SAVE THE DATE!
Upcoming Community Arts Vancouver events
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Celebrating Our History
Sun. Oct. 2
Afternoon Tea
at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of CACV and the City's 125th Anniversary
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Member: Gallery Gachet
to April 28, 2011
Wed-Sun, 12-6pm
88 East Cordova Street
Thank you to Gallery Gachet for hosting our volunteer orientation. We appreciated it and enjoyed the chance to view this great show. See photos of some of our volunteers - click here.
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Member:
Carnegie Association
Documentaries for Thinkers
Free documentaries covering subjects seldom covered by mainstream media.
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
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Artists in our Midst
THE ROUNDHOUSE EXHIBIT
Thurs Apr 2811am - 10pm
Opening 7pm - 10pm
Fri Apr 29 11am - 9pm
OPEN STUDIOS
Sat Apr 30 & Sun May 1
11am - 6pm
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Be the Change: Navigating the Great Turning Unconference
Sat. Apr 30
Time: 9:00am to 5:30pm (Coffee, yoga, and registration at 8:00am)
Location: The Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver, BC, V5L 1K3
40+ presenters including CACV Members Karl Perrin, Pilgrimage to Burns Bog and Kate Sutherland, author of Make Light Work
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Call for proposals from artists: For The Incubator, a studio residency at Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre, 7646 Prince Albert Street in South Vancouver.
Deadline: Apr 29
contact Cyndy Chwelos, Arts Programmer 604-718-6521
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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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Greetings!
Thank you to the City of Vancouver for a project grant to support a series of community-engaged environmental art projects over this year. While continuing to seek funding for the entire project, we are moving ahead with the first phase which will include a monthly eco-art salon and three installations or workshops with established environmental artists.
Would you like to actively engage with artists to collect natural materials; provide resource or research assistance and be at the site supporting the artist and community in creation? Drop us a note, give a phone call or just show up at an Eco-Art Salon and introduce yourself.
 Welcome to Sarah St. John who is working with us as Communications Coordinator for the next four months through SFU co-op program. Thank you to the BC Arts Council for the grant that puts Sarah and CACV together. Sarah isHealth Sciences degree and a certificate in Sustainable Community Development through SFU and is on the Board of Sustainable SFU. We're delighted to have Sarah with us.
Sincerely,  Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
LIKE OUR ECO-ART SALON PAGE AND GET UPDATES ON FACEBOOK. PS - Board members, Michael Clague, Am Johal, Richard Evans and I will be at the Arts BC (Assembly of BC Arts Councils) conference in Richmond next weekend meeting up with other arts councils from around the province. |
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Join Sharon Kallis and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver in weaving a new structure for the CRAB park pond. The old ivy boat is slowly sinking... it is time to work together and weave a new structure that can continue to act as a bird perch and protective shelter for ducks and ducklings. Working on a woven branch frame, community of all ages can assist by weaving spirals of ivy to create a web-like structure for the centre of the pond. Meet under the CRAB Park Pavilion.
Come join us May 15, 2011 from 1-4pm!
Sharon Kallis will be facilitating an EcoArt Salon in October.
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Environmental Art Hits the Streets!
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We're taking to the streets. Come and get involved in a hands-on project. Using an intersection in the Jericho Beach area of Kitsilano as a pilot, we are brainstorming ideas about how to put an environmental arts twist on Vancouver's Green Streets program.
Green Streets COMMUNITY ART GARDEN Corners of 8th & Trimble SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR ART MAKING & GARDENING! We are looking for people with a passion for arts, gardening and/or community building. All are welcome. No experience necessary. Join us this month to tend the corner gardens at the intersection of 8th & Trimble and begin decorating the space with small art pieces, short stories & interactive poetry to include in the greenery.
THROUGH ART MAKING & POETRY WE ARE INVESTIGATING THE THEME OF GROWTH AND WHAT WE'D LIKE TO CULTIVATE IN OUR LIVES.  | | Ella Cooper |
Sat Apr 30 3:30-5:30pm Meet @ the Corner of Trimble & West 8th street (99 Bus-UBC. Get off at Sasamat) **Come dressed for the weather. Please bring garden tools if you have them. We start off outside and then depending on the activity we'll move indoors, to the park or a cafe. Call 604 762 8112 if you're running late. *** About... We meet every other Saturday. Each meetup will include gardening plus a range of different activities including creative brainstorming, outdoor poetry making, creating a five senses garden, collaborating with youth, walks down to Jericho beach for inspiration, community building, conversation and more. Multidisciplinary artist and educator, Ella Cooper has recently gained four of the City of Vancouver's Green Street plots and would like to turn them into a veritable eco-arts gallery and space for community engagement. Collaborating with the Community Arts Council's Eco Arts Salon, gardeners, guerilla knitters, creative minds, poets and interested members of the community we will be working to create a happy blend of community gardening and eco arts projects that creates an interactive green space that will evolve as the plants grow. Ella will also be facilitating the Eco Art Salon on May 25 from 7-9pm at the Roundhouse.
Click here to see photos of some of the Green Streets gardens. |
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Eco Art Salons
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Come join us in discussion and learn about Environmental Art at our monthly Eco Art Salons - held the fourth Wednesday of every month from 7-9pm at the Roundhouse!
Wednesday May 25, 2011 7-9pm - Ella Cooper
Ella Cooper www.ecoartslab.com is a multidisciplinary artist, community art gardener, photographer, arts educator, budding permaculturist and Founding Director of the Emerging Arts Professional Network - a national not for profit and community support network of over 4,000 arts professionals from across Canada. She is also currently pursuing a Masters degree at SFU on the cross sections of arts and environmental education and works as an arts consultant executing a number of marketing, outreach, social media and community research contracts for arts organizations in dance, visual arts and theatre. Ella's creative and professional work deals with the arts, hybrid identity, community, technology and the environment.
Wednesday June 22, 7-9pm - Oliver Kellhammer
Land artist, Oliver Kellhammer will give a talk about some of his projects entitled: Botanical Interventions - Open Source Landscape and Community Repair Oliver Kellhammer is a Canadian land artist, permaculture teacher, activist and writer. His botanical interventions and public art projects demonstrate nature's surprising ability to recover from damage. His work facilitates the processes of environmental regeneration by engaging the botanical and socio-political underpinnings of the landscape, taking such forms as small-scale urban eco-forestry, inner city community agriculture and the restoration of eroded railway ravines. His process is essentially anti-monumental - as his interventions integrate into the ecological and cultural communities that form around them, his role as artist becomes increasingly obscured. He describes what he does as a kind of catalytic model-making, which lives on as a vehicle for community empowerment while demonstrating methods of positive engagement with the global environmental crisis.
Thank you to the Roundhouse for partnering with us to present this series.
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Volunteer with us
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Photo by Christine Nairne |
Current opportunities:
Fundraising/ Grant research and writing
Contact Fundraising Committee Chair
Leslie Kemp, leslie@cacv.ca
Meeting support: For our committee and board meetings, we need help for preparing materials; setting up the room; greeting participants, making copies etc. Regular times are 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesdays. Meetings usually start at 6:30. You'd arrive at least an hour early, take notes during the meeting and stay for 30 minutes followingf the meeting to assist with cleanup.
Upcoming meetings include:
April 27 @ the Roundhouse - Environmental Arts Planning
April 28 @ 111 West Hastings Street - Board Meeting
Contact mary@cacv.ca if you're available for these meetings - or volunteer@cacv.ca if you are interested in general, but not available for these particular dates.
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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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