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A new voice for Vancouver's creative community
On Tuesday, February 28, 2012, Vancouver City Council will consider recommendations to establish a new Arts and Culture Advisory Committee. If approved, up to 13 arts and cultural community representatives would be appointed to provide a new voice for Vancouver's creative community. The committee would advise Council and staff on all civic programs that relate to arts and culture, to identify issues, and support public outreach and awareness
More background information at vancouver.ca
Questions? Email culture@vancouver.ca or
Call 311
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COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISM:
Celebrate our courage!
Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 2pm.
Starting at Clark Park (Commercial and 14th) Ending at Grandview Park (Commercial and Charles) Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
Family-friendly festivities! Bring your neighbours, banners and drums!
Facebook RSVP
Posters and flyers here
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Gallery Gachet
GACHET SALON
An intimate night of multidisciplinary performance with Rodney DeCroo and guests
Sat Feb 25
88 East Cordova Street
Doors: 7:30pm; Performances: 8:30pm
$10
Gatchet Salon is proud to present a record release concert for Rodney DeCroo's new album Allegheny. The Allegheny features recordings of 8 poems written by Rodney dealing with his early childhood and adolescence in a coal mining town just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Enterprising Women Making Art
Atira Women's Resource Society's
Enterprising Women Making Art Program (EWMA)
Call Out to Artists & Artisans
EWMA is a development initiative of Atira. It focuses on supporting women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to work together to develop an alternative form of business or employment that is grounded in their needs and realities.
Our studio is a free space for all women artists and artisans in the downtown eastside, who want to learn new skills to be able to make and sell marketable artwork.
We are now accepting Core Artisan applications! The deadline for the application will be Mon Feb 27
Core artisan designations are given for a period of one year, during which EWMA will provide support to the artists to gain skills and tools they need to produce and market their work.
Core Artisan applications can be found online or picked up at both EWMA studio and store locations. If you have any questions or need support filling out your application please contact us.
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Atira's 6th Annual
Strong Women Strong Music Benefit Concert
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| Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Eco-Arts Salons
Every 4th Wednesday 7-9 pm
Roundhouse Community Centre
March 28
Behind Open Doors
April 11
Eco Poet Cornelia Hoogland
April 25
Emerging Eco-Artists Panel
May 23
Chloe Bennett
June 27
J. Peachy
FREE
Click here for more information and to register
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| Volunteer Opportunity
Are you an organizer who is able to see the bigger picture? Do you love coordinating things, tasks, people, events? Interested in giving back to your community? This may be the We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join a core group for our Community Arts Activities Committee. Please note that a background in the arts is not necessary, but an event coordinating or project management background is essential.
More info here.
Contact: Amanda Peters
activities@cacv.ca
Next orientation session:
Thurs March 8 6-7pm
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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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Community Arts Networking Series
On January 30, we kicked off our monthly Community Arts Networking Series with a workshop on Social Media. Guest presenter Mary Bennett discussed various platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Timely.is) as well as our own on-line community.
Mary addressed the benefits of using social media platforms in the promotion and advertising of community arts events, as well as their capacity to enhance networking amongst individuals and organizations.
Participants of the workshop included individual artists, members of the Vancouver Community Network Tech Team, and staff at both Britannia Community Centre and Sunset Community Centre.
Toward the end of the session, participants discussed what types of topics they would like to see addressed in future networking sessions. Another session on social media was suggested, in which we delve deeper into the technical components. Also requested was a session on the limits of social media and how we to enhance face-to-face contacts with our neighbours and colleagues. All in all, the Social Media Networking session was a good start to our monthly series. Many thanks to Mary Bennett for sharing her time and expertise with us.
Please join us for our second workshop in the series.
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Incorporating your Community Group:
Sorting out the Options 2-4pm
Woodward's Heritage Building.W Room (5th floor)
Is it time to incorporate your group as a not-for-profit society, a charity (i.e., tax status), a collective, a cooperative or a social enterprise? Are there other options? How do you make a choice for a form that will best achieve your group's intended mission?
Judi has been closely involved in the incorporation of several societies, businesses and cooperatives, and has researched the new legal forms being considered by the Province of BC.
A brief overview of the differences between all of these options will be followed by an interactive group session, where the questions and practical experience of other participants will be shared and we can conclude with a review of the guidelines and forms that are specific to the options you are most interested in pursuing.
This workshop is part of the CACV's monthly Community Arts Networking Series for DTES organizations involved with community arts.
The series is held on the last Monday of each month in the afternoon.
Thank you to the City of Vancouver for providing space for this workshop.
Sign up for our e-newsletter at http://cacv.ca/newsletters to be sure to get details about the Networking Series as they're finalized. Questions? Please contact the Series Coordinator,
Sonja Embree at sonja@cacv.ca
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Grant Writing I:
Available Programs & Writing the ProposalPresenter: Sonja Embree
Mon March 26
afternoon
111 West Hastings (Hour and room to be confirmed)
A popular session, this will be the fourth offering. We will review some of the grant programs offered by the City and Province, explaining eligibility requirements and key application criteria. Sonja then provides advice and techniques for structuring a grant proposal, including writing style, sample phrases and ways to uniquely position your proposed project.
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Grant Writing II:
Finances & Preparing a Budget
Mon April 30
2-4pm
111 West Hastings Street, (room to be confirmed)
A winning grant application requies a sound budget which will demonstrate to a jury that you have the financial structures and plans in place to achieve your mission and organizational sustainability. Drawing on years of business experience in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, David will provide detailed explanations and useful advice on how best to present a budget, including monthly and annual financial expenses, revenue-generating initiatives, and deficit reduction plans.
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Women and the Arts:
Sharing and Learning From Each Other Mon May 28
2-4pm (to be confirmed)
This session is an opportunity for individual artists and arts organizations to come together and discuss best practices for promoting and enhancing girls' and women's participation in the arts. Presenters will describe their experience of being a woman in Vancouver's arts and culture sector and the various issues they have had to navigate along the way, while participants will share their stories in return. Group activities will centre around topics that emerge during the initial panel discussion.
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Community Arts Fund
Last December, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver officially launched our Community Arts Fund, which is housed at the Vancouver Foundation, an organization with a well-established reputation of integrity, fiscal responsibility and sensitivity to the arts and culture. The goal is to create a $1 million endowment fund, using interest earned to support and create infrastructure for community arts in Vancouver's downtown eastside neighbourhood. If you'd like to learn more, please click here
To donate, please 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.
Throughout the year, we will be bringing you regular updates, including details about various fundraising events. Here is one such event; please share it with your family and friends.
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2nd Annual Songs of Mahalia Jackson
An Evening of Music with
Dalannah Gail Bowen
Sat March 24 Doors: 7:15pm
Showtime: 8:00 p.m.
St. Andrew's Wesley Church, 1022 Nelson St.
General seating: $25
VIP catered Reception and reserved seating $50
Tickets http://ticketstonight.ca
100 years ago, on October 26, 1911, a child was born who would change the face of gospel music for all time. Born in New Orleans and living most of her life in Chicago, Mahalia Jackson is considered by many to be the greatest gospel singer of our time.
Her vocal style, resounding passion and devotion to the church left an impact on everyone who heard her and she is recognized as the single most important influence on modern-day gospel. Her many recordings continue to be popular with audiences young and old alike.
This musical tribute to Mahalia Jackson is a celebration of gospel music and Mahalia's legacy, featuring an all-star cast including:
- Dalannah Gail Bowen, who is a survivor of homelessness and addiction and who continues to live and work in the Downtown Eastside, will be singing the lead for The Songs of Mahalia Jackson.
- Grammy-nominated keyboardist and Musical Director Michael Creber will be leading the rhythm section, background vocals provided by The Jacksonaires with Joanie Bye, Linda Kidder and well-known actor/singer Tom Pickett rounding out the sound.
The evening promises to be a fitting tribute to the world-renowned gospel singer with Mahalia's classic gospel sound.
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Volunteer Profile: Abbey Jackson
Our tecky-whizz Abbey Jackson not only coaches Mary on using her new ASUS transformer; schedules posts on timely.is and loves showing others how fun and easy social media is, she has a social conscience and gets things done.
On Feb 7, Abbey was at the corner of Main and Powell and saw a big sign that said, "you sniff markers just to feel alive" - and thought: How offensive! When she went to the website to learn more and found out the group, which is anonymous, was trying to proclaim a new holiday she was even more annoyed.
She contacted CBS Outdoor Media, the owners and facilitators of bus shelter advertising and they removed the sign within hours of opening the next morning. The rest of the ads were removed from CBS Outdoor property within the next few days.
Abbey is on our Communications Committee and Social Media Team.She says: Just by meeting one single person you have created community. In answer to, "Why are the community arts important?" Abbey replies, "This is like asking "why is community important?" and "Is it important to breathe?" :)
Abbey's pleased that the Council is pushing forward. And it's people like her that help us gain momentum.
On our online community (communityarts.ning.com) we ask: If we meet you at an event, how will we recognize you? Abbey says: Everyone always seems to. I guess I photograph true to reality.We would add that her bubbly personality and enthusiasm are giveaways, as is her acrylic painted keyboard on her laptop computer.
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The Langara College Centre
for Art in Public Spaces
Richard Tetrault
Tues Feb 28 7pm
Langara College - Room A122a 100 West 49th Avenue FREE
Well known to folks in the downtown eastside, this local artist is delivering a talk titled From the Ground Up: The Making of Murals.
Richard Tetrault's paintings, prints and murals explore life within the contemporary urban landscape. Based in Strathcona, he has exhibited extensively both locally and internationally. Tetrault's woodcuts, linocuts, monotypes and acrylics are multifaceted investigations examining the artist's place in the context of community, the street and the industrial environment.
Tetrault is also well known as the creator of numerous large-scale public murals. These dynamic pieces reflect the influences of the Mexican muralists, including Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. His mural collaborations make manifest community expressions of the shared struggle for dignity and identity.
Recognized as well for his innovative workshops as an Artist in Residence with public schools, Tetrault works with students in projecting their visions onto school walls citywide.
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The Forgiveness Project is an original collective creation, or devised theatre piece, which focuses on the revelation of truth in the human experience, in all of its beauty and ugliness. With Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre Co-Artistic Directors Alexa Devine and Mindy Parfitt as the project's co-directors, this collective creation will work with the universal themes of shame and forgiveness. They will probe how these universal states of being effect our sense of self and our existence within community. By basing the work on the intimately personal and identifying connective experiences, we hope to challenge assumptions and blur the lines that society creates among its members.
The Forgiveness Project will involve professional theatre artists and community members. By integrating a cross-section of our city's population we aim to find a poignant and vibrant method of collectively creating theatre at its most immediate.
The community will be involved in the development through two one-day workshops (Feb 26 and March 4). These will be led by five experts in theatre, dance, writing and sound design. We are committed to the process being inclusive. No experience is necessary and all materials will be supplied.
If you are interested in exploring these themes in a dynamic and creative environment please contact Mindy Parfitt phone 604 729 5395
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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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