urban ink Performs Opening Ceremony for City of Vancouver Dialogues Project
April 13th, BC Long House 5:00pm FREE Storytellers Omari Newton, Rupinder Sidhu, Valerie Sing Turner* & Quelemia Sparrow are joined by musicians Pepe Danza and Russell Wallace in this one night only event. Voices 4 Ex/Change, animated by Diane Roberts, is a short multidisplinary ritual honouring our shared histories embodied in one single moment in time. This work draws inspiration from the Personal Legacy Process as described in the Arrivals... [Read More...]
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... [Read More...]
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,... [Read More...]
From Where We Speak
From Where We Speak was the central component of the education and outreach initiative of urban ink’s new works laboratory for Aboriginal and diverse cultural work that encircles the core company, mentors, interns and students at The Galiano Island Community School, and also local, national and international artists, and partners them with other communities in other rural or urban islands of thought. We were very pleased to partner with Kuper... [Read More...]
Zong!
A Stage Adaptation Written by M. NourbeSe Philip It is 1781. Somewhere off the coast of West Africa a fully provisioned ship, theZong, captained by one Luke Collingwood, rides at anchor in preparation for a voyage to Jamaica. As is the custom its cargo is fully insured. Instead of the customary six to nine weeks, this fateful trip will take some four months on account of navigational errors on the part of the captain, resulting in some of the Zong’s... [Read More...]
The Arrivals Co(Lab) Showcase
November 22nd 7pm at W2 Space, 112 W. Hastings, Invitational showing VIEW: The Co(Lab) Ancestors slideshow The Arrivals Collaborative Exchange was the final phase of The Arrivals Project; a multidisciplinary performance project exploring root cultural practices, ancestral embodiment and deeply meaningful cross-cultural exchanges. Using the methodology of the Personal Legacy Process (PLP), 18 artists have been drawn from across the country to participate... [Read More...]
The Arrivals Cross Canada Workshop Series
The Arrivals Project Cross-Canada Workshop Series took place from March-August 2009. The workshops included writers, actors, poets and storytellers (oral, written and visual) working from diverse media and cultural traditions. Over 60 emerging and established artist participants learned to connect in new ways to their authentic historic bodies as a powerful source for artistic expression. LISTEN TO: CBC Airplay Interview with Diane Roberts and... [Read More...]
Downtown Eastside Women’s Writing Group’s Vanishing Project
Part 2: DREAMCATCHER Sunday November 1st at 1pm & 8pm Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova Tickets $20 (sliding scale) urban ink productions, in association with The Firehall Arts Centre and The DTES Women’s Centre present the Downtown Eastside Women’s Writing Group (DTESWW) collaborating with Raven Spirit Dance, in a new premiere, DREAMCATCHER pt 2 of the Vanishing project. In May 2009 DTESWW created VANISHING: Letters from the Downtown... [Read More...]
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 Read More →
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... [Read More...]
