Save the date!
Our Annual General Meeting and Program will be on Thurs Nov 24 6-9:30pm  Chapel Arts 304 Dunlevy 604-682-1611 info@chapelarts.com across from Oppenheimer Park FREE Register here. And you'll receive updates on the program. Displays include: Hope in Shadows calendar and Enterprising Women Making Art. If your organization would like to book space for a display contact mary@cacv.ca
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Board Members WantedThe Community Arts Council of Vancouver is growing rapidly in its role of providing leadership in the community arts in Vancouver, including community environmental arts. There are opportunities to experience this excitement and to contribute through serving on the board as a director of the Council. The Council is inviting people with a track record in community arts and in non-profit management to join our board leadership team at the Annual General meeting.Interviews will be conducted by the nominating committee prior to the AGM. How the election works is laid out here.Please contact nominating@cacv.ca or come to the AGM - nominations are accepted from the floor. The nominating committee is: Leslie Kemp, Michael Clague and Nathan Edelson.
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INSIDE STORIES
REGISTER HERE.
South Hill INSIDE STORIES is a ground-breaking web experience fusing together art and community. Join us -- artists, storytellers and activists -- to screen the stories and discuss how and why they were created. Add your two bits. If we heard our neighbours' stories, would we relate to them differently? Can art + community = social change? Moderated by award winning filmmaker and co- creator of INSIDE STORIES, Nettie Wild. Plus meet the entire creative team: web designer Jeremy Mendes, photographer Shannon Mendes and the real people behind the inside stories.
Evening also features two stunning South Hill Art Plan projects: Pattern Recognition by Renée Van Halm; Nothing Happens in Good Weather by the artist collective Instant Coffee Alice MacKay Room
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch
350 W. Georgia Street
Thurs Nov 3, 20117-8:30 PM
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Member News
Heart of the City Festival
Wed Oct 26 - Sun Nov 6
More than 100 events at over 30 locations throughout the Downtown Eastside
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Member News
Headlines Theatre
Us+Them The Cultch (1895 Venables) till Nov 12, 2011 8 PM
604-251-1363 or Cultch box office. Tickets: $20
Student/Senior: $15 Headlines has donated 2 tickets as a door prize for our Dialogue. THANKS!
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MEET OTHERS WHO CARE ABOUT COMMUNITY+ART Join our Social Network and post your views, events, links and meet our members, volunteers and community artists.
FREE
Click here to meet 220 members
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Volunteer Opportunities
Among current opportunities are:
-interview community artists and leaders in this field
-take photos at events (and videos)
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Outreach
We often have a display table at community arts events as well as at our own events.
Come and help us prepare materials for our table including: cutting out images for collages; writing up speech bubbles; making signage; designing an online and physical display of photos.
Thursday, November 17 @ EWMA Studio
Contact volunteer@cacv.ca for more info or to RSVP
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Member
Carnegie Association
Documentaries for Thinkers
Carnegie Centre Theatre
Shows every Saturday night EXCEPT the first Sat of every month. Often Q&A sessions from the producers attending.
More information contact Colleen Carroll
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Community Arts Council of Vancouver
creates community through the arts.
Our mission: to be the voice for the community arts in Vancouver. We explore critical social issues through creative processes. We foster and support programs, practices and initiatives that develop common understanding through shared experiences.
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Greetings!
It is definitely harvest time for the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.
Our Anniversary has been a great opportunity to connect with people from our rich history of 65 years in this wonderful city. Meet some of our past presidents online with interviews by Maz Ghaderi.
We plan to host community arts dialogues twice per year. We expect about 50 participants at the event this Saturday. Hope you can make it. Register here.
The enthusiasm, experience and all-round niceness of the organizations who have stepped up to be involved with us in presenting a celebration of youth/kids/community/arts on Nov 26 is truly gratifying.
Help us plan by registering here. You are free, of course, to come by for a short time or a long time. We will send updates on the schedule to those who register so you can pick the best time for you.
Thank you to Vancity - also celebrating 65 years - for financial support for this series of anniversary events.
And a very big THANK YOU to our board and volunteers who make it all happen. There are always opportunities to join us and contribute your talents to "creating community through the arts" in Vancouver. Drop me a note if you have some time to offer.
Sincerely,
 Mary Bennett,
Administrator, CACV
mary@cacv.ca
604-682-0010
ps - I plan to be at the Inside Stories event (see left margin) - maybe see you there.
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| Our 2011 Survey is now complete
Thank you to those of you who completed our recent Community Arts Survey. We received 187 responses, well over our initial goal of 100! The answers, comments and recommendations provided allow us significant insight into what issues are currently of importance as well as the kinds of new programming and development you would like to see happen.
We plan to reveal some initial survey results this coming Saturday, Nov. 5, at our Community Arts Dialogue. We will also be doing a short presentation n survey results at our Annual General Meeting on Thursday evening November 24.
You can see details about the event at http://cacv.ca/dialogue and see the impressive list of presenters at http://cacv.ca/dialogue-presenters. It's free, but we'd appreciate your registering so we can plan for the appropriate numbers. Here is the link to register: http://artsdialogue-eorg.eventbrite.com/
The Dialogue, in partnership with SFU Woodward's, morning agenda includes presentations by 10 community artists in such mediums as theatre, dance, song and environmental arts. In the afternoon, there will be an Open Dialogue sessions to facilitate networking; share tools, resources and best practicies; and identify needs for community arts in Vancouver.
And as mentioned, we will share some preliminary results of the survey, such as:
1. Respondents who self-identified as a "Funder" of community arts indicated that "Artistic merit of the outcome" is the most important feature of community arts.
2. For the "Resources and support" desired, "Support for grant applications" was the most popular response.
3. Although many are satisfied with the CACV's definition of Community Arts, others find it "boring," "lacking joy," and problematic in its use of the term "intentional inclusivity."
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Eco-Arts Salons
Come join us in discussion at our upcoming Eco-Arts Salons - held the fourth Wednesday of every month from 7-9pm at the Roundhouse!
NOTE: room change to Exhibition Hall
November 23 - Yarn bombers For more info 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.
BREAKING NEWS: Thank you to BC Arts Council's Arts-Based Community Development program, Eco-Arts Salons will continue into 2012.
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Winter Solstice Community Lanterns
 We will again be at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden for The Secret Lantern Society Winter Solstice Celebrations.
Follow plans for the 2nd annual eco-arts lantern here.
And see a video fo the white cube that becomes a symbol of community participation here. Date: Dec 21 6pm
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The Future of Community Arts
See the complete list of groups who supports kids and youth and community and art at: http://www.cacv.ca/future Follow us at: twitter.com/ArtsFutureYVR Like us at: https://www.facebook.com/ArtsFutureYVR . |
THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS. |
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