November 1, 2023 Carnegie Newsletter

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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Sandg Cameron Memorial Writing Contest AiL7ards Ceremony iuiLL be held

on Nouember 1 at 2pm in the Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main St.

As part of the Heart of the Citg Festiual, this is the 8th annual gathering. The euent is free.

ALL are Welcome to attend and hear some amazing pieces of poetrg and non-fiction essags.

GRolxpgp_dr`cpunurITy:cREwhGITForurmD With admiration at their craftcd soul, And fail to see the rot within.

But poetry, you're not their tool, You're iiot their mask to hide their sin.

Oh Poetry

So let us use yoLL with respect and care.

And not to mask our true intent.

Oh poetry, you art of words so fine, How oftc`n have you been misused, To cloak the wicked, hide their tnie design, And make the selfish seem infused With goodness and with empatliy` When all they seek is fame and praise.

They painl lhemsclves in lines that gently plea, And hope their audience will gay,e

Let pi)elTy bc pure and fair, And not a tool for sel±`-lament.

For those who Lise you to appear As gi)ltd and kind and true, a.hobo

..,,...€....,:,.;.,.,,,:.:,`,,:,,::.:,A stroll selection ofiipcoming e\+elits featiired in the second and fmtil `+-eek of tlie Festi`'al I far all the events` pick-`ip the 56 page progr`a]n guide a{ Caiiiegie From( Desk.

DAY OF TIIE DF.AD -Communit`-Ofr€nda Thilrsday, NoveilIber 2, lpill -3|mi. Carl.egie Lear[Iiiig Celitre. FFee Hglp acti`'ate the Leaming C.eiitre's community altar and share in decoratillg` offer.ills and

remembeniig }o`'ed ones, M`isic and I.efresmeiits for the spirits and the living.

FRo}I THE `TDEO .,\RcllrvEs OF slD cHO\v TjL`7 Friday, November 3, 6pm-7|mi. Carnegie Theatre. Free hi honoiu` of longtime Dou.nto`un Eastside docurnentar`ian and organizer Sid C.ho\t' Tan, tliis screening features selected `.ideos from his €xtraordiirary body of w-ark chioiiieling over foul` decades of stniggles, i/-ictoi-ies: celebratioi}s~ and e`.eryday hves of DIES aiid Chinatown coi"ii`miiies.

BIG FIGHT I``T I+ITTLE CIIL*`.+TO\V.`T Friday, No+ieiiibei. 3, 7:30-9:30|}m. Carliegie TJiealre. Free

This excel)tioiial fiha by Kare]i {`ho fflkes us into the li`'es of residents, busine`sses and coirmiimity or`sonizers clf chinatown iieighboulroods uiider threat of disappea]-ills. Follo\`'ed b},' coii`'ersatioiis i`t-ith local Cliiiiatown |`oi"iiunity iiiembel-s aiid ac`tiiists. Presented \\`illi Chinatown Together:

o*'cE L7po.ny A T|+`|E 0.`T fi cm+`'ATO``yT*. .`T|GHT Friday, No\ieliiber 3, 7:301)IIL STRETCH STUDIO> 180 I. Pe}tder. E\€nttirit€: bit,lr/chinatai`irlnlgl.t` CoNlm u nity litkels for r€sidpitt s ou loit.-iii(onn€, (orlt n(i Terr}:, €x€cutii.€dircrtQrfaSvn li(ollverriioringtllratre. com

Follows the pc.i`sonal journey of Shon Wong and liis search for family, identity and pixpose.

Feah}I`i}}g tile Son of Janies Barid, historicfil projections by E1\`7in Xic. nar"tion by Rariiona M€ir.

STOP THI= S`YEEPS Satilrday, Nuveilll>er 3, 3:30 -6:30pm. Carnegie Tlteatre. Free.

This doeumeiitary by \Zaiicoii`'er-b!]sed rilminakt3i. z]n{t orgaiii?.el Ryan Sudcl.q e]`roiiiL`les tile `iitilelit

displacement of undioused people ill the D'rES and the subsequent resistaiice. r`oll[iwe`d b}r a to`unhall coiiversation moder:ited by' the Stop ihe Sweeps team,

S`I0RT,Y DEVIL -U`DERWORLD STREET REPORTER Sa{ilrtlay. No``eliiber 3, 7:.30pill -9pm. Carnegie Tliealre. Free

Tliis insightful aiid engaging film by N[ithaiiiel Caii`]el ±`Qcuses on the life of Smokey D, a locally rei}o\\iied DTTS loon and artist kno``,'n foi liis murals that dc`pic{ [iiemoi.ials` the {ox]c drll`cl ci.isis. +\4hJII`VG2S and other. issues. Follc)\\-ed bv ecm\-ersa[ion \+-ith the rir[is{ aiid the flm maker.

Cover credits: Shon Wong with the DTES Community play Dragon. Photo by Tom Quirk

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be served. 2:00 pin Sriturda`/ December 2 at 411 Seniors Centre 3205 Fraser at East 19th.

Doors open at 1:40.

from the Library I ht)pe e\el)'oiie liad a stife and enjoyable IJt?llowe.cli The weather is getting miii`h colder and 1 wisli all ri`adi`Ts a` muc`h warmth as poss]blc Here .ire a few iliterestmg I]ew boobs u i` tia\ i' rece]ved rc.centl}'.

J92J. by Marl \lyllliam J\)nc` is a grippilig account ctf a tiimulluous year for the Weiniar Republic. Gi`rlnaiiy's lndl]strial hcarlland was occupied and Ji}T)ci inflation \+as runnilig rampant rfuiti-g(r\ emment and anti-Sein]tie

violence lilled the street` i`ulminciting in Httler-s .`bec`r hall putsch." This is the story of how the Weilliar Re, publie was {ible to Tiarro\` 1y preservi` (ierlmn democracy, even i 1` oTily teliiporuril,v ln acclamied i`rlTTie fiction writi`r James E]lr\7}'`s 1.ite``( no`,L'I I//t> EI.(./Ifl7I/L7ri. it is the summer or 1962 in Los

Angeles MaTilyn MoiiToc has just oveTdt)si.d, a b-in(ivie star 1]as bc`i`n kidnapped3 and the I ^PD are o\ erri`afting. Tn comes Fred`ly 0 , a ct)rrupt ex-i`op. pri\'tite c`.\ I., and e\pert i``torlion]st \+'hi) belie\re` Ihat only he can untaTig]e the rlddle t)f I `J62.s Lo` ^ng.i>Ies.

Fmally` in Bf/i.A /.w //It' £a„c/ tJ/ I/ic fi.}.I.IJi. by l=va C`rocLi`r. a }roiilig. qui`er u omn named Mari`.v, moves to Moi`treal in [lie fall c>f :r) 19 to escape her Ttreviiitis l]fe in St. John'`. Thiire she mkes eiids mei`t by uorkmg a variety of ettiicall}/ question.iblc lobs \vh]]i` also being su i`pt up in :I r(irndnce \iith a in.vsteriou` and chari`matic womaii MaTcy tTii`s to create a rli`w fi]riire for hersl`1f di]rlrlg the (rises of late capitallsm, the climalli apt>e.ilypse` and thi` Covid-19 I)andeniic.

Hap[]y rei`ding, DaniL,I

I would like to submit this poem I \\ ritte in 1986 v` li].tst clc>ing {i deiicc less in

ORALLA, I SPL.nt most ol.my life ill and out of institutions, sini`e I \ly'.is 8 or 9.1t-s all existen-

t]al themi`d pitem I st.irted voluntecrmg for OPS I 0+'erd()`iJ Pre\ i`ntiitn Snc'ict}J] (ipp\ 2 I/` }Je{`rs ago

zind at that tilnc I conipletel}r ti]mcd my

life arouiid -FOR RF,AL. I \`'i`nt l`rom sal`i`-criicking buTg]ar to ouli`cach w(trkt`I. who invoh ed liimself jn his

EXISTENCE

I am God I am Me us are tliem Them are we.

You iiiade nie You I Wrought I aln GOD I ain thought

community --sui`li fis it is,'`'+\.as. I`\'e

\\orLEid 7 da}'s a weL.k almost e\`ery week

of that time.

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Carnegie Town IIall endorses 10 ``-inter re.ommendations for homelessness

0\ er (>0 people {it an October ] 8th Town Hall meeting at C€imegie endorsed a IJst ot` 10 z`cliun` our gin eimnlellts lliust tahc for winter to niakc being homclcss iili)re beiiTi?ble ill the short term.

The Cami'gie llousing Project has been talki[ig to people \` ho are hctme!ess. Iistenii]g lo and ti-cinsi`riblHg ii`tcr\ Iews dolic` by peel`s u ith nine d)fferent I)owlitctwn Eastside grcitips that si`rve low-income people, {iiid h`)ldillg two to\\ n hall meeting` for DTES resideli(s to gi+ e input on \\ hat sliould be d(tTiL` about l`omelessncss wl our neighbourhoc`J HeTi. are what some people said al)out being hoilieless.

"Homt`1essness is 5o much hal.der than {in}`oiie who hasli.t been hoiTicless could I)iis`ibl} ima`Riiie. No

r)rivate space. S]eeping in thi` l]eat. col(I. and rain."

L-Undel`stand that having no home ls a really real],v bad sitiiation lt's dangerous. Il.i diTpressing, it`5 sad. it

elicjls a l`-)t ot` reelil`g, aiid a lot of pet-iple turn to s`Ibstance `ise \+hen the}' 1iave no Jiom " •.ri\ i' } i`ars ago I \+as working anil lheii I \` iis homeless for 3 \`ceks and it was uiibearable and I piekcd

up fentan}.'l and it iiiade it f---Iiianagi`ablc. It \id> reall} har(I (o do sober,..

Thc` recent hoinelcss coiint. \vhicli doe`n`t prctetid to count all v, ho ilre homeli`ss` sii}'s tliat 2J20 Vancoiiver rcsidi`[its \\ere liomi`less ill Miirch and. oflhosc, f>()5 didn`t e`Jen have a spot in a shelter. So \`Jhat i`an

uc do for winter for th{jse 605 and more? This is what D rES rt}sidi`nts aiiil groilps endorse(I at the To\` n Hall:

1.) Opeli 500-150() mori` shelter beds. mostl}' ]o``i' barrier

2, ) F¥tend thi` ]eac;es or find Vancou\'er siles for the 144 iiiiits of I`ice miidu]ar honie> tl)at ai e bi)arded `ip an(I the t`est itrthi` 60() pliis units whose lc:i5es \`ill e,\pire in the ne.`t few years; 3. ) Built] a tiii}J hiime \ illage or provide a biiilding for people living in tl`e C`RAB I)ark ci>mmLmit}': 4.) I.`und the Lifel ine progT`im propo5i`d l`}i' the Bi]ilding l`omil]i„iities Societ}7 that wo`ild provide support fiinds aiid hoijsin`& for the n]ost \ ulnerable and isolated living on tile street: 5.) Spei`d up opeliing `-ifthi` `inits at the Slanlc}' hiew Fc)iiTitain. London. anil Prillcess I{ooms; 6,) Open oiii` or more hangi)ut sr7aces whc.re pL`ople li\ring on tlie street can go during the d:I,v to sleep` c'dt,

use the washrooni. shttwer` etc.

7.) Require lai]dloi.ds to get ReQidentia] Ti-nanL`}' BTanch approval and have A honielesb prevention plan bi;`t'c>re evictions will I)e legtll;

8.) Increase medical outreach in (he DTES: Ini`reasc. laundry i]nd s]iowei. services in the DTES Put an ilil.c)I.mation Liosk at blain anil H<aslings and Pigeon Park th.it lists sclny ices that are :`vailable where lhcv are` `J\ll orthe`'e rei`om)iiendations would be fairly ca`y to iniplcmelit aml pool)le ln the iommunil}` are read.\ to v\Joik on them. In the longer tenii the desperalc [icJed ]s for more digiiifii`d liousint±. willi \`Jashroitlns <1iid kitclicii5, that pectplc I.an afford. As one I)erson told us` "Unless `omeone passes aVla}', tliat-s ()ne olthc only \`'i]ys you get into housing_ l`here's hundreds {)f u> Just \`'aiting fc». sonlconc to die. W hcthcr it'` ii\ el.dose ilr natul.al i`a[Ises. Am] that sui`ks."

11 he ne`rt step js to work on a campaigTi to get our go`cmnients lo I-1o \ihat is needed, If an.v()ne Wants to

help }ou i:in ciliTle to our Frida}' illeetings at noo]i in tl`c Art Room ill the baseincl]t of c£`rnegic (to the riglil of the s(airs as }'ou go down)_

We are looking to interview participants who: I Are 19 years of age or older • Have the capacity to consent • Can understand and speak English

• Have experienced the death of someone they cared about (human or animal) and in the last year experienced grief for that loss while experiencing homelessness (e.g., unsheltered cir unhoused) • Had or would have like to have had grief suppc>rt in BC for that grief in the last year (e.g., from friends, family, organizations) • Feel able and willing to share their grief experiences

To participate or learn more, contact Joshua Black at jblack@bc-cpc.ca or 604-626-2442.

We will have drop-in times for those who do not book in advance.

Note: Participants will be given an honorarlum for their time.

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Study Title: Improving the bereavement experience among people whc) are experiencing homelessness in BC

Principal Investigator: Dr. Eman Hassan (eman hassari@ubc.ca, 604-553-4866). Ethics lD: H23-00749

DULF Organizers Arrested for Operating Safe Drug Compassion Club Vancouver pol.ice action follows criticism of the organization from BC United.

By Jen St.Denis in The Tyee

Vancoiiver police have arrested drug policy activists Eris Nys alid Jerem,v Kalicum after executing search warrants on the Drug User Lit)eratioii Froiit office dud their liomes.

S]nce 2020, Nyx iind Ka]icum have held protest events and operated a compassion club to supply tested heroin, cocaine and melh to drug users. despite the risk of arrest for breaking Ciinada's controlled s`]bstances laws.

Nys and K:llicum said they \tyere driven to break drug laws through firsthand experience of tlie overdose crisis. Nyx has spoken about losing dozens ot. frieiids to the overdose crisis, while Kalicum previously told Vanco`iver city council about reversing over 100 overdoses uihen hc `iiorked in the Dowiitou'n Eastside.

•`We still i`ren.t sanctioned, and I`in constantly flfraid ot` arrests," N}x told the Tyec in 2022. "Nothing about v\i.Iiat we.re doing js legal."

Kalicum and Nyx declined to speak to Tlie T}'ee for tliis story.

V.ancou`'er police say Nyx and Kalicum were arrested Wednesday so police could qiiestion tliem as part of all ongoing iiivestigation. DULF has operated a compassion club t`or months al`d has frequci`tly spoken to media aboiit the specifics of the model.

Insp. Phll I ]eard said police became concerned \`ihen they learned DuljF \vas regularly distributilig drugs and not just oiie or two times a year as a part of a protest.

Tleard said police are now investigating and u/Ill decide whether to recommeiid charging Nyx and Ka]icum w ith possessioli for the 1)urposcs of trafficking. In British Columbia. police recommend charges and Critwn prosecutors (lecide wliether to lay the charges.

Naming the.ir organization lhc Drug User Libc.I.ation r`ront, N}x and Kalicum frequentl}.I spoke to media about sourcing heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine from sellers oll the dark web. testing the drugs to make sure they didli`t coiitain other substances. and then distributing the di.ugs lo members of the compassion club.

Nyx aiid Kaliciim got tlie idea for the com|)assion cl`ib model from the BC Centre for Substance Use, a

go\'emmont fimded think lank for treating substalice use. But while BCCSU researchers had written a paper on how a compassion clilb would work, no one was moving forward with actually putting the idea into practice.

N}'h and Kalicum have previously said that they would prefer to operate legally aiid use a pharmaceiltical source for Iieroin, but \vere dcnicd an exemption from I lealth Canada that t\oiild have allowed them to oper:ite a compassioli club legall}'.

This week BC United MLA Mike de Jong called for a forensic investigatioii into DULF lo examine how it spent $200,()()0 of taxpayer money. I`1ie hinds were provided to the group b}` Valicouver Coastal I lealth. but Ny.` said noiie of that public money was used to buy illicit drugs. Instead, DULF sa}/'s it has used doIiatjoiis to purchase drugs.

'1 lie VCI] contract was then cancelled at the re(iucst of Jennifel Whitcside. the ininister for mental health alid addictions.

Eleiiore Sturko` a BC United MLA aiid a fomier RCMP officer. siiid she was glad to see DULF being illvcstJgated by police. She and other poljticians have raisc`d coiiceriis that DUT,F.s practice of`buying drugs

from sellers o]i the darkweb supports organized crime.

In qucstiol] period today, Sturko said she was outragecl "to hc.ar tliat this go\ em]iicnt is doing everytliing bec<iuse we're trying to save lives. and that would somehow justify-suppoilii`g organizations that put inoncy and guns into the hands ot` people that kill British Ccilumbians."

Nyx and Kal icum liave said there is simply no other place to filid untainted drugs to buy7 and they woiild much rather biiy tl`cir supt)ly from a legal, regulated source.

T'ne}J've also argued that operating the compassion club is simil:ir to the Illegal actions taken by drug user groups and activists in the past. I landing out clean needles was once i]1ega] alid Canada's rirst safe injection site had to fight multiple legal challenges in order to be able to continue to operate.

Ann Livingslon, a drug policy acti\'ist who hell)ed to operate illegal drug consumption sites in the 1990s, said slie had broken Camda's drug laws man.v tinies: iiicluding in 20 I 6 when she and other activists operated an overdose prevention site in a Downto\tn Eastside alley in response to a sharp inci-ease in opioid deaths.

While some of those sites in the 1990s w-ci`e shut down by police, the organizers were ne\'er arrested, Livingston said.

L`M,v whole preliiise for hi`alth care is that you have to break the law or }Jou don`t get anythiiig," Living-

ston said. She compared tile DULF arrests to the four arrests of Dr. Henry Morgentaler, the Montreal doctor wlio successf`illy challenged C`anada's abortion law s ill the 1980s.

While Livingston said she was concerned about Nyx aiid Kalicum, she saicl criminal charges and an ensuing court case could be the most effective way to bnng clianges to Canadian drug laws, \+hich criminalize drug users and put the production and sale of restrictc`d drugs into the hands of organized crime.

"M}- coiicem is they .rc not going to charge them," Li\'ingstoii said, adding the arrests and raid ofDULF's office and N\.x and Kalicum's homes would amoiint to liarassment to scare people away f`rom taking the kind of action DULF was prepare(I to take.

IJeard said i]olicc have acted before to sliut do\\n sites that are breaking Caiiadian dnig laws: in Ma,v. / acti`.list Jerry Martin opened a store selling drugs that had been tested to make sure they didn`t contain harmful additives Police ari-ested Martin within 241iours of the store opening. Martin died of :in overdose just weeks after being arrested. A recent stiid}r shows selling tested drugs saves lives

In a prc`ss release toddy, the VPD acknow letlgcd that DULF's motivation was "to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs."

I leard said lhc VPD supports safe supply prograllls, where drug users are prescribe(I I)harmaccu{ical dnigs, such as h}Jdrolllorphone, to provide an alternative to the tainted illicit supply.

B`it Livingston said prebcribcd sat`e supply is avaiktblc to oii]y a small nuniber of drug users. and the B.C. govcmmeiit has failed to open eno`igh ctverdose prevention sitc and expand safe supply programs.

As a result, Livingston said, tainted (]Tug deaths continue to rise in B.C., molith after month after month.

•L|3,000 people have died since 2016`" she said.

"There are tho`isaiids of children with dead parents. and tliousands of parents with defld chil-

dren."

I am submitting a poem I wrote as part of a writing exercise of my hum writing 102 class at UBC this semester.

The background story to it is in.v yotmger brolhcr died alone in a downtown SRO from acute alcoholism and cirrosis of the liver. Hc left no will or contact information and the Ministry c)f Social Services threw his possesions in a dumpster, gave him a fuiieral attended by iione, cremated him and interred him jn a modem day version of potters field.

This was in I.`ebruary of this year, my only finding out by chance in .Iune. I took him back to our reserve in Ontario where our faniily and our tribe could give him a decent fuiieral a]id provide a

gravesite iiear our mother where someone could lea\'e a simple b()uquet ctf flowers from timc t() time.

This \`ias ()iiLv achieved after weeks of batl]ing u jth the Ministr}' to pemiit his Temaiiis be released to his finiily. Fiiially with the intervention ttf MP .Tenny Kv`,ran tliey allo\ved me to tiike him llome. I thi]ik less out of coiTipassion than conccm of how the ()ptics would be of reftising an Algonquin man the right to be buried amongst his anccstors. our Country d]read,v lillered with the graves of native

pcop]e biiried far from home as it is.

A service was held for him September 25th the week of Truth and Recoiiciliation day on September 30th. At least one native person

was removed from a forgotten grave aiid returned home sc> its a start. A little discouragi]ig I admit tliough that the Ministry is still burying native people far from honie in 1`or-

gotten gra\res. with no notirication to family or their tribes right lip to the prcscnt day.

Anywa}'s the poem itscl[` I thought would speak t() ii larger aiidience though. The Ministry clearly thinks somconc who dies alone of. an addiction has been rejected by everyone.

When the fact is they were takeii Liiiwilliiigly from us by-addiction to a place we coiildn't reach them anymore. WThen they die its like losing them t\`''ice. But that person we knew and loved is never forgcitteii. I think anyone who has lost sc>meoiie to all addiction can relate to tllat.

Poem is fltlachcd. Publish il`you feel its appropriate and relc.vant. I±`you feel it isii't Ilo liard feelings either.

Best regards Michael Conlon-Sismey

Eulogy A stainless steel box, a shade of copper that.s somber.

The shiipe and the size of a smzill cinder block brick.

Sealed tight at the tcip with four sliiny new scre\vs.

The box was quite heavy fil]ed with }iour ashes aiid bolie, held in my arms, in a graveyard` v,/here I spoke about yc)u.

I spoke to all those that were gdthered, to all those \`Jhose bridge.s }iou'd burnt.

That u'e loved you.

I hen we lost you to an addiction aiid the I ies tliat it told }'-ou.

How it made }iou a stranger from which }'our spirit had flown.

-l`hen the priest blessed t]ie box aiid placed }'-our soul ill Gods trust.

But I kliew in my heart, as I rilaced the box in its niche. that your soul wasn't with God oi. an}iwhere else.

First it had fled.

Now it was gone.

And all I hdve left of }'ou, are tlie words I write here. Ot` a boy. I remenibei.7 of a brotlier I lo\Jed.

H€tles lot Co]n]militrtypgmmme: University Set heed Interested in taking a 13-week Creative Writing course at UBC? llumanities 101 Community Prograirme (Hum) olfcrs free university-level courses for low-income people who live in and around the Downtoun Eastside and J)owTitown South, as well as people v,iho are "natural

community members"+ormer rcsidents, volunteers, community workers. and people who rely on the social services in these area.s. Meeting on Tueeday evenings ftom January to A|)ril 2024` in Writing 101 and Writing 201 wc lcam and practice a new genre of writing with a different teacher cvcry week. Classes cover creative fiction and ron-fiction, poetry` song writing, Indigenous literatines, manifestos, comedy, collaborative writing, book reviews and more. Participants receive school supplics` UBC cards, meals, bus tickets to get to and from UBC Point Gre}T campus where classes arc held` and childcare funding if needed.

Hi]m courses are for people who have encountered financial and other barriers to university education and who wish to expand their intellectual horizons in an accessible, challenging, and respectful cnvirorment. Applica.nts must have a love of lcaming, basic literacy skills and be willirig to allcnd classes. complete assigrmcnts and participatc in group discussions. Applications for these nontl=redit courses are accepted not on the basis of past academic history, but on the applicant` s desire and ability to be part of`the Hum Programme. Visit the Hum websitc for more information` humaniticsl 01.arts"bc.ca, or contact h.u.mrdr`ubc.ca I 604-822-0028.

To find out more about what you can expect as a participant in Writing 101 or Writing 201 and to apply for a course you must attend an upcoming Information/application 5ession and complete a paper application form:

The Gathering Place, 609 Helmcken St. (meeting room) Saturday November 18th at 11:cO a.in.

Carnegie Centre, Main and Hastings 5t. (third floor classroom) Saturday November 18th at 3:o0 p.in.

Downtown Eastside Woinen's Centre, 302 Columbia St. (women only) Monday November 20th at 3:o0 p.in.

Vancouver Public Library neda?mat ct Strathcona Branch, 730 E. Hastings St. (Wo Soctn [Mary] Lee Chan Room)

Monday November 20th at 6:00 p.in.

The Vancouver Recovery Club, 2775 Sophia St. (Spanish room) Wednesday November 22nd at 6:oo p.in

rmo8rm The program i`s for DTrs cormunrty manbers who demonstrate a history of original art pracifee, and show a vital engagement with the cornmurrit`y Wth small grants, the pro-

gram is an oppertimfty for focal artists to take their art !o the nextAevat` Art carl range from painting, mLrsic, theafro. writing,

phctograpfty, pnery.1extsles, jenelry ruing, c;arving, anhat[`on, cfaimce, 'mtx©d-media, perfomarice, video and moral

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Program. A Volunteer Adusory Committee "#C), ma&e up local DTES atists with diverse irfeenests and exparfeflce, is

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Help Save Britannia Renewal Britamia Commuiiity Ccntrc. located just off commercial Drive aLt Napicr, needs renewal. It is }\ er 50 years old and is a vital part of the community. For the past 15 years inaiiy people have Til't and worked to develop a coiiiprehcnsive plan, with the last 5 years seeing intensive and iii`pired work to get a comprehensi\-e and needed renewal goii]g. rhe `new' City Council. dominated by the right-wing ABC Party and Mayor Ken Sin. have summarily cancelled the renewal. from the Grandview-Woodland Ai.ea Council's website comes the following:

Share this with your family, your friends, your networks and your neighbours Ask them all to tell the City that we need the Britannia Renewal -NOW! "Nearly 50 years ago, the students of Britannia and many community leaders c<une togetlier to fight for a community ceiitrc to serve the peoplc of our historically under-served inner city neighboiiTh()ods"

Bi.itannia C`entre has brought so much to this commuiiity ever since, despite very limited facilities and resources (v`Je doll.t even have da}'iime access to a gymnasiilm).

Our pc>c>1, riiik,library, and other faciliotics are reacliing their End-of-hife and we liave Ilo room to welcome new people or actiT itjes into our Centre. I HE renewal was a plim lo replace and expand Britannia Centre, so that it can continui` to meet community needs.

I`he $500M Renewal would have broiight an advanced iind expanded acqiiatics and fitness facility, along with a c()iiimimity gym and gymmstics annex. a iiew and expanded library, a state-of-the-art ice rink, a black box theatre and |}erformancc space, a community dining hall sc`rvcd by a commel.cial kitchen and a dramatic ex|)ansion of arts prctduction spaces, meeting and activity rooms, social scr\Jicer infrastn]cture and commiinit}' workshops and incubator s|)aces, iiot to mention 140 new childcare spaccs -a generationa] chiinge for this colnmunit}'.

As ()iir buildings crumble, the City ol`Vancouver tells us the Renewal is on hold and they have no I)li`n to sock any funding to c()ntinue the process."

On November I, a motion by Grccn Party Councillor Pctc Fry to continue with the Rellewal is ()n thi` agenda at City Council This call is for every-one who can to go to City Hall, to pack Council Chambers and if possible` get on thc spcakers' List to d€iTiand continuation of the Britamia Reliewiil. To get iTiorc information and liiils lo get on the I,ist, go lo GWAC.ca

Communities must be a priority.

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