TIME MACHINE:
A Climate Cruise
The Project
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TIME MACHINE supposes that Vancouver’s physical and social infrastructure will be dramatically altered in decades to come by climate change, population growth and environmental degradation. Radix asks: How will we live in this new world? How will we care for each other? What will we eat? What vision will we follow? How do we do this?
To imagine answers to these questions — to imagine a collective future, or its failure — is the task for the Radix Team and our collaborators. Some parameters are fixed by the layout of the boat, the geography of the site, the tides and their effect on the speed of the boat, daylight, as well as the budget, and the weather.
The performance will take place on Friday, September 20th, starting at 4pm and ending at 9pm, with an hour for preparation and half an hour of audience ‘processing’. The journey explores the present, past, and future conditions of Vancouver’s northern shoreline — an area that exemplifies the city’s past role as a hub for resource extraction, its transformation into luxury housing for the privileged, and its destiny to become a bitumen distribution point (situated, as it happens, directly across from the abandoned former Ioco refinery townsite).
We’ll be traveling into the traditional unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation and will collaborate with both indigenous and non-indigenous artists to shape key components of the production. The event will take place on the ‘Pride of Vancouver’, a 60’ catamaran harbour cruise boat that offers two closed and open deck gathering spaces, lights, sound and video, dance floor and bar.
WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW:
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The Pride of Vancouver is a typical Harbour Cruise boat — a 60x20' Catamaran designed and built in the 1990s to accommodate up to 200 passengers on three decks. Our idea is to use the confinement of the boat during the five hour journey to create a laboratory for our the collective imagination of an audience of about 75, together with 25 artists and crew members. Facilities on board include a bar, prep kitchen, DJ station, sound light and video equipment, dining tables and chairs, a dance floor and an open sun deck.
The journey begins at 3:30 pm, at the dock site, possibly with a 'processing' of the audience, which is typical Radix procedure. We might ask for information about their lives, their involvement with technology, with social and environmental causes. They may be issued a 'package' that includes something to wear, and objects that will be used during the performance. The journey itself is determined by the tides, the changes in daylight and temperature. The 'scenography' will be determined by the surrounding landscape, and by the movement of the boat, in several stages (or 'acts', if you like):
1. 4pm Cast off from Coal Harbour, late afternoon, ca, 30 minutes
Starboard View: Convention Centre, Canada Place
Port View: Lonsdale Key, North Shore Mountains
MAIN DECK
2. Second Narrows Industrial Ambience, ca. 30 minutes
Starboard View: Cranes, Container Port, Grain Terminals
Port View: Grain Elevators, Shipyards, Vancouver Drydock
MAIN DECK/DINING DECK
3. Entrance to Indian Arm, ca. 30 minutes
Starboard View: Kinder Morgan Oil refinery
Port View: Cates’ Park Area.
MAIN DECK/DINING DECK
4. South End of Indian Arm, ca. 30 minutes
Starboard View: Villas along the Shore
Port View: Deep Cove and private docks
SUN DECK
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5. Twin Islands, ca. 30 minutes
Starboard View: Villas (fewer and smaller)
Port View: Shoreline
SUN DECK
6. Buntzen Lake. Canoe (and Shore?) performance, ca 30-45 minutes, sunset
Starboard View: Shoreline
Port View: Shoreline
SUN DECK
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7. Return to Second Narrows, nightfall, ca 1 hour
'Future Dinner',
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DINING DECK
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As dusk settles, the boat will return to Burrard Inlet and the performance will move to the dining area for a ‘Future Buffet' that offers a tangible experience of a world where the food supply has been irrevocably altered. Supplied in part by the audience (who will have been asked to bring a ’future potluck dish’) and in part by Radix and our First Nations partners, the buffet will include a variety of real and imagined future foods: edible insects, lab-grown meat, 3D-printed biscuits etc., served to the accompaniment of live ‘Future Dinner Music.'
8. Vancouver Harbour, Nigh Time, ca. 45 minutes
'Party'
MAIN DECK
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Returning to the 'present', TIME MACHINE will conclude with drinks and refreshments in the main lounge, set against the backdrop of Vancouver’s nighttime skyline, offering an opportunity for everyone to mingle and reflect on the journey and the issues.
Collaborators
Radix:
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Andrew Laurenson
Andreas Kahre
Billy Marchenski
Robyn Volk
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Takaya Tours
In service since 1999, Takaya Tours is the premier First Nation owned eco-tourism venture in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
At the core of the business are guided interpretive paddles in either our replica ocean-going canoes or in our sea kayaks. Guests gently paddle in the protected waters of the Burrard Inlet and beautiful Indian Arm while guides from the Coast Salish Nation sing songs, tell legends and point out ancient village sites. The tours have been specifically designed for people of all ages and fitness levels.
Takaya Tours is owned and operated by the Tsleil-Waututh Naiton. We are the People of the Inlet, a Coast Salish people with our own distinct customs and history. Our language is Downriver Halkomelem. We are a small and growing community of 500 with a traditional territory stretching from the Fraser River in the south to Mamquam Lake east of Whistler Mountain in the north. Our community is located on the Burrard Inlet between North Vancouver and Deep Cove, BC.
We have travelled the land and waters of our traditional territory for thousands of years, and we wish to share our knowledge with visitors who appreciate wild nature and authentic indigenous culture. Experienced First Nation guides will safely transport you to adventures across our waters and back through time. Come experience history and take away memories that will last a lifetime!
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Cease Wyss - T'uy't’tanat
Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:Lo/Metis/Hawaiian/Swiss Inter-disciplinary Artist
Mediums/Formats: Digital Media Web Installations, Public Art, Community Based/Engaged Dialogues, Storytelling, Medicine Gathering, Sharing Traditional Knowledge, Creating and Building Communities, Land and Wetlands Restoration and Remediation, Collective and Collaborative Processes
I work as an eco tourist guide in the spring/summer/fall months in the local forests and waterways surrounding Vancouver. My family is predominately Coast Salish, with Hawaiian roots from close to 100 years back. My father came from Europe, he is Swiss. My Indigenous cultural roots are my strengths, and I honour and feel ok about my European roots and draw positive elements from there too. I love all the culture in my life, and the unique histories stemming from each.
I have lived a rich cultural life in my traditional territories, working, learning, teaching, living, gathering medicines, creating art, building communities, and striving for a better living in other ways. I have a creative soul and I live to create things.... both beautiful and not so beautiful. Complicated things and simple things. That is Art. It is a spirit that calls me and begs me to play at late hours of the night, or early hours of the day... or several days at a time. It is a big part of my soul.
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Tasha Faye Evans
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Tasha has been a member of Vancouver’s innovative and multi-disciplinary dance and theatre community for over twenty years. She has performed in various productions including the Belfry’s production of Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters, Marie Clements’ Unnatural and Accidental Women, Drew Hayden Taylor’s Boy in the Treehouse and Sucker Falls and most recently working with Raven Sprit Dance and Quelemia Sparrow in Salmon Girl. She has performed at festivals nationally and internationally including the World Indigenous People’s Conference in Hawaii, The Sacred Water Gathering in Ontario, and the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival at the Museum of Anthropology.
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Previous work as a performer and co-creator include the critically acclaimed productions of Box, and Bewildered with Radix Theatre, The Beginners with Boca Del Lupo, and her own one-woman play, She Stands Still. She has toured to Colombia, performing She Stands Still in the International Woman’s Festival for World Peace where she also began a collaboration creation of "La Violencia".
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Currently, Tasha is the leading artist engaging Port Moody and the public at large in an arts-
based community development project Welcome Post Project, in its second year of offering Coast Salish Cultural events and education led by local First Nations artists and Knowledge Keepers. Tasha is responsible for two Coast Salish house posts designed, carved and raised in ceremony in Port Moody.
A teacher, dancer, and theatre artist Tasha wishes to extend her gratefulness to her
Coast Salish Land and ancestors who continue to sing magic into her art.
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Emma Dolhai
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Diego Romero
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ILANA ZACKON
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TBD...
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About Radix
Radix Theatre is an interdisciplinary performance-based company founded in Vancouver in 1991, with a mandate to create original, experimental works that focus on contemporary social, political and ecological issues in embodied performance. Radix has a long history of working in a site-specific context, including radio-based performances at IKEA, hotel lobbies, underground parking lots, in-car performance, cardboard boxes and 21-day performances across Vancouver.
Radix is organized as a project-based collective, with ‘associate artists’ drawn from a variety of disciplines, including theatre, dance, music, media art and architecture, and Andrew Laurenson serving as Artistic Producer.
To see an overview of past projects, please visit www.radixtheatre.org
Artistic Associates
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Andreas Kahre, 
Andrew Laurenson, 
Billy Marchenski,
 Stefan Smulovitz, 
Paul Ternes
, Robyn Volk
Artistic Producer
: Andrew Laurenson
Board of Directors:

Jason Gratl (Chair)
, Neil Patton
, Leslie Pomero
, Keiron Simons
Founding Members:

Radix was co-founded by Belinda Earle, Michael Hirano and Jud Martell, whose boldness and vision laid the groundwork for the company's current achievements. Radix Theatre Society was incorporated in 1991 and two years later attained federal charitable status. The company is regularly supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, B.C. Arts Council, the Province of B.C. through the Gaming Commission, the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Foundation, and Hamber and Koerner Foundations.