Lenore Rowntree's writing has appeared in several journals and anthologies, and she is a co-editor and contributor to the anthology Hidden Lives: coming out on mental illness (published by Brindle & Glass, 2012). If I Became a Money Plant If I became a money plant money plant would become snake snake, shining lantern and if I became a shining lantern lantern would …
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We will be offering five half-day (or evening) workshops in a variety of Vancouver locations in January. Two volunteer assistants are needed to work with a professional artist and community group. The sessions will teach skills on working with invasive or abundant natural materials and the group will create a snake sculpture as part of our "Year of the Snake" Lunar New Year project. The role …
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Well, it is that time of the year, the beginning of The Season. The festivities that will get us through the long, dark, days ahead. Cheer you up? No. Okay, let's go to the Heart of the City Festival, organized by the incredible Vancouver Moving Theatre team, showcasing and highlighting arts and craft in the Downtown Eastside. Featuring all the people we know and love, (well, for the most …
Vivian facilitated heart art from invasive materials at our community arts dialogue in September. Read an article in UBC Reports August, 2007 For aspiring entrepreneur Vivian Bomberry, the irony of the term cohort -- used in education circles to define a group of students in the same class year -- wasn’t lost when she began her studies in the Ch’nook Advanced Management Program at …
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Ghia will read poems at the Dialogue on Saturday. Ghia Aweida is a founding member of Intrepid Pens; a reading-writing group that began at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC) and now operates out of W2 Media Cafe (Vancouver BC). She was born November 15, 1965, in Beirut, Lebanon. She is of Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese descent. She attended elementary school in Lebanon, spent a …
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Todd Polich is an environmental mural artist that has painted over 30 wildlife and nature conservation murals throughout the lower mainland. After graduating from Vancouver Film School Todd went on to a successful career in the film and video games industries. As a digital artist and art director for Enigma Entertainment, Radical Entertainment, and Electronic Arts Todd worked on several motion …
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