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.

Stanley Park Environmental Art Project

CACV board secretary, Susan Gordon, admiring Birth by Tania Willard, Stanley Park Environmental Art Project

CACV is a partner with Vancouver Park Board and Stanley Park Ecology Society on this project.
Funders include BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver.

Stanley Park Environmental Art Project artists Photo: Paul Colangelo

Semi-Permanent Works completed in the summer of 2009 Photos: Paul Colangelo

Hibernators, an Ephemeral Work by Shirley Wiebe. Photo: Paul Colangelo

Shortly after installation of Cozy, nature began to add to Shirley Wiebe's semi-permanent piece. Photo: Derek Irland

Dig In
A one-day workshop at the Roundhouse by the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project partners including a hands-on workshop, a tour and a panel of the artists involved in the project.

Leaf and Seed Palette

Means of Production – MoP Out!

Welcome to the Tea Party. Guests at the tea parties are invited to write their name on a wooden clothespin and then add a flower to embellish. Photo (and idea): Sharon Kallis

CACV worked with the Means of Production Artists Raw Resource Collective to provide outreach and communication.

Creating the fences from willow and hazel wood grown in the garden. Photo: Sharon Kallis

You Must Tell the Bees. In 2009 a bee hive was installed. Lori Weidenhammer was the artist in residence planting a garden designed to attract bees. Photo: Sharon Kallis

Jody Macdonald serving Herbal Teas - in style. Dragons head, dandelion root, wild bergamot, anyone? Photo: Sharon Kallis

Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Band at Means of Production Tea Party Photo: Sharon Kallis

Ivy Project

Ivy Weaving workshops by Sharon Kallis

Sharon Kallis worked with an amazing number and diversity of groups on the ivy project.

City Opera Vancouver
CACV supported City Opera Vancouver through hiring them for various projects, including in the downtown eastside.

Margaret Atwood with Charles Barber, Artistic Director of City Opera Vancouver

Here Artistic Director, Charles Barber meets with Margaret Atwood, writer for the upcoming chamber opera, Pauline.

The Emperor of Atlantis, a production of City Opera Vancouver played to many sold out audiences and critical acclaim.

City Opera Vancouver produced Emperor of Atlantis in 2009

Arts in the Downtown Eastside
We worked with the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts on a number of projects including the Chinatown Night Market, Community Quilt and Fabric Arts Projects.

Quilt Square from the Community Quilt Project run by the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts for CACV. Photo: Hannah Beckingham

Community Quilt project at the Interurban. Photo: Hannah Beckingham

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

We are a group of six, and at any one meeting there are usually 3-4 of us – and very welcoming of new members.

If you have writing, editing, design, social media experience – or simply willing to be a host at a community art event to welcome people and give them information – we’d like to hear from you.

Community Arts Council of Vancouver

Communications Committee

Terms of Reference

Purpose:
The CACV communications committee will:
• encourage communication within and among our members and our community
• encourage our members to engage with CACV to carry out our mission and vision

In doing its work, it will keep in mind the following:
CACV Vision: CACV is the voice for the community arts in Vancouver
CACV Mission: CACV creates community through the arts
CACV Goals: From the July, 2009 board retreat, the following goals are most relevant:
Increase/improve communications
Achieve greater recognition of CACV among community artists and community organizations
Make website more engaging
Nurture relationships with media for increased CACV exposure and recognition

Take leadership in setting community arts direction
Convene a conference of community arts in Vancouver
Determine how to improve networks for community artists in Vancouver

Composition:
The CACV Communications Committee will include at least one board member and the administrator.
It will include 2-5 additional volunteers who will attend one meeting a month and take on other tasks between meetings, such as taking photographs, writing/editing material and collecting contact information for our communications.

Meetings and Tasks:
The CACV Communications Committee will have a working meeting once a month to:
- plan, write and compile e-newsletters
- collect material including photos to update the website
- extend our presence on social media such as facebook
- consider additional communications initiatives and prepare recommendations for the board.

Approved by CACV board on September 17, 2009

Contact marycacv@gmail.com for details or just show up at the September 26 Dig In environmental art workshop and talk with us then.

We’ll continue discussions around interviewing people about “the community arts”; having a presence at various community arts events.

October meetings will be primarily focused on inviting people to join and attend our annual general meeting. November meetings will plan the hosting of the AGM including registration, information displays, set-up and program.

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.

Fringe by Shirley Weibe – Photo by Paul Colangelo

A series of environmental works of art have sprouted among wreckage of the 2006 windstorm that knocked down thousands of trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.

The works — some of which are on display in prominent places, like the old polar bear exhibit near the Aquarium, or along secluded trails — are part of the first (temporary) phase of the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project.

Each of the installations, which can be viewed with a self-guided map downloaded at vancouver.ca/spea, is designed to last for a couple of months, up to two years.

Tania Willard, a Sec­wepemc (Shuswap) artist, said she was drawn to the project because it used only natural materials and was done in consultation with ecologists.

“It felt like a holistic approach to an art project in the Park,” said Willard, whose work, Birth, is an exposed hemlock root system on the Cathedral Trail near the Lost Lagoon.

T’Uy’Tanat Cease Wyss, with Italian-born sculptor Davide Pan, planted West Coast species on a red cedar stump. The plants’ names were carved into the stump in Squamish and English.

“The inspiration is about putting a more visible face to that land with an invisible handshake between indigenous and non-indigenous species,” Wyss said.

Other projects included Hibernators and Fringe by Shirley Wiebe and Cedar by John Hemsworth and Peter von Tiesenhausen.

The works are a lead-up to a number of semi-permanent installations (lasting between two and five years) next summer.

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