VIDEO IN STUDIOS: The Powell Street Festival's SPATIAL POETICS V July 8, 2006

Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:00pm
VIDEO IN STUDIOS
1965 Main Street
Tickets: $10 (General) / $8 (Students/Seniors) AT DOOR
604-872-8337

Featuring premieres of collaborative pieces by:
ARETHA AOKI & SCOTT MALIN
WORLD TEA PARTY (IN ASSOCIATION WITH URASENKE TEA SCHOOL, VANCOUVER)
SEPIDEH SAII & MAYA ERSAN & JAIMIE ROBSON

Powell Street Festival Society and Video In present the fifth annual Spatial Poetics, an interdisciplinary event which celebrates collaboration, experimentation and innovation in the use of text, visuals, music, and performance by an eclectic line-up of artists. The end result will be a diverse collection of new works exploring community, identity, boundaries, and the nature of performance by emerging and established Asian Canadian artists, building on the successes of previous Spatial Poetics events.

Premiering new pieces will be three groups of talented and inventive artists: Vancouver-based dance artist Aretha Aoki will collaborate with visual artist Scott Malin in If Our Eyes Had Teeth, which explores scale and perspective through drawing and dance. Trolley Bus (aka Bryan Mulvihill) will facilitate a site-specific performance of a tea ceremony, otherwise known as World Tea Party, with members of the Urasenke Tea School, Vancouver. Sepideh Saii, Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson will present a piece that combines silhouette puppetry, animation, video and sound. Musician and media artist Lyndsay Sung will curate a selection of video shorts by Asian artists from Canada, the US, and internationally.

This is the opening event for the 30TH ANNUAL POWELL STREET FESTIVAL, held in Oppenheimer Park and the Firehall Arts Centre on August 5th and 6th, 2006.

MEDIA CONTACT: MIKO HOFFMAN, 604.683.8240 OR MIKO@DKAM.CA

The Powell Street Festival Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Province of BC through the Spirit of BC Arts Fund, British Columbia Arts Council and Direct Access to Charitable Gaming, City of Vancouver and Video In.

Official Website: http://www.powellstreetfestival.com