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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
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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
STEALING HOME
Karen Ward
Interurban Gallery, #1 E. Hastings St. Wed-Sat 12-6.
Stealing Home is perhaps best considered a visionary environment turned in on itself to create the outlines and intimations of a home. And this home is a transitory space, and it is a struggle to feel at ease within one. Scavenged doors and windows, pieces of houses exist on their own terms and in tension with each other. Glass and mirrors face each other, bearing images as though burned into them, suffused with natural and reflected light. Salvaged words link together, building new texts and whispered associations about the problem of home and homelessness, both inside and outside.
This home is dissolving, fading from view. Many people are here because it's at the end of things, because this is Vancouver, the terminal city: the last city on the lips of the ocean, literally unsheltered from the storms. It is a city of rebels and runaways.
Stealing Home is also a house turned in on itself, creating an interior exterior space. This unsettled house is also constraining: these windows do not open, nor can some even be seen through. Some look back at you.
What I hope to create is an experience of this strange home: intimate moments stolen from an all-too-real world, privacy in plain sight.
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
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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. (And we'd love you to share, like and retweet our messages too!)
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Community Arts DTES Networking workshops
This series is coordinated by Sonja Embree, Vice-President of CACV, and Administrator, Mary Bennett.
The next session is on Incorporating Your Group presented by Judi Piggott.
Details and registration here.
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.
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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.
Join the team! Click below to find the next meetings of two of our key groups.
Communications committee
Activities committee
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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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Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Established 1946
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Happy World Community Arts Day February 17
Hello
Whether called "community cultural development" or "arts-based community development", let's Share the Love with the people who facilitate communities coming together to make art together which ultimately strengthens the community.
You can post a note expressing your gratitude on our website. Click here.
Many community artists and groups are on our social network site. You can "meet" many of them online and if you join (it's free) you can post your own events and comments.
Our e-newsletter now goes out three times per month - with all the news that fits. This one goes to a broad group; the other two are specialized for people particularly interested in those topics.
Mary Bennett
PS - On a personal note, I have an exhibition of my mixed-media art with friend and painter/sculptor, Louise Bunn, at the Amelia Douglas Gallery at Douglas College in New Westminster. The opening is Thursday, Feb 23 from 4:30-7:30 and we're giving an artists' talk on Friday, Feb 24 at 10 am. The work is up until April 6. Douglas College is just a block away from the Skytrain station in New Westminster. Hope you can make it.
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World Community Arts Day
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Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Invites you to celebrate
World Community Arts Day
ART AS A CATALYST FOR
CARING AND SHARING
February 17, 2012
SHARE THE LOVE
on World Community Arts Day
Send some love to the community artists who make our city a better place.
"A sweet project," is how Rika Uto, Arts and Education programmer at Carnegie Centre responded when I asked about having space there! (and she said yes, enthusiastically).
Six years ago, in 2007, Andrew Crummy in Scotland decided there should be a World Community Arts Day and he simply proclaimed it! What a cool thing to do. Since then it's grown and has been expanding.
We want to encourage you to write a "love letter" to Vancouver community artists.
Make your own, or if you're in the Downtown Eastside on
Friday, February 17, come and make or sign card in the
3rd floor Gallery, Carnegie Centre. 11-2pm
We'll be bringing some cards for signing made with two of the Downtown Eastside writing groups and our volunteers. We'll also bring supplies for you to write your own message.
online community: www.communityarts.ning.com
twitter: @CommunityArtYVR
facebook facebook.com/CommunityArtsCouncilofVancouver
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Spring Festival - the Year of the Water Dragon
Ten umbrellas, 12 musician s, 8 people carrying (even dancing with) umbrellas and a 12-year old stilt-walker.
This was our contingent in the Spring Festival in Chinatown at the Parade celebrating the start of the Year of the Water Dragon.
The Umbrella Shop donated these wonderful huge umbrellas - one of which I personally got to carry. Click on AHA Media's photostream to see me with the umbrella.
Richard of AHA Media came out to video and photograph us - and a lot of the rest of the action. You can see their work here. Brad Muirhead and the Carnegie Street Band came courtesy of the Artists in the Streets program, funded by the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program - the program is run by Vancouver Moving Theatre. Photo above by Francis Heng at the Oppenheimer Park Art with Heart Kids program where they made two of the dragon 'brollies and then got to dance with them after the parade.
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  Top: Photo of the dragon showing the head made from three umbrellas, and bottom - initial stages of head construction. Top photo credit: AHA Media.
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Francis Heng
 Francis is part of the Community Arts Activities, an Artist himself and volunteered at the umbrella-making playshop and Love letter collages with Intrepid Pens. He'll be at Carnegie on Friday with our collage materials for World Community Arts Day.
- When have you created community through the arts?
- I did a performance art piece where I involved the student community at Capilano University. They participated with me in a drumming circle session and for an afternoon, we were a community of drummers.
- Why are the community arts important?
- Community arts are important because it allows each and every individual access not only to themselves but to others as well. Through community arts, people are able to express themselves and be inspired at the same time along with others. Encouragement, non-judgment, compassion, discovery and acceptance can simultaneously exist in a safe and creative environment where participants can let their imagination go free but at the same time work with others towards a common goal. Creative collaboration is an avenue where words can be bypassed and action connects the bridge between human beings and also with our immediate environment.
- What is CACV doing currently that most interests you?
- Pretty much everything. The Downtown Eastside Community Arts Program is a great project that I feel can help to support artists in the area. Creativity is non-exclusive and I am grateful that this project can help bring the artists of downtown eastside out to highlight their talents and also to represent a community that is passionate and unique.
- What are your hopes and dreams for CACV?
- I hope that CACV will be able to run for as long as possible and be able to inspire other communities to also collaborate not only on a local scale but inter-city scale where cities can also collaborate among each other. I'd like to see CACV become an important organization that is a force to push more collaborative arts into the community, thereby enhancing and improving the lives of those who live in the community.
- If we meet you at an event, how will we recognize you?
- Perhaps I will wear my yellow shoes whenever I attend an event.
Website:http://www.bekind2movement.org http://francisfreemanhkh.tumblr.com/ |
 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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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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