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h4>>Hello from our CACV team!   This past summer we took an arts abroad adventure with funding support from Canada Council for the Arts - Arts Abroad Travel grant. We travelled to Finland and Denmark to explore & research future artistic collaborations and programming with partner outsider arts organizations.  For context, we’ve produced the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (VOAF) at the …

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h4>>We are thrilled to announce that Gurnoor Powar is joining the CACV team as our new Arts Admin Assistant! 🎉🎉🎉 Gurnoor Powar, a second-generation Panjabi-Canadian, is currently in her final year at the University of British Columbia (UBC), located in Surrey, BC. Her academic pursuits revolve around English literature, complemented by a minor in Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) for …

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h4>>Thank you so much for attending our Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival in October. We are celebrating our most successful festival ever! 🎉🎉 A recap of our festival numbers: Special thanks to all our our amazing team, generous volunteers who donated their time and our partners and sponsors: Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver, Canadian …

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h4>>The Neurodivergent Artist Collective (NAC) is a new collaborative effort by neurodivergent artists in Vancouver to take space in a neurotypical world and works to dismantle invisible inequities in contemporary art spaces. Members of the collective self-identify as neurodivergent and have felt alienated from engaging in the arts due to barriers such as a lack of access. The collective aims to be …

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h4>>We’re excited to announce that our Annual General Meeting (AGM) for our fiscal year 2022-23 will be held as a hybrid meeting both on Zoom and in-person on Saturday October 14, 2023 from 3:30-4:30 PM. This year's AGM is hosted during our Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Centre, so members can attend the festival before or after the AGM. Please join us and meet …

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