Morrow Events

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On the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations

910 Richards -Unit 204

Please join us in events hosted and supported by Dumb Instrument Dance at Morrow. As well, we hope you will keep your eye out for events privately produced by artists at Morrow and support them with you presence!

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Gathering Hope weaves threads of cultural sharing and intergenerational knowledge with Vancouver Downtown Eastside Grandmothers Collective: Dalannah Gail Bowen, Rosemary Georgeson, Savannah Walling and Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, along with Olivia C. Davies, Ziyian Kwan and Rianne Svelnis. Tickets are pay what you can and available here.

Gathering Hope is produced as part of Matriarch’s Uprising Festival, supported and hosted by Dumb Instrument Dance at Morrow

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Dance Artist Justin Calvadores and Dumb Instrument Dance invite friends and colleagues to witness a work in progress sharing that is a culmination of Justin’s Conjure Residence at Morrow. A short performance will be followed by conversation, music and snacks.

Inspired by queer transgression, Justin is joined by movement collaborator Shana Wolfe and musician Alger Liang in researching the discovery of hope and transformation through metabolizing loss. ‘Honey’ is intimately informed by Justin’s fascination with maggot to fly metamorphosis and also the writing of Clarice Lispector.

Justin’s personal practice and work is informed by their queerness and identity as Filipinx; integrating the array of modalties they have been fortunate enough to study. They are grateful for dance as a catalyst that has enriched their perception of the world.Doors open at 7:15pm.

Access Information:
There are 2 common area entrances to the building. If you need elevator access, please enter through the back door, which is in the parking lot of the alley behind 910 Richards (at Smithe). We will be at the door to welcome you from 7:15pm – 7:30pm.
There is one wheelchair accessible gender neutral bathroom. There are two other bathrooms and all bathrooms will have unscented soap. We ask guests not to wear scents to this event.

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Chalk It Up! Nov 19 & 20, 2022 / 2pm & 8pm / Tickets

New works by 10 emerging choreographers

Morrow is thrilled to support Chalk it Up! in its annual showing of work developed and performed by young and emerging artists from different genres of dance. Featuring creating and performing dance artists:

• Emily Bosak
• Ysadora Diaz
• Oksana Augustine
• Kaia Shukin
• Brianne Chan with Alesandra
• Anna Lamontagne with Danielle Mackenzie Long
• Shannon May with Lauren Yeung

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Join Harmanie Rose and theatre/dance artists Emily Grace Brook, Rianne Svelnis and Adam Grant Warren. We welcome you to attend this all ages free event of talking, dancing and community gathering in person at Morrow or via zoom. Please find zoom link at below. From Harmanie: For some disabled bodies, falling can be innately unpredictable. For both witness and faller, it can be unsettling, playful and experiential in myriad ways. What can we learn about the way we move to safely support the unknown, and to find the joy in falling?Harmanie, Adam and Emily each bring varying skills to this research of falling in which their unique experiences inform how they practice their art as people who use manual wheelchairs.

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85774105066…
Meeting ID: 857 7410 5066
Passcode: 547979

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Join dance artist Rianne Svelnis and visual artist Sauha Lee in an all ages, all people welcome, workshop that segues to creating paper art. Feel free to bring something organic to incorporate into what you create. All other supplies will be provided.

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Gathering Hope O’Dela Arts with DTES Grandmothers Collective

Dumb Instrument Dance and Morrow host O’Dela Arts Matriarch’s Uprising festival for an online sharing of what was discovered during its improvisational creation residency at Morrow, that weaves threads of cultural sharing and intergenerational knowledge with Vancouver Downtown Eastside community artists Dalannah Gail Bowen, Rosemary Georgeson, Savannah Walling and Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, along with Sophie Dow, Olivia C. Davies, Ziyian Kwan and Rianne Švelnis.

Supported by Dumb Instrument Dance, Morrow and Talking Stick Festival.

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Movement Classes for Support Workers are just that: classes for those of us doing frontline support which incorporate movement, play, and strategies. We invited self-identified support workers, with the understanding that support work takes many forms, and is not always professionalized. 

Rianne and Alexa have been developing this workshop since 2017 and both are or have been front-line workers in different capacities.  We recognize that workers increasingly experience “burnout”: a reasonable nervous system response to unsustainable systemic conditions. We recognize that burnout is not an individual failure to cope with crisis but rather a symptom of larger systemic dysfunction.  

These classes invited participants to access strategies for embodied rebound and repair, play, and connection through movement.  Our belief is that we each have a multitude of responses available to us in any given moment: and that movement + dance lead with awareness can help us access and practice this responsive agility.  

Rianne and Alexa hope for these classes to build solidarity amongst workers, to build a practice of being together even when in separate places, to sew fibres of strengthening bonds between us. 

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Kinesthetic Strike
Dumb Instrument Dance and The Dance Centre co host a circle discussion at Morrow as part of Dance In Vancouver’s DIV Conversations. led by Daisy Thompson in conversation with guest speakers, guided around the idea of rehearsal as a way to imagine, practice and disseminate joyful, positive and durable relationships.

Centered around the concerns of the disproportionate and fatiguing labour of artists, when our art processes and practices are so closely entwined with the art market, this circle discussion will discuss how dance rehearsal – including the creation of the spaces to rehearse, and the advocacy of the conditions to work – can contribute to healthier connections through interdependent relationships of care.

Sunday November 28 | 2:30-4pm with Ziyian Kwan & Jessica Wadsworth.
Monday November 29 | 3-5pm with Justine A. Chambers, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg & Deanna Peters.

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Morrow and Dumb Instrument Dance partner with CADAWest & CDA in this community event that foregrounds care.

What to expect: the event is “hybrid”. To be covid careful, asmall group of people can attend live at Morrow. Another 25 attendees are expected to attend on Zoom. We have members from 4 provinces attending and an interesting mix of careers!

What to bring:Your experiences and how you resolved issues (or didn’t). Your expectations for services or programs that you think might benefit your career and the careers of other artists. If you have something specific that you’re looking for information on, please email us in advance so that we can prepare information for you

Produced by CADA/West staff in partnership with the CDA and Morrow/Dumb Instrument Dance.

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Made In Voyage / Nov 24 – 27 & Dec 1 – 4, 2021

Presented by The Dance Centre’s as part of Dance In Vancouver, Made In Voyage is a collage of 3 solos that pays homage to the grandmothers of performers Ziyian Kwan, Justin Calvadores and Shion Skye Carter. Originally created with 6 performers, this distilled iteration aims to counter historic erasure by highlighting the life stories of womxn of colour. Each solo captures dramas of diaspora, war and peace –  in tandem with delightful family anecdotes. Collaboratively created, the collection as a whole, weaves song, dance and intimate storytelling towards a poetic reveal that celebrates the vulnerability, nurturing and resilience that flows through generations.

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Love Letters to Divided Nations: August 27, 2021

Join River Blondin Burt in a performance of auto-ethnography that is a series of installations about ancestral visitations, indigenous identity, and inter-generational healing – expressed through poetry, song, movement and audio/visual landscapes.

After a week of residence at Morrow, River will perform at 5pm, 6pm, 7pm on Friday, August 27th. After each performance, a chance to meet and talk with River about their work.

Love Letters to Divided Nations is a Free event, produced by Dumb Instrument Dance with the generous support and partnership of Powell Street Festival.

River (Cassandra) Blondin Burt is a two-spirited Dene artist whose multidisciplinary work is grounded in an exploration of art as medicine. They believe that the radical act of co-creating with other-than-human relations is an act of socio-political rebellion, and a pathway for transformative collective healing in the Anthropocene era. They were raised in Vancouver, on the traditional territory of the xwməθkwəyə̓ m, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh , and Selí̓lw̓ itulh First Nations, are a proud member of the Yellowknives Dene Nation, and currently live in their ancestral homelands of Denendeh.

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Mar 1 – April 30, 2021: Dumb Instrument hosts Familiars in residence at Morrow – in collaboration with dance artists Kelly McInnes, Rianne Svelnis and Taiko artist Eileen Kage. Creation and dissemination via a series of virtual events and outdoor performances that celebrate artistic practice as contemporary witchcraft.

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Feb 1 – 5, 2021: Morrow welcomes Erika Mitsuhashi for a mini-residence to prepare and live stream her work for Speculative Futures, presented by Theatre Replacement and Company 605. Erika livestreams her creation on February 5th from Morrow. Click here to witness! “Making It Up: the meeting ”

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Sept – Oct 2020 – Ziyian Kwan, Zahra Shahab, Shion Skye Carter, Marissa Gold, Alexa Mardon and Rianne Svelnis are at Morrow with Made In Voyage, a project that pays homage to the performer’s grandmothers.

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July 25, 2020: 2- 5pm. Join Cellist Peggy Lee and Ziyian Kwan for live improvised performance and a browse in the shop. Quick 15 minute sets for 1-2 audience members at a time – in a covid safe setting.

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By appointment August 2020: Dance Artist Oksana Augustine offers Aura Paintings. Sliding Scale $60 – $100. To book an aura painting with Oksana please contact morrowspace@gmail.com

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Sept 6 – 10, 2020: Peter Dickinson launches his book My Vancouver Dance Histories, through a series of intimate and covid safe Salons, in the company of dance artists featured in the book. 4:30-6pm as follows:

Sunday, Sept 6: Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi / Kokoro Dance

Monday, Sept 7: Rob Kitsos

Tuesday, Sept 8: Ziyian Kwan / Dumb Instrument Dance

Wed, Sept 9: Tara Cheyenne / Tara Cheyenne Performance

Thurs, Sept 10: Lesley Tilford/ / Inverso Productions

Fri, Sept 11: James & Natatlie Gnam / plastic orchid factory

Sat, Sept 12: Justine Chambers

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Images:

• Ziyian Kwan by David Cooper
• Rianne Svelnis & Ziyian Kwan by David Cooper
• Aura Painting by Oksana Augustine
• Book Cover – Peter Dickinson My Vancouver Dance Histories