SPATIAL POETICS V – Experimentation, Innovation and Collaboration of Asian Canadian Artists

Powell Street Festival Society presents 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 Asian Canadian 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.

SPATIAL POETICS V
Saturday, July 8, 2006, 8pm
Video In, 1965 Main Street
Tickets at the door: $10 / $8
Information: 604.683.8240 / www.powellstreetfestival.com

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
* 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
* Artist Lindsay Sung will also curate a selection of shorts by local, Canadian, and US videomakers,.
* Sepideh Saii, Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson will present a piece that combines silhouette puppetry, animation, video and sound.

This is the opening event for the 30th Annual Powell Street Festival honouring the Japanese Canadian community, held in Oppenheimer Park and the Firehall Arts Centre on August 5-6, 2006.

More:
Powell Street Festival website @ www.powellstreetfestival.com