Janey’s Arcadia Performance/ Action in Gastown, Vancouver

Group polyvocal performance/action by the Gassy Jack statue in Gastown, Vancouver, September 27, 2014. Voices: Muriel Marjorie, reading the February 14, 2014, list of missing and murdered Downtown Eastside Vancouver women; Cecily Nicholson, reading the poem “Vocabulary to Come” from Janey’s Arcadia; Natalie Knight, reading poems from Marie Annharte Baker’s book Indigena Awry; and Danielle LaFrance and Rachel Zolf, reading voices from the poem “What Women Say of the Canadian Northwest” from Janey’s Arcadia. Documentation footage by Arlene Bowman, with secondary audio by Aaron Vidaver.