Welcome to the Memory Festival
The Vancouver Memory Festival is a free-floating series of public events focussed on public and private memory, and the questions that surround acts of memory and forgetting.
  • The Memory Festival is improvised and open-ended. It will unfold in different venues around the city throughout 2008—the year of the already nearly forgotten sesquecentennial of British Columbia.
  • You are invited to participate.
Listed below are some of the events coming up as part of the first Vancouver Memory Festival. You are invited to attend.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Memories, Shadows and Substances Fibre Essence Gallery
3210 Dunbar St., Vancouver
24 July to 7 August, 2008
NEW Memory Projects underway: New World, Old World — David Campion and Sandra Shields A textual and visual exploration of overlapping histories in the fertile floodplain of the Fraser River.
Remember — Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas A graphic narrative or “Haida manga” that combines classic Haida design with Asian manga, and combines Haida legend with contemporary questions of memory, distance, loss, longing, error and anger—and a reminder to recover the living moment.
Unofficial Histories — Faith Moosang New perspectives on five important historical events— from World War I to the building of the Panama Canal to the Vietnam War—each a personal or family history constructed from abandoned photograph albums first created by persons unknown.

Emigrant and Immigrant — Goran Basaric A photographer returns to his old neighbourhood in Serbia to seek out the memory sites of his childhood as a contrast to the memory sites of his ten-year-old son in Canada.

Habitations and Inhabitants — Anne Grant A photographic exploration of one old apartment house and its residents, past and present, as a means to discover the effect of place on memory (and vice versa), and the ways in which photography becomes memory (and vice versa).

Land’ s End: Communities Lost and Found — Christopher Grabowski

"There is never a single approach to something remembered. The remembering is not like terminus at the end of a line. . . A radial system has to be constructed around the photograph so that it may be seen in terms which are simultaneously personal, political, economic, dramatic, everyday and historic." — John Berger

PAST PROJECTS

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED January 2008

The Harbour Centre Downtown Memory Project
Write about your memories of
Downtown Vancouver

You are invited to write about your memory of downtown Vancouver: a building, a street, a person, or a neighbourhood that is or was significant to your life. Sponsored by the Writing and Publishing Program, Harbour Centre.

Anyone may enter—no entry fee
Click here for details

at the push festival IN JANUARY, 2008


Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

A play about remaking memory
by James Long

World Premier
Performance Works, Granville Island

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Jan 29 – Feb 3, 2008

a rumble productions—theatre replacement production in association with the PuSh Festival