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January 13, 2009

 

Centre A January 2009 Event Calender

1. Tuesday, January 13 – Thursday, January15 | UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture M.Arch Thesis Presentation

2. Friday, January 23: Up with Hope | Fundraising Photo Silent Auction & Party

3. Wednesday, January 28: OurTube | Screening and Talk

4. Friday, January 30: A Little Distillery in Nowgong | Opening Reception | Exhibition January 31 – Feb 28

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1. Tuesday, January 13 – Thursday, January 15, UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture M. Arch Thesis Reviews and Presentation at Centre A’s gallery space.

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2. Up with Hope, Friday, Jan 23, 6pm - 2am

In the fall of 2007, Justin Sekiguchi, Sean McHugh and Nathaniel Canuel teamed up with the Soweto Youth Group in Nairobi to tackle the challenges of unemployment and lack of proper waste management in Kibera. The result of their efforts is the Soweto Youth Group Waste Management Centre, a fully functioning waste management and recycling business run by the
impoverished youth of Kibera, Africa's largest slum.

UP WITH HOPE is now fundraising for a second term of construction. The event features a silent auction of beautiful colour photographs. Using disposable cameras, the youth of Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum, took photos of the same areas that made international headlines weeks later during the post-election violence that rocked Kenya in late 2007 and early 2008.
The awe-inspiring photos will be on sale via silent auction between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm. Local musicians Corbin Murdoch & the Nautical Miles, The Sappers, DJ Seko and Skilly will be performing throughout the night. Pay by cash or cheque. All proceeds from the event go toward building waste management centres around Nairobi.
Up with Hope was highlighted on CBC’s The National. The clip can be viewed at: http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/special_feature/a_world_of_difference/digging_in.html.
Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvB4Zm3AhFc

For more information please contact:
Justin Sekiguchi justin@eya.ca, 604-618-5058, www.upwithhope.ca

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3. OurTube No. 14, Wednesday, January 28, 8pm-10pm

OurTube is Centre A’s monthly screening and talking event that’s held at Centre A's lounge space on the last Wednesday night of every month after gallery hours. Our Tube is a play on "YouTube". The idea behind the project is not only to broadcast your video, but also to share the experience of watching video with others and talking about it.

For the 14th edition of OurTube, you are invited to join Makiko Hara and Randy Gledhill for an exciting report on the latest happenings in Asia, including performance art festivel Beyond Pressure in Burma, the Asiatopia Festival in Bangkok and the new art city in Seoul, Korea.

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4. A Little Distillery in Nowgong
A multimedia/interdisciplinary exhibition

Exhibition: January 30-February 28
Opening: Friday, January 30, 8pm
Performance by David H.Bateman, 9pm (free admission)

Conceptualized by Ashok Mathur (Vancouver, BC)
Artists: Brendan Tang (Ceramic pot, Kamloops, BC), Diyan Achadi (Prints and video, Vancouver, BC) and David H. Bateman (Performance and painting, Toronto)
Curator: Makiko Hara
Exhibition Patron: Joanne Louie Mah

The central tenet of A Little Distillery in Nowgong project is to develop an interdisciplinary narrative that exemplifies the transformative nature of artistic production. While one of the major generative elements will be the research and writing of a novel that, like the earlier work of Ashok Mathur, draws on postcolonial, diasporic, and globalization theories, integral to this project is a degree of interdisciplinarity that will further engage the reader/viewer through an interactive installation. By fully integrating multiple disciplines – specifically, writing, video, ceramics, printmaking, performance, and installation – this project will be disseminated through several distinct forms to function in Canada and abroad in literary and visual arts environments. The overall objective of this project will be to explore and articulate possibilities for an extensive interdisciplinary production that allows for full development of all its composite elements.

For the complete press release, please go to http://centrea.org/index.cfm?go=site.index&section=exhibitions&id=73

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Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 -18:00, Sunday-Monday closed

Address: 2 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC, V6B, 1G6

Tel: 604-683-8326 Fax: 604-683-8632 www.centrea.org, info@centrea.org

Centre A gratefully acknowledges the generous support of its patrons, sponsors, members, partners, private foundations, as well as government funding agencies, including Centre for innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs.

 

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[June 20]Ourtube#23 Tokyo Underground - 2010 Jun 30

[June 1]Centre A Executive Director to Step Down - 2010 Jun 01

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[MAY 8]BOOK NOW! Centre A's 11th Anniversary - 2010 May 08

[APRIL 30-MAY 6]New Faces of BC Photo Exhibit - 2010 Apr 29

[Mar31]Annual General Meeting - March 31 - 2010 Mar 31

[Feb 9]Centre A hosts Asia Pacific Foundation's award ceremony - 2010 Feb 09

[Dec 5]Khan Lee artist talk and catalogue launch - 2009 Dec 05

[Nov 25]Ourtube 21 with Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa - 2009 Nov 25

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[Oct 31]VAMPYRE LOVE BALL - 2009 Oct 31

[Oct 28]Ourtube #20:Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Report - 2009 Oct 28

[Oct 3]Makiko Hara curates Nuit Blanche in Toronto - 2009 Oct 03

[Sept 20]Another City travels to Musee d'art de Joliette - 2009 Sep 20

[July 29]19th Ourtube: Judy Cheung - 2009 Jul 29

[July 16]Centre A sponsors the Canadian premiere of Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara - 2009 Jul 16

[July 16]Mending-a performance by Verb Woman aka Margaret Dragu-Aktion#1 - 2009 Jul 16

[June 24]OurTube 18:Radical Humanisms: Performance Art and the Language of Conflict - 2009 Jun 24

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Debra Zhou wins Important Grant - 2009 Jun 04

Ourtube 17: Hank Bull on his state visit with the Governor Genral - 2009 Jun 03

[May 15&16]New Faces of Vancouver Photo Exhibit - 2009 May 15

[May 9th] Centre A's 10th Anniversary Gala | Auction Preview - 2009 May 09

[April 22]Centre A director joins Governor General on state visit to Ukraine and Norway - 2009 Apr 22

[March 25]OurTube 16: Almost LIVE with Ikbal Singh & Todd A Davis - 2009 Mar 25

The 15th OurTube: Up With Hope - 2009 Feb 25

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[May 28]OurTube: The Heart That Has No Love/Pain/Generosity Is Not A Heart - 2008 May 28

The Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme Seminar Series - 2008 May 22

[May 3]Centre A's 9th Fundraising Dinner & Auction. Updated with list of art work. - 2008 May 03

[April 23]OurTube:Radio Afghanistan with Patrick Ready - 2008 Apr 23

[March 27]Annual General Meeting of the Members - 2008 Mar 27

[March 26]Ourtube: Special Screening - 2008 Mar 26

[March 22]Special Easter Weekend Hour - 2008 Mar 22

[March 15 - April 26] Film Screening - 2008 Mar 15

[March 14]Symposium on Orientalism and Ephemera - 2008 Mar 14

[March 6]Paul Chan Poster Launch - 2008 Mar 06

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[Oct 25]Iwan Wijono live performance at Centre A - 2007 Oct 25

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[June 27]The 2nd OurTube - Nairobi Report and Recent Activities (with guest speaker Kyohei Sakaguchi) - 2007 Jun 27

[June 21]Color School @ Centre A with liz Park - 2007 Jun 21

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