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Rendezvous With Madness Tour & Yukon Film Society Present
FILM
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Ken Foster
Dir: Josh Laner / 2016 / Canada / 94 min
Sat, August 19, 10pm, KIAC Ballroom
The Vancouver street artist Ken Foster is a fixture on the mean streets of Gastown,
a district legendary for its community of broken souls. Foster paints what he sees.
He paints it boldly and he paints it fast. Partly this is due to his technique: images
spring from him like thoughts, the city transfigured into stark visions. But it is also part
of his survival strategy: Foster is a schizophrenic crack addict, and he has chosen
to live with his demons as a condition of his art. A documentary as fascinating and
uncompromising as its subject. With introduction and post-screening talk with Toronto
writer/broadcaster/arts and media critic GEOFF PEVERE.
Swimming Lessons
An Aquatic Lecture Series Curated by Aubyn O’Grady
Sunday, Aug 20, 6:30 – (ODD Gallery steps)
Swimming Lessons is an experimental aquatic lecture that is part performance-lecture,
part research-creation, and part socially engaged art that seeks to explore the
entangled, material, and intra-active enmeshments between water, bodies,
and knowledges, encouraging sensory exploration and immersive learning
experiences. This series will take place down by the river!
Meet at the ODD Gallery steps, and we will walk to the spot together.
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