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Nicole Phillips Designed Our Year of the Snake Poster

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h4>>Nicole is a Vancouver based Graphic Designer. With a background in Fine Arts from Langara College and a career in Advertising as a Graphic Designer, she brings knowledge and experience from working on advertising campaigns and designing various marketing collateral. Nicole hopes to provide her creative skills for events, workshops and marketing, on a regular basis. - thank you, Nicole, for the …

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Carry Our Snake in the Chinatown Parade

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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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Snake Sculpture Workshops with Alastair Heseltine

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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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Winterlude………..

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h4>>Well, the mid-winter festivals have been celebrated; today is the first day of a new year. 'The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older' - Pink Floyd. It is a good life when there is something to celebrate in the middle of winter, especially in these cold and dark climes where the daylight hours are so, so, so, short.  Feasting, partying (hopefully with some common sense), …

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