Community Arts Vancouver ? Dialogue 2012-09-29

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AGENDA

Hand Name-tags ? Welcome table ?/ Community Info Sharing ? Learning Lab / Coffee and mingling ? wherever

Member Outreach Volunteers Evi Vassious ?Tatanya Slavkova ? Roma Ahi ? Diana Joy ?Denise Cooper

Art with Vivianne Bomberry ? Carport

1:00 ? 1:30 Welcome ? Mary Bennett

Aboriginal welcome ? Sandra Pronteau

Poetry reading about Art, Heart, Self-empowerment

Sandra Pronteau & Ghia Aweida (Intrepid Pens)

Elliot Slinn -Slam Poet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbrlK9QawfQ

Speaking on the Theme (Francis) ?Gift Circle Hearts (Mary)

1:30 ? 1:45 ? ? ? Presentation: Orcas in the City ? Todd Polich and Joji Kumagai?- introduced by Francis

1:45 ? 2:00 ? ? ? Small Group Dialogue ?Artist-recorders: Paulina Mueller? Francis Denise ?Amanda ?Evi

2:00 ? 2:10????? Summary from small groups and Q&A with presenters

?2:10 ? 2:30????? Coffee break and gift circle, open networking, people bring things related to what they?re doing, set up easels for promo materials.

2:30 ? 3:00????? Heart Art ?-?Artist/facilitator: Vivian Bomberry of EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art.)

3:00 ? 3:15 ? ??Gallery Gachet ? Kara Lee and Anthony Meza-Wilson?- introduced by Denise

?3:15 ? 3:30 ? ? Small Groups

3:30 ? 3:40????? Summary from small groups and Q&A with presenters? ? Denise

3:40 ? 3:45????? Thank you to presenters, facilitators and supporters/funders

3:45 ? 4:00????? Evaluation/ Conclusion? ? Amanda

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Todd Polich of EarthFoundation.ca engaged with 80+ kids to create the Orcas in the City mural at Sunrise Market. Todd has created numerous murals and has created a new program called the Art of Empowerment. Joji Kumagai, Executive Director of Strathcona Business Improvement Association will join Todd in sharing how mural-making builds community.

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Dialogue questions:

1. What are your experiences in engaging with a group of people to create a visual art piece (mural or other)?
2. What guidelines do you need to use in engaging with children in a project?
3. Collaboration among several organizations is a key part of the Orcas in the City project. How would you go about building partnerships/collaborations for a project?
4. Questions for Todd and Joji?

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Gallery Gachet is a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver?s Downtown Eastside. Gachet is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space built to empower participants as artists, administrators and curators. Volunteer coordinator, Anthony Meza-Wilson and Collective member, Kara Lee?will share the story and their own stories.?

Dialogue questions

1. What are the challenges in engaging with diversity?
2. How can volunteers be sensitized to work with marginalized communities?
3. What are key steps to effectively and meaningfully engaging with volunteers to support community art
4. Questions for Gallery Gachet?

Gift Circle ? You?ll be invited to share (and receive) resources through a gift circle.

There will be an art-making ?break? to create heart art from?ivy or other invasive/abundant materials

Come meet fellow art enthusiasts and discuss how experiencing art can promote self-confidence, social justice, acceptance and growth.

Most of the session will be participative aimed at artists and supporters sharing their thoughts.

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Next Dialogue: Art and Social Justice

October 27 1-4pm

Presenters: Hope in Shadows calendar and DTES Writing Group

Saturday, October 27, 2012 1-4pm UBC Learning Exchange

Details and registration here.

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Source: http://www.cacv.ca/dialogue-2012-09-29

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