Participating Organizations Access GalleryArtspeak ASIR StudioAudain GalleryCentre A Downtown Eastside Centre for the ArtsFillip

Helen Pitt GalleryInstant Coffee InterUrban Gallery Jeffrey Boone Gallery LIVE Makeshift StudioW2 Community Media Art Society

Instant CoffeeLight Bar

February 12 to March 21,2010

Public Art for a Midwinter Celebration

Bright Light is commissioned by the City of Vancouver through its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program

Highlighting the vibrant arts commu-nity that thrives in Vancouver’s Down-town Eastside neighbourhood, Bright Light showcases six weeks of tem-porary, cutting-edge public artworks and events centred along the Carrall Street Greenway. Commissioned by the City of Vancouver, Bright Light illuminates the neighbourhood from February to March 2010.

The collaborative result of fourteen arts organizations active in the Down-town Eastside, Bright Light takes public art to new places, presenting a series of site-specific artworks, light-based installations, video projections, street performances, publications, in-teractive community events and lively gathering spaces.

From a tea party inviting the world to a choreographed performance brawl in a local park; from a circle dance and light procession to a celebration of Aboriginal culture: Bright Light is public art that challenges and inspires.

Installations are free and open to the public.*

* Some evening events will have nominal cover charges. See bright-light.ca for details.

Where: Andy Livingstone Field, Carrall St. and Keefer St. When: Wed, February 24, 7 to 9pm

Andy Livingstone Field will feature Brawl, a staged two-hour evening performance by the artist collective NORMA, dramatically lit by field lights normally used for sporting events. Tying in ideas of sport and spectacle at the cross-roads of two contrasting areas of the city, Brawl will highlight the fine line between vio-lence and theatre. Extend-ing the collective's interest

in exploring group identity, public space and collective behavior, their choreographed and scripted performance will include texts and actions.

NORMA’s work draws from diverse sources, including visual and performance art histories, popular culture, and social behavior.

The collective members are Vanessa Kwan, Diana Lopez-Soto, Josh Neelands, Christy Nyiri, Pietro Sammarco, Erica Stocking, and Kara Uzelman.

Access Gallery

Passage, Osvaldo Yero

Artspeak

Brawl, NORMA

Where: Access Gallery206 Carrall St.When: February 12 to March 21, Tue to Sat, 12 to 5pm

In Passage, Cuban-born artist Osvaldo Yero has created an ominous and mesmerizing large-scale sculptural instal-lation, which plays with the effects of light in the gallery’s window. Highly experiential, Yero's work evokes the feeling of swimming alone in the middle of a dark ocean — intense flashes of light mo-mentarily highlight spikes of metal like the reflection from a lighthouse beacon on a swelling, dark sea.

The metaphor of death prevails in Yero’s work; many who try to escape Cuba across the vast ocean do not survive, or arrive on the other side only to be sent back. Passage addresses intersecting issues of integration and disloca-tion facing immigrants to a new country, speaking to the underlying complexities. By merging the space of the gallery with the environment outside, things may not be what they appear.

Curated by Charo Neville

NORMA Ghost Stories

ASIR Studio

GO! Gallery: A Temporary Gallery for Permanent Change

Where: Audain Gallery SFU Woodward’s, 149 West Hastings St. When: January 15 onwards

The Audain Gallery at SFU Woodward’s presents Com-ing Soon, which addresses the realities of the Downtown Eastside and the context of the new location of the School for the Contempo-rary Arts: a highly-contested neighbourhood housing a new building project in the corner-stone of one of Vancouver's most well-known and beloved landmarks, Woodward’s.

The first commissioned work by Ken Lum will be shown in the Hastings Street windows

of the Audain Gallery. Lum’s work will be followed by a window project by Vancouver artist Kathy Slade.

Lorna Brown and Jamie Hilder present online projects specif-ically designed for the Audain Gallery website. To view proj-ects, see audaingallery.ca.

The Audain Gallery hosts a panel discussion address-ing questions regarding the different, and often com-peting, public and artistic expectations of art as a public discourse, January 23 at 3pm.

Where: Yue Shan Courtyard, 39 East Pender St. When: February 12 to 28, 6 to 10pm

Set in one of Chinatown’s oldest and almost-forgotten courtyards, ( just off of West Pender Street and close to the Chinese Cultural Centre), GO! transforms one of Vancou-ver’s many underused, under-lit areas into an illuminated canopy of light and space. Utilizing umbrellas printed with a luminescent map of the Bright Light galleries, video projections, light installations and programmed events, the courtyard becomes a lively gathering space, encourag-ing participation and play,

gatherings and discovery, celebrating neighbourhood and community. Organised by ASIR Studio, Rural Urban Fantasy Project and Organelle Design

SELECTED EVENT SCHEDULE

FEB 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 27, 28: Light of Yue Shan, 7 and 8pmFEB 17: Mah Jong Lessons and TournamentFEB 24: Outdoor MovieOTHER EVENTS: Chinese Kara-oke, DimSum Tasting and Market, Storytelling, Dance and Light Performance

See bright-light.ca and asirarch.net for details.

Audain Gallery

Coming SoonLorna Brown, Jamie Hilder, Ken Lum and Kathy Slade

Centre A

World Tea Party

Where: Centre A Gallery, 2 West Hastings St.When: February 12 to 28 and March 13 to 21

Come have a cup of tea!

Animated by lead-artist Bryan Mulvihill, Centre A hosts the World Tea Party, a social, in-teractive gathering space that acts as a work of art, welcom-ing visitors into a form of “so-cial sculpture.” Tea is offered for free both inside the gallery and on the street, while video projections are shown on the building’s exterior windows.

This international fête cel-ebrates concurrent tea parties in other world cities including Montréal, Yokohama, Vienna and Calcutta via live video web links. Skwxumesh First Nations artist Cease Wyss hosts a First Nations welcome event on Sunday, February 14, featuring indigenous herbal teas. The traditional Japanese

tea ceremony is presented by the Urasenke society of Vancouver. The relaxed atmosphere of the World Tea Party invites conversation and informal performances.

EVENT SCHEDULE

FEB 14: First Nations Welcome, 3 to 6pm FEB 16, 23 & MAR 15: Pigeon Park Fire Tea Service, 2 to 3pmFEB 20: Yokohama–Vancouver, 7 to 9pmFEB 20 & 22: Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, 6 to 8pmFEB 21: Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, 2 to 4pm FEB 21: Blue Tea with Project Rainbow, 6 to 10pmFEB 22: Japanese Urasenke Tea Service, 2 to 5pmFEB 27: High T by Brady Marks, 8 to 10pmMAR 06: Caravan Bazaar, 1 to 5pm

See bright-light.ca and centrea.org for details.

Bryan Mulvihill Tea Cups Waiting

Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts

Nighthawk Aboriginal Arts and Music Festival

Where: Crab Park, 101 East Waterfront Rd.When: Sun, March 21, 2 to 9pm

Following the annual Spring Equinox Smudge Ceremony at Main St. & Hastings St, the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts presents the Nighthawk Aboriginal Arts and Music Festival, a one-day event celebrating traditional and contemporary indigenous art.

Blending storytelling, drum-ming, music, and visual arts into the waterfront land-scape of Crab Park, this festival showcases the best of Vancouver’s indigenous arts community. Presented in a village-like setting, the

festival features live music, drum and dance performanc-es, and an artisan village with food and children’s activities. Traditional practices such as carving, birch-bark biting and drum-making will be demon-strated.

A festival for everyone, the Nighthawk Aboriginal Arts and Music Festival is an authentic cultural experience not to be missed.

Artists include the Murray Porter Band, Git Hayetsk Dancers, Sandy Scofield Band, Dalannah Gail Bowen with Straight-Up and the Red Blanket Singers. Git Hayetsk Dancer Miquel Askren

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Fillip

Window with Fake Newspapers / Traducing Ruddle, Mark Manders

Where: 20 East Hastings St. and various newspaper box locations; see map for details When: February 12 to March 21

Fillip presents Dutch artist Mark Manders’ Window with Fake Newspapers, a site-spe-cific installation, and Traduc-ing Ruddle, an artist newspa-per co-published with Roma Publications, Amsterdam, and available free at several newspaper boxes throughout Vancouver.

Manders’ project provides an entry point for an inves-tigation into the complex relationship between art and public space explored in a special issue of Fillip

magazine, available this spring. Set against the context of the 2010 Olympics, Fillip #12 will investigate the mul-tiple relationships between contemporary art and its publics—extending beyond discussions of a narrowly defined space of public art toward what critic Sven Lüt-ticken calls art’s essential role in producing “critical forms of publicness.”

Essays from Fillip #12 will be available free, in their entirety, at fillip.ca.

Helen Pitt Gallery

Signs, City Wall, City Path Jenipher Hur and Avery Nabata

Where: Suzhou Alley, Carrall St. (between Keefer & Pender) and BC Electric Bldg, Carrall St. (between Pender & Hastings)When: February 12 to March 21

The Helen Pitt Gallery presents Signs, City Wall, City Path, a series of outdoor installations that humorously co-opts billboard marketing, tourist maps and other forms of official public signage. Local artists Jenipher Hur and Avery Nabata address the familiar features of Van-couver’s constantly changing cityscape, subtly drawing our critical attention to the way the city represents and negotiates its complex social reality.

Instant Coffee

Light Bar

Where: 33 West Cordova St.When: February 12 to March 20, Wed to Sat, 7pm to midnight; and open for special events

Instant Coffee presents Light Bar, a full-spectrum light bar installation and venue for light therapy, light lectures, light shows, light reading and light rock. Instant Coffee’s Light Bar is an ongoing art project that investigates the potential and power of light. The artists come to this idea through necessity; living in Vancouver, where the rain can seem endless, the negative effects of the lack of sunlight on individual psyches and the large social milieu feel at times paramount. The use of light as a therapy or as a remedy for SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is com-monly and effectively used by individuals, but for Light Bar, Instant Coffee puts it to the test in small or large group situations.

Based in Toronto and Van-couver, the most consistent members of Instant Coffee artist collective are Cecilia Berkovic, Jinhan Ko, Kelly Lycan, Jenifer Papararo, Kate Monro, and Khan Lee.

SELECTED EVENT SCHEDULE

FEB 12: Opening celebration featuring music duo Christine FEB 13: Slide Show by ten artists with DJs Rodney Graham and Jeremy Shaw FEB 18: Light Lecture: Raymond W. Lam, M.D. FEB 19 & MAR 19: DJ Cam Dales: 50s and 60s Hits FEB 20: Rooftop Special FEB 27: Karaoke and Authenticity: lecture by Eric Fredericksen with guests Weekend Leisure MAR 08: Tom Cone presents Light Compositions MAR 13: Kick Evrything and Call the City MAR 18: Video Screening: Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen

See bright-light.ca and instantcoffee.org for details.

Instant Coffee Light Bar, 2009

InterUrban

Far, Up Close

Where: InterUrban Gallery, 1 East Hastings St.When: February 12 to March 21; Gallery Hours: Wed to Sun, 12 to 5pm; Window Projec-tions: dusk to dawn

Far, Up Close includes works by Chris Welsby, Christoph Runne, Monique Mees and Faith Moosang.

Chris Welsby’s Time After dis-plays a time-lapsed live video projection of the Vancouver urban landscape and seeks to re-position the familiar day-to-day urban experi-ence within the larger realm of the natural world’s subtle changes.

Christoph Runne’s Portraits combines classical portraiture with overt allusions to both the Dutch masters (painters like Rembrandt and Frans Hals) and photographic “head shots” often associated with police mug shots. Projected on InterUrban gallery’s windows, Portraits attempts to put faces to some of the individuals residing in Van-couver's most controversial neighbourhood.

Monique Mees’ photographic series Specimen Plates addresses the historical use of cinema in medical science to analyze, regulate and re-configure the human body.

Jeffrey Boone Gallery

We Are Watching, Rina Liddle

Where: Jeffrey Boone Gallery, #140 - 1 East Cordova St. When: February 12 to March 21; Gallery Hours: Tue to Sat, 12 to 6pm; Exterior Projec-tions: February 12 to 28 and March 12 to 21; 5 to 10pm

The Jeffrey Boone Gallery presents Rina Liddle’s We Are Watching, a multi-component, participatory work that deals with ideas of private/public space, surveil-lance and public art.

The project features dual indoor/outdoor projections of participant supplied video footage from Olympic related events as well as the publica-tion of a commemorative and documentary catalogue with essays by Kristina Lee Podesva and Danna Vajda.

LIVE

Procession of Performing Circles

Where: Begins at Carrall and Pender Streets and proceeds along Carrall, Powell, Columbia and Pender back to starting pointWhen: Sun, March 7, 7 to 9pm

The producers of LIVE, a bi-annual performance art festival in Vancouver, join forces with local performers, community members and dance and theatre groups to present Procession of Performing Circles, a ceremo-nial parade of lights, dance, music and a bit of magic through the city’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

Curated by Glenn Lewis, the event includes works from choreographers Margaret Dragu, Colleen Lanki and Karen Jamieson with her Carnegie Centre troupe, as well as performances by Leaky Heaven Circus, Vancouver Carnival Band, Vancouver Morris Men and others.

Colleen LankiTen Nights of Dream

W2 Community Media Art Society

Fearless City

Where: W2 Cafe at Woodward’s, 149 West Hastings St. and W2 Culture + Media House, 112 West Hastings St.When: February 12 to March 21

W2’s Fearless City streams mobile video projections and text messages, remix-ing social media to reveal our Downtown Eastside neighbourhood to local and Olympic visitors. Located in the heart of the Woodward’s Atrium, the W2 Cafe windows come to life with a mosaic of streaming mobile video from neighborhood residents and artists. VJs mix in interac-tive content from the public sending Tweets and SMS text messages.

Fearless City fosters public input about the Downtown Eastside neighborhood, its culture and environment.

During the daytime, Fear- less City is visible online at creativetechnology.org and on screens in the W2 Culture + Media House.

Participating artists include Suez Holland, Matt Smith, AHA Media, as well as local residents and artists who have been involved in the W2 inner-city mobile technology project.

Makeshift

Makeshift, Natalie Purschwitz

Where: Makeshift Studio, 8 East Cordova St. When: February 12 to 28 and March 12 to 21; Wed to Sun, dusk to dawn

As part of her ongoing Makeshift handmade clothing project, where for one year she makes every stitch of her own clothing including shoes, socks and underwear, artist Natalie Purschwitz will be projecting vignettes of her work onto the Makeshift studio windows, giving insight to the artist’s design process.

Find out more online at bright-light.ca

For Further Information:

Access Galleryvaarc.ca

Artspeakartspeak.ca ASIR Studioasirarch.net

Audain Galleryaudaingallery.com

Centre Acentrea.org Downtown Eastside Centre for the Artsdecentreforthearts.com

Fillipfillip.ca

Helen Pitt Galleryhelenpittgallery.org

Instant Coffeeinstantcoffee.org

Jeffrey Boone Galleryjeffreyboonegallery.com

LIVElivebiennale.ca Makeshift Studiomakeshiftproject. blogspot.com

InterUrban (604) 633-2665

W2 Community Media Art Societycreativetechnology.org

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CREDITS

Artspeak photo by Mark Dudiak with Christy NyiriHelen Pitt photo by Bryan AdamsLIVE photo by Eugene Lin

All images courtesy of the artistsDesign by The Future

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Project Sites01. Osvaldo Yero: PassageAccess Gallery / 206 Carrall St.

02. NORMA: BrawlArtspeak / Andy Livingstone Park

03. Go! Gallery ASIR Studio / Yue Shan Courtyard, 39 E. Pender St.

04. Coming SoonAudain Gallery SFU Woodward’s 149 W. Hastings St.

05. World Tea PartyCentre A / 2 W. Hastings St.

06. Nighthawk Aboriginal Arts & Music FestivalDowntown Eastside Centre for the Arts / Crab Park

07. Mark Manders: Window with Fake NewspapersFillip / 20 E. Hastings St.

08. Mark Manders: Traducing RuddleFillip / Newspaper box locations in various marked sites

09. Signs, City Wall, City PathHelen Pitt Gallery Suzhou Alley, Carrall St.

10. Light BarInstant Coffee / 33 W. Cordova St.

11. Far, Up Close InterUrban Gallery 1 E. Hastings St.

12. Rina Liddle: We Are WatchingJeffrey Boone Gallery #140 - 1 E. Cordova St.

13. Procession of Performing CirclesLIVE / Begins on Carrall and Pender St.

14. Natalie Purschwitz: Makeshift Makeshift Studio / 8 E. Cordova St.

15. Fearless City W2 Community Media Art Society / 112 W. Hastings St. and 149 W. Hastings St.

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