Kate Evans: Threads
FRI SEP 29 2017 / 7:30pm Chan Centre at UBC I Telus Studio Theatre
CHAN CENTRE PRESENTS SERIES The Gloaming I OCT 15 Zakir Hussain and Dave Holland: Crosscurrents I OCT 28 Ruthie Foster, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Carrie Rodriguez I NOV 8 The Jazz Epistles: Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela I FEB 18 Lila Downs I MAR 10 Daymé Arocena and Roberto Fonseca I APR 15 Circa: Opus I APR 28
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SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW!
Tanya Tagaq and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory I MAR 16+17
DAYMÉ AROCENA ZAKIR HUSSAIN
DAVE HOLLAND
RUTHIE FOSTER
JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ
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Kate Evans: Threads Reading - Threads: From the Refugee Crisis Kate Evans author Hamin Honari percussion — Short intermission — Panel Discussion The Power of Art: Responding to Crisis & Inspiring Social Change Moderated by mia susan amir Featuring panelists Kate Evans, Fay Nass, and Shawk Alani
Kate Evans is a British-based author, cartoonist, artist, and political activist. Her award-winning graphic novels cover an immense range of topics, including breastfeeding, as in her best-selling guide, The Food of Love, and climate change, as in her pictorial guide Funny Weather: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out. Her 2015 graphic novel, Red Rosa, which follows the life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was described by The Guardian as “utterly brilliant.” She was awarded the John C. Laurence Award in 2016 for Threads: From the Refugee Crisis.
Please remember to turn off your phones, and note that photography and recording are not permitted. Thank you!
Hamin Honari is an Iranian-Canadian percussionist who specializes in the Iranian hand drum, tombak. He has toured with one of Iran's top Persian classical music ensembles, the Dastan Ensemble, and has also performed with numerous acclaimed musicians including Salar Aghili, Parissa, Hossein Omoumi, Hossein Behroozinia, Saeed Farajpouri, Itamar Erez, and Davod Azad. Hamin lives in Vancouver where he is an active teacher and performer.
The Beyond Words series is presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and explores the power of words in performance both as an agent of change and as a means of igniting conversation. Up next in the series, don’t miss Polaris Prize-winning Inuit vocalist Tanya Tagaq and trailblazing Greenlandic mask dancer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory March 16 & 17, 2018.
Shawk Alani organizes workshops for Syrian children in Vancouver, teaching photography as a means of expression and personal narrative. A graduate student at the Liberal Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, she is also one of the founders of the Iraqi Oral History Project which documents the journeys of Iraqis living through major political events.
The Chan Centre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Chan Endowment Fund, the UBC Faculty of Arts, The Government of Canada, and The Georgia Straight for this Beyond Words presentation.
Threads: From the Refugee Crisis Kate Evans' graphic novel Threads: From the Refugee Crisis depicts encounters and events while volunteering at a refugee camp in Calais, France. Commonly known as "the jungle,” the Calais camp was home to more than 8,000 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, before it was demolished in October of 2016. Upon hearing reports of occupants living in slum conditions, Evans travelled to Calais in 2015 armed with a sketchbook and an open mind. What she found in the French port town was a sprawling shantytown of shipping containers and makeshift tents inhabited by thousands of people who had lost nearly everything – their homes, families, and friends. Evans’ gripping graphic novel documents her sobering interactions there, combining visual art with journalism.
mia susan amir works at the intersection of creative and community practice as an educator, dramaturg, cultural organizer, curator, published writer, and theatre artist. Born in Israel/Occupied Palestine, mia is a queer Jew of mixed Ashkenazi and Sephardic descent. Challenging decontextualization and ahistoricity, her work explores the way sociopolitical events inform and are manifested intergenerationally. She teaches creative writing, and also works with The Story We Be, PTC, and the Virago Play Series. Fay Nass is a Vancouver-based curator, director, writer, producer and theatre scholar. Her work often examines questions of race, sex, and culture, and the challenges these pose to notions of identity. Her work shines light on marginalized identities, and through her company Aphotic Theatre she strives to use innovative aesthetic to tell diverse stories including those written and performed by women of colour, immigrants, and refugees.
CHAN CENTRE CONNECTS In conjunction with her performance this evening, and as part of the Chan Centre Connects series, Kate Evans gave a talk yesterday to second year UBC creative writing students in the “Introduction to Writing for Graphic Forms” class taught by graphic novelist Sarah Leavitt.
Kate Evans: Threads Reading - Threads: From the Refugee Crisis Kate Evans author Hamin Honari percussion — Short intermission — Panel Discussion The Power of Art: Responding to Crisis & Inspiring Social Change Moderated by mia susan amir Featuring panelists Kate Evans, Fay Nass, and Shawk Alani
Kate Evans is a British-based author, cartoonist, artist, and political activist. Her award-winning graphic novels cover an immense range of topics, including breastfeeding, as in her best-selling guide, The Food of Love, and climate change, as in her pictorial guide Funny Weather: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out. Her 2015 graphic novel, Red Rosa, which follows the life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was described by The Guardian as “utterly brilliant.” She was awarded the John C. Laurence Award in 2016 for Threads: From the Refugee Crisis.
Please remember to turn off your phones, and note that photography and recording are not permitted. Thank you!
Hamin Honari is an Iranian-Canadian percussionist who specializes in the Iranian hand drum, tombak. He has toured with one of Iran's top Persian classical music ensembles, the Dastan Ensemble, and has also performed with numerous acclaimed musicians including Salar Aghili, Parissa, Hossein Omoumi, Hossein Behroozinia, Saeed Farajpouri, Itamar Erez, and Davod Azad. Hamin lives in Vancouver where he is an active teacher and performer.
The Beyond Words series is presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and explores the power of words in performance both as an agent of change and as a means of igniting conversation. Up next in the series, don’t miss Polaris Prize-winning Inuit vocalist Tanya Tagaq and trailblazing Greenlandic mask dancer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory March 16 & 17, 2018.
Shawk Alani organizes workshops for Syrian children in Vancouver, teaching photography as a means of expression and personal narrative. A graduate student at the Liberal Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, she is also one of the founders of the Iraqi Oral History Project which documents the journeys of Iraqis living through major political events.
The Chan Centre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Chan Endowment Fund, the UBC Faculty of Arts, The Government of Canada, and The Georgia Straight for this Beyond Words presentation.
Threads: From the Refugee Crisis Kate Evans' graphic novel Threads: From the Refugee Crisis depicts encounters and events while volunteering at a refugee camp in Calais, France. Commonly known as "the jungle,” the Calais camp was home to more than 8,000 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, before it was demolished in October of 2016. Upon hearing reports of occupants living in slum conditions, Evans travelled to Calais in 2015 armed with a sketchbook and an open mind. What she found in the French port town was a sprawling shantytown of shipping containers and makeshift tents inhabited by thousands of people who had lost nearly everything – their homes, families, and friends. Evans’ gripping graphic novel documents her sobering interactions there, combining visual art with journalism.
mia susan amir works at the intersection of creative and community practice as an educator, dramaturg, cultural organizer, curator, published writer, and theatre artist. Born in Israel/Occupied Palestine, mia is a queer Jew of mixed Ashkenazi and Sephardic descent. Challenging decontextualization and ahistoricity, her work explores the way sociopolitical events inform and are manifested intergenerationally. She teaches creative writing, and also works with The Story We Be, PTC, and the Virago Play Series. Fay Nass is a Vancouver-based curator, director, writer, producer and theatre scholar. Her work often examines questions of race, sex, and culture, and the challenges these pose to notions of identity. Her work shines light on marginalized identities, and through her company Aphotic Theatre she strives to use innovative aesthetic to tell diverse stories including those written and performed by women of colour, immigrants, and refugees.
CHAN CENTRE CONNECTS In conjunction with her performance this evening, and as part of the Chan Centre Connects series, Kate Evans gave a talk yesterday to second year UBC creative writing students in the “Introduction to Writing for Graphic Forms” class taught by graphic novelist Sarah Leavitt.
Kate Evans: Threads
FRI SEP 29 2017 / 7:30pm Chan Centre at UBC I Telus Studio Theatre
CHAN CENTRE PRESENTS SERIES The Gloaming I OCT 15 Zakir Hussain and Dave Holland: Crosscurrents I OCT 28 Ruthie Foster, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Carrie Rodriguez I NOV 8 The Jazz Epistles: Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela I FEB 18 Lila Downs I MAR 10 Daymé Arocena and Roberto Fonseca I APR 15 Circa: Opus I APR 28
BEYOND WORDS SERIES
SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW!
Tanya Tagaq and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory I MAR 16+17
DAYMÉ AROCENA ZAKIR HUSSAIN
DAVE HOLLAND
RUTHIE FOSTER
JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ
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