The 3rd Annual Strathcona Harvest Festival is back again! This year some really exciting changes and improvements are taking place, including an upgraded music component, new activities and much more!
This event is co-sponsored by our Creative Pathways Project.
Try to see the event happening on September 19th between noon and 4 PM. Check out their website for more info:
http://harvest.strathconaevents.ca/
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Esther Rausenberg is a Strathcona based artist currently working on phase 1 of the Strathcona Art and History Trail project, an art project regarding the issues of strathocona neighbourhood. Between summer and December of 2010 she will work with Strathcona residents to design art and history markers in Strathcona that honour significant events, people and stories of Strathcona.
Rausenberg has worked and volunteered in the non-profit sector since 1979, including the Firehall Arts Centre, The Norman Rothstein Theatre, Strathcona Community Centre Board and G&F Financial Services. She is a creative and motivated person who has initiated and implemented innovative projects and initiatives, ranging from housing to the arts. She has an MA in Asian Policy Studies (UBC) and a post- graduate diploma in Asia Pacific Management from Capilano University where she was also a faculty member for 5 years.
Esther is developing her unique direction as a photographer, studying and exhibiting locally, nationally and internationally. She has travelled both locally and internationally, and different series of her photographic work reflect Asian, Latin American and South American themes along with those of her immediate west-coast environment. Her subjects are charged with her technical inventiveness and the distinctiveness of her vision.
Esther has documented several public art projects for the Canadian public art group La Raza including the mural exchange project in London Ontario (2007) and exhibited in the group show at the Salon de Plastica Mexicana in Mexico City, November 2007. She photographed their mural activities during their tours of Argentina (2006) and Mexico (2005) cultural exchanges. Her work was part of the group’s latest collaboration titled “Idea of North-Visual Variations” that features the work of six Canadian artists. The work was exhibited in Merida, Mexico in March 2010. Recently, she documented the “Eastside Mural Projects” in Vancouver.
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We would like to personally invite all of our associates to the official reopening of the Oppenheimer Park, a moment we have all been looking forward too, happening on Saturday July 24 from 11:00-14:00 on the park grounds.
Food and beverages will be available (of course there is a BBQ) amongst great entertainment from…well, we won’t spoil the surprise!
The Park is located on 488 Powell Street ( @ Jackson street) and if you have any questions please contact the info line at 604-2578400
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With funding from Westbank, the developer of the Woodward’s project, and the City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Department, 36 local residents and artists worked with an experienced public art educator to design a mural on the hoarding for this mega housing and commercial development.
The participants ranged from those with little or no arts experience to artists who had not been practicing due to health and other issues. Most were just surviving a marginalized existence either on the streets or in transient housing.
Professional development was a component of the project. Workshops were offered with established muralist, Richard Tetrault, who presented slide shows of past projects and offered support to artists throughout the process of creating the mural. Emerging artist, Guinevere Pencarrick, also offered a workshop on the effective use of colour.
Click here to see the mural: www.cacv.ca/pages/mural.html
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A project began in 2006 to create a set of Land Use Development Principles for the Downtown Eastside to preserve and enhance the character, culture, art, and historical structures of the community. The tenth principle established for the project states that the provision of local arts and cultural programs, health, education and social services is integral to creating a healthy community for all residents.
CACV is the sponsor of the Downtown Eastside Community Land Use Principles Project, an ambitious project related to the future of the Downtown Eastside as a community. The purpose of this project is to contribute to the renewal of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with and for the benefit of those who presently live and work in the area. It recognizes the Downtown Eastside as an area of historic and contemporary importance to Vancouver, composed of distinct neighbourhoods and communities of rich cultures and traditions.
The project is bringing community and business leaders together to discuss the design and form of buildings that reflect housing requirements, community amenities and support, and how neighbourhoods can be revitalized, – to prepare a “Blue Print for Sustainable Urban Development in the Downtown Eastside”
Amidst all the development in Vancouver over the past 20 years homelessness and inner city decay have accelerated. The consequences of this atrophy is spilling out to all areas of the city. Vancouver cannot make a claim to achieving urban greatness until there is quality of life for all. The Community Arts Council believes there is a powerful connection between the arts and creating inclusion and giving voice. The Council’s believes the Downtown Eastside Community Arts Network and the land use project are integral for inner city renewal.
The land use project has been convened by Milton Wong, philanthropist and former Chancellor of Simon Fraser University whose Harbour Centre campus borders the Downtown Eastside. Funding has been provided by the Real Estate Foundation of BC and the Vancouver Foundation.
To date the land use project has published:
A Background Brief on Homelessness and Affordable Low Income Housing-PDF was published in January 8th, 2007, to provide accessible, easily readable factual information about issues of housing and homelessness, summarize the existing plans and proposals to date, and provide examples of what other jurisdictions are doing. It included:
The State of Non-Market Housing in the Downtown Eastside – PDF prepared by Andrew Yan was subsequently published to report on the state of non-profit housing in the Downtown Eastside, including ownership and housing stock.
Building Community through Affordable Housing A Blueprint for Sustainable Urban Development in the Downtown Eastside, which recognizes that the Downtown Eastside is an area of historic and contemporary importance to Vancouver, composed of distinct neighbourhoods and communities of rich cultures and traditions, was published on September 21st, 2007.
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