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Artists in the Streets Project

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h4>>This unique Creative Pathways project showcases Downtown Eastside involved musicians, performers, and artists animating greater Downtown Eastside streets, events, and activities at selected times and locations until the end of February 2011. All performances are free events. Upcoming performances will enhance the Heart of the City Festival and feature: DEET STREET Four years ago, the idea …

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Michael Clague

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h4>>Michael Clague (C.M.) Michael Clague works in the fields of adult education, social policy and planning and community development. He has done so in rural and urban areas for the three levels of government, for the voluntary sector and as a private consultant. He has taught and written and published extensively on public policy issues, community development and social planning. His most recent …

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Change and Continuity: The DTES’s Gift to Vancouver – An Article by Michael Clague

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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 …

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Lena Felde

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h4>>Lena approached us from Germany last spring, and was "pleasantly persistent". She had chosen CACV as her ideal placement for an internship as part of her Masters in Cultural Sciences. Last night she gave a presentation on a theoretical context for social change and community arts. …

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Board 2009-2010

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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 …

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Yulanda Faris

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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 …

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