The olivia Project

Tuesday, April 26th – Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

Fondly named after former youth panel member who is said to be able “to do everything”, The olivia Project pairs talented young artists from different artistic disciplines and gives them one month to create an original, ten-minute interdisciplinary act. These pieces are then premiered at The Cultch’s Historic Theatre during the IGNITE! youth festival. The olivia Project debuted for the first time in the 2010 festival, and due to it’s enormous success, it’s coming back bigger and better! Once again, this year’s olivia project will be northing short of a completely unique, innovative explosion of collaborative, multidisciplinary art!

Click here to view photos from the 2010 olivia show.

Dress Code: Mustaches of all shapes, sizes and colours.

This year’s artist groupings:

Skye Lambourne (musician) paired with Mystical Distribution Company (actors/musicians/visual artists)
Priscilla Ng (songwriter) paired with Colin (film-maker and actor)
Jeremy Gerard (actor and musician) paired with Ander Gates (dancer and gender performance) and Laura Reznec (musician)
Lydia Robb (visual artist) paired with Michael Jaworski (photographer) and Carmen
Jacob Sexsmith (musician) paired with Freya Cirulis (singer and musician), Nina Chwelos (visual artist) and Adrienne McLeod (dancer/actor/textiles)
Remy Siu (composer) paired with Angelina Khran and Kaitlyn Soo
Mason Barnes-Crouse (comic artist and actor) paired with Alex MacQueen (sound collage) and Lukas McCormic (fire spinning)

A Taste of The olivia Project…

groups

Jeremy, Ander and Laura
A jam session evolves as it explores words, identity and self-expression.

Jacob, Freya, Nina and Adrianne
Capes is the story of dreams and nightmares. It follows a young girl through a dream world and a fatal battle with the vicious Spider Demon. Combining the music of Jacob and Freya with physical performance and various knitting experiments, Capes wants you to invent a meaning for it. Warning for those with sensitive vision: there is a glow in the dark sequence.

Lydia, Carmen, Brittney and Michael
As all of us are visual artists, we decided to create a skit incorporating different the different art forms we all specialize in (ie. photography, drawing & painting, sculpting and textiles). The inspiration for our skit is society’s impact on people’s connection with nature and the environment – a subject we are all very passionate about.

Mystical Distribution Company and Skye Lambourne
Lock your doors and hide your livestock – there’s a ruckus on it’s way. The wilderness is whispering, birds are a’ whistling, and all reason, rhyme and wisdom will be thrown right out the window. Sky Lambourne has been travelling with gypsies, roaming the country side causin’ all kinds of non-stop nonsense. Even worse, everyone and their wack-ass uncle is in the Mystical Distribution Company. You’ve been given fair warning; watch out for low-flying shopping carts.

Lukas, Mason, and Alex are probably three of the most intriguing space cowboys you’ll ever meet. They were raised by dragons, who lived in an obsidian castle, nestled in the bowls of an active volcano, spending their days honing their musical improvisation skills and hunting wild lava bear. Unfortunately this happy existence was not to last, as their home was attacked by a ravaging hoard of Justin Beiber loving zombies, driving them to steal a spaceship and escape. That day, they put on the masks they wear today, swearing that they would never take them off – until the day they avenged their foster-dragons who fell to the zombies.

artists

Angelina Krahn is studying history, dance, and choreography at Simon Fraser University. She is interested in the collaboration process between all artistic disciplines, and the potential of art to reflect and impact society.

Kaitlyn Soo is a dancer and choreographer studying at Simon Fraser University. She hopes to open her own dance company in the near future.

@RemySiu is an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University studying Music Composition and Film. He is also interested in Interactive Media and its potential as a medium in the 21st Century.

film screening

Sing Swan Song, a film by Samantha Ruth and Adam Huggins

A visual/aural montage centering around the conflicting and symbiotic relationship between dreams and what we refer to as reality, physical manifestation and illusion, as well as a belief in the direct connection between the projected image and the collective unconscious. If a lucid dream makes you question and seize the foundations of its own existence, then this is an attempt at a ‘lucid film’.

Samantha and Adam stumbled into vancouver 2 1/2 years ago on a wild intuition, and have since then dipped their hands in some chemicals and dirt, dropped out of film school, picked up shovels, and joined the east van circus.