[van-announce] RIPPING IT UP: A Collaborative Art Show

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RIPPING IT UP: A Collaborative Art Show
by Survivors of Disability Cutbacks

url:  http://www.rippingitup.org

cost: all events free

organization: Window Pains

contact name: Kym Hothead

email contact:  kymhothead at shaw.ca <mailto:kymhothead at shaw.ca>

phone:  (604)682-3269, code 7631 or (250) 920-9767

Location:  Interurban Gallery  9 East Hastings
Dates:  May 6 - 21

Pre-Opening March and Rally May 6th 6:15PM
meet at Carnegie Center, front steps, 401 Main St (at Hastings)

Art Show Opening at Interurban
May 6th at 8 PM

Carnegie Workshop Slam Poetry Night:
May 8th, 7 -9 pm

Gallery Workshop Presentation: Guaranteed Livable Income,
May 15th, 3 pm - 5 pm

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Artists with Disabilities take on the Liberals Campbell Government
The "Window Pain" project grows from the outraged disabled population
who are under attack by bc's neo-liberal government through the Persons
With Disabilities Review.
Ripping It Up artists respond to the question "how has the government
reassessment process affected you?", with paint, music, writing, outrage
and lifesaving solidarity.

We challenge the provincial governments' barbaric welfare and disability
policies.
We demand that the recent attempt to reassess what it means to be
eligible for disability "benefits" in this province be ripped up/
destroyed/ scrapped/ exposed!