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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On May 17, 2016, Mayor Gregor Robertson and Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna unveiled a plaque to commemorate Gastown as a national historic site. CACV was invited to participate in the unveiling ceremony to honour its advocacy efforts to preserve Gastown in the 1960s & 70s. Mayor Robertson retold the story, relayed to him by First Nations elders, about the …
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On December 21st, CACV once again teamed up with the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and the Secret Lantern Society to bring our Community Cube to the Winter Solstice Lantern Festival. As soon as the doors opened, we were flooded with eager participants. Staff members Chris Gilpin and Kelty McKerracher were on hand to facilitate the activity, but were amazed at how participants …
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Once again the CACV is accepting applications for collaborative community arts projects from Downtown Eastside organizations. You will find the application, a brief guide to the application, budget template, and detailed project guidelines below. Please read all guidelines carefully. Submission deadline: April 15, 2014, 5pm Application package: DTES CAF Application Form 2014 …
Community Arts Council of Vancouver invites you to join us for Chalk Draw on August 20th from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Drop by the Woodwards Building on the southwest side of the Atrium between JJBean and SFU. We have chalk, you have imagination. Draw, write, share your art and your thoughts with the Woodwards Building community. We hope you will learn a little more about all the good that …
