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Feature Stories
Indn Arts’n Action Jan 19-30
Subject: invite to art show please forward to all contacts thank you for your help, all my relations jadeon rathgeber
On behalf of Halfmoon Studios, Down Town East Side Center For The Arts and Coghlan Arts we would like to invite you and your family to partake in wonderful celebration of arts , culture , ceremony and history . Look forward to seeing you all here.
January 19
To Honour Our Mother: Do Our Stories Lie with Farley Mowat
Matriarch and elder Ilse Schweder Bruderer Clements joins with her daughters and grandchildren to tell their stories and explore the consequences of story and historical manipulation and exploitation, with particular focus on the stories of Farley Mowat as they pertain to them. This is about setting the record straight in art and history.
Capitalizing on the 2010 Olympics
All Eyes on Us!
Capitalizing on the 2010 Olympics to Call International Attention to the 500+ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
By Carmen Teeple Hopkins
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has confirmed that there are over 500 Indigenous women who are missing or who have been murdered in Canada over the past 30 to 40 years. The disappearances and deaths of Indigenous women have received very little attention compared to their white counterparts, as well as inaction from the police, media, public, and government. This has led to considerable impunity of the state and perpetrators.
In particular, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) is an area that is known for an extremely high number of Indigenous women who have experienced violence. It is also one of Canada’s most impoverished neighbourhoods.
Vancouver has been at the forefront of organizing annual memorial marches every February 14 to honour women who are missing or have been murdered from the DTES. Although the Vancouver march is meant to acknowledge all women, Indigenous women are overrepresented in the DTES, and as a group that experiences violence. Beginning in 1991, February 14, 2010 will mark the nineteenth annual Vancouver memorial march. February 14, 2010 will also highlight day three of the 2010 Olympic winter games.
PHOTOVOICE: Urban Native Youth photography exhibit
Find out what they have to say about the inter-generational affects of the Indian Residential School System
DATE: Friday, January 15, 2010
TIME: 4pm-8pm PHOTO EXHIBIT starts at 5pm
PLACE: 1630 E. Hastings Street
@ Urban Native Youth Association FOOD PROVIDED
Logo Design Contest for DTES Aboriginal Arts & Music Festival
A CALL FOR ARTISTS SUBMISSIONS
The Downtown Eastside Centre for The Arts is calling on downtown eastside artists to create a graphic for the 1st Annual NightHawk Aboriginal Arts & Music Festival.
The winning graphic will be the signature logo for the NightHawk Aboriginal Art & Music Festival which will take place March 21, 2010 in Crab Park.
Please submit your artwork to :
The Downtown Eastside Centre For The Arts
1 East Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC
604-689-2787
Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010.
The winner will receive a gift certificate from Opus Framing & Art Supplies
In peace, Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts, Contact: Ange or Dalannah at: 604-689-2787
Allocation or modern expropriation? by Ernie Crey and Carrielynn Victor
Allocation or modern expropriation?
Under the B.C. Treaty Process, the Yale Indian Band has negotiated a treaty for both lands and resources in the Fraser Canyon. The negotiations for the treaty largely took place behind closed doors, leaving other Stó:lō First Nations who enjoy both aboriginal title and fishing rights in the Fraser Canyon to speculate about how a treaty with the Yale Indian Band will affect their rights.
The time for guesswork is now over and the picture that has emerged from the treaty talks with the Yale Indian Band is both disturbing and deplorable.
