2022 SE-CHANGE FESTIVAL

Join us in conversations on social and economic challenges

SE-CHANGE FESTIVAL

JULY 16-22, 2022

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Social and Economic Change Laboratory (SE-Change) at UBC’s Okanagan campus focuses on the interdisciplinary study of social and economic change. We work with communities and publics, locally and globally, to share and cocreate knowledge on the challenges that matter to them. Through exhibitions, performances, and conversations, the SE-Change Festival explores social and economic change in real places – what it looks like, its effects, and how it is shaped. The Festival brings together academics, artists, and members of publics, locally and from various parts of the world, in a forum where they can interact, express themselves, and inquire.

Festival Schedule

16 18 19

SATURDAY TUESDAY MONDAY

FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS

Access through Innovation Centre 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

3:00-5:00 p.m. Mobile Performance Central Kelowna He(a)rd: Follow the Money

Neil Cadger Andrew Stauffer

4:45-6:30 p.m. Festival Opening Innovation Centre Atrium & Rooftop Refreshments with: Crow Gulch by Douglas Walbourne-Gough Growth Machine by Evan Berg Branchroot Ensemble featuring Manny de Jesus Andrew Stauffer Nicholas Denton Protsack Darren Williams

5:30-6:30 p.m. If Information is a Tsunami, Then What Becomes of Us?

Martin Gurri

20 21 22

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

En Tiempos De Crisis, Arleene Correa Valencia We Live, Where No One Cares to Look, Lucas Joel Macauley

Of All the People in All the World, Stan’s Cafe, James Yarker Alive and Well - “Pioneer” Development in the 21st Century, Roger Sugden Interactive Festival Mural, Katya Torin

12:30-1:30 p.m. Discussion

Sound and Social Justice: Beats, Bars and Radical Listening Wanda Canton

5:00-6:30 p.m. Evening Documentary Urbanized (1 hr 25 minutes)

A film by Gary Hustwit, 2021

5:00-6:30 p.m. Interactive Discussions Festival Wrap-up Innovation Centre Atrium & Rooftop Refreshments Including conversations with Festival contributors:

En Tiempos De Crisis by Arleene Correa Valencia Alive and Well - “Pioneer” Development in the 21st Century by Roger Sugden Of All the People in All the World by James Yarker

12:30-1:50 p.m. (subtitled) Lunchtime Documentary

On the Way to School (77 minutes)

A film by Pascal Plisson, 2013

What’s On Throughout the Week

En Tiempos De Crisis

Arleene Correa Valencia

The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Wine Country Fires, included a series of 250 fires that spread across Napa, Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino, Butte and Solano counties. While 254,000 acres scorched through the day and night, the air quality of Napa reached “hazardous” – the level deemed most dangerous on the Environmental Protection Agency scale. These severe air quality conditions led a group of people to evacuate their homes in search of clean air. Others, like low-income agricultural workers, had no choice but to continue with the ongoing harvest in an attempt to save the area’s grapes.

Tractors with heavy bright lights illuminated vineyards across the valley as people raced to pick grapes before the smoke could damage them.

Agricultural workers worked through the night, exposing themselves to toxic air, risking their health and safety. These unseen heroes of our community are resilient embodiments of strength, commitment, and power. In Times of Crisis honors all those who go unrecognized as they care for our beloved Napa Valley.

We Live, Where No One Cares to Look

Lucas Joel Macauley

Lucas Joel Macauley is a Canadian Artist who primarily works with acrylic paint, spray cans, ink, and paint marker. Lucas lives in beautiful Kelowna, British Columbia, a place that has provided endless inspiration for his work. Lucas draws inspiration, not from the mountains, lakes, or any of the beautiful surroundings he lives in, but rather, his inspiration leads him to depict images of the people and backdrops of the city that are usually overlooked: people with addictions, mental health issues, and who are experiencing homelessness. Back alleys, dumpsters, shelters, and hospitals provide a look into a world that is generally written off as the “Problem with Society”, a problem that seems to have no solution. Lucas hopes to share his life experience and show the beauty and commonalities that all people share, that make us more alike than different.

Of All the People in All the World

Stan’s Cafe

Of All The People In All The World is an art installation that executes a little act of magic. By combining grains of rice and our sense of empathy it converts human population statistics into something extraordinary. Each grain of rice represents a person and carefully measured piles of rice rest on labelled sheets of paper. The resulting landscape is visually beautiful but also witty and heartbreaking, shocking and thoughtprovoking.

Conceived in 2003 by the theatre company Stan’s Cafe as a way of better understanding our place in the world, this unassuming, playful and beguilingly simple idea was an immediate hit that has toured the world ever since, adapting itself to local circumstances wherever it goes.

In the Okanagan region Of All The People In All The World will combine current affairs, with local history and news plus themes of the SE-Change Festival.

Alive and Well - “Pioneer” Development in the 21st Century

Roger Sugden

The work is from a project exploring social and economic development in the Okanagan, part of the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan People.

The photographs were made in Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery, the oldest operating cemetery in the city. The site was first established as a public burial ground in 1892, and has been operated by the municipality since 1911. It includes a section where some of the earliest settlers are buried. That section is today designated “Pioneer Cemetery”. In 2005, stones were laid on over 100 graves that at that time were unmarked. The project received financial backing from the City of Kelowna.

The stones are uniform: 20 inches long, 12.25 inches wide, and thicker on one side than the other so that the face is angled towards the foot of the grave. Every stone contains the logo celebrating the City of Kelowna’s centenary. Typically, each includes the name of the person buried, year of birth, year of death, and a brief comment. The comments frequently include the descriptor “pioneer”, and often the occupation of the person buried.

The project ethics is to photograph in situ, not focusing on individual people, and never rearranging objects.

What’s On Requiring Registration

SATURDAY, July 16, 2022

HE(a)RD: Follow the Money

3:00-5:00 p.m. Mobile performance, central Kelowna

Inspired by the idea of bringing community members together to disrupt the auditory monotony of city life, HE(a)RD is a mobile sound installation for multiple bicyclists with mounted speakers. Each iteration of HE(a) RD incorporates different audio tracks and accompanying sound designed by Andrew Stauffer and Nicholas Denton Protsack, and costume and performance design by Neil Cadger. In this iteration, the audio track includes familiar pop-culture references to money and capitalism, sounds of money, field recordings of the Okanagan, and found objects. The performance, which is evocative of an assemblage of individual organisms, is like a herd of migratory animals or a swarm of insects. In a society driven by individual wealth accumulation, often to the detriment of Earth and community, HE(a)RD offers a humorous, thoughtful, and community-based response. HE(a)RD: Follow the Money will take place in and around the downtown core.

MONDAY, July 18, 2022

Festival Opening

4:45-6:30 p.m. Innovation Centre Atrium & Rooftop Refreshments

With: Crow Gulch, Douglas Walbourne-Gough

In his debut poetry collection, Crow Gulch, Douglas Walbourne-Gough reflects on the legacy of a community that sat on the shore of the Bay of Islands, less than two kilometres west of downtown Corner Brook. Crow Gulch began as a temporary shack town to house migrant workers in the 1920s during the construction of the pulp and paper mill. After the mill was complete, some of the residents, many of Indigenous ancestry, settled there permanently — including the poet’s great-grandmother Amelia Campbell and her daughter, Ella — and those the locals called the “jackytars,” a derogatory epithet used to describe someone of mixed French and Mi’kmaq descent. Many remained there until the late 1970s, when the settlement was forcibly abandoned and largely forgotten. Walbourne-Gough lyrically sifts through archival memory and family accounts, resurrecting story and conversation, to patch together a history of a people and place. Here he finds his own identity within the legacy of Crow Gulch and reminds those who have forgotten of a glaring omission in history.

Growth Machine, Evan Berg

Growth Machine references the dominant role that capitalism and capitalists play in (re)making cities primarily as sources of continuous capital accumulation, rather than as living and dwelling spaces for the cities’ occupants. Beginning with a voiceover from found footage of a YouTube how-to tutorial video, this installation took a satirical stance (against) the development of urban space as a growth machine. In this how-to guide, all decisions about the development of a ‘successful city’ are based on land value and the accumulation of wealth. This work juxtaposes a broad range of urban scenes in order to illustrate the politics of urban transformation. Growth Machine both investigated and contested the commodification and financialization of both urban space and urban life itself. It contested (through satire and suggestion) the way that important questions of urban existence get reduced to questions of profit and loss in a system designed as an urban growth machine.

Branchroot Ensemble featuring Manny de Jesus, Nicholas Denton Protsack, Andrew Stauffer, and Darren Williams

Composed of Darren Williams (saxophone), Nicholas Denton Protsack (cello), and Andrew Stauffer (percussion, found objects), Branchroot Ensemble is a group of experimental musicians who explore free improvisation and nontraditional approaches to formal structures in music. Their spontaneously composed music is sometimes frenetic and other times pensive, and demonstrates an array of virtuosic techniques that take listeners into uncharted depths of invention. Central to their performance style is the cultivation of a rhizomal relationship in which each musician practices attentive listening, active responding, and the cultivation of comfort within uncertainty. Joining Branchroot Ensemble will be street artist, Manny de Jesus, who will incorporate traditional improvised hip hop and funk dance styles, as well as spoken word for this collaborative performance. Similar to Branchroot, Manny dances to highlight both the ‘conversation’ between instruments and the emotions that their sounds evoke in himself. Doing so allows him to provide only the most honest and vulnerable version of his art, to which he will further expand on via the spoken word component. Through this multidisciplinary collaboration, the performers will challenge distinctions between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art and practice relating in a truly interdependent way.

What’s On Requiring Registration

TUESDAY, July 19, 2022

If Information is a Tsunami, Then What Becomes of Us?

5:30-6:30 p.m. Innovation Centre Theatre

Join Martin Gurri for If Information is a Tsunami, Then What Becomes of Us? In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, and the media. Join Martin Gurri for a talk which explores how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world.

WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022

Discussion on Sound and Social Justice

12:30-1:30 p.m. Innovation Centre Theatre

Join Wanda Canton to explore ‘radical listening’. As a doctoral researcher, artist and facilitator, Wanda champions music and sound for social justice, with particular interest in rap, criminalisation and decolonisation. In this interactive virtual seminar, Wanda will inquire how music can facilitate social change and dialogue, and why listening can be as important as creating.

Urbanized

5:00-6:30 p.m. (1hr 25 minutes) Innovation Centre Theatre

A film by Gary Hustwit, 2021

A documentary which focuses on the design of cities. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns. Yet much of the dialogue on these issues is disconnected from the public domain.

Gary Hustwit is a filmmaker and visual artist based in New York. He has produced 15 feature documentaries. In 2007 he made his directorial debut with Helvetica, the world’s first feature-length documentary about graphic design and typography. The film marked the beginning of a design film trilogy, with Objectified, about industrial design and product design following in 2009, and Urbanized, about the design of cities in 2011. The films have been broadcast on PBS, BBC, HBO, Netflix and outlets in 20 countries, and have been screened in over 300 cities worldwide. (From hustwit.com)

What’s On Requiring Registration

THURSDAY, July 21, 2022

Festival Wrap-up

5:00-6:30 p.m. Innovation Centre Atrium & Rooftop Including conversations with Festival contributors: En Tiempos De Crisis, Arleene Correa Valencia Of All the People in All the World, James Yarker Alive and Well - “Pioneer” Development in the 21st Century, Roger Sugden

FRIDAY, July 22, 2022

On the Way to School

12:30-1:50 p.m. (77 minutes) Innovation Centre Theatre

A film by Pascal Plisson, 2013 This touching, globe-trotting documentary travels from Kenya to Patagonia, Morocco and India to show the incredible physical obstacles that some children must face every day simply to get to the classroom on time.

In many parts of the world, getting to school is a challenge in itself, and this globe-trotting documentary shows us what some young people must face simply to make it to the classroom. In Kenya, Jackson and his sister cross paths with dangerous elephants; in Patagonia, Carlito and his little sister ride a horse over 18 kilometres each way through treacherous terrain; in Morocco, Zahira and her friends trek across mountains and even resort to hitchhiking to get to class on time; and in India, Samuel is pushed through swamplands in a homemade wheelchair by his younger brothers. Touching and inspiring, On the Way to School celebrates the strength, determination and courage of these young students willing to brave great obstacles in order to pursue their education.

Pascal Plisson is a French screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. On the Way to School has been seen by over 2 million viewers worldwide, and was awarded many international prizes, including the INIS prize of the 17th international children’s film festival in Montreal (Canada). (From www.windsfilms)

On the Way to School is an educational documentary for kids. The documentary is subtitled.

Festival Contributors

ABOUT EVAN BERG

Evan Berg is an emerging artist based in Kelowna, British Columbia. He holds a certificate in Documentary Film Production from Capilano University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UBC Okanagan where he received the UBC Medal of Fine Arts for graduating at the top of his class. As a visual artist, Berg is interested in power structures and their influence on our relationship to — and the creation of — space and place. He investigates this through the mediums of video, installation, sound, photography, and animation. Berg’s work has been exhibited in Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, and the United States.

His works exhibited during this festival reference the dominant role that capitalism and capitalists play in (re)making cities primarily as sources of continuous capital accumulation, rather than as living and dwelling spaces for the cities’ occupants. In Kelowna’s current period of intense urban development, Berg’s work explores the question- who has the right to the city?

ABOUT NEIL CADGER

After graduating from the Lecoq Theatre School in Paris in 1984, Cadger co-founded Wissel Theatre in Belgium with an international group of alumni. Wissel Theatre collectively devised interdisciplinary performances and toured internationally for a decade. During and since that time he has taught, directed and performed in film, and theatre/dance touring companies such as Co. Mossoux-Bonté, Karine Ponties, and Leporello. Neil won a Dora Award for Best Directing for Erotic Irony. He created, performed and toured devised sound and movement pieces internationally between 2000 - 2015 before joining the Drama Department at the University of Saskatchewan then moved to Kelowna and founded a BFA in Interdisciplinary Performance at the new UBC Okanagan campus, where he continues to teach. In 2017, he founded the Living Things International Arts Festival in Kelowna, an annual festival of object theatre, circus, dance, music & visual art.

ABOUT WANDA CANTON

Wanda Canton is an artist and abolitionist completing her doctorate at the University of Brighton, UK. Her work explores how rap music and spoken poetry contribute to social justice, in particular challenging the criminal justice system. She has worked in secure psychiatric hospitals, prisoner support services and a variety of community health providers. She independently produces and hosts ‘Three Ain’t a Crowd’ podcast, featuring different artists discussing the intersection between creativity, mental health, and social change. She recently founded ‘Sonic Rebellions’ – a consortium focused on sound and social justice across a variety of mediums and theoretical perspectives.

Festival Contributors

ABOUT MANNY DE JESUS

Manny de Jesus is a street performance artist originating from Hamilton, Ontario. In pursuit of his lifelong goal to master and expand the boundaries of hip hop culture, Manny has organized, MC’d, and competed in various open style cypher events for dancers and rap artists alike. Currently, Manny is working as a member of Kelowna’s Bike Ride Collective to create interdisciplinary cyphers and live performance art for the city’s cultural district. Manny holds a BScK from Queen’s University, where he trained varsity athletes under the guidance of Colin McAuslan and Evan Karagiozov. Other notable teachers inaclude Galen Hooks (creative movement), Robbie Gillies (poetry), and Adam Lloyd (high performance). He has since been certified in 2019 as a strength & conditioning coach, working primarily with dancers from Ontario and the Okanagan.

ABOUT ARLEENE CORREA VALENCIA

Arleene Correa Valencia (b.1993) is a native Mexican artist from Arteaga, Michoacan, Mexico who currently lives and works in Napa, California. Correa Valencia has an MFA from California College of the Arts and is a DACA (Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals) DREAMER.

ABOUT NICHOLAS DENTON PROTSACK

Nicholas Denton Protsack is a composer and concert cellist, originally from Kelowna, British Columbia. Nicholas’ creative works often explore connections between music and the natural world; recent examples of this include Into this Fracturing Land (2020), which was one international recipient of the 2021 BMI Foundation SCA Awards, and the landscape-inspired Vision of a Flaxen Sea (2019) for symphony orchestra, winner of the 2019 James Highsmith Award. Nicholas is currently undertaking a PhD in music at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), studying with composers Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon. His other major teachers have included David Garner (composition), Jean-Michel Fonteneau (cello), and Jennifer Culp (cello).

ABOUT MARTIN GURRI

Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst specializing in the relationship of politics and global media. His book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, first published in 2014 and updated in 2018, has been praised for foreshadowing the political shocks of Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump.

Mr. Gurri has published numerous articles, studies, and opinion pieces on geopolitical- and media-related topics. His blog, The Fifth Wave, pursues the themes first elaborated in The Revolt of the Public.

Festival Contributors

ABOUT LUCAS JOEL MACCAULEY

Lucas Joel Macauley is an artist now located in the Okanagan. His artwork could be classified as abstract street art. Lucas mainly portrays images from his own experiences with homelessness and addiction. Bright colors are used to express the beauty that can be found in hopeless situations. Having experienced these hardships, Lucas started painting as a form of therapy. Selling his artworks while on the street, passers by quickly took notice and sought his work out in order to own a piece of his story. Since then his art helped him overcome his situation and now has sold pieces all over the world to both collectors and galleries alike. It could be argued that painting the world around him allowed him to change his situation and realize a love for art. Lucas now continues to paint commissions and pieces for exhibit in his home in Kamloops BC.

ABOUT ANDREW STAUFFER

Andrew Stauffer is a percussionist and sound artist whose work explores the communication and translation of ideas between artistic disciplines, community, and the sonic possibilities of sundry objects. He has performed and recorded percussion in jazz fusion, avant-garde, classical, and pop music groups and ensembles. Andrew is a member of Bike Ride Collective, a Kelowna-based performance art group, in addition to Vision Lab, an interdisciplinary experimental arts and research collective based at Harvard University with global collaborators. His recent works include Firebird, an album of poetry and music created with poet, Kythe Heller, and cellist/ composer, Nicholas Denton Protsack, and The Collective Body, an audio-visual installation for which he arranged the sound arrangement. Andrew holds an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, where his research focused on the intersection between music and spirituality, and an M.A. in philosophy from Ohio University, where his research explored ethics and aesthetics.

ABOUT ROGER SUGDEN

Roger Sugden’s photography is influenced by his experiences as an academic economist specializing in territorial development - but it goes on its own journey, beyond typical economic reasoning, to increased sensibility. Roger is especially interested in exploring photographic practices to raise awareness, stimulate questioning, and foster different perspectives. He is a Professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, and lives in Kelowna. He previously worked in the UK at the universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh and Stirling, and in Germany at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. He has been Visiting Professor at the Università di Ferrara, Italy, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK. His academic research is on economic organization, social and economic development, governance, and the interests of publics.

ABOUT KATYA TORIN

Katya Torin is a visual artist among many other things. Currently wrapping up their BFA at UBC’s Okanagan campus, Katya spends most of their time over-dedicated to various art forms. They enjoy working on murals in the central Okanagan, designing t-shirts and other clothing products for Oka Studio Designs, and working with clients to make them one-of-a-kind tattoos. Katya is dedicated to expanding the viewer’s ideas of what makes art “beautiful” while simultaneously engaging the strange or grotesque.

Festival Contributors

ABOUT DOUGLAS WALBOURNE-GOUGH

Douglas Walbourne-Gough is a poet and member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation from Corner Brook, Newfoundland. His first collection, Crow Gulch, was published with Goose Lane Editions in 2019, has been nominated for several awards, and won the 2021 EJ Pratt Poetry Award. He is currently working on his second collection, tentatively titled Island. Douglas’ current research interests centre around the Newfoundland Mi’kmaq experience in the wake of the Qalipu enrolment process. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing (UBC Okanagan) and is a PhD candidate in English/Creative Writing (UNB Fredericton).

ABOUT JAMES YARKER

Stan’s Cafe is a group of artists from a variety of disciplines, though primarily theatre practitioners, working under the artistic direction of James Yarker. James founded Stan’s Cafe with his friend Graeme in 1991 shortly after graduating from Lancaster University. Since then he has directed all the show’s major productions and writen text for them when required. He is occasionally asked to talk, run workshops and lecture. Along with Dr. Mark Crossley he is co-author of Devising Theatre With Stan’s Cafe published by Bloomsbury Methuen.

ABOUT DARREN WILLIAMS

Darren Williams is a British Columbia based saxophonist and bassoonist who pushes the limits of improvisation and extended instrumental technique into regions that are lyrical, terrifying, uncanny, and “more fun than spiked punch live” (Georgia Straight). Called “a raw, vocal explorer”, (Stuart Broomer, Musicworks, Downbeat) Darren has toured across Canada and has performed and recorded with many renowned musicians including Juno winning guitarist Gordon Grdina (Vancouver), Eugene Chadbourne (USA), Chris Corsano (NYC), Mats Gustafsson (Sweden), and Han Bennink (Netherlands). He is involved in numerous ensembles and projects, notably co-leading and composing for the free jazz quintet Robots On Fire, which performed at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Williams has also released a critically acclaimed album of his own solo compositions for tenor saxophone entitled Reed, which intersects composition, improvisation, and physical endurance using an array of extended instrumental techniques. Darren holds a BFA in music performance from York University and has studied with Casey Sokol, David Mott, George Lewis, and François Houle.

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Acknowledgements

Organizing the first SE-Change Festival would have been impossible without the help and support of others. We are extremely grateful to them all:

• The Festival contributors for their patience and generosity – without them, there would be no festival

• Andrew Stauffer for helping us to plan the Festival

• Kelowna Downtown Library for partnering with us and opening their doors to the Festival, and Jill Klaponski for making that happen

• Kim Buschert for helping us connect with documentaries from around the world

• Neil Cadger with the students who work with him for sharing their time and expertise as Festival volunteers

• Nick Sweeting who didn’t let an ocean of distance stop being a significant part of making the Festival happen.

• Susan Belton for sharing her expertise and time to guide our installations

• The Arts in the Atrium held at the Innovation Centre for welcoming the Festival into its space; and Brittney Atkinson for making the collaboration possible

Thank you.

Festival Organizers

From left:

Dayl Hancock, Roger Sugden, Allyssa Costerton-Grant, Malida Mooken, Kristi Carter, Marcela Valania, and Jamie Snow