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Helping Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents vote in Vancouver’s Civic Election on Nov 19, 2011
From 8 am to 8pm, we helped many Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents be able to get to the polling station and vote for the new Vancouver City Council
PHS Peer Worker Appreciation Party in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Celebrating all the hard work that PHS peer workers do in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Knowledge Exchange on Homelessness and Health in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Welcome and blessing: Sam George
Dr Stephen Hwang – Research Scientist at the Centre for Research on Innet City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital “Canadian Crisis – the Hidden Cost of Homelessness”
Dr. Anita Palepu – UBC Associate Member, General Internal Medicine
Tom Laviolette – Director of Project Development, PHS Community Services Society
Laura Cowan – Executive Director, Street Health Community Nursing Foundation, Toronto
Michael Shapcott – Wellesley Institute, Toronto
Sean Spear – Associate Director, RainCity Housing
Meghan Thumath – Vancouver Coastal Health Clinical Practice Initiatives Lead, HIV/AIDS “Impact on Homelessness on HIV/AIDS and Approaches to Care and Treatment”
Craig Crawford (Acting) Vice President of Operations, BC Housing
Dr Bruce MacLaurin – Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, U of C “Preventing Homelessness: Developing the Homelessness Asset & Risk Tool (HART) Bruce MacLaurin on behalf of the HART Research Team”
Wendy Muckle – Executive Director, Ottawa Inner City Health “Understanding What Works – Breaking Down Barriers to Housing and Healthy Living for Women
Liz Evans – Executive Director, PHS Community Services Society “SIS: Fight for Change
DTES HONORING ELDERS POW WOW photos from Sat Oct 15 in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
PHS (Portland Hotel Society) Community Services Society’s DTES Honoring Elder’s Pow Wow committee, invite you to share with us, a celebration to honor our elders who reside in the DTES with a traditional style pow wow.
Our elders come from all across ndn country, and rarely make it out to cultural events, so PHS Community Services Society pow wow committee want to bring a cultural celebration to them!
*The committee, respectfully invited our Tuesday night drums groups and dancers to participate.
*INVITED DRUMS:
Love Medicine
Indian Time
Sitting Still Thunder
Oceanside DakotaHOST DRUM: Oceanside Dakota who have support DTES events, actions over the years.
*DANCERS: Who will share about their style of dance:
(confirmed thus far:)Curtis Joe: Men’s Chicken Dance
Riannon Nahanee: Women’s Fancy
Will Visser: Men’s Fancy
Jr. Waskewitch: Men’s GrassInvited: Unconfirmed:
Keith Nahanee: Men’s Traditional
Women’s Traditional: Gloria Nahanee
Robin Prince: Women’s JingleVENDORS INFO: This event an exhibition style Pow Wow, no commercial tables please, but local artists can bring their own blanket to display their arts and crafts
**** ALL DANCERS WELCOME! ****
Emcee in Training: Ian Bee
Assisted by John Miller
DTES HONORING ELDERS POW WOW on Sat Oct 15 in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
PHS (Portland Hotel Society) Community Services Society’s DTES Honoring Elder’s Pow Wow committee, invite you to share with us, a celebration to honor our elders who reside in the DTES with a traditional style pow wow.
Our elders come from all across ndn country, and rarely make it out to cultural events, so PHS Community Services Society pow wow committee want to bring a cultural celebration to them!
It will be held in the new park, protected by large tenting. Hope you can make it!
*The committee, respectfully invited our Tuesday night drums groups and dancers to participate.
*INVITED DRUMSs:
Love Medicine
Indian Time
Sitting Still Thunder
Oceanside Dakota
HOST DRUM: Oceanside Dakota who have support DTES events, actions over the years.
*DANCERS: Who will share about their style of dance:
(confirmed thus far:)
Curtis Joe: Men’s Chicken Dance
Riannon Nahanee: Women’s Fancy
Will Visser: Men’s Fancy
Jr. Waskewitch: Men’s Grass
Invited: Unconfirmed:
Keith Nahanee: Men’s Traditional
Women’s Traditional: Gloria Nahanee
Robin Prince: Women’s Jingle
VENDORS INFO: This event an exhibition style Pow Wow, no commercial tables please, but local artists can bring their own blanket to display their arts and crafts
**** ALL DANCERS WELCOME! ****
Emcee in Training: Ian Bee
Assisted by John Miller
Below are photos of hard working Downtown Eastside residents working on transforming the empty lot to a beautiful community gathering space.
The Portland Hotel Society is a non-profit organization that was created in 1993 to advocate, develop and implement creative and responsive services for persons living with concurrent disorders.
The Portland Hotel itself was initiated in 1991 by Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA). The Association converted a local hotel and named it after the US city of Portland, where Canadian organizers had been inspired by housing programs for homeless people. The facility was transferred to the Portland Hotel Society on its completion. The program moved to a new building (re-named the Portland Hotel) in the downtown eastside in 1999.
The program is funded by the British Columbia Housing and Mortgage Corporation (a provincial Crown corporation) and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.
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