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2010–2011 Season
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 tickets.thecultch.com
Or in person at 1895 Venables Street
This co-production between 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.
The evening’s second event is dedicated exclusively to the music of the Japanese-Canadian composer Yota Kobayashi. This Vancouver-based sound artist has received international acclaim for his haunting electroacoustic scores: listeners are immersed in a psychedelic soundworld of birdsong, temple gongs, heartbeats… even the Skytrain has been effortlessly interwoven into Kobayashi’s rich and nuanced music. Two of his award-wining works, Tensho and Kakusei, will be heard, along with the premiere of Kobayashi’s newest piece for flute, cello, piano and electronics: Shiki.
Media contact:
Sabrina at 604.739.9388 or media at powellstreetfestival.com
Upcoming
KANPAI! Powell Street Festival 35th Anniversary Fundraiser
Wednesday, June 15
Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 7:30pm
Performance Works (1218 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC)
$30 early-bird (by May 15) / $35 regular
Advance tickets only! 10% of ticket sales will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross via the Canadian Red Cross.
Tickets available online at www.kanpai.eventbrite.com
Join us in celebration of Powell Street Festival’s 35th Anniversary!
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Kibatsu Cinema: eccentricity, popular culture and contemporary Japanese film
May 27-29
Pacific Cinémathèque (1131 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC)
Ticket available at the door or online at www.cinematheque.bc.ca
The Powell Street Festival Society and Pacific Cinémathèque are pleased to present the third edition of “Kibatsu Cinema,” a celebration of the odd and the eccentric in Japanese pop culture and contemporary Japanese film. Kibatsu is a Japanese word denoting a person or thing that is, by ordinary standards, unusual or unconventional. As with our previous “Kibatsu Cinema” programs in 2007 and 2009, the quirky, smart, and stylish films on display here reveal the influences of a variety of Japan’s prominent pop-cultural streams, including manga and anime, pop and punk music, and the famed flamboyance of the country’s street fashions and youth cultures. This year, the Powell Street Festival partners with both the Pacific Cinémathèque and the DOXA Documentary Film Festival to present a unique series of over-the-top narratives, energetic anime and one playfully pulsating documentary. Curated by Susanne Tabata.
Friday, May 27–7:00pm: Doman Seman (堀川仲立売, 2010, Vancouver premiere!)
Friday, May 27–9:30pm: Youth of the Beast (野獣の青春, 1963)
Saturday, May 28–7:00pm: Live from Tokyo (2010, Canadian premiere!)
Saturday, May 28–9:00pm: House (ハウス, 1977)
Sunday, May 29–1:00pm: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの消失, 2010, all ages welcome!)
Sunday, May 29–4:30pm: Paprika (2006)
Curatorial Support: Chris MaGee (J-Film Pow-Wow blogger and co-curator Shinsedai Cinema Festival Toronto).
Anime Selection Team: Una Vernelli Forestor (aged 11), Avy Koziaktek aka Crowchild (aged 11), Zuki Allan (aged 12).
Special Thanks: Brian Belovarac (Janus Films NYC); Samuel Jamier(Japan Society NYC); Naomi Hocura, Kier-la Jeunesse (curator:SF IndieFest), Rika Davis & Robert Napton (Bandai Entertainment USA); Asako Suzuki (Kadokawa Shoten Publishing); Tomo Kawate (Eleven Arts USA); Mongrel Media Canada/Sony Pictures Classics USA; Lewis Rapkin; Takako Hirayama (Nikkatsu Corporation); Dorothy Woodend (DOXA); Japan Foundation; Canada Council for the Arts; Department of Canadian Heritage; British Columbia Arts Council; the Provinceof British Columbia through Direct Access to Charitable Gaming; City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs.
Powell Street Festival Society 2011 Schedule
May 27-29: Mini Kibatsu Cinema at Pacific Cinémathèque
May 29-Decemnber: Pow! The Art of the Festival at Japanese Canadian National Museum
June 15: Powell Street Festival 35th Anniversary Fundraiser at Performance Works
June 30: Pour Takako Minekawa / Tensho (co-production with RedShift Music)
July: Spatial Poetics X and Jukkai: Documenting Ten Years of Spatial Poetics book lauch
Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31: The 35th Annual Powell Street Festival at Oppenheimer Park
AND MORE! Stay connected!
*This schedule is subject to change.
Media contact:
Sabrina at 604.739.9388 or media at powellstreetfestival.com
The Powell Street Festival Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, and City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs.
