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SWITCH 2016 Launches Awards and Meets Fundraising Record

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h4>>The 5th Annual SWITCH was presented at The Imperial on November 17, 2016 to a sold out audience. MC Stephen Quinn hosted a full program of entertainment including: Stephen Lytton and Renae Morriseau, St. James Music Academy, James Garton and Demon Squad, Scruffmouth, and The Leisure Principle. Featured artists including: Leef Evans, Stacey Smith, Zola Star, Richard Tetrault, and Christine …

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Notice of 2015-16 AGM

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h4>>The annual general meeting of the Community Arts Council for the 2015-16 year will be held on Thursday, December 1st, 2016 from 6:30–8pm at the Woodward's Heritage building (111 West Hastings St) in the W Room on the 5th floor. The door from the atrium locks automatically at 6pm. We will try to make sure someone is downstairs to let people in. If no one is there when you arrive, please call or …

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Update on the Yulanda M. Faris Young Philanthropist Award

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h4>>The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) launched the Yulanda M. Faris Young Philanthropist Award earlier this month to recognize leaders in fundraising for the arts under 35 years old. The winner will receive the award at CACV’s annual fundraiser SWITCH! November 17, 2016. Since that time, a donor has stepped forward to provide financial sponsorship of the award. The winner of the …

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Yulanda M. Faris Young Philanthropist Award Launched

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h4>>The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) has launched the Yulanda M. Faris Young Philanthropist Award to recognize leaders in fundraising for the arts under 35 years old. The winner will receive the award at CACV’s annual fundraiser SWITCH! November 17, 2016, an event that Yulanda Faris co-founded to support the Community Arts Council of Vancouver and the Community Arts Fund. Yulanda …

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Catalyzing the Collective Imagination: The First Community Arts Unconference

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h4>>In September 2013, I started working as the coordinator of the Community Arts Fund Program with the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. Since 2011, a community jury has awarded annual project grants of up to $5000 to Downtown Eastside organizations working collaboratively with an artist. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of overseeing 4 cycles of funding partnerships with diverse …

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Gastown Designated as National Historic Site

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h4>>On May 17, 2016, Mayor Gregor Robertson and Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna unveiled a plaque to commemorate Gastown as a national historic site. CACV was invited to participate in the unveiling ceremony to honour its advocacy efforts to preserve Gastown in the 1960s & 70s. Mayor Robertson retold the story, relayed to him by First Nations elders, about the …

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