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Celebrating Life and Death: All Souls at Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery

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h4>>An Interview with Community Artist Marina Szjiarto by Anna Wilkinson Earlier this October(2010), I took a walk around Mountain View Cemetery with Marina Szjiarto the art and technical director of Vancouver’s All Souls. In its sixth year, Marina describes the series of All Souls events as a time for community members to come to the Mountain View Cemetery and remember the dead. On October …

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Carla Bergman – Youth, Arts and Activism

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h4>>Community Artist Interview Carla Bergman, Purple Thistle Centre by Anna Wilkinson   anna@cacv.ca How do the arts help to create community? I am interested in art that sits outside of careerism and the market where it can level the distinction between "amateur" and "professional."  Making the arts accessible and in most cases, free, helps people easily move from being a cultural consumer …

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Lyle Povah – Rhythms of the Body and Mind

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h4>>Lyle Povah: rhythms of the body and mind written by Kirstie McCallum Lyle Povah is a performer with a special interest in African drumming. He has studied and performed worldwide as a musician and educator, particularly in the areas of  health and creativity, leadership, community building, eating disorders, autism and intergenerational learning.  He was a participant in the Community Arts …

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Sharon Kallis – Art Materials from a One-Mile Diet

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h4>>Sharon Kallis will be presenting at our Community Arts Dialogue on Nov. 5 with Rachael Campbell-Palmer. Recently Sharon was our Eco-Arts Salon  presenter on Wednesday, October 26, 2011. With a “one mile diet” approach to sourcing art materials, Sharon Kallis works to discover the inherent material potential in a local landscape. By involving community in connecting traditional hand …

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Aleida Vandenbosch

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h4>>Introducing  Aleida Vandenbosch Aleida Vandenbosch, at Main Street Car-free Day When have you created community through the arts? As often as I can! I believe that using the arts is a great way for communities to develop culturally and it's usually a very economical form of entertainment too! Through my work in the visual and performing arts sector, I engage in projects and collaborate with …

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The Culture Days Event That Could

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h4>>Anita Neufeld, CACV social media volunteer, recounts CACV’s Culture Days celebration. If you didn’t make it to Community and Arts Throughout Our Lives, here’s a little rendition of our afternoon at Britannia Community Services Centre, September 25th, 2010. We were pretty excited at the Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) to be part of the 2010 Culture Days. Although BC had a ‘quiet’ …

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