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Life Beyond This

Dec. 5 - 31, 9 am-10 pm
Carnegie Centre Art Gallery
401 Main Street, Vancouver.

This ethnographic installation and art exhibit uses photographs by four aboriginal Downtown Eastside residents to explore urban aboriginal health, visual ethnography and experimental methodologies in community-based research. The exhibition is the result of a community-campus collaboration among researchers at Vancouver Native Health Society, UBC's department of medicine and SFU's department of sociology and anthropology. Economically, politically and educationally disadvantaged, the artist-participants use photographs and narratives to document, review and reflect on the strengths, silences and concerns of their community, revealing issues that are often eclipsed in traditional social and health research.

Meet the artists and researchers at the opening reception:
Friday, Dec. 8, 5-7 pm
Exhibition information: Vancouver Native Health Society. 604.710.2408.
Media Contact: Denielle Elliott, 604.317.6979, dae@sfu.ca


Animating Democracy: Art and social change
A dialogue with Judith Marcuse

Thursday, Dec. 7, 7-9:30 pm
Simon Fraser University Vancouver
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings St.
Free but reservations required:  604.291.5100

Judith Marcuse, acclaimed dancer, choreographer and producer discusses wide-ranging global arts initiatives, including her own youth-centred work, as they relate to voice, power and social change. Marcuse is artistic producer of the EARTH Project, an international arts youth initiative exploring issues of social justice and environmental sustainability.

http://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/current.htm#g
http://www.sfu.ca/~nmaha/MarcuseAnimatingDemocracy.pdf