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19th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Wednesday October 26 - Sunday November 6.•2022 Here we come! The is" annual DTESHeart of the City festival features twelve days of live and onllne events -including music, stories, poetry, theatre, ceremony, film, dance, forums, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibits, arttalks - and more! Guided by the theme Community is Out Mentor, we'll focus on listening and learning from the lived wisdom and cultural practices of the DTEScommunity. Here are a few events at Carnegie in the first few days of the festival -
OPENING DAY- WEDNESDAYOCTOBER 26 - CARNEGlETHEATRE it's a Festival highlight! Ipm OPENING CEREMONYwith lexwst'Hern drum group, love Medicine and Larissa Healev, with guest Bob Baker (S7aplek) of the Squarnish Nation; in honour of Kat Norris (Zucomul'wat). 4pm The Gathering Mural with Charlene Johnnnv, Marisa Nahanee, Richard Tetrault, Jerrv Whitehead. Walk around the theatre with the artists, view the spectacular mural banners and hear the stories behind the artists and activists portrayed. 7pm-9pm DTESFront & Centre: Uve Music & Comedy What a lineup! Standup comedy with Brenda Prince; singer and guitarist Mike Richter; music with Heidi Morgan, Peggy Wilson, Brlce Tabish, and Gord Stewart: and live sketch comedy with Sam Bob, Curtis Ahenakew and Greasy Bannock Theatre. Emcee Merlin Cosmos, a self-described 'Old Vaudevillian and a ham', Thurs Oct 27, 7pm Intangible Treasures of the Downtown Eastside, Carnegie Theatre Viewing Room and on Zoom. A collection of short shadow plays created by artists Dallas, Stephen lytton, Rev. Dr. Victoria Marie, Gunargie O'Sullivan, Priscillia Mays Tait, Savannah Walling and Elwin Xie. Fri Oct 28 Z 30pm Striking and Singing! Songs from Battle of BaUantyne Pier the Musical Songs performed by Thomas Jones and Sarah May Redmond. 1
Sylvan Hamburger, LesJieNelson= Art in the Park Project, photo: David Cooper
Many more fREE exciting events during the upcoming days of the Festival! Find the Festival Program Guide at Carnegie Community Centre and at locations throughout
the neighbourhood.
For complete Festival details, visit - www.heartofthecityfestivaLcom; h ttps:/ /www.facebook.com/Heartoft heCityFestival/ Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with Carnegie Community Centre & Association
of United Ukrainian Canadians. with a host of community partners. Front cover photo: l.arissa Healey, photo David Cooper
19tbAnnual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday October 26 to Sunday November 6, 2022
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Elements Unite team [L-R]Terry Hunter. Savannah Walling. Nadine Spence, Jen Sungshine, David Ng. Step hen lytton (front)
The festival welcomes the return of Honouring Our Grandmothers'Healino Journey: a multipartner residency led b'l'ofurther We Rise Indigenous Arts Collective/Sacred Rock. The multiyear, mulu-cornmunttv, multi-generatlonal movement connects Interior Salish and Coast Salish peoples with neighbouring communities and brings together families and residents who work to restore relationships between generations and communities. During the festival, two weeks of art, ceremony, talks, teachings, and storytelling will honour lived experiences and legacies of grandmothers past and present. At the hea rt of the journey are histories told through visual art on travelling message chests that are being created by artists of different Indigenous nations. Artwork on a collaboratively designed community Elements chest that will collect messages, has inspired a Chinatown window display by artists of different nationalities with historical relationships with Indigenous peoples .
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"There are many generations of healing backward and forward for all who carry pain due to genocide, race, gender, and spirituality. We all need fire, water, air, and earth to live: these common elements unite us always. Nadine Spence, lead artist and producer /I
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For more details, please visit www.heartofthecityfestival.com The OTESHeart of the City Festival is produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & Association of United Ukrainian Canadians. along with a host of community partners.
2022 Orange T-Shirt Designed By Mervin Windsor - Haisla Artist We are thankful for the beautiful gift of art the Late Mervin Windsor gave us to share with all of you on September 30th, 2022.
We wish Mervin a safe journey as he travels to be with his Ancestors.
"An Eagles Heart" Design description: a mother eagle wraps her arms around her baby eaglet.
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Mervin Windsor was a First Nations artist born and raised in Kitimat on the North Coast of British Columbia in Canada. Mervin came from a family of artists faorn both sides of his family who have used their art to share the stories and culture of the Haisla People. As a young artist, Mervin developed an understanding of the connection thClt all living creatures have with the land and uses the tondo style of art where the circular shape represents the earth (the land) to make the connection between land and creature. The true genius in Mervin's art was his ability to use his art to teach people about the importance of the connection that all Living creatures have with the land.
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To be or not to be Indian I am mixed race French Native from a small village in northern Ontario. I am not one ofthose "Exalted Subjects" that dr. Sunera Thobani writes about in her 2007 book wherein she informs us that Indians were forced to assimilate themselves into the white settler dominant culture which was legislated into the Indian Act. My French granny & native grandpa left the Quebec Reservation in the 1930s so that their children would not become abducted to Residential School. My dad, their eldest son, was 10 yrs. old. He later married a blue-eyed French adoptee from North Bay, Ontario. Our mother was mentally challenged so that she could not raise her 5 children and hence our granny retrieved us from foster care. Our granny raised many of her children's children. She did not want to lose us or for us to lose our French native identity. We did lose much of our native culture by the time i was born in 1950. We became the only mixed race children in the village. We did not learn the French or Algonquin languages at school. Nevertheless, we survived because of our dad's hunting, fishing, some trapping & gardening & our berry picking. Our dad, Max, was often exhausted from working so hard in the Mill & on construction sites for so little income. Communication, including reading & writing, were not skills he had time to acquire. Our uncle Harry was a wood carver of sleighs. He & our dad framed & built the third house that we lived in along the highway in the 1960s. No plumbing or central heating. "Chop Wood & Carry Water" was time consuming. Harry died of liver poisoning from the alcohol that he consumed to help him erase the trauma of a full body bum caused during his service to his country in WWII. Uncle Harry would sob uncontrollably to his mother, our granny, in the middle of the night saying, "look what they did to me!" All mothers suffer, along with their children, when their sons & daughters are sent to war in another country or even in their own country. Sometimes I feel like an immigrant in my own country. In 1990 I took a bus, along with my 14 yr. old son, from the east coast to the west. My son does not identify as Native cuz he does not have native features. Being mixed race; I'm not always made welcomed by some other west coast natives and I rub some settlers the wrong way. Personality conflicts between people are common, regardless of race. I became extremely stressed when 3 native , women on my floor conspired to get me evicted from Vancouver Native Housing in 2011. Bill C31 was legislated in 1985. This Bill is a revised Indian Act assimilation policy which now requires that both parents need to be "full-blooded" natives in order for their children to acquire Native Status. (Coercive segregation?) I was in my mid-30s before I knew to apply for Native Status from our Band membership in Quebec. According to these 1985 legislated blood quantum requirements; I am more French than Native - one third, perhaps. I refuse to allow another divisive government policy to identify me. When I met my blue-eyed mother for the first time in a cockroach infested bachelor apartment in Toronto, 1986, she proclaimed that I was lucky that I "don't look that native". I've had settlers ask me if I'm native. I do not over-romanticize native culture - especially since so much of it has been lost. This loss includes Land Treaties. Treaties have ceded large tracts of communal native lands to the Crown. Despite much government rhetoric to the contrary and the celebration of powwows, many of us who are full blooded or mixed race Native descendants have been & remain "The Inconvenient Indian"- according to Thomas King, 2012. John Ralston Saul 2014 claims that native cultures are having a "Comeback". However, there is nothing romantic about living in tents or dying of overdoses. Perhaps this native pride is easier to reclaim for those natives who have not become descendants of any mixed race. Nevertheless, many of us & our children remain poor. I'm not seeing or feeling much substantive "comeback" in my lifetime. Natives might get some cultural recognition via celebratory occasions such as pow-wows. However, legal restitutions & environmental protections still take a back seat to developmental greed. Cultural & spiritual events are not in themselves sufficient to enable transformative histories or progressive politics. I cannot b~gin to imagine the sense of abandonment & devastating loneliness of those children who were taken from their mothers' arms to be raised in the emotionally barren & physical hunger environments that they experienced at Residential Schools and where speaking one's own language was punished. Other abuses have only recently come to be exposed by the uncovered evidences and to be spoken about by those victims who have found their repressed voices and are daring to speak and write about what has been silenced. Diane Leclaire References: Coulthard, glen, 2014. Red Skin, White Masks: rejecting the colongial politics of recognition. Manuel, arthur & R. Derrickson, 2017. Reconciliation Manifesto. Unsettling Canada, 2015. Starblanket, Tamara, 2018. Suffer the Little Children: genocide, indigenous nations & the Canadian State.
CREATIVE BC GRANTS Creative BC has amazing grant programs for Artists. An info session was held in the first week of October and the following is essential: Program Overview: Who is eligible? B.C.-based emerging and established artists Eligible activities: Sound recording, music videos, and marketing initiatives Grant Amounts: $1,000 - $30,000 How to apply? Submit an online application form by October 19,2022, at 11 :59 PM, PDT Supporting projects occurring between April 1,2022, and December 1,2023 Contact: Sign up for online info sessions and grant coaching on the Creative BC website. If you have questions, or need assistance, please contact: Joseph Bardsley I Coordinator, Music Programs Direct Line: 236-455-6232 Email: jbardsley@creativebc.com What are the priorities of the Career Development program? • Increase and sustain earning p.tential and economic activity for B.C. artists, studios, recording professionals, producers, and music companies; Develop audiences for B.C. artists locally, nationally, and internationally. Invest in the creation and marketing of intellectual property and expand digital presence for B.C. artists; • Support a broad range of artists, prioritizing underrepresented groups who experience systemic barriers to participation.
"Have You Been to Jail for Justice?" written by the late Anne Feeney and most famously recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary: •
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Have you been to jail/or justice? I want to shake your hand Sitting in and lying down are ways to take a stand Have you sung a songfor freedom, or marched a picket line? Have you been to jail for justice? Oh, you're afriend of mine Was it Cesar Chavez? Maybe it was Dorothy Day Some will say Dr. King or Gandhi set them on their way No matter wffo your mentors are it's pretty plain to see That if you've been to jail for justice, you're in good company. BYE BYE BORIS Hair like demented harpo marx Loved illegal early covid-slumber parties I kinda [iked your major goofiness You seemed to laugh at life's stress House O' Commons won't be the same Political news from England 'twill be Tame See, Boris, you may have been "nutty" But ye were never ever lame! So hope ya enjoy life with wife & dog Ye bee wonderful emigma, never cog! John Alan Douglas
Sleeping Beauty Well folks it's that time again, are you ready; for earlier sunsets, longer nights and cooler weather? Because like it or not Fall is upon us and that all too familiar winter and hibernation season looms just ahead! So I thought for this article I would focus on something we all need that is very important to us and how this time of year is a great time to start building the new habit and pattern we need for better sleep! Our health depends on it, good sleep helps us feel happier and less stressed, it helps to improve our memories and quality of health and change or reduce our problems in of itself all together as well. So I've written this to help us all easily transition and slumber into fall and winter and get an early start on building new and better habits as we head toward the end of this 2022 yr and into the New 2023 year ahead! Let's put these past few Covid years of Craziness behind us in a healthy and productive way together! So here we go ... How to sleep better Set up your sleeping area: so that your technology is either in another room or some distance away from where you sleep, so get out of the habit of plugging your tech into the plugs closest to you when you sleep. As you get closer to bed remember to STOP using your tech while you are in and or all over your bed as you're getting ready to hunker down for the night. Try to keep your bedroom dark and cool, use thick blinds or curtains & bring the temperature in your room down to about 18 degrees. Our bodies sleep much better in cooler temperatures than in too much heat. Set up a routine: Go to bed and get up at the same time every day, your body will do better if allowed to use its own internal 24 hour clock and sleep memory abilities to set itself the routine it naturally knows your body needs. Create a relaxing bedtime routine that you can get into and enjoy! Build healthy habits: Exercise regularly, (even if it's just light yoga and stretches early in the morning or in the evening before bed) a little goes a long way, helps keep your muscles & joints out of pain/less stiff. Go outside during daylight hours, even just a brisk walk around the block and some deep breaths of fresh air during midday will make a world of difference. This is the best reason to be outside with our fur babies as often as we can fmd the time to do it. They will also thank us for it later when they come crawling into our beds and snuggle up to us for a good night's sleep right there alongside us! What better way to fall into dreamland then with smiles on our faces and fheir happy warmth against us? Do not drink excessively and most certainly do not do it too close to your regular bedtime schedule. (Keep those special occasions to exactly that Special Occasions) and you will see a world of difference! Do's: * Use sleep masks and ear plugs * Drink a cup of warm milk * Read a book or listen to relaxing nature sounds or meditation apps or peaceful music. * Take a warm shower or bath before bed. And last but not least Sleep on a comfortable bed! ..t
Don't: * Work out to heavy before bedtime * drink caffeine, (soda, coffee, milk chocolate) after 7 :30 or 8 pm. think about your worries * and lastly DO NOT EAT TOO MUCH before going to sleep! Follow the prescribed time above! Essentially if we just follow these Do's and Don't's we are certain to see better times, better living and better sleep ahead! So take care of yourself and allow more opportunity for better rest so that we can all be the Sleeping Beauties we deserve to be! I would love to hear back from folks on how their efforts are going and any suggestions you'd like to add to this story or others you think would make a good connecting fit to this one! TY!
By Jennifer Cooley thewriterwon(a),gmail.com
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Sid Chow Tan 1949 - 2022
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"Hello everyone. I'm Sid Chow Tan from East Van, formerly out of Saskatchewan. A good time man. I'm a Gold Mountain dragon and a Rocky Mountain warrior. I was born in a mud and straw hut. Village Elders and ., farm animals were charmed when two bright stars rose high in the sky . Tough? The other day, my friends and I had a contest to see who could eat a live rat the fastest. I won. I've got steel wires for guts, concrete in my bones and fire in my blood. I've been called a Navajo. I've been called Juan from Mexico. I've been called Carlo the Filipino. My favourite is still Good Time Joe. That's why I'm known around the world. I can cook better, eat faster, love longer, sleep deeper, yell louder and shout and act dumber than anybody I know apart from my Uncle Charlies - Quan and Chin; I learned it all from him. There's not a person alive who can't make a fool out of me. That's how tough I am. I learned this myself - the hard way."
[This article (edited for length here) is by Akshay Kulkarni on the CBC website.] Longtime activist and community media producer Sid Chow Tan died in his Vancouver home, his family confirmed. He was 73. Friends and community members are remembering Tan as a "powerhouse" whose energy for fighting for the downtrodden was unmatched. Tan was famous as an advocate for Chinese immigrants who had to pay the discriminatory head tax. He was the founding director of the Head Tax Families Society of Canada and was involved in fighting for the Chinese-Canadian community well after the federal government issued redress payments. But he was also an activist who fought alongside Downtown Eastside residents as they were pushed out of their homes, a community TV producer with decades of work highlighting thriving communities in Vancouver and someone heavily involved in the city's literary and theatre communities. "He turned all of his energy - of which he had so much - to helping people out," said filmmaker Karin Lee, who worked alongside Tan on the head tax redress campaign. "I think that energy came from [his] idea that you should be helping out people when you have the opportunity ... some people are prolific in their art. He was prolific with his activism." Some of the other causes Tan was involved in include environmental activism with the Sierra Club of B.C., mentoring community media producers and running for Vancouver city council in 2014. "1 think that his legacy really is, very much, build bridges and just live life," said Mary Woo Sims, former chief commissioner of the B.C. Human Rights Commission. "There was this whole other side of him that was so lovely, kind, and gentle. And then, it's this fierce activist as well. "He's left a hole in our hearts ... there's just not going to be another Sid." For decades, Sid Chow Tan produced community media highlighting Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Chinatown communities. • "His basic foundatiorr'was 'this isn't right, let's do something about it," she said. "Water rolled off his back no matter what he was going through ... his spirit will live on." There is work underway to digitize Tan's vast library of community television, according to Angrave, who hopes the community comes together to remember him in the months ahead. A legacy of mentorship and community Vince Tao, a member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (V AND U), met Tan while he was rallying to stop a condo building in Vancouver's Chinatown in 2017. "He was the boss. He was like an old head and someone very close to my heart," he said. "He knows the score about the struggle. He knew which side to be on all his life. And that's something Ireally looked up to." Taosaid one of the lasting legacies of Tan's life would be his genial attitude and how he mentored numerous activists and organizers in Vancouver. "As a video activist, he documented oppression, he documented domination and exploitation. But 1think most importantly, he turned the camera back on us as organizers and movement makers. "[He] allowed people to speak for themselves, to be able to articulate the struggles they go through every day, but also the joy and the feeling of love in this community. And that's so necessary." By Akshay Kulkami
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Michael Clague: Once again, East Hastings is in the news Opinion: We will gel nowhere simply by removing the tents. Lasting change begins by attending to those who are the most ill with mental health and physical conditions
Scene along the 100-block of East Hastings Street in Vancouver. PHOTO BY NICK PROCAYLO /PNG Vancouver's fire chief has announced that, for safety reasons, the tents erected along East Hastings Street, mainly by homeless people, are about to be removed. Once again, the misfortunes of those impacted are brought to the fore. This latest crisis is part of a seemingly intractable situation. To visit Vancouver's East Hastings Street today, from Abbott to Gore, is to encounter hundreds of destitute, impoverished and marginalized people. Tjley are sick. They have no housing, or have bad or unsuitable housing. They lack proper food. They lack sufficient food. They live hour-by-hour, day-by-day. The number of deaths and the rate of deaths from opioids are the highest in the Vancouver Coastal Health Region. The figure will be even higher when other non-natural causes of death are included. Thirty-one per cent of the area's population is Indigenous. There is no other place like it in Canada. Yet beyond the apparent chaos there is a community on East Hastings. People buying, selling, trading legal goods, stolen goods, drugs. Doing what they can to survive, helping one another, looking out for one another, sharmg a tip on a safe shelter, passing the word to look out for someone missing, helping
someone get to a clinic, volunteering at a drop-in. Of course, people sometimes are not nice to one another. They cheat, they steal, they are angry, they injure. Just like any other community - only here it's on display. Like in any other community, people make mistakes. Except here the margins for error are thin, even fatal. Yet somehow there is time for humour, even fun, for music on a battered guitar, or a graffiti poem on a wall. Like any other community. In this community, they can be anyone's aunt or uncle, father or son, mother or daughter, who has arrived from somewhere else - the village of Bella Coola or a Dunbar suburb. "So take the time and sit and talk with me. Look past the looks and see what you see. " - Anthony Dunn, The Heart of the Community,
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I worked in the Downtown Eastside from 1999 to 2005 as director of the Carnegie Centre. The drug crisis was then just entering its "crisis" stage and, despite some important improvements such as the safe-injection site ("Insite"), the situation has further deteriorated. Frustratingly, it is possible to imagine a better Hastings Street that is achievable. This vision is a Hastings Street where the industry of drugs, big business and small, is absent. There are sufficient, accessible safe consumption sites. There are drug maintenance sites where previously illegal substances are administered by qualified personnel. Welfare rates are not below the poverty line. Housing is safe, comfortable, accessible. Stores cater to low-income customers and employ them. Even in its derelict state, the street is very much a social scene for friendships and belonging and mutual help. People who are very sick with physical conditions are supported where they live to the fullest extent possible. People who are very sick with mental illness are supported where they live. Regardless of their mental and physical condition, they are accepted and seen as full members of the community. They contribute as volunteers and as workers with training and employment commensurate with their mental and physical conditions. Friends and neighbours and health and social service practitioners work together. This Hastings Street is alive with the arts and cultures of the community. Those oflndigenous residents are particularly evident. The Downtown Eastside Heart ofthe City Festival is the community's showcase. People are giving voice to their lived experience, acknowledging their pain, and celebrating their personal and community triumphs through music, art, film, poetry, prose, drama and dance. They are doing so from a ,- place of safety and of accomplishment that they are creating for themselves. And all Vancouver takes pride in supporting and enjoying what local residents are creating for themselves. It is a gift to the city. Making the change that the Downtown Eastside needs We will get nowhere simply by the removal ofthe tents on Hastings Street. Lasting systemic change begins by attending to those who are the most ill with mental health and physical conditions. Some are not considered "suitable" for the temporary modular housing units being installed for homeless people, and some do not accept it. This population must be the starting point for systemic change. It must be made clear that a debt is owed to all the local residents and service providers over the years who have struggled and advocated for undoing the Gordian knot that prevents meaningful change. They have demonstrated resilience and care in the face of daunting odds. They have demonstrated ways forward which, if heeded, will make a difference. Vancouver owes them a lot. After all, it is the heart of our city. Lasting change requires building on past lessons The answers are known. What is needed a mobilization of will - the community in partnership with those who have the resources and the authority to make a difference. It requires overcoming issues of jurisdiction and territory to create a plan and a strategy that begins with those most affected. It requires respecting and paying particular attention to residents and workers with the lived experience of poverty and marginalization who have steadfastly taken leadership for change. They must be supported in creating and leading their vision for a Hastings Street that is a safe and welcoming public space for all, a space where community is built, and thrives.
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From -the Library I want to extend a big thank you to all of the Car. negie staff and community who have welcomed me to this role while Danielle is away. I will be No words. No words at all. Some inopportune moacting as branch head of the Carnegie library unment rests at my door. We are so caught up in our til November 26th and already the experience has own small wrappings of desire and retreat, that only been a total gift. Come on by and say hi, tell me an act of Providence will set one free. Sometimes, we your favourite thing about the centre/library/ can wonder about this small patch of land and let the community or we can share some book recomblack birds sing a song. But most times, I am weary mendations. Fall is finally settling in, sweater and lethargic. My disease makes me call out to the weather is here and Halloween is right around the gods. Helps me to undertake a quiet dwelling place, corner. Get into the spooky spirit with some scary calls on my resistance. Most days, my life is characbooks, TV shows, and movies from the library. terized as stiff puffs of cloud, changing every so Our Halloween display, created by the oh so artisslowly with the wind. I show up on the page again. tic Barbara, has a great selection - it's horror-ific! Is art imitation the way Aristotle wrote in such masWe're very excited to be a small part of the terly detail? I wear your face by the door and watch Heart of the City Festival this year. Isabel will for a sign. I watch for signs like the Gentiles. I feel host Amazingly Alive: An Afternoon with the like I can escape and fly yonder like the Downy Bud Osborn Poetry Collection. Bud Osborn was woodpecker at my door, who comes and rests at my a poet and activist for the Downtown Eastside, windowsill, gladly and greedily taking the seed I known for his role in developing the Vancouver I placed outside the night before. Area Network of Drug Users and advocating for I wear your face by the door because right now that drug users and people made poor in Vancouver. In \ is all I know. 2017, the library received a donation of books •. But really why the unction to write all this down. Is from Bud Osborn's personal collection. It is self-awareness all that I need? Or is quiet reflection housed in the locked bookshelves inside Classthe answer to the riddle. Hardly not! Waheguru is the room 2 on ~eveI3. This program offers folks an answer. I must remember to place a Higher Power opportunity to visit with Bud's book collection, before all of endeavours.oo matter how big or how which previous Carnegie branch head Natalie Porsmall. It is by chanting his name, that I have called ter acquired and preserved for the community. The on the greatest Power there is and he is bliss. He is collection includes Bud's favourites, books heavilove. ly marked up such as Kim Chi-Ha, Cesar Vallejo, So now as I sit and wait at the temple, I am welErnesto Cardenal, Frantz Fanon, Gustavo Gutiercomed by all the souls that thirst for peace. My father rez, lames Cone, and Waiter Brueggemann. says that most people go to temple because they are During "Amazingly Alive: an afternoon with the in pain themselves. Pain is the touchstone of spiritual Bud Osborn Poetry Library" participants will get a growth. But do I belong? I am Punjabi. I was born as chance to share stories about Bud while getting to a young girl into a Sikh family. However, I feel like know more about the poetry books in his collecan outsider and always have. I am an outsider in both tion. We will give them a little dust, we will read cultures. What makes me cringe in doubt, and in seout-loud from random books, and we will talk crecy are my ambitions. Of which I have many no about how we might put Bud's collection to use in doubt. Se I will learn. I will climb the insular mounthe future in a caring and considerate way. tain till I find a patch of ground where there is a Date: Thursday, October 27th small rock to help me gain a footing to the reason we Time: 4pm-530pm are here. Place: Classroom 2 Event title: amazingly alive: an afternoon with By Jathinder Sandhu the Bud Osborn Poetry Library Hope to see you there! Julia
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In Contempt Opening Friday / October 21st /6 pm - 9 pm. Running October 22nd - November 25th / Tuesday - Saturday / 12pm - 6pm Trigger Warnings: SA, Abuse, References to Institutionalized Medical Settings, Racism Lead artist, Aiyana Joe Wood, invites you to reflect on her experiences of being held 'in contempt' in child welfare and mental health systems. Having been branded the "problem child" - after surviving sexual abuse in a foster home in rural Manitoba - Aiyana was moved away from her 8 siblings and home community, to Winnipeg, and eventually, on to Toronto. Each relocation held promise for Aiyana receiving "care," but instead she was given interviews and medications - "more reasons to run away, than to stay." Reports from agencies responsible for her "care," during her first transition to living as a trans woman and two spirit person, form the core material of this multimedia project. Aiyana has redacted and responded to those reports, showing how these systems held her in contempt.
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