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ARTS Heart of the City releases lineup details for 2021

by Steve Newton

Vancouver’s 18th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival has announced its lineup for 2021. Presented by Vancouver Moving eatre, the festival will run from October 27 to November 7 at various locations in the DTES, with online events as well. Highlights include: * We Live Here, October 27 to 29, Jack Chow Insurance parking lot: a dramatic, large-scale video project created by 30 Downtown Eastside visual artists working with a curatorial team of Jerry Whitehead, Wendy Peeters, and Jared Sharpe. * #whatnow, October 28 to 31 and November 3 to 7, Russian Hall: a multiperspective documentary theatre and dance creation about the #metoo movement. * Walking Tours in Chinatown, October 30: join local historian John Atkin on a walk through historic laneways of Chinatown. * My Art Is Activism: Part III, November 2, online: Downtown Eastside documentarian Sid Chow Tan shares selections from his archival video collection. * DTES Front & Centre: In Memory of Joyce Morgan, November 2, online: a Downtown Eastside community music showcase honouring Joyce Morgan, a pianist and longtime and beloved Carnegie Community Centre volunteer. * Indigenous Journeys: Solos by ree Women, November 3, online: new solos by Downtown Eastside–involved women

Indigenous Journeys: Solos by Three Women, taking place on November 3, will feature new solos in an online format, including a piece by Gunargie O’Sullivan. Photo by David Cooper. Priscillia Mays Tait (Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’en), Kat Zu’comulwat Norris (Lyackson First Nation), and Gunargie O’Sullivan. * Openings: A Cultural Sharing, November 3 to 6, Firehall Arts Centre: join storyteller Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish/Sahtu Dene) and Firehall artistic producer Donna Spencer as they host cultural sharings about resilience, hope, and humour by Indigenous elders and artists from di erent nations. * Grace Eiko omson: Chiru Sakura (Falling Cherry Blossoms), November 4, Massy Arts Gallery: esteemed elder and activist Grace Eiko omson reads and talks about her book Chiru Sakura Cherry Blossoms). g (Falling

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