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- Vancouver's performance art scene has
<5^ received a financial windfall with the
5 approval of a $20,000 grant from the
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Vancouver Foundation for the production of the LIVE Biennial of Perfor* - mance Art this fall.
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Seventeen Vancouver arts organisa^~ tions, including the Vancouver Art
Gallery and the Contemporary Art
•^ Gallery, are presenting the festival,
^ which runs Oct. 13 to Nov. 30, and
vyv focuses on solo performance by artists
from across Canada and the U.S.
Confirmed artists to date include
Alvin Tolentino, Rebecca Belmore, Judy
Radul, Michael Turner, Margo Kane,
Diane Landry, Victoria Stanton, Glenn
Lewis, Louise Moyes, Josie Tremblay,
Lorena Wolffer and Robert Ashley.
Vancouver has played a major part in
the development of performance art
since the 1960s.