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Insight into the Artistic Process: Plant Meditation and a Rehearsal for Dying

  • SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts — World Arts Centre 149 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC, V6B 1H4 Canada (map)

still from before transforming we exist by Shapeshifter Media Collective

Insight into the Artistic Process:
Plant Meditation and a Rehearsal for Dying
Saturday November 16 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm PST

With facilitators Reed Jackson and Chantal Dobles Gering
Location: SFU - World Art Centre, 2nd floor & DTES neighbourhood

This event is free to attend!

Each year, in anticipation of the premiere of the Commissioned Artists’ films created through the Commissioning Fund Program, we gather to learn more about some of the ideas motivating and inspiring their work. Discover more about Shapeshifter Media Collective's film “before transforming we exist”.

Please join us in this site-specific workshop, with invitations into subtler realities through receiving dance, meeting nonhuman beings in the cracks, and sensing into dying. 

What are sites of disturbance? How are we sensing into the more than human lifeways? 

In the making of Shapeshifter Media Collective's F-O-R-M film, we sat in conversation with disturbance ecologies, fallow land, grief processing and queer time. If you can, bring something to cover your eyes, like a cloth or bandana, as well as a notebook/pen. 

This workshop takes place on the stolen land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and in the neighbourhood of the DTES.

Meet the facilitators:

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Reed Jackson
Reed Jackson

Reed Jackson [Reaume Rodzinyak] is a perpetually emergent queer artist & arts facilitator on stolen, occupied, unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ lands. Working through film, sound, eco-printing, poetry, song and movement, they are currently researching/re-membering queer & trans histories, ruderal & disturbance ecologies & spacetime as field and fabric. Reed embraces art-making as a praxis of cultivating response-abilities and intimate relations.

Chantal Dobles Gering
Chantal Dobles Gering

Chantal Dobles Gering is a queer movement artist born on Huetar land colonially known as “San Jose, Costa Rica” and grew up on Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. They are informed by Liberated Planet Studios’ movement research, Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy, and their interspecies collaborations. Chantal co-founded Shapeshifter Media Collective, creating dance films to archive queer/trans expression with a residency at Lobe Studio. Currently they are dancing through EDAM's contact improvisation scholarship and co-creating a piece, Gay Ancestors in the STAND festival with the Queer Soul Poets.

Venue Accessibility

149 W Hastings St
Vancouver, BC, V6B 1H7
World Art Centre: 2nd floor

Wheelchair accessible at street level on Hastings side or via ramp on Cordova Street Courtyard side, all venues within building accessible by elevator

The building is accessible at street level on the Hastings side or via a ramp on the Cordova Street Courtyard side (across from JJ Bean Coffee).

There are 2 ramp entry points:

  • One is located against the building, near the entrance to the Woodward’s Westbank Atrium (which houses London Drugs and Nesters)

  • Another is located against the building, beside the alley.

Both the Hastings doors and the Cordova Courtyard doors can be operated by accessibility buttons located beside the doorways.

The building is a ten-minute walk from Waterfront Station, where the Skytrain, Seabus and Westcoast Express meet; city buses run directly from this hub to the Hastings Street entrance. If approaching via the Stadium-Chinatown Station on Skytrain's Expo-Millenium line, the walk to SFU's Goldcorp Centre for Arts is five minutes.

For more information about our accessibility measures, visit our FAQ page.

Earlier Event: November 15
In-Person Community Gathering
Later Event: November 16
Closing Screening: Commissioned Artists' World Premieres