32 min
Gastown w/ Sophia Mapping East Van
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- Arts
All creating, including of East Van as a location, is upon the sovereign Lands, Waters, and Air stewarded by the Stó:lō, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. This map specifically focusses on the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh village site Lek'Leki, colonially settled as Gastown.
Mapping East Van
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[cover ID: digitally hand-written light blue text says "MAPPING EAST VAN" on the top above "W/ Sophia Boutsakis" below in all caps. The text overlays a photograph of Sophia’s mural that is cropped to the white board it was painted on and a thin black outline of the window frame around. The centre is the evil eye in traditional colors, from outward to inward is ultramarine blue, white, thinner sky blue ring and a black pupil at the centre. End of ID]
This is a map of East Van, and in no way is it objective. No map is. Maps are collections for stories of violence. So too, can maps hold tales of resistance, those who know that a story told can never die.
I'm Mickey Morgan, I use they/them pronouns, I'm a cartographer and translator and listener and storyteller. This map we’re making is composed in a matrix of stories shared using various media and is part of a few inter-connected projects like a zine, an open source map, and a podcast, but primarily these are ways to understand mapping as storytelling (and vice versa). This matrixed map is with the ultimate goal to encourage the idea of neighbourly-ness that entails not only basic kindness and respect but also mutual accountability, strengthened relations, and points for resistance and solidarity to flourish.
Thanks so much Sophia for sharing some stories and chatting with me! Her instagram is @SophiaBoutsakis
Thank youu Sylvia Wrath for the music!! Check out their album
The totality of the writing by T'uy't'tanat
Other cited sources:
vanmuralfest.ca/faq
scoutmagazine.ca
You can also check out the Open Source East Van map that goes with this project, please feel free to add stories of East Van you know, but do not delete anyone else's: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m…574642280118&z=14
Finally, heres the series put out by ECUAD that this is partially in response to with my position as a Programming Research Assistant blogs.eciad.ca/creativeknowledgesharing/
All creating, including of East Van as a location, is upon the sovereign Lands, Waters, and Air stewarded by the Stó:lō, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. This map specifically focusses on the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh village site Lek'Leki, colonially settled as Gastown.
Mapping East Van
Accessibility: timestamped transcript
[cover ID: digitally hand-written light blue text says "MAPPING EAST VAN" on the top above "W/ Sophia Boutsakis" below in all caps. The text overlays a photograph of Sophia’s mural that is cropped to the white board it was painted on and a thin black outline of the window frame around. The centre is the evil eye in traditional colors, from outward to inward is ultramarine blue, white, thinner sky blue ring and a black pupil at the centre. End of ID]
This is a map of East Van, and in no way is it objective. No map is. Maps are collections for stories of violence. So too, can maps hold tales of resistance, those who know that a story told can never die.
I'm Mickey Morgan, I use they/them pronouns, I'm a cartographer and translator and listener and storyteller. This map we’re making is composed in a matrix of stories shared using various media and is part of a few inter-connected projects like a zine, an open source map, and a podcast, but primarily these are ways to understand mapping as storytelling (and vice versa). This matrixed map is with the ultimate goal to encourage the idea of neighbourly-ness that entails not only basic kindness and respect but also mutual accountability, strengthened relations, and points for resistance and solidarity to flourish.
Thanks so much Sophia for sharing some stories and chatting with me! Her instagram is @SophiaBoutsakis
Thank youu Sylvia Wrath for the music!! Check out their album
The totality of the writing by T'uy't'tanat
Other cited sources:
vanmuralfest.ca/faq
scoutmagazine.ca
You can also check out the Open Source East Van map that goes with this project, please feel free to add stories of East Van you know, but do not delete anyone else's: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m…574642280118&z=14
Finally, heres the series put out by ECUAD that this is partially in response to with my position as a Programming Research Assistant blogs.eciad.ca/creativeknowledgesharing/
32 min