ROUNDHOUSE TURNTABLE PLAZA OPEN HOUSE A Roundhouse Special Event
Thursday, September 9, 2010
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Roundhouse Engine 374 Pavilion
Learn more about the plans to turn the turntable plaza into a more interesting, interactive, and inviting plaza. The dream is to make it more suitable for sitting, relaxing, enjoying meeting your neighbours, special events, performances and more. Come see the design concepts and drawings. Your ideas and comments are welcome.
For further information on this project, please call
Ernest Fanthorpe, Park Board Facility Development Coordinator 604 257 - 8458 or e-mail: Ernest.Fanthorpe@vancouver.ca.
GLASS AS ART: CROSS-POLLINATION Presented by B.C. Glass Arts Association
A Roundhouse Partnership
Wed Sept 8 – Mon Sept 20
Exhibition Hall
Opening Celebration: Fri Sept 10, 6:00-9:00pm
With a deft brush movement, flower growers cross-pollinate plants to cultivate hybrids with new forms and colours that delight gardeners. Artists take equal delight in that spark of discovery that captures an insight from work by another artist and different media. The B.C. Glass Arts Association presents a members’ show focused on collaboration; revealing where crosspollination has led the artists, and reaching for new directions in expression.
Opening Celebration
Fri Sept 10, 6:00-9:00pm
Join the artists to view the work and the silent auction entries. Light refreshments will be served.
Slide Presentation an d Talk
Sun Sept 12, 2:00-4:00pm
Local glass artists will discuss and present images of architectural glass installations.
Lampworking Demonstration
Mon Sept 13, 1:00-3:00pm
A flame-working demonstration of glass beads, made in the torch, by Joanne Andrighetti.
Gala Celebration and Silent Auction
Thurs Sept 16, 6:00-9:00pm
Join us for a celebration. There will be a presentation by scholarship recipients from 6-7 pm, and show prizes will be awarded. View the silent auction entries and get in on the bidding as the auction closes. Wine and cheese will be served.
Guided Tours
Sat Sept 11 & Sat Sept 18, 1:30 pm
Andrew Luketic, President of the BCGAA will walk you through the show.
COMING SOON TO THE ROUNDHOUSE
YVR: PORTRAIT OF A CITY A Roundhouse Partnership
Fri Sep 17, 8:00pm - One Night Only!
Performance Centre
Tickets: $12 Adult, $10
Available at the door
Info: www.radixtheatre.org
Part potluck, part new media installation, part live radio show, YVR is an ongoing project led by interdisciplinary artist Andreas Kahre and co-presented by Radix Theatre and the Roundhouse Community Centre, YVR is a portrait of a city that refuses to sit still. Amid continual transformations, Vancouver challenges its citizens to understand these confines we call home--an amalgam of utopian, functional, and dysfunctional components. Developed with a team of prominent Vancouver artists utilizing material generated through public workshops at the Roundhouse, YVR comes in the form of an interactive paper theatre installation--a fragile, temporary collection of remembered and imaginary places, sounds, stories, and desires. And it’s a potluck! YVR is a co-production with the Xenographic Society ( www.xenography.org ). In memory of Lola McLaughlin.
DANCE ALLSORTS: OVER THE INFLUENCE Presented by New Works in partnership with the Roundhouse
Performance Centre
Sun Sept 19, 2pm & 4pm performances
2PM SHOWS:
Pay-what-you-can
($10 suggested donation), children 12 + under FREE
Tickets available at the door only, one hour prior to the performance.
Innovators in urban dance, freestyle, and theatrical choreography, Vancouver's Over the Influence dance company challenges traditional hip hop boundaries and stereotypes with their edgy, funny and highly original storytelling. Presenting ambitious dance sequences which include video projections, spoken word, music, and various hip hop styles, this performance will have you on your feet!
Celebrating its thirteenth season, Dance Allsorts is Vancouver’s most eclectic dance series, introducing all sorts of people to all sorts of dance! These intimate, memorable shows feature dances from all traditions and styles. All shows are one hour and appropriate for all ages.
CHANCE ENCOUNTER MUSIC ON MAIN: MODULUS FESTIVAL
A Roundhouse Partnership
Sat Oct 3, 3:00pm
Roundhouse Turntable, FREE!
Info: www.musiconmain.ca
Lisa Bielawa’s Chance Encounter has captivated audiences in Manhattan parks, at New York’s Whitney Museum, outside the Zaha Hadid-designed MAXII museum, on the banks of the Tiber River in Rome and in Venice. Hear the Canadian debut, outdoors at the Roundhouse. For the Canadian debut, Grammy Award-winning soprano Susan Narucki is joined by the Music on Main All-Star Band.
Lisa writes that Chance Encounter “is designed so that it is not prescribed where and how the audience should or might sit to enjoy the music. The musicians are in two separate locations, approximately half a city block away from each other. They arrive one or two at a time, over the course of seven minutes, so that it is not clear exactly when the performance has officially begun. The soprano’s sung ‘libretto’ is comprised entirely of utterances that Susan and I overheard over the course of a full year of travel, in transient public spaces around the world – Rome, Taipei, Anchorage, Salzburg, Dallas and beyond.”
Chance Encounter is the final performance in Music on Main’s Modulus Festival, four days of adventurous music making with leading classical, new and genre-bending artists.
A Roundhouse Special Event
