by CACV Admin
Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival offers performance, exhibition, learning, and connection to visual and performing artists facing exclusion. The 5th annual festival takes place in October 2021. Community Arts Council of Vancouver is hiring a Festival Coordinator, a part-time seasonal paid position supporting the 2021 Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival. The Festival Coordinator (FC) works directly …
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by CACV Admin
Fall is often seen as the season of transitions. That ‘back to school’ feeling comes up. Not the same way this year though. Has anyone else been feeling like change and uncertainty has become the new normal? Is that a newly surfaced deeper truth? Impermanence made obvious… “Life is in the Transitions” is the title of a new, suspiciously well-timed book by Bruce Feiler. In an interview, he says …
The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) stands in solidarity with Black communities in Vancouver, across Canada and the U.S. and around the world in strongly asserting that systemic racism and violence against Black people must end. We recognize that Indigenous people, People of Colour, LGBTQ+, and people living with disabilities are also especially susceptible to violence in …
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Dear Friends, In response to public health recommendations, we closed our office to the public effective March 16, 2020 and will be working remotely. Please be aware that ongoing programs and public events, scheduled for the near future, are likely to be affected. For ongoing programs, CACV is exploring options to move our programming online. We are monitoring developments and …
by CACV Admin
The following is the March/April blog post by John Howard Artist in Residence Johnny Trinh. To read more on Johnny’s Residency, click here. Cough. Something as simple as a cough can spark fear, then violence, then isolation. Cough. Something as complex as a cough can mean a range of conditions: a cold, a choking hazard, asthma, an allergy, water down the wrong pipe, a too …
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The following is the February blog post by John Howard Artist in Residence Johnny Trinh. To read more on Johnny’s Residency, click here. Putting People First As program manager of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, I have the privilege of overseeing some amazing initiatives. All of our programs aim to support communities, people within communities, and foster social transformation. As …
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