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Happy Vaisakhi Day in Vancouver
Every April, millions of Sikhs world-wide celebrate Vaisakhi Day, a day that marks both the New Year and the anniversary of one of Sikhism’s most important events, the establishment of Khalsa in 1699 with the first Amrit ceremony.
Vancouverites have two Vaisakhi Parades to choose from: the Vancouver Vaisakhi Parade happening on April 14, 2012, which attracts about 50,000 spectators, and the annual Surrey Vaisakhi Parade and Celebration on April 21, 2012, which attracts 80,000 – 200,000, making it one of the largest Vaisakhi parades outside India.
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Spring Day at Trout Lake in Vancouver
Water and Dogs go together on a sunny day at Trout Lake
Art Cart Launch “Art Cart” Takes Community Art to City Streets
Art Cart Launch
“Art Cart” Takes Community Art to City Streets
Fri Mar 23, 2012 – 11:00am Oppenheimer Park, 400 Powell Street (@ Jackson)
VANCOUVER BC, Coast Salish Territories – Gallery Gachet and Oppenheimer Park are cutting the ribbon on the Art Cart. This is a community red ribbon cutting, so please join us!
The Art Cart is a mobile art gallery and vending cart. With its light, aerodynamic design it is attached to a bicycle or pushed by hand, and features art by people facing barriers to accessing resources and space.
“Art Cart takes the ‘art gallery’ concept into the community at large,” says Lara Fitzgerald, Gallery Gachet’s Programming Director. “It can roam freely into neighbourhoods, encouraging the public to engage with art in new ways, while allowing emerging community artists to reach a wider audience.”
The Art Cart launch is timely. Artists and collectives continue to lose studios and gallery spaces to gentrification in the Downtown Eastside; Gallery Gachet itself may be losing its longtime home at the end of 2012. The Art Cart underlines the precarious existence of many artists, while celebrating community engagement with a vibrant local art movement. It will also serve as a roving hub for curated exhibitions, community workshops and public events.
“The launch of the Art Cart shows the determination of local organizations to serve the residents of the community, and to provide them with a imaginative and exciting mobile gallery,” says Terry Hunter, Artistic Producer of the DTES Heart of the City Festival. “This is community art in action. And dollars in pockets for low income residents. And community pride!”
The Art Cart is a collaboration between the Oppenheimer Park community and Gallery Gachet’s artist collective, providing alternate means for creative exchange, empowerment and art sales. Through a collaborative ideation process, it was designed by industrial designer Dean Bennett, and manufactured by Toby’s Cycle Works. The project was made possible by the City of Vancouver’s Great Beginnings Program and with support from the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.
About Gallery Gachet: Gallery Gachet is a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside established in 1992. Through artistic means, Gallery Gachet aims to demystify and challenge issues related to mental health and social marginalization, to educate the public and promote social and economic justice. http://gachet.org
AHA MEDIA at W2 Belongs to Me Event in Vancouver DTES
SATURDAY MARCH 24 SCHEDULE
2pm WELCOME
Gather in the second floor Community Lounge, enjoy a cup of complimentary coffee and baked goods from our in-house cafe. Tour through our 3-levels and basement crossmedia studio. Hear a welcome “state of the union” address from W2 Board and staff on what we have accomplished, where we are at, and where we are heading.
2:30-3:30pm FIRST CONCURRENT SESSIONS +++++
Choose a topic or working group that you are currently involved in, are curious about, or waiting to dive deep into!
A) PROGRAMMING
media arts, festivals, music, literary, electronic arts, all ages, long tables, your ideas…
B) COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
crosscultural, redress, digital divide, access, DTES, urban Aboriginal, SFU students, your ideas…
C) CROSSMEDIA BROADCASTING
W2 TV, CJSF, Coop Radio, Shaw Cable, multi-platform broadcasting, interactive, demos, tech services, your ideas…
D) VIDEO HISTORY of W2
area for video presentations/looping with some presenters/informal
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3:30-4pm BREAK / informal open space
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4-5pm SECOND CONCURRENT SESSIONS+++++
A) COMMUNICATIONS
Web, graphic design, social media, computer programming, street teams, your ideas…
B) W2 MEDIA CAFE
Social enterprise food operation, catering opportunities, politics of food production and serving, coffee, local food, urban agriculture, your ideas…
C) W2 RADIO
The W2 Morning Radio Project is W2’s current affairs program broadcast every weekday at 6-8am on 102.7FM. This conversation is designed for current or future contributors to discuss the state of the show and how we can build it.
D) LETTERPRESS
Interactive demonstration on letterpress, programming, fundraising, your ideas….
E) VIDEO HISTORY of W2
area for video presentations/looping with some presenters/informal
5-6pm RECEPTION
Join us at this optional reception for a complimentary beverage and food samplings from the W2 Media Cafe, as we wrap up the day with conversation. This is for individual W2 members like you, plus group members: Simon Fraser Student Society, Open Media, Coop Radio, CJSF, KAYA Songweavers, AHA Media, Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival, W2 Radio, Fearless TV, and you!
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