Humans of Fairy Creek 2024 at Van Fringe
Schedule
Fri Sep 06 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
1515 Anderson St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R5, Canada | Vancouver, BC
Showtimes at Zameen Art House, 1515 Anderson St, Granville Island, "Vancouver, BC" as part of the Vancouver Fringe:Fri • Sept 6 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Sat • Sept 7 • 9:30-11:00 pm
Sun • Sept 8 • 2:00-3:30 pm
Thu • Sept 12 • 9:00-10:30 pm
Fri • Sept 13 • 7:30-9:00 pm
Sat • Sept 14 • 7:30-9:00 pm
**MASKED EVENT**
Description:
Completely updated multimedia sequel to last year's hit Victoria Fringe show, "Humans of Fairy Creek: A Variety Show."
Again, featuring people and friends of people who got the shit beat out of them by the RCMP.
The stories of these brave youth not only deserve to be told, they deserve to be linked to the acceleration of global ecocidal and genocidal actions perpetrated by states and corporate interests.
Humans of Fairy Creek director, Tasha Diamant, made her fringe debut 15 years ago with the heartbreakingly prescient "Human Body Project."
Since then, Diamant has traveled to many fringes (including winning the Montreal Fringe Creativity Award in 2018) and her ecofeminist art and activism has taken many forms.
Last year, in the hottest summer in 100,000 years, while undergoing chemotherapy for Stage 4 cancer, Diamant produced the powerful, uncomfortable theatrical event at the 2023 Victoria Fringe, "Humans of Fairy Creek: A Variety Show," with a small team of scrappy, young Creekers plus many guest artists.
Thousands took part in the 2021 “Fairy Creek Blockade” and around 1300 were arrested (often brutally and illegally). These were nonviolent, mostly young people trying to stand up for Indigenous law and defend their futures by doing their best to protect the very last old growth ecosystems in BC.
The BC and Canadian governments continue to facilitate old growth logging, as well as other devastating resource extraction projects, and have escalated the criminalizing of people who protest against ecocide and genocide (especially Indigenous and racialized people).
All contributions come from those who were on the ground at Fairy Creek, rather than government and media disinformation and lies.
Humans of Fairy Creek 2024 is a rare theatrical piece exploring this pivotal, ongoing Canadian story of resistance.
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