Festival 2024 Schedule at a Glance
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Wednesday October 30
1:45pm-4:15pm
Typewriter Tales
Carnegie, main floor
2pm-4pm
Festival Opening Ceremony
Carnegie Theatre
5:30pm-6:30pm
Open House, Saint James Music Academy
St James' Anglican Church
7pm-9pm
DTES Front and Centre: Weaving Strands of Courage and Connection
Carnegie Theatre
7pm
Belongings Matter: Warren Gill Memorial Lecture
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
Thursday October 31
1pm-3pm
DTES Writers Collective Halloween Edition
Carnegie Classroom 2 (3rd Floor)
1pm-3pm
Piano Decorating at The Hub
InterUrban Gallery
2pm
Bells of St. James’
St James’ Anglican Church
3pm-4pm
The Nest Coffee House
InterUrban Gallery
4pm-5pm
5th Annual Alan Zisman Awards & Evil Cult Singalong
MacLean Park
5pm-7pm
Halloween Pumpkin Carving
InterUrban Gallery
6:30pm
Solemn Requiem for All Souls'
St James' Anglican Church
6:30pm–9pm
Carnegie Halloween Dance
Carnegie Theatre
9pm-11pm
Arts Rational
Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5 FM
Friday November 1
12pm-3pm
Dia de Los Muertos Ofrenda Workshop
Carnegie Learning Centre, 3rd Floor
1pm-3pm
Why Bach Matters
Carnegie Theatre
2pm-5pm
Open House
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
6pm-9pm
Ritual-Spective–RE:turning
迴融: 迴歸
Chinatown Audio Tours
Chimerik Chinatown Art Space
6pm
Wayfaring Stranger
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
7pm
La Llorona
Carnegie Theatre
8pm-10:30pm
Famous Last Words, Halloween Edition
LanaLou's
8:30pm
IronFest V: Asrar Quartet and Jessica Ackerley Trio
The Ironworks
Saturday November 2
10am-12pm
Old Shoreline Walking Tour
Register for location
10:30am
The Mayor of Oz
Carnegie Theatre
12pm-1:30pm
Mending Circle
Trillium Park North
12pm-5pm
First Saturday Open Studios
Various locations, www.firstsaturday.ca
12:30pm-2:30pm
Town Hall: Learning from our DTES Victories
Carnegie Theatre
1pm-4pm
Threads of Support & Resilience
Trillium Park North
1pm-5pm
Ritual-Spective–RE:turning
迴融: 迴歸
Chinatown Audio Tours
Chimerik Chinatown Art Space
2pm
The Prop Masters Dream
Vancouver Playhouse
4pm-5:30pm
Funny Side Up: Stand Up for Mental Health
Carnegie Theatre
4pm-8pm
Día de los Muertos Festival
Strathcona Park
5pm-7pm
Artist Talk: Sammy Chien & Andrea Nann
Left of Main
7:30pm
The Prop Masters Dream
Vancouver Playhouse
7:30pm
Heart of the City Poetry Slam
Carnegie Theatre
8:30pm
IronFest V: Kevin Romaine’s Salience Network & Brodie West Quintet
The Ironworks
Sunday November 3
11am-12pm
How We Could End DTES Homelessness Walking Tour
Carnegie front steps
11am-3pm
Ritual-Spective–RE:turning
迴融: 迴歸
Chinatown Audio Tours
Chimerik Chinatown Art Space
1pm-4pm
The Downtown Eastside Community Play Film
Carnegie – 3rd Floor
1pm & 2pm
Hastings Street Band
InterUrban Gallery
3pm-5pm
Tapestry: A Concert of Song, Music and Dance
Ukrainian Hall
3pm-4pm
Threads of Connection: Deer Dance & Carnegie Dance Troupe
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
3pm-4pm
The Nest Coffee House
InterUrban Gallery
4pm-6pm
Wool Needle Felting
InterUrban Gallery
4pm-7pm
Hearts Beat 2024
Carnegie Theatre
Monday November 4
Dark Day!
All the lights are off and there are no performances!
Tuesday November 5
11am-1pm
Story Crafting: What Makes a Good Story Great?
RayCam Cooperative Centre
11am-1pm
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing
Carnegie Theatre
1pm-3pm
Death Café
InterUrban Gallery
1pm-4pm
Artist Meet & Greet
Downtown Community Health Centre
1:30pm-3:30pm
What is Our Medicine?
Carnegie Classroom 2 (3rd Floor)
2pm-3pm
Sandy Cameron Memorial Writing Contest Award Ceremony
Carnegie Theatre
3pm-4pm
The Nest Coffee House
InterUrban Gallery
5:30pm – 6:15pm
Sweet Grass
InterUrban Gallery
6:30pm-8:30pm
“Weaselling, Wanking, Cheating, Conniving, Lapdog Lackeys …”
Carnegie Theatre
7pm-8:30pm
Gospel According to Townes Van Zandt
InterUrban Gallery
Wednesday November 6
1pm-3pm
Neighbourhood Mandala Painting
InterUrban Gallery
1pm-3pm
Yinpin Native Chinese Orchestra
Carnegie Theatre
3pm-4pm
The Nest Coffee House
InterUrban Gallery
3pm-4pm
Typewriter Tales
InterUrban Gallery
5pm-6pm
Tour of Historic Building
St James’ Anglican Church
5:30pm-7:30pm
Live Painting & Art Sale
InterUrban Gallery
6pm-6:45pm
The Bells of St. James’ Tour
St James’ Anglican Church
7pm
Town Hall: Uplifting or Gentrifying the DTES?
Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall
7pm-8:30pm
Vancouver Cantata Singers
St James' Anglican Church
7pm-9pm
Poetry Cabaret
Carnegie Theatre
Thursday November 7
10am-12pm
Symposium on Reconciliation and Redress
Voor Urban Labs Studio
12pm-2pm
Cedar Bark Weaving
InterUrban Gallery
12pm-5pm
EWMA Drag Bingo
EWMA Studio
2pm-6pm
Spontaneous Poetry
Ovaltine Café
3pm-4pm
The Nest Coffee House
InterUrban Gallery
4pm-5pm
Speaking Words of Wisdom
Carnegie Gallery (3rd Floor)
4:30pm-5:30pm
Elephant Warriors
InterUrban Gallery
5:30pm-7pm
Short Film Series
InterUrban Gallery
6:30pm-9:30pm
The Phoenix: First Show in a While
The Phoenix
7pm
Unsettled
Carnegie Theatre
7pm
The Big Tree
KW Production Studio
Friday November 8
10am-12pm
Symposium on Reconciliation and Redress
Voor Urban Labs Studio
10am-3:30pm
Making Music at Carnegie
Carnegie Theatre
12pm-2pm
Open Creative Space
InterUrban Gallery
1pm-2:30pm
Forgotten Voices/Silenced Stories
neca?mat ct Strathcona Branch
3pm-4pm
The Nest Coffee House
InterUrban Gallery
5pm-7:30pm
Turn Back Time Karaoke
InterUrban Gallery
6:30pm-8pm
Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize
Listening Post
6:30pm-8:45pm
Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story
Carnegie Theatre
Saturday November 9
10:30am-3:30pm
River Stories / Ocean Song
Russian Hall
12pm-2pm
Hakka Kirin Chinese Unicorn Dance Workshop
Carnegie Theatre
1pm-2pm
Exhibition Tour George Clutesi
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
1pm-3pm
Voices of the Street: Bread, Roses & Safe Supply
InterUrban Gallery
1pm-4pm
Water Workshop
Meet at Left of Main
2pm
The Brutal Joy, Justine A Chambers
312 Main
3pm-4pm
The Nest Coffee House
InterUrban Gallery
3pm-4pm
Typewriter Tales
InterUrban Gallery
4pm-4:30pm
Mutt Dog
InterUrban Gallery
7pm
Open Your Mouth and Say... Mr. Chi Pig
Carnegie Theatre
7:30pm-9pm
InterUrban Music Spotlight
InterUrban Gallery
7:30pm-9:30pm
Art Market
Russian Hall
8pm
The Keep It Raw Cabaret, A Tribute to Jay Hamburger
Russian Hall
8pm
Kin
KW Production Studio
Sunday November 10
10am-11:30am
Two Amigos Walking Tour
Register for location
12pm-2pm
Indigenous Exhibition and Celebration
Carnegie Gym
12:15pm-3pm
Minori (実り) Harvest
Oppenheimer Park
12:15pm-12:45pm
Introduction to the Pipe Organ
St James' Anglican Church
1pm-2pm
Tour of Historic Building
St James' Anglican Church
1pm-2:30pm
Two Amigos Walking Tour
Register for location
2pm-2:15pm
The Bells of St. James’
St James’ Anglican Church
7pm
The Sojourners
St James' Anglican Church