SPATIAL POETICS V

FEATURING NEW WORK BY
ARETHA AOKI & SCOTT MALIN
WORLD TEA PARTY (in association with Urasenke Tea School, Vancouver)
SEPIDEH SAII & MAYA ERSAN & JAIMIE ROBSON

Saturday, July 8, 2006, 8pm
Video In, 1965 Main Street
Tickets at the door: $10/$8
Information: 604 683 8240 / www.powellstreetfestival.com

Powell Street Festival Society and Video In present the fifth annual Spatial Poetics, 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 successes of previous Spatial Poetics events. Premiering new pieces will be three groups of talented and inventive artists: dance artist Aretha Aoki will collaborate with visual artist Scott Malin in If Our Eyes Had Teeth, which explores scale and perspective through drawing and dance. Trolley Bus (aka Bryan Mulvihill) will facilitate a site-specific performance of a tea ceremony, otherwise known as World Tea Party, with members of the Urasenke Tea School, Vancouver. Sepideh Saii, Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson will present a piece that combines silhouette puppetry, animation, video and sound. Musician and media artist Lyndsay Sung will curate a selection of video shorts by Asian artists from Canada, the US, and internationally.

This is the opening event for the 30th Annual Powell Street Festival, held in Oppenheimer Park and the Firehall Arts Centre on August 5th and 6th, 2006. More information at www.powellstreetfestival.com.