Powell Street Festival Society and Video In

present: S p a t i a l P o e t i c s III

Saturday, July 10, 2004, 8pm

Video In, 1965 main street

Tickets $10 (general) / $8 (students/seniors)
Featuring premieres of collaborative pieces by

Theatre Replacement
(Maiko Bae Yamamoto & Kofu Yamamoto)
Madoka Hara & Lee Hutzulak
Mariko Tamaki

Powell Street Festival Society and Video In present Spatial Poetics III, an interdisciplinary event which celebrates collaboration, experimentation and innovation in the use of text, visuals, music, and performance by an eclectic line-up of artists. The end result will be a diverse collection of new works exploring community, identity, boundaries, and the nature of performance by emerging and established Asian Canadian artists, building on the success of the 2002 and 2003 Spatial Poetics events.

Premiering new pieces will be three groups of talented and inventive artists: Mariko Tamaki is a Toronto writer and performance activist who has published two books and is currently working on a third collection of essays, tentatively titled Cool/Uncool. She also performs with her experimental theatre troupe TOA. Maiko Bae Yamamoto and her father Kofu Yamamoto perform Train, using theatre and live musical accompaniment, a story of three people brought together by a strange connection in a place where lives and possibilities intersect. Madoka Hara and Lee Hutzulak perform live video manipulation with improvised music. Interdisciplinary artist Vanessa Kwan will also curate a selection of shorts by local videomakers, including RonTran, Lyndsay Sung, Rafael Tsuchida, Meesoo Lee and more.

This is the opening event for the 28 Annual Powell Street Festival, held in Oppenheimer Park and the Firehall Arts Centre on July 31 and August 1. More information at www.powellstreetfestival.com.

The Powell Street Festival Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs and Video In.

2004 Powell Street Festival -- July 10th-August 10th (fest weekend: July 31st - August 1st)
Tel: 604 739 9388/ Fax: 604 739 9308
475 Alexander Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1C6
www.powellstreetfestival.com