S p a t i a l P o e t i c s VI

Saturday, July 7th, 2007, 8:00pm
VIVO (formerly Video In), 1965 main street
Tickets $10 (general) / $8 (students/seniors) at door
Information: 604 683 8240 or www.powellstreetfestival.com
Featuring premieres of collaborative pieces by
Yuriko Iga & Noel Macul
Lydia Kwa & Jason Sims
Lyndsay Sung & Rafael Tsuchida
Tricia Collins & Cindy Mochizuki

Powell Street Festival Society and VIVO Media Arts present the sixth 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. Contributing greatly to the Play Festival theme, this edition of Spatial Poetics will allow artists to present their most creative works in a critically engaging, anything-goes environment.

Featured performances include Dressup, by Lydia Kwa, a psychologist and writer who published her latest novel, The Walking Boy, in 2005. Dressup is a photo-based series adapted to a performance piece (also featuring composer Jason Sims) that plays with play and ideas of how a woman relates to her own body as an object of others' gaze. Other pieces include a collaboration between conceptual artists and directors of Blim Arts Society, Yuriko Iga and Noel Macul; a multimedia performance by Lyndsay Sung and Rafael Tsuchida; and, just recently confirmed, a staged reading (excerpt) of Gravity, written by Tricia Collins with visuals by Cindy Mochizuki. A selection of video shorts have been curated by Lyndsay Sung and includes work by Maiko Tanaka, Alison Kobayashi and more!

This is the opening event for the 31st Annual Powell Street Festival, held in Oppenheimer Park and the Firehall Arts Centre on August 4th and 5th, 2007. More information at www.powellstreetfestival.com.