Ever lived next door to a performance art space? I have. For four years I lived across the patio from Highways Performance Space in the 18th Street Arts Complex (now "Center) in Santa Monica, Calif. Four nights a week, 100 people showed up to applaud, stomp, cheer, boo and participate in some of the noisiest art ever produced. I couldn't really complain since it was mostly my fault: Tim Miller and I founded the space. It's in a teeny, tiny "arts and industrial zone" carved out of a residential neighborhood, and our neighbors were eminently sanguine about it.

But it is not always so. "Waking Up the Neighbours: Cultural Venues and their Neighbours" is an upcoming (11/30/07) Cultural Research Salon by the Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities at Simon Frasier University in in Vancouver, B.C.

Mark Pickersgill, (planner, Corporation of Delta; live music editor, Streethawk Magazine) and Margaret Watts, (Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre) will lead the salon, asking :
What are the external effects that cultural spaces and venues can have on communities?
What are the planning and policy dynamics that underlie this?
What are the barriers and opportunities created by land use policies, large-scale cultural initiatives, bylaws, liquor laws, and varying community expectations?
How (or is) programming shaped by externalities such as noise and other community expectations?

It's happening 2-4 p.m., Room 2065 Diamond Alumni Lounge, (SFU), Harbour Centre Campus. Seating is limited, so reserve.

"Waking Up the Neighbours"
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