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Cute to Kill 2
Friday, October 28, 2011
Doors 7:30pm, screening 8:00pm
VIVO Media Arts Centre 1965 Main Street, Vancouver
Cute to Kill 2 is an expose of recent video works from local, national, and international animators and video artists. Each short film explores the artist’s morbid fascination with dark subject matter through the guise of “cute” (a prevalent juxtaposition in contemporary Asian pop culture). In their first co-production, Yuriko Iga (of Blim) and Asa Mori bring together a wide range of adorably despondent short films to be viewed as a collection for this one night only. Featuring local, national, and international Japanese artists: Madoka Hara, Sachiyo Takahashi, Asa Mori, Yuki Takahashi, Atsushi Wada, Yuriko Iga, Kaori Kasai, Kei Oyama, Mirai Mizue with special print exhibit, live performance, animations, and limited edition t-shirt
Screening of Spirit of Nihomachi by Greg Masuda
2011 Heart of the City Festival
Saturday October 29, 2011
6pm at the Carnegie Theatre
As part of the Documentaries for the Thinkers program
Join filmmaker Greg Masuda for the test screening of a rough cut of The Spirit of Nihonmachi. Once every year for the last thirty-five years, the Powell Street Festival has celebrated Japanese-Canadian culture and heritage in the neighbourhood where the community first took root nearly 100 years ago. This film touches on the relationship between the long-running festival and the spirit of the neighbourhood volunteers that have helped make it successful through the years. Following the film, help Greg with the final version by providing feedback via a simple questionnaire. A Powell Street Festival Society production.
Arts of Conscience: from Hiroshima to Vancouver
Credit: Left; Ishiuchi Miyako ひろしま/hiroshima #9, Dress, 2007/2008, Type C Print, 108x74cm, T.Fujisawa Right: Linda Hoaglund, ANPO: ART x WAR Film Poster
One Day Symposium
Saturday October 15, 10am-5pm (Door opens at 9:30 am)
Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2 West Hastings, Vancouver
Registration & Tickets
$20|$10 includes the symposium, the screening of Linda Hoaglund’s film ANPO: Art X War (2010), bento lunch, and a cocktail reception. Space is limited. Please call 604-683-8326 to purchase tickets or reserve your tickets at www.centrea.org (under the “headlines”) before October 10th.
Arts of Conscience is a one-day symposium on art and aesthetics that explores peace and ways of transforming the damaging forces of war, military occupation and the resulting generations of trauma. The symposium is organized in conjunction with the visit to Vancouver by Miyako Ishiuchi, internationally renowned Japanese contemporary photographer, to celebrate her exhibition ひろしま hiroshima which opens on October 14th at the Audain Gallery at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
