[Vanact.internal] Invitation for VanAct to send delegation & table April 9th at Centering the Tangent Community Conference, Langara College

Wed Mar 30 09:41:54 PDT 2011

Hey folks,

As you all know Mia is involved with organizing this conference April
9th: *Centering
the Tangent Community Conference.*
The conference looks amazing, and Mia rocks! Think it would be good for us
to be there.

*Are folks available to table next Saturday April 9th for Van.Act from 1-2
for the lunch-time info fair?*
Please email out who is available to be there and who has/will arrange to
bring materials to table.
(I plan to go, but might have to table for Calamites).

Also, folks should register to go....really participatory, creative, skills
based, with some great workshops/speakers lined up!

Thanks,

Love Lena

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:25 PM, mia amir <mia.amir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Excuse the formality of this letter - I'm on a mad outreach blitz and it's
> just easier to use. Please read through it. Hope VanAct will be present at
> the conference and table as well.
>
> Hope you are all well.
> mia
>
> ***
>
> I’m writing with great excitement to inform you about the:
>
>
>
> *Centering the Tangent Community Conference** - A day-long all ages
> gathering and celebration to explore the critical role of arts, culture, and
> creativity in community empowerment and movement building on April 9th at
> Langara College, 9:30am – 7:00pm;*
>
>
>
> and the
>
>
>
> *Centering the Tangent Cultural Event & Closing Celebration happening on
> April 10th at Rhizome Café, 6:00pm – 9:00pm**. *
>
> * *
>
> *
> *
>
> These two events are the culmination to the 6-week *Centering the Tangent
> *workshop series organized in collaboration by the Transformative
> Communities Project Society and the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance. The
> purpose of the series has been to explore the critical role of arts, culture
> and creativity in community empowerment and movement building. Both the
> Community Conference and Cultural Celebration will continue and deepen this
> exploration. Detailed information regarding both of these events is included
> at the bottom of this email in the *Community Call-Out *and at
> http://centeringthetangent.wordpress.com
>
>
> I am contacting you to officially invite members of your group/organization
> to:*
> *
>
> *
> *
>
> *1) Send a delegation from your organization to both of these events.
> Those wishing to attend the Centering the Tangent Community Conference on
> April 9th* m*ust register by April 8th either through Registration Form
> included below in the *Community Call-Out,* online at *
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHpObjlIN19CWjNTcUl6N3pwOHRnMHc6MQ
> * OR by contacting me at 604.780.8463.**
> *
>
> *
> *
>
> *2) To showcase your group/organization's work during the lunchtime info
> fair at the Conference on April 9th. If your group/organization would like
> **to reserve tabling space please contact me by April 4th at info at suyp.orgor
> 604.780.8463.*
>
>
> *I am also hoping that you will circulate the Community Call-Out **for
> these two events included at the end of this email through your networks.
> **
> *
> *
> *I have sent you a package by snail mail that includes posters for both
> the *Centering the Tangent Community Conference on April 9th* and the *Centering
> the Tangent Cultural Event & Closing Celebration on April 10th**, as well
> as a number of handbills with information about both of these events. I hope
> that you will be able to put the posters up in a space visible to those
> involved with your group/organization and/or accessing your services; and
> that you will be able to disseminate the handbills to staff/members/clients
> of your group/organization.****
> **
> Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions that you might
> have or to register for the conference.*
>
> * *
>
> *Hope to see you on April 9th and 10th!
> *
>
> *
> *
>
> *mia amir***
>
> Program Coordinator
>
> Transformative Communities Project Society
>
>
> *
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *
>
>
>
> *CENTERING THE TANGENT COMMUNITY CALL-OUT*
>
>
> Please find below:
> 1) Information about the upcoming April 9th The Centering the Tangent
> Community Conference happening at Langara College, Vancouver, Unceded
> Coast Salish Territories
> 2) The Centering the Tangent Community Conference Registration Form.
> Register by April 8th!
> 3) Information about the April 10th The Centering the Tangent Cultural
> Event and Closing Celebration at Rhizome Cafe, Vancouver, Unceded Coast
> Salish Territories
>
>
> *Centering the Tangent Community Conference*
>  *A day-long all ages gathering and celebration to explore the critical
> role of arts, culture, and creativity in community empowerment and movement
> building!*
> *
> *
> *Saturday April 9th
> 9:30am - 7:00pm
> Langara College, 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish
> Territories*
> *
> *
> *Free! On-site childcare, accessible workshop spaces, free lunch, travel
> stipends, bus tickets and coordinated carpooling provided.
>
> Register online by April 8th (form included below or available at
> centeringthetangent.wordpress.com) or by contacting 604.780.8463
> *
> *
> *
>
> *
> *
>
> *April 9th Centering the Tangent Community Conference Schedule *
>
> *Note – Full bios for all speakers, workshop facilitators and performers
> located at centeringthetangent.wordpress.com
> <http://centeringthetangent.wordpress.com%20/>*
>
>
>
> *Opening, Welcome, Morning Panel and Plenary
> 9:30am – 11:15am  *
>
> Featuring:
>
> ·       *T’ Uy’ Tanat-Cease Wyss* – Skwxw’ u7mesh Nation Ethnobotanist,
> media artist, educator, and activist
>
> ·       *Dustin Rivers* – Skwxwú7mesh-Kwakwaka’wakw artist, activist and
> writer
>
> ·       *Diane Roberts* – Artistic Director of Urban Ink Productions<http://urbanink.ca/>
>
> ·       *Magin Payet Scudellari *– Organizer with No One Is Illegal<http://www.nooneisillegal.org/>
>
> *·       **Representative from the Kalayaan Centre<http://www.kalayaancentre.net/>
> **(Philippine Women’s Centre)*
>
>
> **
> Snacks provided!
>
> *
> *
>
> *Morning Participatory Skills-Based Workshops**
> 11:20am - 1:20pm  *
>
> * *
>
> Workshop
>
> Facilitator
>
> *Community Media*
>
> *Vancouver Media Co-Op <http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/>.** The *VMC
> produces reader-funded local, independent news and provides a free outlet
> for individuals, groups and movements to speak out for themselves*.*
>
> *Community Health*
>
> *Setareh Mohammadi,* Nutritionist and Community Worker
> *Tasnim Nathoo,* BodyTalk practitioner & mental health worker
>
> *Music for Mobilizing
> *
>
> *Earle Peach**,* musician, composer and director of the Solidarity Notes
> Labour Choir
>
> *Linocut Printmakin**g** ***
>
> *Sam Bradd <http://sambradd.com/>**,* linocut, silkscreen and letterpress
> print artist and illustrator.
>
>
>
> *
> *
>
> *Lunchtime Info Fair *
> *1:20pm - 2:00pm  *
>
> *Free lunch provided for all participants *
>
>
> If your community/group/organization would like tabling space please
> contact info at suyp.org/604.780.8463
>
> *
> *
>
> *Afternoon Participatory Skills-Based Workshops
>                           2:00pm - 4:00pm  *
>
> * *
>
> Workshop
>
> Facilitator
>
> Digital Media
>
> *Reel Youth <http://reelyouth.ca/>, *a not-for-profit, media empowerment
> program supporting youth to create & distribute films about their visions
> for a more just and sustainable world.
>
> Theatre for Community Empowerment & Action
>
> *Carmen Aguirre,* an actor, playwright, and theatre director who has been
> facilitating Theatre of the Oppressed workshops since 1994.
>
> Food Security
>
> *Cease Wyss**,* Skwxw’ u7mesh Nation Ethnobotanist, media artist,
> educator, and activist
>
> *Ilana Labow* (Fresh Roots Urban Farm<http://freshrootsurbancsa.wordpress.com/about/>),
> a community-engaged farmer who received training and worked with Growing
> Power, based in Milwaukee USA
>
> *Kayla Brophy** *of (Check Your Head <http://www.checkyourhead.org/>). CYH
> is a youth-driven organization that provides education for young people on
> the issues such as democracy, corporate power, globalization, climate change
> and many more issues.
>
> Liberation Through Language
>
> *Cynthia Oka* of the Press Release Movement Poets Collective & the
> Breakthrough Mama’s Collective
>
> *Dustin Rivers *Skwxwú7mesh-Kwakwaka’wakw artist, activist and writer
>
> Popular Education
>
> *Adriana Paz**,* a Bolivian journalist, community organizer and popular
> educator, as well as founder and member of Justicia for Migrant Workers BC.
>
> *Carla Bergman**,* an organizer and the co-director of the Purple Thistle
> Centre where she strives to empower and actively radicalize youth (and
> others).
>
> * *
>
> *
> *
>
> *Afternoon Community Collaboration and Visioning Session and Report-Back
>               4:15pm - 6:30pm  *
>
> A visioning session that will support participants in exploring how
> creative practices and tools can be applied to current projects and
> organizing, and how artists can become more integrally involved in
> community-based initiatives. Supported by a team of community facilitators
> including:**
>
> *
> *
>
> *Christina Panis** **–** *Chair of the Philippine Women Centre of BC and
> Arts Administrator at Centre A
>
> *Gabriela Reynoso** – *Actress, psychodramatist, single mother of two, &
> member of the Breakthrough Mama’s Collective
>
> *Judith Marcuse** – *Dancer, director, teacher, writer and founder of theInternational Centre of Art for Social Change<http://www.icasc.ca/>
> .
>
> *Naomi Steinberg** – Storyteller and Executive Director of the Vancouver
> Society of Storytelling*
>
> *Sara Kendall** **– Community organizer, hip-hop artist and director of
> the Cultural Medicine Cabinet*
>
> *Tia Taurere* – Mixed Mauri-Jewish multimedia artist, born in the Koolin
> Nations (Melbourne Australia), Tia works to build International Indigenous
> Solidarity by building synergies between Indigenous, Activists and Creative
> communities.
>
> * *
>
> *
> *
>
> *Closing and Performance *
>             *6:30pm - 7:00pm*
>
> Featuring *Bud Osborn* a Downtown East Side poet and social activist and
> member of  the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Grief Into Action and
> the Carnegie Community Centre Association Board.**
>
> For more details or to register fill out the form included below OR visit
> centeringthetangent.wordpress.com OR contact us at 604.780.8463 /
> info at suyp.org
>
>
> *
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *
>
>  Centering the Tangent Community Conference Registration Form
> *Register by April 8th!
> *
>
> We're excited that you are planning to attend the Centering the Tangent
> Community Conference on April 9th 2011 at Langara College. Please fill out
> the following registration form to the best of your ability. This will help
> us to ensure that we take everyone's needs into account in the planning and
> will help us to prepare the appropriate resources! Thanks so much!
>
> If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out
> online:
>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHpObjlIN19CWjNTcUl6N3pwOHRnMHc6MQ
>
>
>  Name *
>
>  Email *
>
>  Phone *
>
>  Age *
>
>  Do you have any allergies or dietary needs?
>
>  This conference is from 9:30 - 7:00pm on Saturday April 9th. Please let
> us know if you are available to attend the entire day, morning talk only,
> morning workshops only, lunchtime networking and tabling fair only,
> afternoon workshops only, afternoon community collaboration and visioning
> session only (please explain) * Please identify what workshops you want to
> participate in: MORNING SESSION Community Media, Community Health, Music for
> Mobilizing, Linocut Printmaking AFTERNOON SESSION Digital Media, Popular
> Education, Theatre for Community Empowerment and Action, Language for
> Liberation, Food Security
>
>  Will you require bus tickets, a travel stipend, or will you want to
> participate in our coordinated carpooling? We will be arranging carpooling
> from Surrey, and potentially Richmond and Burnaby. Please let us know if you
> would like to participate in carpooling and if you have a vehicle that you
> can offer. We will be covering gas costs and providing honoraria for
> drivers. If you would like a travel stipend please let us know from where
> you will be traveling.
>
>  Are you attending on behalf of a community group or organization? If yes,
> what organization and will you require tabling space?
>
>  Please let us know if there are any access needs you will require us to
> take into consideration (sign language interpretation, soft places to sit
> and stretch, multiple breaks during the day, etc)
>
>  Will you be registering your child for childcare during the conference?
> If yes please respond to the following questions, if no, please continue to
> the bottom to find more general registration questions! If you will be
> registering your child for childcare it is important that you know all of
> our childcare providers are volunteers who have prior childcare experience
> in the community. We must receive answers to all of the following questions.
>
>
>    - Yes
>    - No
>
>
>  What is your child's legal name?
>
>  What is your child's age?
>
>  What is your child's birthdate? (dd/mm/yy)
>
>  If your child has one, what is their CareCard number?
>
>  Please provide us with any information you think we should have regarding
> your child including health conditions, allergies, special needs, etc.
>
>  Please provide us with the name of an emergency contact for your child.
>
>  What is the phone number of your child's emergency contact?
>
>  What is this emergency contact's relationship to your child?
>
>  Please provide us with a second emergency contact.
>
>  What is the phone number for this secondary emergency contact?
>
>  What is this secondary emergency contact's relationship to your child?
>
>  Are you interested in Volunteering either before or during the
> conference? We definitely need support and have tons of opportunities to get
> involved including: Postering, flyering, obtaining donations, carpooling
> participants on the 9th (with honourarium), conference set-up, conference
> registration, childcare, info fair support, workshop support, conference
> note taking and documentation, clean-up!
>
>
> *
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *
>
>
> *Centering the Tangent Cultural Event & Closing Celebration*
> *
> Sunday April 10th*
> *6:00 - 9:00pm*
> *Rhizome Cafe 317 East Broadway**, Vancouver, **Unceded Coast Salish
> Territories*
>
> *Free! All-ages! Childcare and child-specific activities! Snacks! Bus
> tickets!*
>
> Featuring a cabaret performance of local artists and organizations
> celebrating the role of creativity in our work of building resilient
> communities including:
>
> *DJ Su Comandante*
>  *T’ Uy’ Tanat-Cease Wyss – Skwxw’ u7mesh Nation*
> *Kat Norris*
> *Kia Kadiri <http://www.myspace.com/kiakadiri>*
>  *Kim Possible <http://www.myspace.com/kimvillagantemusic>*
> *Krystal Bell*
>  *Ostwelve <http://www.reverbnation.com/ostwelve>*
>  *Performers from the Seeding Stories Project of the **Vancouver Society
> of Storytelling <http://www.vancouverstorytelling.org/>*
> *Zaccheus Jackson <http://www.reverbnation.com/zaccheusjackson>*
>
>
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