood
Exhibition opening
December 12, 2008, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition of original photography
December 12-17, 2008
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon-6:00pm
Eastwood Onley Gallery, 2075 Alberta Street
For more information, call 604.739.0429
In Uganda’s Children, Vancouver-based portrait photographer Peter Eastwood documents the daily struggles of the world’s most vulnerable children, as well as the startling endurance of the human spirit in some of the most horrific scenarios imaginable.
In August 2007, Eastwood traveled to Soroti, Uganda with volunteers from a United Kingdom-based charity to document the determined efforts of special needs educators, the building of a school for 250 orphans and also a community hall that seats over 600 people.
Eastwood also visited the local government hospital, an institution that has yet to be addressed by the charity. “While photographing the hospital, I was overwhelmed by the lack of hygiene, the overcrowded wards, the stench of urine-soaked mattresses, the understaffing and the desperate need for medical supplies,” said Eastwood. “Simple medications that could save a life were just not available. It was heartbreaking.”
This unmissable event features the art of Stirling Ward, David Ellingsen and Heidi Conrod with net proceeds going to imagine1day, a groundbreaking charity created by Lululemon founder, Chip Wilson and his wife, Shannon.
DIVINE EROS Famed photographer Maryanne Bilham (U2, Carlos Santana, Sheryl Crow) turns the camera on female mystics of the past millennium in exhibition at Eastwood Onley Gallery
Exhibition opening
November 7, 2008, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition of original photography and prose
November 7-14, 2008
Artists’ talk with Maryanne Bilham and Dawn Thompson
November 8, 2008, 5:00pm
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon-6:00pm
Eastwood Onley Gallery, 2075 Alberta Street, Vancouver (604.739.0429) http://www.femalemystics.com
Divine Eros is an exhibition of photography and prose that draws its inspiration from the female mystics of the past millennium. Erotic, luminous, haunting, and dense with spiritual meaning and feminist history, the photographs and text by Los Angeles photographer Maryanne Bilham, Portland writer Dawn Thompson, and Vancouver set designer Peter Eastwood evoke the sensual language and gritty truths of the union with the divine.
Friday Oct. 3rd @ The Anza Club (W 8th & Ontario)
Doors 9pm, $10
Music by The Vicious Cycles
Burlesque by Miss Rosie Bitts & Miss KT Couture
Special pricing on both Tattoo Colouring Books
Colouring contest
Cowpoke theme - prizes for best costumes
VCON is Greater Vancouver's annual science fiction & fantasy convention.
Guests of Honour are Kelley Armstrong (Author), Patrick Rothfuss (Author), Lisa Snellings (Artist), James Ernest (Gaming), and Dr. Jaymie Matthews (Science), with Michael Walsh (Toastmaster). Also Attending: Don DeBrandt, Lynne Fahnestalk, Eileen Kernaghan, Jeanne Robinson, Spider Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Lisa Smedman.
Three days of programming, plus Art Show, Book Launch, Breakfast Buffet, Dance, Dealers Room, Elron Awards, Fan Club Tables, Filk Music, Games Room, Hospitality Suite, Kidcon, Masquerade, Parties & Meetups, Turkey Readings, Voodoo Board.
Pre-registration rates (till 15 Sep) are Adult: $50, Student: $38, Child 7-12 years: $25, and Gamer-only: $40. Children 6 years and under are free. Payment in US$ accepted at par. After 15 Sep, on-site registration only at $60/$45/$30. One-day memberships available on-site.
Venue: Compass Point Inn, 9850 King George Highway, Surrey, BC, Canada V3T 4Y3
