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Community Wellness, Collaboration and Nutrition by Lindsay Wong

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h4>>This is the November blog post by Inclusive Community Artist-in-Residence Lindsay Wong. For more information on Lindsay's residency, click here.  Hellen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” This is also true when storytelling workshops can be merged into teaching tools for health, nutrition, and dental hygiene. In writing practice, one always assumes that a …

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Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival: Call for Organizing Committee Volunteers

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h4>>Landon Krentz presenting VOAF 2018 Disability Justice Workshop. Photo credit: Tom Quirk The third Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (VOAF) will be held August 9-11, 2019. This 3-day free festival offers exhibition, sales, performance, learning and connection opportunities to Vancouver-based visual and performing artists facing exclusion. In 2018 we had over 1,200 people attend and sold over $ …

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Facing Our Fears With Scary Stories by Lindsay Wong

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h4>>The following is the November blog post from Inclusive Community Artist-in-Residence Lindsay Wong. To read more about Lindsay's Residency, click here. In a recent drug overdose incident, a neighbour, Darren, ran screaming and sobbing through the halls of our building, yelling for help and pounding on apartment doors. “Please, please! He’s my brother! He’s not waking up! Someone help! …

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Daniel Thomas: Special Olympic Athlete, Artist, and CSO User by Lindsay Wong

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h4>>The following is a blog post by Inclusive Community Artist in Residence Lindsay Wong. For more information on Lindsay, click here.  “The CSO has allowed me to become the person I am today.” Daniel Thomas and I have a shared joke about him being “the real artist-in-residence” at the CSO on Fraser Street, while I’m someone that was randomly hired. I have zero fine arts skills, but he’s the one who …

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‘Mapping Vancouver, Our Story’ by Lindsay Wong

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h4>>This is the September Blog Post by Artist-in-Residence Lindsay Wong. For a downloadable PDF version of this post, complete with photos, click here: September Blog Post Author Douglas Coupland once wrote, “Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.” With the torrential rains and the greying skies of September, …

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Story Gathering, Crime, and Homelessness by Lindsay Wong

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h4>>The following is the August Blog post by Inclusive Community Artist-in-Residence Lindsay Wong. Story Gathering, Crime, and Homelessness Three flashing cop cars surround us. A heavily bearded man that I recognize as a CSO user skips half-naked beside me on East Broadway and Ontario. He hums and sings loudly to himself. He tries to high-five me. I don’t know this man’s name, but he sometimes …

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