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. |
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We may be Eco but we sure aren't luddites!
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UBC's Common Energy is Looking For Art
The largest and most active student sustainability group at UBC is proud to host its first art festival, eARTh, between March 7 -April 6, 2012
in the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). The festival is aiming to use CIRS as a forum to creatively explore the concept of sustainability. The call out is for artworks that demonstrate art as a transformative medium in achieving a more sustainable way of life, or explore the role of art and aesthetics in a sustainable society. Please email a one paragraph artist statement by February 10th. For more information, see
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Old Growth Book Launch at Rhizome Cafe
Contemporary artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas will be launching his new book Old Growth.
The book chronicles over thirty years of Yahgulanaas' graphic works that document the history of political negotiations and cultural conflict off the
Northwest Coast of Canada from the 1970s to the early 2000s.
Containing studies and experiments, finished work previously unpublished, and works that few have seen, this book reflects on such urgent topics as depletion of natural
resources, global climate change and the fundamental question of "how to live together."
When: Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:00-9:00 PM
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Take your
Eco-Art to Granville Street
This summer five blocks of downtown Granville St. will once again be closed to traffic on weekends and turned into a dynamic pedestrian-only space.
This is an opportunity for you to propose eco-art related events and exhibitions! Email vivavancouver@vancouver.ca with your questions. Application Deadline: Wednesday, February 29, 2012. |
Green Streets Plant Swap!
The Green Streets Plant Swap will take place Sunday April 22 from 1pm-4pm at Tupper Greenway on
East 23rd Ave between Main & Fraser.
For more information, click here
One of this season's Eco-Art presenters, Chloe Bennett, participates in Green Streets with her Mason Bee work. A short video will made by Sharon Kravitz on art meets green streets, featuring Chloe and Ella Cooper.
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$6,000 in Eco Arts Awards
While you may have just missed the submission date for North Carolina's Eco-Arts Awards, it is worth taking a look at the types of work that have been submitted.
Six $1000 prizes are being awarded to the best in a variety of categories which include songwriting, literature, photography, fine art, functional art & short videos.
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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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There are many opportunities to get involved with the CACV, including event support throughout the summer.
Click here to find out more about volunteer opportunities or sign up by sending an email to volunteer@cacv.ca.
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A Big Thank You to our Funders!
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February 7 2012
Greetings!
Join Bruce in Dialogue as part of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver's Eco-Art Salon Series!
Why should ecology influence artwork? What is the message in the medium? How can environmental artwork integrate technology? Where
can we go from here?
These are intriguing factors to consider when we look at environmental art and itʼs context. Once Bruce worked with driftwood and stone. Now he lives where plastic bottles are the driftwood of the urban environment. There is a need to integrate ecology and technology and art is an engaging way of exploring this possibility. From plants to plastics, hybrid forms can interconnect our minds with the environment.
Sarah St. John,
Coordinator, February Eco-Arts Salon
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Hibernators installed at Stanley Park. Photo by Paul Colangelo.
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My first reaction when I saw "Ephemeral" art and "Semi-Permanent" works at vancouver.ca/spea was: Where's the Permanent Art?
Now I know that all of the works in that project were created to break down over time - to disappear - in the same way that totem poles in Haida Gwaii are (sometimes) allowed to rot in place as their creators intended.
CACV has done several workshops that include a tour of the Stanley Park pieces and with our partners, various artist talks and demonstrations. I have visited the pieces, sometimes with a friend that I enjoy sharing them with (It's helpful to go with a friend, although maps are available and if you have skill and determination, you will find them). Describing this project, I often explain: not a drop of bondfast glue was used!
As interesting as the finished pieces - and they are very interesting - is the process of collaboration among the artists, the park staff and ecologists as
well as among the various organizations involved.
Visit the website to see documentation; photos; videos and updates on an environmental read of the sites.
With our salons, we hope to both showcase artists who have some connection with the environment - not necessarily in the same way as this project - and open up engagement with new art practices as well as dialogue among artists and all of us.
Please come and meet people interested in the intersection of art + environment. Join us as a member, a volunteer and if you are an
environmental artist, consider applying to be on our panel in September that
will include a range of local artists sharing short presentations of their work.
Send a note to eco-arts@cacv.ca if you'd like to get involved.
Mary Bennett
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February Eco Art Salon: Bruce Voyce
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An Eco sculpture by the February 2012 Eco-Arts Salon Presenter, Bruce Voyce.
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On Wednesday, February 22nd we encourage you to come out and join us for our February Eco-Arts Salon. This event will feature a presentation and hands-on activity lead by sculptor Bruce Voyce. This artist creates public artworks and has participated in the Burnaby Eco-Sculptures and various international public works. His large sculptures incorporate living plant materials and, in some cases, recycled bottles.
This event will take place from 7:00-9:00 PM.
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January's Eco-Arts Salon Successful in Stimulating Valuable Dialogue
On an atypically wet week, considering the usual January weather, an enthusiastic group of eco-artists, environmental activists and occupiers attended our themed meet-and-greet. Each attendee was asked to write down a few words on their thoughts/feelings about the intersection
between Eco-Art and the Occupy Vancouver movement. These ideas
were projected onto the wall to stimulate a facilitated discussion. Past
and upcoming Eco-Arts presenters and interested individuals shared their ideas in an open format which left everyone keen to continue the discussion in future gatherings.
Ideas and thoughts shared at the event are posted to our website.
This season has an exciting and diverse roster of Eco-Artists. Please
Thank you to the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre for partnering with us to present this series and to the City of Vancouver and BC Arts Council for funding support for our Community Environmental Arts Program.
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Eco Justice Film Screening at the Park
The controversial Northern Gateway pipeline would scar some of British Columbia's most breathtaking - and fragile - areas, and on Feb. 18, you're invited to experience these wild spaces in all their natural glory for
yourself.
Grab your friends and join Ecojustice for an exclusive screening of On the Line, a critically-acclaimed documentary that offers an intimate look at the people and places that will be most affected if the pipeline is approved.
Filmmaker Frank Wolf and friend Todd McGowan walked, biked, rafted and kayaked the entire route the proposed pipeline would take - from the Alberta oilsands, through the Rocky Mountains, over hundreds of rivers and streams, across one of the last fully intact ecosystems on the planet, to
the waters of the B.C.'s north coast.
See what they saw, hear what they heard, and discover what is truly at stake with this $5.5. billion project.
After the film, Mr. Wolf will take questions and discuss the making of the film. Ecojustice lawyers will also be on hand to talk about our work in opposition of the pipeline.Click here to learn more about the film and Mr. Wolf.
Please note that this film is not yet rated and that refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored by Mountain Equipment Co-op and Festival Cinemas.
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Feature Eco-Arts Volunteer
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 Julia Mauro Eco-Arts Tweeter Extraordinaire Julia has been tweeting as @EcoArtsSalon since November, 2011. Follow her tweets for Eco-Arts by clicking here. When have you created community through the arts? Lots of volunteering! With the Vancouver Burlesque Festival, Bard on the Beach, the Vancouver Fringe (internship). As well as being in the occasional show and going to theatre school. I am also involved as a student and performer in Vancouver's theatre & burlesque world. - Why are the community arts important?
- The arts are for everyone. They are something beautiful that people from
- any background can share and bond over. Artistic projects also challenge and grow a person's teamwork and problem-solving skills.
- What is CACV doing currently that most interests you?
- Promoting the arts to make them accessible to anyone. Accessibility is
- so incredibly important!
- What are your hopes and dreams for CACV?
- Get more people excited about the arts and integrating them into everyday life in Vancouver.
- If we meet you at an event, how will we recognize you?
- I am super tall and have brightly coloured hair!
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