The Museum of Vancouver continues to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Expo 86 with a celebratory evening of presentations and musical performance that recall Expo's central theme: transportation.
Date/Time: Jun 2 2016, 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, Museum of VancouverCost: $15.00
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Have a beer, open your ears, sit back and enjoy the ride!
Transportation and mobility was instrumental to both the design and engagement of Expo 86; the prototype launch of Vancouver's Skytrain, the fair's playful Highway 86 installation and the various pavilions featuring mobility and transit engineering all worked to create a future vision (some actualized, some imagined) for greater mobility.
Panelists will present thoughtful recollections and engaged analysis of Expo's preoccupation with transportation and consider ways in which it has helped define Vancouver's transportation development and urban design.
Transporting Expo 86 will feature two music sets by local ensemble, Gamelan Bike Bike, a group of cycle enthusiasts who collect discarded bicycle parts, creatively reused as instruments to explore traditional Gamelan arrangements and composition. Expo 86 hosted the first International Gamelan Festival with performances by visiting musicians from Bali.
MOV will offer an on-site Bicycle Valet, free with admission. We encourage patrons to cycle to the event in support of Bike to Work Week.
Time: Bar opens at 6:00pm; music, presentations and discussion at 7:00pm.
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Bios
Jenni Pace is an architectural historian and PhD candidate in the field at UBC. Her research tracks the evolution of community-based design strategies for high density, evolvable type housing from the immediate post-war era to the present day. At the local level she works to facilitate speculative (re)engagement with identity-making institutions and mega events.
Henry Tsang is a visual and media artist and occasional curator whose work has been exhibited internationally. His projects incorporate digital media, video, photography, language and sculptural elements that follow the relationship between the public, community and identity through global flows of people, culture and capital. He received the VIVA Award in 1993 and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art & Design.
Alana Green is an Intern Architect, Designer and Artist. Her body of work is interdisciplinary in scope and includes the design of buildings, urban installations, interior graphics, videos, illustrations, material explorations, and environmental branding. Alana currently works as an Intern Architect at Dialog.
Gamelan Bike Bike found its musical inspiration from Bali, Indonesia and its raw materials from the scrap metal bins of Vancouver. Members of the ensemble collected over 100 discarded bicycle frames to build their instruments, tuned to the musical scale known as ‘pelog’. The result is a colorful array of metallophone instruments that are brought alive by the ensemble’s twelve musicians. Influenced by the dynamic and explosive energy of a gamelan gong kebyar, Gamelan Bike Bike is composing new and original works for gamelan music on the West Coast.
Michael Tenzer is a composer, performer, music educator and scholar who has been deeply involved with gamelan music of Bali, Indonesia. In 1979, Tenzer co-founded Gamelan Sekar Jaya in Berkeley, California, an organization dedicated to the performance of Balinese arts. He visited Vancouver with Sekar Jaya during Expo 86' to perform at the first ever International Gamelan Festival. Since 1996 Tenzer has directed Gamelan Gita Asmara in Vancouver.
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