A production by Creative Cultural Collaborations Society in partnership with
Vancouver Moving Theatre

Writer / Director
Gordon McLennan

Producer
Esther Rausenberg

Project Concept
Gordon McLennan

Researchers
Gordon McLennan
Esther Rausenberg

Project Consultant
Wayde Compton

Writers
Bertha Clark – “Vie’s Chicken and Steaks”
Kevan Cameron – “Jimi and Nora”

Storytellers

Reese Alexander
Kevan Cameron
Bertha Clark
Marquisse du Monde
Carrie Gibson

Dana Matthews
Teeanna Munro
Adrian Neblett
Vanessa Richards
Storma Sire

Camera / Editor
Maksim Bentsianov

Website
Maksim Bentsianov
Igor Barbashin

Signage Graphic Design
Maksim Bentsianov

Photoshop
Clark Henderson

Jimi Hendrix Drawing
Richard Tetrault

Audio Post Production
Jeff Yellen

Social Media Marketing
Gerry Sung

Archival Film and Photographs
Vancouver Sun
Canadian Pacific Archives
City of Vancouver Archives
Opta Information Intelligence
Vancouver Public Library
Royal BC Museum, BC Archives
CBC Vancouver

Special Thanks

John Atkin
Wendy Au
Kate Bird
Anthony Brown
Sheilagh Cahill
Barbara Chirinos
Randy Clark
Eleanor Collins
Brenda Crump
Robert Crump
Ronald Crump
Lovena Fox
Chic Gibson
Jeff Gibson
Thelma Gibson
Barbara Howard
Terry Hunter
Carole Itter
Carolyn Jerome

James Johnstone
Caroline Jerome
Marcella King
Adeline Lane
Leonard Lane
Lenora Lane
Desiree Larose
Sterling Larose
Valerie Mason-John
Judith Maxie
Colin Preston
Vanessa Richards
Marsha Regis
Sy Risby
Tom Sandborn
Bob Sarti
Richard Tetrault
Savannah Walling
Klaus Westera

Funding Provided by
Vancouver Foundation
City of Vancouver
Province of BC
BAND – Black Artist’s Networks Dialogue
Strathcona BIA
TB Bank – Then and Now

 

Historical chronology courtesy of Vancouver Moving Theatre
Written by Savannah Walling
Originally printed in Spirit Rising Festival and East End Blues & All That Jazz program guide (February 2011).