Thursday June 19th, 2014
Present, future realities explored
For their Vancouver Biennale artists-in- residence project, Pallavi Paul and Sahej Rahal plan to present Squamish residents with a film depicting a vision of the community at some point in the future. But though it may contain an element of science fiction, it’s intended to be completely grounded in present realities.
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Wednesday June 18th, 2014
Oliver Stone Presents – Moody Middle School students meet the acclaimed director.
Friday early afternoon, June 13, students of Moody Middle School, plus a few parents, teachers, and assorted high school students, attended a screening at Port Moody’s Inlet theatre. They watched film director Oliver Stone’s new television documentary, An Untold History of the United States. What happened next seemed a little surreal, but Mr. Stone himself arrived, entered the lobby and strolled into the theatre, took a seat on a stool at the front of the theatre, and introduced himself before taking 90 minutes’ worth of questions from the gathered.
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Wednesday June 18th, 2014
Public art a powerful force
Next time you pass the intersection of 21st and Lonsdale take a moment and look at the new piece of public art situated in the green space just south of the Gordon Smith Gallery.
The art piece, called The Meeting, was created by Chinese sculptor Wang Shugang and is composed of eight life-sized squatting red men grouped in a circle. It’s a beautiful piece of work that stimulates an immediate response from the viewer and has the unique facility of drawing someone in. The Meeting was one of the most photographed pieces of public art in Vancouver’s international sculpture Biennale and now it makes North Vancouver its home for the next two years.
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Wednesday June 18th, 2014
Os Gêmeos on the seduction of graffiti art
Jian speaks with one half of twin brother team Os Gêmeos, internationally celebrated graffiti artist Gustavo Pandolfo. The artist reflects on his work and how his home city of São Paulo has become a haven for street art.
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Tuesday June 17th, 2014
Le cinéaste Oliver Stone de passage à Vancouver
La Biennale de Vancouver a invité le célèbre cinéaste américain Oliver Stone a venir parler de son engagement social et de l'importance de l'éducation avec sa série documentaire Untold story of the United States. Marie Villeneuve l'a rencontré.
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Monday June 16th, 2014
Oliver Stone – Re: History.
Oliver Stone is a natural born storyteller. Ask the legendary director if he’s been to Vancouver before, and he launches into a tale that involves a damsel in distress, a white knight, and, because this is Oliver Stone, a not entirely happy ending.
“I saved a beautiful young woman many years ago in one of my heroic gestures, in 1978 or 7. I met her in Los Angeles, and she got involved in a strange cult, one of the quasi-scientific, quasi-religious cults. She ended up, according to her, imprisoned in the cult maybe 100 miles from Vancouver. I actually went up there. I got her out. She was completely nuts to begin with, but she was even nuttier after that,” he says with a slight smile and a mild shrug of his brow, in a what-are-you-gonna-do gesture. “We had an interesting relationship.”
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Monday June 16th, 2014
Interview with Jenna Tenn-Yuk
Ariana Barer speaks with Jenna Tenn-Yuk, spoken word artist, public speaker, educator and singer-songwriter from Mississauga, Ontario. She is one of the artists-in-residence with The Vancouver Biennale celebrating public art where she will lead spoken word poetry workshops, culminating in a public event and dialogue at the end of the month focusing on bringing together voices from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, Christian, and feminist communities to foster conversations and peace building through spoken word.
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Friday June 13th, 2014
Stone brings American history lesson to Canada via Vancouver Biennale
The Vancouver Biennale – which brings public art such as A-maze-ing Laughter to the city – wanted to go big with the launch of its new film program. So it found a legendary Hollywood figure to help.
Earlier this year, Biennale founder and artistic director Barrie Mowatt was at a documentary film festival in Palm Springs with Oliver Stone, and asked the director whether he might come to Vancouver to inaugurate CineFest Live.
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Friday June 13th, 2014
Oliver Stone Turns Hawk Eye on American History
Oliver Stone says he’s still in recovery. “When I was young, I was brainwashed by the American history that I learned. It was benign, a Disney version of events,” says the three-time Oscar-winning director.
“But now I’m interested in the underside … and making it accessible.”
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Wednesday June 11th, 2014
Oliver Stone takes on a snowless Vancouver as he announces plans for Snowden film
VANCOUVER — Oliver Stone says he’s still in recovery. “When I was young, I was brainwashed by the American history that I learned. It was benign, a Disney version of events,” says the three-time Oscar-winning director.
“But now I’m interested in the underside … and making it accessible.”
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