[van-announce] Reminder! Tonight! March 4th, 7pm - The Culture/s of Movement Building - Performance & Community Conversation @ Rhizome - FREE

[mia amir]

Hey folks!

A reminder about tonight's amazing Centering the Tangent event!!! Also check
below for next week's incredible events! Please help spread the word and be
sure to RSVP!

Looking foward to seeing you all there!

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The Culture/s of Movement Building
March 4, 7:00 – 11:00
Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
Co-hosted by Streams of Justice
All-ages welcome! FREE! Childcare provided.

The Culture/s of Movement Building will be an evening of incredible
performance including the screening of an excerpt of Strength, Survival,
Sisterhood: Power of Women in the DTES as well as critical community
conversations exploring both the role of creativity and culture in our
organizing, and what contribution artists can make to movement.

Speakers/Artists include:

*Joan Morelli and Priscillia May of the Downtown Eastside Power of Women
Group;

*Hari Malagayo Alluri of the Press Release Collective; and

*Omari Newton, Urban Ink Resident Artist

The evening will close with performances by up-and-coming youth hip-hop
artists Kuyas United in Solidarity and others!!!
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ALSO next week be sure to check out the following Centering the Tangent
Events:

Graphic Voices! Comic-Making Workshop!

March 9, 5:30 – 8:30

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House 2425 Oxford Street

Facilitated by Gord Hill of the Vancouver Media
Co-Op<http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/>

FREE! All-ages welcome! Childcare, bus tickets and snacks provided.

Must RSVP to participate:
info at suyp.org/604.780.8463<http://mia@suyp.org/604.780.8463>
Comics and graphic novels arts are an excellent way to communicate our
stories. This workshop will leave participants with basic skills and
techniques for making comics/graphic novels and for using this medium as a
tool for communication, education, and for documenting histories of
resistance.

Sculpting Our Own Path Theatre Workshop!

March 11, 6:30 – 9:30

Bonsor Community Centre, 6550 Bonsor Avenue Burnaby

Facilitated by Gabriela Reynoso of the Breakthrough Mama's Collective

FREE! All-ages welcome! Childcare, bus tickets and snacks provided.

Must RSVP to participate:
info at suyp.org/604.780.8463<http://mia@suyp.org/604.780.8463>

Through this workshop we will use popular theatre to explore community
issues, with a focus on the struggles and oppression associated with
motherhood. Participants will collaboratively create a series of tableaus
that will be documented and shared at upcoming community performances and
events to generate awareness about these struggles.