We send out three e-newsletters each month. You can subscribe to one, two or all three. Monthly CACV News goes out the first of the month. Downtown Eastside Community Arts News mid-month Community Environmental Art News goes out in the 3rd week (in conjunction with the Eco-Art Salon.) Click above to subscribe or change your subscription.
Past newsletters can be found by clicking here.
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Environmental Artist Seeking Volunteers!
Haruko Okano is seeking volunteers to help assemble and prepare for a launch of 1000 paper boats from Granville Island on September 17.
If you are interested in getting involved please contact Haruko at harokano@telus.net
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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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MEMBER EVENTS
Falsecreek Watershed Society September events
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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!
A quick reminder that tonight is the Eco-Arts Salon with Oliver Kellhammer - hope to see you at the Roundhouse at 7pm.
For the full schedule for 2011, download the brochure here. We hope you'll print out and/or share with your friends.
You are invited to bring announcements about community and environmental art projects around Vancouver - We want to support the growing network of people engaged in community environmental arts.
The salons are free, but we appreciate your registering - you'll find the link from our home page to an event brite registration form. If you're able to volunteer to support the series, let us know. We particularly would like more help with promotion.
We'd also appreciate your support by taking out a membership in CACV - see information and form below.
Sincerely,  Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
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Eco-Arts Salon Series!
 The 2011 Eco-Arts Salon Series launched on May 25th, 2011! At the first Eco-Arts Salon we learned about Ella Cooper's Community Art Garden and got our hands dirty making plaster hands - for photos click here. Come join us in discussion at our upcoming Eco-Arts 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 does it mean to be an environmental artist?' and 'What is the potential for environmental community arts in Vancouver?'
Wednesday June 22, 7-9pm - Oliver KellhammerLand artist, Oliver Kellhammer will give a talk about some of his projects entitled: Botanical Interventions - Open Source Landscape and Community Repair more info click here Wednesday July 27, 7-9pm - Naomi Steinberg 
The past 9 years of Naomi Steinberg life have been closely focused on community engagement and performance - in her own words "to be a storyteller, first you have to be a story-listener". As Executive Director of the Vancouver Society of Storytelling (VSOS), Naomi has developed the ELEMENTAL initiative, which uses stories about the elements (air, earth, water, fire, metal) as the metaphoric access point for an intergenerational story-share and workshop series. During ELEMENTAL: earthextracts from community stories will be represented in a cob 'storytellers' bench' to be built in Robson Park (13th and Kingsway). This site is an important geographic locater as it is part of a watershed from which St. George Creek flows towards the False Creek Flats, networking with many other underground streams along the way. The bench is in support of community groups who have been working towards day-lighting the creek. (www.vancouverstorytelling.org)  Wednesday August 24 - Nicole Dextras Wednesday September 28 - Rita Wong For a full list Click here. Thank you to the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre for partnering with us to present this series and to the City of Vancouver for funding support for our Community Environmental Arts Program.
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| Eco-Art Garden at the Corners of 8th and Trimble!
Join Ella Cooper in gardening and art-making on Wednesday evenings at 5:30pm at the Eco-Art Garden. Upcoming dates: June 29, July 6, July 13, and July 20
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Multidisciplinary artist and educator, Ella Cooper has gained four of the City of Vancouver's Green Street plots and is turning them into a veritable eco-arts gallery and space for community engagement. Collaborating with the gardeners, guerilla knitters, creative minds, poets and interested members of the community Ella is working to create a happy blend of community gardening and eco arts projects that create an interactive green space that evolves as plants grow.
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.
Other Green Street volunteers also involved with CACV are: Chloe Bennett (Bees Please @ 6th and Yew), Julien Thomas (46th and Fremlin) and Mary Bennett (6th and Trafalgar - planning Bees Please II and a parade). Public space and art = a great combination. Thank you to the City's Green Streets program for such great support. Meet others interested in this at our Green Streets Art group
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Eco-Art Training with Sharon Kallis
Eco-Art Training:
Saturday June 25th 1-4 pm
Spend 3 hours working with community engaged, environmental artist Sharon Kallis. Learn about facilitating environmental art projects with children such as: ephemeral mosaics, with a seasonal palette, and bird seed tapestry eco-tagging. Participants will learn about leading collaborative art activities, adapting projects for age appropriateness, gathering natural materials for projects, and responding to particular outdoor sites for leading collaborative projects.
Post-training:
Free workshops are being offered from Guelph Park in the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood for adults, and we hope to have one or two individuals each day that have taken the June 25th workshop that can work with the children of participants in a side project, leading children aged 6 + through the activities explored during training. Eco-training participants are requested to assist children in a minimum of 2 of the following workshops.
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Youth Leaders with eco-art training are required on the following dates:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8.30pm
July 5, 7,
July 26, 28
August 2,4
After training and leading children through workshops,participants will have a strong sense of how eco-art can be useful in teaching environmental education, and a broader experience in approaching art making with children in an environmentally sensitive and responsible way.
for more information and to register please call Angela Thomson at 604-257-3075
if you are unable to make the June 25th training date, but would like to be involved, please call Angela, a second training date may be announced for mid-July
for more information see websites:
artist : www.sharonkallis.com
project: www.branchweave.wordpress.com
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Twilight Tea Party June 26!
"Twilight Tea Party" exhibition at the Means of Production Garden (St. Catherine's and 6th Avenue in Vancouver). The Twilight Tea Party is June 26th, 2011 from 8pm to 10pm. Bring a flashlight and celebrate the long days and the setting sun with solar powered lanterns, phosphorescent installations, and the tea tent.
Presenting workshops and installations by Diana Burgoyne, Peter Courtemanche, David Floren, Robin Ripley, Naomi Singer, and Lori Weidenhammer.
Tea will be served in the tea tent by the lovely miss Jody, with bannock from Salmon and Bannock Restaurant. Tours of the art installations by community members and artists will happen throughout the evening.
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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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