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Change and Continuity: The DTES’s Gift to Vancouver – An Article by Michael Clague

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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 …

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Lena Felde

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h4>>Lena approached us from Germany last spring, and was "pleasantly persistent". She had chosen CACV as her ideal placement for an internship as part of her Masters in Cultural Sciences. Last night she gave a presentation on a theoretical context for social change and community arts. …

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Board 2009-2010

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h4>>PRESIDENT – Michael Clague, C.M. Michael has been executive director of three voluntary agencies, the Britannia Community Services Centre, the Community Services Centre, the Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria, and the Social Planning and Research Council of BC. From 1996 to 2005 he was director of a City of Vancouver facility, the Carnegie Community Centre in Vancouver. In …

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Yulanda Faris

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h4>>"I feel we don't dance enough. If we danced more and sung more, I think that we'd be happier people" -Yulanda Faris Yulanda Faris, arts philanthropist, chair of the Vancouver Opera Foundation, and honorary chair of the Judith Marcuse Dance Project, spoke at the CACV Annual General Meeting on November 25, 2010. Born in Jamaica, Yulanda came to Canada to attend McGill University and moved to …

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Kirstie McCallum, Writer

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h4>>Kirstie just completed her first interview as a CACV volunteer - with Lyle Povah. Kirstie McCallum lives in Vancouver where she is the Dance Editor for Plank Magazine and an Editorial Assistant for Event Magazine.  She was raised in Prince Edward Island and studied in Halifax and Fredericton: she has a BA in Contemporary Studies and English from the University of Kings College and an MA in …

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