Community Arts Dialogue
h4>>We regularly convene Community Arts Dialogues. To check out the latest news, go here.
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Downtown Eastside
2011 Lunar New Year Parade!
h4>>Community Arts Council of Vancouver celebrated the Lunar New Year by entering a parade team for Chinatown's Spring Festival Parade 2011.
On Sunday, February 6th/2011, prior to the Chinatown Parade, CACV held a pre-parade gathering at Victory Square Park. Under a tent, provided by the Carnegie Outreach Street Team, parade team members and the general public enjoyed hot tea and snacks. The …
DTES Community Arts Program
h4>>The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) is coordinating 12 events in the Downtown Eastside between May 2010 and February 2011 as part of our new Creative Pathways program. The program aims to create connections between DTES community members and professional artists and to provide DTES visitors with a chance to experience the area in fresh and creative ways.
Program coordinator, Sita …
On the Importance of Community Arts: Savannah Walling’s Presentation at AGM 2010
h4>>I’m the artistic director of Vancouver Moving Theatre, a company I co-founded over 25 years ago in the Downtown Eastside with my husband and colleague Terry Hunter. We collaborate with artists of many genres and traditions to create interdisciplinary repertoire and festivals influenced by Vancouver’s Pacific Rim culture and our inner city neighbourhood.
After touring internationally for 15 …
Change and Continuity: The DTES’s Gift to Vancouver – An Article by Michael Clague
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 …
Artist Bio-Esther Rausenberg
h4>>Esther Rausenberg is a Strathcona based artist currently working on phase 1 of the Strathcona Art and History Trail project, an art project regarding the issues of strathocona neighbourhood. Between summer and December of 2010 she will work with Strathcona residents to design art and history markers in Strathcona that honour significant events, people and stories of Strathcona.
Rausenberg has …