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Thanks to everyone for making the 35th Annual Powell Street Festival a huge success!
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It’s been thirty-five years since the inaugural Powell Street Festival, and in that time we’ve grown from a small community event to a full-blown arts & culture celebration attended by thousands each year. We are grateful to all the participants, volunteers, funders, attendees, and our DTES community for supporting our efforts these past thirty-five years, and we look forward to at least thirty-five more. In the meantime, we look forward to welcoming you to Oppenheimer Park for the 35th Annual Powell Street Festival! Read more…
Upcoming Other Festival Events
NIKASAYA AND GOH NAKAMURA
Friday, July 29th, 8:00pm
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy
$15/$10
NikaSaya (Japan)—the freewheeling vocal duo featuring Saya Onodera (from Tenniscoats) and Nikaido Kazumi—shares the bill with San Francisco-based songwriter Goh Nakamura.
MADE IN JAPAN: JEREMY ISAO SPEIER
Presented with Jeremy Isao Speier heralds consumer electronics of the 1970’s and the pre-digital age. Speier investigates the loss of space and the transformation from analog to digital. Read more…
Upcoming
Pour Takako Minekawa / Tensho
June 30, 8pm
The Cultch (1895 Venables Street, Vancouver)
Admission: $20/$10 (students, seniors, artists)
For tickets call The Cultch box office 604.251.1363
Purchase online at Redshift and the Powell Street Festival Society explores how Japanese culture has defined the sound art of two radically different Canadian composers. André Cormier’s recent work, Pour Takako Minekawa, is a tribute to the legendary Japanese shibuyake pop icon — though Cormier’s music, with its profound handling of silence and minimal material, perhaps shares more common ground with Japanese Noh Theatre than with any of Minekawa’s upbeat utterances. This dark, hour-long piece will be premiered by Cormier’s own Ensemble Sisyphe. Read more…
Let’s celebrate 35th Anniversary of Powell Street Festival!
Powell Street Festival will mark its 35th anniversary in 2011. We are planning a lot of events to celebrate the longest-running community event in Lower Mainland. Here’s a sneak peek of PSFS 2011 Schedule.
Powell Street Festival Society 2011 Schedule
May: Pow! The Art of the Festival at Japanese Canadian National Museum
May: Mini Kibatsu Cinema at Pacific Cinémathèque
June: Powell Street Festival 35th Anniversary Fundraiser at Performance Works
June: Pour Takako Minekawa / Tensho (co-production with RedShift Music)
July 7:
