12th ANNUAL DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE
HEART , PlECITY FESTIVAL OCTOBER 28 TO . NOVEM:BER 8 2015 ~
Featuring over BOevents at over 20 locations throughout the Downtown Eastside Music • Spoken Word • Theatre Film • History Walks • Art Talks Dance • Gallery Exhibits
12th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Wednesday October 28 - Sunday November 8, 2015
Carnegie,TV
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David Cooper
We're almost here! PRE-FESTIVAl-
Free
LIVE Recording Friday Oct 16 • Carnegie TV Downtown
Variety Show, 7pm - 9:30pm, doors open 6:45pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Joi n the studio
udience! See how a television
Attend a live recording
program gets made! Be part of the ACTION!
of the slated for broadcast on Shaw TV. Join us for posterity!
Wednesday Oct 21 • Images & Reflections: Pigeon Park Proud, 7pm - 9pm Exhibit and Opening Reception, InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall Thursdays,
Oct 22, 29, Nov 5, 12 • Women's
Zine Workshop
Series, 2pm - 4pm
EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings A BAKER'S DOZEN OF FESTIVAL PICKS - Oct 28 to Oct 31 1. FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONY - Join friends from the neighbourhood annual festival! Guest performers: Owen Owen; soundscpaes
William
Nahanee (Kwel-a-a-nexw);
of Sylvi MacCormac;
poet Muriel
Williams
for the opening
Dalannah
of our 12th
Gall Bowen and Owen
with trombonist
Brad Muirhead;
excerpts from Against the Current; and the Hastings Street Band with a special surprise. Wed Oct 28, 2pm sharp, Carnegie Theatre
Refreshments.
2. A CELEBRATION OF THE CARNEGIE THEATRE -celebrate,
Free mingle and soclialize at an evening of jazz,
spoken word, a-nd improvisation.
6pm musicians configured
the Carnegie Jazz Band, led by multi-instrumentalist
in small Carnegie Jazz Combos; 7:30pm it's
and composer Brad Muirhead,
guests: Idverb, collage of spoken word and music. Guest community Muriel Williams,
and Phoenix Winter.
Wed Oct 28, 6pm-9:30pm,
poets include Stephen Lytton, Carnegie Theatre.
3. FOR A MUSE OF FIRE - Join Luisa Jojic and players of the Downtown creation. Wed Oct 28, Thurs Oct 29, Fri Oct 30, 8pm, InterUrban
8:30pm special Free
Eastside for an original theatrical
Gallery. Tickets at the door, sliding
scale: 5 cents to $20 4. BOOK LAUNCH -INVISIBLE
HEROES: Aboriginal
Carnegie Learning Centre releases a collection aboriginal
community
Stories from Vancouver's
Downtown
members. Thurs Oct 29, 1pm-3:30pm,
Carnegie Learning Centre, 401 Main, Free
5. REMEMBERING OUR DTES WOMEN - Diane Wood and Rosemary Georgeson create a memorial
altar to honour our murdered
Thurs Oct 29, 2pm-4pmj
Fri Oct 30, 11am-1pm,
6. OPEN SPACES: THE MUSICAL-
Eastside - the
of stories from a group of community-nominated
lead craft workshops
to
and missing friends. Oppenheimer
Park, 488 PoweU. Free
an evening of music and culture that celebrates our rich local talents.
Open mic, sign up at Spm, first come, first serve. Thurs Oct 29, 5:30pm-7:30pm,
UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main. Free
7. BOOK LAUNCH - FROM THE HEART OF A CITY: Community from Vancouver's
Downtown
book with panel discussion on Community Thurs Oct 29, 7pm-9pm,
Engaged Theatre and Music Productions
Eastside 2002 to 2013 - join Vancouver
PTC Test Kitchen, 739 Gore, 2nd floor. Free
8. BEAUTY WITHIN FASHION SHOW - hosted by the DTES Women's and elders modeling what the fashionable 7:30pm, Djavad Mowafaghian
Centre, a fashion show of women
people in the neighbourhood
World Art Centre, SFU Woodward's,
9. COMEDY IS THE BEST MEDICINE - hosted by David Granirer, songs - something
Moving Theatre to launch new
and Theatre; pop-up art activity with Ruth Howard.
are wearing.
Fri Oct 30, 6pm-
149 W. Hastings. Free
•
an evening of comedy and humourous
to laugh about. With Stand Up for Mental Health and Highs & Lows Choir.
Fri Oct 30, 7pm-9pm,
Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova. Fre.e
10. REVITALISING JAPANTOWN? - Films directed byGreg Masuda: The Spirit of Nihonmachi Right to Remain; talkback panel with Wendy Pedersen, Grace Eiko Thomson, moderated
by Cecily Nicholson.
Fri Oct 30, 7pm-9:30pm,
11. HOUSING C ISIS TOUR with Carnegie Community
Carnegie Theatre,
and The
Herb Varley, Ethel Whitty, 401 Main. Free
Action Project - CCAP visits key sites that
highlight the housing crisis. Sat Oct 31, 11am, Carnegie steps, 401 Main. Free 12. FREE FILM SCREENINGS - 2pm Raising Sh*T: Bud Osborn Screenings; 4pm Estate, A Reverie documents
the last days of a London UK public housing estate.
Sat Oct 31, 2pm-5:30pm,
Djavad Mowafaghian
Cinema, SFU Woodward's,
149 W. Hastings. Free
13. HALLOWE'EN DANCE & COSTUME PARTY - Put on your most frightful
face and join in the dance!
Brad Colwell and Still Waggin'
Carnegie Theatre.
play rock In roll! Sat Oct 31, 7pm-9:30pm,
Many more FREEexciting events during the upcoming
Free
days of the Festival!
For complete event details, pick up the Festival Program Guide at Carnegie Front Desk; Strathcona and Raycam Community Centres; VPl Branches Britannia, Hastings, Mount Pleasant and Strathcona; or, visit www.heartofthecityfestival.com. Produced by Vancouve Moving Theatre w/Carnegie Community Centre & Association of United Ukrainian Canadians and over fifty community partners. Front cover: Stanley M. Paul, photo David Cooper
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Summary: Overview: 243 people chatted with us at our Table 155 participants in the Cursive Handwriting Souvenir . Book. We call this Instantgram Publication, The Car- . negie Community Letters 2015. *Participants tried their hand at Cursive script to write their Monograms, the year of their birth and their Home Library Branch's name. * We had visiting participants from many Vancouver neighbourhoods, most of our nearby municipalities, Vancouver BC's interior, The Islands, Alberta, USA, GhentiBelgium, Maroochydore/Australia etc ... *Our cursive handwriting participants had birth years which ranged from 1940 - 2012 * The first person to visit our table was a teacher of Cursive handwriting from Salt Spring Island • A "Made in Canada" antique Boy Scout typewriter proudly held our Carnegie Newsletter. (types only in capitals ...ie. for "SOS") • Animal Letters were given to each child particl- . pant who tried cursive handwriting their initials. First letter of their first name. ( A had an alligator curled around the wood carved letter, A.) • At the "Spinning Wheel o~ - c;·t:'::1~"featuring the letters: C, A, R, N, E,G, I, E., each participant had to spin a Lucky wheel of Community - Unbeknownst to them, every letter on this wheel, which spelled out Carnegie, was a winning letter. They received a word, letters, or literary theme gift. • Step up to the plate PLATE- participants spun the Carnegie Community wheel for a chance at a skill testing question: Can you say the word for "fish" in another language? Most participants could. Those who could not had help from a Fish Card that opened up with a word for fish in many different languages.
Everyone who participated won a "Step up to the plate" PLATE,with a blue fish draw inside of it. We' prompted participants to promise to drop by our Community centre whenever they're in our neighbourhood. (Most of them recognized us from the photo of our centre which we clipped to the top of our Cursive letters Blackboard poster). . Fun remarks from patrons:
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• Overheard one mother who said to her son, hours after their visit to our table, "Do you still have your N?" Interesting notes: • Touching to see moms and dads holding the pen, their child's hand and guiding their child to write the letters. Something many of us remember, fondly. • Many children named "A" and "Nil. • A pair of sisters with the letters "V". After winning the Animal Letter V with a vulture on it, they made their way back to our table to ask Lisa, "how do you spell vulture?" . -----"
.• Nobody knew what a "Wapiti" or "Nautilus" were. Great conversational ice-breakers. • Two young men dressed in tradition robes handed us their Surrey Mosque events' brochures and participated in our Cursive handwriting Book.
GABRIELLE
(reincarnate)
True to each other, best friends, kindred spirits, soul . mates both then and now. Equal in every which way/ aspect/trait/mindset body & soul., love at first sight into the distance of endless time & space, ageless & pure. Immediate bonding at last, a feeling of wholeness crying out of a lonely heart. Broken no more, mended now along the sweet scent of each other - a true togetherness when we meet each other. Eyes lock on and into the deep winnows cf our souls until the oneness of a past life, old yet with mutual memories of distant places & familiar locations, rambunctious children playing parlour games on hands & scraped knees. How wonderful was that lazy crazy summer evening in the dying light of another childhood day. Where did those times go except memory, like light flickering in a film. Each moment permanently recorded, then into the dustbin of history (yet in a very good way I must say!). ROBYN LlVINGSTONE
Downtown
VarietY路ShOW
featuring
Music, Poetry, Stand-up Comedy &
Renovlction I wonder, do you see me? I come here every day ... I know it is unseemly, But I cannot stay away. You know I used to live there In the room where you now live? The landlord came without a care, 'No notice will I giveWe're doing renovations, And so you have to go!' I said, 'Could you have patience?' But guess what? He said, 'No!' I paid four hundred for my rentI'm guessing you pay nine? Well, getting rich was his intentAnd do you think that's fine? I'm living in a little room: My things were thrown out in the lane. It's like I'm living in a tomb, And every day I'm filled with pain. I saw my clients once a week, Fred on Tuesday, Bill next day. They paid me well, were kind and meek In their own peculiar way. 'No visitors allowed!' I've lost That income which I so required, And now I can't afford the cost Of things I might have once desired. I had some friends who lived above; I cannot find where they have gone. And in my life there's not much love, So many sisters now passed on. So from your window, at your table, You can look down here, and see. And I'll come by, while I am able. Please take some time, to think of me. Gian Ward
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from the Library: Our next author reading will be Or. Calvin White, a mental health specialist who worked with Doctors Without Borders in Uzbekistan. His book, Letters from the Land of Fear: Bending to Beauty in Central Asia is partially a guide to healing from personal traumatic experiences, which has universal value. The book aims to "reaffirm the common spirit ofhumanity" even when faced with an epidemic. Please join us in the Carnegie Theatre on Wednesday, October 21st at 6:30pm. On the topic of healing and Dear Cody Bear health, here are some titles available at Carnegie: On behalf of the whole DTES community I want to Curing Chronic Pain: Stories of hope and healing , thank you for the huge contribution you made to (2009) by Dr. Cochran combines anecdotes of actual Carnegie Centre for many years and in so many patients with his practical diagnosis in a compassionways. Entirely through your own initiative you ate manner. Cochran explores the links between pain, , introduced us to the wonderful world of 'DJ Mix' depression, childhood trauma, substance abuse and dances. Your dances were so successful you conbipolar disease. sistently drew large crowds, many of which beYour Guide to Health with Food & Herbs Using the came your following like the Pied Piper. Wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2012) by Thank you for always going way beyond what was Yifang Zhang. With thousands of years of accumurequired of you; in particular your creative theme lated knowledge, TCM offers natural ways to boost decorating. They were always a highlight for eveenergy and immunity, which is ideal for flu season. ryone to see & on top of it, you provided your own We are also fortunate to be near Chinatown and many decorations plus all of your own music. That kind experts to help you customize. of dedication I have rarely seen in my life-time. Cody, most of all I would like to thank you for My Name is Shield Woman: A hard road to healing, doing everything you did with heart, humour and vision, and leadership (2014) by Ruth Awo Taanaakii gusto. You put a smile on many people's faces Scalp Lock, is a heartfelt yet humorous story about who otherwise are mostly lost & alone. You were how one Blackfoot woman found a way to survive perpetually eager to hold out your hand to those residential school, which she endured for 14 years. in need treating everyone with respect & kindness She speaks with her Elders and pursues a community Your pass-ing is a great loss. If you are out there of support, highlighting many stories. and can somehow see this, I mean who knows how Native American Healing in the 21st Century (DVD) these things really work, thank you so much for - A visual exploration from the "Circle of Life" segiving it your all for many years. Please rememries, this film features healing practises of First Naber that you were a vital part of our community tions peoples and how these natural remedies are apand it was always a pleasure to see. Don't go too plicable today. far away; it just isn't the same without you here. Overcoming Trauma and PTSD (2012) by Sheela Warm Regards, Raja is a workbook that highlights evidence based Colleen therapies and how to determine the appropriate types Volunteer Program Coordinator and good friend of treatment depending on the trauma. Raja is a reputable clinical psychologist. Ccdy's wish is to have any memorial at Mission Possible Your librarian, Natalie
- it'll be on Friday, Oct 16th 1:30-3:30.
."The formation of a World Government will require a world constitution. A charter of principles or bill of rights should be included in such a constitution and encompass at least the following four areas. First, complete security should be guaranteed to all the plants and animals on the planet. Secondly, each country must guarantee purchasing power to all its citizens. Thirdly, the constitution should guarantee four fundamental rights - spiritual practice or Dharma; cultural legacy; education; and indigenous linguistic expression. Fourthly, if the practice of any of these rights conflicts with cardinal human values then that practice should be immediately curtailed. That is, cardinal human values must take precedence over all other rights. All the constitutions of the world suffer from numerous defects. The above points may be adopted by the framers of different constitutions to overcome these defects. (1) Reference 1. PNS-12, Requirements [PROUT in a NutShell]
Definitely
of an Ideal Constitution
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Days of Wine & Roses And so I moved. I moved into a nice clean air-con Hotel Room. One hour & on the bus, pressed against others. "Skytrain Out _of Order" - convenient -Not! , Many moons ago, in 1943 or 4; we took a small ship to meet my father in a town. -NewfoundJohn's. We stayed in a boarding house & I saw luscious red grapes on the buffet - exotic during that war - even if they were packed in sawdust. Next I was resting in a small red motel chair whilst mother took tea & chatted. In the sky (ceiling) two children stared down through a grate. I was terrified. How did they get up there? Must be angels or demons.
Back on the small ship I slept on the Mess table; Mom took an empty cabin; the sailor was on watch .. In & Out along that treacherous coast until we arrived in the Capital of our Country. The sailor gave me a bowl of cold cereal and floating in it, larger than life, was a monster cockroach! Yuck!' In the town my parents rented a room in another boarding house but, quell horreux, we had to move! It had some bugs so awful I forget what kind. In our new basement flat my parents cleaned & cleaned, painting the brown linoleum with a dipped orange comb. I had a big bedroom all to myself. The baseboard was riddled with small holes which my mother stuffed with old stockings? Around the ceiling the Sandman came every evening, just before I 'fell a'wishin' - there were elves who sat on a beach digging sand ... My parents went to nightschool or the K of C; they left me by myself 'cause it was still sunny at 8pm 'n me & my friendsd would scream & run around playing Hide & Seek. I remember VJ Day. We went to Bowring Park for a picnic, passing that Iron Cariboo. My mother took sandwiches out of the basket & I waved a miniature Stars 'n Stripes(!) We were just gad the war was OVER. Later in Canada I encountered discrimination. The . Canadians didn't allow their children to play with us. My mother had to send me in a cab across to Halifax to play with my cousin Margaret. She was a body in a crib: I bit her. That shameful act has been told & retold (to my chagrin); at 74 it still haunts me. So anyway folks .... .. .after one year in my new clean room my cockroach friends have invited their families. They run around in cereal bowls like they're in a roller derby .. they drop on my bare arms from somewhere on high .. a really big, skinnnny on even got into the fridge! The only safe place from invasion & small spiders falling is to lie pale & insignificant in my bed. . ... never have been oat 'n aboot - to catch some rays, to get a tan! I smoke: tobacco, marijuana, bum sage & cedar, keep a kettle steaming - all on doctor's orders ... So gentle reader, give me some advice. What is my course of action now??? Please reply clo Carnegie
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Newsletter. Thank you for your time & attention. Wilhelmina
Miles
Remembering with Tears
If You Knew What I Do "If you knew what I do I'd have to kill you," He said 1was doing him a favour, having his large guard dog stay with me while he found another apartment. His hotel had finally caught on so Sarge lived with me for a month. Rottweiller & Rhodesian Ridgeback Gentle as a kitten Loved people. At 125 lb he dragged me to tree & lampposts Loved people food (not as food) despite his perfectly balanced dog diet. Any kind of liver frying Kept him sprawled on the galley floor I tripped over him 'Go lie down on your bed!' He left the kitchen to lie on mY bed. Only once At a Garden Party at Barclay Manor Be tried to dominate a pretty collie or retriever The mistress dragged her bitch away. The moslem ladies in the lobby feared this large dog The daschunds & small terriers passed unnoticed Each got petted and treated Before long 1had to see my profiling managerA bleach-bottle blonde in tacky shoes and a hard face: 1explained my guest dog. She accused me ofletting Sarge's master sleep in my studio apartment. 1denied the allegation but she had an Ace: 'I have recordings of your conversations," the bitch sapt out. .. After 7 years 1sold my belongings & finally moved out. The chemicide from insect spraying made me ill. St. Paul's saw me far too much. 1spent some time in the summer camped at the schoolyard Near a coffee shop 1was quite comfortable & made no mess 1had duvets & heavy blankets, a groundsheet & sponge mat. The air was refreshing! 1took Sarge to the Aboriginal Days at the Gallery the only dog there. He sat dignified like a lion. The Gallery staff came to investigate .. deemed him obedient & sweet..
Attention, artists living in the Downtown Eastside: DTES Small Arts Grants Applications are online at: vancouverfoundationsmaIIarts.ca/apply Paper applications are also available at the Carnegie Community Centre Info Desk (main entrance). Learn more about applying at an Info Session held on the third floor of the Carnegie: *Saturday, October 24th, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm *Sunday, November 15th, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Deadline for submissions is: Thursday, November 26, 2015, 4:00 PM For more information, contact: Jason Bouchard, coordinator DTES Small Arts Grants 604-665-2213 dtesartsgrants@gmail.com
Just the Akias took umbridge ... Sarge walked tail high, A signal not democratic in dog world. When Sarge died too young - his breed having a chest inappropriate for his type or size - 1cried. The city, this filthy city no place for him, slogging thru traffic & inhaling poisonous fumes. 1still cry when 1think of my dog friend There have also been others Maxine - an older Blue Hacker Blue - my beagle in Nova Scotia - and Hunter another beagle .. Always went for the mail man & the Sally Ann guard when he was our way ... but his long baying voice kept me and my baby son safe that time the gang of kids came to break in. I'm still looking for you Hunter And 1never discovered what it was that Sarge and his master did in Stanley ParkWilhelmina
Participants Wanted!
Photo by David Cooper
Mega-Taiko Performance Against the Current (the FishStix) Project for the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival! Rehearsal Dates: Sunday, October 2S and Thursday November S Performance Date: Friday, November 6 Originally produced by Vancouver Taiko Society & Powell Street Festival Society, Against the Current will have a performance again at this year's Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival! We're adding more stories & music. We are currently reaching out to participants who made salmon props or participated in the 39th Annual Powell Street Festival performance. We are also recruiting 20 additional performers for prop-carrying at the performance. To Participate: Participants must be able to attend one rehearsal on Sunday, October 25 afternoon, a technical rehearsal on Thursday November 5 evening and the performance on Friday, November 6 evening. No experience required. There will be an honora ium for participating performers. For more information or to sign up, please contact Kay at fishstixworkshop@gmail.corr or call 778-235-8935 (9am - 5pm). About The Against the Current Project: A collaborative
cross-cultural
Taiko and Vancouver
performance,
Against the Current, is created by Chibi Taiko, Katari Taiko, Sansho Daiko, Sawagi
Okinawa Taiko, with storytellers
Rosemary Georgeson (Sahtu Dene/Coast Salish) and Grace Eiko Thomson,
the Salish singing group Tzo'kam led by musician and composer Russell Wallace, narrative contributions Endo Greenaway and Savannah Walling, and over 25 Downtown
Eastside community
performers
by Hiromi Goto, John
with community-made
papier-
rnache salmon. Against the Current explores the role of salmon in Japanese and First Nation history, culture, fishing industry and the shared experience of swimming against the current.
Revitalizing Japantown? - A Right To Remain Exhibit . Opening Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 2 to 5 pm Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC) • 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby For those with mobility issues, please contact right.to.remain.project@gmail.com or 604.725.6054 https:/ /www.facebook.com/eve nts/1034884946563 624/ www.revitalizingjapantown.ca • centre.nikkeiplace.org/revitalizing-japantown
For those who would like free transportation to the Museum, please meet at 12:45 pm on Sat, Oct 24th in front of Carnegie Community Centre. The bus will leave at 1 pm SHARPand then pick up at Oppenheimer Park at Cordova & Dunlevy. The bus will leave the Park at 1:15 pm SHARPand plans to arrive at the Museum around 2 pm for the opening . . The bus will leave the NNMCC at 5 pm to return to the Park. Please join us for the opening of the exhibit!
Aunt Rosie's Election Quiz Don't Worry, It's Multiple Choice - Just Pay Attention! Disappearing Ice and Disappearing Information: in 2012, the volume of Arctic ice hit the lowest point ever recorded. Why did the scientists in Environment Canada not inform the Canadian public of the extent of the shrinking polar ice cap? 1. They didn't think anyone in Canada would be interested. (It was all over the news in the United States, but not here). 2. They weren't supplied with long-enough tape measures to ascertain with 100% certainty that the record was being broken. 3. They tried to hold a press conference to make the announcement (via an approval process with NINE levels of approval) only to be thwarted at the sixth level, which refused to allow them t tell the Canadian public that the Arctic is melting. Answer: No. 3. "It's suppression through bureaucracy," said Katie Gibbs of Evidence For Democracy (E4D), an Ottawa-based non-profit pushing for open communication of government science. Although the news made headlines around the world, Environment Canada never did hold a news conference to report on this event. (Margaret Munro, Vancouver Sun, Aug. 19/14) Global warming? What global warming? And who needs to know? Well, you passed this time - you're a qualified voter! But if you think that's all it takes to defeat Stephen Harper (assuming that, like most Canadians, you've had quite enough of the guy for one decade). then Think Again! First, you have to make sure you vote: the Harper fanatics will always make it to the polling station on election day, and if you don't, they win! You might also consider strategic voting: which antiHarper candidate has the best chance of defeating the Conservative running in your riding? Lastly, know that Harper's attempts at vote suppression mean that the notification card from Elections Canada won't, by itself, allow you to vote in this election - you'll need to bring picture ID, or two pieces of mail with your name and current address. For more information, go to the Elections Canada web site: http://www.elections.ca/home.aspx
Access Denied: Shut Out of BC's Welfare System In recent years, the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation has made radical changes to its service delivery, making welfare much more difficult to access. Services are now mainly delivered over the phone & online. Resulting problems include long wait times on the phone lines, limits on call times once you reach a worker, a lengthy & confusing initial application that must be done online& very limited in-person office hours. In May 2015, BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) filed a large complaint with the BC Ombudsperson outlining these issues and requesting that the Ombudsperson do a system-wide investigation of the Ministry'S service delivery model. The Ombudsperson declined BCPIAC's request, stating that these service delivery issues were best raised and addressed through individual complaints. BCPIAC has developed a simple form to make individual complaints about welfare service delivery easier t9 do, and is now working to collect a large number to submit to the Ombudsperson all together. If you are interested in making a complaint or your organization is interested in hosting a workshop or a table where BCPIAC can collect complaints, please call 604-687-3063 or email support@bcpiac.com .
Original Airdate III Life by Misadventure 1am back to bring stories so full of cheer I'm talking pot-sex pills-liquor & Extra Old Stock beer certain places come directly to mind, the Lotus Gardens Pub was the punk rock bar such a great place to get drunk guzzling booze as was the Devonshire Hotel Bar that made a 16 year-old like me feel at home that as good news you could drink your troubles faraway in the 01' times, like when the cease in ceasefire is ignored people shall die well we dealt with our hostilities at the Astoria the Marble Arch the Union and of course the Smiling Buddha, to obtain our high alcohol became a huge factor in whom you could trust, befriend, avoid, Booze became coke became crystal meth -whatever you could snort/dropJdrinklshoot or smoke- at times we were the time bomb nuclear mess some became so addicted their lives were destroyed .. I remember waking up at 'Wank Manor' one morning during the night someone had covered my entire
face in lipstick I didn't find out till some old Woman on the bus offered me her seat that's when I saw myself in a mirror got very paranoid&sick and got off 22 stops before mine then cops pulled up & laughed and I politely told them to fuck-off, ... another time ajar of honey was poured over my comatose-like head I walked 5 miles to 18(h& Main (no exit visa) I truly wished all cops were imprisoned or just taken up a mountain & left for dead. I mean it when I say if a busload of punks would simply laugh not giving a shit cuz their society would be so much better off, just like serial killers in the USA they work 7 days a week now I would describe them as Genocide Incorporated just one of the many reasons our future looks so bleak punk rock tried to change this horrible future political scum & authority I will hate until the day I die, like asking the jury to disregard the previous 148-page tirade that'djust been drilled into their brains & minds ... I'll listen to the lyrics of Joy DivisionRuts'XTC'Clash'Dead Kennedys'Magazink' & every truthful word I can possibly find these are the voices of my generation these groups of words let alone bands made me into what I am today I remember a hotel called the Gastown Lodge it was right beside the No.5 Orange so many stories of destruction with so many punks living there it was sanctuary for the poor butsoon this ignorant gov't made plans for its removal & financed new construction so many cool places destroyed as this city changes second by day, ... when the Subhumans or D.O.A. played the Buddha you knew an awesome party was already being planned maybe at the Plaza where I was known as the human coatrack or maybe it was Simon Snotface's birthday party at Wank Manor the Bludgeoned Pigs were that night's entertainment as for the coatrack thing my unconscious body was pulled into a corner & coats buried me - it was all good God I miss those fucking days!!! ..other bands like the Butchers'East VaoHalen'Illegal Youth'Tunnel Canary'UJerks'Kill City & a little later Death Sentence'Castration Anxiety' Los Popularos' My Three Sons'Immoral Majority'Aging Youth Gang at Victoria's House of Commons Gentlemen of Horror'Day-old Abortions' & others not named because my brain is in a mist of thot & all of' em are gone There are so many other places I should at least say Hi record stores like Quintessence (now Zulu) all that fought til that final day when my record collection
died, If you ever wanted to bathe in human saliva join a punk rock band & play a few shows watch&feel the alcohol-tinged gobs slither down your face but being up on stage so anything grim (or grimmer) goes to the lead singer screaming & crawling ripping his chest open with razor blades, looking back this was a ritual most majestically sickening thing not intended to be a joke its authenticity intact along with the message being delivered at high volume through cigarette smoke believe we wanted this city & our future to be secure but every day we watched our own new dawn fade ... like a punk rock band named Scooby Jew & the Mengeles us punks were despised more than any musical trend before we may have looked like freaks but we spoke a truth no one in law or politics wanted to hear Alienation & rebelliousness were the power surging through our brains we shot things up & kicked doors down meanwhile the cops were busting us for drinking beer in a park they hated us but it was reality we began to fear, like if Featuring was to put out an album by himself instead of helping other artists he would be musical star # 1 yet if a buddy of his painted a hopscotch court over a pitch of quicksand we'd get blamed while he went out & bought our 4.5 billion year-old Sun contrary to popular belief we only harm ourselves but those cops would do their best to make us disappear tliey'd kick in the doors of the Plaza' Wank Manor'punk rock house at ih & Fraser aka the Terrible House of Sickness places came & went so many just died then heroin & other forms of death came along so many gone with so many more missing we kept going we honestly tried it was like a war with cops/skinheads/greaseballs hell wouldn't take them I guess that's why they were there/here, There is so much more to tell I could pull stories right out of my mind's eye & cross the hardcore epidemic's threshold but like a poker player with a pair of Jokers I guess he never learned how to play but sanity & no more money will make him fold --- This infinitesimal yet godlike story is pouring out of my head I need to empty it before I die, like a Los Alamos school with kids learning their ph.d's ecological seismographs . how swell this chapter has ended Read it Burn it but never forget it even when others laugh. Till next time By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y "lll fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not." -Ben Jonson
??!Kween Colleen is leaving Carnegie!?? The mainstay of Volunteer Program Coordination is 'retiring' from the effervescence of community & our hopes & dreams for her are going to bubble up on
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 at 2pm -4pm Please come and help celebrate the contribution Colleen Gorrie has made to the hopes & dreams of literally hundreds of volunteers & the thousands she has influenced over her time here. (This is as gushy as I can get 'cause I lost the poster her colleagues made! (the picture could've been (almost) anyone anyway))
The Whale Wall She walks into my apartment, demands coffee and a hug, like she hasn't received an embrace in a thousand years. We stand there by the door our arms around each other for a few glorious moments ... There is a smell of rain from this morning on her sweater And on her hair all of a sudden we are on a another planet but the crows outside interrupt us. She takes the pile of newspapers that is on the chair by the window, and puts it on my coffee table. She sits down, looks over the harbour: The tourists, the homeless and the seagulls ... "I haven't seen you in ages," I say We used to play chess using ideas From novels we had each read and from noble National Geographic magazines She tells me her friends are at the bridge by the Whale Wall -a huge three-story mural of killer whales the paint shows a network of cracks from old age that follow the pattern of the bricks it's one of those paintings that has a 3-d effect: as if the brick building was an aquarium, with a water-line the whales are either in the water, floating happy, signing their ancestral songs . or showing off their shark-like fins or jumping out of th water To the right of the blue mural, there is a sort of grassy park where the young and old gather: punks, street youth, homeless, misfits and all, with their beer, guitars ana drums, trying to stop time Just like we used to do
I say, "I would like to go by the water," But then give her an excuse not to go, "I have become a hermit, comfortable in my self-imposed chaos." Never mind, she says, and asks what I think about what I read in the newspaper these days and I say that I understand nothing ... " ... nothing at all !" And she understands perfectly what I mean . but does not say a word. Her hair is shorter now But I like it just as much Her green eyes are on the cloudy sky now There is something otherworldly about the silence between us, and I feel like it could teach people of all ages She gets up and says, "Well, I am going to go to the Whale Wall for a bit to see who's there" "Maybe next time, I'll go with you," I say. The door closes behind her My eyes close, my head drops down, The truth is I never know when I will see her again. I search, with my eyes, for a black volcanic glass stone That I could have given her to keep in her pocket To keep her sale, but also so.that she would think of me As it turns out, the stone is on the floor I pick it up, hold it, wipe the dust from it look out the window searching for her I have a good view of the Wall from here But not of all the folks that are there on the grass My eyes remain staring in that direction For a while Amongst the people there, down there Where I have decided not to go For now ... I turn on my computer I search for info on Luna the killer whale The one that got stranded in the water near Vancouver And I learn that Native Chiefs from some native band Believe that when they die Their souls go into the bodies of killer whales With this, I am satisfied: everything is going to be O.K. Igo to the fridge and get myself a beer I should have gone with her, I am thinking I sit down where she had been sitting Marcel B.
THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS: PEOPLE'S ULTIMATE RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS IN CANADA lames LymBumer will lead a discussion on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 2:00 PM Camegie Community Centre in the Art Gallery 1. The Canadian Charter of Rights: OriginsMagna Carta and Common Law; Positive v Normative Concepts in Criminal! Common Law,The Supreme Document: ('Charter Cards') - What are they? 2. Relationships: DTES, Vancouver, BC & Canada Government & Their Employees - Politicians, Civil Servants, Police: Professionals and Others. 3. History & the Current Environment: 1688 Features & Today: Now on the streets of Vancouver and the streets of the world. 4. The Concept of Informed Decisions: The History of Democracy & the IndividualJohn MacDonald, Snowden (Techie); Control Tools of Human Rights/Civil Rights, Technology as Enabler. Information as the true power - Internet, Google/Apple/Microsoft 5. Summary and Handouts East Vancouver Charter Rights & Protections Slate.com - 'Loose Cigarettes Today, Civil Unrest Tomorrow: The Racist, Classist Origins of Broken Windows Policing' 1688: First ModenfRevolution,. Pr. by Steve Pincus 6. Questions (Refreshments & snacks) Presented by: Eedy LymBurner FOUNDATION
THE RIGGED FEDERAL ELECTION Got the notice in my mailbox today from Elections Canada. Phoned their 800 number to see if I was on the voters list. THEY COULD NOT FIND ME! I've voted numerous times from the same residence in the DES since 2004. The polling stations have always been at Strathcona Community Centre. On the phone I asked her where the polling station is for the federal election and she says: ~"Union Gospel
Mission" - a far-right-wing fundamentalist christian organisation. That's all I need to know that the election will be rigged. It'll be a repeat of the stolen election in Florida that elected George W. Bush after they eliminated hundreds of thousands of Afro-American voters from the voters list. ALL harper needs to do is recruit a couple hundred of the wacko right wing churches as polling stations, and they will rig the tallies for their right wing buddies in Ottawa. Get ready for it ••• Harpers Fairy
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Dear neighbours and friends, Work on the n.lca1mat et Strathcona Branch continues, and the library is beginning to take shape. The i concrete has been poured for the parking level and the ,first floor, and the second floor walls are going up. If you peer through the hoardings at 730 East Hastings, you can see the double height main library space; from the alley, you can clearly see the windows of our large multipurpose program room. You can check the building's progress at www.vpl-ywca-project.ca. Earlier this week, VPL and the City of Vancouver's Public Art department put out a call for a public art opportunity at the entrance to the n.lca1mat ct Strathcona Branch. For details, see http://vanco uver. ea/parks- recreati on-cui ture/ artistcall-for-strathcona-branch-l ibrary .aspx. I'd also like to introduce Jorge Cardefias, who is working as a community librarian on the n.lca1mat et Strathcona Branch until December this year. Jorge has already met with some of you, and is keen to connect with more community members this fall. His goals are to let you know about the new library, and to invite input into the books, other collections and programs you'd like to see there. You can get in touch with Jorge via email at jorge.cardenas@vpl.ca or by phone at 604-331-4039. Please do get in touch with either me or with Jorge if you have any questions or feedback. 'Beth Davies, Manager 1 Neighbourhood Services Vancouver Public Library e: beth.davies@vpl.ca t: 604-331-37911 m: 604-365-76431
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Oppenheiiner Park
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September 11th-October 25th, 2015 Oppenheimer Park and Gallery Gachet are pleased to present In Between! this year's annual exhibition showcasing artworks from the Oppenheimer Park community. Included are painting, drawing, print, sculpture, carving, textile, mxd media & video works
THANK YOU TO OUR fUNDERS, SPONSORS, AND PARTNERS City of Vancouver Great Beginnings Program, Carnegie Community Centre, Homelessness Action Week, Vancouver Fire & Rescue Services Band
UPCOMING EVENTS INSIDE! OUTSIDE! EASTSIDE! CHILDREN'S & FAMILY PROGRAM HALLOWEEN PARTY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 10:30am - 12:30pm Spiders, bats, black cats and more ... Let's see what Halloween has in store! Costumes encouraged. The program is for children and their parent or guardian.
DANCE PARTY IN OUR BACKYARD HALLOWEEN EDITION OCTOBER 31 MUSIC
STARTS AT 1:30PM, HOWL 'EN AT 4PM
Celebrate your Halloween with Oppenheimer Park! DJ KAY will spin Park Patrons' favourite Halloween dance tunes all afternoon. We're currently accepting song requests at the Park. Costumes encouraged! Join in the howl at 4pm. Let the ghoul out the howls echo!
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*This program contains coarse language. Participant discretion is advised.
PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS! WALL HANGING MONDAYS, 2PM - 4PM Come out and be part of the Community Art Project and express yourself on a square. We are making a wall hanging for the Park that expresses all of our individual artistry, thoughts & memories of "What does this community mean to you?" Evetyone is welcome!
OPPEN-ARTS IN OCTOBER THURSDAYS WORKSHOP: 1Q:30AM - lPM OPEN STUDIO: 2:30PM - 4PM In October workshop, we are learning to use pastels on a variety of paper and practicing various stroke applications, colour blending and layering. - Thursday, October 22, 1O:30am- 1pm: Film Screening "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (2012) - Thursday, October 29, 10:30am - 1pm: Last-minute Halloween costume making
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SUNDAY, OCT 18 I lOAM - 5PM VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE HAll 487 ALEXANDER ST [AT JACKSON AVEl
An event about tenant rights aoarn-aaprn Tables: BC Housing, pest control, and more Free reading glasses (bring your prescription) Get your stamps for the cash draws! Snack bags stew and bannock azpm-spm Elders ceremony, lion dancers SRO Collaborative presentation Open mic of most pressing problems Eviction prevention workshop Lunch Collective decision-making about next year Wheel of Misfortune gameshow
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