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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Social Media
Facebook: ECO-ARTS SALON PAGE
We tweet as @EcoArtsSalon
See our posts at: http://twitter.com/EcoArtsSalon
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 CACV Board Member Pierre Leichner's piece Tomatoes To Go is part of the Dissolve, Thrive: An Exercise in Collaborative Interdependence Exhibition at Gallery Gachet
curated by Rebecca Chunn and Robin Yuen
Dec 9 - Jan 15 Opening: Dec 9 7-10:30pm
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Thank you to Environmental Youth Alliance for showing us all how to weave with English ivy at the Future of Community Arts celebration on Saturday, November 26.
One of our best twitter-pals, follow them @EnviroYA.
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Banners to proclaim Sustainable Energy for All
Call to Artists - Street Banner Design - City of Surrey
Deadline for Submissions: December 12, 2011, 4 pm.
Award to Selected Artist: $2,500
Open to all BC Visual Artists (including graphic designers, book designers, illustrators and students)
Artists inviting them to submit a proposal drawing for the City's street banners on the theme of "Sustainable Energy for All". This theme is based on a 2012 initiative of the United nations Secretary, Ban Ki-moon. The City of Surrey is committed to creating a more sustainable community balancing growth and development and natural ecosystems.
Download the Call to Artist - for complete details and how to apply.
http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/1655.aspx
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Art(IS)Land Exhibition on Granville Island
Sept 8-19 2011
If you were visiting Granville Island in September perhaps you noticed a giant sewer pipe inscribed with text, foliage fish swimming through the trees, or a fluorescent clam line. These were just three of the eleven temporary installations created by members of Art is Land Network (AILN).
AILN is a local artist collective whose shared connection is the use of natural and repurposed materials to engage with the landscape. The participating AILN artists were Nicole Dextras, Sharon Kallis, Pierre Leichner, Fae Logie, Tiki Mulvihill, Haruko Okano, Robin Ripley, Shirley Wiebe.
The exhibition theme was Granville Island as "microcosm of the world". Each artist used different strategies and materials to engage with the community and draw attention to the island's diverse activities and its inhabitants, both past and present. Information on the exhibition and a self-guided map were available through the AILN website and the Fringe Festival program guide.
Project partners included Vancouver Park Board, Fringe Festival, Community Arts Council of Vancouver and Granville Island.
Four artist-led walking tours provided information about the artists and their work, as well as a history of the island. The tours attracted 94 participants and feedback indicated they were well appreciated. Workshops, a blogsite, and on site participation were other aspects of the Art(IS)Land exhibit.
For more details and images http://artislandnetwork.com/
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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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December 5, 2011
Greetings!
Interested in learning more about environmental arts? Want to get involved, but don't know where to start? We're currently planning our upcoming schedule and we'd love for you to join us - just send an email for more info.
Co-Chair
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Eco-Arts Salon
LAST MINUTE REMINDER - SEE YOU TOMORROW!
Tuesday December 6 - Haruko Okano (Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden)
Flotsam An Eco-Arts Salon & Workshop with Haruko Okano
Tuesday, December 6 | 7-9pm
Hall Of One Hundred Rivers Following a presentation and discussion about her art practice, Haruko Okano, an environmental artist, invites guests to make ephemeral tea candle boats that will be included in this year's Winter Solstice Festival at the Garden on December 21. These boats will be made from natural materials gathered from the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and the adjacent public park.  Haruko Okano is a professional, interdisciplinary, process based artist with over 30 years experience. She has been part of the environmental art movement in Canada since 1995. Many of her projects include partnering with local community, involving them in the gathering of materials or adding their personal touches to installations such as Commentree mounted for the Richmond Art Gallery and the Touchstone Museum of Art and History, Nelson (2007). Her work includes elements from her Japanese ancestry and holistic traditions common to many cultures in the world of hunter and gatherers. She also is a workshop facilitator and mentor in the arts.
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The Lightness of Hope
An Eco-Arts Installation by Haruko Okano
December 6 - 23, 2011
10am-4:30pm
Tuesdays - Sundays
Entrance Included in Admission
FREE for Garden Members
December marks the darkest time of the year but also marks the beginning of the return of the light. The Lightness of Hope installation focuses on this moment of changes as synonymous with human nature in its darkest hour, where sometimes comes a glimmer of light giving rise to hope. One's hope then provides the courage to endure, to act, to believe in change for the better. The Lightness of Hope installation invites the public to take a moment to reflect on humanity's future and to write down their hopes on tags provided by the artist, which they attach to the installation and then to light incense, carrying their hopes up into the heavens.
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Winter Solstice Lantern Festival
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
6pm -10pm
Suggested $5/person donation
The Garden is proud to host the 18th annual Secret Lantern Society Winter Solstice Lantern Festival!
Community Arts Council of Vancouver will be in the China Maple Room this year with our large white cube - and you will add your dash of colour to transform the 3' cube into a multi-coloured, exuberant expression of "creating community through the arts." Watch the video from 2009.
For the second year, we will also have an eco-arts lantern creation - ideas are still percolating on this one - join the discussion! 
Looking for a place to hang out and contribute on the longest night of the year? Come join us - spend 1-2 hours on a shift encouraging participation or come early or stay late and help with the all-important set-up and cleanup.
Send a quick note to volunteer@cacv.ca and let us know how you'd like to be involved.
Thank you to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden for partnering with us for this project.
And to the Secret Lantern Society for inviting us to play with them once again. This is one of five neighbourhoods you can come to. Check out the facebook event at:
Follow @secretlantern for hearing secrets as soon as they are revealed.
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Meet and Greet in January
We plan to kick off our 2012 series with a meet-and-greet social at the Roundhouse. Pitch your projects. Bring your friends. A mix of artists, environmentalists, actists, educators, students-- and the rest of us!
Save the date: Wed. Jan. 25 7-9pm. More details coming later.
Click here to register and then you'll get updates delivered to your inbox.
Thank you to the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre for partnering with us to present this series and to the City of Vancou ver and BC Arts Council for funding support for our Community Environmental Arts Program. |
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 Calling all Community-based Eco-Artists!
We are currently booking the Eco Arts Salons for February-June 2012. These monthly evening presentations showcase your work to the public with opportunities for feedback, networking and community participation.
The objective of these salons is to create a space for stimulating dialogue around questions such as "What does it mean to be an environmental artist?" and "What is the potential for community engaged environmental art in Vancouver?" Each presenter, professional or project-based, is also asked to facilitate a hands-on component as part of their salon which could involve group writing, making, musical components, etc.
These events are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month at the Roundhouse Community Art and Recreation Centre from 7-9pm.
If your art practice engages with ideas of community-building and centers on the environment, we'd like to see your work at our Salons. We will be selecting 5 artists or collaborative groups to feature in the upcoming Salons.
Artists receive a $200 honorarium for the presentation.
Requirements
Your artistic practice might include performative work (e.g. dramatic, dance), sound-art, time-based art (e.g. film), sculptural works, 2D artwork or literary art (e.g. story-telling, spoken word). You might have a particular project within your practice that you would like to feature.
It must engage with community in its production or in its reception.
It should be something that can be defined as "Eco-Art".
This could include low impact (e.g. reuses materials, is ephemeral, is site-specific) works, or might centre on environmental awareness, education or causes.
Deadline
Submit your suggestions for an Eco Arts Salon to eco-arts@cacv.ca no later than Friday, January 6, 2012.
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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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