Vancouver’s International Performance Art Celebration

Oct 5 & 6 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Lee Wen tribute, Lukas Avendaño, Kamikazee Nurse, Carmen Papalia Oct 5 & 6 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Lee Wen tribute, Lukas Avendaño, Kamikazee Nurse, Carmen Papalia

The final full day and evening – Saturday, October 5 – of LIVE 2019 programming began with another wonderful session of stretching and meditation led by VERB FRAU TV, artist

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Oct 5 & 6 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Lee Wen tribute, Lukas Avendaño, Kamikazee Nurse, Carmen Papalia

Oct 4 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talk, Mineki Murata, Fatimah Jawdat, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Raven Davis, New Body Language panel with SUM gallery Oct 4 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talk, Mineki Murata, Fatimah Jawdat, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Raven Davis, New Body Language panel with SUM gallery

VERB FRAU TV: Supporting – Day 2 Margaret Dragu and Sophia Wolfe led a group of artists and public through another morning of healing moving and not moving that included

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Oct 4 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talk, Mineki Murata, Fatimah Jawdat, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Raven Davis, New Body Language panel with SUM gallery

Oct 3 highlights: VERB FRAU, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Preach R Sun, Jon Sasaki, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Adriana Disman Oct 3 highlights: VERB FRAU, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Preach R Sun, Jon Sasaki, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Adriana Disman

Thursday, October 3 was the first day of LIVE 2019 with full programming all day and night. This format continues on Friday, October 4 and Saturday, October 5: 11:30-13:00 –

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Oct 3 highlights: VERB FRAU, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Preach R Sun, Jon Sasaki, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Adriana Disman

NEW BODY LANGUAGE NEW BODY LANGUAGE

NEW BODY LANGUAGE: Visiting LIVE artists identifying as queer, trans, 2 Spirit, and Muxe discuss issues of gender identity and politics in performance art with the SUM Galley community. Friday October

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Carmen Papalia Site is Confirmed Carmen Papalia Site is Confirmed

Carmen Papalia‘s performance will be walking through the PNE Park. Sun Oct 06 Meeting at the entrance of PNE Forum to start the Walk.  2901 E Hastings St, Vancouve( at

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Preach R Sun’s performance Site Confirmed Preach R Sun’s performance Site Confirmed

On October 3, Thursday Preach R Sun‘s performance starts at 14:30 PM at Patricia Hotel Lobby. We start at there to walk down with the artist. Rain or Shine. Come

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ADRIANA DISMAN ADRIANA DISMAN

ADRIANA DISMAN Canada “Questions without answers must be asked very slowly.” -Anne Michaels The most ambitious ambition of my work is to create moments of livability. I understand the world-at-hand

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ADRIANA DISMAN

CARMEN PAPALIA CARMEN PAPALIA

Carmen Papalia Canada Carmen Papalia is a social practice artist who uses organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, the art institution, and visual culture. His

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CARMEN PAPALIA

CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE

Canada ᒥᐊᐧᐣ Cheyenne Rain LeGrande is a Nehiyaw Isko artist. Nanâskotam wikih the territories of the Musquem,Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Cheyenne is a part of the Skwachays Lodge artist residency

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CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE

ROCHDY LARIBI & CHRISTINE BOUVIER ROCHDY LARIBI & CHRISTINE BOUVIER

ROCHDY LARIBI & CHRISTINE BOUVIER France DO NOT DISTURB “If ‘Luck smiles on the daring’ as the poet Virgil suggested, then why not emerge yourself to experience a unique immersive

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ROCHDY LARIBI &  CHRISTINE BOUVIER

FATIMA JAWDAT FATIMA JAWDAT

Fatimah Jowdat Iraq Fatima Jawdat is a young artist living in Diwaniya, Al Qadisiyah, Iraq.  Her education and background is in theatre and fine art. Her performative pictures relay a

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FATIMA JAWDAT

JON SASAKI JON SASAKI

Jon Sasaki Canada On July 28, standing in the Fraser River delta, Waist-deep in water and equipped with rudimentary materials, basic hand tools, and negligible skills, Sasaki attempted to build

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JON SASAKI

KAMIKAZE NURSE KAMIKAZE NURSE

Kamikaze Nurse Canada Kamikaze Nurse is a rock band featuring KC Wei, Ethan Reyes, Sonya Eui, and John Brennan.  Named after Simone Weil’s unfulfilled humanitarian death wish, the band formed

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KAMIKAZE NURSE

LEE WEN TRIBUTE LEE WEN TRIBUTE

Lee Wen Tribute Singapore Lee Wen went on his last journey… into the stars and into eternity on March 3. In tribute Snežana Golubović has collected one-minute videos dedicated to

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LEE WEN TRIBUTE

LUKAS AVENDANO LUKAS AVENDANO

Lukas Avendaño Mexico In a contingency my mother gave me birth in a land surrounded by mosques in Tehuantepec, the midwife put a machete to heat the fire and when

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LUKAS AVENDANO

VERB FRAU TV VERB FRAU TV

VERB FRAU TV VERB FRAU TV SEASON 8: With Sophia Wolfe & Margaret Dragu SUPPORT-ing an intimate & live-streamed (almost) daily morning self-care practice for artists, culture workers, and friends-of-same

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VERB FRAU TV

MINEKI MURATA MINEKI MURATA

Mineki Murata Japan Mineki Murata is an artist based in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan. Murata’ s works mainly consist of his drawing performances, which give strong impact to the audience by

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MINEKI MURATA

PREACH R SUN PREACH R SUN

Preach R Sun USA Preach R Sun is a U.S. based conjurer and ‘fugitivist’ — “implementing social issues and political activism as performance matters”. Sun, working at the interface of

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PREACH R SUN

RAVEN DAVIS RAVEN DAVIS

Raven Davis Canada My practice has no boundaries; I renounce institutional limitations of eurocentric pedagogy and accreditation and honour Indigenous theory, methodology and practice. I am a nomadic creator and

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RAVEN DAVIS