Art, Resistance and Community Transformation Workshop and Artist Reception on Sunday, March 8th, 2009!
2 pm - Free Visual Presentation and Community Dialogue
4 pm - Artist Reception
W2 Launch Pad Gallery
116 West Hastings Street
Vancouver
The setting: The downtown eastside neighbourhood of a city, struggling with poverty, drug abuse, violence.
The story: A young woman grows up in this neighbourhood. She and a group of friends start a successful digital design collective. They set up a non-profit society and raise money to buy an old building. It houses their company, a bilingual daycare, a cultural centre, and 16 units of subsidized housing. Their efforts are bringing social and economic development, music, art, and their community together. It’s an incredible transformation.
Where is this? Oakland, California. But it’s an inspiring vision for what could be, should be possible here in Vancouver!
On Sunday, March 8, 2009, the Sista’hood Celebration presents Art, Resistance, and Community Transformation, a public workshop and art presentation by Favianna Rodriguez, co-founder of Oakland’s Eastside Arts Alliance (W2 Launch Pad Gallery, 116 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, free admission, co-sponsored by the DTES Community Arts Network and Tides Canada-Endswell Fund.) This vibrant young woman has just been named one of Utne Reader magazine’s Top 50 Visionaries. Rodriguez is an artist, activist, technologist, and organization builder.
“Art alone does not transform the world. Mass movements do. It is the unique collaborations between artists, activists, and people that forge true social change,” Rodriguez notes. In the past year, her work on such issues as immigration, racism, war, and globalization has been featured in Mexico and across America, including at the recent Democratic National Convention. She recently completed an artist residency at the University of Illinois. Rodriguez is also president of TUMIS, a flagship of innovative web design for progressive social justice and non-profit campaigns. And finally, she is co-founder of Taller Tupac Amaru, a Chican@ screenprinting collective, also based in Oakland.
During her visit to Vancouver in early March, Rodriguez will be engaged in a number of local projects, including workshops with union members. Enjoy her Designing for Democracy show with VJ Reed Rickert, March 5 at District 319 (319 Main Street, tickets $20/$15, sponsored by Web of Change). March 6 at 9pm Rodriguez and Rickert will be special guests of FearlessCity at Techforms (Northern Way Campus, 577 Great Northern Way, tickets $25).
Sista'hood Celebration is an arts festival held in March. The month-long programming provokes critical thinking on social, political and cultural issues – especially relating to women and young women. www.sistahoodcelebration.com
For more info, call Teresa 604-313-6103
Favianna’s recent Mexico City art collaboration documented by VJ Reed Rickert:
http://vimeo.com/2587847
Favianna’s art process http://vimeo.com/2588771
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Posted by: web design Vancouver | February 8, 2010 at 09:04 PM