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Meeting Places Project January - December 2019 Taking place in and around Mount Pleasant Community Centre throughout 2019, Meeting Places is a collaborative community art project centering on the potential for creativity to strengthen and activate community. In a city where neighbours often don’t know each other and where it can be challenging to make new connections outside of our own social circles, this project investigates how we can use art to bridge gaps and make the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood a more lively and welcoming place to live. Through pop-up activities, artist walks, guerilla art installations, and community collaborations, participants will be invited to share artwork, share skills, share stories, and share experiences with one another, sparking curiosity, generosity, and empathy between people who might not otherwise meet. Meeting Places is created by Mount Pleasant Community Centre artists-in-residence Popcorn Galaxies as part of Vancouver Park Board Artists in Communities program To received email updates about upcoming projects sign up below. |
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Perfect Strangers
May 2019 & September 2018 Perfect Strangers is a one-of-a-kind experience that invites consideration of how we perceive strangers in the world around us and the potential for curiosity, creativity, and empathy to spark between people who might not otherwise meet. |
Scatter
August 2017 Scatter is a community seed bomb making art project aiming to improve access to green space in East Vancouver. Community members are invited to drop by and learn the value of greening unused and derelict space with colourful seed bombs made out of recycled paper and non-invasive pollinator seeds. |
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Paper Dream
June 2017 Intricate, unique, and mysterious, Paper Dream is a miniature puppet show performed on a pop-up book stage. One audience member at a time is welcomed into the home of an elderly man whose memories and dreams literally unfold before their eyes. |
Invisible City
April 2017 & May 2015 Invisible City is a unique audio experience about illuminating the everyday world by discovering the theatre that is always happening around us and inside us. Revealing, intimate, and strange, Invisible City is a secret theatrical adventure in a public space. |
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Apocalypse Parade
September 2016 (Vancouver Fringe Festival) Half carnival pageant, half funeral march, Apocalypse Parade invites you to draw from a hat to decide the fate of human life on earth. Music, glitter, and spectacle open the doors to parallel universe futures of our climate: one jubilant, the other catastrophic. Which will you choose? |
New Narratives
May 2016 Featuring over 40 multi-disciplinary artists, New Narratives is an evening of site specific dance cycling, a life size vivarium, roving fortune tellers and shadow puppet installations, with each audience member invited to curate their own unique experience of the works. |
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Vivarium
May 2016 (presented at New Narratives) Vivarium is a site specific performance installation piece, which asks: is Nature our intrinsic habitat or are we drawn to its exoticism because we are contemporary urbanites? What does it mean to co-exist with our local environment on colonized land? |
Wonders of the Ancient World
May 2016 (presented at New Narratives) Wonders of the Ancient World is an interactive shadow puppet installation set in an imagined future. This immersive piece explores human being's fascinating capacity to simultaneously revere and destroy the natural world. |
Elk Walk
June 2016 & July 2014 (Center A Gallery) Elk Walk is a large-scale public puppet intervention featuring five puppets made of found and salvaged materials, inspired by the fossilized skeletons of the extinct Irish Elk—the largest species of deer to ever live. 
Radiant Thing
December 2013 Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Radiant Thing uses poetry, movement, and unconventional staging to guide one audience member at a time through the catastrophe and radiance of a daughter growing up. |
Hold On Tightly
July 2014 Intertwining narrative with elements of scavenger hunt, performance art, and visual art installation, Hold On Tightly attempts to re-enchant the everyday world through theatre. |