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