Drop-In Art Making
CULTURE SAVES LIVES!: SLAX’IN [MEDICINE] PROJECT – Drop In Paint In
Wednesday November 9 & Thursday November 10, 1pm to 4pm
InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall
Free
Come inside for an afternoon of painting and community. Located on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples, Culture Saves Lives provides space for community members, especially First Nation people oppressed by the mechanisms of colonization, to rediscover and celebrate their roots. The Festival is honoured to support this vital program (Portland Hotel Society, lead Patrick Smith, community artist Larissa Healey) and the Slax’in [Medicine] Project.
Gala and Live Auction
CULTURE SAVES LIVES!: SLAX’IN [MEDICINE] PROJECT
POSTPONED TO DECEMBER Thursday November 10, 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition November 2 to 12
InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrall
Free
Located on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples, Culture Saves Lives provides space for community members, especially First Nation people oppressed by the mechanisms of colonization, to rediscover and celebrate their roots. The Festival is honoured to support this vital program (Portland Hotel Society, lead Patrick Smith, community artist Larissa Healey) and the Slax’in [Medicine] Project Gallery Show, which features over thirty 4ft tall wood feathers uniquely painted by community artists, and then sold via live auction at the gala. Funds raised will support the artists, future Cultural Saves Lives street level programs, and contribute to a community memorial fund. Gallery hours Wed to Sat 1pm to 5pm.
Learn more at culturesaveslives.com.
Thank you
FESTIVAL WRAP!
Saturday November 12, 1pm – 4pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main
Free
Now that we’ve caught up on our sleep and cleaned up our room, this is our opportunity to say “Thank You!” Artists, audience members, crew, staff, volunteers, community partners, fellow organizers – there are so many of us who put on the Festival in one capacity or another. Come on down to the Carnegie, the heart of our community, as we say ‘Thank you! That’s a wrap! Another Festival under our belts! Here’s to next year!”Join us for music, videos, photographs, entertainment, conversations, ideas for future festivals, refreshments and more! Our special musical guests this year are Las Divas (Brice Tabish guitar/vocals, Peggy Wilson bass, Kelly Stodola drums). From gritty blues to shimmery pop, Las Divas deliver a high energy performance that offers something for music lovers of all generations. See you there!
Theatre
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
November 16 to 27, Wed to Sun
Russian Hall, 600 Campbell
Doors 7pm, Curtain 8pm
Sun Nov 27 Matinee, Doors 1pm, Curtain 2pm
This fall Theatre In the Raw presents The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill’s classic work of 1928, under the direction of Jay Hamburger and music director Earle Peach. Brecht and Weill turned to John Gay’s 18th-century The Beggar’s Opera to fashion this savage, biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality. Set in Commercial Drive-like Victorian London, the bitter tale is told of the handsome flirtatious outlaw known as Mack the Knife. A secret marriage, an underworld boss, betrayal, prison and a sentence to death are the elements that lead to a menacing finale of ferocious irony.
Adults $25, Students $20 at door;
Wed Nov 16 Pay what you can preview;
Wed Nov 23 Two for one admission.
Community tickets available at Ray-Cam and Carnegie.
Go to www.theatreintheraw.ca/tickets for info on how to reserve/pre-purchase tickets
Art
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL
November 17 to 20
Numerous locations
Twenty years of crawling! The 20th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl is Vancouver’s four-day visual arts, design and crafts festival. This event involves more than 25,000 people visiting artists in their studios in the area bounded by Columbia Street, 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive and to the waterfront. The Eastside Culture Crawl Society provides opportunities for the public to engage with member artists through the ongoing creation of events and programming that support the growth of Eastside artists. For more information go to culturecrawl.ca.