PROJECT 686km - Creative Exchange
October 12 - 18
PROJECT 686km Artistic Exchange considers the distance between the creative centres of Calgary and Vancouver and offers a roadmap for creative exchange for emerging artists of colour who are living and creating in each centre. The residency offers artist driven discussions, creation, and work-in-progress showings. 2020 Vancouver and Calgary residency artists include Eric Cheung, Kristy Janvier, Jessica McMann, Sabrina “Naz” Comănescu, Jason Owin F. Galeos, and Zahra Shahab.
PROJECT 686km is developed by Springboard Performance, the Fluid Festival, and Made in BC - Dance on Tour, with additional funding and administrative support from the CanDance Network, the Dance Section of The Canada Council for the Arts, and Canadian Heritage.
This event is in partnership with Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Colour, 4th iteration.
We would love to thank our creative partners: SLIPPAGE: PERFORMANCE | CULTURE | TECHNOLOGY@Duke University, and SFU Woodwards Cultural Programming, as well as facility support from partners Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, 45 W Studio, and VBC Studio.
Schedule
Current Talk #1
Premiering Tuesday October 13, 7pm MT
A FLUID intersection of ideas
I am black: [you have to be willing to not know] by Thomas F. DeFrantz
Contemporary black performance is saturated with experience and complexities that evade easy affiliations or knowings. In his dialogic manifesto-lecture-performance, “I Am Black: (you have to be willing to not know),” Thomas F. DeFrantz offers strategies for acknowledging how artists of color and their collaborating audiences of color operate in several keys simultaneously but are inevitably compelled to reduce their work and experience to the unknowable, shameful category of “race.”
Including reflections with artists Michele Moss and Justine Chambers
Current Talk #1 Biographies
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Performance - Project 686km
Friday October 16, 7pm MT
In-process showing of performance works created during the PROJECT 686km Creative Exchange. Featuring performances by IBPOC residency artists Eric Cheung, Kristy Janvier, Jessica McMann, Sabrina “Naz” Comănescu, Jason Owin F. Galeos, and Zahra Shahab. Post-show Green Room Visit with the Artists
Project 686km | Creative Exchange ARTISTS
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Current Talk #2 (Post Performance)
A FLUID intersection of ideas
What are the current conditions for IBPOC artists in Western Canada?
A conversation with PROJECT 686km residency artists Eric Cheung, Kristy Janvier, Jessica McMann, Sabrina “Naz” Comănescu, Jason Owin F. Galeos, and Zahra Shahab.
Current Talk #2 Facilitator
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