Meeting for Arts and Culture, Faith and Spirituality, Health and Healing, Recreation, Support Groups, Women

Every Tuesday Thursday Friday

Women's Drop-in at Union Gospel Mission at 607 East Hastings

Women's drop-in:
- Tuesday through Saturday 6:30 - 9:30 pm;
- Thursday 11:30 to 3:30 pm;
- Friday 1:00 to 3:30 pm

Program for Arts and Culture

Every Thursday
1:00:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM

Artist Techniques - Level 1 is an introduction to the many facets of creativity. This program happens every Thursday and will continue unless otherwise noted.

Program for Arts and Culture, Educational

Every Thursday
10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM

Self explanatory program which runs every Thursday on a drop-in basis.

Event for Arts and Culture, Cultural, Women, Youth

Every Tuesday
12:30am - 2:30pm

Join us in a weekly community art group for self-identified women - beginners and art enthusiasts alike. This group is about expression of feelings, thoughts, and experiences through art in a comfortable, creative and safe space. You do not have to be an artist to join this group, and there is no right or wrong way to participate in the process.

Call, email, or drop-in to learn more or to participate. All materials are provided at no cost.

Event for Arts and Culture, Cultural, Women, Youth

Every Tuesday
12:30a - 2:30p

Join us in a weekly community art group for self-identified women - beginners and art enthusiasts alike. This group is about expression of feelings, thoughts, and experiences through art in a comfortable, creative and safe space. You do not have to be an artist to join this group, and there is no right or wrong way to participate in the process.

Call, email, or drop-in to learn more or to participate. All materials are provided at no cost.

Event for Arts and Culture, Cultural, Women, Youth

Every Tuesday
12:30a - 2:30p

Join us in a weekly community art group for self-identified women - beginners and art enthusiasts alike. This group is about expression of feelings, thoughts, and experiences through art in a comfortable, creative and safe space. You do not have to be an artist to join this group, and there is no right or wrong way to participate in the process.

Call, email, or drop-in to learn more or to participate. All materials are provided at no cost.

Event for Aboriginal / First Nations / Native, Arts and Culture, Cultural, Educational, Employment Training, Family / Children, Gay / Lesbian / Bisexual / Transgender, Housing, Women, Youth

Saturday June 6, 2009 - Tuesday June 9, 2009
10:30a

Downtown Eastside Photography Contest

First Prize: $500

Second (5 winners): $100

Third (10 winners): $50

Honourable mention (24 winners): $25

free cameras and training provided

Theme: Heart of Our Community

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Pick up cameras at 10:30 am, Saturday, June 6 at the Interurban Gallery (1 East Hastings). Contest ends 5pm, Tuesday, June 9

 

Contest is open only to low-income residents (including children) of the Downtown Eastside

Event for Aboriginal / First Nations / Native, Arts and Culture, Cultural, Family / Children, Health and Healing, Multicultural, Seniors, Women, Youth, Other/General

Saturday August 8, 2009 - Saturday August 8, 2009
11:30am - 5:30pm

An absolutely free family event held on the north lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery. We feature music, food, dancers, history and culture, hands-on rafts and an all-around great time!

Event for Arts and Culture

Saturday November 21, 2009 - Sunday November 22, 2009
10am - 5pm

Elder's Christmas Craft Fair Saturday November 21 and Sunday November 22nd, 2009.

Time Both Dates: 10am - 5pm

Where: Judge Alfred Scow Gym

all proceeds will go towards Elders Program.

Location: 1607 East Hastings Street (corner hastings/commercial drive)

Event for Arts and Culture

Friday July 2, 2010 - Saturday July 31, 2010
7:00p - 6:00p

World Mad Pride Biennale 2010 Opening Night Reception: Fri July 2, 7-10pm In celebration of International Mad Pride Day on July 14th, 2010, Gallery Gachet continues its bi-annual tradition of honouring, by way of a month-long arts and education festival, this historic but little-known social change movement founded by psychiatric activists in the 1970s. As an arts collective whose mandate advances art and healing as a path to social and economic justice, Gallery Gachet embraces Mad Pride as a unique vantage point from which to address current world issues in an alternative framework: that of cultural and global mental health. This year's biennale, "ECO Madness!!! Or... Humans Are Killing the Planet and I Feel Fine," engages the concept of ecopsychology: an emerging field of study that criticizes mainstream psychology for ignoring social, and especially ecological, determinants of mental health. Through art, film, theatre, music and educational events throughout the month of July, Gallery Gachet aims to create a safe and radical (literal meaning: "root") space for a total creative FREAK OUT over what humans are doing to the Earth and to ourselves. "The context for defining sanity in our time has reached planetary magnitude." -Theodore Roszak, "Where Psyche Meets Gaia" highlights: July 2: Opening Night Reception Gallery Gachet 7-10pm July 7: Vancouver Premier! Crooked Beauty and END:CIV Vancity Cinema door 6:30 // show 7pm (www.viff.org) July 8: Encore screening: Crooked Beauty at Gachet, 7pm, sliding scale, no-one turned away, popcorn served! July 14: Mad Cabaret: Gallery Gachet 7pm July 24: Rock for Rivers: "Salmon Insanity!" Gallery Gachet door 7:30 pm July 29th: Theatre for the Insane: The Heart is an Endangered Species, 7pm July 31: Stop the Madness!!! closing night dance party Gallery Gachet 8pm till late visit www.gachet.org for complete festival line-up and details! Or grab a festival guide at the gallery.

Event for Aboriginal / First Nations / Native, Arts and Culture, Cultural, Health and Healing, Recreation, Other/General

Sunday July 11, 2010 - Sunday July 11, 2010
10:00a - 2:00p

Celebrate the offical opening of Cottonwood Community Garden's accessible garden and the 25th anniversary of Strathcona Community Garden with Mayor Gregor Robertson and guests....including a pair of nesting bald eagles!

Event for Aboriginal / First Nations / Native, Arts and Culture, Cultural, Health and Healing, Recreation, Other/General

Sunday July 11, 2010 - Sunday July 11, 2010
10:00a - 2:00p

Celebrate the offical opening of Cottonwood Community Garden's accessible garden and the 25th anniversary of Strathcona Community Garden with Mayor Gregor Robertson and guests....including a pair of nesting bald eagles!

Event for Arts and Culture, Cultural, Family / Children, Recreation, Seniors, Women, Youth, Other/General

Saturday August 28, 2010 - Saturday August 28, 2010
11:00a - 7:30p

A day-long end-of summer festival celebrating the services of Downtown Eastside Musicians & Poets. The day begins at 11 a.m. with soft music and poetry, pumps up to some hardcore/metal and then relaxes into some pop-blues around 3:45 pm.

Kids' activities and fun for everyone included free.

Movie: 5pm: The Waterhorse

Please see http://LiveVan.com 's August 28 listing, for full details of performers.

check facebook.com, search for Endless Summer and let us know you're coming. See who else is coming.

Workshop for Arts and Culture, Other/General

Tuesday April 5, 2011
Every Tuesday
10:00a - 12:00p

The Downtown Eastside Studio Society is holding weekly writing workshops every Tuesday at the LifeSkills Centre. Our workshops give clients the opportunity to hone their writing skills while the Writing Program Director facilitates peer feedback in a safe, constructive environment.
Clients who attend the workshops will have the option to have a piece of their writing published in a compilation book. Once the writing has been published, clients have the choice of selling their work and retaining the profits to offset their financial needs.
The workshops at the LifeSkills Centre are open to everyone, and snacks are provided.

Event for Aboriginal / First Nations / Native, Arts and Culture, Cultural

Thursday March 8, 2012 - Sunday March 11, 2012

Dancers of Damelahamid, in partnership with the UBC Museum of Anthropology, present the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival -  a week-long celebration of First Nations dance, music, and culture from March 8 to 11 at the Museum of Anthropology.

The annual event gathers a diverse array of Aboriginal performance groups from throughout BC, the Yukon, Alaska, and abroad to share a multitude of Indigenous cultures and dance traditions through a series of School Workshops, Signature Evening Presentations, and afternoon Festival Stage performances.

Signature Performances take place Mar. 9 & Mar. 10 at 7pm. Tickets are $25 for Adults; $20 for Students, Seniors, & MOA Members at TicketsTonight.ca.

Festival Stage performances are Mar. 10 & Mar. 11 from 1-4pm and are included with MOA admission.