AIDS Vancouver and YouthCO in partnership with The Dance Centre
Project Stitch Digital AIDS Quilt
Friday, November 30, 2007 (runs to Dec. 9)
Official opening 2pm, reception to follow
Scotiabank Dance Centre – main lobby
Project Stitch launches the display of its collaborative community art project– a digital AIDS quilt created by youths.
Project Stitch is a youth focused, HIV-awareness initiative launched last year by AIDS Vancouver with the support of local youth and community groups. Project Stitch consists of an interactive website, community-based workshops, mentoring opportunities, collaborative art project (the Digital AIDS Quilt) and a large-scale multi-media World AIDS Day event.
The Centre, Cineworks, Out on Screen and Vancouver New Music
Zero Patience
Friday November 30, 2007 doors at 7pm, show at 8pm, artist Q&A and reception to follow.
Tickets $10/$7 students/seniors available at the door.
The Centre, Cineworks, Out on Screen and Vancouver New Music are pleased to present a screening of John Greyson’s film Zero Patience. Greyson’s award winning musical-comedy presents a unique refutation of the idea that AIDS was brought to North America by a single, traceable person – “Patient Zero”.
In Zero Patience the ghost of Zero returns to haunt Sir Richard Burton, a museum curator who is intending to present the Patient Zero hypothesis as part of an exhibit in his Hall of Contagion.
John Greyson will be present for a Q&A following the film
Vancouver New Music
Fig Trees – a video-opera installation by John Greyson and David Wall
Saturday, December 1; opening reception and performance 3pm
December 2 - 9; open noon – 8pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Suggested donation $5 - $20
Fig Trees is a multimedia opera installation that considers treatment and political issues in the story of Zackie Achmat, a South African man living with AIDS. Achmat’s decision to refuse treatment until medication was available to all who needed it made international headlines.
Performance at 3pm featuring Melanie Adams, Olivia Kurth, Carman Price and David Wall.
Art & Activism: artist panel
moderated by Sadira Rodrigues (VAG)
Saturday, December 1; 4:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Sadira Rodrigues moderates a panel discussion with sound, media and visual artists about art and political activism. Panelists include John Greyson, Tiko Kerr, David Wall and others.
AIDS Vancouver and YouthCO
A youth focused World AIDS Day event!
Saturday, December 1, 2007; 7pm
Ironworks Studio, 235 Alexander Street
Join us this December 1st for an evening of art, music, performance and exhibition of the 2007 Digital AIDS Quilt.
Cineworks and Vancouver New Music
The Queen's Sore Throat – a lecture demonstration by John Greyson
Sunday, December 2, 2007; 2pm; reception to follow
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Spinning off the work of Wayne Koestenbaum, Douglas Crimp, Linda Hutcheon and others concerning notions of activism, the queer martyr, the operatic spectacle, and the rendering of the American and African AIDS pandemics in song, this lecture explores the use of voice, song and opera in John Greyson’s work addressing AIDS. Throughout the lecture Greyson will reference clips from his films, including the agit-prop PSA The ADS Epidemic, a safer-sex remake of Death in Venice; excerpts from Greyson’s AIDS musical Zero Patience; and scenes from his recent video-installation Fig Trees, which reimagines the treatment strike of South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat.
Project Stitch Digital AIDS Quilt
Friday, November 30, 2007 (runs to Dec. 9)
Official opening 2pm, reception to follow
Scotiabank Dance Centre – main lobby
Project Stitch launches the display of its collaborative community art project– a digital AIDS quilt created by youths.
Project Stitch is a youth focused, HIV-awareness initiative launched last year by AIDS Vancouver with the support of local youth and community groups. Project Stitch consists of an interactive website, community-based workshops, mentoring opportunities, collaborative art project (the Digital AIDS Quilt) and a large-scale multi-media World AIDS Day event.
The Centre, Cineworks, Out on Screen and Vancouver New Music
Zero Patience
Friday November 30, 2007 doors at 7pm, show at 8pm, artist Q&A and reception to follow.
Tickets $10/$7 students/seniors available at the door.
The Centre, Cineworks, Out on Screen and Vancouver New Music are pleased to present a screening of John Greyson’s film Zero Patience. Greyson’s award winning musical-comedy presents a unique refutation of the idea that AIDS was brought to North America by a single, traceable person – “Patient Zero”.
In Zero Patience the ghost of Zero returns to haunt Sir Richard Burton, a museum curator who is intending to present the Patient Zero hypothesis as part of an exhibit in his Hall of Contagion.
John Greyson will be present for a Q&A following the film
Vancouver New Music
Fig Trees – a video-opera installation by John Greyson and David Wall
Saturday, December 1; opening reception and performance 3pm
December 2 - 9; open noon – 8pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Suggested donation $5 - $20
Fig Trees is a multimedia opera installation that considers treatment and political issues in the story of Zackie Achmat, a South African man living with AIDS. Achmat’s decision to refuse treatment until medication was available to all who needed it made international headlines.
Performance at 3pm featuring Melanie Adams, Olivia Kurth, Carman Price and David Wall.
Art & Activism: artist panel
moderated by Sadira Rodrigues (VAG)
Saturday, December 1; 4:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Sadira Rodrigues moderates a panel discussion with sound, media and visual artists about art and political activism. Panelists include John Greyson, Tiko Kerr, David Wall and others.
AIDS Vancouver and YouthCO
A youth focused World AIDS Day event!
Saturday, December 1, 2007; 7pm
Ironworks Studio, 235 Alexander Street
Join us this December 1st for an evening of art, music, performance and exhibition of the 2007 Digital AIDS Quilt.
Cineworks and Vancouver New Music
The Queen's Sore Throat – a lecture demonstration by John Greyson
Sunday, December 2, 2007; 2pm; reception to follow
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Spinning off the work of Wayne Koestenbaum, Douglas Crimp, Linda Hutcheon and others concerning notions of activism, the queer martyr, the operatic spectacle, and the rendering of the American and African AIDS pandemics in song, this lecture explores the use of voice, song and opera in John Greyson’s work addressing AIDS. Throughout the lecture Greyson will reference clips from his films, including the agit-prop PSA The ADS Epidemic, a safer-sex remake of Death in Venice; excerpts from Greyson’s AIDS musical Zero Patience; and scenes from his recent video-installation Fig Trees, which reimagines the treatment strike of South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat.
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