Sent to <searchgrads-list@vancouvercommunity.net>, an artist training facility I attended in 2003, which was created by The Vancouver Alliance for art and culture to help artist become self-sufficient and marketable.
Well with Cavelle's wonderful comments, I hope she is fully acknowledged for her fine irony in this reply. As she is a respected artist , I enjoyed my visit with her a couple of years ago as she explored possible work ideas with me at a time in my life when I was searching for work in my career and she invited me over for a chat. A fine artist, who now presents very interesting perspectives on the work we do as artist, and this comment on accredited buskers is another fine example of her use of irony, subtle wit, and a critical perspective of a time on Vancouver's civil life where, entertainment for the masses takes a new low.
Just as Gustave Corbert created works in a duly noted exhibit of his work during a time of commercialization, she should as well create an avenue or venue to work in critical parrellel to the crass ventures out there attempting to cash in on the Olympic beast coming into town during the month of Feb and beyond. Next these cash greedy adventurists can put out a calling for accredited homeless people, who can sing and dance too? Cavelle, good work on pulling out the stops in examining another example of an Olympic scheme designed by "another group" wanting to promote art and culture alongside the belly of the beast.
With a word such as "accredited", the Olympic committee, Vanoc or Van art, whatever these groups or organizations want to call themselves these days, they are putting themselves on a pedestal to idealize the notion of a perfect world, a perfect street, perfect entertainment, perfect athletes and perfect cultural politics and a big lie of being an example of the quintessence of urbanization on a international, national, and local level of cultural consumption for the moronic culture, the masses and anyone else who is caught up in the biggest lie in Vancouver since expo roll into town. Where after that charade, the richest Asian capitalist came in after the expo lie and bought up Salish Territory for a song. Look at that area now. no better than the streets next to it, as it is sandwiched between DTES, China town, main street, and the tracks and streets between the rich and the poor.
No wonder Vanoc is scrambling because there is no snow on Cypress, because Karma is coming back on their lies and use of words to spread the illusion of excellence in promoting the human spirit in all its grandeur! (Right next to the homeless, the sick and mentally suffering, and dispossessed shoved in the dark corner of urbanization where no one can see them. We tend to forget that first there was the spirit of the word before anything in this universe that was created. That is why we must choose our words carefully, because it is through the spirit of the word that ideas manifest into being creations of good use and consumption as opposed to be words of lies and accusations, disrespected, demonize and left ethereal in the universe to rot and fester
I am so glad I moved to Edmonton, so I do not have to see the lies and machinations of golden calves shining on the dirty streets of British Columbia for the entire world to see. Some people will see me moving away from this as an example of running away from the problem, but I seen it as moving to be closer to my family members which is where community starts from, and then we can continue on to help bigger communities in a time of great need in the world... Hy Hy, O'Siem, Gila Kesla, Miigweech, all my relations
Filmmaker/Artist
Donald Morin, BA
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