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Board Positions
The Community Arts Council of Vancouver is looking to fill two Board or Director positions: Treasurer and Secretary. The ideal candidates are individuals who have demonstrated a keen interest in community arts and have previous board experience. For the treasurer position, experience as a CA or a CGA is an asset.
See postings for more details and HOW TO APPLY.
Treasurer Posting
Secretary Posting
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 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL DEMOCRACY Free Lecture Series Audain Gallery
Sundays - 1-3pm 149 West Hastings Street This Sunday May 15th Joyce Rosario Dance
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Member: Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts
On Saturday, June 4th at 6 pm The Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts will be hosting a fundraising dinner in the generously donated Kitsilano heritage home of one of our supporters. There will be an incredible and delicious menu prepared by a local gourmet chef. There will also be a musical performance and presentations about the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts
Tickets are $100 per person and all the proceeds will go to benefit the work of the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts.
Call or e-mail Mel Lehan for information and tickets for this amazing meal for a wonderful cause! Because it is in a private home, tickets are limited.
Thank you for your support!
Contact: Mel Lehan
Phone: 604 842 4657
email:
mel.lehan22@gmail.com
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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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ADD YOUR OWN COMMUNITY ARTS EVENTS
Are you involved in community arts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside?
We invite you to post your events to our online community centre.
We promise to "like" and "share" to our 2500 facebook friends if you do.
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Greetings!
We're pleased to announce that thanks to financial support from the Great Beginnings Program, we will be able to move forward with the second phase of two of the projects begun last year: Art Carts for Gallery Gachet and Oppenheimer Park and the successful Artists in the Streets Program launched in 2010. As well, the Community Arts Fund for DTES Community Arts Programs is progressing well with a fundraising committee being formed with a goal to raise $500,000 to provide support to organizations in the DTES who facilitate community arts projects.
We now have nearly 150 people registered on our "online community centre" and have now set up a separate section for DTES Community Arts Events. When you add an event, just put "DTES" in the category section and it'll show up at http://communityarts.ning.com/events/event/listByType?type=dtes. This platform is something of a small group version of facebook - and allows people to sign in using their facebook account if they want to - but is also accessible to those who are not on facebook.
I'm enjoying having two students working with us over the summer. Sarah St. John is an SFU co-op student working on a B. Sc. in Health Sciences who is working full-time till the end of August on communications and is in the office full time.
Sarah McCusker is at UBC studying Art History and working with us about ten hours per week supporting Member Outreach. Drop into our "online community centre" and meet "the Sarah's".
Thanks to the City of Vancouver, we're moving forward on our Community Environmental Art Program for this year - with a series of seven FREE monthly Eco-Art Salons in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre.
Sincerely,  Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
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Community Arts Dialogue
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Maggie O'Neill, researcher from Durham University, will discuss her work in participatory action research and participatory arts. Specifically, "Community, Politics and Resistance in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: a participatory project."
This project is a community arts and social research collaboration between Enterprising Women Making Art (Atira); Megaphone Magazine, PACE, United We Can and Durham University, UK supported by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver and AHA Media. The project explores ways of seeing the spaces and places of community through the eyes of DTES residents.
Time: June 18, 2011 10am-4pm
Location: World Art Centre, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St
More info on our Online Community Centre.
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This dialogue is being held in conjuntion with the Exhibition of this project, Community, Politics and Resistance in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: a participatory project, at the Interurban Gallery, 1 E Hastings St from June 14-21st 2011. The photographic exhibits and digital stories powerfully represent 'community' and in the stories that unfold there are important messages for us all about the importance of connecting and relating; community building; community well being; community sustainability and the greening of communities.
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The DTES Arts & Culture Romp
 The Downtown East Side Arts and Culture Romp. was started in support of the arts and activism in the Downtown East Side. Over the course of the weekend there will be open studios, live events and entertainment.
The ROMP 2011
Firday May 13th 7-9pm
Saturday May 14 11-6pm
Sunday May 15th 12-5pm
For more info visit our Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/EWMA802
www.theromp.ca
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EWMA Upcoming Events
Today! Eastside Friday
@ 802 E Hastings 7:00pm-9:00pm
Enterprising Women Making Art invites you to join EWMA artisans at their monthly Eastside Friday celebration at EWMA store. This month's celebration will be the launch of the Downtown East Side Arts and Culture Romp.
Weaving Project
Wednesday May 18 | May 25 | June 1 | June 8
2:30pm-4:30pm EWMA Studio - 52 East Cordova Street
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Join EWMA artisans/artists in weaving a decorative panel for the protective grating in front of our street entrance door. Some weaving materials (fabric, paper, twine, yarns, etc) will be provided but if you want you can bring something along with you to weave into the panel.
Refreshments will be provided.
Facilitator: karenza t. wall
Chindi Jam
Chindi means scraps or rags in hindi dialect
Rags is another word for clothing trade
Jam is when musicians get together for an improvisation session
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Our next-door neighbours in the Woodward's Heritage Building are running a community theatre project!
The Bread Project
Be part of a theatre project that celebrates the human story of bread. We will be working with theatre professionals in choral work, storytelling and puppetry.
Rehearsals: Tuesday's and Thursday's 6:30-9pm, May 17 to July 7, 2011 at The Vancouver Japanese United Church (map)
Performances July 8, 9 and 10, 2011 each at 2pm at CRAB Park Portside (map)
All participants receive an honorarium.
ALL ABILITIES, AGES AND EXPERIENCED OR NON-EXPERIENCED ARE WELCOME.
There is no cost to you other than: commitment, willingness to step out of the box and work with others.
For more information check out the website at www.theatreterrific.ca and look under The Bread Project.
DEADLINE IS MAY 17, 2011
Three ways to enroll:
#1 - Online at www.theatreterrific.ca
#2 - Call Theatre Terrific office at 604-222.4020 and leave a message
#3 - Email ad@theatreterrific.ca
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Volunteer with us
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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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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