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

Oct 2 highlights: Tari Ito – LIVE 2019 Oct 2 highlights: Tari Ito – LIVE 2019

Tari Ito’s Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep In 1990, the activist and performance artist who was part of an important feminist movement in Tokyo, Japan — Tari

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Oct 2 highlights: Tari Ito - LIVE 2019

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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Oct 1 highlights: Do Not Disturb – LIVE 2019 Oct 1 highlights: Do Not Disturb – LIVE 2019

Rochdy Laribi & Christine Bouvier’s Do Not Disturb performance LIVE 2019 officially kicked off the first performance of this year’s festival last night, October 1st, with Rochdy Laribi & Christine

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Oct 1 highlights: Do Not Disturb - LIVE 2019

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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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

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

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

THIRZA JEAN CUTHAND THIRZA JEAN CUTHAND

Thirza Jean Cuthand Canada The Future Is So Bright Cuthand’s work often deals with issues related to Indigiqueer/2 Spirit love, communities, and sexuality. She is currently grappling with larger issues

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THIRZA JEAN CUTHAND