http://www.cacv.ca Creating Community through the Arts Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:39:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en INVITATION to COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF VANCOUVER ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Location: Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy [caption id="attachment_393" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Come to 304 Dunlevy and join us for a program and meeting"][/caption] 6:00-6:50 pm – Registration and Membership Social and community art experience Refreshments Video Project: Tell us How can the arts ... http://www.cacv.ca/annual-general-meeting Environmental Art Stanley Park Environmental Art Project [caption id="attachment_201" align="alignright" width="300" caption="CACV board secretary, Susan Gordon, admiring Birth by Tania Willard, Stanley Park Environmental Art Project"][/caption] CACV is a partner with Vancouver Park Board and Stanley Park Ecology Society on this project. Funders include BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver. [caption id="attachment_204" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Stanley ... http://www.cacv.ca/photo-collage-2008-09 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. [caption ... http://www.cacv.ca/dig-in-environmental-arts-symposium-sat-sept-26 [caption id="attachment_275" align="alignright" width="225" caption="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)"][/caption] Click on the Means of Production Artists Raw Resource Collective website for details on the collective, ... http://www.cacv.ca/tea-party-sept-13 Our Communications Committee meets one to two times per month, alternating an evening meeting at the Carnegie Centre, Main and Hastings, and the Alliance for Arts and Culture, 938 Howe (or a nearby location) from 12 noon to 2pm. We are a group of six, and at any one meeting there ... http://www.cacv.ca/cacv-communications-committee-terms-of-reference Our  Communications Committee will meet on in October and November. 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 ... http://www.cacv.ca/communications-committee 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 http://www.cacv.ca/annual-general-meeting-wed-nov-25-2009 [caption id="attachment_232" align="alignright" width="300" caption="John K. Grande"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.cacv.ca/next-event Jeff Hodson Metro Vancouver December 04, 2008 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 ... http://www.cacv.ca/beauty-in-destruction 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 ... http://www.cacv.ca/community-arts-council-annual-general-meeting