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welcome to eastvan x car free day
i will be on main street on behalf of welcome to eastvan to represent car free day.
the follow information is from the carfreevancouver.org site
WHAT: Car-Free Vancouver Day
WHEN: Sunday June 20 (Father’s Day), noon to whenever
WHERE: Kitsilano, Commercial Drive, West End, Main Street and now, NORTH VAN!
WHY: To reclaim our streets for people
Car-Free Vancouver Day is a grassroots, citizen-led, 100% volunteer-organized civic celebration. Launched in 2005 with the Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival, it has grown to include FIVE large festival nodes. Each of the five community-initiated fests has a distinct neighbourhood flavour.
Kitsilano boasts a tapestry of over 25 block parties all day with street “living rooms”, dances, performers and potlucks.
Funky Main Street (between 16th and 33rd, noon to features skateboard demos, Terminal City Roller Derby, Vancouver Peoples’ Summit, and multimedia performances.
The West End (Denman Street, noon to 6) goes unplugged with Spoken Word tent, SHAG seniors’ tent, Square Dancing lessons, Capoeria, and Chamber Music.
Bohemian Commercial Drive (Venables to First Ave, noon to 6) rocks from noon to six, with street hockey, Drum Jam, Healing Garden, Tribal Harmonix Dance Stage, tons of babies and dogs, and merry mayhem abundant.
welcome to eastvan x jerm IX x beyond robson
street artist Jerm IX had an interview with Beyond Robson, with the pictures they used he managed to sneak in a little love for the Welcome to Eastvan brand and the DTES. Represent the hood!
here’s an excerpt from the article from beyondrobson.com:
As I mentioned in my introductory post, Redrum was one of the artists that motivated me to become an active street artist, only a few months after moving to East Vandalisn’t in 2004. At that time the city was peppered with his single layer stencils.
Giant LEGO men stood on rooftops and peeked out from behind dumpsters. Stencils of children running with buckets of paint, or drinking from water fountains, were strewn about in the alleys and alcoves surrounding Main and Broadway. An image of his own smiling face, taken from a photograph of himself at the age of seven, conveyed a sense of innocence lost every time I came across it. However, he is probably best known for his life-sized AYS toilets. AYS stands for All You See, which is a reference to dialogue from the classic film Style Wars.
It’s been a few years since Redrum decided that “it just wasn’t fun anymore…” and he stopped decorating his urban environment — our urban environment. Here and there you can still stumble upon some of his old works. However, I have good news, Vancouverites — Redrum is coming out of retirement.
I invited him out on a poster mission with hopes that we could collaborate together, and within a week, he had posters ready and was eager to get busy. He sat down with Ninja IX and I for 11 hours on Saturday at our kitchen table slash studio workspace, and started cutting out a stack of images that he had pre-sprayed on giant sheets of paper. Ninja stenciled a handful of messages for use as collaborations while I paced feverishly, searching for the right words. We crushed a few bottles of rum and enough weed to put a horse to sleep, and we got to know each other. Both of us occasionally rhymed along to a plethora of emcees, switching our ipods back and forth on the stereo.
read the full article here
adidas x starwars
too good. but let’s hope george lucas doesn’t mess with the original trilogy any more than he already has.
welcome to eastvan x new website/blog
looking for a web developer who is willing to help/collab on the redesign the welcome to eastvan blog/website.
spread the word.
welcome to eastvan x vancouver observer
this is an excerpt from an article on VancouverObserver.com. Written by a friend of mine Christabel. She’s awesome and enjoys making a difference in kids lives. I will be working together with her on a course titled Early Risers. more on that later.
full story here
Vancouver kids use shirts as a medium for art
Christabel Shaler
The freshest creativity that I witness amongst my friends and the kids I work with seems to diverge from mainstream structures. Unfortunately, when kids get innovative in “alternative” ways, there is rarely anyone there to praise them or grade them. Their friends might like what they do, but if their skills are “alternative”, it is difficult to cultivate their talent into a career. There are many young geniuses in Vancouver who barely scrape by in school. But they thrive in other arenas. If we don’t give these kids room to develop their interests, we will impair the progress of our city’s creative class.
Early Risers is a creative business education course created in response to this issue. It is a program designed by teenagers for teenagers. It is an opportunity for them to build brands that reflect their own lives.
This program features controversial guest speakers, who were chosen based on how many kids were fans of their art and the strength of their work ethic. The controversy connected to these artists is due to their roots in “street art” and the contents of their rap songs. However, research has shown that discussing media is more effective than censoring it.
The kids are starting conversations about art esthetics, building critical thinking skills and discussing the work ethic of the speakers. Each student also examines their own work ethic.
One of our guest speakers is Rob Geary from “welcome to eastvan”. He began his t-shirt company with a couple hundred dollars. It has managed to flourish throughout the city. His art is influenced by “street culture” and he has a strong work ethic. His grass roots business model makes people feel that they are purchasing a piece of a community.
Kilian Martin: A Skate Escalation
this new trend of filming style is awesome.
not just someone documenting a subject but using all the elements of video, music, subject matter etc to make a complete piece.
Kilian Martin: A Skate Escalation
Skating: Kilian Martin
Directed, filmed, edited by: Brett Novak
Music: Tracy Waters
