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Eco-Arts

Carry Our Snake in the Chinatown Parade

January 3, 2013 by CACV Admin

h4>>We want to have a large contingent in this year's Spring Festival parade in Chinatown. Can you help to carry the snake lantern? Or the yet-to-be-realized snake sculpture by Alastair Heseltine and community members? Have ideas about how to make sounds like a snake? Send a note to volunteer@cacv.ca if you're available from 10am to 3pm on February 17. …

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Dance Our Snake on Granville Island

January 3, 2013 by CACV Admin

h4>>Jacquie Rolston lantern artist will be at the Granville Island Lunar New Year event - with the snake lantern. We still need a couple more volunteers to dance the snake lantern. …

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Snake Sculpture Workshops with Alastair Heseltine

January 2, 2013 by CACV Admin

h4>>Join our Eco-Arts initiative in the creation of a snake sculpture for the Year of the Snake! Artist Alastair Heseltine will lead five half-day sessions at the Firehall Arts Centre Courtyard and teach skills on working with natural materials, including green willow. The snake sculpture workshops are part of a series of events to engage with community members celebrating the lunar new year. The …

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Snake Lantern Debut

December 22, 2012 by CACV Admin

h4>>The 21st December was the winter solstice 2012, the longest darkest night of the year, and the night Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese garden was transformed with hundreds of beautiful lanterns of all shapes and sizes hung in the trees, stationed in the ponds, and guarding hidden alcoves and rock features. The lanterns are traditionally created into a variety of shapes in the form of animals, …

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Salon

December 18, 2012 by CACV Admin

h4>>We're often asked: "What's a salon?" The official definition: A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ("aut …

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Follow the Snake – Feb 8, 10, 17 and beyond…

December 11, 2012 by CACV Admin

h4>>Snake in the News Province http://www.theprovince.com/news/foot+long+sculpture+marks+Year+Snake+Vancouver+garden/7896041/story.html Westender http://www.wevancouver.com/news/190029651.html Metro Vancouver cover photo February 8 on Breakfast TV with Dawn Chubai and on Shaw TV Lunaria snake and artist Jacquie Rolston were interviewed on CBC On the Coast February 8. Have you sighted …

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