Celebration 2010 – Whistler Arts Showcase Scheduled for February
Celebration 2010 – Whistler Arts Showcase is an annual Celebration of the Arts. The Showcase is produced by the Whistler Arts Council in partnership with the arts and culture community of Whistler and sponsored by the Resort Municipality of Whistler and the Government of British Columbia. In 2003, during the February visit of the International Olympic Committee to Vancouver and Whistler, Celebration 2010 was convened across the province, as a celebration of local arts and culture. Celebration 2010 aimed to showcase the community’s cultural strengths. Local arts groups were invited to contribute a signature event to the showcase.
The second Whistler Arts Showcase celebrates local culture and heritage and showcases regional talent. Showcase also provides opportunity for the arts community to build capacity to 2010 leading up to full participation in the Olympics Arts Festival; and to develop and hone our cultural vision. The Showcase also develops local and visiting audiences.
Whistler Arts Showcase events will be held from February 12 – March 1, 2004. The Showcase will feature Whistler Dance Academy, Whistler Film Festival Society, Whistler Photographic Society, Whistler Public Library, Whistler Writers Group, Whistler Museum & Archives Society, Whistler Naturalists, individual artists, performers and singers from Whistler and the Sea to Sky and Lower Mainland region.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
Peak to Valley Race
February 7th Whistler Mountain
Whistler Arts Council & MY Place presents:
Alfie Zappacosta – Jazz Soloist – February 7th
Alfie Zappacosta’s entertaining, romantic and sultry performance will send the audience to the moon. After 20 years, he has two Junos, an American Music Award, a Best Rock Star Award, and a spot on the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack singing Overload. Alfie’s charisma and strong lilting voice are magnetic and give a new highlight to jazz. Sponsored by Local Automotive. Tickets are $20/17 available at MY Place, by phone 604-935-8418 and through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 604-280-4444.
Whistler Arts Council
OPENING EVENT – CABARET 2010
FEBRUARY 12th – 7:30PM – MY Place
A celebratory kick-off special event of dance, music, theatre and film featuring local performers with introductions by past Olympic athletes. Performers include: Children’s Chorus, Whistler Dance Academy, Stephen Vogler, Michele Bush, Tessa McLoughlin, Short Skirt Theatre, First Nations dancers, fire dancers and local musicians. This event is by invitation only.
Whistler Museum and Archives
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH – 7-9 PM – Whistler Museum
1. Opening day and evening White Party reception for the Museum’s exhibit:
Frozen Time: Glaciers in the Coastal Mountains
The exhibit will look at glaciers and their importance in our natural eco-system. Content will feature data from the David Suzuki Foundation’s research project on glaciers titled “Melting Mountains”, images from the Museum’s pioneer photograph collection, photographs by local glacier enthusiast Terry Nash, and mountaineering equipment on loan from the Alpine Club of Canada. Visitors will learn glacier terminology, the history and location of local glaciers, and global warming implications.
The exhibit will be open during the day for the general public, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The White Party reception will be held from 7-9 p.m. “White” refreshments and edibles will be supplied. Those attending are encouraged to come dressed in white.
UZUME TAIKO
February 14th – 8PM – MY Place
The music of Uzume Taiko combines dance with ceremonial percussion, energetic choreography, costume drama, jazz-like improvisation and world music. Inspired by the traditions of Japanese music, Uzume Taiko produces deeply inventive and laughter-inspiring music that listeners feel to the core. “New art doesn’t come more exciting than this. Part drumming ceremony, part costume drama, part jazz improv, part world music sampler, Uzume Taiko’s In Your Dreams is high-voltage theatre. This is music you feel in the involuntary flutter of your eyelids, in the sympathetic rumble of your diaphragm. This is music you feel, as one enthusiastic opening night patron put it, ‘right down to your colon.’”
Michael Scott, The Vancouver Sun. Tickets are $20 (adults); $17 (students/seniors); $8 (children) available at MY Place, by phone 604-935-8418 and through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 604-280-4444.
WHISTLER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Saturday February 14 – 10:30-11:30am – Whistler Public Library
“Hearts and kisses” – A special storytime for 3-6 year olds including stories, rhymes, songs and a “lovely” craft. Pre-registration required. Call 604 932 5564.
WHISTLER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sunday Feb. 15th 7-8:30PM at the Whistler Public Library
OLYMPIC SCAVENGER HUNT
9-12 YEAR OLDS
Get set, ready? Hunt!! Join the Whistler Public Library for an evening full of questions, clues and excitement in an Olympic Scavenger Hunt! Use your detective library skills to locate clues, and win amazing prizes. If you are between the ages of 9 and 12, and you have an inquisitive mind, come and enjoy this event. Fun provided by the participants…food and drinks provided by the library!!
Pre-registration required. Call 604 932 5564.
WHISTLER NATURALISTS
February 18th – MY Place – 7:30PM
Speaker series. Admission by donation.
PUBLIC ART WORKSHOP
February 19TH 4-7PM – MY Place
The Whistler Public Art Committee will hold a public art workshop to focus on capacity building for those artists that seek to participate in the Whistler public art program.
The Public Art Workshop: The workshop will be an opportunity to work with artists from the Sea to Sky region on presentations to public art competitions. During the workshop, artists will be exposed to a competition jury experience to witness how an artist’s submission is reviewed. They would also be advised of keys for success in public art competitions. The format for the workshop will be displays of past submissions and images from within the jury room. Also, a panel discussion would be staged with artists, jurors and public art program administrators. Pre-registration – 604-935-8419.
WHISTLER PUBLIC LIBRARY
February 19th 8PM at MY Place
SLIDE SHOW – Colin Angus – Lost in Mongolia
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it. He will be showing slides of the trip and talking about his book “Lost in Mongolia”.
Tickets are $7/4 available at MY Place, by phone 604-935-8418 and through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 604-280-4444.
Colin Angus began his adventuring career at nineteen with a five-year, mostly solo, offshore sailing odyssey. He has co-produced two documentaries including Yenisey : River of Extremes (runner up for the “People’s Choice award at the Banff Film Festival) for National Geographic. When not in the field, Colin shares his adventures with the public through presentations and articles. Publications he has written for include Cruising World, The Globe and Mail and Explore. Based out of Vancouver, he is currently preparing for his next adventure. No sails, no engine – just pedals, skis and oars. From Vancouver to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and Siberia into the Russian heartland, Colin Angus and Tim Harvey will document their trek through landscapes of the rugged, fragile north. Through this journey the men hope to highlight and raise funds for the David Suzuki Foundation, an organization leading the way to combat climate change. As well, the adventurers will be partnering with Canadian schools, using adventure as a medium to inspire and motivate in the classroom.
ADVENTURE FILM SHOWCASE
February 20th – 7:00 & 9:30 PM at MY Place
Ready, set, get your tickets! The Whistler Film Festival Society has teamed up with the second annual Celebration 2010 – Whistler Arts Showcase festivities to present a special screening of adventure and action sport films by B.C. favourites.
The evening’s line-up features two films from the 2003 Whistler Film Festival among others. This includes the award-winning climbing documentary In the Shadow of the Chief, which premiered at the 2003 Whistler Film Festival, received the People’s Choice Award for the Best Film of the Festival and sold out its two screenings; and Pororoca: Surfing the Amazon which had it’s Canadian Premiere at the 2003 Whistler Film Festival and was a runner-up for the ZeD People’s Choice Shorts Award of the Festival.
Tickets are $10 (including GST) and are available at MY Place, by phone 604-935-8418 and through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 604-280-4444.
WHISTLER YOUTH FEAR FACTOR
February 21st – 8PM – MY Place
Experience the joys, the wonders and the cow tongue that will define the premier of the Whistler Youth Fear Factor. Tickets by donation available at Youth Centre: 604-935-8187.
Celebrity Hockey Game
February 21 at 3PM – Meadow Park Sports Centre
Presented by Destination Funny Entertainment
Featuring former NHL stars and Olympians against an all-star celebrity team. Fundraiser for the Athletes at Work Legacy Fund supporting Canadian amateur athletes preparing for international and Olympic competition.
Comedy Night in Canada – 8:30PM – Telus Conference Centre
Comedy Night in Canada takes a hilarious look at our nation’s love for hockey starring ’72 summit series alumni Dennis Hull and some of Canada’s top comedians showcasing their best hockey material. Tix: Ticketmaster 604 280.4444 www.ticketmaster.ca Presented by Destination Funny.
WHISTLER PUBLIC LIBRARY
February 22nd – 7-8:30pm at Whistler Public Library
Olympic Charades – Are you an actor deep down inside? Do you like to make faces at people? Do you like to use your body to express yourself? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, then you should join the Whistler Public Library in an evening of Olympic Charades! The event promises to be very entertaining, with prizes to be won, and food and drinks provided by the Library. For 13-16 year olds, free of charge. Pre-registration is recommended. Call 604-932-5564.
WHISTLER WRITERS GROUP
February 22nd – 5-6:30 PM at MY Place
Whistler’s Youth Authors
Whistler’s award winning young writers will read their work at MY Place from 5 to 6:30 pm. The afternoon will also highlight, Vancouver based writer Kevin Chong who will read from his work and answer questions about the writing life from the young writers all under the age of 17. This will give the young writers an opportunity to engage in a discussion of writing with a professional writer.
February 22 & 23 – Uli’s Flipside – 8PM
Literary Leanings
Two gala evenings of food, drink and literary leanings featuring well-known writers based in Vancouver with emerging Whistler writers. Vancouver authors include: Karen X Tulchinsky, Sara Leach, Lee Henderson, Annabel Lyon. Local authors include: John Moore, Brandi Higgins, Stephen Vogler, Lara Bozabalian, Stella Harvey, Rebecca Wood Barratt, Sara Leach, Lisa Richardson and Jennifer Cowan.
Whistler Arts Council & MY Place presents:
Halo (Two Planks & A Passion Theater Co.) – Comedy/Theatre – 8PM – February 24, 2004
When the image of Jesus appears on the side of a Tim Horton’s restaurant in Nedley, Nova Scotia, life is forever changed. Its inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love with sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious results. With a cast of seven, this compassionate and funny play, by acclaimed actor and playwright Josh MacDonald, examines the absurdities of late 20th century tabloid religious sightings while exploring the dignity of true belief. Halo is a moving and humorous tale of extraordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Sponsored by Caramba Restaurant.
Tickets are $23 (adults) and $18 (students/seniors) available at MY Place, by phone 604-935-8418 and through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 604-280-4444.
TUNED WOMEN
February 26 & 27 – 8PM at MY Place
It is not just Women in Song. Tuned Women is Sea-to-Sky Corridor women living, thinking, exploring, then writing, jamming and singing through the rafters about it all. After a highly successful first year, Tuned Women returns with eight new Corridor female musicians to play two amazingly entertaining and inspiring shows. This year’s crew includes Leanne Lamoureux (guitar, vocals, harp, whistle, flute), Louise Brunker (piano, vocals), Susan Holden (guitar, vocals), Sue Stearns (guitar, vocals, harp), Nicole Fitzgerald (piano, vocals), Kath Haling (guitar, vocals), Carolyn Grass (guitar, vocals, spoons) and Emily Lee (guitar). From jazz to folk, from blues to rock, Tuned Women has it all. Tuned Women will include a professional development workshop in the rehearsal process.
Tickets are $15 (adults) and $12 (students/seniors) available at MY Place, by phone 604-935-8418 and through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 604-280-4444.
Whistler Dance Theatre in…Blue Earth (Dance and Photography)
February 28th – MY Place – 8PM
Dance performance with guest dancers from lower mainland.
Tickets available at MY Place, by phone 604-935-8418 and through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone
604-280-4444.
K2 SKI RACES – SUPER G DOWNHILL (Whistler Ski Club)
February 27, 28, 29
Kids from Sea to Sky Corridor.
Ongoing throughout the month of February:
Whistler Museum and Archives
Satellite exhibit at MY Place – Snowflakes
Featuring the science and different types of snowflakes, historic snowflakes, and snowflake photography. A field guide to snowflakes and photographs from the Rasmussen & Libbrecht Collection will also be included.
GALLERY AT MY PLACE
February 1-29
Visual art exhibition by Patrick Meagher. Open to the public.
The Whistler Photographic Society
Audio-visual presentation of Whistler Images:
Using the latest in DVD creation technology, the Whistler Photographic Society will create a high resolution DVD of Whistler images, including sports, scenery and art photographs that represent life in Whistler. Photographs by Whistler-area professional photographers will be featured in the 30-minute show. The DVD will run in conjunction with various events throughout the Whistler Arts Showcase.
Fire & Ice
Every Sunday at 6:30PM, base of Whistler in Village
Fire and Ice combines the atmosphere of Carnival and the excitement of the X-Games. Where else but at Whistler/Blackcomb could you have performers entertain guests with an eclectic mix of music, dance and spinning fire. Watch world-class athletes flipping and twisting through a burning ring of fire, and finish with an amazing fireworks display! Admission free.
Revive, REJUVENATE, renew
March 1-31 – MY Place Gallery
Whistler Arts Council and Whistler Photographic Society presents a juried exhibition of 2-dimensional art and photography in a month long exhibition in the gallery at MY Place. Opening reception: March 4th from 4-7PM open to the public.
Squamish Winter Arts Festival
February 6 – 28th
Feb. 6th – In the Shadow of the Chief – 2:00 & 6:00 PM – Eagle Eye Theatre.
Feb. 7th – Blue Grass Wing Ding – Brackendale Art Gallery
Feb. 13th – Al Simmons – Howe Sound Arts Association – 8PM
Feb. 14th – Valentines Dance – Cedar Valley School fundraiser with Rhythm Method
Feb. 15th – Global Gabfest, multi-lingual reading at the Library 1-3 PM
Feb. 16-21st – Heritage Week – Celebrate Heritage week with special events at the Mining Museum in Britannia Beach and Railway Museum in Squamish.
Feb. 19th – Salish Elders reading at the Library – 7 PM
Feb. 21st – Heritage Tea – Railway Museum
February 28th
Wild at Art Street Festival – Wild at Art Gallery, Squamish
11AM – 6PM
Featuring 21 artists and artisans, Nothing Finer-performers and gallery exhibits, Newport Gallery, performers on flute, Spanish guitar and piano and local artists. Multicultural foods at the restaurants, bonfire, Squamish Nation tent and performers, and the Main Stage with original music by Davy’s Locker, Cam Solay, Gord Durocher and Tiller’s Folly as headliner.
Art and Soul – 8PM – Brackendale Art Gallery
With Rhythm Method and artists, Barney Bental.
Squamish event information: info@howesoundarts.com
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January 30, 2004
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