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Change of heART – Self-Empowerment by Design

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h4>>Click above for detailed agenda for Community Arts Dialogue Sept. 29, 2012 We regularly convene community arts dialogues to bring together artists, community members and those just interested in "creating community through the arts". The goals of our dialogues are to: Facilitate networking Share tools, resources and best practices Explore and increase awareness of community arts – what …

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Vivian Bomberry leads us in making “heart art” from invasive species

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h4>>Vivian  facilitated heart art from invasive materials at our community arts dialogue in September. Read an article in UBC Reports August, 2007 For aspiring entrepreneur Vivian Bomberry, the irony of the term cohort -- used in education circles to define a group of students in the same class year -- wasn’t lost when she began her studies in the Ch’nook Advanced Management Program at …

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Ghia Aweida will read from “Poetry of Hope”

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h4>>Ghia will read poems at the Dialogue on Saturday. Ghia Aweida is a founding member of Intrepid Pens; a reading-writing group that began at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC) and now operates out of W2 Media Cafe (Vancouver BC). She was born November 15, 1965, in Beirut, Lebanon. She is of Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese descent. She attended elementary school in Lebanon, spent a …

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Todd Polich talks about engaging with kids and youth

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h4>>Todd Polich is an environmental mural artist that has painted over 30 wildlife and nature conservation murals throughout the lower mainland. After graduating from Vancouver Film School Todd went on to a successful career in the film and video games industries. As a digital artist and art director for Enigma Entertainment, Radical Entertainment, and Electronic Arts Todd worked on several motion …

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Joji Kumagai speaking at Dialogue

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h4>>Joji Kumagai is the Executive Director of the Strathcona Business  Improvement Association (SBIA). One of the core mandates of the  SBIA is its  Green Zone Initiative, an initiative to create a community of  businesses working to reduce enviromental impacts through  resource efficiency and  collaboration. Joji majored in ecology and toxicology at Simon Fraser  University and is currently working …

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