The Future of Community Arts in Vancouver - Community Arts Council of Vancouver

A display and celebration of the

future of community arts in Vancouver

Come down to the Woodward’s Atrium and mix and mingle with organizations involved with kids, youth and community art!

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Time: Sat. Nov. 26 12 noon to 9pm

Place: Woodward’s Atrium, Hastings and Abbott

RSVP on Eventbrite so we can know you’re coming. Click here.

PROGRAM/SCHEDULE

ALL DAY

Deer Crossing the Art Farm www.deercrossingtheartfarm.org
Deer Crossing the Art Farm from the Sunshine Coast will be facilitating an activity of making cut outs of bodies and hanging around the atrium. Upcycled materials from packaging around logging trucks (!) that otherwise would go into the dump – bring your body and your creativity. We’ll have everything else you need.

Vancouver Society of Storytelling
A lovely storytelling living room -couch, tea, storyteller – what else would you want? Come and sit down for storytelling – and enjoy an intimate and low-impact arts activity

12 noon – 3pm – art-making, theatre games and more!

King George Secondary Writers The writers group at King George Secondary have been making “pixels” – small collages with images and writing that come together to make an image where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. You can add your own “pixel” by making a mini-collage with your message about the Future of Community Arts. Then hang it up for all to see.

12:00-5:00pm Purple Thistle
Thistlers will facilitate making word play collages.

12:00-3:00pm
Environmental Youth Alliance EYA are bringing a variety of invasive species from their gardens (and possibly English ivy from a public park). You can learn how to crochet using the invasive materials and garden tools. The activity is inspired by Sharon Kallis’ work.

CACV Environmental Arts Activities – Our volunteers can talk with you about the projects we’ve done – and plan to do while you watch some of the examples on the video screen in the Atrium.

Some Assembly Arts Society (as Roundhouse Youth Theatre Group)

will facilitate improv theatre and games – we want a large group so come on out!

Something Collective

This artists’ collective from South Vancouver will facilitate an “Exquisite corpse”. What’s an exquisite corpse? Think surrealism.

Stream of Dreams Murals Society
in cooperation with the False Creek Watershed Society and St. George Greenway will encourage you to make a silver salmon. Take it home. Give it to a stranger. Display it in the atrium. Your choice

False Creek Watershed Society

St. George Creek & Greenway

1:30-3:00pm Van Van the Chinatown BIA’s Mascot will be there to met and greet you.

2:30-3pm 65th BIRTHDAY CAKE

Meet the Community Arts Council of Vancouver – Join CACV Board members for a walkabout and enjoy a slice of birthday cake (vegan carrot cake – yum!) too.

3:00-6:00pm

Arts Umbrella will have a display of their programs with kids and youth

Green Thumb Theatre will provide school house structures for kids to decorate – part of their campaign with the Vancouver School Board to restore Carleton House School.

6:00-7:00pm
Urban Native Youth Association
Drumming, some art pieces/artisan pieces for sale

Thank You To:

W2 Community Media Arts

W2 has helped us set up video presentations on the Atrium video machines
A special meal will be available at W2 Media Cafe- $7 gives you vegan or meat flatbread with salad.
W2 are also “baking us a cake” – Vegan carrot cake – coming up – come by at 3pm and have a slice – singing Happy Birthday appreciated but optional!

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Want to get involved?
Please contact future@cacv.ca to let us know how you’d like to be involved.

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