Art Against APEC

Fax : 6046695621 Feb 25 02:00/ Get Active fight APEC!/ ART AGAINST APEC/ event info line 644.4349 to volunteer 253.6316/ Art Against APEC is a group of Vancouver artists sharing information about the impacts of APEC on cultural sovereignty/ November Events/ Wednesday 12/ APEC's Impact on Cultural Sovereignty Panel Discussion Langara College, Langara Students' Union Building, 324-3881 12:30pm/ Globalization and Culture: APEC's Impact on Art and Culture, Panel Discussion with Clint Bumham & Maita Santiago, Emily Carr, South Building 419, 7pm/ Focus on APEC - An Art Against APEC Benefit Spoken Word, Poetry and Information with Bud Osborne, Justin McGrail, South Asian Womens Centre participants. Looking Glass, 722 Richards Street, by donation 7pm/ Thursday 13/ Art & Activism Workshop Mural and Banner Painting Langara Students' Union Building, 324-3881 12:30-6pm SFU Burnaby, SFU Anti-APEC coalition 291-4360 6-9pm/ Junk APECI Benefit for No! to APEC Featuring bands: Ignition 13, Vinyl, The Fray and Some Friends of Mine. Columbia Hotel, Doors at 9pm, / Saturday/Sunday 15/16/ Giant Puppet Making Workshop Create Visual Imagery for the Anti APEC demonstrations. Langara Students' Union Building. Call 253-6316 for info or to register, 11am-8pm/ Monday 17/ Voices from East Timor: Suharto on Trial: Tribunal and conference, Testimony from 15 East Timorese, UBC SUB Auditorium, 688-4191, 9:30-4:30/ Breakfast Launch of Summit Under Siege Democracy Village at UBC (tent city), 251-9914, 7:30am/ 19-23/ 1997 People's Summit on APEC, Plaza of Nations, 682-1952/ Thursday 20/ Cultural Survival Festival - Art Against APEC Benefit Rave with live DJs and bands at Langara Students' Union Pub Night, entry, Langara Students' Union Building, for the DJ lineup call 644-4349 or 324-3881, 1-8pm/ 20-22/ Amnesty International Film Festival Fletcher Challenge Theatre, SFU Harbour Centre, 662-3909 -10/ Friday 21/ Cultural Survival Festival - Art Against APEC Benefit with: Jeet K da Tripmaster, Joey Keithley (DOA), Puncture, Third Eye Tribe, Emily Carr Inst. of Art & Design Student Lounge, 644-4349, 7-11 pm/ Rock Against APEC with APEC Alert Democracy Village at UBC (tent city), 251-9914/ Theatre Workshop Prepare street theatre for the Walk for Global Justice. Plaza of Nations - Prayer Room of Enterprise Hall 682-1952 6 pm/ 21-24/ People's Conference Against Imperialist Globalization - Continuing the Resistance call 215-9190 to register/ Sunday 23/ Walk For Global Justice from the Plaza of Nations, gather at 11:30 (with the kids), leave at 12:30pm 738-1880/ Monday 24/ Free University, UBC Campus Walk-Out Panel of Speakers, Teach In/Speak Out, Democracy Village at UBC (tent city), 251-9914 All Day/ National Women's Day of Protest Against APEC Wear a Red Armband. Lower Mainland Feminist Networking Group c/o Vancouver Status of Women (604) 255-6554/ No to APEC Special Coop Radio 102.7 FM 5-8pm/ Tuesday 25/ Crash the Summit, 9am-11 Speakers, Street theatre and music at the Goddess of Democracy Statue. 11am Mobilization Against the Summit 251-9914/ No To APEC DEMO Women's Contingent. Meet at VSW, #309-877 East Hastings 2:30/ No To APEC DEMO -continuing the resistance March: 3:30 Oppenheimer Park (at Powell & Jackson) Rally: 5:30 Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Street Side)/ Cultural Survival Festival - Finale! Wrap-up a week of protest with street action videos, films, speeches and live music with (taiko drummers) Loud, Kathleen Yearwood, Joey Keithley and much more. -8 sliding scale. doors 6:30pm, performances 7-10:30pm Pacific Cinematheque (Howe St) free food prior to show