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Caring Language Builds Community I was sitting near the front desk at Carnegie when an older man carne in the door. He was wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans, and he moved slowly as though he were in pain. A yo~nger man, sitting at the same table as myself, called to him. "Hey, Joe," he said. "Long time no see. Where have you been?" "I've been in hospital," the older man said. "No good that place." "Well, you're home now," the younger man said, and he got up and gave his friend a big hug. You're home now! Carnegie can feel like that to many people who use the community centre as their living room. It's a place that leaves the hassle of the street outside. No alcohol. No drugs. No disrespectful behavior. Respect for others is one of the ru lcs of conduct at Carnegie. You're home now. Caring language builds community. A few days later l was in the line-up for lunch at the Carnegie cafeteria. When a man tried to cut into the line, he w~s reminded by a woman that barging into the line instead of taking his place at the end.of it was not appropriate behaviour. Instead of going to the end of the line, the man yelled at the woman, and he wouldn't stop when others came to her defence. Then security showed up, and told the man to leave 'the building. Carnegie members don't want a hassle in their safe space. The building is a sanctuary for us, a place where we can go to get away from the troubles of the street. Being disrespectful to others doesn't build community. There is a strong, creative community at Carnegie and in the Downtown Eastside. Many of our writers and poets have spoken about it. A report by the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) called "Nothing About Us Wit/tout U.5," quotes Downtown Eastside residents who said things like, "Here people stick up for each other and care for each other." This kind of language builds community. There is a lot of co-operation in the Downtown Eastside at the present time as committed people fight to save the neighbourhood from overwhelming gentrification. Abusive, disrespectful and quarrelsome language undermines community. It destroys trust. It makes it impossible to build consensus. Many of us live with pain, but that doesn't give us the right to be abusive. Living with pain can give us a better understanding of the pain of others, and that insight can help us grow in compassion. We are members of the community of those who live with pain, and that includes most of us.

If we want to build community, then we have to be clear that abusive language is not acceptable. When we hear such language, we need to remind the people who are using it that disrespectful, injurious lan?ua?e is harmful in a community that is fighting for 1ts hfe. We don't tolerate it at Carnegie, and we shouldn't tolerate it anywhere in the Downtown ~ Eastside whe_re caring people are working to protect our commumty. tG We human beings are meant to live in caring rela- .:]~ tionships, not hateful ones. If we want respect from others in our neighbourhood, we have to give respect. The writer Aldous Huxley said that after studying philosophy for over forty years, he had ,f. only one solid piece of advice for people. "We really ~ need to be kinder to one another," he said. ~

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SHATTERING

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Forum Theatre created and performed by people who have stru ggled \Mth addiction .

Shattering begins with the premise that addicts come from somewhere: our

communities. It is also within our communities that solutions dwell. By combining the very real issue of addiction with Forum Theatre, Shattering engages our collective creativity. Audience members are invited to stop the action of the play, and replace characters onstage, providing an opportunity to initiate community dialogue in search of grassroots solutions. The play asks difficult questions that dig beneath the symptoms to get at the root causes of addiction, and also provides a safe place to explore approaches to complex situations.

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Headlines Theatre's play Shattering performed in Vancouver in Nov/Dec 2006 and then toured into 26 communities throughout BC in Jan/Feb, 2007, to tremendous critical and audience acclaim, with the title : METH We changed the title to Shattering for this 2008 Western Canada tour in consultation with performance sponsors, and in recognition that the play has always been about the root causes of addiction, not any one drug in particular. After receiving numerous requests to bring the play to additional communities, Headlines is now bringing the production back, along with the original cast.

Beginning on September 27, 2008 (opening night), Shattering wil l be performed for a week at the Japanese Hall before launchi ng into a thirty-three performance tour across thirty-one communities throughout British 9o1umbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Come out and take part in an experience that is equally engaging, profound and fun. The full itinerary can be found on the Shattering web site .

Sep. 26 -- PREVIEW Sep. 27 -- OPENING NIGHT Sep. 28 -- SHOW Sep. 29 -- NO SHOW Sep. 30 -- SHOW Oct. 01 -- SHOW Oct. 02 -- SHOW Oct. 03 -- SHOW Oct. 04 -- SHOW Oct. 05 --CLOSING NIGHT Japanese Hall • 475 Ale xander Street, Vancouver

All shows: doors open at 7:30pm, performance begins at 8:00pm. Admission is by donation. Reservations recommended. Language Advisory

To make a reservation or for further info please contact Headlines at (604) 871 -0508 or publicity@ headlinestheatre.com The trailer for the production can be viewed at: http://\MIVW.youtube.com/watch?v=kT 4xa5DfC1 0 or visit the website: http://headli nesth eatre.com/shattering/

Pivot rocks Strathcona Park for first annual Justice Rocks More 1,000 people came out to Pivot's first annual Justice Rocks music festival on August 30. The sounds of the Fur Bearing Animals, Curtis Santiago, Run GMC, and Choir Practice were enjoyed and the public engaged with some of B.C.'s leading social change organizations on a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon. Fourteen diverse organizations hosted tents at Justice Rocks, and some extremely innovative strategies were used to engage concert-goers to think about getting active in various issues, ranging from old-growth preservation to women 's rights to HIV awareness. The crowd had an opportunity to vote on which organization they felt had the most innovative and effective approach to public engagement. With ar, amazing prize package, the competition was quite stiff. Close to 400 people cast ballots in the contest and the results are: • First: the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre with 22.3% of the votes • Second: the Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS with 13.5% of the votes • Third: a tie between Greenpeace and VANDU, with 13% of the votes, with the Wilderness Committee one vote behind. Congratulations to all winning groups, especially the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre! The organizers took an unconventional but very successful approach to public engagement, using games and quizzes to connect with and challenge those who visited their tent. Harsha Walia, Project Coordinator at the DEWC and Facilitator of the Power of Women Group said, "We are thrilled to have won in the face of stiff competition and would like to congratulate all the other organizations. We are thankful for the opportunity to have engaged and educated the public at the Justice Rocks Festival about the crisis and violence of homelessness, poverty, and the impacts of the Olympics which are of pressing concern." Pivot is grateful for the support of our sponsors, volunteers, production crew, and participants. We have already started planning Justice Rocks 2009 and are looking forward to an even better fusion of pop-culture and social change.

THURSDAY, September 18, 12- 4pm between the Carnegie Centre and the Contact Cemtre play • resptte . yoga

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I am a gover路nmcnt child.

I am all alone. I've got myself I've cried many nights How 1've missed my parents, my grandparents how 1 dreamed of my family, my sib lings? Little did I know this would affect myself as a parent, a grandmother, an aunt, a sister, Everyone I cried for as a child . 1 woke up as these people I needed! What can I do? I am a government chil I have been stained

Dear f;atn f;landers Bo Diddley caught a nanny goal To make his pretty baby a Sunday coat. And Bo Diddley caught a big bear cat To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat. Your Pal, Bo Diddley Dear Bo

I am a government child

My grandchild, my children- 1 son, l daughter, Myself as a parent, a grandmother In all I've not had, I've missed out. My past has given me no hope.

So, there she was, with her nanny goat coat and her bear cat hat. I'm sure all the other women were terribly jealous. Yrs Truly, Sam Slanders

I've missed out. Now my children & grandchildren suffer for what I dream of in my past. All my relations, Darlene Wish

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We're having a health fair in the alley. On Thursday Sept. 18 from noon to 4pm, join us in the alley between the Carnegie Centre & the Health Contact Centre to celebrate healthy living with good food, good music and lots of activities. Try out some yoga. Take home some free books or a balloon animal. Relax. Plant some seeds. Get help with harm reduction or quitting smoking. Play with bubbles and skipping ropes. Get tested. Soa your feet. Reconnect with aboriginal food and healing traditions. Share what healthy livin means to you. Have fun!!!

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Sep~embe•· at l(hiZOtne (317 East Broadway) Cafe* Arts Venue* Community Space Mark your Calendars: Rhizome Anniversary Party! We'll be celebrating two years of Rhizome Cafe on Saturday, September 27. This is a chance for the wonderfully diverse crowd of Rhizome folk to come together to celebrate what we have all created together. There will be fun and games, performances and art projects, good things to cat, a lovely gathering of friends and co-conspirators, and more. In addition, we'll be unveiling (and selling) the Rhizome T-Shirt recently created through our collaborative process ofrhizomatic design. Doors will open at 7:00. The "formal" program thingy starts at 8:00. We hope you'll join us! Rhizome is seeking (Short!) Performances 4 d'Party! There will be a participatory element to the Sep.27 anniversary party. Your assignment (should you choose to accept) is this: Create a 60-second performance that represents something that happensor could happen- at Rhizome. You can sing, dance, mime, read a poem, facilitate a game- whatever, as long as it lasts 60 seconds or less! Comedy, tragedy, documentary, satire- they' re all good! Perform solo or with a group! To sign up, send your name, what kind of performance you'll do, and your technical requirements to lisa@rhizomecafe.ca no later than September 25.

Evicted for that! She lays her head wherever she can now, Merry. She grew up in the South Alabama to be exact Graduated from the 6th grade And went no further Learned to read the Bible 'Cause her father was a bootleg preacher Made his children Sing in the choir Been on the fifth floor Since '68 Married an alcoholic One of her babies died in her arms And Delivered ten babies She stayed In this building alone Moved into the projects Maybe others, I don't know And She stayed She stood bv and held the door While she watched each one Had four babies there Move in, one after the other And she stayed First Denise with her three Yolanda with her two Rochelle couldn't come alone Or friend less She had two plus some Misery lives here An ache in the pit of the belly Deep and long Pat Guy (Tricia)_

Canwest: Media Bully Friday, September 26, 7:30 Canwcst is not content with controlling most of the media in Canada. It actively uses SLAPP suits to intimidate activists with opposing perspectives. Come and hear Mordecai Briemberg, Gordon Murray and Carel Mosiewitch discuss the Canwest lawsuit against them for producing a parody of The Vancouver Sun, satirizing its support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. By donation, no one turned away

Oh canada! Built on stolen native land True self-indulgence With a patriarchal brand With sinking hearts we see thee fail To care for all our people Perverting truth, oh Canada We are afraid for thee! Trodding on the poor Destroying this fair land Oh canada! We are afraid for thee

You can check our website for more information on what we do and how we do it: www.rhizomecafe.ca.

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VOLUNTEERS VOLUNTEER DINNER wednesday, sept.I7, in the Theatre@ 4:30pm SHARP! Your contribution and hard work is appreciated by the many people who benefit by your services. Let

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So You Think You Can Sing?! INCHOIRING MINDS: Thursday Sept 11th, 7:30, Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood llouse, 800 E Broadway. This is a non-auditioned community choir with practice COs. Our repertoire is from many different places and time periods, although we tend to avoid religious material and show tunes. The atmosphere is fun & relaxed. The session runs for 13 weeks, at the end of which we put on a concert for friends & family ... we'll also be performing at VanDusen Garden during the Festival of Lights! The suggested fee is $72 plus a buck for the practice CD. If you can't afford it, talk to me. HIGHS AND LOWS: Already started, but we won't

be working on new stuff until after Sept 20th. We meet on Tuesdays at I 2 at Douglas Park Community Centre, 22nd & Willow. This is a non-auditioned choir for people with mental health concerns, and their friends and supporters, and also offers practice COs. The atmosphere is very supportive and relaxed. This choir will be putting together seasonal repertoire for performances in December. It's free!

SOLIDARITY NOTES LABOUR CHOIR: The

us serve you! Please pick up your dinner ticket from the Volunteer Program Office on the 3rd Floor Skill-testing questions for myste1y prizes.

2. BUILD YOUR OWN SUNDAE hosted by Colleen on Monday, Sep.l5th 2pm in the Theatre With a variety of toppings and ice creams to choose from how can you go wrong? Come out and enjo this last bit of summer fun! Please sign up at the Volunteer Program Office 3. SALMON CELEBRATION

.... An -Earth and Water Festival and Parade to n r • nour the Spirit of the Salmon Parade; BC Rivers Day, September 28 1h, 2008 Volunteer Out -Trip; sign up in the Volunteer ·--· gram Office Meet Colleen at Noon September 28 @ ..... Info Desk .

normal practices start on Sunday Sept 7 (that's tomorrow) at 10:30 at the Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph (back door, off Franklin). We sing activist and labour-oriented music old and new, and welcome anyone who identifies with these aspirations. You can find out more about the choir on www .sol idaritynotes.ca. SPECIAL NOTE: SOLIDARITY NOTES BEGINS MID-WEEK PRACTICES If you have always wanted to join Solidarity Notes Labour Choir (SNLC) but have not been able to attend Sunday morning rehearsals, this is for you! As of Wednesday September 17 SNLC will be rehearsing from 7 .30pm - 9 .30pm at the PSAC Office 5238 Joyce St ( I block south of the Joyce St Skytrain Station) with choir director, Earle Peach. ot questions about any of the above? You can call at 874 1256, or email earlepeach@yahoo.ca.

Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & Association of United Ukrainian Canadians present

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Wednesday October 29- Sunday November 9, 2008 More than 80 events at over 25locations throughout the DTES With a focus on the rich and diverse communities of the Downtown Eastside, the 5th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival celebrates the creative and committed artists and activists who thrive in the heart of Vancouver. This year's festival features twelve days of music, theatre, opera, film, drumming, readings, poetry, food, radio, forums, cultural celebrations, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibits, mixed media viewings, art talks, history talks and history walks. The mandate of the Downtown Eastside Heatt of the City Festival is to profile and encourage the development of community arts in the Downtown Eastside- from community building and bridge building, to celebrating artists anc cultures, to giving voice to local concerns. The festival involves a wide range of professional, community, emerging and student artists and lovers of the arts. Over 400 artists and 500 volunteers participated in last year's festival. This year's programming is almost in place -details in late September. The 2008 Festival honours the founding communities and elders who have shaped our community. This year's festival spotlights Asian, European, and First Nations artists, including: the Ukrainian Hall's 80th Anniversary Celebration, Supper and Concert; the Theatre in the Raw music theatre production Bruce- the Musical, by Bob Sarti about the life and impact of Downtown Eastside activist Bruce Eriksen; the return of last year's popular Asian Voices spotlighting Asian Canadian artists and culture; an honouring event for DTES involved poet and activist Sandy Cameron; and From Where We Speak, the urban ink theatre production from Kuper Island by children of the survivors of Kuper Island Residential School. 2008 Community partners include the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre, SUCCESS, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden, Gallery Gachet, radha yoga & eatery, Aboriginal Front Door, St. James Church, Co-op Radio, Strathcona and Admiral Seymour Elementary Schools, Theatre in the Raw, Urban lnk Productions, DTES Musical Theatre Society, City Opera, CARFAC, Centre A, Black Water Cafe, Solder & Sons, 45WEST, Chapel Art! and Watari. More to come! For more information contact 604-628-5672 or www.heartofthecityfestival.com

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ACTING BASICS · How to ... Voice, Movement, Scene Study Imagine Prepare, Investigate Emotional, Intellectual, Flexible 4 Saturday afternoons

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Sunday, October 5, 1 , ' 11 AM-1:00PM Carnegie Theatre

Don' t miss out on this energizing opportunity! . For all ages and levels of experience. Sign up in Carnegie's Jrd floor Program Office or ca ll 604-665-2274. Workshop capacity is 15 and participants are required to attend all four sessions.

2009 Artist in Residence at Carnegie! I am very happy to announce that we have been selected as one of two community centres (the other is Dunbar Community Centre) to sponsor an artist in residence in 2009. This is a Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation program that supports professional artists working with communities on projects of joint interest or concern. We welcome artists of all disciplines who have creative ideas for engaging Downtown Eastside residents to apply. For information on the program, you can go to www .citx. vancouver .bc.ca/Parks/arts. There is also an Information Meeting at the Roundhouse Community Centre on Thursday, Scptcmbea· 25, from 6:30 - 8:30PM. The deadline for application is on Thursday, October 16.You can call me

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Rika at (604) 665 3003, rika.uto@vancouver.ca, or Ethel at(604) 665 330 1, ethel. whitty@vancouver. ca, if you have any questions. Rika Uto J\rts & Education Programmer

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The 1st piece following is from 2008; the 2nd was submit· ted Nick in '97, when the ink was still wet on his PhD. A response to an 'official'-sounding recommenda· tion for some parachuted PLAN for the DTES: "Well, I have a couple of points to make. ( I) the plan promises no displacement, then advocates putting into place policies like keeping social services in the area the same as they are now in order to decrease the mentally ill and addicts that can be found in the area. What happens to the addicts and the mentally ill who leave the area? Isn't this displacement? (2) the plan promises "reduction of poverty." I think (since how this is accomplished is not explained) that what is meant here is that the number of poor people living in the area will decrease, for whatever reason, be it because of an influx of a surfeit of market housing (as opposed to building more social housing). (3) I don't recall reading anywhere in the plan about more social housing being built. Is this part of what it calls keeping the social services in the area the same? (4) I don't like what the plan calls the catchment area ofStrathcona--1 think that what it defines runs smack into the definition of the Downtown Eastside. (5) the planners claim to have widely consulted with people, but from what I can tell, all who were consulted (from whom they list) make up business interests. (6) the planners claim to want to coordinate with other groups having common goals. What possible common goals do many Downtown Eastside advocacy groups have with a plan which advocates de facto gentrification as a solution for development of its neighbourhood?

ing through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside were described by Dennis Bolen as a form of 'natural urban evolution'. It's a phrase that pro-development interests often usc. Birth is natural. Death is natural. The cycle of life between the two is natural. But are cities natural? • The city is far removed from everything that appears natural. So it is odd how often references to nature and the natural order appear. But metaphors and associations, however innocent they may appear, can distort the way we think about our city, and act upon it. One immediate consequence is that gentrification appears as inevitable and unstoppable, like the ~n nual migration of birds, the rise and fall of the t1des -gentrification is part of the natural order. There's nothing we can do to stop it. If we cannot do anything about it. why worry about it? Why not even profit from it? Yes, there are those who will suffer the well-documented costs of gentrification through displacement. Nature can be tragic and cruel, but it is not something we can challenge. What is more, if gentrification is a form of 'evolution', then it must entail a change for the (as it's sometimes termed), 'revitalisation' and 'renewal'. According to this story-line. the depressed retail strip around Wo~d ward's will return to its former glory as the n ch move in. The poor will quietly disappear from public view. and Vancouver will enjoy the clean, affiuent downtown that suits a world class city of the twenty-first century. Metaphors - like that of 'natural urban evolution' conceal some lazy thinking. They can also serve some more worrying ends. To say that gentrification is inevitable. to the extent that it is natural, is to miss the point. Gentrification is as natural as any other economic process. It is the consequence of a whole series of more or less rational decisions by investors. landlords, homebuyers, planners, finan-

The Myth of DEVELOPMENT There are many who see unchecked gentrification as a form of'natural' improvement, marking the inevitable replacement of one population and way of life with another more suited to Vancouver's emergent role as a world class city. One striking example of the use of natural metaphors to legitimate displacement was recently printed in the Sun ('Urban evolution eventually will drop its blanket over downtown's decay' ). The changes rush-

cial interests and others. If the area shows signs of decay, this is not due to 'natural' decline, but reflects a long history of disinvestment in the area, as well as the decision of many landowners to 'warehouse' their properties with the expectation of increasing land values in the future. So does that mean that displacement is inevitable? No. To the extent that gentrification entails carefully calculated decisions by developers rather than the unfolding of some biological process-- the development of policy that shapes those decisions is easily done. In fact, the City's Planning Department has proposed such policy. However, other areas have even more sweeping proposals in place. Following community resistance to gentrification in San Francisco's inner-city, a package of antidisplacement measures were put in place, targeted at retaining residential hotels, downzoning land, and ensuring that developers came up with large inkind payments to the neighbourhood. We often demonise American cities as everything we are supposedly not. In the San Francisco case, this it true, although not in ways that we would suppose. The lesson of San Francisco is that if we were serious about restricting displacement it would be easy to do. But even if the 'natural' change of an area through gentrification can be significantly slowed, why would we want to? Should the rights of the poor residents of the Downtown Eastside to remain in their neighbourhood be decisive? We can make a whole number of different arguments- economic, social, political and moral -- in defence of the Downtown Eastside as a social community. However, why is it necessary to make those arguments to begin with? What does it say about Vancouver as a community that its residents can even entertain the idea that the forcible displacement of a population from its home is not only natural (read:

inevitable), but a form of evolution (read: improve ment)? It is the same convenient moral code that has justified dispossessions and displacements in the past, such as those experienced by First Nations peoples. Who will call Cat-rail Street and the Downtown Eastside home ten years from now? This question is one of the most pressing moral issues that we face as a civic community. By our answers will you know us. By NICK BROMLEY â€˘

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GREETINGS FELLOW READERS: Waves Internet Cafe has opened at Main & Pender Streets if anyone doesn't know yet. It is open Mon .- Thurs. 6 am- 10 pm. Fri. 6 am -ll pm Weekends. & Holidays 7 am- 10 pm Sept. I 0111 I attended the new Community Court on Gore Street. What I learned that instead of sleeping on the street or standing in line for food or a place to sleep, like most homeless do, all one has to do is steal from a store like $afeway and get caught. A triage team will evaluate you and you will get on welfare and get housing. Not that they shouldn't; it just seems unfair to me that homeless people or others in need of help are without resources and get attention only when they have to break laws. Anyway that's the way I see it. mr mcbinner. PS: I also found out that the only way to get into detox is if the police bring you. You can'tjust know you need help and go ask for it. Hmrnmmmm.

Letters to other editoa路s:

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Strathcona residents foa路ged a plan yean ago

. Barbara Lee's doleful caterwauling about disrup t10ns to pristine living in Strathcona [Real Estate, August 28-September 4] is hard enough to take with her galling, gratuitous linking of street defecation, et cetera, with social-housing residents from the area. (Their units do come with toilets.) Beyond that is a compounded ignorance of recent history in her own neighbourhood: it al ready has a neighbourhood plan A bit of research on her part would have revealed that from 1990 until about 1992, a comprehensive area plan was undertaken by the City of Vancouver's planning, engineering, and social-planning departments under the stewardship of Rob Whitlock, still a senior staffer with the city. The umbrella group engaged in this process, the Strathcona Citizens' Plan ning Committee, was composed of a broad range of residents and stakeholders from the area, including many Chinese-speaking representatives, one of whom was Ms. Lee's father. One of the first tenets established was the boundaries of the study area. The city firmly stated that no areas north of Hastings would be looked at, as this was clearly within the geographic boundaries of the Downtown Eastside. It is only recently that some Strathcona property owners, egged on by the business improvement association, have tried to lay claim to this area as Strathcona. The Downtown Eastside has been under a severe threat of absorption through shrinkage for some years now from every direction, and I expect there will be vigorous and sustained resistance should they push ahead with an ill-advised manifest-destiny approach to community building. Whatever happened to collaboration and dialogue? The Strathcona Area Plan may be nearly 20 years old now, but the foundations it was built upon were solid and, most importantly, the Jinal draft-agreed to by the vast majority of participants and endorsed by the council of the day-contains many guidelines and forward-thinking resolutions that are still relevant today. An updated revival and amend ments to it may now be appropriate; melodramatic howls of outrage clearly are not. Are you ready to roll up your sleeves Ms. Lee? > IAN MAcRAE IV ANCOUVER

DTES Residents want to stay put Re: "SROs concentrate misery of Downtown Eastside," Aug. 22. Your editorialist claims that for revitalization of the Downtown Eastside "the majority of addicts an"d the mentally iII must be removed from the neighbourhood." In Nothing About Us Without Us-a report on a sur~ey of Downtown Eastsiders done by the Carnegie Community Action Project in July 2008-for the question "How important is it to have alcohol and drug treatment on demand for all who want it?" 87 percent of respondents said "import1mt. " ~nother question, "If you had safe, secure housing Ill the DTES, would you like to continue to live here?" had 95 percent of respondents replying "Yes." Since the new social housing being built in the DTES will likely be supportive housing (offering support services to addicts and the mentally ill), people now li ving in the DTES will pro bably want to continue to live there. For your editorialist to suggest that government promote gentrification in the DTES by attracting "de~elopers, small business and middle- and upp~r-mcome earners" merely promotes an agenda of displacement. He is not interested in the well-being of_Downtown Eastsiders, only in prettying up the neighbourhood and providing opportunities for the rich to cash in . "a prerequisite to economic turnaround in a capitalist economy." ROLFAUER,VANCOUVER

How to Register and Vote in the October 14 Federal Election In order to vote, you must be a Canadian citizen and be 18 years old or older on election day. Before voting, you must be registered either in advance, or at the polling place on the day you vote. The National Registry of Electors is updated using a number of sources, including Canada Post,the Canada Revenue Agency and Citizenship and Immigration Canada, so most people who are eligible to vote are already registered. If you have moved recently, you may have to update your address. If you have questions or concems about registration, you may ca11 Elections Canada toll-free at 1-800-463-6868. When you arrive at the polling booth, you must provide proof of identity and proof of address (for example, a driver's license with your name and current address). Alternatively, you can use one piece of ID with your name (i.e. passport, health card, library card, etc.) and another document with your address (utility bill, bank statement, tax assessment notice).

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PROOF OF IDENTITY AND/OR PROOF OF ADDRESS, YOU CAN· STILL VOTE. In order to vote without these proofs, you need somebody from the same voting district who has these documents to vouch for you. This person can vouch for only one person. Voting places are required to be accessible to people with disabilities and/or special needs, and language or sign-language interpreters are available on request. Mobile polling stations are available for those in hospital. You may also vote by special ballot (by mail), or at an advance poll.

CARNEGIE CENTRE IS A DESIGNATED POLLING PLACE FOR VANCOUVER EAST.

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In The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (338.37), B.C. poet and author Tim Bowling reminisces about his upbringing in the sleepy fishing village of Ladner and the now abandoned salmon-fishing culture in which he was raised. Bowling' s writing is lyrical, evocative and insightful, and his stories really "hook" the reader. Staying within B.C., Robert Bringhurst's A Story as Sharp as a Knife (398.2) presents Haida stories not as anonymous folktales, but as works of literature created by unforgettable individual masters, including the blind poet Ghandl and the historian Kilxhawgins. The stories are based on interview manuscripts written down by ethnographer John Swanton in 1900-0 I . On a somewhat related theme, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (970.0 1) documents the partly forgotten and mostly ignored pre-colonial history of the Americas. Historian and archaeologist Charles Mann tells the reader aboutamong other things- the Aztec cities ofTenochtitIan and Teotihuacan, highly developed urban metropolises with swept streets, running water, and populations larger than any European cities at the time. Finally, Dr. Peter R. Breggin warns of the dangers · psychiatric drugs in his latest work Medication Madness (616.86). He argues that many categories of psychiatric drugs- including Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Ritalin, and others- have been oversold by zealous pharmaceutical compan ies and the medical establishment, and offers hundreds of case histories illustrating the tragic potential of these medicines. He also offers an alternative path to mental well ness which emphasizes taking personal charge of our lives. Beth, your librarian

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tial lite forms exist beyond the pale. I can't feel sorry and I shan't refrain from disdain when your unfortunately now-worthless lives go down the drain, although I deeply regret such a waste~ I'll pray to the Creator about you. You've all had some stardust, even some semi-precious threads of gold but we can scold with not wanton abandon as we've learned that you quite deserve it. I sit and write accounts of your depredations with waning and ebbing despair. No regrets, though, because there is no doubt. Sounds like it's about time a good time comes, no·more wait and see. I really thing it's a perfect time to reduce, reuse, recycle, re-cover and renew and that's not just my point of view ROBYN LIVINGSTONE

Right Wingnut Nightmares Contemptible Conservatism claptrap., personified stereophonic stigmas cast down upon the downtrodden and the misbegotten soon-to-be-forgotten by fork-tongued acrobats to save your bloody, scarred, empty but sacrosanct souls. Out of sight, out of mind, don't call me names you Sad Sack so & so - get lost and good riddance. You technocrats' constraint, restraint and downsized derision doesn't fake us out and we say enough - your overdue downfall is star in' you right in the face and the disconcerting sympathy you're selling to the highest bidder from who knows where, designed to intimidate and scare, won't work you know 'cause we think fast not slow and we've got rising numbers like a swell of empowered multitudes. Ain't you deranged, ain't you ashamed, you slid so far down the slippery slope, so swiftly fallen that none of us can or even want to hear your shouts of chagrin, your wailing. Consider yourself denounced - it's your turn to be stomped on, then relegated to a funny footnote. After what you've done to Arts and Culture, housing and health care; where d'you stack the cash, the misappropriated loot that you've spread like butter amo~gst your strident sycophants? It still matters - expense accounts shut down, drawn and quartered bureaucrats, undemocratically selected scapegoats become bankrupted buffoons, town fools not to be trusted. You've screamed "It's all their fault!" pointing attention at the mangled entangled (metaphors abound: 'flotsam, jetsam, conquistador-like riders on broken horses all put out to pasture) but we are not even distracted. Nothing in your cock eyed, coo-coo, crazy world will ever again matter, with your lives in tatters, where you can tell your I ies, chitterchatter forever after.\ Maybe fiery devils dance through gilded hoops of long lost gains, in agony that excruciates you' II sense and fear and feel the pain of self-hate and loathing, in spades. You know that we know that you'll know - and hear "So long. Don't hold your breath for a miracle-reverse, don't scream or quote biblical verse. Nothing will be heard amidst your

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CASTLE N A /C/ A/G/E/ That castle is my heart full of holes 6 years with one foot out the door the other for. ... .the grave? Hello you . crafty little devil we all know who you are, prophetdriven with precision the green light is given, I'm just like you sort of, minus everything done to me & myself have done it too, talk about your assault with \ : a deadly welcome. Yes, My Castle morning,~..after:- noon & evening hassles it kind of knocks the wind out of my sails then they vanish like lepers being banished we will just put you on indefinite hold Âˇ' while someone alerts my cagekeeper I'm in this mush deeper than I thought now I'm no Rhodes Schollar let alone scrawler but this anchor bracelet weighs my dreams & thoughts into the land of screams & nots, look at you with dead animal fur wrapped all around you, I could've sworn you probably loved them as a child maybe the one you loved the most keeps you the warmest (he would have given the fur off his ... Oh, he did!) Please take me back to my cage my castle of rage it seems I am a solitary stick in the spokes of life itself dead trees around me dead dreams surround me I have a shirt (why wait til death do us part) to give who cares why I live as long as I've got my castle; Remember me- the one who'd rather drown than make waves .. like asking for 2nds du~ing the 211 d Coming that's how much I am in fear of being saved ENOUGH is ENOUGH!,! that's the thunderous cry from the section for Bipolars - new souls .. if they only knew the hand they'll be dealt, like putting licence plates on baby strollers NEXT UP they'll want towers for baby controllers they will watch in disbelief as our two poles melt! Be still with me are you still with me, it seems the further I go the more welcomed I become come or go my dollar store vision makes no decisions just make 'em up as I crawl along the street called rage, ~e more favour one less failure it's time to retire to lny castle in a cage . â€˘ ROBERT McGILLIVRAY ._.

B.c., 150 years old! Well for one thing it's not only for the rich & privileged. Of course taxpayer's money is at work to pay for these advertisements. During the fireworks finale at the summer event I heard this voice over the speakers just before the pollution from the display became visible: "BC 150 YEARS OLD!! " It talked of how diverse BC is in culture but not once was there an acknowledgement of the indigenous, First Nations people. Nothing was said ofBC being on unceeded territory, of just how the land was occupi'ed by numerous individuals living full and imaginative lives before anyone else was here ... Of course this would be expected..... ~UCE

EAST SIDE STORY, airing every Monday at 2pm on CFRO 102.7FM, is a radio show for the Downtown Eastside. It no longer has any affiliation with the Carnegie Community Action Project. Ayisha and Sandra are now the hosts!

WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE? Torn down buildings No apology given Hurt feelings People unwilling Someone dealing Under the table Wearing yet another label Damned if you do Damned if you don't Please someone tell me where Where have all the people gone? That's not asking for very much I see such and to my despair It's as though they took wings like a Soared high in the sky looking for A little hope, ain't no joke Searching for justice too You and vou Where have all the people gone . I hope they have a brand new home Where new memories can be . That can last foranother decade Where have all the people gone? -.'..,..,(,j Ding-dong, Avon calling No one's here, just an empty hall 路路路 Dirty writings on the wall Where have all the people gone? Where have all the people gone? 1 am so sad My love is gone Moved in the middle of the day To a new home All alone in the center of 1,000 Lifeless souls Where have all the people gone? Where have all the people gone? Where Have All The People Gone?

Humanities 101 Documentaries Carnegie Theatre, Month of September Sat. Sept. 20th . 6 :oo pm Forces of Nature 40 minutes. Food for the Ancestors Mexico's Day of the Dead. 60 minutes. Riodemocracy compelling critique of the biotech industry and genetic engineering. 38 minutes. Future of Food 88 minutes. Sat. Sept. 27th 6:oopm Onvell Rolls in His Grave 103 minutes. Also 1984 a look at what Orwell wrote, a reflection on what is happening today. 115 minutes.

Oppenhiemer Park Documentaries Monday's in September Spm to 8pm with popcorn This month featuring Planet Eartll

Each Monday a different part of this series will be shown in the park cJubhouse. Come and enjoy!

Further We journey to places to please the eye We journey to find ourselves and others We journey to find that which is greater than us We journey to find that which makes us happy We journey to find that place in another's heart The greatest distance indeed .... it is always just a little further.

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LoSt IdentitY We meet again after several years in winter time in Toronto and under the sun of Montreal. he said to me: Âˇ " ... I am tired of exile already not actually belonging anywhere faking smiles and chewing dreams I am tired of coca-colas and MacDonalds And of2% milk I am tired of heating my car and watching so much television renting strange movies and camping the summer in a corner I am tired of my winter jacket and my lost gloves I am tired of snow I feel depressed, blinded. 1 am going crazy I am tired of pronouncing bad English I am tired of giving and receiving thank yo us, I am so1-rys and excuse mes, s il vous plait I am tired of indifferent gentility I feel great impulses to destroy telephones to throwaway TV's. destroy tapes. and to rip up the Gloye and Mail I dream of going out for a walks .undcr the trees and meeting with friends on the street corner I would like to go in a group to the mountains and to arrive running into the river I would like to chop up wood to plant a garden and to discuss a daily topic with parents & siblings Is this too much to ask for? To celebrate my nephew's birthday? I would like to drink apple cider with grinded, toasted wheat, to listen to church bells, throw coins at my sisters wedding, travel by train to Puerto Montt and become again a provincial Chilean and to be born again in the same city under the stars of a neighborhood in the city of Concepcion.

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Woodward's Community Workshop Saturday, September 20, 12-Spm Carnegie Theatre DTES residents are invited to a day-long workshop to explore the Woodwards history, its redevelopment, and look at its future for our neighbourhood. This Carnegie event is organized by the W2 Community Outreach Committee. Refreshments will be provided. Free admission. When it reopens in September 2009, the complex will be a major gathering place for DTES and City residents but what will it look like, who will be served, and what are the opportunities for DTES residents. The afternoon session will start with an update of the City of Vancouver's process, Westbank's plans and intro to the City owned space at the corner of Abbott & Hastings.

While many people know there will be some social housing, market housing, retail and SFU School for Contemporary Arts, there will also be AIDS Vancouver and W2. This workshop will bring residents up to speed on what W2 is planning, opportunities for DTES groups and residents, plans for fundraising, participation, programming, and more. Break out sessions wil l give people a chance to learn more and become involved in W2. W2 is currently proposed as a 14,395 square foot facility, and features W2 Media Cafe • Community TV Lab • Community Radio Lab • Crossmedia Lab • Creative Technology Incubator • Gallery Gachet • Kootenay School of Writing • Disability Arts Studios • Digital Printing Centre • Original Woodward's Printing Press • Community Kitchen • Atrium Festival/Performance Space. Follow W2 and Woodward's development with our online community at www.creativetechnology.org

GALLERY GACHET EXHIBITION

PANEL DISCUSSIONS Vancouver Flying University In Conjunction with " We Decla re " Coordinated by Am johal, Jeff Derksen & Urban Subjects Urban Frontiers: Gentrification and Otherwise SFU Harbour Centre. September 16. 7pm. Talk by Neil Smith & panel discussron with Nicholas Blomley. David Eby. Laura Track. Elvin K Wyly Reception to follow: 9:30pm at Gallery Gachet

Inverted Education:Aitemative Knowledge Production Gallery Gachet September 21 , 6pm. Panel d1scussion with Nathan Allen, Hendrrk Beune, Krrstina Podesva, Stefanie Ratjen, jayce Salloum

"We Declare": Spaces of Housing Sabine Bitter I Helmut Weber September 5 to 2 7, 2008

Gallery Gachet September 27. Panel Discussion. DetallsTBA, please contact Gachet.

The Vancouver and Vienna based artists, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber. present 'We Declare": Spaces of Housing, an exhibition that addresses the sites and institutions where decisions and declarations regarding housing are made (ranging from local communities, to the provincial capital, and up to the United Nations). The site-specific installation brings these spaces of symbolic and real power into the gallery through large-scale photobased images mounted directly onto the walls. As part of their practice investigating the dynamics of cities and the potentials of architecture, Bitter/Weber have realized photo and videoworks, such as Caracas Hecho en Venezuela and Differentiated Neighborhoods of New Belgrade} across Europe and the Americas. ~we

Declare" launches the platform Vancouver Flying University initiated by independent journalist Am Johal in collaboration with writer Jeff Derksen and Urban Subjects. Based on the concept of mobile seminars and talks that Hungarian and Polish dissidents used to skirt state authorities, the talks consider the current context of gentrification and economic distortion oNancouver's inner city in the lead up to the Olympics.The program includes a lecture by urbanist Neil Smith; a talk and workshop by Berlin-based critic and curator Jochen Becker; a lecture by Omid Memarian, an Iranian journalist and blogger based in the USA.

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Critical Media: Interve ntions in the Public Sphere Gallery Gachet. October 25. Talk by Omid Memanan & panel discussron with Deborah Campbell and Sean Condon. Time TBA, please contact Gachet.

FRIDAY FILM NIGHT Sept 19, 7pm- Picture This: Artists' Videos About Housing and Urban Spaces Free. tea/coffee served. Check out the films, stay for discussion.

Real Estate#2 Domenec (2007, 5 m1n)

The Myst e ry of God Revealed He1drun Holzfe,nd, (2004. 35 min) Corviale , il Se rpentone (The Snake) Heidrun Holzfeind,(200 I , 34 m1n)

Take into the air my quiet b reath The Speculative Archive:Julia Meltzer & Dav1d Thorne (2007, 17 min)

Borgate Lotte Schreiber (2008, IS m1n)

Living Megastructures Sab1ne B1tterl Helmut Weber, (2003-2004, 25 m1n)

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Gallery Gachet delivers an in-house "Art School", offering a series of workshops and related educational events to the community. For many artists. getting what they need from art schools can be an alienating and ultimately unsuccessful experience. Gachet presents an accessible alternative in a comfortable peer learning environment Art School continues to evolve and currently has workshops. film screenings, artist talks, and profess1onal development sessions All welcome, tea/coffee served. sliding scale fees, materials provided.

In Our Backyard The Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show October 3-29,2008 Featuring the work of artists belong1ng to the v1tally diverse and creative community in and around Oppenhe1mer Park.

Opening: Friday, October 3, 6pm-9pm Procession with the Homeless '"'"n'n neighbourhood kids. park patrons and community members from Oppenheimer Park to Gallery Gachet

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A Night of Remembrance: Poetry and Stories in Celebration of the Oppenheimer Park Commun1ty and Ofrenda* Ho'louring the Lives of Fnends Past. Presented by members of the DTES Lat1n American Community. *Ofrenda: Spanish for'Offering'.

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Gallery Gachet: Proposals for 2009 to 20 I 0

Fearless Writer's Circle

Deadline: October I 5, 2008

Sept 25, 7-9pm Facilitator: Shannon Pidlubny

We accept proposals for solo, group. juried. and curated exhibits at W2. our new home at Woodwards, ope'ling 1n September 2009. We accept proposals for maJor exh1bition projects. screenings. workshops. performances and collaborations. We pay CARFAC art1st fees. and provide support for openings. catering. marketing. mailings. AN equipment. etc. We feature loca. national, and International art1sts in our ma•n ga lery and .will have a smaller; more 1ntimate space for artist's first exhibit1ons, work in-progress. or community arts projects.

Presented by DTES Community Arts Network and Gallery Gachet. and sponsored by BC Arts Council. Come together w1tn emerging and experienced Downtown Easts1de writers in an encouraging and supportive env1ronment to foster enthusiasm towards creative expression. Learn new approaches. and build confidence around writtng skills. The Writer's Circle will be facilitated by Sl1annon, a local writer experienced 1n leading writing workshops designed to encourage personal and creative development. Held every second week. alternating Thursdays w1ll feature peer-led discussions and part1cipants also have the optio'l of participating 1n the Fearless Blogg1ng worKSrop

Include in your package: • at :east I 0 support1ng images (slides or digital) per art1st • artwork I1st includ1ng title, medium. dimensions and year • artist's CV for each participant (exhibition history) • written proposal stating a well-thought-out theme for the show (250-500 words) Gallery Gachet supports artists marginalized by their mental health, trauma and/or abuse experience, by working for social, cultural and economic JUstice. Our programming features a range of art practice. from contemporary to outsider: and a range of mediums. from photography. video. performance art, painting. drawing, 3D. installation, ceramiCs, textile, and more. We welcome proposals which challenge mental health stigma, as well as other barners to full soc1al, cultural, and economic participation. We actively look to create and mainta1n collaborat1ons within the mental healtn and cultural sectors. as well as our DTES neighbourhood. Exhib1tions may thematically coincide with other events and festivals. Proposals will be looked at more favourably if associated with artist talk or other complimentary programming. For more informat1on about these calls for submissio'ls, please contact Gallery Gachet. v1srt: www.gachet.org. or email admin@gachet.org

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Thursdays Fearless Slogging Workshop Sept 18. Oct 2, 7 -9pm Facilitator: Lorraine Murphy. ratncoaster.com Ever think about blogging or becoming a media creator? Have you or do you want to create a blog or webpage, posted orig1nal artwork. photography. stories or videos online or rem1xed online content into the1r own new creat1ons? Well. th1s is for you! Pick up the basics on how to start blogg1ng, hang out and meet other new bloggers. Get involved with www.fearlesscity.ca.Vancouver's newest arts and issues portal for artists and res1dents of tne Downtown Eastside. No experience necessar y.

UPCOMING

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Sept 16

6:30-Som Drawing Drop In

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7pm Panel: Urbaf" Frontiers @ SFU HC

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9:30pm Reception for Urban Frontiers

Fearless City Mobile

Sept 17

7pm Volunteer Orientation

Every W ednesday 1-3pm Lore Krill Co-op Meeting Room, 65 W est Cordova.

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7-9pm Fearless BoggtngWorkshop

Sept 19

7pm P1cture Th1s:Artists' V1deos

Fearless City is an intiative of Gallery Gachet and the DTES Community Arts Network. Fearless City Mobile is an open mobile community advancing storytelling, cultural expression, and social inclusion. With our partners, we are establishing an open source mesh network. mobile rich media file sharing, live mobile video editing, live screens in public spaces, redistribution systems for mobile devices, and commissioning mobile art. Fearless City is receiving funding from New Media BC and Mobile Muse 3. Check out fearlesscity.ca

Sept 21

6pm Pa0el: hverted Educatton

Sept 23

6:30-8pm Drawing Drop In

Sept 25

7-9pm Fearless Writers' Circle

Sept 27

Ttme TBA Panel: Idea of the SRO

Sept 30

6J0-8pm Drawing Drop In

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6-9pm ••1n Our Backyard, Reception

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Ttme TBA Panel· Aboriginal HoJsing

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7pm Volunteer Or entation

Oct 25

Ttme TBA. Panel Crittcal Media

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6-1 Opm "In Our Backyard., Closing

PROJECTS

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Remuneration: $1500 The Fearless City Mobile project is looking to hire someone for a two-week contract to support the compilation and production of documentation on the Fearless City Mobile initiatives to date. Duties: -Conduct a series of interviews with Fearless City Mobile participants about their experiences with the program and the Mobile Muse 3 platform; -Liaise with the Fear less City Mobile Steering Committee to determine research objectives; -Seek advise from research and learning advisors: Stephen Hill, Richard Smith, Scott Nelson.; -Develop image bank of supporting images from events and research; -Produce a written report (8000 word minimum) on Fearless City Mobile events; -Liaise with Graphic Designer Skills: May have connection to the Fearless City Mobile project. May have knowledge or experience with the following: writing, word processing, mobile media art, inner city issues, research practices and/or documentation skills. Reports to: Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director, Gallery Gachet. Deadline for completion of work: Rolling deadline for deliverabies between Sept 17-30, 2008.

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Wednesday. September 17, October 22, November 19, 7pm: Get involved as a volunteer in one ofVancouver's unique artist-run centres! Opportunities to match your interests. Event crew, guerilla marketing, catering prep, exhibit installation. mailouts, carpentry, delivering workshops, join tng committees (Programming. Communtcations, Studio). Contact: lmtiaz Popat, 604-687-2468, volunteer@gachet.org

THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS Gallery Gachet acknowledges the continued financial assistance of Vancouver Coastal Health, City ofVancouver and Province of British Columbia. We also acknowledge the project assistance of BC Arts Council, Canada Counci l for the Arts, and the Social Responsibility Fund support for Out of the Ratn.

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