Storyweaving Project

Hi folks,

I'm attending this really cool project being done tomorrow at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre on Hastings, 2-4:30. It's put on by Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Heart of the City Festival....Anyone and everyone, please join me!

Here's the info on it:


STORYWEAVING PROJECT

The Heart of the City Festival is excited to announce the Storyweaving Project (working title), produced with Vancouver Moving Theatre in partnership with the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association.Through the voices of lived experience the Storyweaving Project attempts to make sense of contemporary and historical relationships with land, water and community to address physical, mental, emotional and spiritual concerns of today’s Aboriginal urban community in Vancouver. When completed, the interdisciplinary theatrical presentation will combine Aboriginal traditional symbolism of the medicine wheel with music, dance and stories from the West Coast.The Storyweaving Project is a community-supporting event for here and now to help make sense of urban Aboriginal experience. Over the next eight months the Festival and our partners will undertake a series of workshops and events, three of which are presented at this year’s festival. These events culminate in a full production early May 2012 at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre. The cast will include Aboriginal performers and elders from the Downtown Eastside community and lower mainland, and groups associated with the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre. The lead artists on the team are Renae Morriseau (Script Director), Rosemary Georgeson (Artistic Coordinator), Savannah Walling (Artistic Director), Terry Hunter (Producer) and Sherry Small of the Aboriginal Friendship Centre (Cultural Liaison).

STORYWEAVING PROJECT SCRIPT READING
Thursday November 3, 2pm-4:30pm Aboriginal Friendship Centre Theatre Room, 1607 E. Hastings

The Storyweaving Project weaves together original material with poems, testimonies, personal memories, and selections from the Downtown Eastside Community Play (2003). The script is co-written by Renae Morriseau with Rose Georgeson and Savannah Walling and contributions from urban Aboriginal artists, James Fagan Tait, and Adrienne Wong. The script reading features elders Sam George and Marge C. White, Wes Nahanee, and DTES Aboriginal community members Sue Blue, Stephen Lytton, Kat Norris, Brenda Prince, Priscillia Tait, Herb Varley, and Muriel Williams. (update: Marge C. White is not able to join the reading today. Gloria May Eshkibok will take her place.) Please come and listen to this new script in development, and join the post reading discussion to provide your thoughts on how we can develop a strong and truthful script. Refreshments. Free