Got this from the highly useful Instant Coffee email:

Restore Arts Funding Now

The Gallery Gachet Collective | A COLLECTIVE RESPONSE | FEB 5

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Curated by Lara Fitzgerald | Exhibition runs: 5th – 28th Feb | Opening

Reception: Fri Feb 5th, 7 – 10pm

Dance Party Celebrating the Arts: Sat Feb 13th, 8 – late (With support from

Art Walk 2010 and the Alliance for Arts and Culture)

Exhibition is part of Art Walk 2010, www.artwalkvancouver.ca

Gallery Gachet presents the exhibition A Collective Response, featuring The

Gallery Gachet Collective’s response to the current cultural landscape in

Vancouver. The exhibition showcases each artist’s reaction to the arts

funding cuts through their own art-making practice, celebrating and

reinforcing the importance of art as a critical means for achieving a

healthy and flourishing society.

A Collective Response aims to focus on the critical role of art in society.

In particular as a way of responding to contemporary issues. Vancouver is

currently undergoing a massive upheaval, and these changes affect all its

citizens profoundly. Gallery Gachet’s Collective Membership feels strongly

about the importance of community engagement and asserting a response to

these changes, and they believe that art provides a powerful and

significant channel for dialogue.

Based on the idea of Documenta (an international contemporary art

exhibition held in Kassel, Germany every five years), The Collective will

transform Gallery Gachet into a free speech zone offering both commentary

and critique of issues relevant to art and life in Vancouver at this

specific historical juncture. Thematically, the work addresses the massive

funding cuts that most arts organizations have received in BC, as well as

political priorities and how these precedents impact our cultural climate.

The Gachet Collective believes in the expression of art and culture as a

human right, and as a means for achieving social, cultural and economic

justice.

The link between A Collective Response and Documenta is one of intention

and spirit. Documenta is known as an exhibition that explores the

intersection between contemporary art and the current critical issues of

the time, inviting people from all over the world to convene, assess the

situation, and enact a dialogic process. Documenta began in the early

1950’s, and was developed as a response to the degenerate art politics of

the Third Reich. In contrast to other international exhibitions that

emerged from the World Fair models, the tradition behind Documenta is one

of theoretical grounding, and a sense of urgency in regards to the role and

meaning of art in society. Inclusivity and dissolution of elitism are

founding values of the festival; these beliefs are also woven into the core

of The Collective’s ideology and integral values that are unanimously held

by The Collective.

A Collective Response will feature multidisciplinary works from Gachet’s

twenty-one collective members, and represents not only the distinct

response of each individual member but also the unique energy and drive

behind The Gachet Collective as a whole.

Artists featured: Benitto, Sharon Burns, Sharon Smith, Kara Lee, Stephen

Long, Jay Peachy, Karen Ward, Bernadine Fox, Bruce Ray, Dylan Wolney, Quin

Martins, W.N. (Bill) Pope, Laurie Marshall, Robert Gardiner, Leef Evans,

Diane Thorn, Cherise Clarke, Lisa Walker, Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty, Geoff

Greene and Youngsin Lee.

and the Shebeen Club is a proud media sponsor thereof!

There; one doesn’t get the chance to use the word “thereof” nearly enof. See what I did there?

Real Vancouver Writers are Really Stoked

You can download and print this poster by right-clicking the poster link and saving to your computer. Pass it around, post it up, wear it as a loincloth; knock yourself out!

Wednesdays just got a little more literate in Vangroover, as Sean Cranbury of Books on the Radio organizes a new literacious salon every Wednesday in February: the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series. Save time: put it in your calendar now and avoid guilt-ridden “I shoulda’s” later. You can see the entire lineup for the full month on the website, and it’s extremely highly bitchin, to say the least (which is never my first choice; I’ve never gotten over getting paid by the word. As you can tell).

Here is the full announcement, swiped from Facebook [links mine]; $5 at the door gets you hours of nutritious and intoxicating food for thought:

Real Vancouver Writers Series at the W2 Culture + Media House

Located at 112 East Hastings Street across from the refurbished Woodwards Building in Downtown Vancouver

The Real Vancouver Writers Series consists of 4 weekly events showcasing local Vancouver writers, publishers and creative literary artists at the W2 Culture + Media House.

These evenings are designed to show the city and the world real and diverse Vancouver culture and real creative individuals in the literary and publishing communities at a time when the eyes of the world are on our city.

Countless millions of people will want to know what real Vancouver culture looks like.

We are determined to take the opportunity to show the world just how amazing, diverse, talented and fun our literary and publishing culture is!

These events will occur every Wednesday during February beginning at 7pm.

Each night will showcase local writers doing short readings their work and/or interacting with a moderator, taking questions from the audience and will include book sales, signings, a multi-media component, music, cash bar, raffles and give-aways.

Every night will consist of writers that will give the in-house audience a glimpse of the variety of cultures, ethnicities, forms and skills of writers living and working in Vancouver.

It will showcase the writers, their books, their publishers and other support structures within the local community and the larger culture and publishing communities.

In conjunction with Books on the Radio and Geist Magazine.

Vancouver's West End at Sunset by Duane Storey

Stole this off Facebook, where it was passed to me by author Linda Solomon, EIC of the Vancouver Observer:

Why I Love Vancouver Launch Party & Book Signing

Why I Love Vancouver

Tuesday, 09 February 2010

18:00 – 20:30

Elysian Cafe

590 West Broadway

Vancouver, BC

Hosted by the Elysian Cafe

Date: Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Time: 6 pm (Linda will do a short reading at 6:45 pm)
Location: Elysian Cafe 590 West Broadway (corner of Broadway and Ash)

Wine and snacks.
Cash coffee bar with Elysian’s fine blends.
Open to the public. Bring your friends.
Why I Love Vancouver will be available for sale at the launch party for $20.00.

“Intelligent, incisive, and often hilarious, Linda Solomon’s Why I Love Vancouver takes you into the corners of the city. Her keen observations read as a kind of a personal journey, while providing an informative analysis of topics ranging from public healthcare and the Canadian social contract to local politics, personalities, and the impact of the Olympics on her beloved adopted city.”
–Ruth Ozeki, author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation

Knoweth not that his own grammar is itself teh suck.

Scholar by Eeckhout Gerbrand Van Den

Stole this off the SEARCHgrads email, where it was posted by Judi Piggott, who used to head up SEARCH. Do note that this is an unpaid call for research contributions; normally I don’t post unpaid opportunities, but it’s an excellent cause, it’s academic publishing (which never pays anyway, except in tenure) and it serves to further the professionalism of the field because it is, after all, research.

Call for Abstracts A New Book in the CAIP (Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice) Research Series

Publisher:  Detselig Temeron Press

Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP, http://www.ijcaip.com

International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D., Fine Arts, University of Calgary

“Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities

The CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research text series was launched with the inaugural text  “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” published by Detselig Temeron Books, Editor, Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor,  Robert Kelly, scheduled for release in April 2010. (http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” introduced the emerging field with illustrative examples, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the applications of the creative arts in research action and interdisciplinary practice for hope and change.

Hear what our CAIP, Inquiries for Hope and Change contributors (bk. l) have to say about creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice for  ”hope and change” here

New Call for Abstracts for Book 2 in the CAIP research series:

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities

In our upcoming book, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice “Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities” there will be a particular focus on arts and community based research that transforms and empowers individuals and communities.  We are interested in arts and research within neighbourhoods and cities, across continents and beyond borders.  Currently we are seeking illustrative and accessible research accounts about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice, progressive research that offers hope for change across cultures and communities locally and globally.

These are a just a few of the themes and subjects areas that may be explored in text 2:

• arts research and community based research CBR/ arts and participatory methods
• arts in research and practice re-building or bridging communities in conflict (visual arts, dance, performance, narrative/poetry, installation etc.)
• arts in research and interdisciplinary practice across cultures for global change
• ethnographic/oral history field studies leading to arts  for social justice, anti-oppression work, empowerment
• arts in research for improved health and quality of life, examples poverty, homelessness, environment, youth, crime, aging, urban studies

• arts used in distinctive and innovative ways, transformative new methods that  explore and challenge..creative new ways to investigate, explore, articulate  and communicate research findings while working actively within communities to create change.

Submissions:

Send an abstract (max. l pg.)  with name, affiliation and a brief bio and  an indication of your references as an email  Word attachment to the editor, CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with “submission “Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities”  in the subject line.  English language submissions only.   Deadline extended:  March 20, 2010 for abstracts.  Selected candidates will be contacted with a request for a  full article  submission for the book and additional information will be provided at that time.  Due date for full articles will be e/o May 2010. Please be aware that we are seeking research related articles.

Cheryl McLean, Editor, Publisher, IJCAIP
The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
website:  http://www.ijcaip.com email:  CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

CAIP BOOK BLOG:  http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com