Ryeberg, “Ryeberg Live Vancouver 2014: Trailer” (7PM, Sunday, 26 January)
Ryeberg Live was a hit at last year’s PuSh Festival, and we’re excited to say that Ryeberg will be returning for the 2014 edition! On stage — award-winning authors Lee Henderson and Zsuzsi Gartner, artist Vjeko Sager and multimedia cool kid Sammy Chien. As ever, Erik Rutherford, Ryeberg Editor, as host. Be there: Club PuSh on Sunday, January 26th. Show starts at 7PM.
Ryeberg is thrilled to be teaming up once again with the brilliant people at PuSh and Theatre Conspiracy, and at Geist Magazine, who are community partners for this event.
How do I get tickets?
Buy your tickets online by clicking HERE (or click here to see the event on the PuSh Festival website). Or, if you prefer, buy your tickets in person at the Tickets Tonight booth, 200 Burrard St, Plaza Level, inside the Tourism Vancouver Visitor Centre (10:00am – 6:00pm daily) or at the Satellite Visitor Centre, Robson St at Hornby St, outside the Vancouver Art Gallery (10:00am – 2:00pm daily).
When?
Sunday, January 26, 2014. Show kicks off at 7PM. But why not come along a little earlier, settle in, have a drink before the lights go down.
Where?
Club PuSh, Performance Works
1218 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9
Club PuSh, Performance Works Theatre, Granville Island, Vancouver
What is Club PuSh?
Club PuSh is the Performance Works Theatre transformed into a less traditional and more informal performance space. It turned out to be the ideal venue for Ryeberg Live. The Club is also the social hub of the Festival and the best place to grab a drink, hang out with other festival goers and brush shoulders with PuSh Festival artists. Be 19+ to get in.
Tell me more about the PuSh Festival.
PuSh is a three-week performing arts festival that brings together artists from all over the world to showcase original, acclaimed, genre-blending work. The festival’s mission is “to engage and enrich audiences with adventurous contemporary works in a spirit of innovation and dialogue.” 2014 will mark the 10th installment of the PuSh Festival. Last year attendance reached over 23,000. These are the people behind the festival. Here’s a PuSh Festival video trailer for 2014.
Michael Sider, “PuSh Festival Promo 2014” (Music: Kristen Roos)
Remind me again: What is Ryeberg Live?
Ryeberg Live is what happens when Ryeberg.com goes offline and on stage. Each of the four guest speakers will read their essay and show their personal selection of YouTube videos. Think of it as a video “show and tell” for grown ups. It’s wonderful to watch YouTube clips — this solitary and uniquely twenty-first century activity — in the company of other people, and with a drink in hand.
Who did you say would be part of the lineup?
There will be four performers and one host at Ryeberg Live Vancouver 2014.
1) Sammy Chien is an interdisciplinary media artist who merges cinema, sound, new media and dance. He is a co-founder/artistic director of the Chimerik collective. His wide-ranging and often collaborative artistic projects, which include films, video installations, art exhibitions, and dance performances, have featured in Canada, India, Germany, and Taiwan. He is also known for his DJing at art shows, underground parties, and concerts. Read more about Sammy here.
2) Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the acclaimed story collection “All the Anxious Girls on Earth” and editor of the bestselling “Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow.” Her collection, “Better Living through Plastic Explosives” was as a finalist for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her fiction has been widely anthologized and broadcast on CBC in Canada and NPR in the U.S. Zsuzsi recently spent over a year off all things digital and survived the experience. Ryeberg is grateful for her return to the cyber world. More about Zsuzsi here.
3) Lee Henderson is the author of two award-winning books, “The Broken Record Technique,” a story collection, and “The Man Game,” a novel and winner of the BC Book Prize and the Vancouver Book Prize in 2009. Lee’s fiction and art writing are regularly published in The Walrus and Border Crossings magazine, and numerous other magazines and journals. He has curated exhibitions of contemporary art and experimental music. Before making books and stories, Lee made cookies, hamburgers, invoices, ad copy, and once, long ago, the animation for artist Tony Oursler’s video for Sonic Youth’s song “Tunic” and once, even longer ago than that, played in a John Cage ‘happening’ at the Banff Centre. More about Lee here.
4) Vjeko Sager is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in over 35 countries. He uses cross-disciplinary and comparative research in history, arts and science to locate the origins of the various processes that generate our theories of knowledge, and his artistic practice centres on visualization methods in the age of post-media aesthetics. At the age of 28, Vjeko was appointed an Associate Professor in Painting Techniques at the Faculty of Applied Arts & Design in Belgrade. He moved to Vancouver in 1994. He is on the faculty at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design.
5) Erik Rutherford is Ryeberg’s founder and editor. He has written for newspapers, magazines, radio, and the big screen. You can read a few Ryebergs by Erik here.
To see pictures from Ryeberg’s most recent Ryeberg Live event, follow the hyperlink to Ryeberg Live Banff 2013. And check out last year’s Ryeberg Live Vancouver 2013, PuSh Edition.
See you on the 26th!
