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Event: Earth Day NEST

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h4>>PAST EVENTS Nest Come celebrate Arts and Culture Week and Earth Day Join local artist Sharon Kallis for a hands-on workshop to create woven sculptures for the CRAB Park marsh pond. These forms will serve as perches and nesting locations for park birds. Learn about the plants and wildlife of CRAB Park while helping to make this small ecosystem more livable for birds in the Downtown …

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Event: Dig In – Environmental Arts Symposium Sat. Sept 26

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h4>>Check out the website for Public Programming related to the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project for details. Workshops run: 10:00-12:30 and 1:00-2:30 pm Community Arts Council of Vancouver volunteers will be present before and after and at lunch break to talk with you about the importance of the community arts in Vancouver. DIG IN programs are FREE but please pre-register with the …

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Volunteer Opportunity: Interviewing People from Our Past

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h4>>Memory and movement - is an inititive to connect people from CACV's history with CACV today. As part of the initiative we are interviewing selected past presidents. Interviewers are needed who will: - conduct 3-5 interviews - preferably including audio and/or video clips - photograph or request photographs from the individual - write the interview up and check with the …

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EVENT: Art + Ecology – a conversation with John K. Grande

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h4>>On Thursday July 16, 2009, at VanDusen Botanical Garden, 60 people gathered to hear John K. Grande trace the pattern and history of how 'Land Art' morphed into 'Earth Art' and discuss concepts of 'the natural' and 'the manufactured' as they apply to sculpture in the environment. His presentation will be illustrated with images from the Earth Art show he curated for the Royal Botanical Gardens in …

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Means of Production Artist’s Community Garden

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h4>>We are involved with and helped start the Means of Production Artists Community Garden in the Mount Pleasant area of Vancouver. Means of Production started in 2002 with Oliver Kellhammer as lead artist and instigator, working with Vancouver Parks Board, the  Community Arts Council of Vancouver and Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA).  The piece of land straddles  Vancouver Park Board and …

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NEWS: Beauty in Destruction

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h4>>News article by Jeff Hodson published in Metro Vancouver - December 04, 2008 Fringe by Shirley Weibe - Photo by Paul Colangelo A series of environmental works of art have sprouted among wreckage of the 2006 windstorm that knocked down thousands of trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The works — some of which are on display in prominent places, like the old polar bear exhibit near the …

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