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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Save the date!
Fall 2011 Community Arts Council of Vancouver events.
Celebrating Our History
Sun. Oct. 2
Afternoon Tea to celebrate our 65th Anniversary with leaders of CACV over the years.
Community Arts Dialogue: the State of Community Arts in Vancouver Sat. Nov. 5 partner: SFU Woodwards Presentations and dialogue around: What defines community arts? Why promote community arts, what are the benefits? What are some of the challenges in promoting or directing community arts and how can we best circumvent them? |
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What would YOU like to see at CACV's
Community Arts Dialogues?
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Photo credit: Jennifer Martin
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CACV's is planning a Community Arts Dialogue Series. The next one will be November 5, 2011.
We need your input! What topics / questions / speakers / resources would be useful to you at a Community Arts Dialogue?
Please send your feedback and ideas to lauram@cacv.ca. This series is open to all and is intended to bring together new ideas and different perspectives - so we encourage you to think outside the box!
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Green Streets Vancouver Garden Contest
Vancouver's Green Streets Programallows community members to garden city land, for example a traffic circle or a corner buldge, to promote neighbourhood beautifcation and community building.
They are currently running a contest for the best Green Streets Garden! One of the categories is the most creative or unique garden. Know a green streets gardener with an awesome garden? Nominate them today! Nominations being acccepted until August 15. Email Green.Streets@vancouver.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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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!
It's wonderful to see the growing interest in community-engaged environmental arts in Vancouver. We're very proud to be featuring the artists in the projects below in our ongoing Eco-Arts Salon - usually every 4th Wednesday--including tomorrow (maybe see you there!)
Help us spread the word by forwarding this e-newsletter, checking us out on facebook (see link below) or follow us on twitter @EcoArtsSalon.
Interested in volunteering to either source materials for artists, table at outreach events, find donations and grant opportunities and plan and host at the salons? Contact eco-arts@cacv.ca or fill out the volunteer form on our website.
Sincerely,
 Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
LIKE OUR ECO-ART SALON PAGE AND GET UPDATES ON FACEBOOK.
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2011 Eco-Arts Salon Series
 Thanks to Oliver Kellhammer for a fantastic Eco-Arts Salon on June 22! He showed us how "he remixes ecosystems, like a DJ remixes songs." For pictures 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 presents their work - stimulating discussion around questions such as 'What does it mean to be an environmental artist?' and 'What is the potential for community environmental arts in Vancouver?'
Wednesday July 27, 7-9pm - Naomi Steinberg 
Performing artist and Executive Director of the Vancouver Society of Storytelling, Naomi Steinberg will be presenting and leading a dialogue related to her work. The past 9 years of Naomi'slife 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". 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. More details below: see ELEMENTAL Vancouver Socity of Storytelling.  Wednesday August 24 - Nicole Dextras Wednesday September 28 - Rita Wong Wednesday October 26 - Sharon Kallis Wednesday November 23 - Yarn Bombers Tuesday December 6 - Haruko Okano 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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| Kitsilano Neighbourhood House Celebration
Honouring our History, Creating our Future
Community Arts Council of Vancouver's Community Environmental art volunteers and artists will be at Kits House's Open House and Street Party: Saturday August 27 1-4pm. 
Kitsilano Neighbourhood House volunteers, youth and families, to create nest structures using bamboo and morning glory as key materials, enhanced by herbs including lavender and rosemary. This project marks a transitional phase for the organization. All programs and staff are being relocated during a year
long major renovation. Participants will write memories and hopes for the neighbourhood and the neighbourhood house on leaves and deposit in one of the themed nests. We've been making some prototypes (see above) and will complete nests for the installation on Sunday August 21 4-6pm with potluck following. Contact eco-arts@cacv.ca for details of address. |
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Photo credit: Sharon Kallis
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Creating shade structures with invasive plant species
Invasive basketry shade structures
at the Means of Production garden
Corner of E. 6th and St. Catherines
Mon, Tues, Wed, 5-8pm
Aug 8, 9, 10
Artist Sharon Kallis will lead community in the site specific design, creation and installation of shade umbrellas made with invasive materials in the garden such as scotch broom, blackberry, and morning glory. Community members working together will learn easy techniques of coil basketry to create shade structures for the newly designed top garden sitting area. Bring your own picnic dinner to enjoy in the garden and spend some time working alongside your neighbours creating a new art installation for the MOP garden. Activities include harvesting, material prepping and basket making. (no experience necessary). No registration required.
http://moparrc.wordpress.com/
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Creating Fish - Workshops with Nicole Dextras
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Photo credit: Nicole Dextras
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Did you know that Granville Island was originally a sandbar used by local First Nations as a fishing area? Come an join artist Nicole Dextras in the creation of over 100 fish made out of leaves. Participants will make the basic fish shape out of Magnolia leaves and then add details such as fins through a variety of other leaves. Bring your own leaves to work with if you want to. The fish will eventually be hung from the trees in Railspur Park as part of a larger installation for the "art (IS)LAND exhibition". The installation is a project of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.
Dates: Tuesday, August 9 and Thursday, August 18 2011
Times: 1:00 - 2:00 pm = seniors
2:00 - 3:00 pm = daycamp (10+ yrs)
3:00 - 4:00 pm = drop-in from island visitors, (10+ yrs)
Place: Tyee Hall, False Creek Community Centre
Cost: Free
Register: click here.
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Ocean Flotilla project with Haruko Okano
Description: Ocean Flotilla is the public participation component of a larger environmental project created by Haruko Okano that will be displayed on Granville Island September 8 - 18, 2011. Ocean Flotilla is 1000 paper boats that will carry the messages contributed from here and around the globe in response to the question "What is your hopes for a healthier world in the next 100years?" The small boats made of unbleached kraft paper waterproofed with Kakishibu will be part of the 1000 strong flotilla launched from the NW perimeter by Granville Island Boat Rental on Granville Island on the afternoon of September 17, the second-last day of the annual Fringe Festival. Kakishibu is an organic multipurpose Japanese medium used as a dye, insect resistant, water proofing liquid.
The workshop invites up to 50 participants to help construct and waterproof paper boats that will be numbered so that participants and interested parties can track the boats journey on the blog site for this project.
Paper boat assembly workshop dates
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Date: Sun Aug 7
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Age: families
Place: Tyee Hall, False Creek Community Centre
Cost: Free
Register: click here Date: Thursday August 11
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Age: 10-12 years old
Place: Tyee Hall, False Creek Community Center,
Cost: Free Register: click here Date: Tuesday August 16
Time: 12:30 - 3:30 pm
Age: older adults
Place: Tyee Hall, False Creek Community Center Cost: Free Register: click here Date: Saturday August 20
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Age: 12+
Place: The Family Activity Room, Britannia Community Centre
Cost: Free
Notes: Because space is limited registration is required by phone or in person at the Britannia Community Centre. 604.718.5800 Participant skills include some precision folding and careful waterproofing therefore the age restriction is age 12+. However younger children accompanied by an adult are welcome to drop by and contribute their messages. We also ask that workshop participants commit to the full 3 hours of the workshop to help with the 3 stages of waterproofing and decorating the boats. We request a small donation of whatever you can afford that will go towards future programming at the Britannia Art Gallery. Haruko is also looking for volunteers to help with the launch of 1000 paper boats on Sepetember 17 at Granville Island. If you are interested in getting involved please contact Haruko at harokano@telus.net |
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ELEMENTAL: Vancouver Society of Storytelling
The Vancouver Society of Storytelling (VSOS) has developed a storytelling series titled ELEMENTAL, focusing on the elements - air, earth, water, fire and metal.
ELEMENTAL:earth will see the building of a cob "Storytellers' Bench" in Robson Park, at the headwaters of the historic and now buried St. George Creek.
In August there will be a series of storytelling workshops hosted at the Native Education College (285 e. 5th ave), followed by Cob building workshops with the Mudgirls in September.
There are three storytelling workshops:
1. Adults - Tuesday August 9, 430 - 730
2. Youth - Thursday August 11, 3:00 - 6:00
3. Children Tuesday August 16th, 10:00 - 1:00
Each workshop will start with participants getting to know each other and then, opening the space for Coast Salish Elders to tell stories from this particular land. After a short break, participants will share their own voices and stories through a facilitated process to better understand what living in this time and place means to them. Once the workshops are complete, participants will be invited to attend a visioning session to develop a design for the "Storytellers' Bench". The bench will incorporate the ideas, themes and stories that have been shared during the three workshops.
The storytelling workshops are FREE of charge and snacks will be provided.
Space is limited - pre-registration is recommended.
For more information please email: info@vancouverstorytelling.org or phone 604 876 2272
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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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