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The band’s name maybe Snowy Owl, but this group of all female First Nations drummers and singers lead by singer/poet/drummer Dalannah Gail Bowen can warm your heart as they did during the Heart of The City Festival on October 31, 2010. Music In The Street is a program made up of three musical groups: Snowy Owl Drummers, Deet Streets, a new upbeat six-piecve street band lead by trombonist Brad Muirhead and singer Beverly Dorrinsky conducting the Carnegie Village Choir. These musicians are dedicated members of a musical movement committed to training, mentoring and performing with local residents to serve the Downtown East Side (DTES) communities of Victory Square, Gastown, Chinatown, Oppenheimer Park and Strathcona. The Snowy Owl, Deet Street and Carnegie Village Choir can be seen and heard performing daily during the festival along Hastings, Main and Carrall street in the heart of the city of Vancouver.













Pigeon Park, 1 Hastings Street West, Vancouver BC

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Bernadine Fox is an artist/painter/writer/teacher whose life-long work is for women and about the female gender living in a modern world. Though she sometimes paints flowers and other still life but life is not a bed of roses for her. Her work ‘Not My Love[r]’ on display at the Inter-Urban Gallery from Oct 26 to Nov 13, 2010 explores the broken heart and the sadness and painfulness of having to walk away from love. In many ways, Bernadine Fox’s work reflects the harsh reality facing the single woman living in the Downtown East Side. That makes her the perfect artist in residence that spring out of community with hope, renewal and what it means to be alive.



Inter-Urban Gallery, 1 Hastings Street East, Vancouver BC

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Vancouver City Councillor Heather Deal (r) presented a City of Vancouver proclamation ‘Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Day’ to Terry Hunter (l) and Gena Thompson (m).

St. James Music Academy children’s choir

Carnegie Community Centre where the Heart of The City Festival 2010 at Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) opening ceremony was held on October 27, 2010.

Heart of the City landmark, corner of Hastings & Main street

Lieutenant-Governor of BC Steven Point with First Nations Git Hayetsk dance group and Ethel Whitty showing the Lieutenant-Governor around.

Lieutenant-Governor of BC The Honorable Steven Point was given a book

Jenny Kwan, MLA, Vancouver Mount Pleasant.

Stephen Lytton and Carnegie Village Choir

Git Hayetsk First Nations Dance Group

Git Hayetsk First Nations band performed a Victory dance

Git Hayetsk First Nations band

Git Hayetsk First Nations Victory Dance

Git Hayetsk First Nations band with down feather flying around

Dalannah Gail Bowen, a First Nations poet recites poetry

St. James Music Academy after a satisfying performance. They could be future stars

St. James Music Academy choir under a banner of Dream, Dignity, Trust, Love and more

Entrance to Carnegie Community Centre with Heart of The City festival banner

Carnegie Community Centre, Main & Hastings street, Vancouver Canada

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The 7th Annual Heart of The City Festival celebrates Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) with a whole series of programs to promote, present and facilitate the development of artists, art forms, cultural traditions, history, activism and to tell the great stories of this particular area.

The Downtown East Side consists of a network of diverse communities. Area landmarks include the Carnegie Community Centre, historic Vancouver Chinatown, Dr. Sun Yet-San Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society, W2 Storyeum in the heart of Gastown, Oppenheimer Park, Firehall Arts Theatre, Ukrainian Hall, St. James Anglican Church, Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall, Eastside Murals, First United Church, Vancouver Police Museum etc.

The opening ceremony will be held at the Carnegie Theatre on October 27 at 2 PM. As often the case with many cultural festivals in Vancouver these days, there will be a First Nations song and dance celebration at the theatre stage at night from 7:30-9:30 PM with The Git Hayetsk Dancers performing.

The organizers of the event include the Vancouver Moving Theatre, Carnegie Community Centre, the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians and other community partners. There will be over 80 events at 25 venues. Please visit 2010 Heart of The City Festival (October 27 to November 07, 2010) for programs and details.

VIDEO – Git Hayetsk Dancers performance at Klahowya Village

Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main Street, Vancouver

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