Event

In Passing

For Remembrance Day weekend, Astrolabe Musik Theatre, Tara Cheyenne Performance, visual artist SD Holman and Heritage Vancouver present a multi-disciplinary meditation on mourning and mortality at the Western Front. Contemporary music, dance, visual art, and built heritage come together to shed light on a little known aspect of the venue: its use by the secret society Knights of Pythias to prepare its members' bodies for burial.

Heritage Vancouver's cemetery expert Maurice Guibord begins with a walking tour, revealing the Front's fascinating hidden histories and secret spaces.

Photo-based artist SD Holman presents the intimate and poignant installation Still Life, a memorial piece to her wife Catherine White Holman, who died in a float plane crash off Saturna Island in 2009.

Tara Cheyenne Performance offers The Three Widows, danced by Alison Denham, Bevin Poole and Kim Tuson, a look at three widows of differing ages, conjoined by their skirt(s) and struggling to support each other in mourning and escape the impossibility of moving on.

Astrolabe Musik Theatre presents Heather Pawsey, soprano and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano, performing Apparition, George Crumb's powerful evocation of death choreographed by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg; and the world premiere of composer Leslie Uyeda's Pas de Deux - What We Heard About Death, on text by Rachel Rose.

Performances Nov. 12 and 13, 8pm.
Tickets $25/$18

Visual Arts installation free and open to the public Nov. 11-12 noon-5, and with ticket during Nov. 12-13 showtimes.