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Member: Vancouver Moving Theatre
East End Blues & All That Jazz
A soul-stirring evening of gospel and blues, jazz and memories celebrating the historic black community of Vancouver's East End
Feb 18-20, 2011
Fri. and Sat. 8 pm
Sun. matinee, 2 pm
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Member: Gallery Gachet
Salish Seas: An Anthology of Text + Image
The Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast publication, Salish Seas: An Anthology of Text + Image will be launched at the Salish Seas exhibition closing, featuring a number of writers form the collective including Garry Gottfriedson and Michelle Sylliboy.
Sat Feb. 26 6pm
Gallery Gachet. 88 E. Cordova
Link for more information.
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Member:Carnegie Association
Documentaries for Thinkers
Free documentaries covering subjects seldom covered by mainstream media.
Documentary Film:
What in the world are they spraying!
Refreshments served with a lecture by John St. John from England.
Sat Feb. 12 6pm
Carnegie Centre Theatre
Shows every Saturday night EXCEPT the first Sat of every month. Often Q&A sessions from the producers attending.
Documentaries announced at beginning of month on posters at the Carnegie Centre and in the Carnegie Newsletter.
More information contact Colleen Carroll
colleencarroll1961@yahoo.com
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Member: Mary Gavan
Stories for Adults
Listen! Laugh! Enjoy! Stories told by nationally recognized tellers on the themes of Chaos and the Celtic Ash Tree.
Sun Feb 20 7 - 9 pm
Web site: www.vancouverstorytellers.ca
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Julie Lebel, choreographer resident at Creekside Community Centre is seeking participants to create a Stroller Dance Flash Mob to be performed on Mar 19.
Learning workshops :
Fri, Feb 25 1-2:30pm
Sat, Mar 5 9:30-11am
Thu, Mar 17 1-2:30pm
Click here for more information.
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Enterprising Women Making Art (EWMA) program of Atira Women's Resource Society
Eastside Friday's: Valentine's Day Celebration
Come join us for the Eastside Friday's Valentine's Celebration an evening of stories and music at the EWMA store. Come and meet our artists and support their work. Find hidden treasures for your special valentine.
802 East Hastings near Hawks.
Fri Feb 11 6pm-9pm
Check us out on Facebook or Twitter
http://www.atira.bc.ca/womenmakingart.html
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Member: Maggie Winston
The Hard Times Hit Parade with the Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret
Hard Times Hit Parade is a theatrical dance marathon set in a worldreminiscent of 1930s. Reflecting the economic hardship of our present time,
this full-length theatre production is chalk-a-block with swing dance, cabaret, live music, puppetry and surprise.
Feb 24-Mar 19 Th-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm
Russian Hall 800 Campbell Ave
www.dustyflowerpot.org
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If you can help volunteer on hosting, organizing, or promoting community arts events, please contact info@cacv.ca
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Neighbourhood Matching Fund
If you, or someone you know, has an idea for a capital project in your neighbourhood, the Neighbourhood Matching Fund wants to hear from you!
The Neighbourhood Matching Fund supports projects by neighbourhood-based groups who want to make creative improvements to local public land. It supports projects which actively involve people in developing community and building neighbourhood connections while improving parks or other public spaces. The Vancouver Park Board will supply funds up to $10,000 to match the contribution the community makes through other funds raised, donated supplies, or volunteer labour.
The next deadline is April 15, 2011.
More information http://vancouver.ca/parks/arts/nmf/index.htm
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Greetings!
This year, 2011, marks the 20th anniversary of the February 14th Women's Memorial March in Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Led by Aboriginal women and elders, this gathering honours the memory of women who have been murdered or disappeared, and brings public attention to ongoing issues of violence against women in the neighbourhood. The annual march also serves as a celebration of the community's strength and determination to change the conditions that render women vulnerable to violence, and that inhibit our creativity and potential. For more information please see: http://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/
You may also be interested in an article CACV Board Member, Dara Culhane, wrote about the history of the February 14th Womens Memorial March in Downtown Eastside Vancouver.
See http://www.jstor.org/pss/4138965
Here is some of the information from the Women's Memorial March Website. Hope to see you there!
Join us: Please join us (all genders welcome) to our events and to the Feb 14th march. We respectfully ask that you please do not bring your banners, flags, or leaflets as the Women's Memorial March carries five banners only to honour the women.On Feb 14th, we will gather at the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Street (corner Hastings, Vancouver) where family members speak in remembrance. Given space constraints, we ask the broader public to join us at 1 pm, when the march takes to the streets and proceeds through the Downtown Eastside, with stops to commemorate where women were last seen or found; speeches by community activists at the police station; a healing circle at Oppenheimer Park around 3 pm; and finally a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall. This event is organized and led by women in the DTES because women, especially Indigenous women, face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis.
Sincerely,  Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
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Happy Year of the Rabbits
CACV's Creative Pathways program celebrated the Lunar New Year by entering a parade team for Chinatown's Spring Festival Parade 2011.
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Thank you to Todd Wong, of Gung Haggis Fat Choy fame, for sending us this photo. Click here for full article. CACV thanks Great Beginnings, City of Vancouver, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, Vancouver Foundation, 2010 Legacies Now and BC Arts Council of Vancouver for their financial and advisory support to this program. Photos of rabbit mask-making can be found at our online community centre. Drop in, share your comments and ideas. http://communityarts.ning.com On Thursday, February 3, the Thursdays Writing Collective used some "rabbit prompts" for their writing. You can read several of the pieces by clicking here.
PS - Lots more photos of the Chinatown Parade by Downtown Eastside-based social media consultants AHA Media at their flickr site.
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RABBIT EARS @ THE GARDEN
About 100 kids made rabbit ears at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden through a collaboration of CACV's Activities Committee and the Garden's volunteers. Here's the note we got from the gardens.  | | Photo from DLTK-Kids used with permission |
Just a big THANK-YOU for taking part in our Chinese New Year celebration day!
Parents came in the door LOOKING for the children's craft area and you were a big hit.
What a terrific partnership... I so look forward to working with you again in future events.
Claudette Martin
Head, Education, Programs and Tours
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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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Community Arts Council of Vancouver
creates community through
the arts.
Our mission: CACV is the voice for the community arts in
Vancouver. We explore critical social issues through creative processes. CACV
fosters and supports programs, practices and initiatives that develop common
understanding through shared experiences.
From its founding in 1946 as the first
community arts council in North America to today, CACV has been influential in the
arts and culture scene in Vancouver. 2010 program priorities are to support community arts programming and infrastructure in the Downtown
Eastside of Vancouver; provide leadership in
community arts in the City as a whole; and be
a leader in the developing field of environmental art.
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Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Established 1946
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