November 1, 2017 carnegie newsletter

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401 Main Street, Vancouver BC V6A 2T7 604-665-2289 email: carnnews@shaw.ca Website/catalogue: carnegienewsletter.org

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Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

SECOND WEEK - So much more to do! Most is free; check it out!

Wednesday November 1 to Sunday November 5,2017

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Women Rock - Wed Nov 1, Zpm, Carnegie - photo David Cooper

WEDNESDAY November 1 --..----.------- .... --.-- ..~.--.---.--• llam-12pm

DRUMMING,

• 12pm-2pm • 2pm-4pm

CULTURE SAVES LIVES. InterUrban

Gallery, 1 E. Hastings. Free

BLOCK PRINTMAKING with WePress. InterUrban

Gallery, 1 E. Hastings. Free

THE WAY CHINATOWN

HISTORY IS BEING SHARED. CCC Museum,

555 Columbia.

• 5:30pm-7pm

6PEN MIC. UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main. Free

• 7pm-8:30pm

PLAYING OUR PART. St. James' Anglican Church, 303 E. Cordova. Free

• 7pm-9:30pm

DTES FRONT & CENTRE: WOMEN'S VOICES. Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free

• 7pm-9:30pm

KARAOKE. Evelyne Sailer Centre, 320 Alexander.

Free

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DRUMMING,

CULTURE SAVES LIVES. InterUrban rd

Gallery, 1 E. Hastings. Free

• 1pm-3pm

LEARNING CENTRE LIVE. Carnegie 3

• 1pm-4pm

WHEN THE lIEILIS THIN: DAY OF THE DEAD. Oppenheimer

• 6pm-7:30pm.

floor Learning Centre, 401 Main. Free Park, 488 Powel!. Free

HOME GROWN STORIES. EWMA Studio, 800 E. Hastings. Free

Free

• 6pm-8:30pm.

REFRAMING RELATIONS. n;3ca7mat et Strathcona

• 6:30pm-8pm.

ILLICIT: THE HEART OF A MOVEMENT.

• 8:30pm-l0:30pm.

HIP HOP LADIES. SBC Restaurant,

Branch, 730 E. Hastings. Free

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KW Studio, 111 W. Hastings. By donation 109 E. Hastings. Free

FRIDAY November 3 --..---------~ nd

• 10am-5pm.

VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM Open House. 240 E. Cordova, 2

• 12pm-2pm

SILKSCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP. InterUrban

• 2pm-4pm.

SPEAKING UP, PUBLIC ART AS RESISTANCE: HONOURING

Strathcona

floor.

Free

Gallery, 1 E. Hastings. Free OUR SISTERS. n;3ca7mat ct

Branch, 730 E. Hastings. Free

• 3pm-4:30pm.

PATSY KLEIN/TONY WILSON and JOSH ZUBOT. Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free rd

• 5pm-7pm.

ONE CASE, TWO CASE, THREE CASE. Carnegie 3

• 6pm-7pm.

BREATH-AHHH: Theatre

• 7pm-8pm.

LOUVRE. Outside by the alley, 325 Carrall. Free

• 7pm-9:30pm

JAZZ CONflUENCE:

Terrific.

KW Atrium

floor Gallery, 401 Main. Free

Studio, 111 W. Hastings. Free

Carnegie Jazz Band. Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free

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• 10am-5pm.

VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM Open House. 240 E. Cordova, 2

• 2pm-3pm.

BREATH-AHHH: Theatre Terrific.

• 2:30pm-3:30pm.

KW Atrium

SANDY CAMERON MEMORIAL

floor.

Free

Studio, 111 W. Hastings. Free

WRITING CON~ESt AWARD CEREMONY.

Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free • 3pm-4:30pm

SRO Playreading.

InterUrban

Gallery, 1 E. Hastings. By donation

• 3pm-8pm

RED JAM SLAM. Caveman Cafe, 88 W. Pender. Free

• 4pm-5pm.

STORIES OF HER: THURSDAYS WRITING COLLECTIVE. Carnegie Theatre.

• 5:30pm-6:30pllt.t • 7pm-9:30pm • 7pm-9:30pm.

Free

POETRY WORKSHOP with JB the First Lady. Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free rd

CARNEGIE SING ALONG CHOIR. Carnegie 3

floor Gallery, 401 Main. Free

DTES POETS OPEN MIC. Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free

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COMMUNITY

CONCERT & SUPPER. Ukrainian

Hall, 805 E. Pender. $25;

tickets 604-254-3436.

For complete event details, pick up the Festival Program Guide at Carnegie Front Desk; Strathcona and Ray-Cam Community Centres; VPl Branches Britannia, Hastings, Mount Pleasant and Strathcona; or, visit www.heartofthecityfestival.com.

Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with Carnegie Community Centre & Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, working with a host of community partners. Front cover: women in the community, photo David Cooper

The Heartbeat Continues Through the Hearts of our

by Stephen Lytton, Downtown Eastside resident

Honouring the Women of the Downtown Eastside The opening ceremony of the Heart of the City Festival took place on Wednesday, October 25. To the delight of those assembled the Elder-in-Residence was Kat Norris, very representative as a strong, respected woman.

Terry Hunter, as executive director of the Festival acted as a kind of master of ceremonies, under the ' watchful eyes of his partner Savannah Walling & the plethora of women present. Terry spoke of how a few people had gotten a chance to speak their truth in being videoed for a presentation by Hillary and names began to be spoken with reasons linking same to the festival theme.

First names here, as the listing will undoubtedly omit many more, but mentioned in the video and throughout the afternoon: Jean, Phoenix, Dalannah, Savannah, Rennae, Taninli, Debra, Diane, Harsha, Lisa, Barbara, Wendy, Priscillia, Patricia, Sharon, Roseanne, Teresa, Lucy, Colleen, Ruby, Ramona, Margaret, Deleine, Kell Caryn, Janet, Jennifer, Sarah, Joan, Leith, Naomi Diane Wood was honoured to be honoured; Dalannah Bowen sang a heartfelt Mama's Got the Blues, telling the story of her addiction and recovery through this community "Can't seem to do nothin' with this life of mine"; Steven Lytton read his poetry, reprinted from the HOTCF prograrh guide; Dillon (Ojibway from Ontario) performed his Hoop Dance; Dalannah sang again, performing Lullaby, a new piece commissioned for the Festival to honour/remember the Murdered & Missing women "Too many gone too soon into the light of the Spirit world" and "Start your day with gratitude!" and then a dance in the round to just celebrate the women of this community.

By the time anyone reads this the Festival will be well underway, so hope & trust that the myriad workshops, music extravaganzas, theatre productions and cultural presentations, walking tours and awarenessraising events are blowing our collective mind.

By PAULR TAYLOR

As an Interior Sal ish Nlakapamux man, I no longer have my elders to guide me from my nation. They have fallen to age, wars, alcohol, and murder.

I speak with those who I can for guidance. I ask that of you.

What does honouring women of the Downtown Eastside mean?

What is the action of honouring women?

Perpetrators can say they honour women.

Abusers can say they honour Women.

There are Wolves out there who use that phrase and go on killing.

And that's why we continue to have missing and murdered women in the Downtown Eastside.

Our women in the Downtown Eastside come from all across Turtle Island And they come ill prepared.

There are wolves out there ready to prey on that opportunity, and they do, Giving women a false sense of care and loving.

Sooner or later some fall prey to the streets & are forced to work in the sex trade.

Or are murdered.

Or go missing.

How do we honour that?

Honour begins in a respectful You have to earn it.

relationship.

I honour women from the Downtown Eastside, Those who have moved to other communities And those who are no longer with us.

Because they have paved a path for the women of today.

They have shaped and guided and molded women who are leaders today.

They have had the strength ~n ct)~_rage to persevere.

When asked about Honouring Women, what does it truly mean? For men and for women?

I respect, honour, and value the March for the Missing and Murdered Women.

It honours the women who have passed and will continue to do so in memory of our lost loved ones.

Is the March helping?

What about the women who are having to relive the experience?

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Women What about their anger? Their suffering? Their frustration?

How about the women and families who continue to re-live And are re-triggered about the loss of their loved ones?

How can we start today, to ensure this violence stops tomorrow? So that future generations don't have to experience the same pain, the same sorrow.

How can we look forward together?

I ask the women: how can I show my support?

What does that mean, going forward?

I want to walk alongside you and respect you.

In honouring women, how can I be a part of the solution, and not the problem?

And what is honour?

When I talk about honouring women, I mean they are the heartbeat of the nation.

Women from the four corners of the globe are the heartbeats of their nations.

How do I begin to honour you?

To End violence against women, Men need to stand up To take a stand against violence.

[Tolearn about the Moose Hide Campaign, a grassroots , movement of Aboriginal & non-Aboriginal men 'who standing up against violence directed towards women and children, go to www.moosehidecampaign.cal

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There were 27 entries. Each writer put their thoughts on paper, made it into something someone else would want to read and experience anything from changing their life to groaning.

One entry was in the form of lyrics to a karaoke song and passed. One was far too long, one too short and one lifted from someone else's writing. A group of five people read the submissions and gave comments, selecting 10-11 for their shortlist of work deserving of recognition.

These 5 lists were then compared with a consensus in mind. Following are titles, in alphabetical order, of which are being considered for recognition and prizes: •

A Gathering

Place - The Kitchen Table

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Communication

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Hastings and Main

& the Carnegie

It was a time before Lost & Found - Miracle Story of Two Sisters My friend.Gary

Recalls

No God, No Soup Oppenheimer

Memorial

Pole - Remembered

Say Goodbye Schizophrenia

is a Gift

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The Time Has Come

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Washrooms

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of the World - Unite!

The award event is part of the Heart of the City Festival and will be in the Theatre at Carnegie on Saturday, November 4 from 2:30 - 3:30. Everyone who has a piece in the contest is encouraged to come, and some of the writers will be reading their work.

A wards include books, gift certificates and cash given by donations and through the Heart of the City Festival.

Come and join LIS! PaulR Taylor, editor.

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MADE to JUMP As Isaac Newton once sort of said we are standing on the shores of migrants how beautiful there is a fistful of pills looking rather yummy right now no need to push or pull it's the hopelessness that really kills you, dreams fade then they die the way of the alterworld memories unfolded yet thrown into the fire life is a cruel hoax with human shite like Trump enforceing dumptrucks of silence while twittering away his sociopathic tendencies are no joke greed & vanity shall create monsters worse than that - does it scare me Yes .. does it even interest you?

I have scaled the sewers for intimate viewing I do not like what is available to see bodies in full desecration!

The people who live wherever they want to live on this planet never ever fail to disgust me we've all begun our endless decay, like a popular show called The American TeenLiable are we talking child porn 0 sexual assaults that destroy you&you&you&me horrifically this makes killing yourself almost okay, like saying something harsh you meant as ajoke but no one is laughing (it ain't cool to say the least) I make my living by living each day has its ups&downs do you have any idea how many souls are at the Lost & Found being a member of mankind has become a curse like a child finding & firing a bullet into his friend's head but hey a gun in every room will so ignorantly keep you safe, like a Mormon orgy with god tattooed on your eye a bucket of painkillers I doubt .(youldsuffice satanic blankets&pillows are much better than the sidewalk anything's better than waking up with a layer of ice like sending an isolationist to join a job needing a team -if god forgives the least of me is he able to let me be, like a beauty pageant for th other side (you know, the decomposed) #3 should have won but he had no nose ... god could be the loneliest person he is me&he is you harbouring feelings of contempt only makes things worse, like dreams made of Lego they fall apart like life piece-by-piece with nothing remotely close to peace just try phoning anyone no-one is home not even the Police who instead of shooting a black teen in the leg pumped 8 shots in his back -he'll get off having already memorized his motives & other bullshit (every letter, every verse) We wear & mock history wherever in this world the bills that get paid for you are an alarm bell that your selfishness is lost, like living one floor above rising hurricane water rage there is a right way & a walkway

now you must choose, like never entering contests be it music word or sporting events that become a contest of final wills it is a testament to all mankind Like an astronaut having a smoke break while patching up the outside of his rocketship so much copperplated justice evil does not like to wait but if needed will take a trip life insurance for boys&girls people always in a rush always jumping ahead of the line, like a woman who caught the glint in your eye with a stone thrown very hard the 'delicate' sex can overpower satan if they want love & a very powerful nod both come in bullet-shaped entities for those who dream of jumping into that blackness we shall all be in one day (sort of haunts) until then maximum velocity if not hitting water there will still be a splash, like having a copy of the Bible signed by Jesus Chris himself(& if any pictures that say Kodak on the other side) ripoff forgers&paperhangers&terrorists are fucking everywhere yet in so many cases somebody gets off on a technicality the rest will soon beg for just a lash, like an Islamist State playground fullofpits&pendulums god I love Edgar Allan Poe he died at 40 very sad it is time for your sinister-handed correspondent to end this barrage of words, skeletons buried say how civilized you are same bat-station same bat-channel we shall never let distance keep us apart Happy birthday John'Lennon you for one are as free as a bird.

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We Dream of Jean ...

Jean Swanson, independent candidate for City Council, held a rally where she detailed her plan to End All Renovictions.

Swanson launched her campaign on August I st at the Belvedere in Mount Pleasant and called for a Rent Freeze. Since then, her volunteers have been getting people to sign the petition calling on the provincial Housing Minister, Selina Robinson, to institute a 0% rent increase for four years.

Her campaign has held demonstrations and the Rent Freeze has been frequently featured in various media outlets. "It's been a very easy sell getting people to sign the petition," says Swanson. Consequently, Robinson has even said she'll be looking at reducing the recently-announced rent increase - and, arguably, she did so because of the campaign.

Some of Swans on's critics have pointed out that freezing rent increases is only something the province can do and have wondered what she plans on doing at the City level.

"Our rent freeze policy has always included things the City can do right now," says Swanson. "The current allowable annual rent increase of 4 percent actually only applies to ongoing tenancies. But we know that rents have gone up by 20% in just the last year. You know how that happened? Well it turns out there are a bunch of ways to get around the allowable annual rent increase."

When landlords renovate a unit, they are allowed to evict a tenant and then raise rents to any amount. This is called renoviction and often these renovations are basically just excuses to increase rents. Also, if you move out, the landlord can raise rents to whatever the market will bear - or however much the new tenant will pay.

Swanson notes that to even do a renovation in Vancouver, landlords need a permit from the City, which gives the City the power to stop many renovictions right now.

"The city can & should make it a condition of issuing building permits that landlords maintain rents at existing levels after work is completed," says Swanson.

"There's an existing policy that we can expand and use to end all renovictions. The City's Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy provides monetary compensation to renovicted tenants."

Also, the City can make it a condition of issuing a

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building permit or development permit involving rental units that landlords prove they have found suitable temporary accommodation at the *same* rent for all tenants who will be displaced due to renovations; and that there is a signed contract that gives tenants the rizht to move back into their unit, or a new replaceD ment unit, at the same rent as they were previously paying once renovations are complete.

"This would weaken the incentive to renovict and it would only require expanding an existing policy," says Swanson.

"1 think City Hall needs a renovation," says Swanson.

"Maybe we need to renovict some of its tenants, namely its developer-funded City Councillors. Tomorrow I hope to become City Hall's newest tenant." " .and if/when self-centeredness is overcome by service to humanity, our dreams can become reality in 2018.

The Worst Deal Yet!?!

Remember the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the deal that we thought U.S. President Donald Trump tore up?

The one that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz called the "worst deal ever," and a huge corporate bonanza that would increase drug prices, expose Canada to more corporate lawsuits, and result in 58,000 lost jobs?

It's not over.

Federal Trade Minister Francois-Phillipe Champagne is flying out to Tokyo for secret talks about the deal with the remaining 11 TPP countries. Negotiations are underway and participating countries plan to finalize a deal by the end of the year.

Worse still, the Trudeau government is aggressively pursuing every trade deal it can, free from any public scrutiny.

The government says it wants to hear from the public about the TPP deal and is asking you to submit your comments. As the Council of Canadians' found out through an access to information request, 99 per cent of those who have already written to Global Affairs Canada, including thousands of Council of Canadians supporters like you, told the government that they don't want the TPP. Now the Trudeau government is asking for your opinion on a deal it won't even share details about! It's clear the government is not interested in true public consultation.

Thank you for everything you do.

[To find.out more go to Council of Canadians site.]

CARNEGIE COMMUNITY

ACTION PROJECT

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CITY SCREWS DTES AGAIN, STOP BEEDIE'S LUXURY CONDO AT 105 KEEFER, AND A CONVERSATION ON HOGAN'S ALLEY

NOVEMBER

2017

MY ANCESTORS DID NOT ENVISION A LEGACY OF DISPLACEMENT IN CHINATOWN

On October 3D, Chinatown Concern Group, Chinatown Action Group, Chinatown community members, and hundreds of supporters went to the City of Vancouver's Development Permit Board Meeting for 105 Keefer to urge the city to reject Beedie Living's development application to build 9-storeys of luxury condos in the heart of Chinatown.

The Development Permit Board finished hearing all the speakers that signed up but did not make a decision yet. The motion to defer was passed and the decision will be made next Monday (Nov.6th).

Read community member, Leo Vu's speech to Development Permit Board below ..

My name is Leo Vu. I was born in Vancouver, and I am the fourth generation in my family to live and work here. I'm here to let you know that the proposed 105 Keefer development is culturally inappropriate, insensitive and disrespectful for residents and stewards of tong4 yan4 gaii1 (Chinatown), and it will be seen as a major setback in reconciliation efforts with Chinese-Canadian families like mine.

As the affordability crisis in Vancouver continues

to escalate, your decision will also have an impact on the cultural assets and food security of Chinatown, and will set a precedence for other neighbourhoods in Vancouver that are also at risk.

Allow me to explain Chinatown's legacy as I see it, and what constitutes the heart of our culture in this community.

My taai3 gung1 (great-grandpa) immigrated to Vancouver as a "paper son". He worked hard in Chinatown, saved everything he could, and

more social housing for low-income Chinese seniors instead of expensive condos.

eventually bought the Hazelwood Hotel on Hastings and Gore. With great difficulty he slowly brought over his immediate family, including his beloved daughter, my p04 p02 (grandmother), despite racist immigration laws. I'm thinking of both their legacies as I speak to you today.

Their children and grandchildren would visit them regularly. They would proudly introduce their shunl (grandchildren) to friends and neighbours.

They would walk down the street to buy groceries, pastries and meats, or yum2 caa4 (dine out). They would take their shunl to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, or to learn about art and history at the Chinese Cultural Centre

HEART OF OUR CULTURE My ancestors lived and worked in Chinatown because they were marginalized and racialized.

At the heart of this community was the desire to take care of our elders, each other and the needy.

This community is where our culture thrived, and continues to thrive.

This is the cultural and historical context that we're in, which is why so many of us strongly oppose this development. It is completely disrespectful to our families and our culture to build market condos in Chinatown that Chinese seniors and low-income people can not afford to live in. It is harmful to open retail stores in Chinatown that do not meet the needs of Chinese seniors and lowincome people. Just try to imagine how insulting it is for descendants like me to see this happening over and over again. We have to stop this greedy behaviour. No means no!

Reconciliation requires mutual respect from both parties. It's time for the City of Vancouver to put the demands of Chinatown's residents and stewards ahead of developers. of

Yet Chinatown's community members have a successful record of resistance. You need to listen carefully: We will not allow this disrespect to continue. A critical question to ask the community is whether this proposed development is culturally-appropriate.

The answer from descendants like me is no.

The way to honour our ancestors and respect our culture is to build social housing and public spaces in Chinatown so that Chinese seniors and lowincome people have comfortable homes to live in, culturally-appropriate shops to buy from, and sufficient space to be in community together.

Try to imagine what Chinatown could look like if we used the 105 Keefer site and others to build

The 105 Keefer development is culturally inappropriate, insensitive and disrespectful for tong4 yan4 gaiil and will absolutely harm the social fabric of this community. Approving this project will be taken as a setback in reconciliation efforts with Chinese-Canadian families like mine who experienced racism and discrimination in Vancouver.

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A PEOPLE'S VISION I'm 36 years old. I've seen a staggering loss of Chinese cultural assets and food security in Chinatown over my lifetime, which was recently documented in a report by the Hua Foundation, which I am a Board member.

You see, it's not hard for me to imagine this - it's part of my family history, my culture, my ongoing experience. The for-profit market will not save Chinatown - it takes A People's Vision, a collective effort and courageous leadership. It is entirely possible and reasonable. So it is with hope that I speak with you today.

Dol Ze6. Thank you.

DOWNTOWN

EASTSIDE

SCREW

RESIDENTS

PROTEST

A TRIPLE

BY THE CITY

On August 2, 2016, Mayor Gregor Robertson signed an agreement with Downtown Eastside residents for 100% welfare and pension rate, communitycontrolled social housing at 58 W Hastings. Since then, the city has reneged on its promise to the community. In response, DTES residents and the Our Homes Can't Wait coalition held an action on October 25 to protest what they call a triple screw:

FIRST SCREW It is now the end of October 2017 and the city and Chinatown Foundation are planning an open house for their proposal for the site which does NOT include 100% welfare/pension rate, community-controlled social housing. According to a memo from city staff, the current plan is for only one/third of the housing to be affordable to people on welfare and disability, plus, the bottom 3 floors, which could be used to house homeless DTES residents, will be used for a health facility for Vancouver Coastal Health and stores.

1200 homeless DTES residents desperately need housing yet. the city is using a site that could

potentially house 300 people to house only about 80 low-income people.

SECOND SCREW The city set the date for the open house on their proposal on welfare cheque day when the lowincome people most impacted by the future development will be unable to come.

THIRD SCREW When Our Homes Can't Wait pointed out that the open house was on cheque day, the city scheduled another open house for Oct. 30 at 4 pm on the same day as the 105 Keefer Development Permit Board Meeting, excluding the many community members who have been organizing to attend the 105 Keefer meeting.

Our Homes Can't wait marched from 58 West Hastings to the city's open house event at the Woodwards Atrium where they took over the event. See photographs from the take over on the following page.

A CONVERSATION WITH RANDY CLARK ON HOGAN'S ALLEY

Saturday, OctoBer 28, Unceded Coast Salish TerritoriesOn a beautiful sunny morning, approximately sixty people gathered at the SW corner of Main and Union block to listen to a unique story that most people don't get to hear. The event was organized by the Carnegie Community Action Project and Hogan's Alley Society to celebrate the Heart of the City Festival and showcase the rich history of Vancouver's Black community.

The man holding the mic was Randy Clark, a former resident of Hoqan's Alley, telling the story of the only Black community Vancouver has ever had. The Hoqan's Alley community thrived between 1910 to 1972.

Hoqan's Alley was destroyed by the City of Vancouver's urban renewal policy, part of a North America-wide racist policy of the times that deliberately targeted inner city Black neighborhoods and Chinatowns; in Vancouver, it was both. As early as 1930 the city began to view the neighborhood as something that should be erased. Using redline, home owners were refused bank loans to upgrade their homes. The City routinely failed to provide regular garbage pick-up. "When a house became available for sale:' Randy told us "the city bought it and let it deteriorate. They would not cut the grass. In the end, it became the block's dumpsite:

After months of intentional neglect. the area began to deteriorate. The City then felt justified to use the construction of the Dunsmuir viaduct as an excuse to get rid of the people who lived there. By the time the City brought in its urban renewal to clean up the 'blight: most residents had already left.

"During the day," Randy recalls, "Hoqan's Alley was a beautiful neighborhood. As children, we played in the alley and went to buy fries at Sarah's Cafe. At night. it was a different story.

I worked in the restaurant as a bus boy. My responsibilities were to peel the potatoes, do the dishes, and open the door when the booze was delivered: Hoqan's Alley was a place where Vancouverites came to listen to jazz, eat good steak and chicken and relax. But it was also known as a Red-Light District. Bootlegging, prostitution and gambling were rampant.

Based on the church records, at its peak the Black population numbered about 800 people.

Blacks were the largest population of this working-class neighbourhood that included Chinese, First Nations, Japanese and Mexicans.

A lot of Black men worked for CP Rail as porters. It was a respectable job. During those days, few people would rent an apartment to Black people but Hogan's Alley did. Those who lived in Hoqan's Alley came from places like San Francisco, Oklahoma and Salt Spring Island, like Randy's father. Nora Hendrix, Jirni's grandmother, was the impetus that started the African Methodist Episcopalian Church to keep the congregation together. Jimi. who was 9 at the time attended Grade 1 at Sir William Dawson Annex in Vancouver's West End. Since October 2016 several people in the greater Metro Vancouver area have come together to restore the legacy of Hoqan's Alley. The Hoqan's Alley Society is in the process of setting up a legal entity that will use a Community Land Trust as a tool to foster sustainable development on the "East Block: where Hoqan's Alley used to be. The history of Hogan's Alley is rooted in justice, and people who hear about it are interested in learning more. When we posted the event on Face Book we had more than 22,000 Likes. We are

encouraged by this interest in learning more about the history of the Black community in Vancouver.

Our vision is that the Hoqan's Alley Community Land Trust become a community-led nonprofit orqanlzatiorv which will create a renaissance movement for social. political. cultural and economic revival for Vancouver's Black community. Through partnerships the Hoqan's Alley Land Trust will acquire and develop land and operate assets as a true community land trust. It will create neighborhoods that are inclusive, healthy, and just. while preventing future displacement.

We envision a community that will bring together the elderly, babies and everything in between, to live together, have fun and prosper in solidarity. We look forward to the day when instead of stressing about how to fit cultural and history programing into the shortest month of the year call February Black History Month, we will have a cultural centre offering programs and activities 24/7. By building an integrated community that will include housing, retail business and a cultural centre with programing, we hope to reduce the isolation of our people, and restore the glory of Hogan's Alley as a cultural hub in Vancouver.

CARNEGIE

COMMUNITY

ACTION

PROJECT 111:15AM EVERY FRIDAY

The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP)is a project of the board of the Carnegie Community Centre Association. CCAPworks mostly on housing, income, and land use issues in the Downtown Eastside (DTES)of Vancouver so that the area can remain a low income friendly community. CCAPworks with english speaking and Chinese speaking DTESresidents in speaking out on their own behalf for the changes they would like to see in their neighbourhood.

Join us on Fridays 11:15am for our weekly volunteer meetings! Downtown Eastside residents who want to work on getting better housing and incomes and stop gentrification are welcome to attend. Lunch is provided!

CARNEGIE

AFRICAN

DESCENT GROUP

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Barack Obama was the last president of the US. Now there is only Donald J. Trump, a narcissistic, psychotic dictator, with delusions of grandeur - .an. empty shell of a man with nothing of substan.ce inside, a chronic pathological liar, a bigot, and a sexist.

The only threats to world peace come from puppeteer Vladimir Putin and puppet Donald Trump.

Dofti:ild Trump & his minions: Fear the walking dead!

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True Friend The sun gives so much light to the earth, the plants, the water and the man can see the colours reflecting as he fishes in the river stream. The sun and the plant help the planet to breathe fresh air. Photosynthesis, and chlorophyll, magnificently transforms the. sun's light energy into something we can eat ~nd drink. The sun is giving light even though the sun IS far away.

When we have lofty ideas, that feel far away, too far for us to give ourselves a fighting choice, I urge you to remember the sun,' the plants, the earth & the water.

By: George Byron

By Deloni Holland Was he looking at me? I have nothing to give. Ifhe really wanted way inside my coat pocket he could have it. No money in there but some straw pieces for .my mouse .â&#x20AC;˘Besides, now I must pack up my belongings and leave town. 1 won't be coming back. There is no music that sings to me now walled up empty halls" and the old man sipping his drink inside a dimly lit tavern playing his song. The scene and the landscape has evolved technology has taken hold firmly on the . young people's mind. Squeezing at their brains with its cold steel hand. Learning how to adapt is great and all but it is a real struggle to fit into a neighbourhood that mixes steep real' estate prices with turn of the century houses. I try to enjoy the life around me and nature but the choice to move on weighs greatly as the rapid change of home ownership. I look within for music but there is no perfect phrase. Transitions go by me quite nicely and people are always travelling.

Maybe, going awkwardly is not my intention. I need a doctor to make it all go away. The doctor can take the fight out of me. That would not be very difficult with the chemical adaptability of the day. I have found a very good gig here in this city. I got study, shelter, food and time to figure a clear mind. Power and internal struggles play off a person's mind and a need to stay alive.

A Harvest of Inhumanity My community -the downtown east side of Vancouver- has been under siege for many years. But during the last five years, the pounding and unmerciful attack over a community that has endured tough adversities -not only neglected but systematically crushed-, has escalated to the point where people spending the long cold winter nights on the sidewalks -some of them very ill with no food- are now the object of a subtle annihilation. This is nothing but A Harvest of Inhumanity.

Both the general public and media confirm that there are many similarities all over British Columbia. The designers of such an inhuman model should not be proud of their work. That model generally has lead to disaster in other places on the planet. Some of those designers and developers even have the nerve to claim huge hikes to their already high wages and bonuses, and they know they can get more for themselves from more and more cuts to essentials for the poor. Shame. Every once in a while, they express that they are very proud of what they have done.. .and even more proud of what is yet to come. We wonder.

The homelessness rate and the other indicators of poverty have increased considerably. If the proud designers/developers would take the time to walk through our neighborhood, they will clearly appreciate that our community -integrated by human beings- needs help and more resources for health, education, trainings that lead to work and strong programs that will alleviate the situation of people living in clear disadvantage -not the other way around.

Furthermore, in some circles of our community there are fears that the attack on social housing, through more cuts or elimination of subsidies, could be the next step of The Harvesters of Inhumanity. That could lead to the obliteration of our neighborhood. Is that the fmal solution they have for us It seems that the designers of this Harvest have forgotten the values that a place to be called "the best place on earth to live" must accomplish. Those values must accord with international standards of tolerance, compassion and non marginalization.

Maybe they should take a look at the definition of those values in the glossary of the United Nations, because to ignore (or the subtle writing off of) the referred values, usually leads to the loss of seats in parliaments. Such sad practice also leads to the loss of business due to insecurity but, more importantly, to the loss of lives of people in need. They talk about globalization; well, if we are to pay attention to that -very globally- some countries are taking to court, indicting, judging and putting in jail those former presidents, prime ministers, premiers, mayors, etc; who, in one way or another, have caused damage, repression and persecution of the poor. ..

The cost of managing that Harvest of Inhumanity not only may exceed doubtful budget surpluses, but also could generate the very same roots that will surely lead to one more even incredible human society as a whole that eventually will bring more ~uffering and chaos to everybody, including the ~eslgn~rs and their promoters, and of course to our children s children.

Harvests of Inhumanity have happened in the past; they have put communities under siege. But history has shown that communities under systematic harassment have been able to endure the most well organized and brutal sieges. The total collapse of the Nazi army began on May 9,1944, with the heroic resistance of the community at Sevastopol. A year later Sevastopol was awarded the title of Hero City.

Communities under siege can turn the tables and can be winners. My community is a hero city.

By Jorge Escolan-Suay

[This article is reprinted now as winter approaches and the last homeless count was over 2138 people Ed.]

Alley The Ridiculous Darkness November 11-19 I The ANNEX I 823 Seymour Street *Performance Times: Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30pm I Sunday, 2:00pm *Community Opening on Remembrance Day. Running Time: 135 minutes including 15-minute intermission There will be free ticket vouchers available at Carnegie Hall beginning Saturday, for anyone who would like to come see the show! Tickets cost $19

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Adapted from an award-winning German radio play, The Ridiculous Darkness is an irreverent modernization and satire of "Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now." The play opens with a Somali man pleading for understanding after being charged with piracy-but the scene is quickly swallowed up by the story of two Western soldiers entering what appears to be Afghanistan. They are seeking a fellow soldier who, instead of pursuing enemies, has decided to kill his own comrades. Along the way, they encounter various peoples and local communities, and the play becomes an earnest-albeit strange--exploration of the need to understand each other.

Alley Theatre holds community engaged & socially conscious work at its core. For this production we have partnered with the Downtown East Side Street Market Society, Downtown East Side Vendors Collective, and the East Van Powwow Crew to name a few.

DTES Small Arts Grants 2017-18 If you are an emerging artist from the Downtown Eastside with an idea for an original art project, then this program is for you!

How can this program help me?

We support emerging artists develop their skills and increase the visibility of their artwork with grant awards ranging from $500 - $1000 to individual DTES artists. With this money, you can buy what you need to take your art to the next level!

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Sunday November 12, 3:00pm-4:30pm Program Room II (3rd Floor) The Carnegie Centre, 401 Main St, Vancouver, Contact Beverly Walker, Coordinator DTES Small Arts Grants e: dtesartsgrants@gmail.com p: 604-665-2213 w: vancouverfoundationsmallarts.ca

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The highest pain threshold, Should the truth be told, I'm introverted, not extroverted.

I'm black & blue The mean reds an' the blue devils in my pills I'm denied the doom an' gloom in my SRO room waiting for the sun to rise, Watching loony tunes on the boob tube, Getting ready for Happy HourIt's time to devour grub at the pub The long hot Summer of Fire has ended.

Smoldering ashes in puddles of precipitation It's snowing on Cypress and the windmill on Grousse generates electric power.

Another season of this year leads to the next.

I am rising from the ashes Empowered with renewed strength and will Standing on concrete convictions and holding hands with a lover with whom I'm so fond of.

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. Replacing the well-loved Natalie has been an exciting and rewarding experience. Last week we held a Philosopher's Cafe & the topic was, What Does a Struggling Artist Need to Nourish in Order to Flourish?

We discussed the impediments to success, what inspires us, and what does success mean. Here are some books available at VPL that reflect our conversation.

Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue Six artists speak about balancing their art practice with their responsibilities and commitments to their family and community. Some of the topics discussed are home/place, transgression/boundaries, art as healing/art as struggle, pain/joy, art practice/work, and survival/colonization.

Attributed to Jay Gould (1836 - 1892) ruthless American industrialist and financier: "I can hire one half of

the working class to kill the other half" In the movie Gangs of New York (2002), the line is reworked and mouthed by William "Boss" Tweed, the man who controlled New York city politics from Tammany Hall, one of the most blatantly corrupt politicians New York has ever seen: "1 can always hire half of the poor to kill the other half."

Divide and Conquer has always been the strategy of the ruling class. Don't go there.

Portrait Revolution: Inspiration From Around the World for Creating Art in Multiple Mediums and Styles Drawing from the works of thousands of artists across a variety of mediums and techniques, this book demonstrates how portraiture is interpreted in many different and creative ways, making it an accessible artistic subject matter for anyone.

Pop Painting Inspiration and Techniques From the Pop Surrealism Art Phenomenon A unique behind-the-scenes guide to the painting process of one of the most popular artists working in the growing underground art scene of Pop Surrealism.

Painter Cam ilia d'Errico opens up her studio and offers readers an insider scoop on the tools, techniques, and inspirations she draws from to create stunningly beautiful, otherworldly works of art.

Adventures in Mixed Media Art Inspiration, Techniques & Pro iects for Painting, Collage & More

"The Laird of Hastings"

By Debra McNaught In the beginning - before the Great Fire of 1886 Vancouver was actually two small settlements, the one that spread along the waterfront from roughly Abbott to Dunleavey was known as "Granville" (or Gastown), and the other out by the PNE grounds known as "Hastings Townsite." When George Black arrived here around 1866 he built Vancouver's first butcher shop beside the Sunnyside Hotel, and later a "resort hotel" called Brighton House, where New Brighton Park now sits.

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Born in 1831 in Aberdeen, Scotland, Black bought a waterfront lot on what would become Water Street for $25 down, $25 later. This was the first very real estate transaction in the city, and like the Sunnyside Hotel , his butcher shop was on stilts and jutted out over Bur-

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rard Inlet. This allowed him to shove the offal and leavings over the edge and into the water. He was pretty enterprising and didn't wait for customers to come calling: he had a trap door built in his deck and by means of a home-made crane would lower freshly butchered meat down into a waiting rowboat outfitted with a carving block, and from there set off to sell his wares. He paddled across the inlet to Moodyville where he sold to the sawmill settlement and its workers, he rowed out to meet ships in the harbour and as far upriver as New Westminster to sell his meat. He got his cattle, sheep and pigs from "the upper country," brought down the Fraser River to New West and then driven overland via the Douglas Road, which was sort of mesh of Boundary and Kingsway and was the only road through the trees between the settlements.

(Later, two stagecoaches a day would shuttle between them). He also went into the forest and bagged deer to butcher up. His pigs wandered freely along the waterfront, happily rooting through the messy offal left by the tides until the neighbours objected and he was persuaded to open a slaughterhouse down on False Creek.

He kept a bear on a chain in back of his place, one of two cubs orphaned when their mother got shot in New Westminster. The bear was diabolically clever: it used to slack up on the chain to lull the pigs into venturing close enough to become dinner. In 1879 the bear was shipped off to Victoria on the SS Beaver, the paddle wheeler that would later sink in the water just off the seawall close to where the Lions Gate bridge now looms overhead.

Black was a gregarious, sociable man, fond of storytelling and jokes. He was proud of his curly-ended mustache, g t out the kilt for social occasions, held parties for the "right" kind of people. He was known as "The Laird of Hastings" (Laird is Scottish for "Lord") and was mad for sports. He built Vancouver's very first roller rink; no idea where that was located but there used to be an early one on Denman Street in the West End. He was the first person to import racehorses (two) to Vancouver and would hold races down an early, muddy Granville Street. He was somewhere on the Kingsway "road exercising his horses when the Great Fire struck on June 13, 1886. His butcher shopand everything else in Vancouver - did not survive the fire but Black had his fingers in several other ventures by that point.

The British, who came here to stay, were absolutely

desperate to recreate English culture and its social hierarchy, and "social climbing" was the order of the day. Every good British subject aspired to the next rung up the ladder, and emulating the habits of the Upper Classes was considered good form. Brighton, England was a resort town on the south coast whose charms had been elevated in the 18th century by successive Royals and their hangers-on; although other, hotels had briefly operated at Hastings Townsite most notably by Maximillian "Maxie" Michaud who had walked here from Montreal and opened the first post office in his hotel kitchen - it wasn't until Black built the Brighton House hotel around 1880 that those who aspired to the gentry began flocking in numbers to enjoy the "excellent bathing and boating" and "first class celebrations and sports" he offered. All the "swells and their children" would summer there (rich people like to move around and display their wealth to other locales; how dreadful to have to live in the same", house year-round), and it was then considered the most fashionable watering place in British Columbia.

Along with the cachet of the famous name, the other major attraction was the Brighton's wel1-appointed bar; with the stagecoach rattling and bouncing twice a day over the corduroy road (logs laid like railroad ties without the rails) he did not lack for customers.

George Black had a ranch or farm in Coquitlam, and property on Lulu Island (which became Richmond when it grew up). He also had a wife and two daughters; he divorced the wife Jeaneta in 1884 when his daughters were 11 (Maude) and 9 (Mary). He took them swimming up at his Coquitlam ranch and one of .them drowned; it changed something in him, and he never got over her death. He was mad enough at his former wife to leave her nothing in his will, and his properties went to the surviving daughter.

Where his shop in Gastown was located, next door to the Sunnyside Hotel on Water Street between Carrall and Alexander, eventually became the site of the Swift Canadian Company's four-story warehouse and meat packing plant. It was renovated in 1969 and Punchlines Comedy Cabaret, the Brothers Restaurant and its monk-themed dining, and the Purple Onion Cabaret al1 operated there. The building still exists and is now home to several entertainment industry and IT-related businesses.

George Black died December 21, 1896 in Vancouver.

Quotes are (mostly) from City of Vancouver archives.

I realized something very important the other day and I want to share it with you. The desire for fame, recognition and fortune takes our eyes off of our Creator. One cannot exalt her Higher Power if she wants to be the subject of exaltation. Indeed, it seems to me that the younger generation is inundated with images of the famous and encouraged to imitate them. Nowhere is it more prevalent than in this Western society to chase the dubious and dangerous desire to be rich and famous; more now than at any other time and place in the world. I think it is because we have societal and family dysfunction that we have people obsessed with fame and fortune. Many sexually abused children equate love with power because they have had their power taken from them. You can chase a false dream like that and it is like a cat chasing its tail.

Indeed, the high of a drug can make us feel all-powerful. The lunatic can have delusions of grandeur. A father can project his erroneous desire for fame onto his children. Wanting fame is wanting power. But getting back to Higher Power, one cannot be God and worship God in the same breath. That is why I believe that aligning one's will with the will of their Higher Power is the correct use of the will, and it is essential to do this in order to recover from substance use. Fame is a fantasy. And drug addiction can keep us in that fantasy. Indeed, recognizing one has gifts and can develop those gifts which were given to them through God is a much different stance than having the self-centered attitude that they did it all by themselves. We did not create ourselves, our Creator created us.

Recovery from addiction requires that we look at ourselves in an honest light. Wanting fame and fortune is just another false desire because really what we are searching for is the ability to bond and the ability to make lasting, honest, deep relationships with others, with ourselves and with our Creator. So, like I said, it comes down to power. Today, I want to align my will with the will of my Higher Power and that means that I give up the willful destructive desire for fame and recognition. I look to a "higher" Power to direct my life, not the fleeting, fake and frivolous desires of fame.

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6 Reasons why volunteering is important and AWESOME: He was very sick from drinking rice wine. I used to 1) Gain new experiences and insights !\ visit him once in a while. I had to wear a white gown, 2) Giving Back and Helping others I, gloves and a mask before entering his room. I used 3) Creating connections with people I read to him from the Bible. I went to the Longhouse 4) A sense of accomplishment Church to ask the Minister, Barry, to pray for him.

5) Building career experience Barry said to me, "Look behind you," and there my 6) Because YOU LOVE Carnegie friend was. I hardly recognized him, he was so thin.

Learn more about our Volunteer Program at Carnegie He said to me that he was going back to his home in by coming to one of our WEEKLY volunteer orientaSaskatchewan and that he will never drink again for tions held every Monday and Saturday at 2:30pm. We the rest of his life. are located on the 3rd floor, in the program office.

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