Upintheair Theatre Company will present the 2021 rEvolver Festival over three weeks this summer, with 12 artist presentations expressly designed to showcase new work in development. Aimed at tapping local audiences into the creative process, the festival is made up of an eclectic combination of digital and audio experiences, conversations and workshops.
2021 rEvolver Festival
When: Wednesday, May 19 to Sunday, June 6, 2021 Where: Online Tickets:Available online soon. All festival presentations are by donation.
rEvolver festival’s presentations will provide an artistic platform for reflection. The group of artists has been provided pre-festival access to studio time with the opportunity to deep dive into creation. During the festival, audiences are invited into a discussion of what the creative and performing arts might look like in the post-COVID world.
Project and Artist Information
Presentations include community workshops, an interactive website, play readings, role playing games, and a visual EP to investigate themes such as activism, climate change, disability, fortune-telling and media.
Anna Saves the Marsh, by Adam Schwartz*
Catfish, by Simran Gill, Jess Amy Shead
Collider, Single Thread Theatre Company, by Shelby Bushell, Chloe Payne, Liam Karry*
Hwatu, by Romi Kim / Skim, Jaewoo Kang / James Q Parker, Gray Park / Count Cupid
messier objects EP (working title), by Stéphanie Cyr
Not So Stupid, by June Fukumura, Daniela Atiencia, Sue Jutson
Shadow Sign for Bedroom Protest: What I Dare To Do In The Dark, Art Action Earwig, by Minah Lee, Wryly Andherson
Szepty/Whispers: Dialogue, concept by Veronique West
The Frontliners, by Zahida Rahemtulla
Real Talks @ rEvolver Festival, in partnership with Gateway Theatre
*All artists are Vancouver-based with the exception of Adam Schwartz (Winnipeg) and Single Thread Company (Kingston/Vancouver).
Co-artistic producers Daniel Martin and David Mott and Resident Curators Davey Caldedron and Kayleigh Sandomirsky curated the lineup to provide an output for emerging and mid-careers artists to focus on transition and building capacity, flexibility and resilience — looking ahead to what artistic presentations could be like in our post-pandemic existence.
The Powell Street Festival Society is proud to announce its stewardship of 360 Riot Walk created by artist Henry Tsang. This multilingual interactive self-guided walking tour invites participants to trace a layered history of Vancouver’s labour politics, anti-Asian racism, and community resistance in what is today the Downtown Eastside. This unique project interweaves the narratives of racialized communities, reclaiming how and what histories are told.
360 Riot Walk is an interactive walking tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver. It utilizes 360 video technology to trace the history and route of the mob that attacked the Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities following the demonstration and parade organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League in Vancouver. Participants are brought into the social and political environment of the time where racialized communities were targeted through legislated as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence.
The soundtrack is available in four languages of the local residents of the period: English, Cantonese, Japanese and Punjabi. You can stream the project on location with a mobile device and headphones or remotely on a web browser. There are 13 stops on the tour.
If you decide to take this self-guided tour on location*, start at Maple Tree Square in Gastown. You will need wireless data and about 2 hours to complete the tour; feel free to stop at any point and resume anytime later.
*Please be aware that the area has a higher density of vulnerable and marginalized people – it may be a good idea to go with someone. Because you will be aiming your device in every direction, you may be perceived as taking photos of local residents, which may cause a reaction. Be courteous, and take the time to let them know that you are watching a recorded video.
Powell Street Festival Discussions, Tours
Combining historical images with contemporary surroundings, 360 Riot Walk participants are confronted with Vancouver’s ongoing legacy of racism. The Powell Street Festival Society sees this project as having the potential to build upon inter-community relationships, creating allyships with other racialized groups and shared community responsibility. It will be partnering with 360 Riot Walk team to host online panel discussions and live walking tours from May to September 2021. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden has also joined as a community partner to build greater awareness of the project.
Panel Discussions May, June, & July
Reflections on the Tour- with former participants of the walking tour
The Challenge of Translation- with the translators of the Japanese, Cantonese and Punjabi versions
The Context of the Riots- with the writers of 360 Riot Walk blog posts
Self-Guided Tours & Reflections July – September
July 24 and 25, Weekend Prior to the Powell Street Festival
July 31 and August 1, Powell Street Festival Weekend
September 11, Memorial of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots
The 6th annual ParkerArtSalon is going Canada-wide this year featuring an online auction with Waddington’s, raising funds for the Beedie Luminaries Foundation. The auction, titled “Essential Travel” will be hosted at the Pendulum Gallery for public viewing from May 3-28, while bidding runs online May 6-16, 2021.
Art lovers can also visit a curated selection of the works of more than 60 Parker Street Studios artists at the Gallery George — conveniently located next to the Parker Street Studios — with two consecutive exhibitions running May 6-16 and May 20-30, 2021.
Mark Bowen – Vanishing Species – Ocean Blue Bear
ParkerArtSalon Online Auction and Gallery Exhibitions
Preview Essential Travel auction items at Pendulum Gallery
Where: 885 W Georgia St, Vancouver (Georgia & Hornby Downtown)
When: May 3-28, 2021
Gallery hours are Mon-Wed 9:00am to 6:00pm, Thurs-Fri 9:00am to 9:00pm, Sat 9:00pm to 5:00pm. Closed Sundays
Admission: Free
Best of Parker St at Gallery George
Where: 990 George St, Vancouver (next to Parker Street Studios in Strathcona)
When: May 6-16 and May 20-30, 2021
Thursday to Sunday 12:00pm to 5:00pm, or by appointment
ParkerArtSalon 2021 expands its reach to a national audience (virtually) while maintaining its annual presence in the lives of Vancouver’s supportive art-lovers. This two-tiered event marks a typically robust response to COVID-19 by the ParkerArtSalon. With the Parker Street Studios in lockdown for over a year, residents met this latest challenge with the same flair, invention, and community-building impulse that drove the Salon’s creation back in 2015.
With the virtual auction through Waddington’s highly regarded online auction service, ParkerArtSalon increases exposure and support for its artists while levelling up on potential funds for Beedie Luminaries, with 50 percent of the auction proceeds going to the Foundation’s program of scholarships for financially constrained students.
While auction items are viewable at Pendulum, matters become a little more intimate at GALLERY GEORGE, where the Salon showcases the best of the Parker artists’ work in a setting visible both from the street and from inside the spacious gallery itself, preserving the market feel visitors have come to love and expect from ParkerArtSalon over the last six years.
In keeping with COVID-19 protocols, there will be regulations in place to keep everyone’s viewing safe.
About ParkerArtSalon
152,000 square feet, 110 studios for 227 artists, designers, photographers and woodworkers. The iconic 1000 Parker Street warehouse is a Vancouver landmark, hosting 4 floors of artists diverse in style and discipline. In such an environment, the buzz of creativity is ongoing night and day.
Got Craft? celebrates its 8th virtual event since moving their markets online due to COVID-19. With 65+ makers and small shops from across Canada, the market will feature a curated selection of goods including clothing and accessories, apothecary, home goods, greeting cards, jewelry, food, ceramics, art prints, and so much more!
Got Craft? Virtual Market: Spring Edition
When: Wednesday, April 21 to Sunday, May 2, 2021 Where:Online (flat fee shipping or free curbside pick up in Vancouver)
Find the perfect Mother’s Day gift and pick up a little something for yourself. Choose from flat rate shipping within Canada and to the US and FREE local Vancouver curbside pick up.
This edition of Got Craft? welcomes 30% new vendors including makers from Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and across British Columbia.
They also have plenty of returning favourites including jewelry by LanaBetty, pet accessories by Santa Paws Workshop, skincare by Schmear Naturals, and sassy greeting cards by The Beautiful Project. Foodies will also rejoice at the fact that many vendors from our popular Food Markets will also be back including blé etcetera, Baker and Table Cafe, East Van Jam, Salty Cabbage Kimchi, and Sriracha Revolver Hot Sauce.
For many makers and artists, in-person markets often account for over 80% of their annual sales. The Got Craft? Virtual Markets are a series of online events to support and engage our creative community from the comfort and safety of our homes. Since moving our events online at the beginning of June 2020, Got Craft? has had the opportunity to showcase 200+ makers and small shops from across Canada.
Enter to Win
For the ninth year in a row, I have an AMAZING Got Craft? prize package to give away, loaded with goodies from local vendors and valued at over $650! It includes:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Monday, April 19, 2021. The winner will be able to collect their prize at the curbside pickup location in Vancouver.
A new major all-season mountain resort — Bridal Veil Mountain Resort — with two sightseeing gondolas and approximately 11,500 acres of mountain recreation terrain has been proposed for Chilliwack through an Expression of Interest filed recently with the Mountain Resorts Branch of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development.
Looking out over the Fraser Valley from Chipmunk Ridge in the proposed Bridal Veil Mountain Resort.
Bridal Veil Mountain Resort Proposed for Chilliwack
From this morning’s press release:
In addition to providing year-round recreation opportunities for Fraser Valley residents, British Columbians and destination tourists, the resort would strengthen BC’s already strong international reputation in the mountain resort market, elevate the region as a tourist destination, and become a major new, year-round economic and tourism driver for the Province.
Currently called Bridal Veil Mountain Resort (“BVMR”), the project is being led by BC residents Norm Gaukel and Robert Wilson, with the support of Whistler-based Brent Harley and Associates (“BHA”), one of the world’s most experienced and respected mountain resort planning and design firms. If approved, the resort would be located in the Upper Fraser Valley, on the highlands immediately south of the Fraser River, extending over Area D and Area E of the Fraser Valley Regional District and the City of Chilliwack.
