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Upcoming Community Arts Vancouver events
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Community Arts Dialogue with Maggie O'Neill COMMUNITY ARTS DIALOGUE: Community, Politics and Resistance in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Maggie O'Neill and four local Downtown Eastside organizations present research in conjunction with Exhibition at Interurban Gallery - What is Community? The Spaces and Places of Community in Downtown Eastside. The organizations involved are: Atira - Enterprising Women Making Art, Providing Alternatives Counseling & Education (PACE) Society, Megaphone, and United We Can. The research project used methods of Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Participatory Arts (PA) to explore and document how the local community, agencies and residents, see the 'spaces and places of community in the Downtown Eastside.' June 18 10am-4pm partners: SFU Woodwards and Langara Summer School on Building Community
FREE event. Donations welcome.
Thanks to our Volunteer Event Planning team: Jessica Numminem, Jacquie Rolston and Laura McAlear.
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Artist Call
Art on the Farm
This will be the 7th year for Art on the Farm and they are building on its success again this year with more artists and more people buying art!
They are looking for artists to display and sell their wares! Their one day (August 20th) event is a fun day for families and artists. It includes music, theatre, workshops and more!
Join them for a day in beautiful Columbia Valley on a quaint hobby farm. Artists will be featured in stands throughout the apple orchard and hazelnut grove on Barking Dog Farm in Columbia Valley, Chilliwack.
Registration Fees:
After May1st, $40
Registration fees cover advertising, promotional costs and having adequate insurance for the day.
What to Expect:
We've noticed over the years our audience is primarily local residents looking for something different to do. Items that have sold well over the past few years are smaller items between $20 and $80 and up to $150.
See www.artonthefarm.ca for more info.
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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 our Community Environmental Art Program. We have named the series of projects TRANS / FORMS. The title came from two meetings that included environmental artists (experienced and emerging), community venue representatives and CACV volunteers. A big thank you to the Roundhouse Community Centre for providing space for those gatherings as well as our monthly Eco-Art Salons.
TRANS - to reference the transitory, ephemeral nature of environmental art and also the creative process of community engagement. As Haruko Okano says, the artist goes into a project with about one-third of the design in mind and the rest comes from the community.
FORMS - to indicate that there is an end-product in a physical form, however transitory or ephemeral that form may be. For a particular project, the form may be a structure made from natural (possibly invasive) plant materials designed to disappear back into the environment, or it might be a community-developed poem or performance.
Thank you to the team who stayed with the creative process until we had a name that was something we could all salute. And thank you to Sarah McCusker, our summer intern for creating a logo / word mark for the program. Volunteer Jennifer Martin is developing a brochure and we'll have a complete listing of Phase 1 program ready for the Eco-Art Salon on Wednesday. I hope to see you there!
Sincerely,  Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
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The 2011 Eco-Art Salon Series is launching on May 25th, 2011! 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! Each salon will feature an environmental artist who will present their work - stimulating discussion around questions such as 'What it means to be an environmental artist?' and 'What is the potential for environmental community arts in Vancouver?"
Wednesday May 25, 2011 7-9pm - Ella Cooper We are very excited to have Ella Cooper for our first Eco-Art Salon on May 25th. She will discuss her work and the developments of the community art garden she has created as part of the City of Vancouver's Green Streets program. This talk will also include some collective art making around the theme of Cultivation & Growth for Spring. Art pieces will be included in the art garden space.
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 m 
odel-making, which lives on as a vehicle for community empowerment while demonstrating methods of positive engagement with the glo bal environmental crisis.
Thank you to the Roundhouse for partnering with us to present this series.
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Nicole Needs Leaves--Lots of them!
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Nicole Dextras will be doing a project with CACV creating a river of fish. See the prototypes above.
In the meantime, she's doing a series of workshops as part of the Vancouver International Children's Festival on Granville Island from May 30 to June 5 and needs leaves and flowers! Contact ndextras@shaw.ca if you have leaves to donate to art. Here's Nicole's note. (The fish prototypes might give you an idea of the kinds of leaves that work well for these kind of constructions).
The Eco-Wardrobe at the Children's Festival: I need leaves of all kinds and flower petals, must be fresh and clean not dried out. Leaves can be on branches or flowers on stems to help me keep them fresh until the event or they can be cut already.
I need lots of material because I will be running a dozen workshops during the Children's Festival where children will make small cut out clothing out of leaves and flowers, which will then be installed on outdoor clotheslines around my "Mobile Garden Dress" on the site. At 30 kids per workshop that amounts to about 360 outfits!! So you can see why I am asking for your garden clippings! The event starts on May 30th and runs until June 5. Feel free to drop off clippings at my studio at 1551 Duranleau Street Vancouver, BC V6H 3S3 anytime from now until then. If I am not there just leave in a plastic bag on the door handle and send me an email to let me know that you are donating.
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There are many opportunities to get involved with CACV, including event support throughout the summer.
If you are interested in getting involved please email volunteer@cacv.ca.
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