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We send out three e-newsletters. You can subscribe to 1, 2 or all 3.
- Community Arts News
- Downtown Eastside
- Eco-Arts
Subscribe or read past newsletters by clicking here
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The Art Cart is coming!
Thanks to the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program, funding for phase two of the Art Cart is in progress. Click here to follow the progress.
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Gallery Gachet
launches new workshop series!
The Artist's Reality:
exploring the cultural landscape and realities of being an artist
Presented by Karen Lievesley and Bernadine Fox
Thurs Jan 19 + 26 7-9pm: led by Karen
Thurs Feb 2+ 9 7-9pm: led by Bernadine
All Welcome | By Donation
Gachet's Art School continues to be developed with the introduction of a weekly workshop series presented by Associate Member, Bernadine Fox and long-time gallery supporter, Karen Lievesley on The Artist's Reality: exploring the cultural landscape and realities of being an artist.
This 4-week workshop series will cover topics ranging from the "The economic truth of being an artist" to "Ways in which to survive economically"; "The history of artist run centres and cultural institutions" to "Vancouver's Art Scene and Outsider Art - where does Gachet fit?" Participants will be encouraged to think about how they sit in relation to the artist run culture movement in Canada and specifically, Vancouver, as well as help them develop their own arts' careers.
Through a weekly lecture series, and interactive components, participants will learn all about being an artist and the cultural landscape you inhabit.
For more information, please visit http://gachet.org or contact Lara Fitzgerald, Programming Director, programming@gachet.org, or 604 687 2468.
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GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
City of Vancouver - Community and Neighbourhood Arts Development Grants Program
Deadline - Fri Mar 2
Click here for complete Program Information
FREE Public information sessions
Join Cultural Services staff to learn more about the program, what organizations and projects are eligible, what types projects have been successful and what is required to apply.
Register now
Wed Jan 11 6-7:30 pm at Chinese Cultural Centre - 2nd floor Boardroom, 50 East Pender Street
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ADD YOUR OWN COMMUNITY ARTS EVENTS
Are you involved in community arts in Vancouver?
We invite you to post your events to our online community centre.
We promise to "like" and "share" to our 5000 facebook friends and nearly 2000 twitter followers if you do.
(And we'd love you to share, like and retweet our messages too!)
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Community Arts in the DTES
Networking workshops - coming in 2012
With the recent success of three workshops on grant-writing facilitated by Sonja Embree, Vice-President of CACV, and Administrator, Mary Bennett, we are planning a series of monthly networking workshops around a variety of topics. You can contribute your suggestions here. or contact dtes-network@cacv.ca
Thank you to the City of Vancouver for providing the W Room on the 5th Floor of the Woodward's Heritage building for these sessions.
SAVE THE DATE
To be confirmed.
Monday Jan 30 will likely focus on how we can help each other with social media promotion about DTES community arts events.
Check communityarts.ning.com - we'll be confirming within a week - or send a note to dtes-network@cacv.ca if you're not sure.
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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 click here to learn more and then send an email volunteer@cacv.ca.
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Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Established 1946
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Happy new Year
from all of us at the
Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Hello
I'm looking forward to a year full of community+art - and hope you'll participate with us. There are a number of events coming up - and we'd welcome your engagement as a volunteer on our planning committees and/or as a participant and art-maker at events (or both!).
We're planning on being in the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown again this year with a community-created Water Dragon. To read about what we're up to just go to our social network site and put "dragon" into the search bar at the top right.
The Environmental Arts Committee is meeting this coming Wednesday to finalize the lineup of Eco-Arts Salons from February-June and the January one is: everyone welcome come and talk about "Occupy Environmental Art". Co-chair, Julien Thomas is facilitating this event. We'll start at the Roundhouse, as per usual, and then wend our way out to share a beverage together in Yaletown.
We also want to support you in your events and have extended the drop-down menu under Events. Do post your own events here with a link and if you use the "Event Type" field to put in words like the following, it'll then automatically show up when people click that tab: DTES, story, eco-art, festival, dialogue, music, performance. Something missing here? let us know and we'll try to incorporate.
Our e-newsletter now goes out three times per month - with all the news that fits.
Make a resolution (revolution?) for more art and community for 2012!
I'm in!
Mary Bennett
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Here and There
...a community engaged public art project is completed
Mark Your Calendars to attend this community celebration!
When? Wednesday, January 11, 5:00-7:30PM
Where? Hall at Sunset Community Centre, 6810 Main Street
You are invited to join members from the Sunset Board,
representatives from, the Arts & Culture Office- Park Board,
the Stan Thomas Family and artists-Lisa g Nielsen, Pat Beaton & Zee Kesler.
Come celebrate the completion of this 2 year community engaged arts project.
This project is jointly sponsored by Art & Culture, Parks Board, The Sunset Association and The Thomas family of Delta, BC, in memory of their father, W. Stan Thomas, founding president of the Sunset Memorial Centre, and Prime Signal Ltd.
The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation recognizes the arts as an essential element in a vital, creative and balanced city and seeks to actively facilitate participation in and access to the arts for all.
Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation (Arts Policy)
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Milton Wong 1939-2011
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Milton Wong was a great friend of community arts and remembered by many in the community. Here are some stories about the man from CACV's President Michael Clague:
"Milt was a very generous and wonderful guy," said longtime friend Michael Clague, who recalled the time in 2003 when, as director of the Carnegie Centre in the Downtown Eastside, he asked his university buddy for help in raising $50,000 for the arts to celebrate the centre's 100th anniversary.
"We were having our lunch at the Ovaltine and he just said, 'I'll give you $50,000,'" said Clague. "He said 'I believe in making a social investment.'"
The contribution planted the seed for what would eventually be the Downtown Eastside's Heart of the City Festival, now in its eighth year.
It is but one of the many causes Wong, an Order of Canada and Order of B.C. recipient, would lend his money, passion and energy to.
"Many people approached Milt for money, and he couldn't support all of them, but he rarely turned them down," said Clague. "He offered them advice and suggestions. He would take a personal interest in them."
Among Wong's other legacies are the Aboriginal Mother Centre Society, which provides a home for at-risk mothers and children, a $3-million contribution to Simon Fraser University's School of Contemporary Arts, and a local area planning program for the Downtown Eastside."
"Milt was well familiar with the strength of the area - that's where his family used to live," said Clague. "He was convinced of its potential and wanted to make sure that local residents have a voice in its future."
"The community arts in Vancouver have lost a true friend and supporter with the death of Milton Wong. Milton's interests were very wide ranging and the community arts were a centre piece. When as director of the Carnegie Centre I proposed that we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the building in 2003 through a year long community arts celebration Milton immediately got it.
He understood the power of the arts for personal and community transformation. Milton made what he called a "social investment" of $50,000 that year for the community arts in the Downtown Eastside. By the time the anniversary was over several hundred thousand had been leveraged for the DTES arts. The DTES community play "In the Heart of a City" was one of the highlights and now the annual DTES "Heart of the City Festival" (both produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre) is one of the legacies.
We all are beneficiaries of Milton's commitment to social change through the arts. Thanks Milt!"
- Michael Clague, CACV President
Read more here, or view his obituary from CBC.
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Participate in this year's Lunar New Year parade with CACV
We are making a community-designed and created Water Dragon.
Karenza T. Wall of Chindi Revolution.will facilitate a couple of workshops in the Downtown Eastside to upcycle "chindi" (rags) into art!
Sign up for the parade in advance!
If you want to join with others for creation and inspiration, sign up there or send a note to mary@cacv.ca. The next playshop is Sunday Jan 15 2-5pm in Kitsilano.
It's in a private space so address and directions will only be sent to those who RSVP.
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Eryne Donahue (MFA)
- Neighbourhood
- East Vancouver
- If you're already involved with CACV, how?
- Community Environmental Arts Group, Volunteer. I have taken photographs at the solstice celebration, worked on the CACV newsletters and have assisted in the revamping of the CACV website.
- When have you created community through the arts?
- I engage with communities as a documentary photographer, illustrator, & creative communications person for environmental work surrounding our provinces water & wetlands (see the BCWF Bog Blog). I am also an administrator/judge of the BC Wetlands Photo Group on Flickr. In these activities I use my arts background to bring environmental stewards together. I also teach university and community Fine Art courses in Photography, Visual Culture & Printmaking. I have participated in interactive printmaking demonstrations for BC Culture Days.
- Education is a wonderful way to bring arts into a greater community.
- Why are the community arts important?
- Community arts engage a broad spectrum of individuals from a variety of backgrounds. This type of work is often process-based which allows people without arts training to access creativity. It is a way of bringing people together playfully and thoughtfully.
- What is CACV doing currently that most interests you?
- Community Environmental Arts
- What are your hopes and dreams for CACV?
- I hope that CACV can engage with diverse groups across the city to foster creative approaches to community building, social justice and environmental stewardship.
- If we meet you at an event, how will we recognize you?
- My gigantic smile, that should stand out.
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 For the coming year, a major focus of CACV will be building up financial support for community arts in Vancouver's downtown eastside.
To donate simply send a cheque to the Vancouver Foundation, marked with "CACV" in the memo line and mail to:Box 12132, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 4N6. Or, if you prefer, just click the Donate button on this online link to use Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Interac. Creating art; creating community; participating; showing up - these are also all great ways to support the arts in this creative and vital neighbourhood. Want to know more about this fund? Click here.
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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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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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