Before presenting our proposal of the festival, I would like to introduce and clarify a few concept/issues that we will explore and address in our performance festival.
Dislocation, Diaspora, Displacement, & Creating The New Village
- Disturbance from a proper, original, or usual place or state
- Be displaced: force to leave their home, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster
- Challenges & Conditions: resettlement, surviving, surrounding by the unfamiliar, struggle to be assimilated, loss connection to the past
Colonizing migration Vs. Displaced person. In the context of Vancouver’ history, the powerful one to the new place, is not the one been displaced.- Power shift, invasion, replace, be displaced , who is the dominated, and who is the minority to resign ( struggle to retain?)
- From colonialism to Globalism in a consumerist & economic driven society
“From the dawn of human civilization the dominant organizing principle for everything done that
is considered of value is the production of something to be consumed, traded, or sold. The definition of what is worthy work, the merit of an individual doing such work, and the potential for an organization to focus the efforts of many to accomplish great deeds are based on producing something deemed of value as the outcome. However, the underlying the
me of the Industrial Age is the displacement of people from paid work by technology. …..recent history is replete with examples of worker displacement and its negative consequences on the self-image and self-worth of the individual in modern society.
—— Excerpted from “Globalization & Displacement”
- Disintegrated / Polarized Society V.S. Multi-Cultured, Integrated Society —– Is the New Village a dream, A
propaganda delusion, a paradox, or A Goal to fight for?
History, Social hierarchy, who is the dominated? who is less power?
—- will you recognize the contribution of the bottom class for the country? say, the black people?
—– In the context of Vancouver, what do you think of other culture? will you bother to get to know more about it except going to the ethic restaurant regularly?
—— multi-culture, the consumable/ the tourist attraction…
- From here to where… Disjoint the double identity, Assimilation, Sense of Belonging, Hope to Return, Integrity…
There is a very good biography animation PERSEPOLIS about an Iranian-French girl’s coming to the age stories. The film may not strictly finger point to the topic here, but it present vividly the bitterness and struggles of defining herself and her root, as many other immigrant have.
