Archive for February, 2011

THE PASTE UP WEEKLY is an extension of our monthly events listings. We know that there are a lot of awesome events, happenings and goings on in Vancouver and we wanted to feature some of the best and most unique events for the upcoming week. This month’s full event listings can be found here.

Thursday February 23rd, 2011

Pecha Kucha Night Vol.15 – Special Edition

The first Pecha Kucha Night of the year. This Special Edition is in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery for their WE:Vancouver exhibition.

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Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

In a previous post I had mentioned that I’ve visited quite a few of the Gulf Islands over the years; almost all of them, in fact. I didn’t set out with the goal to see them all, it just seems to be working out that way. And while each island has a different history and a different vibe with different people, they all share some of the same geographic details. Which makes sense of course, you know, geographically speaking.

Yet you don’t need to board a ferry to find these details – they are here on the mainland as well, they are just a little harder to find along a shoreline that now features beaches, port facilities, industrial areas and even our beloved seawall. As seen in Sunset from Lighthouse Park by popejon2, you can witness the rugged coast that was carved by receding glaciers thousands of years ago, and pounded continuously by an unrelenting and salty ocean ever since.

I’m not suggesting you cancel your trip to see the Malaspina Galleries on Gabriola Island or anything, but this is really nice – bathed in some beautiful light from the Golden Hour and featuring some lovely atmospheric perspective in the background, I am sold. I hope you didn’t get your feet wet popejon2.

Gary

A couple of weeks back we told you all about the series of improv shows that we’re co-presenting with Instant TheatreInstant Theatre and today wanted to remind you that tonight is the night that it all begins! Dust off your clapping hands and prepare your laughter face… CAGEMATCH!!! RETURNS!

Watch teams go head-to-head nightly to see who are the barons and baronesses (baronii?) of improv, with finals happening Saturday the 26th between the top three teams according to YOUR votes.

Each night’s play is opened with a set by one of four Instant Theatre Conservatory Ensembles! So much improv!

Instant Theatre

THURS. Feb. 24:
Conservatory LIVE! feat. Chip Ellis, Lauren McGibbon, Daniel Chai, Tyler Cheyne, Ryan Whyte, Scott Patey, Jordan Krahn, and Darren Williams

**CAGEMATCH!!! The Fictionals vs. Virginia Jack vs. The Sunday Service**

FRIDAY Feb. 25:
Conservatory LIVE! feat. Mirah Valdez, Max Montesi, Michael Demaria, Michael Cope, Isabelle Deluce, Colm Hill, Brynn Peebles, Francesca McDowell, Andrew Barber, and Jullian Kolstee

**CAGEMATCH!!! Ghost Jail vs. UBC Improv vs. Hip.bang**

SATURDAY Feb. 26:
Conservatory LIVE! feat. Rachel Burns, Sarah Szloboda, Alex Thornton, Tyler Weber, Andrew Chen, Nick Harvey-Cheetham, Nir Av-gay, Nicole Passmore, Shawn Norman, and Brandon Yan

**CAGEMATCH!!! THE FINALS feat. the TOP THREE TEAMS**

All shows start at 8pm
Tickets $8/night at the door
RSVP on Facebook

Nardwuar The Human Serviette is todays “Featured Picture” on the main page of Wikipedia.org!!!

Thanks binsy for the tip!

Click HERE to watch all of the video interviews that Nardwuar has shared with us over the past months.

WE DID IT!

We made the Top TWENTY on the CBC Radio 3 Searchlight competition for Best Canadian Music Blog.

My heart is so happy for the amount of support we’ve received, you don’t even know…now we need you to vote for us daily in the Top 20 and help us make the next cut (Top 10)!

Congrats to the rest of the Top 20 nominees too…

VOTE DAILY, and we’ll love you forever.

This new series had its genesis when I began photographing Vancouver area location shoots last summer to get over a long post-Olympics funk. Film and TV productions like This Means War, Mission Impossible 4, Fringe and the new AMC series The Killing showcase our city in similar fashion and sometimes put a celebrity actor or two in the frame.

I had no idea what I was unleashing when I tweeted the location for horror flick Dibbuk Box’s first day of filming in Vancouver on January 31st. But then, I had no idea that its easy-going star Jeffrey Dean Morgan was a magnet for the kind of female fans who would steal his discarded cigarette butts on location (funny and true).

The Seattle native became a fan favourite when he played three beloved and now dead TV characters almost simultaneously: Izzy’s dying Denny on Grey’s Anatomy; dead-after-sporadic-appearances John Winchester, father of Dean and Sam in Supernatural; and Nancy’s dead husband on Weeds. Dean Morgan went on to star in several films including the Vancouver-shot and Zack-Snyder-directed adaption of the iconic graphic novel Watchmen but he didn’t leave his Vancouver TV sons behind. When in town he still socializes with Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, telling me happily after Dibbuk Box wrapped its first day of shooting that he’d just talked to “Jensen” on the phone and made plans to “see my boys”.

Sam Raimi`s Ghost House Pictures developed Dibbuk Box, a “based on true events” story of the terrible, inexplicable things happening to people who buy this haunted European antique on eBay. On the first day of shooting, I managed to photograph the pivotal scene where the young girl played by Natasha Calis runs to the car with the box she purchased at the yard sale, filmed at a corner ranch house near Lanagara College. She will refuse to give it up and so force her divorced parents – Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgewick (the Emmy-winning star of The Closer) – to work past their hostility over the next 29 days to save their youngest daughter from the malicious, ancient spirit which inhabits it.

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SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. We interview some of our favourite local artists, post weekly guest playlists comprised of Vancouver artists and ‘Last Week in Music’ highlights some of the concerts happening around the city…

No, I’m not really behind in my calendar, it’s the name of the first single off of We Are The City’s upcoming album (“High School”)! They have made videos for each of the songs with our good friends over at Amazing Factory and will be releasing them one at a time. I’m VERY excited about it…and you should be too…watch Happy New Year below!.

Vancouver has a vibrant art and design scene. It is our mission to make this stimulating world accessible to everyone.Artsy!Dartsy! is Vancouver’s online Art & Design event guide. Offering comprehensive event listings since 2008, the site is updated daily to promote current and upcoming exhibits, lectures and shows. It is a resource for casual art-goers, industry professionals and tourists. With a user-friendly format, information is sorted by media, venue, schedule and location as well as handy street maps. For the full listing please head to Artsy-Dartsy.com.

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ArtsyDartsy.com is conducting an un-official poll on the Vancouver Art Gallery proposed relocation. Please take 90 secs and take the poll. Feel free to pass on the link. http://bit.ly/gfhTsr

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The Pendulum Gallery presentss Taizo Yamamoto – Shopping Carts and Recent Drawings. Opening reception is Friday, Feb 25, 6-8.

Architect Taizo Yamamoto studied architecture at McGill and practiced in NYC before moving to Vancouver in 2003. Over the past decade, Yamamoto has been producing an ongoing sequential project of exquisitely rendered pencil drawings. Isolated in space and treated as sculptural forms, he focuses on the overlooked and incidental, from shopping carts to residential hedges.

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