Next Volunteer Orientation
with Mary Bennett and Amanda Peters
Thurs Apr 12 6-7pm
111 West Hastings 3rd Floor
Register here.
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Our Members
Click above for a list of our members.
Your community arts group can be listed for a minimum donation of $25.
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Artists in the Streets
The Carnegie Street Band played and there were enough scissors and red ribbons for everyone at the Art Cart launch.
 The Art Cart is launched!
Click here to follow the progress. Our Communications committee plans to follow the cart as it wends its way around.
Thanks to the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program for funding for these two programs.
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CommunityArtsYVR on Youtube
Stanley Park Environmental Art Project - 6 videos
 Memory & Movement - 3 videos with past presidents
 Transformation: Community Arts in the Downtown Eastside
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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 fans 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 Grant Writing II presented by David Lee
Details and registration here.
Thank you to the Province of BC for funding support of 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.
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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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This Week
Eco-Arts Salon - Wed. 7-9pm @ Roundhouse Community Centre
 Eco poet Cornelia Hoogland from London, Ontario and Hornby Island will give a presentation and workshop.
The Girl in Red, The (en)Dangered Woods
Hoogland's book Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) is the source of this workshop/reading that leads participants through the woods into the dark underpinings of the fairy tale Red Riding Hood. Hoogland uses slides, poetry, discussion and storytelling to stimulate the images and metaphors of participants' own understandings of the fairy tale (to use, if they wish, in their art forms).
The more we can tease out the similarities and differences among tales, the closer we can get to its power and meanings. After tens of thousands of retellings of Red Riding Hood, what remains? What has changed? Who/what is truly dangerous today?
See cacv.ca/activities/environmental-art for more about our environmental art programs.
FREE - Please register here.
Community Arts Vancouver Orientation Thurs. 6-7pm @ 3rd Floor, Woodward's Heritage Building, 111 West Hastings at Abbott RSVP appreciated to activities@cacv.ca or click here.
Bees Please Parade - Sun. April 15 starts at 6th & Trafalgar traffic circle at 2pm - goes to Cypress Community Gardens by way of 6th & Yew - the Bees Please Traffic circle. We are recording the event for a documentary film on "cross-pollinating community." This is one of our 5 Eco-Arts projects over the past year thanks to the City of Vancouver and BC Arts Council.
This event is produced by Mary Bennett through a Neighbourhood Small Grant from Vancouver Foundation and Kits Neighbourhood House. If you want to join Mary and her friends and neighbours for lunch at 12:30 and music with GoGo Bonkers, please check out her website about the neighbourhood.
Hope to see you at one of these events.
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 Thank you to our many volunteers We are hosting a volunteer recognition social. If you are a volunteer (or have volunteered in the past year), please RSVP here.
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We want you to know what you mean to community arts in our city!
For over 65 years, the CACV has been a volunteer-driven organization. Now, as a part of National Volunteer Week, we want to invite all Community Art Council's volunteers to participate in a special celebration to recognize the critical role you play in our city's arts and culture.
Come out and meet other likeminded volunteers! Share your experiences with CACV events and community arts.
There will be activities, awards, fun photos, refreshments and snacks.
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Volunteer Canada is a wonderful resource if you are a volunteer, work with volunteers - or want to.
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On March 20, about 20 of us (Downtown Eastside artists, residents and representatives of organizations involved in the arts) attended a consultation organized by the CACV to talk about issues facing the neighbourhood. We created a map of key organizations and projects involved in the community arts. We also shared ideas for possible collaboration among various organizations and created a list of "offers" and "needs" - what people could offer others in collaborative work and what they need to work more effectively. Participants said that the afternoon was an engaging way to begin to identify possible collaborative projects and key priorities for community arts. 
Community consultations are key to the work of CACV's newly created Downtown Eastside Community Arts Program Committee. The Committee was established to guide our community arts work in the Downtown Eastside. Its mandate is to develop programs and opportunities for Downtown Eastside residents to experience and participate in the community arts. This mandate will be carried out through collaborative activities and programs with Downtown Eastside community organizations. We are still "populating" the committee but are pleased to announce the following appointments by the CACV Board of Directors: Richard Evans, Architect and DTES community participant, Terry Hunter, Executive Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre, Rika Uto, Arts Programmer at Carnegie Community Centre and CACV Board members Leslie Kemp (who has been appointed Committee Chair) and Jessica Numminen (also with Atira's Enterprising Women Making Art project). Stay tuned for opportunities to contribute your ideas about community arts in the Downtown Eastside.  Leslie Kemp,
Chair
leslie@cacv.ca
Thank you to our host for the consultation. 
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Thank you to a grant from Arts BC for Arts & Culture week, we are offering an additional Eco-Arts Salon on Wed. April 25 7-9pm featuring a panel of emerging eco-artists.
We are in final stages of selecting the panel.
For details and to RSVP please click here.
The Environmental Arts committee meets 5-6pm this Wed and from 5:30-6:30pm before each Eco-Arts Salon. Contact eco-arts@cacv.ca if you'd like to join this active group.
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Our volunteers did another writing and collage making session with Intrepid Pens. A dozen mail art postcards have been mailed to Ed Varney on Vancouver Island for a Mayworks Mail Art exhibition in Nanaimo.
Meanwhile, here in Vancouver W2 is coordinating Mayworks in Vancouver.
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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.
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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