Vancouver [de]tour guide 2010: A

0: Poet Laureate refuses to be muzzled by the games....

.....I do find this to be an unjust attack on free speech but more importantly it shows that VANOC is misrepresenting Vancouver. Vancouver is the most politically progressive city in North America with a strong history of political activism which most Vancouverites are proud of.

Rather than finding a way to celebrate these important attributes VANOC has gone the other way and tried to suppress them. As George Woodcock teaches us: our freedom as a city is a tradition that should be protected and we should not underestimate an attack on that freedom whether symbolic or otherwise......

For the whole article see:

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/culture/books/2010/02/09/notes-world-class-city-vancouvers-poet-laureate-explains-why-he-declined

1: Helen Pitt Gallery Doors Closed Due to Arts Cuts

2: Vancouver Cooperative Radio 102.7FM

3: Brawl : February 24TH, 2010

NORMA

   Artspeak presents Brawl, a new performance work by the Vancouver artist collective Norma.

Where: Andy Livingstone Field [Carrall Street and Keefer Street]

When: February 24, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm

Carrall Street Greenway, in view of GM Place and other Olympic venues.

4: The Candahar: 1398 Cartwright St Granville Island

event listings

Admission:
Daytime $5 / Evening $10 at door

5: Stan Douglas' Abbott and Cordova

A woman runs down the street, hair swinging. On the sidewalks, against the parked cars and shop windows, in the ethereal beam of city street lights, police officers advance on her fellow rioters.
more

6: Monument for Vancouver's "Poor Side"

Vancouver artist Ken Lum's awesome new public work is installed amid much debate and east van pride.

7: Bright Light : Chinatown courtyard open to the public

Set in one of Chinatown’s oldest and almost-forgotten courtyards, (just off of West Pender Street and close to the Chinese Cultural Centre), GO! transforms one of Vancouver’s many underused, under-lit areas into an illuminated canopy of light and space

Where: Yue Shan Courtyard
39 East Pender St.
When: February 13 to 28, 6 to 10pm

for program go here

8: BOOKmark! The Man Game by Lee Henderson

The Man Game

9: BOOKmark! Kingsway by Michael Turner

Kingsway

10: BOOKmark! Occasional Work and Seven Walks From the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson

for information go here

11: BOOKmark! Legends of Vancouver by Pauline Johnson

Legends of Vancouver [poem Siwash Rock] .....this marker is at her tombstone in Stanley Park Siwash Rock is further north along the seawall....

12: BOOKmark! Vancouver, City On The Edge by JJ Clague + Bob Turner

Vancouver, City On The Edge: Living With A Dynamic Geological Landscape review

13: BOOKmark! Stó:lô-Coast Salish Historical Atlas ed. Keith Carlson

review
website

[the location of this marker does not do justice to the territory of the Stó:lô nation - please go to the website for more detailed information]

14: Legendary Book Store Loses Battle with Amazon

15: VANCOUVER VANCOUVER VANCOUVER

a mobile sculptural kiosk that can be found at various sites during the 2010 Winter Games

“The postcards are designed as do-it-yourself framing devices, and through them, one might view infinite vistas and recombinant versions of Vancouver, both here and elsewhere. Viewers can document their “image within an image” and then post these on the website.”

-- Vanessa Kwan

16: The BRAG

BRAG Art Gallery houses the private collection of Vancouver real estate marketing tycoon Bob Rennie. Private tours available upon approval on Thursdays.

Rennie can be reached here.


Vancouver, BC

17: W2: Social Media nexus for 2010 Olympics

18: Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself on Lenin's Head

Public Art incites controversy in


Richmond, BC

http://blog.vancouverbiennale.com/?tag=miss-mao

19: SFU favourite Battlestar Gallactica Location

Arthur Erickson's Simon Fraser University as Caprica.
See other Vancouver Locations in Battlestar on this awesome blog.
Don't forget to check out the campus as itself: Amazing sightlines and brutalist architecture!

20: VIVO Arts Centre Hosts Uncensored 2010 Interventions

21: Leakey Heaven Circus PARADE

THE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING....HOW SHOULD WE BEHAVE? LET'S HAVE A PARADE!!

“Disrupting the Meta-narrative:
an Opening (and Glowing) Hearts Ceremonies Parade”

WHEN: Valentines Day - Sun Feb 14th
WHERE: Grandview Park, Commercial Dr
WHAT TIME: Starting at 2pm...
WHY:because everyone deserves a parade it's fun for the whole family
because we can't afford $1000 a ticket for the official opening because we want to play too because we don't need Olympic-sanctioned-Vanoc-sponsored “free-speech zones”to gather together in public because we want to give the world a special East Van welcome because we want to include the unincluded because we need creative outlets to express alternative voices
because we choose action over inaction
to disrupt the olympic meta-narrative
to get to know our neighbours better because it's fun to dress up because even though we lost the vote against the olympics, we didn't lose our passion, our creativity, our dignity our right to free speech, our desire to play...because reverence and irreverence are not irreconcilable because it's valentines day and it's all about love
DRESS CODE: mis-matched socks, untidy hair, huge smiles, bright colours, silly neck ties...

22: $2 Theatre, Dance and Music for Teens

23: Youth Arts and Activism

24: City Engineering Department Paints Over Public Art

The loved Beatty Street Mural was painted Olympic Blue just a few weeks before the 2010 Medal Ceremonies, scheduled to be held on that block. Artists have questioned why the city would remove an example of culture in preparation for an international event. “Wouldn’t you want to show a city that is colourful and diverse?”  After anti-Olympic Responses like "With Glowing Hearts We Kill the Arts" were painted on the blue-washed wall, workers have recently stenciled the words "Beatty Street Mural Coming Soon"

25: 60s Ruins in Process :: Vancouver Art in the Sixties

26: Sniffy the Rat Wasn't Snuffed- 1990

27: First Nations / Second Nature Exhibition

28: The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC

29: "Sorry, we're not athletes"

30: Paper Building at 1976 UN Habitat Conference

 A paper-based pavilion designed by Arthur Erickson for the 1976 UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver was erected in front of the old courthouse (now the Vancouver Art Gallery) .... more

31: YET ANOTHER BED-IN: a 5 hour performance

Get your photo taken in bed with Lady J, sing their re-tooled version of GIVE PEACE A CHANCE, participate in 1 minute meditations towards world peace. Lady Justice (aka Margaret Dragu) & Fernando Rey (aka Jeremy Todd).

32: NOT SENT LETTERS at Spartacus Books, Feb 13

33: Jericho Beach Dock Threatened

From 1921 to 1945, Jericho Beach was home to the Pacific Coast Station of the RCAF, and a concrete wharf was built as part of its seaplane base. The structure’s perimeter was later enhanced during the 1976 Habitat Forum, using the original 1938 railings from the Lions Gate Bridge... more

34: UN Habitat Forum

  In1976, Alan Clapp was inspired to create Habitat Forum, a grassroots gathering of people who were passionate about creating communities and cities that fostered a sense of belonging and, at the same time, honoured the environment. Habitat Forum, which took place at Jericho Beach in Vancouver, ran alongside the UN Conference on Human Settlements, which, in contrast, was hosted at various downtown hotels.... more

35: Siwash Rock

36: Seawall, English Bay

37: Peace

38: The tree spoke

39: Mink Chocolate Cafe

40: Malcolm Lowry's hut on the mudflats

The author, Malcolm Lowry, lived in the Dollarton area off and on from 1940-1954, in various shacks on the beach at Roche Point, in what is now Cates Park. Lowry, and his wife Margerie, kept returning to the area where he was most happy, over a fifteen year span

41: Cultural Olympiad's most prominent play a vacuous spectacle

42: Renfrew Ravine