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Announcing the 2nd Annual Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival!

January 17, 2018 by Kelsey Savage

h4>>The Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (VOAF) offers visual and performing artists facing social exclusion and other barriers opportunities for exhibition and sales, performance and participation, connection and learning. The 3-day free festival takes place at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre from August 10-12, 2018, and includes individual artists as well as organizational …

Community Responds to the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival

September 17, 2017 by Kelsey Savage

h4>>Below are a few of the responses we received from the inaugural Outsider Arts Festival. A huge thank you from me and all the dancers for this opportunity to be part of Vancouver Outsider Art Festival this year! It was amazing meeting and seeing all these artist share their work and passion. We truly had a really great experience performing on this stage. - Artist Wonderful event team. …

Feedback for Illicit: A Workshop and Performance Conversation

August 18, 2017 by Kelsey Savage

h4>>From Managing Artistic Director & Facilitator Kelty McKerracher: "On the opening night of the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival, the Roundhouse Community Centre stage played host to the debut performance of Illicit: Stories from a Harm Reduction Movement. Co-researchers performed to a very nearly full house; the audience was a healthy mix of our ever-supportive DTES community, as well as …

Illicit: A Workshop Performance & Conversation

August 10, 2017 by Kelsey Savage

h4>>For the last ten months, growing out of the community of the PHS Drug Users Resource Centre, a group of harm reduction workers and frontline responders from the Downtown Eastside community have been meeting monthly to investigate the nuances of illicit drug culture, the human impacts of drug policy, and the realities of the opioid overdose crisis that claimed more than 900 lives in BC last year, …

Reframing Relations Welcomes 5 New Artist-Facilitators

July 17, 2017 by Kelsey Savage

h4>>This spring, CACV brought on board 5 new artist-facilitators for our Reframing Relations program. They join CACV Program Manager Kelty McKerracher and Project Director Ronnie Dean Harris leading arts-based workshops in school and community settings that deepen engagement and understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Our pilot program in schools is complete and we look forward to …

The VOAF Needs You!

June 15, 2017 by Kelsey Savage

h4>>Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival August 11th - 12th Bringing outsiders in... Are you looking to become more involved in the Vancouver Arts community, but don't know where to start? Do you have volunteer hours you need to fill for school, or perhaps you simply have some free time on your hands this August? We have the perfect solution: our first Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival is seeking …

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