creating community through the arts
Community and Art Throughout Our Lives
Event Details
Time: September 25, 2010 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Britannia Community Centre, Vancouver
Street: 1661 Napier Street Vancouver, B.C. V5L 4X4
City/Town: Vancouver BC
Website or Map: http://britanniacentre.org/
Phone: 604-617-0142
Event Type: free, panel, discussion, networking, arts, activities
Organized By: Community Arts Vancouver
Latest Activity: Sep 23, 2010
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Event Description
- RSVP now!
- Seating is on a first come, first serve basis. We'd love to know in advance if you're coming! RSVP through the link above or email your name and number, along with details of those you are bringing, to activities@cacv.ca
- Read our blog.
- Get the scoop on what's planned for the afternoon, right from our event coordinator herself. Throughout the day, you will meet local community groups and artists, experience a panel discussion on community art practices, participate in a community drumming activity and engage in a community art project. Participation encouraged and welcomed!
- Meet the participating panelists and community artists.
- Marina Szjiarto (Mountain View Cemetery)
- Glen Hodges, Cemetery Manager (Mountain View Cemetery)
- Lyle Povah (Rhythms for a Passionate Heart)
- Carla Bergman (Purple Thistle)
- Arlin Ffrench (Purple Thistle)
- Melanie Schambach, Community Artist
- Talk to the panelists.
- Pose questions for discussion on the day of the event in our panelist discussion area. Create your account, and begin posting!
- Share an online creation in our Culture Days Centre.
- Tell us why art is important to your community, and add your community symbol to our online gallery.
Comment Wall
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Comment by Community Arts Vancouver on September 10, 2010 at 2:17pm -
Glen Hodges of Mountain View Cemetery will also be joining us. Read Douglas Todd's article here: http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/archive/...
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Comment by Community Arts Vancouver on September 7, 2010 at 11:36am
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COMMUNITY ARTIST INFORMATION
Community Artist: Melanie Schambach
Websites: http://www.speakart.org / http://www.melanieschambach.com
Born and raised in Colombia and Guatemala, and later moving to Canada, Melanie Schambach explores interdisciplinary arts processes that encourages participants to nurture their voices, open dialogue, and think critically on social justice issues relevant to their communities.
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Comment by Community Arts Vancouver on September 7, 2010 at 11:35am
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PANELIST INFORMATION
Organization: Mountain View Cemetery
Speaker(s): Marina Szjiarto
Website: http://vancouver.ca/cemetery
Marina Szijarto is a Vancouver based Visual and Celebration Artist with a diverse arts practice. She has been exploring the artist’s role in rites of passage (specifically death, funerals and mourning) for the last 12 years and has pioneered the use of Shrines to honour the dead in community events (Parade of Lost Souls with Public Dreams, The Death and Dying Conference Vancouver and All Souls at Mountain View Cemetery).
Marina is the Art Director of Mountain View Cemetery’s All Souls event, and has worked together with Paula Jardine on the project since its inception 6 years ago.
Marina also works in community engaged public art projects (in numerous mediums) and is a Jessie Richardson award winning professional costume and set designer in Canadian theatre. For further information on Marina’s work please visit: www.msdemeanour.ca
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Comment by Community Arts Vancouver on September 7, 2010 at 11:34am
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PANELIST INFORMATION
Organization: Rhythms for a Passionate Heart
Speaker(s): Lyle Povah
Website: http://lylepovah.com/
Lyle Povah is a singer/percussionist/guitarist, writer, researcher, recording artist, teacher and entertainer with a special interest in African drumming. He has studied and performed worldwide and is a pioneering musician/educator, particularly in the areas of health and creativity, leadership, community building, eating disorders, autism and intergenerational learning. He travels throughout North America, Europe and Africa presenting at conferences, leading corporate team building sessions and bringing musical fun, wellness and learning to a wide variety of musical arenas, including health care centres, youth at risk programs, seniors centres, schools, church groups, within Corrections Canada institutions and at community events. Over a number of decades, Lyle has worked at BC's Children's Hospital, been on the faculty at the Haven Institute for Professional Training, facilitates executive development programs for the UBC Sauder School of Business, leads the longest running weekly drop-in Community Drum Circle in Canada and conducts ongoing programming and research at St. Paul's Hospital in the In-Patient Eating Disorders Program.
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Comment by Community Arts Vancouver on September 7, 2010 at 11:33am
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PANELIST INFORMATION
Organization: The Purple Thistle Centre: Youth Arts & Activism in East Van!
Speaker(s): Arlin ffrench / Carla Bergman
Website: http://www.purplethistle.ca/
Arlin ffrench grew up in the cold dark forests on the north coast of Lake Superior. Near the turn of the century he ventured westward spending time in Vancouver, Calgary, and various forested areas in between. Somewhere in this time he managed to obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from UBC. He now calls East Van home.
Arlin has been heavily involved with activist groups like the Anti Poverty Committee and the Olympic Resistance Network promoting rights, health and safety for those who society knocks down.
Also working with The Purple Thistle Centre and R.A.I.N. Zine, programs focusing on youth, arts, and activism, Arlin has been a mentor, student, friend and ally.
Besides putting time and energy towards making a better life for everyone, Arlin is a Tattooist at Pennyblack Tattoo, a practicing/exhibiting artist and an avid cyclist.
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Carla Bergman lives in East Vancouver and loves the rain and so it was pretty obvious that she wanted to share that love with others. She set out to make a zine called RAIN (www.rainzine.org), an all ages anthology zine and radical art project, in 2007 with a few other adults and youth.
In her spare time, she is the co-director of the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth run community centre that focuses on art and activism. This is where she strives to empower and actively radicalize youth with the hope of challenging norms around consumerism, schooling, and success.
Her main goals with both projects are to converge art and activism and to provide physical public spaces so that people, especially youth, can move towards becoming thriving cultural producers.
A lover of cyborgs and resisting, she is known to do some community organizing and identifies mostly as an activist.
She and her partner unschool their kids and think that’s pretty great.
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