2010 MEMORY FESTIVAL: CREATING AND RECORDING COLLECTIVE MEMORY

“The 2010 Memory Festival is a collaboration between the Roundhouse Community Centre, the Simon Fraser University Writing and Publishing Program and Geist magazine.
The Vancouver Memory Festival was founded by the Vancouver Memory Collective in 2006 as a free-floating series of public events that focus on public and private memory. At the heart of this endeavour lie questions of remembering, forgetting and the nature of memory itself.
Past participants and past co-sponsors include the Listel Hotel, Rumble Productions, Theatre Replacements, Vancouver Quilters’ Guild, TheTyee.ca, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and others.”

I just found out about this. It ended yesterday.

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2011 International Visual Sociology Conference: Visual Research as a Collaborative and Participatory Practice

Visual Research as a Collaborative and Participatory Practice
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Traditionally, visual research has been framed as a representational practice, different from, but equally valid to other representational practices (scientific, literary, etc). The 2011 International Visual Sociology Association Conference provides an opportunity to explore what it means to engage in visual research as a collaborative and participatory practice rather than simply a representational practice. Considering visual research as collaborative and participatory suggests new ways of working together and offers opportunities to think productively about alternative inquiry practices, analytical frames, and dissemination possibilities.

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This post feels so familiar, it’s like I could have written it, from the NM love, to the Montreal vs Vancouver vibe. I miss that city’s spirit so much.

coco-dreams:

Nomadic Massive-

Living in Montreal for the short time i did last year exposed me to grass root hip hop performers, educators and artists in a way Vancouver was not able to. In between tuesday nights with Kalmunity Vibe, i often found my self alone in a variety of different concerts/shows or workshops. This curiosity, imbedded in a mixture of loneliness and a desire for inspiration, was a blessing. In my second week in Montreal, i randomly ended up at a Concert for DAM, the first Palestinian Hip Hop group: Check SLINGSHOT HIP HOP out. Nomadic Massive opened for them- i was sold and an instant fan. Mad random evening. While watching the show i also met a now good friend of mine who knew some of the members of the group- and as she continued to rave about them and after seeing them live, i knew my stay in montreal was going to be guided by the love of music, art, education and community. And for four good months, it was so. The healing i had escaped to do had started and at the time, even I did not know so.

(Source: nomadicmassive.com)

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Hold the sun, I’m on my way

I need to go on a city walkabout ASAP. The sunsets begin to feel less and less like the fading of days and more and more like the dying of seasons. There’s that — the increasing remove of the light, replaced with clouds that seep up coatsleeves — and there’s also the realisation that I’ve written nothing and done no urban shoots since I got back here, going on 2 months now.

Gotta fight the apathy, before November sets in and kills me.