paint your faith

It is with great pleasure to present to the city of Vancouver, the community of the downtown east side and the rest of the world with an amazing piece of collaborative art work created by Indigo (http://indigosadventures.wordpress.com/), Titi Freak http://www.tfreak.com/, Faith47 (http://www.faith47.com/) and Peeta (http://www.peeta.net/).

On April 28th, we hosted a reveal to press, First United Mission stakeholders and staff, the public and friends from the neighbourhood.  First Mission United (http://firstunited.ca/) announced an amazing building project that will help them continue the amazing work they already do in the DTES.

If you live in Vancouver or are visiting please get down to the corner of W.Hastings St. and Abbott and view this spectacular piece of art work.

Visit us at www.paintyourfaith.com and leave a comment and share this with friends for your chance to win a print from one of the artists.  We will be giving four people a chance to win one piece.

Paint Your Faith Vancouver Mural Completed

The Paint Your Faith artists are going to have a documentary crew dogging their heels as they put up a piece on a wall at 55 West Hastings. I’m excited to be directing this shoot in Vancouver’s downtown east side. There will be lots of great visuals. But a couple things worry me. It’s not shooting in the DTES that worries me, it’s shooting across the border. You see, the wall on W Hastings is 130 feet long by 13 feet tall – that’s a lot of wall, meaning they need a lot of paint. So Alan and a couple of the artists will be going across the border to buy paint in Seattle – hundreds and hundreds of cans. Sending in a camera crew to follow them is a headache because our cousins south of the border like to have us hire local film crews. When you’re an independent film crew, you can never predict how the border officials react. A friend’s crew – with their letters of accreditation and all – recently got turned back. I’ll keep you posted as to how we get around this.