Twilight Tea Party June 26

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You are invited to A FREE COMMUNITY GARDEN ART PARTY

Twilight Tea Party June 26th, 8pm to 10pm

Bring a flashlight and celebrate the long days and the setting sun with solar powered lanterns and phosphorescent installations. Enjoy free refreshments at the tea tent. Celebrate community and artist made installations at the Means Of Production Garden, a garden that grows art materials. Installations by Diana Burgoyne, Peter Courtemanche, David Floren, Robin Ripley, Naomi Singer, and Lori Weidenhammer with community participation. All of the work is illuminated with some form of solar power.

Presented by: The Means of Production Artist's Raw Resource Collective, Second Site and Naomi Singer.

Location: the Means of Production Garden (St. Catherine's and 6th Avenue in Vancouver).

For more information, check out the web site for the Second Site Collective.

Please tell your friends, bring your family, and come in costume if your like: maybe something surreal inspired by the exhibit at the VAG?

Rhubarb Pie and Mason Bees

I love rhubarb pie season and my mother-in-law makes incredible seasonal pies, so we had our favorite treat at the first outdoor meal of the season. Meanwhile, you can see D's mason bee houses are filling up quickly. He has a friend who insists bees prefer the paper tubes inside the holes, so he rolls his own.

June is Busting Out in Bloom

There is an incredible biodiversity of flowering plants in bloom right now, but not so much in my garden. I really need to put in more plants that fill this gap. In the meantime, I present you with my father in law's garden, which is burgeoning with color. (These photos are from June 5.)

Behind the Scenes at the Cabaret

Many thanks to everyone who organized the Reading the Riot Act Cabaret, especially Anakana Schofield. Kudos to the intrepid members of the audience who had the courage to attend on such an unpredictable and volatile night. Thanks to the staff at the Waldorf for working on the occasion and to all the artists--the other Riot Grrlz and one Riot Boy.

Go Against the Flow!

Be a part of the Vancouver Counter Culture. Come to our event instead of watching the game! See Madame B in her riot gear!

Rereading The Riot Act II
Artists' Performance Cabaret
Presented by UNIT/PITT at The Waldorf Hotel, 1489 E Hastings St, Vancouver
BC Canada
8 - 11 pm Wednesday, June 15 - Free admission

In an ongoing interrogation of the historical events of April 23, 1935 --
when Mayor Gerry McGeer read the Riot Act to the relief camp protesters, their families and supporters gathered at Victory Square -- Rereading the Riot Act II - Performance Art Cabaret offers contemporary responses to Vancouver's turbulent labour history.

Four performance and visual artists -- leannej, My Name Is Scot, Carol
Sawyer and Lori Weidenhammer -- will present new works. The works are
expanded responses to both the events of April 23, 1935 and the reenactment
event that took place in Vancouver on April 23rd 2011.

The Cabaret will feature film, performances, music, video projections and a
sculptural installation by Jeremy Isao Speier.

Rereading the Riot Act intends to provoke an emotional, politicized
engagement with civic space and how or whether we want to narrate (back) to it.

Rereading the Riot Act is a series of actions curated by Anakana Schofield
through a UNIT/PITT curatorial residency project.

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UNIT/PITT Projects gratefully acknowledges the support of the British
Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council, the City of Vancouver, the
Waldorf Hotel, SFU Institute for the Humanities, and the support of its
members, volunteers and individual donors.

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UNIT/PITT Projects
Office: 100 - 221 East Georgia Street, Vancouver BC V6A 1Z6 Canada
Project site: 15 East Pender Street, Vancouver BC V6A 1S4 Canada
+1.604.681.6740
www.unitpitt.ca

Field Trip to the MOP with Robin Ripley

The Talented Ms. Ripley lead us in an exploration of the creatures that leave traces in the Means of Production Garden. Meanwhile, I documented what's happening to the plants right now. We've got some baby fruit coming on.

It was fun to watch the students gain confidence in the space and explore some of the "wilder" corners of the garden. They found an impressive ant hill in the grass.

The cherries are developing fruit.

The blueberries are coming along.

The chives are in full bloom.

The comfrey is in bloom.

The Pawlonia or Empress tree has blossoms at the very top.

The false indigo is almost open.

Pierre Leichner's installation is starting to take shape.

We discovered a hanging nest made of cobwebs, moss, and lichens.

Unfortunately a bee collided with one student and he got stung on his face. Ouch.

The irises are spectacular right now.

Students check out the new mason bee condos.

The bumble bees were very active in the Nootka rose.

Robin told us about the game where you take a plantain leaf and pull is between two people. The person with the bigger part of the leaf is the bigger liar!

Hello poppy!

Shades of purple grace the site.

Students were asked to get down and really study what was going on in the MOP garden.

Robin is preparing the students for the work they will be continuing in their classroom marking the tracks that insects, animals and birds leave in the garden.

The thornless blackberry is blossoming.

The twin berries look fat and juicy.

So much of this late spring palette is purple and yellow, so the poppy's scarlet really "pops" here.

The new seating area is put to good use.