ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, GALLERIES

Artist Residency, Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau Participate in a free Artists’ Residency and collaborate with professional artists on projects that build creative community. The Artists in Residence program is an important part of our commitment to community cultural development: promoting diversity, interdisciplinary activity, innovation, collaboration and involvement. This is your opportunity to create original theatre, dance, music, and visual art with some of Vancouver’s most renowned artists. VISUAL ARTS

Nehiyaw (Cree) Métis visual artist Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau has worked hard to regather, practice, and foster traditional skills… and she wants to share. Her Plant a Seed Bead Residency offers a unique opportunity to learn beading directly from the artist and, in turn, to share this knowledge with your own circle. After receiving a package with beading materials by mail, you will meet online with the artist one-on-one. With her guidance, you will create a beaded patch, as she shares her stories and invites you to share yours. In exchange for this lesson and connection, each participant pledges to share the skill and conversation with two others who also receive materials packets by mail. They each share with two more, supported by additional materials. How long can we keep this skillsharing project going? How far might this teaching travel? Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐏᐢᑵᐤ embarks upon this project with a firm belief that we are all simultaneously teachers and learners, and that we can choose to honour and cultivate these roles in our own lives. Due to the intimate nature of this residency, space is very limited. To read more or to enter for the chance to participate, visit roundhouse.ca/programs/artists-residencies/plant-a-seed CLIMATE CHANGE ARTS RESIDENCY WITH YOUTH

The Re-storying Your Future residency invites youth and young adults to take back the narrative of climate change through multi-media storytelling. Explore fiction scriptwriting to share stories as part of a 48-hour film production challenge, with guidance from a team of writers and filmmakers invested in creating a new narrative to help us navigate the uncertainty and chaos of the climate crisis and give us courage to act. The residency offers hands on experience in writing and production to realize a completed film which will premiere at BC Youth Week in May 2022. For more information contact db.boyko@vancouver.ca. See page 11. DANCE

Community-engaged dance residencies at Vancouver Park Board facilities bring together people of all ages, abilities, and cultural backgrounds to explore, create, and perform dance with professional dance artists. This spring, we welcome back the Roundhouse Ageless Dancers, Roundhouse Community Dancers, as well as residencies for both adults and youth through All Bodies Dance Project. See pages 11, 34, 42, 51. MAKE ART IN OUR PARKS

Visit over 50 artists making art in Vancouver Park Board’s Fieldhouse Studios – transforming former caretakers’ suites in parks or underused facilities into active spaces for community engaged creative practice. In each cycle artist collectives, food, and greening and environmental groups are given free access to these spaces in exchange for engaging neighbours, colleagues, and curious visitors in imaginative, collaborative work. These inspiring projects lead communities into deeper conversations about living in urban environments. Find out more about all 22 Fieldhouse Programs across the Vancouver Park Board at vancouver.ca/fieldhouse-programs. POET-IN-RESIDENCE

Flaming Balloon Collective Reprise Poet in Residence Angelic Goldsky invites youth for a last deep dive into exploring words and music throughout the winter of 2022. Angelic is a queer, trans, non-binary poet, dedicated to building cultures of nurturance and expressing our future through poetry. Specializing in giving voice to youth, Angelic invites teens and young adults to join in on a number of (in person) poetry escapades to culminate their year long poetry residency. For more information contact: poet.in.roundhouse@gmail.com. A Vancouver Park Board Residency.

Some Assembly Theatre Company’s award-winning Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Group (RHYTAG) program and yearly projects engage youth with professional theatre artists in the creation, development, and performances of plays that address youth issues, ideas and concerns. Valerie Methot started Some Assembly with its first Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Group (RHYTAG) project in 2002 as artist-as-residence at the Roundhouse. Since then, Some Assembly has engaged over 3,000 youth with professional artists on the creation and production of 31 plays to promote awareness, dialogue and positive social change regarding issues facing youth. Their new theatre project, Accessing Optimism for a Post-Pandemic Future, is in development this winter. See page 10.

Some Assembly Theatre's The Wait List Experiment. See page 11 for details. .

WINDOW GALLERY

The WINDOW Gallery is a Roundhouse exhibition space for artists who explore links between community and creativity in their work. WINDOW is located in the main entrance off of Pacific Boulevard. Check roundhouse.ca/events for further details on the artists and their work. Artists include: Feb-Apr: Our Park Project: A Creative Residency in Andy Livingstone Park by community members with artist Sylvan Hamburger and Carnegie Community Centre Elder in Residence Les Nelson. May - Jul: Portals: An Installation by Kirsten Hatfield. Presented in partnership with Vancouver Comic Arts Festival