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Haruko Okano

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h4>>Haruko Okano will be leading our Eco-Arts Salon on Tuesday, December 6 at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden. 7-9pm At Okano’s Eco-Arts Salon, in addition to a discussion about her art practice, community members will have the opportunity to use natural materials she has gathered from the public park side and the Classical Garden as alternative artist materials. The art participants create, such as small …

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April Smith

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h4>>April, a 2011 DTES Small Arts Grant recipient, is Downtown Eastside resident, worker and advocate. She is usually a perky girl bouncing her way through the neighbourhood doing art, community outreach and story telling through the use of mobile technology.  Her favorite art style is situational photography and videography which highlights the variable aspects of our community from the light hearted …

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Hendrik Beune

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h4>>April, a 2011 DTES Small Arts Grant recipient, is Downtown Eastside resident, worker and advocate. She is usually a perky girl bouncing her way through the neighbourhood doing art, community outreach and story telling through the use of mobile technology.  Her favorite art style is situational photography and videography which highlights the variable aspects of our community from the light hearted …

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Julie LeBel

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h4>>Artist Julie LeBel with community member Nissa Howard will facilitate a session at our Community Arts Dialogue. Here's a bit about Julie from http://communityarts.ning.com When have you created community through the arts?I've started in 2001 with a project involving 13 community dancers in my home town, Sept-Iles (QC) after coming back from studying dance in Montreal at UQAM. Since I've …

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Vanessa Richards – MC for Community Arts NOW

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h4>>We're *so* happy to let you know that Vanessa Richards will MC our Dialogue and, as I understand it, wave her magic wand to create a community choir out of the assembled participants. Vanessa Richards is an inter/multi-disciplinary artist with a foundation in live art, theatre, creative writing, music, collaboration and programming. Her interests include participatory process and the role of …

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Dalannah Gail Bowen

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h4>>Dalannah Gail Bowen  Dalannah has been on the Community Arts Council board and started the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts. Dalannah Gail Bowen is a community activist, blues/jazz/gospel singer, published poet and playwright. Dalannah has survived homelessness and drug addiction. Dalannah presented  “A Healing Journey Through Art: From Homelessness To Purpose” at the Community …

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