Hogan’s Alley
Item
Archival Related
- Theme
- Labour
- Repository
- VIVO Media Arts Centre
- Fonds
- SVES Fonds
- Series
- Video Out
- Identifier
- 1993
- Title
- Hogan’s Alley
- Object
- Videotape, MP4
- Year
- 1994
- Decade (Time)
- 1990s
- Description
- This video documents the previously unrecorded history of Vancouver s Black community, specifically Hogan s Alley, between 1930 and the late 1960s. The tape examines the lives of three Black women. Thelma Gibson is an African-Caribbean dance teacher who recalls the era with nostalgia. Pearl Brown is a well known local jazz singer who speaks about working in the chicken houses flanking Hogan s Alley. Leah Curtis is a lesbian in her mid-forties, whose history as an abused child is interconnected with her experience as a child worker in the gambling houses of Papa White. The videotape investigates the identities of these women, as well as the identities of a disappeared community.
- Demographics
- Black Canadians, Dancer, Singer, LGBTIQ+, Vancouver-BC,
- Provenance
- Copy adquired by Video Out and Video In Studios for distribution and archives from Cornelia Wyngaarden and Andrea Fatona
- Relevance
- Artists curators digging further into the Canadian Black History and Heritage
- Access Rights
- Requieres access/permission by the creators
Land
- Nations & Geographical Region
- MST, Strathcona, Vancouver-BC
Labour
- Labour Categories
- Artists*, Entertaiment industry workers* Non-Union
- Indigenous labour in the sector
- Not Specified.
Representing Data Through Technology
- Technology
- Digital file derive from a 3/4 inch Umatic videotape copy.
- Type of Creator
- Non-commercial producers with connection to the community and access to low-cost audiovisual equipment [ASK ANDREA]
Union Action and Response
- Union Support
- Non-Union
- Labour Strategies
- N/A
- Employer Strategies
- N/A
- Community Support
- N/A
- Resource class
- Moving Image
Interpretive Analysis
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