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Event: Dig In – Environmental Arts Symposium Sat. Sept 26

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Check out the website for Public Programming related to the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project for details.

Workshops run: 10:00-12:30 and 1:00-2:30 pm

Community Arts Council of Vancouver volunteers will be present before and after and at lunch break to talk with you about the importance of the community arts in Vancouver.

DIG IN programs are FREE but please pre-register with the Roundhouse as space is limited. Please register by calling the Roundhouse Community Arts Centre at 604-713-1800. (A membership in the Roundhouse Community Arts Centre is not required.)

Volunteer Opportunity: Interviewing People from Our Past

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Memory and movement – is an inititive to connect people from CACV’s history with CACV today.

As part of the initiative we are interviewing selected past presidents.

Interviewers are needed who will:

– conduct 3-5 interviews

– preferably including audio and/or video clips

– photograph or request photographs from the individual

– write the interview up and check with the individual

– post the interview online

This work will require approximately 20-40 hours between now and September 30, with most work being done before mid September.

It will involve 2-3 meetings with the other volunteers to coordinate the interviews.

Contact maz@cacv.ca if you’d like to know more.

EVENT: Art + Ecology – a conversation with John K. Grande

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John K. Grande
John K. Grande

On Thursday July 16, 2009, at VanDusen Botanical Garden, 60 people gathered to hear John K. Grande trace the pattern and history of how ‘Land Art’ morphed into ‘Earth Art’ and discuss concepts of ‘the natural’ and ‘the manufactured’ as they apply to sculpture in the environment. His presentation will be illustrated with images from the Earth Art show he curated for the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario this summer.

The presentation was followed by questions and discussion.

John K. Grande is author of numerous books on art and environment including Dialogues on Diversity (2007 – Pari, Italy ) and Art Nature Dialogues (www.sunypress.edu NY, USA) as well as the classic Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose, Montreal, 1994 and 2nd edition 2004)

Harry Jongerden, current Garden Director of VanDusen Botanical Garden, was previously the Director of Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton and worked with John to create the “Earth Art” opportunity. http://www.rbg.ca/

This evening is presented in conjunction with the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project; for more information on the project go to: www.vancouver.ca/spea
Project partners: The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, The Stanley Park Ecology Society and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.

Means of Production Artist’s Community Garden

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We are involved with and helped start the Means of Production Artists Community Garden in the Mount Pleasant area of Vancouver.

Means of Production started in 2002 with Oliver Kellhammer as lead artist and instigator, working with Vancouver Parks Board, the  Community Arts Council of Vancouver and Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA).  The piece of land straddles  Vancouver Park Board and City of Vancouver engineering land and is on lease to the Environmental Youth Alliance.

In 2009, Community Arts Council of Vancouver with funding from the City of Vancouver sponsored MOP Out! – an outreach and communications programs for the tea parties and events held at the garden. In 2012 the Garden is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. Happy anniversary, MOP!