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JIMBYRNES Concert for the Carnegie Newsletter Thursday, November 14,2019 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Doors at 6:30 p.m.

St. James Community Square, 3214 West 10th Ave at Trutch, in Kitsilano Admission: $25 waged, $5 unwaged Ta~e #9 to Balaclava, walk to Trutch. Cash only at the door.

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The Carnegie Newsletter has been produced by volunteer labour, twice-monthly, for 33 years. The Newsletter serves as an antidote to how the Downtown Eastside is often portrayed in the mainstream media, giving voice to writers who might otherwise be marginalized. Join us for a fun evening of music and community spirit as we raise funds to cover the printing costs for this beloved, and sometimes controversial, publication. Musical offerings will include students from the St. James Music Academy, DTES favourite musician Mike Richter, a soloist from City Opera Vancouver and, of course, 'Jim Byrnes. Also, there will be prizes and refreshments

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SANDY CAMERON MEMORIAL WRITING CONTEST AWARD CEREMONY Saturday November 2, Ipm - 2:30pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main (Free) Sandy Cameron was one of the best-loved writers to ever publish work in"It the Carnegie Newsletter. Sandy consistently contributed essays and poetry, sharing stories of the low income neighbourhood's lOOyear struggle for human rights. This writing contest, now in its fourth year, was established to honour Sandy, to support local writers, and to encourage many neverbefore-published writers to submit their work for publication. This year the contest focuses on poetry and essay-writing. It is an exciting and inspiring event, with many of the award-winning writers reading the work they submitted to the contest. The free twicemonthly Carnegie Newsletter is now available online at www.carnegienewsletter.org.

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I am writing to complain about inaccessibility of .polling stations in the Downtown Eastside.

On election day, DTES residents had to vote at fixed locations, including the Carnegie Community Centre, the Chinese Cultural Centre and Strathcona Community Centre.

For the majority of people in the DTES, mobility is a major issue and it can be difficult to travel more than a few blocks. Transportation and mobility are major obstacles to voting, and geographically inaccessible voting places create very significant barriers.

Although the Carnegie Centre was physically closer for some residents, based on their address they were sent to further voting locations (perhaps determined by postal code or which side of a street they lived on). For example: - the Savoy Hotel 258 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6A lPl is half a block from the Carnegie, but residents had to vote at Strathcona Community Centre, a full five blocks away and much less well-known- .

- 42 East Cordova is two blocks away from the Carnegie Centre, but residents had to vote at the Chinese Cultural Centre, three blocks away, and much less well known The Carnegie Centre is a well-known, familiar community landmark that most residents know and visit regularly. For most DTES residents, going to a place that is further away and largely unknown is an insurmountable barrier that makes the difference between voting and not voting.

Creating fixed voting locations that are arbitrary, geographically further, and very unfamiliar, is a major barrier to people who are destitute, handicapped and facing multiple challenges such as poverty, discrimination, mental health, substance use and disability, Fiona York CCAP Coordinator

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Home, Homelessness and the Culture In-Between.

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DAY OF THE DEAD CElEBRATION/CElEBRACION DEl DIA DE LOSMUERTOS- food and music; time to remember family and friends; time to cry and laugh.

Fri Nov 1, 5pm-8pm, Watari Youth & Family Services, 678 E. Hastings, 2nd floor. Free SROINDIGENO~ WOMEN'S PROJECT- performances and vignettes, stories that honour lived experience of 'home'. Part of Home, Homelessness and the Culture In-Between.

Fri Nov 1, 6pm-8pm. InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carra 11. By donation at the door Sat Nov 2 - afternoon & evening of stories, poetry, writing - Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free Ipm SANDV CAMERON MEMORIAL WRITING CONTESTAWARD CEREMONY- w/ Carnegie Newsletter.

3:30pm DTESWRITERSCOLLECTIVE- readings from the writing group based out of Carnegie.

7pm DTESPOETSOPEN MIC - special guest award-winning writer Amber Dawn; host Diane Wood.

RECOLLECT A Work in Progress - the Carnegie Dance Troupe presents the beginning of a new work.

Sun Nov 3, 4pm-5pm. SFUWoodward's Wbrld Art Centre, 149 W. Hastings. free TUFFCITY: lessons from a Determined Community - an lIIidt project - installation and performance to express realities of drug users. Part of Home, Homelessness and the Culture In-Between.

Mon Nov4, 8pm-9pm. rnterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings, entrance on Carrail. By donation atthe door

SPACES& PLACESPart Ill: The Future - panel about artmaking in the DTESand what we imagine for the future. Cc-presented by DTESSmall Arts Grant Program. Tues Nov 5, 3pm, KW Atrium Studio. Free A JOYOUS CElEBRATION OF UFE Opening Reception-exhibition of photos by Tom Quirk.

Tues Nov 5, 5pm-6:30pm. Carnegie 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main. Free POETRY ON PAGE AND STAGE - read, write, and hang outwith fellow poets. Sponsored by Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize in honour of Muriel Marjorie, beloved actor and spoken word artist of the DTES. Tues Nov 5, 6pm-8:30pm. naca?mat et StrathconaBranch, 730 E. Hastings. Free DTES FRONT & CENTRE: Here We Are! - music, stories, dance and cypher with Bre McDaniel, Michael Edward, Shelly Cox & Henry wong, Kat Norris, Apendiglo Duo, Afro Van Connect, and Heidi Morgan.

Wed Nov 6, 7pm-9:30pm. Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free.

FINDING UGHT IN THE DARKNESS: Stories About Community, Change and Hope - real-life stories, folktales, and songs as told and sung by storytellers from the DTES; facilitated by Jim Sands.

Thurs Nov 7, 4pm-6pm.

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DTES COLLECTION & A CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRESTORY BOOK LAUNCH - readings from the new book, fresh off the press; also readings of selections from Carnegie Reading Room DTES Collection.

Fri Nov 8, 12:30pm-2pm. Csrnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free ROOTS & SEEDS:An Interactive Encounter - celebrate harvest with Urban Farming Poh-Pohs.

Sat Nov 9, 2pm-4pm •.DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings. Free CARNEGIE JAZZ.BAND AND SPECIALGUESTS - hot jazz featuring singer Tom Pickett, Brad Muirhead, Hugh Fraser, Brent Gubbels, Adrian Smith. Sun Nov 10, 2pm. Csrnegie Theatre, 401 Main. Free Many more FREEexciting events during the upcoming days of the Festival!

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

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Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with Camegie Community Centre & Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, with a host of community partners. Front cover. Mike Richter, photo David Cooper

Carneqie Board members Phoenix Winter, Thelma Jack. Photo, David Cooper

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Once you have money, these things don't bother you quite as much, anymore.

What's behind a cover, or under them for that matter, is the thing we see but never truly hear.

They walk in, full of grace, all smiles, a fresh bouquet, and always with so much to say. You love these people, they're fascinating.

Almost, vivacious.

It's the thing we ought to know.

We live behind our window panes, these sealed, rarely opened, blinded, portals to the thing we inhabit.

They work for you, they pay their dues.

There's only one way in, and absolutely no way out.

After all, well, they're the 'heart and soul' of the operation.

And, at the end of the day - they return home wherever that may be.

And they turn out the lights. * Standing in the window, they look down upon their world, all those people on the street.

Dyllan Neal Kauffman

I only remember the stairs, of that house we entered, when we heard that something, well, something had 'happened' .

You know the feeling of damp, dirty, old 70's rug, cascading down a mundane flight, cast in a yellow light that doesn't seem quite right?

On almost every step, lay the remains, of someone's story.

They booked it.

Dirty, clean, sight, unseen.

For eye's that don't belong.

Like vultures that circle, then swoop and devour, for infinite hours, Watching and waiting for a song.

It is time for change, not spare or short.

With or without a retort.

Melodies in my mind.

Implements in my hands Rudiments, ruminating, an endless composition playing in my head.

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DNK Federal 'selection' puppet "liberal" minority now in place like a refried corpse "leaders won't build any social housing for the luckless or deprived our faux "leaders" won't deal with climate change courage for them is truly a no-no, truly strange so another deux years or so of graft, lies propaganda terminal bs like a thermonuclear afterglow! john alan douglas

another close friend of mine blew his head apart with his father's shotgun' one of my uncles shot ryimself another drank himself to .death i could go on and on

i went to this support a few times for relatives of people who committed suicide and one woman her daughter whose photo she passed around at every meeting beautiful young woman had a good job drove home from work one afternoon her mother didn't hear her pull into the garage and her daughter' attached a hose to the exhaust pipe and gassed herself

can you believe it? if you haven't had a lot of suicides in your life . you can thank me . group and my family and friends for shouldering more than our share, of the suicide burden ifs like in some families being a lawyer is a family tradition and in my family ,trying to kill yourself is passed along

another woman y.'hose husband shot himself dead still calls her in-laws still tries to visit them like nothing has changed and gets hurt and upset because they treat her col~ly and really don't want anything to do with her but hell i started going to these meetings because my life was mostly a life of suicide my father killed himself my mother made an'an out effort my aunt shot my grandmother in the heart then tumed the gun on herself the boy i was closest to when i was a child murdered himself the valedictorian of my high school class killed himself

in canada where j live aboriginal people have the highest rate of suicide' in the world and young males 19 to 24 years old ' have a suicide rate 60 times higher than their peers in the united states never mind can_adianteenagers who have the :tdhighest suicide rate in the world

they'd be talking about how it is when somebody just up & ki!!s themselves you got no chance to talk to them about anything you don't know shit and ifs a cruel thing to be on the receiving end because basically SUIcidesays none of you matter enough to me for me to take one more breath and for myself who always wanted to murder a whole bunch a people because i didnlre:ally like anybody there was.no way i could succeed with my vast ambition besides if you kill somebody you're saying that person mattered enough to you to single them out to make them important and that wasn't nasty enough for me but\vith suicide you can 'in a symbolic but real manner kill everybody in the world god the universe everything all at once

and the people in this support group fixed their identity on the fact that someone so intimate killed themselves the woman whose daughter did herself in said she still listens everyday . ,for her daughter's car to pull into the garage she can replay the situation daughter's life an an whose husband shot himself wants forgiveness from blame from her husband's family but the weirdest thing for me personally was that every so often since the others in the group knew i tried to whack myself

on the other hand the desire to kill yourself can be perceived as a fierce longing for fundamental change because your life t'1e way you've been living it is a dead end shit mess' . and hopelessly fucked but this desire for an entirely new orientation gets literalized and we take it to mean i golla kill all of myself

to 'make such a profound transformation but the people in this support group : but when I was 35 they'd start wondering , rocketed a little fuckin suburu they'd look at 'me 70 miles an hour and say down the expressway' what do people think about at 4 in the morning . before they kill themselves? knowing i was gonna drive it .' ,right into a wall and theyd keep askmg me that question . and believino like maybe I'd change my answer ' ~ because what they wanted to be told there was no way in the world of course i'd survive a crash like that is that their loved one i guzzled pills and whiskey beforehand was thinking loving thoughts of them to fuel the decision i'd reached at that last moment to say finis to this mutherfuckin misery but i said to them and in fact rationalized i only know what i was thinking and that i was performing a noble act i don't feel that alone authorizes me ridding the world to be a spokesperson .of a selfcentered worthless asshole ' for all suicides a world overloaded with guys like me what i thought so i cranked up the radio depended on how old i was turned out the headlights and what was going on sang at the top of llÂĽ voice 'at 5 years old tears poured down my face hurled myself backwards and i said out loud off a porch okay god you prick and cracked my skull open here i come against a thick stone slab ready or not lost in hopeessviolent realities let's see how you handle this one with vague fantasies andi felt the intoxicating power of joining my father of controlling death somewhere in suicide heaven and have concluded and talk about that suicide is also taboo subjects paradoxically children killing themselves an attempt to defeat the concealed fear is definitely one of thert' of death so i rammed that car right into a wall and when i was 1'5 i lived in a black hole of depressed horror my last thought was i'm dead i hoarded a couple hundred aspirins and was i ever pissed off and threw them down my throat when i came to in emergency wanting to blast a surgeon bending over me my life of death picking glass outia my face into a death where real life could begin

but i have met people who are extremely grateful they didn't die when trying to destroy themselves in one fell swoop like this young guy who jumped out of a 6th storey window

onto th~ street crushinq his heels and sending him into a wheelchair permanently but notrne i was in disbelief i was also in more shit than the shit that caused me to kill myself in the first place let alone how tucked up i was physically even though my life is much different now and even though i want to live isometimes say to god okay you saved me despite myself and life is something altogether other than i believed it was like excruciatingly beautiful and alive and life is and other people are absulutely amazing and all that shit • but still i could pass on anymore of it j'm ready to go any time ~ and then i go into that grind with god about why it is god lets all.these wonderful people young people children people who are creative loving kind get wiped out mercilessly and then people like me who for decades forchrissake just want out and act like shitheads for the most part aggravating and upsetting other people keep getting saved over and over again but who can answer that one? the cia? the social planning department? geraldo?

but what could i tell these people in the support group?

sure you feel guilty because your husband. or your mo!her or your lover killed themselves well it was all your. fault you should feel guilty if only you'd done this instead of that or if you were a..better person and remember that time when you said no or fuck you or wished they were dead? ,Rod you actually feel Imad as rucking hell at them but how can you? the poor bastards and you thought you knew them thought they revealed themselves to you but the various reactions !to suicide remind me of the first day 9J \i~t spring foday night 4 yellow ponce tape and cruisers blocking main street between hastings and cordova a crowd gathered on the sidewalk looking toward the top of a newly constructed building there's someone going toiump somebody is perched half over the edge it's a long drop to the street ambulances are parked nearby red and white lights revolving and 3 Quick successive reactions tr~m individuals in the crowd

a white guy with a shaved head and bristling \vith violent energy yells jump! jumpl jump! a native woman Wlt~iongblack hair screams up at the building you fuckin idiot!

And a smalllatino man says j have a rock for you if you come down and the forlorn lonely figure atop the building turns out on closer inspection not to be a human being at all but a construction pulley rig or after a suicide you'll hear . the neighbour say the eo-worker say the foend the spouse the partner say vlly last time i saw that mutherfucker an hour ago yesterday on the weekend he-or she was smiling and happier than i'd seen them in along time i had no idea this was coming irn shocked and i wanna scream of course they were happy! they were finally really happy! the night icreamed that car all day long. i was more thoughtful considerate wittier than I'd ever been because i knew

like other suicides knew they're goona be gone aint gonna have to put up with this shit much longer ain't gonna have to put up with you or him or her or government conspiracies and bHis and bullsbit what a relief and why would you ever tell anybody you were gonna do it? they might try to stop you luck up the one time in your life you really had something to look forward to but the support group members would still ask me what dQ.!hey think about before !hey kill themselves and iwanna say to them yeah sure they think about you nght at the luckin end • myfather for hours in his jail cell tearin.g his, sport coat into strips smoking cigarette after cigarette knotting the strips together fitting them through the holes in the panels in the ceiling of the cell and what was he thinking about during his preparations? my mother? me? sure but vMever he thought specifically wasn't worth his while to stay alive for us and Ibelieved there must be-something terribty wrong . with me or my father wouldn't have killed himself would he?

shame and rage saturate your soul like cold rain that never stops but j don't want to pjay the suicide card anymore that cold card always up my sleeve when you know how far oean is and you've gone that' far and some grief comes up .between2 people and you play that card you tell someone there's nothing you can do or say because i am willing 10 take lt ; all the way , and ptacean impregnable barrier between yourself and all else

so that you can be sitting there years later watching a movie absorbed in scenes taking place in euthanasia clinics . where your hunger is satiated your nerves tranquilized your misery made peaceful before you die

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and right Ihrough , the slow social suicide and turning to each other ; that tries laugh to buy you and say you wish you could with lies check into a clinic about anything first thing in the morning previously inconceivable breaking free or you have to say rm gonna stick it out like until the end comes to me your no matter what own and that scares the shil oulla life • - but does give your perceptions a shake ", ' Bud Osborn makes you a little rnore.disposeo 1Key~to Kingt{0ms.&¡Get to the Point Press

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We Are Called Metis - Insider/outsider status My French Catholic grandma, Mathilda, had the audacity to fornicate with a native man from Maniwaki, Quebec. Her children & grandkids became legislated as Status Natives, at that time, once the registration was completed. We had to dig to discover this. Nevertheless, Mathilda & George Awadosi & their 7 children had to migrate to Ontario in order to avoid the Residential School scoop of 1920s, Quebec.

I migrated from Ontario to RC. in 1990 with my then 14 yr. old son. We feel like immigrants in our own country. I afforded such a cross-country bus drive when I was paid out $800. by an insurance company for losing my front teeth to the backhoe that I walked into. Enuf said; it was not supposed to be there!

In 1985 Bill C-31 was legislated into existence. At that time, I got my then 8 yr. old son out of foster care, where I had willingly placed him so that I could study at U. of Waterloo, Ont. The effect of this Bill C-31 is that Native Status is now determined by blood-quantum. This legislation was supposedly intended to rectify the lost Status of Native women who married out to white settlers.

The 1985 Bill C-31 is intended to legislate Native Status out of existence because native women must now segregate their child-bearing years to breeding only with other native Status men. Some native mothers have regained their Status, but their daughters and their children will have lost any entitlement to status if they have bred with a white settler. Bill C-31 has created competition & regulation for Native Status. This legislation is the federally convenient way of eliminating government financial responsibility for any natives who become non-Status. No white person has to prove how white they are in order to keep what small so-called "special" benefits that Status Natives gained through the Indian Act. While our ancestors are still being robbed/legislated out of their territories, we are told that we, their children, can become assimilated and purchase land & housing just like other Canadians in our so-called "affluent" society. Some of us become Outsiders for whatever reason. I now want to make a weak comparison of losing the benefit of Native Status to that of being displaced into homelessness.

The poor cannot even afford the outrageous rents. The wealthy people are at the top of the teepees and living in mansions. Many of us poor natives & non-natives are being thrown out of the tents that are squatted in public parks. Only so-called "productive" people are allowed their dignity - if they can still afford their rent.

Those of us who have not fully "earned" our livelihoods are relegated to the status of outsiders - and outside is where we can become forced to live. Many of us are only one missed renrpayment away from becoming the • outsiders. And once we are outside it is impossibly difficult to get back Inside.

By DIANE DECLARE few people r interested in native history - unless it is whitewashed by words like "reconciliation". Both Arthur Manuel & his Dad, George knew how the governments of whatever stripes, who work for the rich & corporate thieves, use double-speak to proclaim their so-called "benevolence" I despair over how many naive people believe lies and voted for the son of the Trudeau who tried to ram thru the White Paper, 1969.

from the Library On behalf of everyone at the library, we hope you had a spooky and safe Hallowe'en.

From the New Books shelf, I have selected three interesting books to discuss in this edition: The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany

by Graeme Gibson is a beautifully written, and illustrated, book that is an homage to the relationship between humans and birds. Whether they represent divine messengers or avatars of song, from Ovid to Kafka, birds have consistently been important forms of allegory throughout written history. Part history, part art book, and part love poem, this book is well worth checking out for anyone with an interest in literature or our avian friends.

Although it was published it 2018, Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis by Umeek (E. Richard Atleo), is new to me, and worth writing about as a result of its topicality.

The central argument to this book is that current environmental and political crises are a result of failed Western approaches to sustainable living.

Instead of continuing on this path, we should forge a new one that emphasizes principles of recognition and consent.

Finally, the Camegie Branch recently received a copy of the graphic novel version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. In this adaptation

by Renee Nault, we experience the story of Offred and her story of survival in the totalitarian state of ~i!ead in an entirely new way. This graphic novel ISIdeal for fans of the television series who want to experience the story again visually, but with some of the literally elements of Margaret Atwood's esteemed novel.

On a somewhat different note, I thought I should mention that the Vancouver Public Library, in collaboration with Simon Fraser University, will be hosting the Philosophers' Cafe in the Camegie Centre on November 12th, from 5pm to 6:30pm.

Moderated by Alan Belk, the topic is "We don't know much about how the brain works. How are we able to diagnose and treat mental illness?" I encourage anyone who is interested to attend.

Happy Reading, Daniel [One of the books in the DTES collection-

Les Miserables .. takes place during the 1789 French Revolution and I've often wondered ... who really committed the true crime in the accused Jean Valjean's time? for during the French revolt, there was meager a loaf because one in the financial elite was said: to minimize the supply of wheat raising the price of grain.

Priorities became financial power games which led to Jean's theft of bread to feed a hungry child - rather than see the child die and humanity defiled.

Whoever was greedily corrupting society should have 'also' taken the stand in court at the time and been tried for theft 'not just this man'.

So was justice honestly met?

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This is the question, I believe the author: Victor Hugo has set in his fiction novel based on a lot of facts. inga g.

CCAP MEDIA RELEASE: House Us Don't Displace Us! October 29th, 2019 - CCAP is aware that there has been another shooting in the area of the DTES near Oppenehimer park. A woman from Powell River, in her late 50s, was shot and is in hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. .

Of course, the VPD and select others (such as Park Commissioner Barker and Park Commissioner Coaper), are urging authorities to act. What exactly does that mean? Does it mean displacing the over 150 people who are still living at the park? Does it mean not housing these people, not helping, and not standing up for the most vulnerable?

We need the powers that be to push a modular ASAP and aggressively search for the funding. We need shower trailers (such as they use at work camps or on film sets), we need warm weather tents, flashlights, hygiene products, food, water, and humanity for those in Oppenheimer.

It is easy to believe that the homeless are the problem and not a symptom of a City which has does nothing but house only half of those living in the park. Out of those housed, many return dying of loneliness, dying of fear in these horrid SROs. Must I remind them that to live in these places is to live in moulde, to live in rules that they have injail, and to destroy the only family units we have left. The solution is not to immediately displace over 150 people, but rather give them life-saving supports to get through this time with the aim of working together, on every level of government to get these people out of a cold and wet situation and into a room, such as the spaces we take for granted every day.

For that reason, we are sending this media release in the hopes that you will cover the human side of this story. The most dangerous violence we face in the DTES is the systemic violence which puts us here to kill us with poisoned drugs. City of Vancouver, you can do better, and you must.

WHO: Elli Taylor - CCAP Communications Assistant and Raise the Rates Coordinator, DTES, Stolen Land.

Oppenheimer Park is on the unceded traditional territory ofthe Tsleil Waututh, Musqueam and Squamish First Nations, and has long been considered a haven, and hub, for social justice.

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Renovations in the Library Hi everyone, Starting in Mid-November, the Library will be undergoing some renovations. Our workroom will be getting a much-needed update. The current workspace was designed at a time when we needed a lot more storage space and had fewer staff - now our workroom is too crowded for us to be able to work effectively.

Never fear - much like with the kitchen reno, the library will stay open during these renovations. However, it may be a bit loud in the library at times, particularly when the old furniture and fixtures are being removed. As well, we will have a temporary workroom set up at the back of the branch, where the Fiction section is currently located, so we will lose a bit of branch space, and will have a smaller Fiction section during the reno. After the reno, the section will return to the way it was. Apart from these changes, we hope to be able to maintain service as usual throughout the reno. The work is estimated to take up to two months.

-Your Librarian, Randy

Heart of the City & CCAP November 9th!

As you know, our gentrification tours are off and in terest is full-stream. We are planning to do a firstcome-first serve gentrification tour on November 9th at 11 am starting right outside the Carnegie Centre steps at Main and Hastings. The tour will help people who are attending the festival to better understand the ongoing colonization, oppression, and systemic poverty that people face in the DTES. The guide is Herb Varley, and ever-awesome and powerful speaker who is a strong indigenous activist in the DTES. The tour is free or by $10 donation. Following the tour, will be the film screening of V6A in the Carnegie Theatre from 1-3pm. This is will be free and you will meet director Ruggero Romano. This will include a panel of speakers with Jean Swanson and other activists. Refreshments will be available and providedfree of charge!

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Please show up for the tour as soon as possible as we will only be able to ethically tour up to 20 people at that time. However, we will have a sign-up sheet for people who wish to book another tour! As soon as we hit 15, we will contact you to let you know the next round. Please respect the streets and move together as welt as leave plenty of room for those who may have a disability and/or mobility issues.

Hope to see you soon at this wonderful and FREE FREE EVENT!

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We acknowledge that Carnegie Community Centre, and this News/etter, are occurring on Coast Salish Territory.

Jenny Kwan MP

THIS NEWSlETIER IS A PUBLICATION OF THE CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION Articles represent the views of individual contributors and not of the Association.

Vancouver Immigration,

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and Citizenship Critic 2572 E Hastings St

WANTED Artwork for the Carnegie Newsletter -Small illustrations to accompany articles and poetry.

-Cover art - Max size: 17cm(6 %")wide x 15cm(6")high.

-Subject matter pertaining to issues relevant to the Downtown Eastside, but all work considered.

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-Size restrictions apply (i.e. if your piece is too large, it will be reduced and/or cropped to fit). " -All artists will receive credit for their work.

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