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.
Accessibility Measures for this Event
Mask Mandate
Throughout the festival wearing masks is highly encouraged for all events when possible as a practice of collective community care. With the festival taking place during the peak of flu season, we strive to be able to gather in groups while being mindful of our own and others’ health needs. We will have masks available on site throughout the festival. For events with smaller gathering spaces air purifiers will be on site to assist with providing clean air and circulation. We are encouraging Masks by:
All staff will be wearing masks throughout the entirety of the festival events, only when we are speaking on a stage at a distance from folks during speeches/talkbacks will we remove our masks to help support our ASL interpreters and lip readers
Printed signage will be posted throughout our event spaces, as well as included in our screening slides that play on loop prior to the start of each screening stating "Masks Highly Encouraged"
We will have volunteers stationed before our box office and will be handing out masks to each individual who enters the space
Currently we have surgical masks available for audiences, and are in the process of trying to secure more masks that are either N95 or KN95 (we currently do not have these confirmed)
** 2 air purifiers will be in the space at this event
** Stim Toys will be available to borrow
Meet the facilitators:
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.