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Take heart! Take part! Change the World Through Art

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h4>>Community Arts Dialogue - October, 2012 Take Heart! Take Part! Change the World with Art! The Community Arts Council of Vancouver invites you to come and join the conversation about Community Arts in Vancouver. Agenda: 12:30pm          Doors open              Coffee available 1:00                 Welcome -      Will start promptly Gift Circle explanation and invitation – …

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The Heart of The City Festival 2012

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h4>>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 …

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Change of heART – Self-Empowerment by Design

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h4>>Click above for detailed agenda for Community Arts Dialogue Sept. 29, 2012 We regularly convene community arts dialogues to bring together artists, community members and those just interested in "creating community through the arts". The goals of our dialogues are to: Facilitate networking Share tools, resources and best practices Explore and increase awareness of community arts – what …

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Vivian Bomberry leads us in making “heart art” from invasive species

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h4>>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 Aweida will read from “Poetry of Hope”

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h4>>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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