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Change and Continuity: The DTES’s Gift to Vancouver – An Article by Michael Clague
h4>>By Michael Clague, President, Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Ever since I began working and volunteering in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) 11 years ago I have been trying to understand the full implications of what I experience and learn each day I am in the community. What follows are my current reflections gleaned from conversations with many friends and colleagues who live and …
Lena Felde
Board 2009-2010
h4>>PRESIDENT – Michael Clague, C.M.
Michael has been executive director of three voluntary agencies, the Britannia Community Services Centre, the Community Services Centre, the Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria, and the Social Planning and Research Council of BC. From 1996 to 2005 he was director of a City of Vancouver facility, the Carnegie Community Centre in Vancouver. In …
Yulanda Faris
h4>>"I feel we don't dance enough. If we danced more and sung more, I think that we'd be happier people"
-Yulanda Faris
Yulanda Faris, arts philanthropist, chair of the Vancouver Opera Foundation, and honorary chair of the Judith Marcuse Dance Project, spoke at the CACV Annual General Meeting on November 25, 2010. Born in Jamaica, Yulanda came to Canada to attend McGill University and moved to …