love, intimacy and (com)passion, in a geopolitical context
A monthly series of video, film, performance and ceremony events
Project curator/artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum

THURSDAY AUGUST 18 4pm
Curated by Ali Lohan + Cecily Nicholson

Featuring/works by
Alfie Harry, Audrey Siegl, Ayumi Goto, Bud Osborn, Juan Manuel Sepulveda + film participants, Natalie Knight, The Oppenheimer Park Ladies’ Tea Party with Eunice Macmillan + Cassandra Eastman, Sarah Godoy-White

At: Oppenheimer Park
488 Powell St, Downtown Eastside
Vancouver, BC

Our poetic love of the city links us necessarily to Oppenheimer Park. In “this park of great care” (1) we consider spatial scales for struggle of a neighbourhood through to and beyond the nation state. Dispossession, mass assembly, internment, harm reduction, institutionalization, displacement, sovereign presence are present threads in the Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District. Heart of the low-income community for a reason, it is the only neighbourhood in Vancouver ostensibly protected against real estate development by city policy. This program reveals longstanding relationships of care and honours the many, women especially, who have entwined arts and social organizing at the park.

~ Ali Lohan and Cecily Nicholson

(1) a thousand crosses in oppenheimer park, Bud Osborn, 1997

‘this park of great care’ – thirstDays No. 07 Photos:
‍Photo documentation

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