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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design

T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss
Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:Lo/Metis/Hawaiian/Swiss
T'uy't'tanat- Cease is an interdisciplinary artist who works with new media and interdisciplinary arts as well as community engaged and public art. Cease is a Coast Salish ethnobotanist and is an emerging cedar and wool weaver with a textiles art practice that includes plant and other natural dyes. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and lives in East Vancouver.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design

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Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Accidents, coincidence and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, sound installations and other works with her improvised solo turntable performance practice. Chavez has been a research fellow of the Sound Practice Research Department, Goldsmith’s University in London, a composer fellow with Civitella Ranieri in Umbertide, Italy, and an artist fellow at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. She has participated in various artist residencies including the CEC Artslink/ Back Apartment residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, Kunstmeile Krems sound artist residency in Krems an der Donau, Austria; The Kitchen in New York and most recently as a guest artist in residence with the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, amongst many others.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at HeK – haus der elektronischen Künste-Basel, INKONST Art Center, Malmö, Sweden, The Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; The Getty Museum, L.A. and Documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. Her latest solo exhibition, Topography Of Sound: Peaks and Valleys, a painting show about the topography of vinyl records and needles, is on view at the Harnett Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia. Her latest 4.1 spatial sound installation, The Center and Periphery, is being exhibited in the group show, Soundings, curated by Stephen Vitiello for the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design

Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Accidents, coincidence and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, sound installations and other works with her improvised solo turntable performance practice. Chavez has been a research fellow of the Sound Practice Research Department, Goldsmith’s University in London, a composer fellow with Civitella Ranieri in Umbertide, Italy, and an artist fellow at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. She has participated in various artist residencies including the CEC Artslink/ Back Apartment residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, Kunstmeile Krems sound artist residency in Krems an der Donau, Austria; The Kitchen in New York and most recently as a guest artist in residence with the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, amongst many others.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at HeK – haus der elektronischen Künste-Basel, INKONST Art Center, Malmö, Sweden, The Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; The Getty Museum, L.A. and Documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. Her latest solo exhibition, Topography Of Sound: Peaks and Valleys, a painting show about the topography of vinyl records and needles, is on view at the Harnett Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia. Her latest 4.1 spatial sound installation, The Center and Periphery, is being exhibited in the group show, Soundings, curated by Stephen Vitiello for the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University.

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Location • National Film Board Theatre

In this presentation, you will learn about the National Film Board of Canada’s Interactive Studio, what type of projects they have produced and how you can pitch your project to the NFB.

Free • Capacity is limited. We recommend reserving a seat here
Program • 60 mins
Location • National Film Board Theatre

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers

1 - Milena Salazar - “Cindy Mochizuki: Compass”
Short Synopsis: A portrait of Vancouver-based artist Cindy Mochizuki during the creation of the multi-media performance Compass.

Milena Salazar is a Costa Rican filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. Her short documentaries Mars Barb (2015) and Do I Have Boobs Now? (2017) have screened in festivals across the globe. She is regular contributor for the CBC Arts TV show Exhibitionists. A fellow of the 2016 Hot Docs documentary Channel Doc Accelerator program and the 2017 RIDM Talent Lab, Milena is currently developing new projects in Vancouver and her hometown of San José, Costa Rica.

2 - Kara Hornland - “Daylight is My Delight”

Kara Hornlandis a settler filmmaker and dancer based on the unceded Coast Salish territories of mi ce:p kʷətxʷiləm (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw(Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, also known as Vancouver. She founded GENA, an artist collective that challenges how women are represented in media. Kara’s recent short film A Woman Wakes to the Sound of a Train and Runs Up a Hill to See It premiered at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, 2017. Currently Kara is interested in connecting people through dance and is working on an experimental short film that uses dance to radically reimagine Greek Mythology.

3 - Diane Obomsawin - “I Like Girls”
Synopsis: In this animated short from Diane Obomsawin, four women reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they're attracted to other women comes hand-in.

4 - Sara Wylie - “Yu Su: I’ll Say When I Can”
Synopsis: A short documentary about electronic musician and DJ Yu Su based in Vancouver, BC.

Sara Wylie is a documentary filmmaker, producer and researcher from the unceded Coast Salish territories of mi ce:p kʷətxʷiləm (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, also known as Vancouver. Her recent credits include directing Shelter (Short, 2016), producing Wizard Mode (Feature, 2016) and the award-winning Handsome and Majestic (Short, 2016), and story-producing an upcoming documentary series on VICELAND (2018). She is currently completing an MFA in Documentary Media at Ryerson University, and is in production on a short documentary around issues of incarcerated women in Canada. Prior to filmmaking, she worked as an organizer for environmental issues and youth engagement in federal politics.

5 - Kara Blake - “The Delian Mode”
Synopsis: The Delian Mode is a short experimental documentary revolving around the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, best known for her groundbreaking sound treatment of the Doctor Who theme music. A collage of sound and image created in the spirit of Derbyshire’s unique approach to audio creation and manipulation, this film illuminates such soundscapes onscreen while paying tribute to a woman whose work has influenced electronic musicians for decades.

6 - Michelle Latimer - “Niimikaage”
Synopsis: Both a requiem for and an honouring of Canada's First Nations, Métis and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian nationalism. In the process, it reverses the colonial lens by shifting the balance of power to reclaim the Canadian narrative, putting the enduring strength and resilience of Indigenous women at the forefront.

7 - Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Chandra Melting Tallow “Versaearcolonion”
Synopsis: Versaearcolonion: “Con(versa)tional Strategies B(ear)ing Witness to the Dialectics of De(colon)ial Interpersonal Reconciliat(ion).” Versaearcolonion was the headliner for the SO WIDE SO LOW SO HIGH edition of VIVO Media Art’s Thirstdays series.

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathersis a filmmaker, writer, and actor based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is Blackfoot from the Kainai First Nation (Blood Reserve) as well as Sámi from northern Norway. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of British Columbia in First Nations Studies with a Minor in Women's and Gender Studies. She is a recipient of the Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award and a Kodak Image Award for her work as an emerging filmmaker. Her short documentary, Bihttoš, was included in the TIFF Top Ten Canadian Shorts, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival for Best Short Documentary, and was also nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and a Leo Award for Best Short Documentary. Most recently, she directed and produced the feature-length documentary, c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city, in partnership and collaboration with the Musqueam First Nation. She is currently in production with the National Film Board of Canada on a feature-length documentary about addiction, harm reduction, and the opiate crisis in her home community of Kainai. She is also in post-production on a narrative feature, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, in collaboration with co-writer/co-director Kathleen Hepburn.

Chandra Melting Tallowis an interdisciplinary artist, film-maker, and musician of mixed ancestry from the Siksika Nation. In 2017 they produced a short film, composed a live soundtrack and an accompanying performance for Unsettling Colonial Gender Boundaries as part of Queer Arts Fest entitled 'Rapture of Roses'. They have directed, edited and filmed a number of music videos and experimental films including co-editing Coney Island Baby, a short film collaboration with Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Jeneen Frei Njootli and Tania Willard in addition to composing the soundtrack. Common themes throughout their practice involve confronting ghosts of intergenerational trauma and their relationship to the body, utilizing humour to subvert oppressive structures of power and surrealism.

GENA is an artist collective based on the unceded Coast Salish territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. The group creates work that challenges how women are represented in media and imagines new ways to transcend these representations. GENA collaborates with groups on the Downtown Eastside through initiatives such as the Beauty Xchange, an event to collect and disburse cosmetics and essentials to women. GENA’s video and installation work was shown at Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, 2017 and Skylight Gallery in Vancouver, 2015.

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Location • FIELD Contemporary Gallery

Tone is an exhibition that investigates the social and gestural quality of words within a sonic framework. Through the understanding of words as embodied materiality, this show uses sound in order to deconstruct preexisting ideologies and to affect change.

The exhibition will present works by artists Jamilah Malika and Soledad Fatima Muñoz, with readings by members of Contrast Collective. A limited-run publication of material from Thursday's readings by Contrast Collective will be printed in partnership with the Vancouver Art Book Fair and Moniker Press.

Jamilah Malika is a black woman writer whose words take many forms: published in pages (poetry + short story) or operated on stage as a one woman show as well as lyrics fronting a band (Ontario Arts Council - ‘Popular Music Grant’ recipients 2011 + Toronto Independent Music Awards - Nominee ‘Best Electronic’ 2012) she is currently completing an MFA at SAIC to develop text off page that drops her body out of sight via sound and projection. the work always asks about identity, memory and belonging.

Soledad Fatima Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Currently based in Chicago, her work seeks to explore the analogy between the ever-changing social spaces we inhabit, the inter-connectivity materialized in the woven structure and an embodied experience of sound. She holds a Diploma in Textile Arts from Capilano University, earned a BFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and is currently working towards completing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Soledad was the recipient of New Artist Society Full Merit Scholarship at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist in Craft and Design, and The Emily Carr President’s Media Award – Installation/Interactive Media.

Contrast Collective is a Vancouver based collective focusing on the growth and expression of people of colour.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design

This workshop will cover the basics of how to set up, use, and care for gear used in making rock and roll / electrified music. Gear will include guitar, bass, keyboard and some drums. Participants will have a chance to try all the instruments and learn about how to use them properly. This workshop welcomes youth ages 12-17 of all genders.

Girls Rock Camp Vancouver is a non-profit society that builds self esteem in female youth through music creation and performance. By providing workshops and technical training, we create leadership opportunities, cultivate a supportive community of peers and mentors, and encourage social change and the development of life skills.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design — Rennie Hall

stud1nt is a multi-instrumental artist and DJ from Queens. Their original compositions and rapid-fire mixes sit in-between the spontaneity of jazz improvisation and meticulous approaches to arrangement . They create across genres, nodding to the pulsating, hypnosis of experimental electronic music and the euphoria of ambient loops and psychedelic riffs. Also a member of the queer media collective #kunq, their work is attentive to the politics of queerness in relation to sound and space. stud1nt has presented their workshops on creative production at Vassar College, the New School, Recess Art, Pioneer Works, and Ableton Loop. They have been featured in the New Yorker, Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, the Fader, FACT Magazine, and MixMag. Notable performances include sets for Boiler Room New York, RBMA NY Festival, GHE20G0TH1K, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, Ableton Loop x CDR Klubnacht, and 3hd Festival.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design — Rennie Hall

The intention of this panel is to highlight the importance of understanding electronic music and art practices through an intersectional lens. How does vectors of oppression and privilege (gender, race, age, class, ability, language, ethnicity, education, family status, history, culture, etc) affect one’s opportunity to participate in electronic music & art?

Alanna Ho is an educator and performer based in Vancouver. Her interest is in deep play, and accessible programming technology with informal early STEAM education. The Rainbow Forecast Project was founded in 2016, a research initiative for the critical role of pedagogy in the arts, and empowering children beyond the classroom. As the Art and Technology Instructor (in Childhood Programming) for the New Media Gallery, she bridges elementary school aged children with new media art. Using storytelling, games and play as the main momentum, Alanna harnesses a stimulating environment to simple circuit making, coding and computational thinking for 2.5-7 year olds. Her long term project PLAY PATTERN is 14 protests through performance and play, intended as vigils for the girls who will be forced into child-bride marriages. Parents and galleries bear witness to the provocative unravelling of post-workshop happenings, while children are deeply immersed in their performance by happenstance.

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T'uy't'tanat- Cease is an interdisciplinary artist who works with new media and interdisciplinary arts as well as community engaged and public art. Cease is a Coast Salish ethnobotanist and is an emerging cedar and wool weaver with a textiles art practice that includes plant and other natural dyes. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and lives in East Vancouver.

stud1nt is a multi-instrumental artist and DJ from Queens. Their original compositions and rapid-fire mixes sit in-between the spontaneity of jazz improvisation and meticulous approaches to arrangement . They create across genres, nodding to the pulsating, hypnosis of experimental electronic music and the euphoria of ambient loops and psychedelic riffs. Also a member of the queer media collective #kunq, their work is attentive to the politics of queerness in relation to sound and space. stud1nt has presented their workshops on creative production at Vassar College, the New School, Recess Art, Pioneer Works, and Ableton Loop. They have been featured in the New Yorker, Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, the Fader, FACT Magazine, and MixMag. Notable performances include sets for Boiler Room New York, RBMA NY Festival, GHE20G0TH1K, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, Ableton Loop x CDR Klubnacht, and 3hd Festival.

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Caroline Park is a sound/media artist. They create customized software that explores sonic physicality through electronic performance, installation, and experimental music production. Caroline has performed at Boston Cyberarts, Musicacoustica Beijing, Deep Listening, Ende Tymes, and Tone Deaf, at venues including Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Jordan Hall, New Museum, Silent Barn, and the Stone. They have been published in Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture (Routledge, 2016, ed 5); additional press can be found in The Wire, Touching Extremes, Disquiet, and EKHO. Caroline is a founding member of OPENSIGNAL, a group of artists concerned with the state of gender and race within electronic art practices. Caroline earned a PhD in Multimedia + Electronic Music Experiments at Brown University and is an assistant professor in New Media + Sound Arts (NMSA) at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Previously, they taught at RISD, Connecticut College, Brown University, and New England Conservatory.

Jen Sungshine speaks for a living, but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer Taiwanese artist-activist based in Vancouver, BC, she is guided by an ethos of care that is rooted in the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish people. A facilitator by trade, she works with creative technology and social justice media through: Love Intersections, Out in Schools and the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. Jen's artistic practice involves learning through unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in, to make artful social change with her. In the audience, she looks for art in your interruption.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design — Rennie Hall

The intention of this panel is to discuss how cultural organizers and organizations can be more accountable when creating culture through organizing events, curating, managing spaces, navigating gentrification, hiring staff, creating partnerships, and so on.

Karla Cruz is a nightlife culture coordinator and member of Elastic Collective. Karla has always had a passion for activism gained through their lived experience as a queer, non-binary mixed Latinx femme. In 2015, dancing in the pit at a concert, Karla was captivated by the shared energy of the audience. Eager for more, they packed their bags and moved from Squamish to Vancouver. A search for similar experiences led them to discover the underground, in which they connected with Elastic and Diversity: Arts Music & Entertainment (DAME). Started by youth for youth, Elastic is an art collective centring women, BIPOC, and queer folk residing in Metro Vancouver. Through these collaborations they have hosted several events, including a training program that pushes nightlife's marginalized groups into positions of power. Karla is determined to incorporate social activism into the Vancouver arts scene to cultivate sustainable and accessible safe spaces. Their present endeavours include DJing, promoting for Blueprint Events, and continuing their activism through participation in events such as CURRENT.

Ana Rose Carrico, a lifetime Downtown Eastside resident, has spent the last twelve years pursuing her passion for community building and grassroots art and culture in Vancouver. A Director at Red Gate Arts Society, which is committed to providing an affordable, inclusive working space for artists, musicians, and creative individuals of all kinds, in a supportive and creative environment. They currently provide studio space to over 60 creatives, as well as provide use of a gallery, free store, darkroom and woodshop facilities, and a large multi purpose room and theatre for events, workshops, and other short term projects to the community at large.She became the Executive Director of the Red Gate Revue Stage in 2016, expanding the disciplines that The Red Gate can support to theatre and dance.

She has recently taken the role of Station Manager and Publisher for CiTR/Discorder, the broadcasting voice of the University of British Columbia, with a mandate to provide local, community-based programming, and train students, community members and underrepresented populations to participate in broadcasting and media production. Discorder Magazine mirrors the mandate of CiTR in amplifying independent and underrepresented voices, and providing invaluable publishing experience. Though initially founded as a music-focused magazine, Discorder now covers visual art, creative writing, filmmaking, community organizing, and more.She has, and will continue to, devote her life to the principles of collaborative governance, community building, and providing opportunities for lesser known and underrepresented artists to showcase their work.

Gabi Dao is an artist, organizer and editor/producer of the irregularly published Here Nor There podcast series. Her work begins by examining the tectonics of cultural and subjective memories and manifests as multi-media installations, object making, sound and occasional writing. She seeks to create sensorial narratives alternative to the dominant systems of linear representation. As an extension of her practice, she co-organizes and co-produces events, exhibitions, musical performances with collaborators at Duplex, a pair of studio spaces and project space on unceded Coast Salish Territories including Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, Vancouver. She has been involved in various exhibitions and projects at 221a, Spare Room, Dynamo Arts Association, The New Music Centre (CA, AB), Artspeak, Western Front, The Nanaimo Art Gallery and Unit 17. She was the recipient of the Portfolio Prize (BFA category) in 2016 and was nominated for The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver 2017 Artist Prize long list.

Reverend Dollars (Renee Jarreau Greene) is a Seattle-based DJ and producer who is the founder of the Darqness Seattle Queer and Trans People of Color Arts Collective. Her work focuses on bringing together marginalized Black, Trans, Queer, and People of Color communities through the mediums of music and dance. Their energetic sets are known for club and hiphop beats played at a frenetic pace. After a series of EPs dating back to 2011, she is currently working on her latest project WHEN THE GIRLS ARE FREE for 2018 release.

Jen Sungshine [moderator] speaks for a living, but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer Taiwanese artist-activist based in Vancouver, BC, she is guided by an ethos of care that is rooted in the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish people. A facilitator by trade, she works with creative technology and social justice media through: Love Intersections, Out in Schools and the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. Jen's artistic practice involves learning through unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in, to make artful social change with her. In the audience, she looks for art in your interruption. www.jensungshine.com

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Location • Red Gate Arts Society

Stud1nt (Discwoman, #kunq / NYC) - DJ
Reverend Dollars (Darqness, TUF / SEA) - DJ
Venetta & Zam Zam (NuZi) - DJ
Baby Blue (s.M.i.L.e) - live

Visuals • Kyinskies, Zandi Dandizette

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design

Students will gain insight into essential audio programming in Max/MSP; including techniques in sound synthesis, sample creation and playback, filtering and live processing. This workshop will culminate to a final performance in which students will collaboratively compose a piece. The ensemble will perform using game controllers to manipulate sound parameters that they have programmed onto these interfaces.

Kiran Bhumber is a media artist, composer, musician and educator based in Vancouver, Canada. Kiran constructs interactive installations and performance systems which allow performers and audiences to engage with themes relating to cultural memory, performativity, embodiment and nostalgia. She has performed and presented her works throughout North America, Asia, Europe and Australia including conferences and festivals such as MUTEK, The International Symposium on Electronic (ISEA), The Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, International Conference on Live Coding, and New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). As an active educator, Kiran is passionate about mentorship and community building by guiding students through experimenting with creative technologies. Kiran holds an MA in Media Arts (2018) and Certificate in World Performance Studies from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Music (2014) from the University of British Columbia.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design — Rennie Hall

In her social media workshop, Vanessa will be sharing techniques creatives can use to reach new people and customize their projects for a global audience.

Vanessa Tam is a freelance creative and digital marketing professional that specializes in content creation and social media marketing. Working on projects with global brands like Red Bull and Perrier, Vanessa merges cultural nuance with digital storytelling to create engaging campaigns taking place all around the world.

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Location • Emily Carr University of Arts + Design — Rennie Hall

This presentation will teach you about what funding programs exist for music through CreativeBC, MusicBC and FACTOR and how to be a successful grant funding applicant.

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Location • Warehouse at Eastside Studios

Tygapaw (Fake Accent / NYC) - DJ
Ouri (MTL) - live
Swan Meat (Permalnk, Bala Club, doom trip / US,DE) - live
Goo - live
Liliop - DJ

Visuals • Emma Tomic, Kyinskies, Zandi Dandizette

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Location • Subculture at Creative Coworkers

The intention of this presentation is to connect our audience to organizations offering services for sexual harassment and assault survivors, and to provide valuable information and a pragmatic “toolkit” on how to look out for each other and offer support for survivors in your community.

Good Night Out was founded out of an awareness of the links between alcohol consumption and sexual aggression and initiated from community concerns that staff and patrons in Vancouver’s nightlife could benefit from education around how to recognize, interrupt and prevent sexual harassment and assault on nights out. Good Night Out uses recent research on gendered violence, bystander intervention, and anti-oppressive techniques to create a variety of original educational tools, interventions and messaging aimed at reducing gendered and homophobic harassment and violence in our city’s arts, culture and entertainment scene. They are committed to engaging our community with these issues in ways that are authentic, meaningful and interactive. The work that Good Night Out has done in Vancouver has been presented on a local and international scale, with their team being looked to as experts in the field of violence against women.

Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) is a feminist voice against violence and oppression. BWSS is a strong, dynamic organization that provides support and advocacy for women who have experienced abuse, as well as community education and training about violence against women. Part of a global feminist anti-violence movement, our long-term goal is the elimination of all violence against women and girls.

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Location • Subculture at Creative Coworkers

Intersessions is a Vancouver collective which aims to fight inequality and sexism in the music industry by offering DJ seminars to women and LGBTQ individuals.

Free • Workshop registration
Location • Subculture at Creative Coworkers

Diversity: Arts Music & Entertainment (DAME) is a collective of queer, trans, and bipoc activists in the nightlife community addressing structural barriers and building inclusive programming. They collaborate with friends across their shared intersections and advocate for systemic change.

Workshops
1) Reinventing the Bechdel test
2) Festival diversity report card
3) Live music DIY tips and tricks