Storymaker Dave uncleweed Olson shares an eclectic variety of stories from Vancouver’s counter-culture history on a stage adorned with a record player, campfire & cub scout blanket, art easel, flowers and an Expo 86 mug – plus pulls artifacts from an old-timey suitcase to illustrate forgotten past of a city which is/was much cooler than most realize.

Presented at Northern Voice, June 2013 in Vancouver, Canada, his 11th presentation to this noted personal expression conference (and his last talk before a medical “retirement”).

Filmed by Bruce Sharpe and Andrew Lavigne
Edited, Directed, Produced by Andrew Lavigne (also: With Glowing Hearts and Generation Social).

Music: Derek K Miller (RIP) “(You’re the) Big Sky”

 Topics:

• Frederick Varley – Group of 7 painter who lived in Vancouver for 10 years
• Grateful Dead – (tried to) play free shows at Second Beach and Kits Beach in 1966
• Bob Masse psychedelic poster artist
• Gastown Riots, March on Blaine, Rock Against Racism
• bev. davies – rock n roll photographer, community chronicler, punk rock mom
• Blues in Vancouver – Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee at the Bunkhouse
• Vancouver punk rock glory days DIY spirit and fanzines (+ final days of The Clash and importance of ephemera)
• Clayoquot Sound logging blockades
• Jake Milford and the Canucks recruiting Swedish players in the 1970s
• United Empire Loyalists + Burner Boys bringing jam band culture
• Venues of note: Afterthought, Retinal Circus, York Theatre, the Cave, the Bunkhouse
• Cubscout campfire blankets
• Howard Hughes, Errol Flynn
• ++ bits of Kris Krug, Bob Kronbauer, Rebecca Bollwitt, Dan Mangan, Jason Vanderhill and campfire helpers: Mark Blevis, Kemp Edmonds, John Biehler, James Lester, Ariane Colenbrander, Nicholas Demers

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