S4DAC
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Copyright 2003-05
Society for Disability Arts & Culture
S4DAC
LINKS
Copyright 2003-05
Society for Disability Arts & Culture
May 22 and 23, 2004
Saturday May 22, 10:30 am to 12:00 noon
at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Sunday May 23, 2:00 pm
at the Roundhouse Community Centre, Pacific at Davie
Adults: pay what you can
Children: free
Info: 604. 893. 8875 or www.newworks.ca
Light Motion is a Seattle-based dance duo featuring Charlene Curtiss and Joanne Petroff, who wowed audiences at the kickstART! Celebration in 2001.
Charlene and Joanne have been teaching, choreographing, and performing together for over a decade. Charlene is the inventor of "front-end chair control," a technique that has expanded the limits of wheelchair dance. Joanne is a modern dancer / choreographer who has been instrumental in bringing integrated dance to the forefront in the USA. Integrated dance allows for all sorts of unexpected movement; one New York Times reviewer said Light Motions work has the "elegance of ice skating."
From September 16th to 19th, 2004 S4DAC will bring you the kickstART2 Festival of Disability Arts and Culture in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Come explore new territory in visual and literary arts, dance, theatre, music, and humour at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. Performances, a visual art exhibit and free activities will provide lots to see and do! Workshops and master classes will bring together Canadian artists to meet and learn from each other and from invited international guests. The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre is close to downtown Vancouver and a variety of accessible hotels.
The theme for kickstART2 is Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Art and emerging and professional artists (with and without disabilities), art or music therapists, arts presenters, families and friends are invited.
Starting May 1st, 2004, you can purchase earlybird Whole Festival ($120) or Daily Passes ($40) from the S4DAC office. Prices for passes will increase on June 1st, 2004. Tickets for individual performances and workshops will go on sale August 15th, 2004.
Visual Art
Natasha Bawlf, Persimmon Blackbridge, AJ Brown, Bonnie Dalziel, Donimo,
Dominic Fetherston, Bernadine Fox, Garth Homer Society, Neville Gray,
Robert Jackson,
Jan Legault, David Low, Daniel Migneault, Julie Milano, Bruce Ray,
Rhonda Simmons, Adam Spiller, Margaret Vanderpant, Linda Walker, Rose Williams
Theatre
Five Foot Feat (US), Inside Out Integrated Theatre (AB), Max-i-mime,
Victoria Maxwell, Siobhan McCarthy, Kim Seary, Stage Left Productions
(AB), Teamwork/Powerplay,
Theatre Terrific
Music
Stewart Brinton, Joe Coughlin, Jayne Dinsmore, Jennie Emery, Highs
and Lows Choir, Moreen Meriden, Norbury & Finch, David Parsons, Pat Rix, (AU), Spirit
of Community Choir, Jeff Standfield, Swamp Angels Choir with Patti Powell & Susan
Summers
Dance
Discovery Dance, Spirit Synott (ON), Helen Walkley
Comedy
Tyler Fortin, Sandra Lynne James, Nasty Girls (UK), David Roche
(US)
Literary / Storytelling
Rasika Aklujkar, Kagan Goh, Kirsteen Main, Pauline Rankin,
Karin Watson
Installation / Soundscape
Maureen Bradley (SK)
Stephen Long
sylvi macCormac
kickstART2 is supported, in part, by:
Department of Canadian Heritage through Arts Presentation Canada, the BC Arts
Council, the City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs, the Roundhouse
Community Arts and Recreation Centre, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, John
Hardie Mitchell Foundation, Rotary International Clubs, Human Resources Development
Canada Summer Career Placements 2004
...and more sponsors to be announced!
The Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Society for Disability Arts
and Culture will be held on:
Thursday, May 27, 2004
at the Alliance for Arts and Culture
Suite 100-938 Howe Street (at Nelson), Vancouver
Beginning at 6:30 pm
The business to be conducted will include the following:
1. Consideration of the minutes from 2002 AGM held May 20, 2003
2. Artistic Directors report
3. Presidents report
4. Review of 2003 financial statements
5. Consideration of revised by-laws
6. Elections of Directors
7. Transaction of such other business as may properly come before the Meeting.
Members may contact the S4DAC office in order to receive printed copies of
the original and proposed by-laws. Connect online to the constitution
and
by-laws,
which have been passed by the Directors and are posted on our website.
curated by Geoff McMurchy
Sunday, May 30th, 2pm
Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver
These shorts provide character studies of six not-so-typical males just trying to play the hand dealt to them. All of them, safe to say, are more "sensitized" than your average man. Both art and disability will do that to you.
Still Breathing
Australia, 2001, Director: Charlotte Roseby
Still breathing is an intimate portrait of Rob Fraser, an entirely likable
33 year old with cystic fibrosis. As we watch scenes of his daily life,
Rob muses on body and soul, relationships, the medical system and his
decision to have a lung transplant. Drawing on his intelligence and wry humour,
this
video gracefully illustrates the tensions between solitude and companionship,
life and death.
Colour, video, 26 mins
Ron's Gift
Canada, 2002, Director: Anne Stirling
This is a portrait of visual artist Ron Pelley of St. John's, Newfoundland.
Ron, educated at the Kootenay School of Art in British Columbia, commanded
high prices for his paintings, which are included in collections of
the Provincial Governments of Newfoundland and BC and in private collections
throughout
North America. Ron talks about how "painting was over" in 1992, when rheumatoid
arthritis made it impossible for him, and how he has since embraced digital
art, despite its current lack of acceptance as a "fine art".
Colour, video, 7 mins
Dreaming Awake
USA, 2003, Director: John R. Killacky
Described as "a prayer of reconciliation", this video juxtaposes
naked dancers with disabilities with the expressionless narrator (Killacky)
and images of the acupuncture treatments he undergoes to alleviate pain. A
former dancer, ex- marathon runner and now paraplegic, Killacky plays the gravity
of his somewhat bleak personal narrative against the transcendence expressed
by the dancers.
Colour/B & W, video, 5 mins
Joey
Canada, 2003, Directors: Mel M. Kantardzic & Ryan Milnes
Joey Richardson is a 38 year old near-genius who has Aspergers Syndrome
(a form of autism). Socially "inept" and emotionally volatile, he is
also incredibly earnest, intelligent and resilient. He has a strong attachment
to his mother and this piece follows Joey on a pilgrimage to Rice Lake, where
her ashes are scattered.
Colour, video, 22 mins
2+2
USA, 2001, Directors: Benita Raphan & Clayton Hemmert
An ultra-stylish experimental film about John F. Nash Jr., a professor
at Princeton University who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
in the
1950s, shortly
after writing a brilliant paper entitled "Essays on Game Theory".
Nearly forty years later, Dr. Nash won a Nobel Prize in Economics for the same
paper. In 2001, he became the subject of director Ron Howardís Oscar-winning
film, A Beautiful Mind.
Colour/B & W, video, 11 mins
Panic Attack
USA, 2000, Director: Brett Ingram
This is an artful and compelling portrayal of Reade Whinnem's
experience of panic disorder. Reade describes the physiological
and emotional
symptoms he
experiences, the situations that typically precipitate his
panic attacks and his understanding of his condition, which has helped
him to function
in the
world.
Colour/B & W, video, 12 mins
Tickets: $7.
Ticketmaster 604-280-4444 / www.ticketmaster.ca (fee will be
added to ticket price)
Bibliophile Books - 2012 Commercial Drive (cash only/no passes)
Videomatica - 1855 West 4th Ave (cash only/no passes)
INFORMATION: 604-646-320 / www.doxafestival.ca
There are several ways to become involved or support us as we gear up for the exciting kickstART2 festival!
1. Become a member.
2. Become a kickstART2 volunteer. Watch our website or get on our (e)mail list for details in June.
3. Consider a Board or Committee position.
Come out to the Annual General
meeting, meet the Board and learn more.
4. Make a donation!
If you've ever thought about helping us out with a donation, large or
small, now is the time! We appreciate the support youve shown so
far, so keep
it up! Every bit helps! Yes!
Please Note:
We respect your privacy. We do not share mailing lists.
A collaborative art show inspired by Kym Hothead with photography by Janet Baxter
16 artists with disabilities and their supporters are making art personal, political, hard-hitting and moving in a show in May at the Interurban Gallery in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
The show "Ripping it Up' is a presentation of the Window Pain project, and challenges the provincial government's welfare and disability policies. The title of the show refers to the group's demand to 'rip up' the government's recent attempt to reassess what it means to be eligible for disability benefits in this province.
May 6 to May 21, 2004
Interurban Gallery
9 East Hastings
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat, 1 - 5 pm
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