DARK MATTER (presented by Kickstart Disability)

Founded in 1998, Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture is a multidisciplinary professional Disability Arts non-profit committed to showcasing the artistic excellence of artists working within the field of Disability Arts and Culture and supporting disabled artists in BC and across Canada as they continue to push the boundaries of what Disability Arts and Culture can do in this world. Kickstart is rooted in the history of Disability Arts and Culture as being tied to a community and cultural movement, and has prioritized supporting the arts and cultural practices of artists who exist at multiple axes of intersecting oppressions. As an arts organization founded and run by disabled artists for disabled artists, having artistic and administrative leadership who identify as disabled, ensures that decision making is driven by people from within the community it serves. Such a model has provided an example within the field of arts and culture, in that Kickstart both started and continues as an organization that is run 'for us/by us'; rather than simply providing programming for marginalized communities.In order to promote the development of Disability Arts and Culture, Kickstart is led by disabled Arts administrators; programs, presents, and works with artists who not only identify as disabled but also develop aesthetic markers linked to the canon of Disability Arts and Culture, and centers accessibility in complex and intersectional ways that make it possible for disabled people to take up the role of professional artists, curators, as well as art audiences.For more information visit: kickstartdisability.ca

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An Intimate Evening of art and connection at the Vines Den. (Lights snacks will be provided)

825 E Hastings St

DARK MATTERBeautiful things are born in the dark. Perhaps, we too are cut from the darkest of nights. Join us at the Vines Den for a Black Futures Month conversation on beauty, Blackness, grief, celebration, and art, Featuring poet and film maker, Brandon Wint and photographer Joy Gyamfi. Brandon WintBrandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet, spoken word artist, educator and filmmaker based in western Canada. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet, having shared his work all over Canada, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States, Australia, Jamaica, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon is ever-grateful for the power of poetry as a spiritual technology and social force. He is devoted to using poetry as a tool for refining his sense of justice, love, and intimacy. Brandon Wint's poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan, Event Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Black Writers Matter, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. In recent years, his films have screened at  DOXA documentary film festival and Reelworld Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival Centre. Joy GyamfiJoy Gyamfi is a Black, queer, writer and photographer from Ghana.A<a href="https://youtu.be/4sZdcB6bjI8" title="https://youtu.be/4sZdcB6bjI8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> multipotentialite</a> with a wide range of skills, she enjoys working across multiple mediums to create a blend of visual and textual art. Be it collage, graphic design, or some other third thing, Joy’s endless love and care for community is a recurring theme in her work.Joy currently resides on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples — colonially known as Vancouver. Her work has appeared in The Capilano Review, SAD Mag, and The Garden Statuary.Support Joy’s artistic process by sending $ to her<a href="https://paypal.me/jgyamfi" title="https://paypal.me/jgyamfi" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Paypal</a>. Event moderated by Jillian Christmas.(Light snacks will be provided)

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