Words Spoken At An Afternoon With Bud Osborn
Words Spoken At An Afternoon With Bud Osborn, It's a great privilege to be here at this celebration for a dear friend, Bud Osborn. He has done so much for our community of the Downtown Eastside. He has...
View ArticleTakin it down to $hitty hall
Takin it down to $hitty hall Takin it down to $hitty hall gonna tell em off y a'lI summer been here almost gone drugs on Hastings East dusk till dawn bring yer yoyo's bring yer dolls come complain to...
View ArticleI am a crazy man
I am a crazy man Who else would confess? Who else would tell you the cannibal people invented HIV to clear the way for their one world order how they paint the Muslims as devils when they themselves...
View ArticleBit for Bud
Bit for Bud The Newsletter has been going twice a month since August 15, 1986 - that's 23 years and counting. In 2003 a 256-page book named The Heart of the Community: The Best of the Carnegie...
View Articlefor parents of young women on the street
Hello all: I am looking for recommendations and resources (North Van or Vancouver) for parents of young women on the street (not children). The parents need support for themselves (- something like a...
View ArticleSTATISTIKS
STATISTIKS Hello here are your tunnel canaries go back to the hell you came from this branch is full, does yours have festival seating* general meetings* needless thoughtful beatings* seats with mass...
View ArticleDeathâs Doors
Death’s Doors It ain’t easy wandering to Death’s Door It’s easier to fall to the foot of the floor Alcohol, drugs and power struggles are crooked paths Especially on the crazed road of blood baths Your...
View ArticleDear Readers,
Dear Readers, I must write of a terrible tragedy that happened to my family. My dear sister passed away while living at Cooper Place on E Cordova. The night before, my sister Barbara went to see her...
View ArticleLOVE
LOVE How do you define the word love? I love Norma-Jean baby always – the person in the mirror. Her smile and beauty is sexy and has everything life offers! I love my adult babes: Sheri, Jordan, Shane,...
View Articleâ¦AND WHAT!!
…AND WHAT!! Downtown Eastside GIRLS SPEAK Fundraiser (Spoken Word, Stories, Monologues, Poetry) Thursday, Dec 3rd 7pm at the Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway By donation: 50c - $500
View ArticleWet Vancouver Wet
Wet Vancouver Wet Rainforest deluges our City Sans reason, rhyme or pity. People grey as the over skys Search for bucks, not whys. Commerce fondles herself Folks lost to inner self. More big buildings...
View ArticleRez Blues
Rez Blue Cambie to the west the water to the north Skytrain to the south Clark to the east this is my reservation. Inside are the afflicted the addicted the quickly dying and some slow to fade away......
View ArticleIN CONVERSATION WITH Doris Buttignol
IN CONVERSATION WITH Doris Buttignol On Sunday November 29 from 12-5:00, “The Living Blanket” creator, Doris Buttignol, will be sharing an afternoon of conversation at the Downtown Eastside Centre for...
View ArticleDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE LABYRINTH PROJECT
DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE LABYRINTH PROJECT Hi everyone, Vancouver Moving Theatre is working in partnership with Cathy Stubington and Runaway Moon Theatre (based in Grindrod, BC) to create a theatrical event...
View ArticleRemembrance
Remembrance We all remember things best forgotten Going thru ½ dozen fosterhomes in as many months Record being 1hour before the highway beckoned I remember the severity of institutional life Each turn...
View ArticleMissing Posters
Missing Posters Faces on the walls, the missing ones the ones who are missed and worried over grieved over and left like unanswered prayers waiting for some small word from all the faces on the wall...
View ArticleDTES Community Gamelan Project
DTES Community Gamelan Project Do you live in the Downtown Eastside? Are you interested in exploring and developing creative, interpersonal, and life skills using music? The DTES Community Gamelan...
View ArticleDown here we speak
Down here we speak a myriad of tongues no need at all to exclude anyone Down here there is no colour line, all of us are blind to all except shafts of light crystalline tentacles stream from our...
View ArticleThe Ephemeral Outside
The Ephemeral Outside November 26-December 5 The Ephemeral Outside is an exhibition of photographs by Sharon Burns. The work focuses on the Downtown Eastside community’s disappearing street aesthetic,...
View ArticleThe Occupation of the Carnegie Museum
The Occupation of the Carnegie Museum They were young these men of Division #3 of the Relief Camp Workers' Union. They marched up the winding staircase of the Carnegie Library to the museum on the...
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