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...]
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...]
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...]
VANISHING: Letters from the Downtown Eastside
Visuals and Writing by The Downtown Eastside Women’s Writing Group Firehall Arts Centre’s BC Buds Reading Directed by Rosemary Georgeson & Diane Roberts Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 12:15pm Through VANISHING: Letters from the Downtown Eastside the Downtown Eastside Women’s Writing Group asks the following question: Where is that safe place inside us from which we write? Are we a child back home in Grandma’s kitchen or are we laying on a beach... [Read More...]
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... [Read More...]
The 2nd Annual Crossroads Slam!
With Burning Hearts: Fair Play! Calling all Poets, Writers, Short Filmakers, Activists! February 4th, W2 Culture & Media Centre, 112 West Hastings 8pm $5-$10 entrance; $5 performer registration The 2nd Annual Crossroads Slam returns with a Vengeance! Open Mic, poetry Slam and short film Festival Hosted by urban ink’s Omari Newton Inspired by Black History Month, urban ink’s culturally diverse membership and the pending arrival of the... [Read More...]
Copper Thunderbird
Written by Marie Clements Directed by Peter Hinton Dramaturgy by Paula Danckert A National Arts Centre, urban ink co-production in collaboration with Playwrights Workshop Montreal and The Banff Centre for the Arts. Copper Thunderbird is a two-act play on canvas, based on the life of Norval Morrisseau. Inside the power-lines which Norval Morrisseau boldly defined were the colours he experienced between his Objibway cosmology, his life on the street,... [Read More...]
Fathom labs- a surfacing of new works
Check website Based on Galiano Island, urban ink’s Fathom Labs was the first developmental laboratory that realized the multi-disciplinary nature of the creation, process, and production of Aboriginal and diverse work and utilized a developmental strategy that recognized our stories come from our cultural bones and are expressed in both traditional and contemporary styles. Fathom Labs- a surfacing of new works took place over the month of October... [Read More...]
