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reSOLVE
January 2000
Marpole Warehouse #1
Our
4th event was held in the same grungy little warehouse
that we held our previous event, Night
At The Copa (8805 Selkirk Street at West 72nd
Avenue), in the heart of Marpole's apartment neighbourhood.
Laurie
Macdonald performs at Resolve.
Photo by Brenda Wheatley
Resolve
featured
another great set of covers by local singer/songwriter,
Laurie MacDonald and acapella by our duo,
Michelle Shepherd and Rinat De Picciotto.
Jeffrey
A Gibson's table at Resolve.
Photo by Brenda Wheatley
Several
large-scale recent paintings by local painter, Jeffrey
A Gibson, brought to life the bleak warehouse
walls that evening and an artist statement, tied in
well to our "Resolve" theme, was delivered
by our emcee, Kathleen
Boddington.
Laurie
Macdonald performs at Resolve.
Photo
by Brenda Wheatley
Spoken
word for the evening was performed by Tracey
Martin; DJ for the evening was Ed
"Jetboy" Klassen.
Jeffrey
A Gibson's table at Resolve.
Photo by Brenda Wheatley
Our
Review:
Our
best attended event to date, Resolve was our first
event of 2000 and held late enough in January when
people were itching for the promises of Spring, adjusting
to the year in all of its four-digits, and seeking
excitement after all the over-hyped doomsday predictions
and a rather uneventful Y2K.
As
literal themes can quickly become financially overwhelming
and time-consuming, Resolve was a more figurative
or implicit theme.
Looking
back, we, the
co-founders of Beautiful House, have learned
alot about what keeps us motivated as we enter our
3rd year of special event production.
We
both believe that the phone calls, meetings, emails,
artist submission process, event promotion, and execution
of each of our events from setup to strike requires
that we work well with each other and with everybody
involved - from our relationships with venue landlords,
volunteers, crew, and soundpeople, to hand-picking
artists with a positive vibe for our souls.
Leadership
is about making decisions, even when there are pros
and cons to a choice - even when we are being pulled
in many other directions - learning to trust our gut
instinct and follow our
concept and vision are among the things we
at Beautiful House continue to Resolve. Thank you
to all who have supported and encouraged us thus far!
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