COMMUNITY
ARTS
COUNCIL OF
VANCOUVER

INVITATION to COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF VANCOUVER

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Location: Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy

Come to 304 Dunlevy and join us for a program and meeting

6:00-6:50 pm – Registration and Membership

Social and community art experience

Refreshments

Video Project: Tell us How can the arts help create community?

6:50-7:00 - Powerpoint presentation of CACV activities and members*

7:00–7:15 – Welcome and acknowledgements

Heather Deal will be the keynote speaker at our annual general meeting Nov. 25

7:15-7:35 –Keynote Presentation: Arts in the City – City Councillor Heather Deal

7:35-7:50 - Questions & Answers with Councillor Deal

7:50-8:00 – The Downtown Eastside Community Arts Fund Launch

8:00-9:00 – pm - Annual General Meeting

Vote for your Board of Directors for the coming year. Nominating Committee report will be posted at: http://www.cacv.ca/governance

*If you are a member of CACV and want to be included, just send me 1-4 photos with captions.

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.

Sabrina, Mary & Derek with our display table at the Tea Party

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.)

Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Band at the Tea Party - the horns are made from various trees and plants including wild cow parsnip and Empress trees (grown on the site)

Click on the Means of Production Artists Raw Resource Collective website for details on the collective, events and location of the garden.
Community Arts Council of Vancouver volunteers talked with people about what the arts mean to them–and enjoyed the tours and tea.

Miss Jody serving herbal teas in style. Photo: Sharon Kallis

Our AGM is set for Wednesday evening, November 25, 2009.

A new board of directors will be elected – we have vacancies that will be posted by the nominating committee.

Eastside Culture Crawl “echo” exhibit – for browsing – and chatting with artists.

Theme speakers – tba

Location: Chapel Arts

John K. Grande

On Thursday July 16 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.

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver, the first arts council in North America, had its annual general meeting November 27. Approximately 60 people came to learn about our various projects, members and donors. Several people offered to get involved with CACV.

Program – Community Arts in Our Town
A dialogue on how the Community Arts Council of Vancouver
serves a changing Vancouver with speakers
Amir Alibhaiand and Richard Tetrault.

Amir on Galiano Island standing in the centre of one of his “rock paintings.”

Amir Alibhai Recently retired from the Roundhouse after 11 years, Amir has been an outstanding advocate for community arts, and has served on the Canada Council for the Arts.  He has been a practicing multi-disciplinary artist for twenty years.

Community Walls/Community Voices – A collaborative mosaic project located on Commercial Drive, Vancouver 2003-04

Richard Tetrault is a visual artist living in Strathcona who has an active studio and community art practice. In 2008 he was awarded the Vancouver Mayor’s Award for Community Art.

Discussion was on community arts in a changing Vancouver
Thanks to Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy, Vancouver BC for hosting the event.

We also enjoyed the Art Show “Echo Chamber” from the Vancouver Eastside Culture Crawl.

Files for download:

CACV Membership Form – pdf
CACV Membership Form – word 2003