Leah Tottenham and Adriana Lademann, co-creators of the Radical Spirits project, are pleased to announce that the Radical Spirits multidisciplinary art exhibition will be taking place Sunday, February 23, 2014 from 7:00 pm until midnight at Astorino’s Ballroom (1739 Venables St., Vancouver, BC).
The Radical Spirits show is an all-ages community event with no admission fee. The venue is supplied by The Safe Amplification Site Society.
Radical Spirits is dedicated to displaying and celebrating works that address the relationship between the supernatural, the spiritual, and any multitude of feminist
expressions. The themes underlying the project are intentionally broad and are interpreted differently by everyone, and we believe that this subjectivity is a crucial
part of the project. Each artist’s individual take on the themes of the Radical Spirits project helps us in our goal, which is to examine and critique the cultural silencing and erasure of radical feminism. We want to challenge and reject this erasure by exhibiting art that reworks themes of the ghostly, the supernatural, and the spiritual to serve a female-positive and egalitarian agenda. We also invite audience participation in that we invite people to attend costumed as their “magical selves”.
We noticed the lack of radical, socially conscious art in Vancouver and created Radical Spirits to work toward changing that. We are an independent, volunteer-
run collective, and the show on February 23 will be the public debut of the Radical Spirits project, wherein we begin our endeavour toward creating a new dialogue surrounding feminist issues in Vancouver.
More information can be found on our Facebook page and on our website, which is coming soon (late January 2014):
www.facebook.com/
www.radicalspirits.ca
All Ages No BYOB
ACCESSIBILITY INFO:
There is one gradient step up to the door of the venue. It is 2.5” at the lowest point and 6” at the highest. There are two washrooms stalls with grab bars, one in each washroom; the doors to these stalls are 30” and they are 42” wide. The venue space itself is fully accessible to mobility devices.
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