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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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Sandra Pronteau reading at Dialogue

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h4>>S A N D R A P R O N T E A U Found such gratitude within this province of British Columbia and feels so valued and had many opportunities in exploring and sharing many interests in all levels. With the support of past Instructors and mentors; writing is a form of Art when sharing poetry or having the courage to write argumentative essay papers or even to the past Prime Minister. Writing …

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Elliott Slinn reading poetry at our Dialogue

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h4>>Elliott Robert Slinn is a Canadian writer/poet from New Westminster, British Columbia. He attended Douglas College where he majored in creative writing and philosophy. He has one collection of poems to date, titled “Act like you’re carrying a weapon” and has recently had three of his poems published in Pearls (the Douglas College yearly anthology) and was awarded ‘poem of the …

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The 2012 Eastside Swarm

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h4>>    I just listened to an interview with Lou Reed, an old interview, some time in the 1970's where he has great fun with the journalists, all straight faced.  You can listen to it on uwall.tv.   Okay, so this is not what the headline to this post says, but thought it would be nice to see how hard I work to get this blog out:)  Oh, right, and I also listened to Jeff …

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Tweet for Community Art

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h4>>Come to the UBC Learning Exchange and participate in  a network of people using social media to promote community arts in Vancouver. FREE - MUST PREREGISTER. I've begun to think of social media as a form of democracy. Every time I retweet, like or share - it's a little bit like casting a ballot. For those who proclaim retweets do *not* constitute an endorsement, perhaps I should say, I'm …

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