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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Social Media
We may be Eco but we sure aren't luddites!
Don't forget to like our *new* Facebook page and follow us on Twitter:
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Eco-Arts Positions Open!
We are currently looking for volunteers who are interested in becoming involved with the effort to bridge the gap between environmental consciousness and artistic practice.
For more information see our blog.
If you would like to participate, please contact eco-arts@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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Volunteer
There are many opportunities to get involved with the CACV's Eco Arts Initiative, 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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April 24, 2012
Greetings!
April has been an exciting and unusual month for the Eco-Arts Initiative. We've gone beyond our usual schedule by bringing two Eco-Arts salons to the Roundhouse! While the first of these events has passed with the successful and well-received performance and discussion with poet Cornelia Hoogland, you still have the opportunity to participate in our Emerging Eco-Artists panel this upcoming Wednesday, April 25th. We've selected five different artists whose practice spans a variety of media. These artists will showcase their work to the public in a panel format with directed and open discussion to follow. There is no better time to come out to our salons- this is the future of environmental arts in Vancouver!
Eco Arts Co-Chair / Newsletter Editor
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Don't Miss Out!
Emerging Eco-Artists Panel
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The event will take place from 7:00-9:00 PM. Come prepared to be wowed by the future of Eco-Arts in Vancouver!
This salon will feature a panel of five emerging Vancouver-based artists. Photographer Peter Holmes will share his Water Portraits series which investigates water consumption and use around the globe. Purple Thistle member, Adam Huggins, is presenting his "Anthotyping" a unique process of creating photographic prints from plant material. Conceptual photographer, Jennifer Martin's ironic Fountain Series will be discussed within the context of Vancouver's lost creeks. 2010 Vancouver Grand Slam champion, spoken word poet Johnny McRae, will "speak for the trees". Robin Pickell will give insight into her documentary project "Eat Free with Me" that features her foray into dumpster diving. Each artist will show and discuss their work with the public where a Q & A period and networking will follow.
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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A Recap On March and April Salons
Our March and early April Eco Art Salons showcased unique and distinctly different approaches to how environment might inform artistic choices and approaches.
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In March the Vancouver performance group, Behind Open Doors Art Collective, brought the audience outdoors in a participatory movement score to False Creek. Here the group became uniquely attuned to one another and their surroundings. Later discussion brought out many ideas about the notion of 'nature' in an urban environment, and how planning of space often manufactures human movement and activity.
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Cornelia Hoogland reads from her book Woods Wolf Girl at the April Eco-Arts Salon.
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For the early April salon we were graced with the presence of poet, Cornelia Hoogland, who gave readings from her book, Woods Wolf Girl. This well attended event was fueled with lively discussion on the origins of the fairy tale Red Riding Hood and its environmental, social and animal implications.
With some lively events and great opportunities for meeting other involved community members and artists, we hope that you will mark off your calendars for upcoming salons and bring your friends.
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Feature Eco-Arts Volunteer: Diana Joy
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 While she has only been a volunteer with the Community Arts Council for the past two months, Diana has already made a positive impact. You may have seen or met her at one of our recent Salons where she greeted you as you entered. You might have seen her busied with the behind the scenes tasks that are critical to an event running smoothly. Diana has also been involved in our Emerging Eco Artists selection panel and has some valuable input from her years of involvement in the Vancouver Arts Community!
- Q. Why are the community arts important?
- Diana: "Community Arts are the expression of a community's personality; a method of engaging its citizens in sharing of opinions, reflections, reactions, questions and directions."
- Q. What are your hopes and dreams for CACV?
- Diana: "I hope that the CACV will continue to function long into the future as a sustainable entity for the support and promotion of artists and their work. The recent demise of the Playhouse Theatre painfully points out the possible fragility of such things."
- Join our online community to say "hello" to Diana and 268 others of our closest friends.
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