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You are cordially invited to our annual general meeting. It will be held on June 30, 2011 at PHS Life Skills Centre, 412 East Cordova in Vancouver, BC. Doors open at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6pm.
It is a great opportunity to see what we have been up to for the past year and to meet our community of supporters. We would love to share our plans for this fiscal year as well as to thank our current board and to meet our new board.
* Package will be updated to show June 30th date
Due to the Canucks playing game 7 in the Stanley Cup finals, we are cancelling our AGM scheduled for tomorrow evening. We will be rescheduling our AGM for 6pm on Thursday, June 30th, 2011.
It will be held at 412 East Cordova. The doors will open at 6pm. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Here is a sneak peak at Skin Deep, the multi media art installation piece by film maker Jessica Dymond opening reception tonight in Toronto. We are honoured to be celebrated in Skin Deep.
Excerpts from “Skin Deep” from Jessica Dymond on Vimeo.
Last year, many of you might have seen Jessica Dymond with her camera at many Beauty Night programming. The documentary footage she shot has evolved into Skin Deep, Mixed media installation by Jessica Dymond at the IMA Gallery in Toronto. The opening reception is June 10th from 6-9pm.
Taken directly from her page, here is her description of the project and a sneak peak at part of the installation.
Skin Deep
Mixed media installation by Jessica Dymond
June 1-18, 2011
Opening Reception June 10, 6-9 PM
I.M.A. Gallery (80 Spadina Avenue, Toronto)
Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 PM
Skin Deep explores issues of empowerment, feminine identity, and self-worth in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Visual representation of the Downtown Eastside and its residents is often problematic, focusing largely on the shock value of the neighbourhood’s most well-known issues: prostitution, drug addiction, HIV and, perhaps most notoriously, the missing women. While these issues certainly deserve attention, the focus tends to be on individuals-at-risk, rather than the area’s demonstrably strong sense of community, particularly within a feminine context. This multi-screen, non-linear documentary project is a re-creation of Beauty Night, a drop-in event which provides beauty services to self-identified, including transgendered, women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The project includes short video portraits of the women who attend Beauty Night, shown through two-way mirrors, as well as projections of the neighbourhood shot on Super 8 film. The goal of the installation, including the mirrored reflections, is to create a sense of self-reflexivity in the audience, and help to physically close the psychological gap in the social hierarchy.
Skin Deep is currently on display as part of the Doc Now Festival.
You are cordially invited to our annual general meeting. It will be held on June 15, 2011 at PHS Life Skills Centre, 412 East Cordova in Vancouver, BC. Doors open at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6pm.
It is a great opportunity to see what we have been up to for the past year and to meet our community of supporters. We would love to share our plans for this fiscal year as well as to thank our current board and to meet our new board.
Our AGM package can be downloaded here.
