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LAUNCH Festival Continues to Celebrate Vancouver’s Emerging Professional Artists

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In its second year, LAUNCH reveals 10 new artists & acts, from dance and music to film and performance

Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk

Host Warren Dean Flandez. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Host Warren Dean Flandez

LAUNCH Festival! is an interdisciplinary performance & mentorship showcase of Vancouver’s professional emerging artists.

2014 was the Festival’s second year. Presented by 149 Arts Society, which “dedicates itself to arts programming that is provocative in nature, and that serves to engage, challenge and inform.”

The society’s name is “inspired by Woodward’s Department’s $1.49 discount days and the strong sense of community commitment that Woodward’s continues to symbolize today.”

Hosted by singer Warren Dean Flandez

Host Warren Dean Flandez. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Host Warren Dean Flandez

And featuring artists:

Tegan Wahlgren

Tegan Wahlgren: The Canyon. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Tegan Wahlgren: The Canyon

Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien‘s “same same but different”

Mahaila Patterson-O'Brien: same same but different. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien: same same but different

Elizabeth Lewis Celeste and Kara Nolte

Elizabeth Lewis Celeste and Kara Nolte: ODEM: Opera di Conceristi e Meraviglie with First Dance Vancouver. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Elizabeth Lewis Celeste and Kara Nolte: ODEM: Opera di Conceristi e Meraviglie with First Dance Vancouver

Liz Cairns‘ film “Withering Heights”

Liz Cairns: Withering Heights. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Liz Cairns: Withering Heights

Subscura

Subscura: Spiders vs Moths. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Subscura: Spiders vs Moths

Connor Roff

Connor Roff: Summer Daze and Turning of the Tides. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Connor Roff: Summer Daze and Turning of the Tides

Minah Lee

Minah Lee and Terence Grigoruk: Excerpt from "We'll Need a Piece of Cake Before We Die". Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Minah Lee and Terence Grigoruk: Excerpt from “We’ll Need a Piece of Cake Before We Die”

Clara Shandler with Timothy Van Cleave

Clara Shandler with Timothy Van Cleave: Sidewalk Cellist. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Clara Shandler with Timothy Van Cleave: Sidewalk Cellist

Munira Mohamud

Munira Mohamud speaks with mentor Kevin Eastwood. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Munira Mohamud speaks with mentor Kevin Eastwood

Animal Atlas

Animal Atlas: The Healer and Flightless. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Animal Atlas: The Healer and Flightless

LAUNCH 2014! A showcase of talent happened on 20 June 2014 at the Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St, Vancouver BC.

For more info, see sfuwoodwards.ca/events/details/launch-2014-a-showcase-of-emerging-professional-artist

Tegan Wahlgren: The Canyon. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Tegan Wahlgren: The Canyon

And don’t miss our interviews with LAUNCH 2013 alumni, written by the fantastic duo Dillon and Justin Ramsey:
“Perpetual Motion: Dance Artist Meredith Kalaman”
“Medical Drama: Theatre Artist Yvette Lu”
“Feeling Visions: Choreographer Julianne Chapple”
“The Wide Perspective: Filmmaker Rami Katz”
“In The Loop: Musician Chersea”

Ash Tanasiychuk and the VANDOCUMENT team would like to thank Michael Boucher, Mallory Gallant, Caitlin Bryant, and the whole team behind LAUNCH for our partnership as media sponsor, and for all the incredible work they put in to this incredible project.

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Photo gallery of LAUNCH Festival 2014 by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

by Ash Tanasiychuk

Founder of VANDOCUMENT. Photographer, illustrator, lover and supporter of arts & culture.

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