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DTES Social Media Meetups

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h4>>We've found a winning program to facilitate introductions among DTES folk involved with community arts. Come and meet 5-8 other people you may know or have intended to get to know (or wish you'd known about!) View photos from our session in November during Heart of the City Festival. We introduce ourselves as people first! Then look (and like and share) each others' facebook pages and posts. …

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Kara Lee speaking at September Community Arts Dialogue

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h4>>Kara Lee Kara Lee is aBritish Columbiaartist whose art education began with working as an assistant for the restoration of very traditional art and receiving art tutoring from the art restorer and gallery owner.  Subsequent to that work she attended and graduated from the Emily Carr School College of Art and Design.  Post Emily Carr, Kara Lee attended and graduated from the Douglas College …

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The 2012 Eastside Swarm

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h4>>    I just listened to an interview with Lou Reed, an old interview, some time in the 1970's where he has great fun with the journalists, all straight faced.  You can listen to it on uwall.tv.   Okay, so this is not what the headline to this post says, but thought it would be nice to see how hard I work to get this blog out:)  Oh, right, and I also listened to Jeff …

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Tweet for Community Art

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h4>>Come to the UBC Learning Exchange and participate in  a network of people using social media to promote community arts in Vancouver. FREE - MUST PREREGISTER. I've begun to think of social media as a form of democracy. Every time I retweet, like or share - it's a little bit like casting a ballot. For those who proclaim retweets do *not* constitute an endorsement, perhaps I should say, I'm …

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Debridement: Turning Beach Debris into Art

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h4>>On August 22nd, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver hosted its first public presentation and consultation on making art from beach debris. This discussion-oriented Eco-Arts Salon was one of a series of such meetings that will occur over the next couple years, in order to conceptualize, organize, build and enjoy an art piece made from materials collected on the shores of Vancouver. The project …

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Culture Days in the DTES

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h4>>The folks at culturedays.ca are encouraging groups to "create a hub". So I went through the listings and found events happening around V6A and V6B - You can download the 6 page pdf, or create your own schedule by clicking "add to my schedule"  at the website. More details about the Community Arts Dialogue we are hosting Sept 29 1-4pm at UBC Learning Exchange - go to …

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