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SEPTEMBER 6TH 10AM-4PM

~ LIVE MUSIC 'The SandCats' ~
Sunday Sept. 5th 8:30 til late

"THE SANDCATS"
Funk, Mellow Jazz, Bosa Nova, Lounge & More..

NEW ART SHOW
STARTING SUNDAY SEPT. 5th
~ LEEF EVANS ~

Biography

I suffer from depression. All attempts at biography come back to this. Everything else is ancillary. I experience massive onsets of depression without warning and without any measurable frequency. As such, these bouts have interrupted and destroyed large pockets of my life, pockets that most people see as inviolate and safe.

I became homeless seemingly out of the blue. I had an apartment, a car, a job. But then I became ill. When I was released from hospital it was literally right out onto the streets.

I don’t imagine I am unique. I think everyone’s life is just a couple weeks away from catastrophic failure. It only takes a stumble and anyone can find themselves without permanent shelter and the inherent security that is found in a home. I bounced from hospitals to shelters to hospitals to shelters to whatever was at hand.

Ironically, I found my feet when I came to the Downtown East Side. I found a refuge of sorts in The Living Room, and especially in the people who work there. I’ve spent the subsequent years getting better: more grounded, more stable. I’ve made a choice to get back to the things I love: soccer, poetry, art. The art in particular provides a physical therapy that supercedes even the regimen of medication and counseling I am subject to. Without the art I imagine I would not be as well as I am.

Leef Evans went to University in South Carolina on a soccer scholarship. He majored in English and History, giving little or no thought to art.

He wrote a book of Poetry in Winnipeg. Turnstone Press published Thrum in 1994.

He wrote a book of Poetry in Vancouver. Soft Cinnamon Press published Angels From Some Sweeter Hell in 1999.

Evans’ Mental Health became more and more of a concern in the new millennium. Writing became problematic. He was hospitalized on numerous occasions and foundered into poverty and homelessness.

He discovered painting in 2005 and has found some measure of health and well-being as a result.

He now paints out of the Coast Resource Centre and the Gallery Gachet.

NOW SHOWING
DYLAN DAVENPORT
& Gabe Cipes

Painting by Dylan Davenport

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PIMMS No 1: Tanquery gin, Pimms Liqueur, pink grapefruit juice, cucumber, basil & topped with gingerale.

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COCO LOCO: Cuervo tequila, bacardi rum, triple sec, pineapple juice, brown sugar, shaken with coconut milk, dusted with cinnamon.

GARDEN RETREATS: Maker's mark bourbon, splash of galliano liqueur, kiwi and rhubarb puree, egg white, topped with soda.

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