Amnesty International 2012 Human Rights Conference

Come join us on the beautiful UBC Campus on June 15 as we tackle some of the most pressing human rights issues and questions facing our world today, such as 

the impact of last year's rebellion in the Middle East and North Africa

the current push for a global arms trade treaty

the need for greater corporate accountability

the role of social media in activism

how we can maintain momentum towards the full recognition for the rights of indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world.

The conference will provide you with amazing opportunities to connect with Amnesty supporters and other activists from the Vancouver region, meet professionals in the field and further build essential skills in advocacy and organizing. 

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to join these and many more exciting conversations we have in store. 

The human rights movement needs your input to keep it going!

To register on-line and for more information. 

Tanja Woloshen & Brit Bachmann

Friday, May 25, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, 103-421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, B.C. 

welcomes UBCO MFA Candidate Tanja Woloshen as she presents 

Room for the Underdog - an open performance 

Visitors are encouraged to drop in to the Alternator during the performance to view Woloshen's exhibition which explores the potential for transformations of identity, memory, loss and hope through post-butoh dance as a practice based philosophy. 

Special guest appearance and collaboration with Okanagan visual artist Brit Bachmann.

Tanja Woloshen is a live artist, dancer, choreographer, and teacher, a Winnipeg born Ukrainian prairie girl, and traveler by heart. 

Recent dance projects include "gesturing between utopia", "Traces", "lady rhizome", "Doctrine of Signatures: i. Bloodroot", "Roar, tiger of the heart and tear me open", and also performance collaborations with Sarah Anne Johnson: "Dancing with the Doctor", and with Inner Fish Performance Co.: "The House at the End of the Road". 

Tanja graduated with Honours from the University of Winnipeg's Department of Theatre and Film, and is a member of Winnipeg's Young Lungs Dance Exchange.

In Passing: Astrolabe Musik, Tara Cheyenne & SD Holman

For Remembrance Day weekend, Astrolabe Musik Theatre, Tara Cheyenne Performance, visual artist SD Holman and Heritage Vancouver present a multi-disciplinary meditation on mourning and mortality, In Passing. 

November 11 at 12:00 pm to November 13 at 11:00 pm

The Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Visual Arts installation free and open to the public Nov. 11 - 12 noon - 5:00 pm

with ticket during Nov. 12 - 13 showtimes.

Performances Nov. 12 and 13, 8:00 pm.

Tickets $25/$18 at the door and online at Brown Paper Tickets.

Contemporary music, dance, visual art, and built heritage come together to shed light on a little known aspect of the venue: its use by the secret society Knights of Pythias to prepare its members' bodies for burial.

Heritage Vancouver's cemetery expert Maurice Guibord begins with a walking tour, revealing the Front's fascinating hidden histories and secret spaces.

Astrolabe Musik Theatre presents Heather Pawsey, soprano and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano, performing Apparition, George Crumb's powerful evocation of death choreographed by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg; 

and the world premiere of composer Leslie Uyeda's Pas de Deux - What We Heard About Death, on text by Rachel Rose.

Tara Cheyenne Performance offers The Three Widows, danced by Alison Denham, Bevin Poole and Kim Tuson, a look at three widows of differing ages.

Photo-based artist SD Holman presents the intimate and poignant installation Still Life, a piece around grief and loss for her wife Catherine White Holman.

Pender Island Bottle Drive for Henry Down

Sunday, September 11 · 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Medicine Beach Cold Beer and Wine Store

Please save and rinse your bottles and cans and bring to the bottle drive. 

All donations will be kindly matched by Medicine Beach Liquor Store.

All monies we raise in total, will be matched up to $5000 by Cancer Charity. 

Pender Island knows how to support its own.

Thank you,  

Tracy Hodgins

The Flaming Trolleys ~ Shambala Snippets!

Show & Tell & Play

Wednesday, August 17 · 8:30 pm - 11:30 pm

Trolley HQ = Rags Theatre

216 McDermot

An informal presentation of pictures, musings and stories from our recent tour 

to beautiful Salmo, British Columbia for the indefatigable Shambala Festival.

Also our regular jam night!

If you've thought about joining a community orchestra, this could be your night 

to check us out!

Bring your own selves, instruments, percussion, snax, coffee mugs, what have you...

Shambhala Music Festival 2011

August 3 - August 8 

Salmo River Ranch, Salmo, BC

Shambhala is a family-owned and run business, supported by a core staff of friends who love putting on a world-class electronic music festival for our 10,000 friends.

Shambhala is held annually on the pristine Salmo River Ranch, and boasts 6 uniquely themed stages. 

We aim to bring you the best in up & coming electronic music talent from around the globe every summer, along with well-known favourites.

Shambhala is a celebration of music, art and life.

It’s all about the people on the dancefloor.

BUYING/SELLING TICKET INFO. 

Shambhala is not responsible for tickets purchased through 3rd parties.

The only way to get tickets now is to get them in stores in B.C. and Alberta.

Shambhala is funded solely by ticket sales. 

It grew organically by word of mouth from a small gathering of 500 or so people in ’98. 

Ticket sales are capped at 10,000, keeping it an intimate gathering.

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Winnipeggers gettin' their Shambhala on 2011

Thursday, August 4 · 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Winnipeg artists performing so far:

-Chris Komus at the Labyrinth stage

-ill Type at the MOO CREW stage in the campground

-The Lytics at The Rock Pit

-Flaming Trolleys at the Labyrinth stage

Die Roten Punkte

Die Roten Punkte - KUNST ROCK North American Tour

Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of The Conchords say “Hallo” to your new favourite band. 

Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots) are Berlin's Prince and Princess of Indie Rock.

Following sell-out shows in New York, Montreal, Dublin and Edinburgh, the utterly dysfunctional siblings Otto and Astrid Rot travel to North America to unveil their eagerly anticipated third album, KUNST ROCK (ART ROCK) featuring the songs 'Burger Store Dinosaur' and 'Bananenhaus (Banana House)'.

Described as "a lipstick-smeared, tantrum-loving, sonic collision between B52s, Kraftwerk and early Ramones", Die Roten Punkte are truly unique. 

Their songs are ridiculously infectious and their live show is one of the most irreverent and hilarious gigs you are ever likely to see.

USA

Charlotte, North Carolina

28-30 July -- DUKE ENERGY THEATRE at Spirit Square

Canada

Vancouver

2-13 August -- THE CULTCH

Victoria

18-20 August -- METRO STUDIO

"Best Production (Cabaret)", 2008 Green Room Awards, Australia

"Best Production", 2008 Montreal Fringe Festival

“Like watching a mixture between an Eddie Izzard stand-up routine and a tarted-up David Bowie fan perform music worthy not only of parody, but also perhaps of my beloved Scissor Sisters. A show not to be missed!” – Mondo Magazine, Toronto

Malahat Review: Creative Nonfiction & Toshiro Saito

Join authors David Leach, M. A. C. Farrant, George Sipos, and Christin Geall as they reveal the best (and the worst) of the misunderstood genre of creative nonfiction on Saturday, May 28, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Central Meeting Room,
Greater Victoria Public Library, 735 Broughton.

The rising popularity of creative nonfiction has opened new doors for readers and writers of stories based in fact. 

Enhanced by dramatic scenes, dialogue, and characterization, contemporary creative nonfiction can include the personal essay, memoir, travel writing, historical accounts, and biography. 

It can enlighten and educate through vivid storytelling and fresh insight. 

But do some authors bend the truth? 

How "creative" can nonfiction be? 

Admission:

$10 general

$5 students

FREE for Friends of The Malahat

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There's a Winnipeg connection to the Spring 2011 issue of The Malahat Review...

It contains an excerpt of the memoir At War's End in Indonesia which was written by Winnipeg author Sally Ito's grandfather, Toshiro Saito.

The Malahat Review's Launch & Contest

Come celebrate our Spring issue with readings from:  

Cynthia Woodman Kerkham (2011 Open Season Award for poetry winner) 

Philip Huynh (2011 Open Season Award for short fiction winner) 

Patrick Friesen 

Rhonda Batchelor reading from Michael Larson's "The Woods" 

Barbara Stewart 

Iain Higgins  

UVic Fine Arts Building, Lobby and Room 103 

Tuesday, May 3  

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm  

FREE admission (and treats).  

Draw prize for all Friends of The Malahat in attendance!  

The Malahat Review is one of Canada's leading literary journals. 

Published quarterly, it contains contemporary works of Canadian and International poetry and fiction, as well as reviews of Canadian fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction.

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If your fiction has yet to be published in book form (book=48pgs or more), you have until next Sunday (May 1) to mail your best piece of short fiction (3500 words or less) to our Far Horizons Contest for Short Fiction. 

Prize: $1000 CAD

Entry fee:

$25 CAD for Canadians

$30 USD for US residents

$35 USD for entries from elsewhere (anywhere else!)

*Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review

Deadline: May 2, 2011 postmarked

Mail entries to:

The Malahat Review

Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction

University of Victoria

PO Box 1700 Stn CSC

Victoria, BC

V8W 2Y2

Canada

Full contest guidelines for The Malahat Review 

Queries: malahat@uvic.ca

Good Holding Ground

The Good Holding Ground Launch will take place on Friday, April 29, 

from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm at Planet Earth Poetry, #103-1633 Hillside Ave., Victoria, BC.  

Good Holding Ground maps the awakening of sexuality and how our bodies and hearts respond to marital and family bonds.   

The sense of wilderness, the body out of control, is described in vivid detail in many of the poems. From sailing in the uncertain waves of the Pacific, to a cancer diagnosis, Kerkham explores our place in nature and struggles to negotiate the varied relationships that have a powerful hold on us. These poems are at once personal and a testament to our times. 

In precise and painterly detail, they investigate the diverse worlds of family and explore our ambivalence, anger, gratitude and desire.