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Call for Artists – Invent

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h4>>Submissions are now closed. Due to the large number of responses, accepted submitters will be notified by email on Friday, April 12th. Thank you to all who have responded to this call. We will celebrate BC Arts & Culture week with a community art making afternoon titled “Invent” on Saturday, April 27, 2013, from 12:30 to 4:00 pm at the UBC Learning Exchange. We are seeking artists to …

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Making Art In The Downtown Eastside

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h4>>I just finished writing this absolutely brilliant post - tried to add some images..........................Gone!  Gone!  Lost in ...........Cyberspace.  Sometimes I miss the days of wine and roses, no, no, I mean the days of paper and cut and paste.  Even if some particular page was ripped and tossed one could always go scrabbling in the dustbin and,  painstakingly swearing all the while, glue the …

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Artists & Environmental Orgs: January Eco Arts Salon

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h4>>January’s Salon was a thought provoking event attended by an enthusiastic, engaged audience of CACV members together with people attending a Salon for the first time which was great to see. The night kicked off with an insight into the fantastic eco-arts related work being carried out by three different local organizations- The Stanley Park Ecology Society, The UBC Student Environmental …

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Join us at Chinese New Year Parade with Snake, Drums, and 350 Water Drops!

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h4>>Bring your friends and join us; Chinese New Year Parade will be HUGE this year! Snake Lantern, DTES Harmony of Nations Drumming Group and 350 Water Drops (UberDrop) will be in our contingent for the Chinatown Parade on February 17. We will be celebrating the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Snake) / Lunar New Year / Spring Festival and sending a clear message about community, water, art and …

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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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Snake poems and stories at Sun Yat-Sen Garden

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h4>>***This call is now closed. *** The Community Arts Council of Vancouver's Eco-Arts initiative is looking for poets/storytellers/performers to assist in our event on Tuesday, December 11 at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden where we'll be creating a snake lantern for the Winter Solstice and then the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown. To get us in the spirit, Susan Ma, Education Director …

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