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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 our 65th Anniversary with leaders of CACV over the years.
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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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| 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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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!
Summertime and the livin' is... creative. Our city is filled with energy these days - parades, festivals, even the city-wide effort to clean up garbage is getting us all together in our neighbourhoods or wider communities to enjoy the bursts of sunshine amidst the rain. Even the final score (ouch!) last night isn't dampening our enthusiasm for gathering together and celebrating life in the city.
See below for some of the summertime events where you can meet CACV volunteers and talk about the importance of creating community through the arts.
On a personal note, I've just started an Emily Carr course on Exploring the Built Surface (yesterday we dropped and swirled various cleaning products onto photographs and magazine images). Next week, I'm facilitating a teambuilding workshop as part of Langara's Summer School on Building Community:
Drawing Your Team Together (Fri June 17, 1:30pm-5pm)
And a special "thank you" to Haruko Okano and Nicole Dextras, community environmental artists who are part of our trans/ Forms series, for their projects at the Children's Festival last week. The installations and workshops were a big hit with many - including my two grandkids!
Sincerely,  Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
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Part 1: 10am-1:00pm
Dr. Maggie O'Neill from Durham University will present her work in participatory action research and participatory arts.
Location: World Art Centre, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings Street (enter from Cordova Street)
FREE - register at http://communityartsdialogue.eventbrite.com/
Part 2: 2:00-4:00pm
Viewing of the exhibit with presentations from the local DTES organizations on their experience working on the project.
Location: Interurban: Gallery and Community Art Space, I E Hastings St
FREE - register at http://communityartsexhibition.eventbrite.com/
Dr. 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 social research collaboration between Atira - Enterprising Women Making Art, Providing Alternatives Counseling & Education (PACE) Society, Megaphone, United We Can and Durham University 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.
Maggie O'Neill has extensive experience in inter-disciplinary contexts with expertise in critical and cultural criminology. Her focus is on innovative biographical, cultural and participatory research methodologies; and the production of praxis - knowledge which addresses and intervenes in public policy. Her work has been instrumental in moving forward debates, dialogue and scholarship in three areas: prostitution and the commercial sex industry; forced migration and the asylum-migration nexus; innovative participatory, performative and visual methodologies. She is a member of the steering group for the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action.
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This event is part of Langara's 2011 Summer School on Building Community offers all this and more!
From June 11-18, over 20 workshops, presentations and dialogues will be held.
Workshop descriptions and schedule:See the workshop list below, or go to: http://www.langara.bc.ca/social-cultural/summer-school/courses.html
Please register in advance by phoning 604-323-5322
Questions? Contact Leslie Kemp at lkemp@langara.bc.ca or 604-323-5981 or Jennifer Hales at jhales@langara.bc.ca
50% discount for full-time students with valid ID and for people on low incomes.
Please spread the word!
Renew.Learn.Celebrate
at Langara's Summer School on Building Community, June 11-18
Learn Skills, develop strategies, and create visions for sustainable communities, sustainable work, culture, ecology and more.
Exhibition June 14 - Jun 21, 2011 Interurban: Gallery and Community Art Space The Community Arts Dialogue is happening in conjunction with the exhibition of the work at the Interurban Gallery. 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. |
The 2011 Eco-Art 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 it means to be an environmental artist?' and 'What is the potential for environmental community arts in Vancouver?"
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 enga gement with the global environmental crisis.
Wednesday July 27 - Naomi Steinberg Wednesday August 24 - Nicole Dextras 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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Visit us at Summer Events!
CACV is looking forward to attending Vancouver community events this summer!
Come find us at:
- National Aboriginal Day at Oppenheimer Park on Saturday June 18
- Car Free Day on Main Street on Sunday June 19
- Vancouver Draw Down Finale at Britannia Saturday July 23
- Endless Summer Festival at Oppenheimer Park August 28
Interested in volunteering at these events? - see volunteer postings for
National Aboriginal Day and Car Free Day: http://www.allianceforarts.com/volunteer/national-aboriginal-day
http://www.allianceforarts.com/volunteer/car-free-day-june-19-2011
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