NEWS RELEASE February 14, 2013 What: Snake woven from green willow / Snake lantern from lunaria plant and recycled materials with lead artists Alastair Heseltine and Jacquie Rolston When: Spring Festival: Sunday, February 17, 2013 Parade starts 11am Where: Parade starts at Millennium Gate; goes to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden In …
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Lunaria has been a feature in several events since the Winter Solstice festival including the 2013 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Chinese New Year Dinner on January 27 and the 2013 Granville Island Lion Dance on February 10. Check out these pictures! If you've spotted our Lunaria at other events and snapped a picture of your own and would like to see it up here, just drop as an email at snake@cacv.ca …
January’s Salon was a thought provoking event attended by an enthusiastic, engaged audience of CACV members together with people attending a Salon for the first time which was great to see. The night kicked off with an insight into the fantastic eco-arts related work being carried out by three different local organizations- The Stanley Park Ecology Society, The UBC Student Environmental …
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ay is a ball of energy! – you should have seen her around kids at Henry Hudson Elementary school where she was one of the workshop artwork facilitators for the Debridement project (a partnership between Community Arts Vancouver and Vancouver Maritime Museum). Even her endeavours in the digital world (as a blogger, illustrator (that beautiful illustration on our Debridement poster is her work), …
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Debridement at the Maritime Museum – opening February 11th “Debridement is the process of removing nonliving tissue from wounds to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.” We are increasingly concerned by the protection of our environment. We imagine the vibrant waters with life, colorful corals, and swarms of multi-colored fish. But we cannot any longer walk …
It is now well into the month of February and the Lunar New Year of the snake fast approaches. As you may know, Alastair Heseltine, of Hornby Island, joined us to head a week-long series of workshops to create a beautiful woven willow snake. The snake is currently in wait at the interior Dr. SunYat-Sen garden. We are also pleased to announce that CBC On the Coast’s Michelle Eliot will be …
