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Feedback for Illicit: A Workshop and Performance Conversation

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From Managing Artistic Director & Facilitator Kelty McKerracher: "On the opening night of the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival, the Roundhouse Community Centre stage played host to the debut performance of Illicit: Stories from a Harm Reduction Movement.  Co-researchers performed to a very nearly full house; the audience was a healthy mix of our ever-supportive DTES community, as well as …

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Illicit: A Workshop Performance & Conversation

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For the last ten months, growing out of the community of the PHS Drug Users Resource Centre, a group of harm reduction workers and frontline responders from the Downtown Eastside community have been meeting monthly to investigate the nuances of illicit drug culture, the human impacts of drug policy, and the realities of the opioid overdose crisis that claimed more than 900 lives in BC last year, …

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