If you don't riot, you can't complain

Michael Barnholden



June 24, July 22



If you don't riot, you can't complain

This walk will include sites of the anti-Asiatic Riot of 1907 from
Hastings and Westminster (now Main) through Chinatown's Market,
Shanghai and Canton Alleys, then through Nihon Bachi or "Little
Yokohama" along Powell Street; the Free Speech riots of 1912 when
police attacked Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) in the
Powell Street grounds; and Maple Tree Square, site of the infamous 1971
Police Riot also known as the Gastown Riot.



Meet at Artspeak at 2pm.

Vancouver writer Michael Barnholden is the author of Gabriel Dumont
Speaks (Talon Books 1993), On The Ropes (Coach House Books 1997) and
Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Riots in Vancouver (Anvil
Press 2005). He is currently the managing editor of West Coast Line.





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Territory, June 10 - August 6, is a visual art project concerned with
mapping urban experience, civic space and contested terrains. The
project includes installations at Artspeak and Presentation House
Gallery as well as in public sites around Vancouver, guided walks,
lectures, a film series, and publication.



For more information please visit presentationhousegall.com