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Winterlude………..

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h4>>Well, the mid-winter festivals have been celebrated; today is the first day of a new year. 'The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older' - Pink Floyd. It is a good life when there is something to celebrate in the middle of winter, especially in these cold and dark climes where the daylight hours are so, so, so, short.  Feasting, partying (hopefully with some common sense), …

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The long, dark days of winter

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h4>>The long, dark days of winter are upon us; it is dark at 4 pm, the days are getting shorter.  Until the 21st day of December.............and then sun rise is earlier, and earlier, and soon it will be spring. There are many mid-winter festivals, many of them centered around light; Divali and Hanukkah among them.  There is the Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanza and Hogmanay.  In many …

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The Heart of The City Festival 2012

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h4>>Well, it is that time of the year, the beginning of The Season.  The festivities that will get us through the long, dark, days ahead.  Cheer you up?  No.  Okay, let's go to the Heart of the City Festival, organized by the incredible Vancouver Moving Theatre team, showcasing and highlighting arts and craft in the Downtown Eastside.  Featuring all the people we know and love, (well, for the most …

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Vivian Bomberry leads us in making “heart art” from invasive species

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h4>>Vivian  facilitated heart art from invasive materials at our community arts dialogue in September. Read an article in UBC Reports August, 2007 For aspiring entrepreneur Vivian Bomberry, the irony of the term cohort -- used in education circles to define a group of students in the same class year -- wasn’t lost when she began her studies in the Ch’nook Advanced Management Program at …

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Ghia Aweida will read from “Poetry of Hope”

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h4>>Ghia will read poems at the Dialogue on Saturday. Ghia Aweida is a founding member of Intrepid Pens; a reading-writing group that began at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC) and now operates out of W2 Media Cafe (Vancouver BC). She was born November 15, 1965, in Beirut, Lebanon. She is of Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese descent. She attended elementary school in Lebanon, spent a …

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Sandra Pronteau reading at Dialogue

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h4>>S A N D R A P R O N T E A U Found such gratitude within this province of British Columbia and feels so valued and had many opportunities in exploring and sharing many interests in all levels. With the support of past Instructors and mentors; writing is a form of Art when sharing poetry or having the courage to write argumentative essay papers or even to the past Prime Minister. Writing …

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