Electronic Music Performance by Tim Gerwing
Thursday, Feb 25th
6:00 – 8:00pm
Price: $5
Tim Gerwing (PDF bio) was born in Canada, but spent his early childhood in Germany. Traditional music lessons began early on piano and percussion. Piano studies continued in Canada throughout his teen years. However, the confines of the classical world pushed him to experiment with jazz, electronic, new age, progressive rock/pop, and Middle and Far Eastern musics. The purchase of his first synthesizer and electric guitar in the late 80’s were turning points and shaped what was to become his signature sound.
His newest album is “Chikatetsu“, an eclectic and rich tapestry of electronic soundscapes based loosely on his experiences of living in Japan and modern life.
Visit his website at http://www.lascaux21.com
Tea and Bon-Bon’s Minimalist Cabaret
Friday, Feb 26, 7:00-10:00pm, Price: $5
Ana Bon-Bon & Special Guest
Western Roots minimalist Cabaret with chanteuse Ana Bon-Bon; a bon-temps musical celebration in the spirit of old-style cabaret with a bon vivant and her blues accordion.
High Tea with Brady Marks
Sat, Feb 27, 8 – 10:00 pm, Price: $5
High T, is an ambient audio-visual performance, augmented with: rose petals & Chinese black tea, pine smoked Chinese black tea, paraguayan roasted yeba maté, & Seamist tea. Together these affectations touch the boundary between immersion and remediation. Call it liminal social media.
Brady’s fluid attributes extend far beyond her liquid exoskeleton and her nurturing attitude towards compost worms. Her independent/collaboratively engineered environmental interlacing is evident in much of her webbing and audio secretions. She works away furiously in her cloud laboratory to thicken the green soup of virtual reality just enough to remind us of what we are really tasting, being careful of course to ensure that we don’t choke on the big bytes, or get hung up on the crackers.
Brady has lived in Vancouver for a number of years, and is a founding member of the octa-grouping known as intermission. She is a rare example of someone who is able to embrace metamorphosis, and is already embarking on the next evolutionary step of transcending binary.
http://www.inter-mission.org/bradymarks.html
Bright Light
Opening Reception: Friday February 12th, 7:00 to 10:00pm
February 12th to March 21st, 2010
Bright Light brings together the creative energy of fourteen arts organizations active in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Outdoor performances, video projections, urban planning demonstrations, social events and a parade are just some of the manifestations that animate the historical heart of the city. The group includes artist-run centres, a fashion artist, an architecture studio, a commercial gallery, an art publisher and a public gallery.
Bright Light is one of a wide variety of public art projects that have been commissioned to mark the occasion of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games. In the case of Bright Light, the intention is to animate the newly completed Carrall Street Greenway with projects that explore new understandings of public art. In today’s mobile, digital era, public art has moved beyond sculpture. Time-based multi-media, internet social spaces and even books can be understood as situations for public art.
Bright Light sees public space as a political process rather than fixed place. A big question during the Olympics: who controls public space? And what public are we talking about? There are many different publics in the Downtown Eastside, including visitors to Vancouver, homeless people, business owners and a large concentration of artists, perhaps more than in any other neighbourhood in Canada.
Take a walk on the Downtown Eastside. You will discover a vibrant, dynamic and historic city centre, home to diverse communities, interesting architecture, and lots of art. Let Bright Light be your guide.
Bright Light is commissioned by the City of Vancouver through its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program.
Website: http://bright-light.ca/
Contact: info@bright-light.ca
Media Contact: Gwen Kallio
Wild Party Skype Tea with South Devon, England
February 13, 1400 PST / 2200 GMT
Part slumber party, part jungle party, WILD PARTY goes on 24/7 in a bedroom in an 18th c country house in South Devon, England. The kettle is always on in this wilderness of laptops, iPods, data projectors, bad puns, random theories, tea trivia, tea lights, throw pillows, paper cut-outs and painted plywood trees. Drop in on a fiction writer in stripy dressing gown, a teenager in a wolf suit, a butler in track pants, a stuffed cow in a plush coat and a panda in a bikini for a cup of Wild Berry Tea.
J. R. Carpenter, Aphra Kennedy Fletcher, Jerome Fletcher, Mooey and Panda, with guest appearances from Couch Potato (who is basically a potato) and The Zebra Socks, will broadcast one hour of their ongoing WILD PARTY live via Skype from Sharpham House, South Devon, England, to Centre A, 2 West Hastings St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, February 13, 1400 PST / 2200 GMT
Visit their website at http://luckysoap.com/lapsuslinguae/2010/02/wild-party-skype-tea-with-world-tea.html