September 1, 2021 Carnegie Newsletter

401 Main Street Vancouver Canada V6A 2T7

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Carnegie Community Centre and the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, in collaboration with Skundaal Bernie Williams and Vancouver Moving Theatre, celebrate comple_tion of the physical and cultural restoration of the house posts and memorial totem pole in Oppenheimer Park. We acknowledge this work has taken place on the unceded and traditional territories of xwmg8kwgy gm, S~ wu'Zrneshandsolilwotal Nations and extend our gratitude for their guidance. We also share our appreciation for the Elders who brought forward a community-led process to carry out this important work.

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THE 6TH ANNUAL SANDY CAMERON MEMORIAL WRITIIN6 CONTEST Sandy was a writer and poet and an historian emeritus who traced the years of struggle for social and economic justice in the life of the Downtown Eastside. He contributed his thoughts and feelings on subjects as diverse as class and whale watching but tied everything to our ongoing ideation on social justice.

This contest is to honour him and all who use the written word to express themselves.

This is for writers and poets who identify with the struggles of the Downtown Eastside, who see and feel passion in living with spiritual, mental, and physical yearnings. It may be with wealth (too much or not enough), housing (too luxurious or not good enough), homelessness (seeing people or trying to ignore reality), both sides of addiction in the drug trade, the sex trade, "free" trade, community, women (murdered, missing what it is to be safe and creative), children and growing, festivals, ceremonies, memorials, special people and their contributions (past, present) all you do to make your life meaningful both now and towards the future. Whew!

Prizes will be awarded for each category. 1St, 2nd & 3rd will be $100, $75 and $50 respectively.

Additional non-cash prizes for entries deserving recognition.

Guidelines for Writing Contest.

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Writing must be the original work of the person submitting the contest entry & not fiction . . 2.

Ifpiagiarism is recognised the work will be disqualified and returned.

Contact information for the writer must be provided with each contest entry.

Essays: This means writing in sentences, with grammar and structure attempted.

Poetry: All forms accepted. Must use the same font (typeface) throughout Subject is open to the individual author. It can be about most anything relevant to readers. In the words of Sam Roddan "[It] must have a bite. It must create some kind of disturbance, a turmoil in the heart, a turbulence of memory and feeling."

The length of the essay can be 250-700 words, basically what can be printed on 1 page of the Newsletter. Poetry of whatever length, but no more than can be printed on 1 page.

Deadline for submissions is noon on September 15, 2021. Results will be announced at a special event during the Heart of the City Festival (early November).

Each writer may submit only one essay and/or one poetry entry.

Submit your work on paper to Carnegie's front desk or email it to carnnews@shaw.ca with contact info The theme for this year's Heart of the City Festival is "Stories we need to hear." Your essay and/or poetry can reflect the need of your telling and the need of others to read or hear it.

The Carnegie Community Centre Association is the non-profit society that is the members voice in the Centre. Membership is $1 a year, open to virtually all people who use its services and want to contribute to the life of the Downtown Eastside community. The Board of Directors is an elected body of members who work with both City staff and with the many other groups and organisations in the neighbourhood.

Structure includes a 10-15 member Board and several committees. These include Volunteer, Library & Education (including the Learning Centre), Seniors, Program (including Cultural Sharing), Oppenheimer Park, Community Relations and Finance. A member of the Board is involved in 3 committees, each meeting once a month, and attends Board meetings.

Carnegie Community Centre Association

Nornlnation Meeting for those willing to run for election to the Board of Directors.

Thursday September 9, 2021 5:30pm

401 Main Street

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Those on the list of nominated candidates are asked, in reverse order, if they are willing to stand for election. If yes, their eligibility will be confirmed.

To be eligible for election as a director, a person must: ./ Live or work (paid or unpaid) in the area; ./ Be an active member of the Centre; ./ Be a member of the Society for a minimum of 60 days immediately prior to the election; ./ Be over the 19 years of age; and ./ Have contributed 30 hours of volunteer work to the Carnegie Community Centre or the Carnegie Community Centre Association in the previous year [Due to the pandemic and restrictions on volunteering over the last year, this may be relaxed.]

Please consider being a Director! Those attending this meeting must have purchased their membership card no later than August 26, 2021 in order to nominate someone. To be eligible, every nominee must have purchased their membership card no later than August 7,2021

BATTEREDWOMEN'S SUPPORTSERVICES

Safety Changes Everything

Sadly, we have seen an increase in stranger sexual assaults in different neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver, as activities and social connections restart. Just last week 3 girls were groped and followed by a stranger in broad daylight near the Vancouver seawall.

No one should have to be afraid to use public spaces -take public transit, exercise in the park, or go out at night. No one should have to avoid the streets for fear of harassment and sexual assault.

And that's why BWSS continues to create innovative outreach strategies to end gender-based violence.

In direct response to the increasing levels of gender-based and sexualized violence, the intersections of COVID-19, and the opioid crisis, BWSS takes to the streets as part of a new outreach program, Safety Changes Everything. Your donation will go towards training volunteers, maintaining communication equipment, and purchasing supplies for emergency response. Your generosity will help us give safety to many women, girls, and people marginalized by their gender

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Covering the regions of Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Commercial Drive, Kingsway and the Granville Strip area, the outreach program operates outside of service hours as a resource to help increase women's safety.

The outreach team provides immediate crisis intervention, emotional support, connecting to resources, advocacy, accompaniment to police, the hospital or medical services.

We know we still have much work to do. With your support, the outreach team will continue to increase presence and take action every day to end gender-based violence.

Please make a gift today. Together we can create safe public spaces and help survivors take back their power. Your gift will go a long way into assisting women and girls in distress, experiencing sexualized violence or abuse. Go to BWSS online to help

;~ Join Carnegie Elder in Residence Les Nelson for "Our Park" offsite at Andy Livingstone Park every Wednesday/Sunday 2:00-6:00pm

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THE OUR-PARK PROJECT A community-based art and harm reduction project In ANDY UVlNGSTONE PARK on the unceded homelands of the X'-maGkwaYcm {Musqueam), S~1.i7mesh (Squamish) and saliwatai (Tsleit~Waututhl Nations.

JOin artist SYLVAN HAMBURGER and elder LES NELSON for free art and screen-printing workshops in the park fNery WEDNESDAY & SUNDAY, 2-SPM all summer longl

MAKE A PRINT MEET A NEIGHBOUR SHARE A STORY THE OUR PARK PROJECT aims to connect and support the many cOlTVllUnities that use Andy Uvingstone Park Through peer engagement and community-based art. the project invites neighbours to meet. create and share their stories side by side

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university set free The Humanities 101 Community Program (Hum) offers university-level courses for low-income people who live in and around the Downtown Eastside and Downtown South. Hum 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 and respectful environment. Applicants must have basic English literacy skills, be willing to attend online and in-person classes, complete assignments and participate in group discussions. Applications for these non-credit courses are accepted not on the basis of past academic history, but on the applicants' desire and ability to be part of the Hum Programme.

This year's course theme comes from celebrated science change. All that you change, changes you." The course Zoom) and in-person classes. Beginning on September Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. torial (Thursday) components.

fiction author, Octavia Butler, "All that you touch, you involves both online (using video call platform 28, 2021, classes will take place twice a week, on Classes will have separate lecture (Tuesdays) and tu-

Tuesday lectures (always online) will involve a mix oflive online lectures with new guest speakers, and "listening sessions" made up of curated, pre-recorded audio and visual content that we will watch and listen to together.

• Thursday tutorials (both online and in-person) are a combination of bnline workshops and tutorials, as well as in-person field trips to various cultural venues, such as the Museum of Anthropology, Bill Reid Gallery for NorthWest Coast Art, VanDusen Botanical Gardens, and more.

Courses focus on the Arts, Social Sciences, and Creative Writing. Guided by this year's theme, a different subject will be studies every week, including History, Politics, First Nation Studies, Art, Music, Architecture, Philosophy, Literature, Sociology, Gender Studies, Economics, Popular Culture, Creative and Critical thinking, and more.

Participants ~ceive school supplies, UBC student card, bus tickets to get to and from in-person field trips, .meals, stationary, readings, and childcare if needed.

The courses are designed to be accessible on a variety of different digital devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, or desktop computers. If applicants are nervous or unsure about getting connected, don't worry! We've got lots of support to help people get familiarized with the different online programs and to help make this a fun experience!

To find out more information about the course, and to apply, applicants must register for an upcoming information/application session. These sessions will be held in early- to mid-September at the Carnegie Centre OJ Gathering Place, as well as online over the video call platform Zoom. To find out where and when to apply please email h.u.m@ubc.ca.

Listen with confidentiality and check out the facts.

You are not here to spread drama.

Not everyone's opinions are the gods' truth.

Rumours & gossip are toxic. .

Be courageously honest enough to say to the person targeted with opinion & rumour: "This is what I heard about you; can I have your side of the story?"

Some people will lie/slander to protect their own self-image/public persona of purity & benevolence.

These people usually point fingers at others and go S? f~r ~s to present themselves as the victim. They could be narclss~strc; malevolent bullies who manipulate for control & Notoriety.

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From "the Library The results are in for the National Film Board movie screening poll and the winner is Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole! The film documents the discovery of a Haisla mortuary pole that vanished from their lands in 1929. For sixty years the whereabouts of the totem pole was unknown, until it was found in a Swedish museum. From the NFB website: "Director Gil Cardinal combines interviews, striking imagery and rare footage of. master carvers to raise questions about ownership and the meaning ofIndigenous objects held in museums". The film will be screened on Monday, Sept 13th, at 3:45PM. Keep a look ?ut for the next film competition as we'll be collecting votes for October's screening soon. Thank you very much to everyone who voted, hope to see you there!

In other news, August 31st is International Overdose Awareness day and we are highlighting a few related titles. Fighting for Space is Travis Lu-

pick's telling of a grassroots group of drug user ... rights activists organizing in the DTES through the 90s to present day. He showcases the passion.ate organizers and activists who have foug~t .a!Samst the stigma drug users face and the prohibition system that endangers lives. .

Jonathan Foile's book, This City is Killing Me, IS a first-hand analysis of how policy decisions affect the mental wellbeing of individuals. Foiles blends his knowledge and experience of therapy and policy with stories from community members to show how a person's neighbourhood is just ~s im~ortant an ingredient in their mental health as IStheir personal story. For these and other titles feel free to visit the Carnegie Reading Room and/or check out our online catalogue at www.vpl.ca.

Many well wishes, Izzy

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