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DTES
Call for Artists
We are currently seeking artists for an art-making workshop and a dialogue session. This presentation will engage you and your work with the public with opportunities for feedback, networking and community participation. The objectives of the dialogue series are to support local artists, explore social issues, facilitate networking, share resources and explore and increase awareness of social …
Art Exhibit
How is your spring going? Lovely weather, sunshine, cool breezes. We are, so, so lucky to be feeling the effects of global warning. Who has heard the doggrel, 'Spring has sprung The grass is riz I wonder where The birdies iz" Ogden Nash, I believe. The full piece is on the net, if you are interested. Enough of this levity. On the 5th April 2013, some of the recipients …
Downtown Eastside Poet/Writer Antonette Rea
This is a short slide show of Downtown Eastside poet Antonette Rea. Antonette is reading from her chap book, 'A Tranny Tapestry of Reality', a collection of five poems and two poetic prose. Downtown Eastside Poetry Night at Carnegie Center Rea's work is uncompromisingly honest, no holds barred. She writes about her '....Set(ting) new wheels in motion, to escape the …
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Making Art In The Downtown Eastside
I just finished writing this absolutely brilliant post - tried to add some images..........................Gone! Gone! Lost in ...........Cyberspace. Sometimes I miss the days of wine and roses, no, no, I mean the days of paper and cut and paste. Even if some particular page was ripped and tossed one could always go scrabbling in the dustbin and, painstakingly swearing all the while, glue the …
Join us at Chinese New Year Parade with Snake, Drums, and 350 Water Drops!
Bring your friends and join us; Chinese New Year Parade will be HUGE this year! Snake Lantern, DTES Harmony of Nations Drumming Group and 350 Water Drops (UberDrop) will be in our contingent for the Chinatown Parade on February 17. We will be celebrating the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Snake) / Lunar New Year / Spring Festival and sending a clear message about community, water, art and …
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