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Charity Gift Cards from Canada Helps

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Charity Gift Cards – Give the perfect gift for everyone on your list: colleagues, friends, family, neighbours… everyone! Select a holiday-themed card design and personalize your message. Your recipient can spend the card on any registered charity in Canada – whichever cause matters most to them!

We at CACV hope you’ll recommend your friend consider the Community Arts Council of Vancouver!

Eco-Arts Salon January 2013 Meet and Greet

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Meet and Greet in January
We plan to kick off our 2013 series with a meet-and-greet social at the Roundhouse. Pitch your projects. Bring your friends. A mix of artists, environmentalists, actists, educators, students– and the rest of us!
Save the date: Wed. Jan. 23 7-9pm. More details coming later.
Register here and you’ll get updates delivered to your inbox.

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. Province of British Columbia for funding support for our Community Environmental Arts Program.

Calling all Community-based Eco-Artists!
We are currently booking the Eco Arts Salons for February-June 2012. These monthly evening presentations showcase your work to the public with opportunities for feedback, networking and community participation.The objective of these salons is to create a space for stimulating dialogue around questions such as “What does it mean to be an environmental artist?” and “What is the potential for community engaged environmental art in Vancouver?”

Each presenter, professional or project-based, is also asked to facilitate a hands-on component as part of their salon which could involve group writing, making, musical components, etc.These events are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month at the Roundhouse Community Art and Recreation Centre from 7-9pm.

If your art practice engages with ideas of community-building and centers on the environment, we’d like to see your work at our Salons. We will be selecting 5 artists or collaborative groups to feature in the upcoming Salons. Artists receive a $200 honorarium for the presentation.

Requirements

  • Your artistic practice might include performative work (e.g. dramatic, dance), sound-art, time-based art (e.g. film), sculptural works, 2D artwork or literary art (e.g. story-telling, spoken word). You might have a particular project within your practice that you would like to feature.
  • It must engage with community in its production or in its reception.
  • It should be something that can be defined as “Eco-Art”.
  • This could include low impact (e.g. reuses materials, is ephemeral, is site-specific) works, or might centre on environmental awareness, education or causes.

Deadline

Submit your suggestions for an Eco Arts Salon to eco-arts@cacv.ca no later than Friday, January 6, 2012.

Survey

Have you attended an Eco-Arts Salon in the past? We’d like your feedback to help us plan future salons.

Fill out a short survey here.