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.