Rain City Chronicles is a series of storytelling nights featuring a diverse roster of Vancouverites. From your favourite actress to the guy who sells you coffee, we believe everyone has a great personal story to tell. The mission is to provide a community space for sharing these stories. The night feature stories, treats, music and beverages.

February’s theme is Arrivals & Departures. From stories told of family trees to the moment we decide to drop everything in pursuit of an adventure, life is full of comings and goings. New cities, old loves, new strangers and old fears that pepper the ebb and flow of our lives.

Speakers: Scott Colbourne, Dave Deveau, Robert Duncan, Kaitlin Fontanta, Dave Godsall, Monica Hamburg, Hilary Henegar, Colleen Kimmett, Claudia Kwan, Marianela Ramos Capelo,

Musicans: Chris Kelly, Mississippi Live & the Dirty Dirty

Tickets are available here.

CBC Radio is looking for the next generation of journalism and radio students! The CBC Student Journalism Awards offer students a chance to introduce themselves to many of the editors and producers who might hire them in the future. The award topics are for Radio Documentary and Best Radio Program Idea and if you win, you could make up to $500! For more information, and to apply, check out the FAQ and Application Form below.

CBC SJA FAQ 2011
CBC SJA ENTRY FORM 2011

Are you interested in leading-edge issues surrounding social media, the Web, and mobile communications? If so, don’t miss the UBC Student Chapter’s 3rd Annual International Symposium by The Association of Canadian Archivists!
February 11 at The Frederick Wood Theatre, in partnership with UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, this year’s theme “The Law of Unintended Consequences: The Right to be Forgotten, the Duty to Remember” seeks to create a dialogue on the effects of today’s technological innovations. Topics include the preservation and destruction of information, privacy, and other issues surrounding documentary heritage.
Register by February 4th to reserve your spot. The ACA Symposium goes from 9am-5pm with lunch included. Tickets are $20 for professionals, but free for students! Onsite registration begins at 8:30AM
For speaker bios, program information, or to register online, please visit here or e-mail aca.slais [a] gmail.com

January 26, 2011

PuSh Festival

The Push Festival is in full swing! We have more preview interviews on today’s show…

Happy Birthday Teenage City
Veda Hille is throwing Vancouver a birthday party, full of musical treats, including a Complaints Choir. She’ll be on the show to talk about what she loves and hates about this adolescent city.

Happy Birthday Teenage City is at Performance Works on Jan 29, at 8pm. Buy tickets here!.

Rouge

Montreal artist Julie Andree T. is bringing her latest description-defying one-woman performance Rouge to PuSh, and on the show will explain the inspiration she gets from the colour red.

Rouge is at the Scotia Bank Dance Centre on Feb 3-5 at 8pm. Tickets range from $26-$34. For more info and tickets, check out the PuSh page for the show.

Peter Panties

Peter Pan meets McBeth in the cutting edge premiere play, Peter Panties. Writers Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef chat about their collaboration ahead of the play’s opening.

Peter Panties hits the Cultch on Feb 2nd and runs til the 13th. Tickets are $22 ($15 rush). For tix, click here.

The show will also feature…

Japan’s Kodo is coming to the Queen E on Friday, January 28, we’ll get a preview. (Click here for tickets.) Plus, CiTR’s Bobby Ferris is throwing a Barnburner on Saturday, January 29. Bobby will be on the show to tell us about it!

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The next Street Team meeting will be TOMORROW, THU JAN 27th at 5PM in the CiTR lounge, upstairs in the SUB.

If you’re interested in volunteering for the station by planning events or tabling shows, join us!

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On Tuesday, February 1 at 3:00, Fahra Khan will be interviewing Gage Averill on Prof Talk. Gage Averill, Dean of Arts and Haitian scholar, will discuss his new role at UBC as well as his recent Grammy nomination for his project, Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936-1937. Listen to podcasts of Prof Talk to hear interviews with other UBC scholars and researchers.

VanMusic.ca and CiTR 101.9 presents YOUth in Nature: a Benefit for All. January 26, YOUth in Nature is a fundraiser for the Galiano Conservancy Association Learning Center, the latest and greatest project of the Galiano Conservancy Association. This magnificent roots show kicks off at 7pm on January 26th at the Waldorf Hotel, featuring award-winning local folk performers: contemporary vocalist and Galiano native T. Nile, gifted singer-songwriter Adrian Glynn, west coast songstress Marley Daemon, poetic activists Illiteratty and the mysterious Chilean-French psychnoir bohemian duo Nothofagus.

The Galiano Conservancy has raised more than two-thirds of the $4.1 million needed to buy land to create a “Restorative Learning Centre” on Galiano Island. However, 1.3 million is still needed by the Feb. 15th closing date in order to access these matching funds. Purchasing this property will allow the Conservancy to expand our popular day programs into multi-day adventures in nature for inner city youth from Vancouver and Victoria. At the same time we will protect 290 acres of BC’s endangered coastal ecosystem and 2 km of undeveloped waterfront. This is a unique program in a unique place just an hour away from Vancouver. Over 28,000 people have come to Galiano and participated in the Conservancy’s restoration-based outdoor education programs in the past 10 years, with their class, youth group, organization or family.

Tuesday January 25th at Biltmore Cabaret, The Burnettes play to celebrate their fourth record, A Boy & A Girl, being released February 1st.
With Carolyn Mark & Her New Best Friends and Maria In The Shower opening, and special guest performers, Carolyn Mark, Geoff Berner, Marta Jiubek-McKeever (Fandeath, ESL) to name but a few.
Go to The Burnettes myspace to check out their new single, Long Distance Relationship, featuring Carolyn Mark on piano. And come by the Biltmore January 25th at 8pm for a great show!

January 26, 2011

PuSh Festival

The Push Festival is in full swing! We have more preview interviews on today’s show…

Happy Birthday Teenage City
Veda Hille is throwing Vancouver a birthday party, full of musical treats, including a Complaints Choir. She’ll be on the show to talk about what she loves and hates about this adolescent city.

Happy Birthday Teenage City is at Performance Works on Jan 29, at 8pm. Buy tickets here!.

Rouge

Montreal artist Julie Andree T. is bringing her latest description-defying one-woman performance Rouge to PuSh, and on the show will explain the inspiration she gets from the colour red.

Rouge is at the Scotia Bank Dance Centre on Feb 3-5 at 8pm. Tickets range from $26-$34. For more info and tickets, check out the PuSh page for the show.

Peter Panties

Peter Pan meets McBeth in the cutting edge premiere play, Peter Panties. Writers Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef chat about their collaboration ahead of the play’s opening.

Peter Panties hits the Cultch on Feb 2nd and runs til the 13th. Tickets are $22 ($15 rush). For tix, click here.

The show will also feature…

Japan’s Kodo is coming to the Queen E on Friday, January 28, we’ll get a preview. Plus, CiTR’s Bobby Ferris is throwing a Barnburner on Saturday, January 29. Bobby will be on the show to tell us about it!

Listen in today at 5PM!

Subscribe to the Arts Report podcast!

Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/citr_artsreport