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Past newsletters can be found by clicking here.
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The Community Arts Council's of Vancouver's 65th Anniversary Tea Party!
65 years old and no plans to retire!
Sunday October 2, 3:00-5:30pm
Museum of Vancouver - Joyce Walley Learning Centre
with Special guest host Max Wyman
Performances by: City Opera Vancouver, Rachel Fenlon, soprano, Andrey Andreychik, baritone, Greg Caisley, piano
Dalannah Gail Bowen
and Silk Road Music
Please RSVP to anniversary@cacv.ca or call 604 682 0010
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Save the date!
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?
Community Arts in Vancouver: the Future
Sat. Nov. 26
Woodward's Atrium
Hastings and Abbott
A display and celebration of the future of community arts.
We are inviting 4-6 youth-led arts/activism groups to provide a display and performance or activity. Please contact future@cacv.ca with suggestions or offers. Some funds will be available for expenses.
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Environmental Arts Workshops
Second Nature Lab
This fall, Continuing Studies is pleased to present Second Nature Lab, a creative and experimental investigation of the relationship between humans and the natural world. Design-builds, public walks, workshops and events will investigate topics such as technology, sustainable design, agriculture, and food fermentation and production. Through the lenses of art, design, technology and architecture, Second Nature Lab brings together a diverse cast of thinkers and makers to collaborate and exchange ideas for regeneration. Curated by Holly Schmidt. For a list of special courses and workshops click here. |
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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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MEMBER EVENTS
Falsecreek Watershed Society September events
Means of Production (MOPARRC) Sunday August 28 1-4pm The Shade and Song Tea Party
Join us for the last MOPARRC event of the season! Enjoy the new shade structures made by community while sipping tea brewed from herbs in the MOP tea bed and served from the crochet tent. Wear your garden hat with the widest brim! Performances by the Legion of Flying Monkeys with The MOPARRC Community Pan Flute band. Have a garden tour of the work grown on site by David Gowman and Pierre Leichner.
Location: Means of Production Community Garden, North China Creek Park, Corner of St Catherine Street and East 6th Avenue Note: Uneven terrain so proper foot wear is recommended.
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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!
I've had a long-term love/hate relationship with wild morning glory. I've been known to stand at a bus-stop and pull some up and have fairly successfully eradicated it from my housing co-op through diligent cutting as soon as it pokes up his head. On the other hand, I admire its enthusiasm. In Kitsilano where I live, you can see it trailing up a cable and covering the side of a house with 6 or more strong strands.
 Also called "bind-weed" for obvious reasons, you can actually use it as garden twine - and we're using it for making the eco-arts nests for Kitsilano Neighbourhood House installation this Saturday, Aug 27 1-4pm. Come and join us by writing a message of memory or hope on a dried leaf and attaching it to our nest installation with bind weed.
It's identified as a Control Species by the Greater Vancouver Invasive Plant Council-
- ie. they try to pull it out from parks but let it do its thing outside those areas.
Tonight (Wed, Aug 24) as part of the Eco-Arts Salon, I'll be sharing more about this project and bringing some morning glory and leaves for you to play with. This segment will be approximately 8:30-9pm. The Salon starts at 7pm.
To download the brochure of upcoming Eco-Arts Salons and see other information about our community environmental arts programs click here.
Sincerely,
 Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
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2011 Eco-Arts Salon Series
 At our July Eco-Arts Salon Naomi Steinberg amazed us with her storytelling and informed us of her ELEMENTAL Project focused on using the elements as a metaphoric access point for an intergenerational story-sharing! Come join us in discussion at our upcoming Eco-Arts Salons - held the fourth Wednesday of every month from 7-9pm at the Roundhouse!
Wednesday August 24, 7-9pm - Nicole Dextras Nicole Dextras is an
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Credit: Nicole Dextras
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environmental artist who's artworks follow the seasons, working with ice in the winter and plant materials in the summer. She records the passage of time inherent in her ephemeral installations through photographs that she later exhibits. The socially engaged aspects of her art practice have been influenced by her work in theatre, dance and community based productions. Dextras is a graduate of the Emily Carr University, where she has been a sessional teacher for the past 8 years. Her artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and featured in numerous publications.
 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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Honouring our History, Creating our Future
Community Arts Council of Vancouver's Community Environmental Arst 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, have created nest structures using bamboo and morning glory as key materials, enhanced by herbs including lavender and rosemary. At the Open House, participants will write memories and hopes for the neighbourhood and the neighbourhood house on leaves and deposit in one of the themed nests. This project marks a transitional phase for the organization. All programs and staff are being relocated during a year long major renovation. For more eco-arts projects in Kitsilano click here. |
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Call for Artists: INQUIRY a Wild Salmon Expedition
INQUIRY, explores themes of the impact of industrialization on West Coast Wild Salmon. This exhibit coincides with the $25 Million Dollar Federal Investigation (Cohen Commission) that is presently looking at the collapse of the 2009 Fraser River Sockeye. This artist response explores themes related to the decline of the West Coast Wild Salmon Fishery and Fraser River Sockeye, from the ecological effects of Industrial Fish Farming, to the Hijacking of the Department of Fisheries by Norwegian Corporate Interests, the suppression of Science, the social side effects of a collapse of the West Coast fishery and the resulting peoples moment intended to highlight these issues. The viewer is invited challenge the themes presented, through their own INQUIRY.
Submission Call: Now until August 29, selected works will be notified immediately
See http://salmoninquiry.wordpress.com/ for more information.
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Art is Land at the Fringe!
You may have noticed some unusual creations around Granville Island this September at sites that make you think about the Island's industrial past, the First Nations people who once lived there, and the relationships between us and the spaces we inhabit. The outdoor exhibition is the work of the Art is Land Network and it brings a visual art element to the Fringe Festival this year.
More information at www.vancouverfringe.com/art-is-land/
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Ocean Flotilla project with Haruko Okano
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Credit: Haruko Okano
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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.
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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Lotus in Motion: Paintings float on water
 Works by Gordon Halloran
July 29 to September 30, 2011
Multiple paintings in the shape of the lily pad, bold in colour and varied in size, will float on the waters of Livingston Lake, Heather Pond, and Heron Lake at VanDusen Botanical Garden.
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