[antiwar-van] TODAY! Launch- People’s History of Kanada

[Harsha]

This Week's Straight's Choice for "City events for the socially conscious"!


- please forward -

Join us for the much-anticipated launch of the
People’s History of Canada/Kanada Poster Project!!!

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Friday October 5th 2007 from 7:00 pm onwards
Including music and DJ's
Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway (corner Kingsway)
Vancouver, occupied Coast Salish territories
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* The exhibit will remain up at Rhizome Cafe until October 21st.
* Thinking of gifts to buy for the holiday season- buy a series of the
full-colour People's History of Kanada posters (sliding scale)!
* Interested in having the exhibit (original art or posters) up at your
art space, campus, or elsewhere? Get in touch!


The People’s History of Canada/Kanada Poster Project is a collaborative
effort between grassroots artists and No One is Illegal-Vancouver. The
artists working on this Project come from a diversity of communities and
almost all carry his/herstories and direct experiences of colonization and
displacement that are being engaged within the Project.

Launch includes work by: * Afuwa Granger * Alex Mah  * Ange Sterritt  *
Annie Banks  * Naomi Moyer  * Tania Willard  * Riel Manywounds and Gord
Hill * Tyler Toews *

The Project also includes: Setareh Mohammadi, Paco Segura, Kara
Sievewright, Naava Smolash, Elogyny Tharmendran.

A series of original pieces will explore various moments of repression and
resistance in Canadian history such as systems of apartheid from reserves
to border walls, environmental racism in Africville to Skwekwek'welt,
history of exclusion from Chinese head tax and Japanese internment to
Security Certificates and current immigration policies, resistance such as
the Skeena Rebellion and Gustafsen Lake siege, history of migrant labour
programs, impacts of the 2010 Olympics, and more.

Through this project we have attempted to create art that is an active
part of our social movements and anti-colonial struggles. We invite you to
check out this exciting and powerful series of work at our launch party on
Friday October 5th, where prints and full colour posters will also be
available for sale.

Thank you to those at Purple Thistle, Rhizome Cafe, Gallery Gachet, No One
is Illegal collective members, and Under the Volcano who supported this
Project.

For more information contact noii-van at resist.ca or call 604 875-8455.