[van-announce] 2 desmedia events: painting exhibition & screening [xz]

[JSalloum at aol.com]

desmedia [downtown eastside media] presents…
the launch of an ongoing exhibition of collaborative backdrop paintings 
at Pigeon Park Savings, 92 E. Hastings St.   
(S.W. corner of Hastings & Columbia St.)

A rotating selection of communal paintings produced by participants
in the desmedia workshops held in the downtown eastside since March 2000.

Opening reception: Friday, October 8, 2:00pm –4:00pm
The exhibition will continue during regular banking hours.

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and a screeening of
desmedia 2: 
A collaborative videotape created in the Downtown Eastside.
at First United Church
Tuesday Oct. 12, 2:00
320 E. Hastings St (& Gore)
(with several short films made in the dtes)

‘desmedia 2’ (57 mins, 2003) is an ‘oral history’ videotape featuring 
conversations with a diverse array of residents and members of the Downtown 
Eastside community. The people taped have contributed to the vitality and history of 
the Carnegie Centre as well as the larger neighbourhood, they include 
organizational staff and volunteers, people off and on the street, in the parks, and 
those who came to our weekly workshops at the Carnegie, Oppenheimer Park, and 
elsewhere in the DTES.   The participants of the workshops and members of 
desmedia recorded footage for this project since the beginning of 2001, and 
continued until the summer of 2003. It is our second videotape about the area. The 
videotape had its premiere at the Carnegie Centre theatre in September 2003 as 
part of the Carnegie anniversary project. This is the second time it will be 
screened.

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The desmedia collective is a group of four artists committed to working on 
engaged, collaborative art projects with other residents and members of the 
community.   All of our projects/workshops are run on a volunteer basis and are 
free to participants, all materials and equipment are provided.   The objective 
of the collective is to provide opportunities for the productive possibilities 
of self-expression, self-reflection and self-representation.   The workshops 
themselves utilize painting, installation, video, photography and related 
media inside an atmosphere of facilitation and support provided by the collective. 
They are an integral part of our practice exploring various ways of 
documenting lives and histories as well as giving evidence to and providing a venue for 
the vitality and creativity of members of the community.   The works produced 
and the process employed in production is reflective of the participants (and 
collective) and brings to the forefront the relationship of the individual 
and a larger social body. 

For more information contact: 
desmedia at rrrr.net     


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