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Everyone is asking you to be creative, but you don’t feel very creative. “I need some art in my life,” you think to yourself. But art is kind of incomprehensible, intimidating even. First, if you’re a human being, you *are* creative. Second, you *do* need more art in...

Presenter: Meg Middelstedt | Topic: In Defense of Story: Safeguarding Story in a Consumer Society | Meg has worked for the NFB, written for the Tyee, has a Masters of Journalism from UBC, and has produced pieces for the CBC. (And, apparently, all of her professional credits rhyme.)

Now, Tasai is pretty weird confluence of things: Japan, Canada, art, entrepreneurship and all as a starting place to connect artists all over the world. I was rather excited to find CL is about this same weird confluence of things. Different city, different inflection, but so much the same.

Artists + Entrepreneurs. Meaningful conversations about stuff that matters to you. March 06, 2015. 19:30-21:30. 1810 Pine Street, Vancouver.

February 13, 2015. Doors open @ 18:30. 1810 Pine Street.
Inquiry. Connection. Beauty. Possibility. In the city.

EXHIBITION OPENING: Thursday, Nov. 27th. 7:00 pm | Performances by: Poem Droids Only / Ben Frost Trio / WNDFRM //// INTERACTIVE ART EXTRAVAGANZA: Friday, Nov. 28th. 7:00pm | poetry / drawing / calligraphy / projection / audio

And the truth, deep down, is that we all feel as though we’re just winging it. “I have written 11 books,” said the late Maya Angelou, who was renowned as a novelist, poet, and memoirist, “but each time, I think ‘Uh-oh. They’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.’” Angelou was a remarkable talent, but she was equally remarkable in being willing to admit that she didn’t usually feel that way.

City Trees was originally published in 2003. There’s a lot I’d probably change if I went back to it with an editor’s eye, but I’ll refrain and leave it as it is. It’s a bit obtuse in places, elliptical in others, but overall playful and poetic and I like it’s whimsey.

I wrote a book about lament, so I might be a bit biased, but I find grief and lament turning up a lot lately as important antidotes to many of the diseases of our modern western culture, not the least of which is a severe deficit of meaning.

Japan is a beautiful country, don’t you think?” he said, beginning his talk. “But it’s not because Japan designs beautiful things. I think it’s because Japan designs harmony amongst those things…“Harmony is to be valued” (和を以て貴しとなす) he said, invoking a phrase from the Seventeen-Article Constitution set forth by Prince Shōtoku in the 7th century.

I think “creative” people are integrated people. They are holistic thinkers. They are facile at integrating analytic thinking and contextual thinking, what I would call object-thinking and place-thinking.

That’s why, when you scratch under the surface of the shiny happy condo marketing version of Vancouver, you find people who operate within progressive well intentioned organizations that in turn operate within a progressive well intentioned cultural ethos and yet find themselves a jittery jumble of tenuous identities, their days marked with fragmentation, busy-ness, and to a great extent, loneliness.

With all the bullshit going on in the world right now, the fact that a roomful of adults stood transfixed for even a few moments in this still and graceful peace while beauty unfolded before our very eyes…it just makes me hopeful. Can’t help it. It just does.