Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Mail Art
What can you say about "labour" and "work"? If a picture is worth a thousand words - maybe you'd like to put your thoughts down on a 5 inch x 7 inch postcard and mail to Ed Varney for a Mayworks Mail Art Exhibition on Vancouver Island.
We are planning a few collage workshops in the Downtown Eastside to facilitate creating mail art on this theme. Our volunteers arrive with materials, glue, scissors and time to hang out while we "create community through art."
If you'd like to participate, contact us. More information click here. We'll add any open workshops there when they're finalized.
Deadline for postmark is April 1.
What is mail art?
Here is a good link:
http://www.mail-art.de/
DTES Community Arts Projects
Thanks to funding from the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program, we have received funding to support several projects in the DTES.
Phase II of the Art Cart, partnering with Gallery Gachet.
Continuation of Artists in the Streets partnering with Vancouver Moving Theatre.
And two public art pieces with community consultation coordinated by Esther Rausenberg.
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Our online community
Bharbara Gudmundson has posted photos that will be part of her exhibit at Carnegie.
Louise Painchaud has joined the network and posted about her new Boxairs - boxers for women.
New members this month
Adrienne MacAllum
Enterprising Women Making Art
Sandra Pronteau
Add your own event
To add an event, you first of all have to register on the site (free), and then you can post any community arts events. Put DTES in the Type of Event, and it'll show up in the DTES tab under EVENTS. (You can also put any of the other words in that list as well).
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| City of Vancouver and Vantage Point
have collaborated to offer workshops for non-profit groups in Vancouver who receive funding from the City. To view the list of workshops, click
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| Visual Arts In Vancouver, a homeless shelter gets an art installation
An article in the Globe & Mail by Marsha Lederman
The dining hall at the Union Gospel Mission's new facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is a model of efficiency. With its cafeteria set-up, family-style seating and huge food-storage area, it's a vast improvement over the cheek-by-jowl communal-table arrangement that preceded the new $29-million building, which opened last April. But it's fairly obvious that the immense room, with its big, blank, mustard-and-grey walls, could use a little something. Like some art.
Click here for the whole story and
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| EMBERS Staffing Solutions Wins Social Enterprise Dragons Competition
Well now it's official. Out of a field of nearly 30 applicants, EMBERS Staffing Solutions and two other BC social enterprises emerged victorious at the inaugural Social Enterprise Day in the City of Vancouver. (Click here to read more.)
Congratulations to our neighbours in the Woodward's Heritage Building from the CACV.
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COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISM:
Celebrate our courage!
Sun Mar 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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Art Cart is a mobile art gallery and vending cart for the communities of Gallery Gachet and Oppenheimer Park. The Art Cart is a vessel for artists to transport and sell their work, as well as a being a hub for curated exhibitions and projects, community workshops and public events. Art Cart seeks alternatives for "artist space", and in its own way represents an act of creative survival and resistance. Developed in collaboration between Oppenheimer Park and Gallery Gachet, Art Cart aims to support artist exposure, creative exchange, and art sales. Like drawing, it can be unhinged from convention as it navigates the shifting possibilities for art in the local cultural realm - who makes it, who shows it, who sees it and who sells it.
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| Community Arts YVR NEWS
Eco-Arts Salons
Every 4th Wednesday 7-9 pm
Roundhouse Community Centre
Behind Open Doors
Wed Mar 28
Eco Poet Cornelia Hoogland
Wed April 11
Emerging Eco-Artists Panel
Wed April 25
Bees Please Habit-Art
Wed May 23
J. Peachy
Wed Jun 27
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
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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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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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March 14, 2012
Greetings!
I'm very pleased that the Board has appointed me as chair of the newly formed DTES Community Arts Program Committee. Mary Bennett and I along with other members of the Committee and Board are facilitating a Community Consultation to gain input on the role that the Community Arts Council of Vancouver can best play in the Downtown Eastside. You are invited on Tuesday, March 20, from 1:30-4:30pm at Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy, to join us and share your thoughts. Free, but please register so we know how many to expect. Click here or send an email to me or phone the office to let us know you're coming. Members of the CACV who do community art in the DTES are welcome to bring brochures or other information for display and sharing. You can see the committee description here. Leslie Kemp is the Board Past President
and Chair of our DTES Community Arts Program Committee
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DTES Community Arts Program Consultation The Community Arts Council of Vancouver invites you to come and give your input for community art program priorities in Vancouver's Downtown eastside.
Leslie Kemp, past president and Chair, DTES Community Arts Program Committee and Mary Bennett, administrator will facilitate a process to help us determine priorities for the coming year.
Various CACV people will give short presentations on:
- Current projects in DTES
- Community Arts Fund Fundraising
- History of involvement in DTES community arts
- DTES Community Arts Program - terms of reference and representatives
- Current projects that you can be involved in
Most of the session will be participative aimed at hearing your thoughts.
 Tues Mar 20 1.30-4.30pm
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy across from Oppenheimer Park
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Art Cart +Salon: Shop Drawing RoomCurated by Ali Lohan and Ayaz Kamani
Fri Mar 23
11am Welcome to Oppenheimer Park, come eat cake, wave it on its maidem voyage!
7pm Celebrate with Art Cart + Salon Shop artists at Gallery Gachet for drawing room's opening reception.
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2nd Annual Songs of Mahalia Jackson
An Evening of Music with
Dalannah Gail Bowen
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.
Sat Mar 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
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Community Arts Networking Series
We have now offered two workshops in our new Community Arts Networking Series for 2012 and are very pleased with how this new initiative is unfolding. For those of you who are new to this newsletter, our Networking Series is a series of workshops held on the last Monday of the month during the afternoon, in which we explore a particular topic through presentations by guest speakers as well as interactive small-group discussions in order to facilitate networking opportunities amongst attendees. At the end of each session, workshop attendees are invited to suggest topics for future sessions later in the year.
Our January workshop focused on the use of various social media platforms in promoting one's organization/work and networking with others. The February session entailed a very thorough overview by Judi Piggott of BC's various group designations (charity, nonprofit, cooperative, social enterprise, etc.) and accompanying guidelines. Below are the workshops slated for March, April and May, along with their respective links for registering.
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Sonja Embree is the Board Vice-President and coordinates the DTES Networking Series.
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Grant Writing I:
Available Programs & Writing the Proposal
A popular session at the CACV, this will be the fourth offering. Mary, Administrator of the CACV, will review some of the grant programs offered by the city and province, explaining eligibility requirements and key application criteria. Ifny, who is the Finance and Development Director at Gallery Gachet, will share her experience of preparing and submitting grant applications. Finally, Sonja, CACV Board Vice President, will then provide advice and techniques for structuring a grant proposal, including writing style, sample phrases and ways to uniquely position your proposed project.
To register for this workshop: http://grantwriting1.eventbrite.com/
* Please note this workshop is now full, but you can still add your name to a wait list.
Mon Mar 26 2-4pm
Woodward's Heritage Building, W Room (5th Floor)
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Grant Writing II:
Finances & Preparing a Budget
A winning grant application requires a sound budget, which will demonstrates 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 explanation and useful advice on how best to present a budget, including monthly and annual financial expenses, revenue-generating initiatives, and deficit reduction plans.
Presenter: David Lee
Mon April 30 2-4pm
Woodward's Heritage Building
W Room (5th floor)
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Women and the Arts:
Sharing and Learning From Each Other
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.
To register for this workshop click here
Mon May 28, 2-4pm
Woodward's Heritage Building.W Room (5th floor)
Presenters: TBD
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Here at the CACV, we are excited about our new Networking Series!
Thank you to the City of Vancouver for providing the W Room on the 5th Floor of the Woodward's Heritage building for our series.
While primarily intended for organizations that provide community arts events in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, we will also welcome individuals and groups from other neighbourhoods, if space permits.
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THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS.
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