Story Box Project
The Story Box Project Featured at the Surge Festival August 6 – 28th, 2010 W2 Storyeum - 151 West Cordova St. (at Abbott St) Opening Reception: Friday, August 6th from 7pm till late Regular Exhibition Viewing August 7 to August 28, noon-6pm. Wednesday to Sunday, Free admission At the heart of the City’s Great Beginnings Initiative is the desire to go back to its roots and give each of the founding neighborhoods something to talk about. In one such community, the DTES Story Box Project highlights its rich and storied cultural diversity through oral and written tradition. Unique object/artifact boxes illustrate stories from various ...
Women in Fish: Hours of Water Tour Launch
Featuring Rosemary Georgeson Friday August 20th 5pm Doors open to StoryBox Exhibition 6pm Showcase W2 Storyeum, 151 West Cordova (at Abbott) View Trailer of W.I.F. archival website Directed by Marie Clements (Governor General Nominee-Burning Vision) and Kathleen Flaherty (CBC Radio), with dramaturgy by Paula Danckert (Playwright Workshop Montreal) and featuring award winning designers in a live design mix including; Tim Matheson, Noah Drew, John Webber, Sandy Scofield, Jonathan Ryder, Richard Wilson, Rosemary Georgeson, Julie Moore and David Kerr. Written by Marie Clements with Rosemary Georegson, Eileen Lorenz and the WIF Participants. Performed by Rosemary Georgeson In the beginning there were stories and like all surviving stories this ...
The Downtown Eastside Women’s Writing Workshop Series
Director Rose Georgeson. Tuesdays evenings 6pm at the Firehall Arts Centre In Association with DTES Women's Centre Resumes January 19th, 2010 - call/email for details DTES WWG Past Projects: VANISHING Part II: Dreamcatcher VANISHING: Letters from the Downtown Eastside Rare Earth Arias
The Arrivals Project
The primary focus of the Arrivals Project is to guide artists in an embodied exploration of their own histories of (dis)place(ment). urban ink has developed a unique and internationally recognized process for the facilitation of this based on the stories, voice and cultural practices of each artist’s personal ancestry. These workshops have been offered across Canada, in the UK, Colombia, the Caribbean, and Europe. The workshops are facilitated primarily by urban ink Artistic Director Diane Roberts and full-length workshops include co-facilitation by Associate Artists Heather Hermant, Danielle Smith and Aboriginal Community Director Rosemary Georgeson. The impact of the work is ...
The Squaw Hall Project
An urban ink/Twin Fish Williams Lake Community Play Collaborating Artists: Rosemary Georgeson, Nicola Harwood, Diane Roberts, Bessie Wapp, Cease Wyss(advisor), Terry Haines, Tracey Elkins. The Squaw Hall Community Arts Project, a two-year video/performance project led by urban ink and Twin Fish (Nelson) theatre collective artists, is preparing to get underway in Williams Lake. The project begins April 11, where seven local youth will be trained as videographers to interview elders and seniors in their community. The focus will be on the three First Nations communities of the Chilcotin-Cariboo, the Secwepemc, Tsilhqot’in and Dakelh, whose territories border on the Williams Lake area. Squaw Hall ...
ZONG! Book launch
November 29th 1pm Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy- Performance is FREE (Memberships are by sliding scale) Written by M. NourbeSe Philip Published by Weslyn University Press and by Mercury Press in Canada Van Stage - Zong! interview with Diane Roberts Zong! is a poetic un-telling of the story of the slaveship Zong and its human cargo -some lost, some destroyed and the subsequent insurance claim trial at the end of the 18th Century. Philip’s Zong! is a haunting lyrical work from trial transcript to poetry. The Zong! book launch will include readings by the writer and a dramatic interpretive ...
ribcage: this wide passage
written and performed by Heather Hermant Dramaturgy/Direction: Diane Roberts Composer/Musician & Sound design: Jaron Freeman-Fox Videography: Melina Young Costume Design: Luisa Milan Video Mixing: Kaija Siirala At Montreal Arts Interculturel (Le MAI) October 28th-30th 2010 In September 1738, Esther Brandeau appeared before colonial authorities at Quebec City, an outed female, and an outed Jew. Who outed her on either count, and how, remains in question. There she recounted events that had led to her setting sail for New France as Jacques LaFargue, a Christian boy who had lived for five years as a male labourer, working as an apprentice in various trades under various male identities, on sea ...
Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy
Written by Omari Newton Dramaturgy by Diane Roberts Staged Reading August 28th 8:00pm O Patro Vys 327 Avenue du Mont Royal Est Montreal, QC In Association with Playwrights Workshop Montreal Featuring: Lucinda Davis, Tristan D. Lalla, Todd Fennell & Leah Doz The fatal police shooting of a talented but troubled young DJ irrevocably changes the lives of his three friends. The future of their once promising hip hop group is now in jeopardy. Can these urban poets salvage their dreams in the face of this tragedy? Open your eyes and ears to Canada’s inner-city realities in this full-on reading at O Patro Vys. Using elements of hip hop, ...
Featured Projects
Story Box Project
The Story Box Project Featured at the Surge Festival August 6 – 28th, 2010 W2 Storyeum – 151 West Cordova St. (at Abbott...
Women in Fish: Hours of Water Tour Launch
Featuring Rosemary Georgeson Friday August 20th 5pm Doors open to StoryBox Exhibition 6pm Showcase W2 Storyeum, 151 West Cordova...
Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy
Written by Omari Newton Dramaturgy by Diane Roberts Staged Reading August 28th 8:00pm O Patro Vys 327 Avenue du Mont Royal Est...
what's new
urban ink was pleased to host two fantastic media interns this summer turning the green house into a media production haven! We’re grateful for the talents of Jay Cardinal Villeneuve, a young Independent filmmaker whose editing skills were put to...
