LOST AND FOUND website launch party

Friday, May 11, 2007, 7:00pm
Access Artist Run Centre, 206 Carrall Street

Free admission - * FAMILY EVENT *

Info: 604 683 8240, miko@dkam.ca
www.powellstreetfestival.com

The Lost and Found website is the second half of a collaborative project produced by the Powell Street Festival Society and Access Artist Run Centre in 2006.

Lost and Found was originally a group exhibition featuring the work of Judy Chartrand, Wayde Compton and Haruko Okano. Through an artistic residency with the PSFS and VAARC the three artists were asked to consider lost and forgotten "histories" that both linger and disappear within the context of the
Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, B.C.

Each artist produced new works that examined three particular neighborhoods in the DTES. The first area was the former Japantown that had existed prior to the Second World War. The second, Hogan's Alley, was Vancouver's first and last neighborhood with a concentrated black population and is now gone because of the construction of the Georgia Viaduct in the 1970's. The last and largest area covers the DTES and
Strathcona neighborhoods that were once made up of land once attributed to the Squamish Nation.

Please come help PSF, VAARC and the artists celebrate the launch of the legacy component of Lost and Found and view the site for the first time! Refreshments will be served.