Pandemonium | Taking It to the Streets

City streets, the living rooms of urban people, reflect the major changes to our cities and urban lives as much as any other spectacle of the pandemic. Small businesses, arts and culture sector workers, and activists have suffered compounding disasters. From major protest movements, that have taken to the streets differently; to new moves to safeguard, and to shutter, and then to reopen in new configurations, small businesses and main streets; to the arts and culture sector, their work almost completely curtailed, forced to generate new strategies to continue to promote the role of all kinds of creativity in the effort to hold our streets together and channel human inspiration. What has become of our streets and the lives we lead in public in them, in the pandemic context? What can we do to keep the public in public spaces, and what are the trade-offs with health, safety, creativity and democracy?

Speakers

Harsha Walia, Journalist and Executive Director, BC Civil Liberties Union
Germaine Koh, Artist
Alana Gerecke, Dance performer and urbanist, Shadbolt Fellow in the Arts 2021-22
Chris Cheung, Journalist, The Tyee

Moderator: Frances Bula, Freelance Journalist

*This event will also include the screening of the short film, #2020in3words, produced by the City in Colour Collective from an open photo submission call. Enter today!

Details available here.