Cease Wyss Bringing Shadows Into Light

Video Premiere
BRINGING SHADOWS INTO LIGHT (2007)
Saturday November 3, 12pm – 2:30pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
401 Main

Addiction happens in all communities and social classes: it is everyone’s problem – a symptom of larger social challenges and issues. We all have a part in this story. In Bringing Shadows Into Light, filmmaker Cease Wyss takes us on a community’s journey to face today’s growing tidal wave of addiction. Along the way, she encounters the creativity, talent, courage and humanity of the unique inner city community of the Downtown Eastside. For over two years, hundreds of people from different backgrounds and cultures shared stories and images to help create a giant-screen shadow play. Directors, composers, designers and over seventy Downtown Eastside involved artists and residents joined this journey into the shadows, to shed light on the roots of addiction and recovery. Before the screening of the documentary, Aline Lafleme and Daughters of the Drum will sing a song to honour Cease Wyss and her work. A Squamish media artist, educator, curator and activist whose work weaves itself thorough a variety of communities, Cease was assisted in the project by editing and story consultant Patty Fraser. The screening will be followed by archival footage of We’re All In This Together: The Shadows Project. Discussion to follow, the filmmaker will be in attendance. Presented in cooperation with Cease Fire Productions, the Roundhouse Community Centre and Vancouver Moving Theatre. Free