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Hospitality Event From April 29

It was a quiet night at April's event as many are now enjoying the fine weather we have been having.

Gregory Borowski, Design Principal at Merrick Architecture explored the concept of hospitality in architecture, through the medium of the Nordic Centre Daylodge project in the Callahan Valley in British Columbia.

Along with our guest, the following producers showed their work:

Pierre Andre Sonolet presented work from his new series of still photographs involving architecture.
"I take a picture through cheesecloth.  It makes me think of the Impressionists".

Lucas Meyer, We Don't Have to be the Same to be Equal, DVD, sampes from a 45 min. piece.

Join us next month at 7:30pm, May 27 with guest Bryan Mulvihill and his 'WorldTeaParty'.  World Tea Party is an ongoing art event that brings together a constantly re-manifesting tea party of divers cultures, communities, and traditions, around the act of meeting for tea.  Tea is the perfect trans-cultural medium for convivial social interaction, `live art’ or as coined by Joseph Beuyes, `social sculpture’.

Join us for our last event before a summer break until September.  See you there at VIVO, 1965 Main St.

Next Hospitality Event April 29

Video In Video Out and the Cue Up Collective present HOSPITALITY SERIES

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Location:: Video In Video Out, 1965 Main St.
Guest:: Gregory Borowski
Submissions 7:30pm and screenings 8:00pm
Socializing to follow.
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Architecture and Hospitality
Gregory Borowski, Design Principal at Merrick Architecture will be exploring the concept of hospitality in architecture, through the medium of the Nordic Centre Daylodge project in the Callahan Valley in British Columbia.  The notion of hospitality may be considered to extend to the role and participation of the First Nations, to the reception of thousands of visitors to the 2010 Winter Olympics, and to the ongoing legacy function of a facility hosting winter and summer outdoor sports and sporting groups.  How do we site and orient a building to welcome visitors?  How do we acknowledge the history and culture of the First Nations in the present day?  How to we allow for future users?  How can the furthering of sustainability in architecture better steward the earth? These are some of the questions which will be brought forward.

Gregory Borowski’s architectural vision is steeped in his unusual life experience.
An interest in the poetic potential of contemporary architecture, as well as a wish to embrace outdoor space have subsequently informed his work.  In 2001, Greg returned to Vancouver and assumed a partnership with Merrick Architecture.  He has subsequently taken design leadership on the mixed use Hollyburn project in West Vancouver, and the high-rise Laguna Parkside at the entrance to Stanley Park in Vancouver, as well as Elan, Symphony Place, O2 and Parcel 10 Millennium Water in Vancouver (a LEED Gold community), as well as the Olympic Nordic Centre Daylodge. Greg has a passion to bring forward fresh perceptions to significant projects, and believes firmly in the role of a building in the broader context of the city.

For more information about Cue Up please email:
cueup@videoinstudios.com or visit our blog at http://www.cueup.typepad.com

Hospitality 3 Video as Gift

Thursday, March 25 was the Cue Up Collective's third installment of Hospitality, a year-long theme exploring themes around the idea of hospitality in our community.  The turn out was very good and there were engaging comments and conversations concerning video producers 'gifts' of videos.  The following producers presented their work:

Jeff Langille, Gift, miniDV, 1min. and Rooftop, miniDV, 2 min.
Nick Brown, 4 movies, DVD, 6:59 min., www.videomarsh.com
Randall, Machine with Wishbone, HD, 6 min. A journey of a mechanical wishbone through an imagined landscape.
Stu Hughes, Imaginoid, DVD, 1 min. This work is a quick vector animation about imagination.  crystalbeard.com
Brandon Blommaert, Greycon, DVD, 6:36 min.  This a stop motion/digital animation completed in 2007.  Pandaclock.com/tombnerd
Lois Klassen, Flowers for Joyce, miniDV, 7:00 min.
Kim Anderson, The Fall, DVD, 2:30 min.  A creation/destruction myth.  www.kimberleyanderson.com

Thank you to all participants and audience members.  Stay tuned to more announcements here for our next Hospitality event on April 29 at 7:30 pm.

Hospitality 2 - Report

Last night, Cue-up hosted Sindy Taylor, clairvoiant, artist and healer, who in turn shared stories and ideas about hosting and being hosted. She guided us on a visualization exercise about the VIVO studio and building which she said was jammed packed with spirits.

These participants screened from the floor:

Lori Weidenhammer, Con Stars, 7:00, VHS.
    A low budget video made with Donna Lewis, using th e Wendy Geller fund.
Jeff Languille, Garden, 10:00, miniDV.
Pierre-Andre Sonolet, Installations and performances, DVD.

Thank you everyone (seen and unseen) for your participation!

Hospitality 2 - February 26 @7:30

Download hospitality_flyer_2.pdf

Our Next Cue-Up in The HOSPITALITY Series is  Spirited Hospitality: Hosting the Unseen and Clearing the Air

There are many herbs that are traditionally used for clearing a space,
improving the energy flow, and make it more welcoming: i.e. white sage,
sweet grass, and frankincense. What are some of the other ways we can make
our homes and work spaces more productive, creative, and friendly? Special
guest Sindy Taylor, a talented Vancouver Clairvoyant, Artist, and Healer,
will respond to the space at VIVO and give us some ideas on how to honor
the spiritual presence that it manifests.

Please join us for a fascinating discussion and a chance to show your work
within this spirited context.
Bring your own video/new media work or work-in-progress (up to 15:00) to show on a first-come/first-serve basis.

Sindy Taylor is an intuitive healer and has worked with many different
modalities.  She is currently focused on creating workshops and one and one
healing using art as her medium.  She has experimented with and has found
the initial stages profoundly deep, this blended with her love of art she
is truly in her element performing her life's work.  She is a Reiki Master,
Gifted Clairvoyant and Visionary Artist, her clients are numerous and
around the world, she works with children, men and women of all ages and
all walks of life. www.spiritualhealingarts.com

Hospitality 1: Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Despite inclement weather leading up to the launch of Cue Up Collectives new Hospitality events at Video In Video Out, the event was quite the success!

With an inspirational talk by our guest Jackline Ochieng, the audience was treated to a discussion concerning hosting activities for dinners and the difference and similarities between such activities between Kenyan culture and Western Canada.  Delighting the audience with her karisma and humor, Jackline ended by leading the audience in a dance of celebration.  The audience sipping chai and sampling Kenyan Mandazi, a type of donut pastry, settled back and enjoyed the evenings short slate of videos brought by independent producers.  Included in the evenings presentations were:

Jeff Langille's video concerning an exploration of the landscape, DVD, approx. 8 min.
Jonny Ross's video. A spiritual comedy of urban boredom.  Two parallel stories about two dependent fellows faced with the challenge of spending a day alone.  DVD, approx. 12 min.

A thanks from the Cue Up Collective for all those who helped launch a new season and next month we look forward to engaging our audience with a local psychic who will read the VIVO space and will speak about the unseen energies.  Stay tuned for our press release.

THE HOSPITALITY LESSONS!!

Cue-Up presents - -
Hospitality Lessons

Hospitality Lessons is an all new format for Cue-Up and open screening at VIVO. As in the past, all video producers and artists are invited to bring up to 15 minutes of video based work or work-in-progress to screen and to discuss with the assembled audience. Each event will also include an invited guest who will present a talk or an intervention that puts hospitality into a critical context. The aim of this series is to learn about hosting both new work and old ideas.

All events begin at 7:30 with the sign-up of videos for screening from the floor (first come first serve). Video screenings will begin at 8:00. Interventions or comments by the guest will be interspersed throughout the evening (beginning at 7:30). The event will conclude at 9:30.

January 29
Cue-Up will include a short lesson about African Hospitality led by Jackline Ochieng. Jackline came to Vancouver from Kenya to complete graduate  studies in Sociology at UBC. She has practiced as a social worker in Nairobi  as well as the lower mainland. She hosts Kenyan dinners in an effort to  enrich western hospitality.
Kenyan Mandazi (Download MANDAZIES.pdf ) and Chai Tea will be served.  Bring some sweets to add to the dessert table.
Everyone is  welcome!

February 26
Hosting Ghosts: a local psychic (TBA) will mediate an interaction with VIVO’s invisible hosts.
Bring your current videos and see if our (g)hosts are satisfied.

March 25
Video Hostess Gifts
Bring your video as a gift to the audience. No guest.  All videos screened. Unlimited discussion. Marathon. Popcorn served. Concession open.

April  29
TBA

May 27
International hospitality & Tea with Brian Mulvihill

Seasons Greetings

Best seasonal wishes from Cue-up organizers!

We look forward to seeing you at the all new HOSPITALITY Cue-Up series in 2008.

Until then, here is a video that came to us from Billiana Velkova of Vancouver. She told us that we could share it with you: Download christmas_2007.mov

 

Jeff, Lois, Lori, Pierre, and Wynne.

Project8 BOOT CAMP - call for submissions

Cue-up wants to pass on this call for Super8 Boot Camp by PROJECT8::

Project8 2008 is seeking participants for it's 2008 program - now
called "Super8 Boot Camp"

Attached you will find:
-Information and schedule for Super8 Boot Camp
-A Proposal Form

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us
at this email address.
Or check out our myspace page at: www.myspace.com/project8info

If you would like to submit a proposal, please read all the
information provided carefully,
and fill in as much detailed information as possible on the Download project8_2008_call4props.pdf .

**Proposals must be received by 5pm on January 15, 2008.**

The Project8 Film Collective

Cue-Up:: November 29 2007

It was a dark and dreary night, for Cue-Up yesterday eve. Large and small violations of war conventions and murders flickered before us... finally, a puffy pink curtain descended.

Our guest presentation featured a screening of two works by independent video maker and educator Christopher Pavsek. He offered The one and all (7:00) and To those born after (29:00).
You can find more about his work here: pavsekfilms.com
Thank you for your screening, q&a, and for sticking around to see the works that came 'from the floor', Christopher.

The audience work screened:
Nic Brown, Aaron, 8:12, DVD. "A short film about a horrible man."
Jeff Languille, (untitled), 10:41, MiniDV. "Part of a series of 'landscape' works."
Brian Lye, Pink Paper Bag Man visits East Africa, 7:15, DVD. "A road trip documented in a group creative fashion."
Chris Brown, mouse, 1:00, DVD. "About mouse traps."

Watch this space for details on next year's series of Cue-Up events featuring the on-going theme: hospitality...

Can't wait to see you all there. In the meantime, feel free to leave comments about what you saw last night!