Canada Day at Sunset Community Centre, Vancouver BC - July 1st, 2011

Sunset Community Centre held it's annual Canda Day Event on July 1, bringing thousands of community members together to celebrate in the Sun!


Something Collective, the resident artists at Moberly Arts & Cultual Centre were out in full force providing community members the opportunity to contribute to the making of the flag. Come view the completed flag at the Sunset Community Centre along with a formal introdution to who Something Collective is!

eatART: Power the VAG

I would like to invite you to Power the VAG, a Kinetic Sculpture Art Show Powered by People and the Sun.


On July 16th from I will be generating electricity by pedaling a bicycle generator. This electrical energy will provide power to an art show in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery! For every watt of electricity I generate, money will go towards a good cause:
spreading Energy Awareness through Art. Your generous donation will go towards eatART, a Canadian Charity that is focused on building and using audacious art projects as educational tools to spread a message of energy awareness to the public.


If you would like to make a donation, please visit the following link:
http://www.canadahelps.org/gp/13473


If you prefer, you can also bring your donation to the event or just come and join us!


For more information about the event, please visit the following link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188920054492231


Or the eatART web page:
http://www.eatart.org/


I hope to see you at the Vancouver Art Gallery this Saturday!


Cheers,


Juliana Bedoya


Some photos of the event...

Moberly Introduces- Something Collective in The Incubator!

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and the Sunset Community Centre Association are pleased to announce the selection of artists for The Incubator – a three year studio residency at Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre.


Something Collective is a group of five exciting artists who will activate the studio space in ways that will ripple into the Sunset neighbourhood.

Something Collective is a like-minded group of activists and artists that includes Maggie Winston (puppetry, theatre), Juliana Bedoya (sculpture, performance installation), Laura Barron (flutist, yogi, writer), Flick Harrison (media arts), and Natalie Gan (dance). They met in Judith Marcuse’s SFU course Exploring Arts for Social Change in 2010, and this shared experience has spawned various artistic collaborations in which they have addressed issues of homelessness, diversity, sustainability and consumerism.

Something Collective is thrilled to have been chosen for the Incubator Residency because they believe that there is great resonance between their artistic offerings and the expressed needs of the Moberly/Sunset community. Consequently, they are enthusiastic to bring their versatile expertise to a vibrant array of community-engaged art projects at the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre, and the Sunset Community Centre/Ice Rink.




Something Collective consists of:
Juliana Bedoya www.julianabedoya.com
Laura Barron: laurabarron.net
Maggie Winston: lostandfoundpuppetco.com
Flick Harrison: flickharrison.com
Natalie Gan: artforimpact.ca


http://somethingcollective.ca/


Cyndy Chwelos
Community Arts Programmer
Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre
7646 Prince Albert St
Vancouver
604.718.6521
http://www.mysunset.net/macc.htm

Pacificanto, The Song of the Whales. Zipaquira, Colombia, 2003

PACIFICANTO: UN CANTO A LA VIDA
A Collaboration with composer Huascar Barradas, Soprano Martha Senn, Pianist Pablo Arevalo, Scientist Dr. Jorge Reynolds, visual artist Rolf Abderhalden and visual artist Juliana Bedoya.



PACIFICANTO from Mapa Teatro on Vimeo.


Archive: eltiempo.com (Spanish): http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1020840


Hace millones de años las minas de sal de Zipaquirá fueron parte del mar, los próximos 27 y 28 de septiembre, la Catedral de Sal de esta ciudad, será el escenario de Pacificando. Este evento es una cantata de música colombiana escenificada, que presentará a la mezzosoprano Martha Senn, cantando con las voces en vivo de las ballenas que llegan al Pacífico colombiano.


Hace millones de años las minas de sal de Zipaquirá fueron parte del mar, los próximos 27 y 28 de septiembre, la Catedral de Sal de esta ciudad, será el escenario de Pacificanto. Este evento es una cantata de música colombiana escenificada, que presentará a la mezzosoprano Martha Senn, cantando con las voces en vivo de las ballenas que llegan al Pacífico colombiano.


Los cantos de ballenas, captadas vía satélite por boyas denominadas oídos del mar , también harán parte del espectáculo una variada gama de flautas a cargo de Huáscar Barradas, (maestro venezolano compositor de la obra), el pianista colombiano Pablo Arévalo, los efectos videográficos del también colombiano Rolf Abderhalden de Mapa Teatro y el performance e instalación de la artista Juliana Bedoya.


Los textos incluyen citas poéticas de Pablo Neruda y Enrique Buenaventura, así como fragmentos en lenguas aborígenes de esta zona del país. Esta es una iniciativa que busca generar recursos para destinarlos a la salud y educación de niños desplazados por la violencia. Pacificando se presentará en dos funciones, una matinal a las 11:00 a.m., y una matiné a las 3:00 p.m. Será transmitido en directo por los canales nacionales y regionales, el domingo 28 a las 4:00 p.m. Informes: 2573300.


Publicación eltiempo.com
Sección Cultura y entretenimiento
20 de septiembre de 2003
Autor: NULLVALUE

Welcoming Juliana as our Program Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator

Juliana Bedoya has joined the ArtStarts' team as Program Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator. She brings the valuable insight and experience cultivated through a personal art practice in sculpture, performance and installation as well as through her work in collaboration with diverse communities and interdisciplinary teams on an international stage, within the context of art projects that effect social change.

Juliana is very excited to now be part of ArtStarts and is thrilled to offer her skills to coordinate the organization's volunteer team, an essential component of the non-profit model, and assist with the different programs and initiatives.

Juliana believes that arts help young people develop not only their own artistic skills and cultural understanding, but also encourages the development of creative problem solving skills that can be applied to other aspects of their lives.

As an artist committed to effectively voicing the visions, ideas and possible futures of each community she interacts with, she is currently an art educator and an artist in residence at the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre and a member of Something Collective. 

ArtStarts happily welcomes Juliana to the team.

Art for Impact - HOUSE AWAKE

The Tent (Installation Project for House Awake - Chapel Arts, December 9th 2010):

Most of my work has been developed from my relationship with the textile medium, the garment and its metaphoric power. Textiles have the potential to communicate and build complex layers of social meaning, addressing the “body politic” as it appears in subjects such as culture and identity. The Tent is an exploration through the garment and the possible social connotations of clothing as a collective unit, as a “social fabric” that also questions the material culture of contemporary society. Positioned close to the body, clothing also occupies architectural and political space. This piece has been generated from the different perceptions of the public and the private spaces we inhabit (including our garments), looking to transform our experience of architecture and our notions of home, homelessness and hope. I built a shelter out of pieces of used clothing that had meaning and functionality in relationship with the bodies that wore them once. Thanks to all the people who participated in this project donating their own clothing.

http://art-for-impact.blogspot.com/ 

C'undua Project: Public Art Project developed with the community from Usaquen, Colombia.

Public Art Project developed in collaboration with Rolf Abderhalden and the community from Usaquen, Colombia. It was developed from the experiences and narrative stories (sound, video, photography, book making, etc) that resulted from the different encounters with the groups of youth, adults and seniors from the community that populated and settled down in the quarries.
Multidisciplinary research and community based public art installation. United Nations Development Program in partnership with the City of Bogota Mayor’s Office. Bogota, Colombia. 2001