The Powell Street Festival presents
CHEZ D
Migration Foods by Artists Donning Chef Hats
Special performance by Vancouver's favourite Asian conceptual synth group Guimauves
May 31, 2010 - 7:00pm
150-3500 Moncton Street, Steveston Village in Richmond
Tickets $35 - $40 (advance purchase only)
604.683.8240 or http://www.powellstreetfestival.com
Local artists trade their instruments and paint brushes for chef hats in Chez D, where art and cuisine meet in a tantalizing feast for the senses.
For one night only, artists normally accustomed to wowing audiences in theatres and galleries will don their chef hats and coats at Gudrun Tasting Room in Steveston and create new works of edible art celebrating the theme of migration.
Commissioned by the Powell Street Festival, Chez D artists will plate delicacies in a five-course menu that pays homage to ethnic roots, migratory paths (the ‘D’ stands for ‘Diaspora’), new lands, family restaurants and neighbourhood survival foods. As event curator Michael Speier puts it, Chez D presents “a meal full of strong cross currents and pollinations here at the tastebud’s edge of the Pacific Ocean.”
Chez D artists include Open Sesame (Michael Speier), Komodo House (Margaret Gallagher and Angela Wan), Patrick Tubajon (Gudrun Tasting Room), Ari Tomita, and Cynthia Low & Leslie Komori. Each candlelit course will be accompanied by a design element representative of the artist’s discipline, as well as the “mallow dinner music” of local music innovators Guimauves.
Chez D takes place at Gudrun Tasting Room (150-3500 Moncton Street) on May 31, 2010. Doors open at 7:00pm and the tasting commences at 7:30pm. Tickets are $35 - $40 and can be obtained through advance purchase only.
For tickets or more information, call 604.683.8240, email [email protected], or visit http://www.powellstreetfestival.com.
The Powell Street Festival Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia, and the community support of ExplorAsian.
