MAINSTREETERS: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 surveys the history of a gang of Vancouver artists who lived and worked together in drama, excess, friendship and grief. From 1972 until roughly 1982, they lived along Main Street, the traditional dividing line between the city's working-class immigrant eastside and its more affluent westside. Core members––Kenneth Fletcher, Deborah Fong, Carol Hackett, Marlene MacGregor, Annastacia McDonald, Charles Rea, Jeanette Reinhardt and Paul Wong––engaged in ambitious collaborative media and performance work that charts the rapidly shifting social terrain of the city.

Cast

Paul Wong

Self

Kenneth Fletcher

Self

Carol Hackett

Self

Deborah Fong

Self

Marlene MacGregor

Self

Annastacia McDonald

Self

Charles Rea

Self

Jeanette Reinhardt

Self

Michael Turner

Interviewer

Allison Collins

Interviewer