Powell Street Festival
410 - 111 West Hastings Street V6B 1G4 Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Powell Street Festival Lottery is back! Join us in celebrating the 45th annual Powell Street Festival in our highly anticipated annual lottery. There are 20 prizes to be won and all proceeds go toward Powell Street Festival Society and help to ensure our long-term sustainability and resilience. Single tickets are $5, and booklets of 5 tickets are $20. To purchase yours today, visit http://psf-lottery.eventbrite.com. ... Here you can find more details, including a list of fun prizes (many staycation-themed!), draw dates, and more. Thank you for your support, and look out for more to come! #powellstfest

Register for Paueru Gai Dialogue: The Changing Environment and Humanity, our online event happening this Saturday! See link below. Hear from T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss and other panelists who will provide insight into their daily lives, art practices and activism. Her works range over 30 years and have always focused on sustainability, permaculture techniques, Coast Salish Cultural elements and have included themes of ethnobotany, indigenous language revival, Salish weaving and digital media technology. Register here > https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-paueru-gai-dialogues-5-tick

HAPPENING TONIGHT: Our online AGM is at 7:00 PM PST! Register to join us below to receive the zoom link and info package. Thank-you for your support and we hope to see you there.

We are less than one week away from Paueru Gai Dialogues #5: The Changing Environment and Humanity (May 22nd)! Register here > https://www.eventbrite.ca/.../the-paueru-gai-dialogues-5... We are excited to have panelist Rita Wong join us in a discussion about the environment through the lens of art & activism. Rita is dedicated to questions of water justice, decolonization, and ecology, and is the author of monkeypuzzle, forage, sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai), undercurrent, perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki), and beholden (with Fred Wah), as well as the co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (with Dorothy Christian). See 1308trees.ca for what she has recently been working on!

We are excited to have Jen Sungshine as a panelist on our next Paueru Gai Dialogues: The Changing Environment and Humanity (May 22nd). Register today! Jen is a queer Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary & multi-hyphenate artist/activist, community facilitator, and cultural producer based in Vancouver, BC. She is the Co-Artistic Director and Co-founder of Love Intersections, a media arts collective producing intergenerational + intersectional QTBIPOC stories through documentary film. We can't wait to hear Jen's perspectives at our event. Register for the event here > https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-paueru-gai-dialogues-5-tick

WATCH NOW theatreworks.org/online/holdthesetruths Rent TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's acclaimed 2018 production of HOLD THESE TRUTHS starring Joel de la Fuen...te anytime through Tuesday, November 3! Pay-what-you-can pricing starts at $10. Don't miss this stirring story of democracy and dissent, written by Jeanne Sakata and directed by Lisa Rothe. See more

Join us in supporting our local artists with the #POWERSHARE Covid Relief Fundraiser for BIPOC Artists! @seara_fund is raising & distributing $500k-$1M to BC-based BIPOC Artists facing financial hardship. Donate or apply for a grant at searafund.ca. The Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts (SEARA) @seara_fund... was created by BC Arts Service Organizations and other sector leaders to call for mutual aid and accountability in the arts. To simultaneously provide COVID-19 support and point to the inadequacies of current arts-funding models, SEARA looks to raise and deliver $500K-$1M to BC-based BIPOC Artists currently facing financial hardship. Help us to offset BC-based BIPOC Artists’ loss of income, and simultaneously address historical inequities in the sector. Donate to #POWERSHARE and check out our donation goals online at searafund.ca ! #SEARA #OURSHARE #BIPOCArtists #BC #Vancouver

The virtual exhibit launch of Broken Promises at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre: Saturday, September 26, 2020 1:00-2:00 pm PDT/ 4:00-500 pm EDT Live stream and virtual programming... View trailer Programming will include the launch of a Landscapes of Injustice book, knowledge mobilization outputs, and exciting information about digital offerings. From September 29 onwards, the exhibit will be open 10am - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday. COVID protocols are in place. The gallery has a limited capacity of 8 people. For more information about the exhibit, visit https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/broken-promises/

https://www.madeinbc.org/mainstage/ APPLY FOR THE 2021-22 MAINSTAGE SHOWCASE Made in BC’s Mainstage program begins with artist submissions to our annual online showcase. This showcase is available to the pubic and is linked to the CanDance Network for a larger reach.... Deadline: Tuesday September 30th (11:59pm) Fee: $25 See more

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/megaphone-happy-hour-2020-ticke Join the Megaphone community for the 7th annual Megaphone fundraiser - Megaphone Happy Hour - on Thursday, September 24 over Zoom. This event will bring together Megaphone and Hope in Shadows vendors, supporters, and partners to build strong communities and support for solutions to end poverty. We'll celebrate our accomplishments in the Megaphone community and talk about our vision for the future as Megaphone grows. We'll also award one hard-working vendor the honour of Vendor of the Year!

Integrated Dance Company -Kyo free live video stream Date: Sunday 4th October 2020. Start from 2:30pm (JST) Youtube address: https://youtu.be/v9lisWzG09I ... Program: Open State (13mins) "Open State" is a theater term that means everything on the stage is as it is, only with a simple lighting. This term is also referred as being open-minded to accept change. This time, the works that premiered in 2015 and re-performed in 2017 are summarized in about 10 minutes. Please enjoy this trio work. Choreographer: Adam Benjamin Re-editior: Takashi Suzuki Performers: Maho Amakata, Rieko Hirata, Takashi Suzuki Power Pole(30 mins) "Tsuki yo no Denshin Bashira (Electric Poles in the Moonlit Night)" written by Kenji Miyazawa is directed as a theatrical dance work. This play, performed in the moonlit night, including beautiful animation, would be a work that anyone can enjoy. Original author: Kenji Miyazawa Choreographer: Takuro Suzuki Performers: Yoko Izumi, Narumi Iwatsubo, Takashi Suzuki, Baushu Tezuka, Suzuka Nakanishi Animation: Kenichi Aoyama Shibomu youni, Hiraku youna - Shrinking, Growing (10 mins) Performers: Hiromi, Satoshi Shibuya Staff Lighting by : Asako Miura Sound crew: Yasutaka Kobayakwa Stage director: Takashi Kawachi Production: Muse Company Producer: Yuko Ijichi Integrated Dance Company -Kyo Integrated Dance Company -Kyo was established in 2014 with dancers who use wheelchairs to develop new dance expressions by taking advantage of diverse physicality. It has attracted attention as an activity that connects society and art since then. The choreographers such as Yukio Suzuki, Adam Benjamin, Takiko Iwabuchi, Didier Theron, Takuro Suzuki, Thomas Noone, Shintaro Hirahara, Athina Vahala, and Ikumi Kurosu have been invited so far. The overseas performances were held in two cities Plymouth and Bristol in the UK in September 2017, and it was also invited to the KIADA Festival in South Korea in 2018. The concepts such as normalization and inclusion are embodied in its dance. Artistic Advisor: Adam Benjamin, Producer: Yuko Ijichi

New(to)Town Collective's ONLINE Training Jams is our attempt to capture the essence of experimental play that occur in the studio that command human connection. New(to)Town Collective’s intention is to engage beyond the screens to catalyze a conscious re-connection to the body and the psyche. Training Jams are collaborative, interdisciplinary, and experimental workshops produced by N(t)TC. They are opportunities to cross pollinate training, practices, and ideas between artists of various disciplines as well as non-artists. We like to think of Training Jams as experimental art 'labs' where you can explore and experiment with your own curiosities free of pressures of having to necessarily create 'product'. Register today at www.newtotowcollective.com

A look at Gastown heritage view a 360 Video Walking Tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver About this Event 360 Riot Walk is an interactive walking tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver, the ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh people. It utilizes 360 video technology to trace the history and route of the mob that attacked the Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities following the demonstration and parade organized by t...he Asiatic Exclusion League in Vancouver. Participants are brought into the social and political environment of the time where racialized communities were targeted through legislated as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence. In partnership with the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH), 360 Riot Walk will be holding a guided tour beginning at the school. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/360-riot-walk-tickets-118861888

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Shades of Sustainability and Amplify Vancouver welcome everyone to attend Our Stories, Our Futures, Our Voices, an online event for youth (18-30 years old) to share and reflect on what a joyful, equitable, and sustainable future can look like. This event is a part of the ‘Our Stories, Our Futures’ project, a collaboration between Shades of Sustainability and Amplify Vancouver. The intention of this project is to hold space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) b...etween the ages of 18-30 to re-imagine our futures and center hope, during an incredibly uncertain time. The resulting 14 stories, soon to be published online, reflect the hopes and visions that BIPOC youth, residing on the lands we call "Metro Vancouver", have for a future filled with new ways of being that are grounded in histories, traditions, and ancestral knowledge. This online event builds on that storytelling series and aims to hold a space for storytelling, engagement and relationship-building for all youth. This online event will provide space to discuss and reflect on important topics and themes from the published ‘Our Stories, Our Futures’ submissions, as well as provide an opportunity to collectively re-imagine futures as a community. Join us! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/our-stories-our-futures-our-voi

LAST CHANCE to get your PSF2020 Merch this year! Some items are nearly selling out, so get yours ASAP! Last day to order is Friday, August 14th. Order now at: www.powellstreetfestival.bigcartel.com

In case you missed the Telethon or would like to watch it again, the 2020 PSF Telethon is now available on our YouTube Channel! Uploaded in five 1-hour segments, you can watch it whenever you’d like to experience the spirit of the festival right from your home! Find us on YouTube: Powell Street Festival Society https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvGh6nxAK476eDol2cq5Hw #powellstfest #telethon #fundraiser #youtube #support

We are so happy to announce that we’ve raised a total of $64,389 towards our new initiative - the PowellStFest Community Kitchen program, which is part of PSFS’ social justice programming!! We are overjoyed with the outpouring of support we received during the Telethon. We look forward to redoubling our efforts to foster and strengthen the resilience, vitality and healthy of the neighbourhood. - Eddy Takayanagi, PSFS President Here’s a big thank you from our staff & boar...d! #powellstfest #telethon #success #fundraiser #support #thankyou