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Under the Volcano Festival of Art and Social Change
August 6-12, 1999
Canada's largest annual political arts festival invites you to help celebrate
our 10th anniversary as hundreds of activists and artists from all over
North America come together in Vancouver, BC for a week of Art and
Resistance. Join us in building and strengthening a regional political
culture in a week of actions, art and information as we direct our energy
towards opposing militarism and imperialism right here at home as Vancouver
hosts Aerospace North America, one of the world's largest military and
aviation trade shows, August 10th -12th. People will come together
for a full day conference, our annual music and political arts festival,
and three days of mass demonstrations, direct actions and street theatre
as we expose and oppose the multi-billion dollar corporate arms trade.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6TH
(54th anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima)
Family Supper and Evening with Dr. Rosalie Bertell
Keynote speaker (Dr Rosalie Bertell), Music, Lantern
Making and Peace Ceremony at St Mark's, Trinity, St George's Church: Larch
@ 2nd ave. Presented by the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom (985-7147 or email: jlydiard@sfu.ca)
Rock Against Prisons
Join Daughters of the Wind, Ani Kyd, Che: Chapter
127, LOUD and Submission Hold for a night of music to support the struggle
for justice in our prison system. 7:30pm Heritage Hall (3102 Main
St.).
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7TH
Relearning Resistance Conference
We are expecting 300-500 people for a conference to confront issues
of militarism and imperialism. (Britannia Community Centre. 10am-6pm.
5-25$). Meet face-to-face with activists and artists from around North
America in a series of plenary discussions and workshops, with well-known
speakers and experts on various issues tied to militarism, imperialism
and their effects on today's world. For an updated schedule and registration
information, visit the conference web page.
Reclaim the Streets to follow! The Power of the People begins here!
(Bring a portable radio and batteries - YOU are carrying the sound system,
as we pump the music over pirate radio!)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 8TH
Prisoner's Justice Day
11:00 - 1:00 Before heading out to Cates Park for the festival, come
speak out for justice in our prisons at the Vancouver Pretrial Centre (275
E.Cordova) with speakers, music and children's activities on site.
Under the Volcano!
12:00 The festival explodes into our 10th anniversary on the 55
acres forested Cates Park in North Vancouver - 50 artists on 5 stages.
Get directions :
Get a map
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We encourage you to cycle, take transit or use our new & improved shuttle bus service:
Shuttles leave Carnagie Center @ 11 am and Grandview Park @ 11am, 12:20 & 2 pm.
Service between Phibbs Exchange & Cates Park runs 11am - 3pm & 8 - 11pm.
Bike convoys leave Grandview Park @ 11 am & 1 pm.
Return shuttles from Cates Park @ 8 & 10:30 pm.
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Schedule:
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Main Stage
12:15 Saltwater June
1:25 Yu-Ping Chen
2:05 Sailani Sharma
2:30 Flying Folk Army
3:15 Chief Leonard George & Children Of Takaya
4:00 Niga
5:00 Lourdes Perez
5:55 Elizabeth Fischer & Gypsy Fire
6:35 Contents Under Pressure
6:55 Kinnie Starr
7:50 Raices
8:45 Submission Hold
9:25 Art & Revolution Collective with Zero Gravity
9:45 Third Eye Tribe
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Waterfront Stage
1:00 Blood Music Project
2:00 Squamish Nation Eaglesong Dancers
2:45 Sawagi Taiko
3:30 sara & Tegan
4:15 Kathleen Yearwood
5:00 byathread
5:45 Rigor Coloma
6:30 Los Higos De La Crisis
7:30 One Against
9:00 Art & Revolution Collective with Zero Gravity
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Folknthebush
1:45 Rigor Coloma
2:45 TBA
3:45 Jim Page
4:45 Laurel Albina
5:45 Joel
6:45 Michael Bzowy
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Malcolm Lowry Stage
1:30 Open Satge
2:30 Vancouver Slam Poetry Team
3:40 Abby Werner
4:00 Jen Lam
4:20 Molly Starlight
4:40 Andrea Thompson
5:00 Sarah Hunt
5:20 Ivan E. Coyote
5:40 Wayde Compton
6:00 Open Stage
hosted by Jannine Grant
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KIDS ZONE
11:00am Storytelling
12:00 Storytelling
1:00 John The Juggler
2:00 Capoeira
3:00 Kinnie Starr & Friends
3:30 Storytelling
4:00 Contents Under Pressure breakdancers
5:00 Storytelling
7:00 Fire Performers
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RAVE #1 RAVE #2
12:00 until 8:00 12:00 until 8:00
DJ danny-V b-side collective
DJ J-bone
DJ expo
TRCKZ
Jeet K
and more TBA
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FILM & VIDEO TENT
12:00 "Today Is a Good Day:Remembering Chief Dan George"
12:45 Black Kat Cafe Presents political shorts
2:00 Video Out Distribution shorts
3:30 Gulf Islands Film & Televsion Schools presents "In Your Face"
4:05 1999 Video in & Out On Screen Scholorship Winners shorts
5:00 Doing Time
5:25 Shorts
5:45 "Today Is a Good Day:Remembering Chief Dan George"
6:30 Gulf Islands Film & Television Schools shorts from HIV Positive week
7:00 In The Company Of Fear
8:00 Luv aint tha Onlee Truth
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Info Fair/Activist Directory
This year over 200 political groups will be listed in our activist
directory, 20,000 copies will be distributed throughout the lower mainland
starting July 23rd. This year, we are making the directory into a searchable
database that will be accessible to one and all on the Internet.
Over 100 progressive and radical organizations will have info tables at
the festival - more reality than anyone in denial can handle!
ArtMarket
40 local artisans display and sell their work. No importers, unless
directly benefiting a workers’ coop or liberation struggle.
Speaker's Corner
A continuous platform for dissent with selected speakers reflecting
on compelling issues.
Children's Area
Storytelling in Evelyn Roth's inflated volcano, dress-up parades, arts
and crafts, free juice, live music from visiting musicians, chalk drawing,
and surprises!
Food Kitchens
A wide selection of natural vegan cuisine prepared by the Philippine
Women Centre, La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, and Under the Volcano Festivals.
Film & Video Tent
Catch premieres of new films and recent releases of inspiring videos,
including Today is a Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George.
MONDAY, AUGUST 9TH -
54th Anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki
Procession and street theatre to commemorate the Bombing of Nagasaki.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10TH
Shut Down Aerospace North America!
Aerospace North America is one of the world's major
all-sector aerospace and aviation tradeshows and has a definite emphasis
on military technology. Five hundred exhibitiors from twenty leading
aerospace nations will come to do business with senior government, defense
and industry visitors from eighty countries. 10,000 delegates attended
this biennial event in 1997, including representatives from various military-oriented
governments, in particular from the Pacific Rim. Even more are expected
this year.
Most of the major global merchants of death will
be present: Bombardier, BMW Rolls Royce, Boeing, Bristol Aerospace, ChinaAerospace,
Dept. of National Defense, General Electric, Honeywell, Mitsubishi, NATO
Flying Training, US Army US Air Force, US Dept. of Defense, and many more.
Held in downtown Vancouver at the Trade and Convention center, Aerospace
North America cannot be allowed to happen.
Two warships will also be anchored in the harbour
adjacent to the convention centre: the USS Tarawa will be there to "Support
American industry at the trade show" with two dozen attack helicopters
and half a dozen Harrier jets on board... (just the kind of support US
Business is used to in the "competitive global economy"...) and of course,
Canada's own HMCS Calgary will be on the scene...
Join several thousand people from all over the region
for mass theatre, protest, music, speakers and be a part of developing
Vancouver's culture of resistance as you help us Shut Down the War Machine.
Bring your portable radio and batteries - pirate radio will be on the air,
and YOU will be carrying our sound system...
Visit the Anti-War Machine web site for more information.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11TH
Aerospace North America continues...
Resistance continues...
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12TH
Aerospace North America continues...
Resistance continues...
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