Tea 2 2010 Olympics ‘Live at Centre A’
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Covering Up – Masque Tea: A Tea in Disguise
Friday, Feb. 19th, 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Covering Up is an invitation to stage disruptions in a city in the midst of an exceptional moment. Begun during the height of preparations for the 2010 Olympic games, this project has invited individuals to participate by using domestic fabrics (bedding, curtains) as instruments of obstruction. A gesture of resistance, these individual and group cover ups materialize a playful and personal mimicry of the visual and political disruptions and obstructions that form the everyday in Vancouver.
Music by Rafael Tsuhida and the group Gyre with Ross Birdwise (click here for event details)
Urasenke at the World Tea Party
A traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony will be presented by Sakaino Sensei from 2:00pm to 5:00pm on Friday, Feb. 19th. Another traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony will be presented by Keith Snyder from 2:00pm to 5:00pm on Monday, Feb. 22nd. All are welcome.
Urasenke Vancouver will be presenting on an ongoing basis at the World Tea Party during Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Games – a traditional Japanese tea room has been setup at the Centre A gallery. Urasenke (裏千家?, lit. “the rear Sen house/family”) Urasenke Konnichian Web Site – is the name of one of the main schools of Japanese tea ceremony.
Urasenke Vancouver also maintains the Nitobe Memorial Garden, a traditional Japanese Tea and Stroll garden located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Nitobe Garden is considered to be the one of the most authentic Japanese gardens in North America and among the top five Japanese gardens outside of Japan.
Contact:
Urasenke Vancouver
209 Jackson Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V3K 4C1
tel: (604) 224-1560
email: ksnyder@intergate.ca
Blue Tea with Project Rainbow
Sunday, Feb 21
6:00 – 10:00 pm
Price: $5
A launch of Project Rainbow’s Blue, featuring the Canadian Women’s Ski Jumping Team 2009 in flight, includes live music and fine oolong “blue” tea. Blue is a commission from the City of Vancouver through its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program as part of Mapping and Marking.
Project Rainbow‘s fourth dance and media based project, Blue, is an experimental film and dance documentary, installed at four venues in East Vancouver-Centre A, The Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver, The Strathcona Community Centre and Solder and Sons-as well as the LED screens at Robson and Granville Streets, from early February until mid March 2010. The film installation features the Canadian Women’s Ski Jumping Team 2009 in flight. The jumpers were filmed ski-jumping while training in Zakopane, Poland, for the 2009 World Championship which took place in Liberec, Czech Republic. This footage will be shown on the LED screens in Downtown Vancouver. The jumpers were also filmed performing gestures based on their physical training and choreographed by Project Rainbow. Both aspects of the film will be shown as Chapters at the host sites in East Vancouver.
Jun Oenoki: Skype with Yokohama
Jun Oenoki
Yokohama – Vancouver
Time: Sat. Feb 20, 7 – 9 pm
Price: $5
A live streaming with Nine key art organization, alternative space and live party in Yokohama by Skype. Including, “Sixsquarebridge“,”Yokohama Creativecity Center“, “Noge Hana*Hana“, “BankART NYK/KOJIMA RADIO“, “KOTOLAB,LLC/YOKOHAMA HOSTEL VILLAGE“, “KOTOBUKI CREATIVE ACTION“, “Kanagawa University SOGABE-ken“, “KOGANECHO AREA MANAGEMENT CENTER“, and “YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011” talking about long term urban revitalizing projects initiated by the city of Yokohama in collaboration with artists and architects and the local community. Special Screening of “HEAVENHELL” by Chris Chong Chan Fui + Morinaga Yasuhiro (shorten version) and “KOTOBUKI_PROMOTION” by Ksuke Fukushima + Kohske Kawase, follows the streaming.
Jun Oenoki (born in 1962 in Saga, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo) is a prolific creator of installations and performances featuring electronic devices and equipment and is also actively involved in free radio and streaming, such as the free radio station “Shimokitazawa Radio Homerun” (1984-1994). In Yokohama 2005, Oenoki is collaborating with MIKAN (established in 1995.) to create a radio mobile broadcasting station. The radio station in the venue – which will be moved everyday – will broadcast live and feature a range of guests and artists. Anyone with an FM radio will be able to hear the program anywhere inside the venue, so that this radio station will not only be a medium connecting the various events taking place inside the venue but will also represent an alternative Yokohama Triennale venue, one with invisible boundaries, but still a place that large numbers of people can enter and leave, a place for encounters and interaction. Warehouse Keepers (formed in 2005), meanwhile, is a collaborative of students and local residents formed for this project, the role of which is to run the radio programs.
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