[antiwar-van] thirstDays No. 1 video/performance/ceremony

[Jayce Salloum]

thirstDays No. 1
Love, intimacy and (com)passion, in a geopolitical context --
a monthly series of video, film, performance and ceremony events
Project curator/artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum


Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 7:30pm
Ceremonial Activism 101
The Gifting Taiontenonhwera:ton
(to give thanks)

Curated & performed by T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss
and Aaron Rice
Featuring Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde
and Nicole Mandryk

Ceremony and feasting is a good place to begin -- that which comes
before all else. Respect and gratitude. We lay the groundwork and bring
the medicines, laying the foundation for those ahead of us. We witness,
we gather, we welcome, we feast, we tell stories, and share. We
connect.

Free admission or stream live at: thirstDays.vivomediaarts.com

EVENT AT
Native Education College
285 East 5th Ave. Vancouver BC
(5th
Ave. at Main St.)



UPCOMING Upcoming programs curated by Jeneen Frei Njootli + Ashok
Mathur, Denise Ryner + Tonel, Irwin Oostindie + Ronnie Dean Harris,
David Khang + Phanuel Antwi, Urban Subjects, Ali Lohan + Juan
Sepulveda, Raymond Boisjoly + Jordan Wilson, Ayumi Goto + Tannis
Monkman Nielsen, Dima Alansari + Cathy Busby, Sobhi Zobaidi + Dima
Yassine, Elisa Ferrari + Stacey Ho Writer in residence: Tarah Hogue


thirstDays is a project conceived as the rain falls and covers us in
slick substance transduced from the skies, moist. How can this, how can
we, contribute to the establishing of a momentum that may have once
been here in waves or pieces but over time was squandered, and
defeated, with the imposition of capital triumphantly declaring its
colonial (un)consciousness in our enclave by the water. Surrounded by a
possible serene beauty, grief and sadness, love and hate, what
encounters do we inscribe into our psyches and into our beings, what
can art do to fulfil a mandate of hope and agency. What can we
contribute.

The project takes inspiration from the patterns of existence to look at
the mechanisms which we are part of, and relate them to all we end up
being, sharing, denying, repressing and preserving. We seek that which
compels us: love, intimacy and (com)passion, explorations of the
commons/(un)commons; empathy and subjectivities; nourishing sites and
situations; modes of agency; and subjectivities of place.

We insist on diversity and threads of collaboration, strands of
'collectivity'/affinity, emphasizing works that have a specificity of
location with resonances/meanings for others within reach and beyond.
There is a socio-psycho imperative here at this site -- Vancouver --
grounded in what is missing and manoeuvering the gaps while referencing
the historic in the present(ness) -- and of the moment -- with the
critical reimagining of the repressed and the projection of empathy and
action. - Jayce Salloum


ONLINE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1645909272325888/
#thirstDays     #ceremonialactivism

ACCESSIBILITY INFO: The NEC longhouse is accessible from the ground
floor entrance at the corner of 5th Avenue and Scotia Street. Front
door: 33 inch witdh (single side); 70 inch width (both sides open).
There are no steps at the entrance. Washroom door: 33.5 inch width.
Toilet: 43 inch clearance on left side. The washroom is all genders and
has a handrail.

PRESENTED BY VIVO Media Arts Centre
www.vivomediaarts.com
#VIVOMediaArts

Elisa Ferrari Events + Exhibitions
events at vivomediaarts.com
604 872 8337 ext 3


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