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Under the Voicano

Youth event
set jor Cates
Park Aug. 14

Michael Becker _
RECORD REVIEW

EY KIDS! Looking for
some enlightenment
this Sunday?

There’s something rad hap-
pening at Cates Park. it’s called
the Under The Volcano Festival.
It’s your chance to collectively
fart in the general direction of
the Commonwealth Games.
You'll hear some slammin’
tunes. They’re even going to be
burning some flags.

The fifth annual festival is set
for 11 a.m. to 11 p.m, at Cates
Park in North Vancouver,
Admission is by donation,
Various artists will join with an
anticipated crowd of 7,000 te
explore the theme of “colonial-
ism on trial.”

The eruptive musical high-

-fights include:
P.O.W.E.R., from Portland
provides a hip-hop soundtrack
for world revolution;
@ Ache Brasil, Afro-Brasilian;
@ Bhullar and Party, South Asian
bhangra;
8 Kelly White, Coast Salish spo-
ken word performance;
i Insult to Injury, activist punk
rock;
@ Itch, hardcore;
@ Big Tall Garden, North Shore
folk-rock; and
Mi The Vinaegrettes, Victoria-
based folk-rock.

Embedded within the lava
flow of poetry and performance
art:

#2 Zolty Cracker;

Archer Pechawis;

@ The Slice Collective (street
youth poets);

& Mortal Coil (stilt dancers);

@ Pyrophilliacs (choreographed
flag burning); and

@ Medicine Wheel (Salish First
Nations youth). .

Among the heated dialectical
projectiles to be fobbed from the
crater’s mouth:

@ Lavina White (Haida elder);

@ Zapatista uprising;

@ Leonard Peltier and related
struggles;

B Vancouver Rape Relief;

@ neo-colonialism and the
changing nature of racism in
Canada;

Hl No Wealth Games interactive
Carnival.

Add to all of this an extensive
children’s area complete with an
Evelyn Roth storytelling volcano;
a Malcolm Lowry retrospective
display; a vegetarian kitchen;
theatre presented by Victoria
anarchists; and a herb walk
through the woods with a guy
named Cymba. |

We're talking a defining
moment of “yoot kuitcha.”

Let Irwin Oostindie, spokes-
fellow for the Under The
Volcano Festival explain:

Photo submitted

PORTLAND-BASED P,O.W.E.R bring revolutionary hip hop

Music Now: Do you see any
kind of kinship with what
Woodstock represented for
some people as a definin
moment for youth culture a
those years ago?

Oostindie: “1 would suggest
that this is the defining mornent
of our generation. Lollapalooza
might try to articulate itself as
the defining moment, but really
they’ve succumbed to the corpo-
rate music industry’s desire to
maximize profits from the youth
culture,

“What we're doing is trying to
give voice to different views and
educate young people on critical
issues that are dear to us - envi-
ronmental issues, land issues.
The earth is suffering in a major
way and it’s time to address
those issues.

“We're fusing rap music,
hardcore music, folk music with
the spoken word and getting
people together in a safe envi-
ronment and we don’t charge
$38.”

Music Now: Why the Common-
wealth Games target?

Oostindie: “When you have a
major public-government event
like the Commonwealth Games
or the Olympics or Expo, minori-
ty views are just washed over.

“The main focus people will
be hearing through speakers and
poetry and the music is the
Commonwealth Games and why

* messages to Cates Park on Sunday.

UNDER THE Voicano Fastival
director Irwin Oostindie

it can be wrong to celebrate this
idea that coionialism is a thing
of the past and now we're one
hig happy family of common-
wealth countries.

“It’s just not so. The games
present a very narrow viewpoint
of society’s views. We give otii-
ers an opportunity to be heard.
Music Now: Which flags will be
burning on Sunday?

Oostindie: “That has to be
seen, you can be sure that there
will be a beautiful and exciting
closing ceremony.”

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