活动 !!! Four upcoming events, including this Friday, Jan 26

年轻的心

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8 U& o: {2 X9 j: J7 }I would like to tell you about 4 things：
Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
Ø Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
7 S4 A# r4 G: \5 H, g9 y! p2 n4 H! LØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.


1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
! \- I- l  w2 E- _  VI'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
+ y+ w9 g: ]9 U8 T3 _. cIn phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
Engagement Training.

We can accept a few people to join us this Friday (3~6 p.m.)and Saturday,
(9~3 p.m. ) to improve skills in building multicultural neighbourhood
groups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
: `/ l" Q6 A* k! G6 F( ^- O$ W8 i2 J/ btogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
# ?6 w. Y; Y0 J% @  ?" hCommunities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
You can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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The process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
s two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.

Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
Edmonton,
0 `4 L7 B+ U7 ]- J: nSuzana, ph 944-4687,
! i, F* }# c3 J1 Q* V; zEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

; g; s7 v0 m% b4 F* y5 ^% v6 n2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
World Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
, X0 a0 c9 H  a, i+ M. land Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.


3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:

"Bougainville Sky"
! {' [' l1 R5 D* }+ h( IDirected by Nick Agafonoff
& v% S$ |$ h0 t5 n  G75 min. Australia, 2006
4 n' S/ B+ D" @4 f7 @Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
; V0 ]$ }0 Y  H0 q" h3 m5 M2 {# TStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)

3 l( m0 T/ @! o" g; t& xFilm screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

4 o, o  S3 w3 k' K6 JSynopsis:
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( j) H, N  u# y/ }; S& WSet on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
  Z3 ^. g6 |3 C, u0 W0 R, sof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
' G, E& _7 A2 wconflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
* y; f* d7 p+ q# ~5 L& Iinternational community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
they come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
" t) R! H4 |% f- G, sisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
: t3 }0 o, l" |, Ointernational peacekeeping operation.

This beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
: t+ s, t; U2 x$ T' ~) {6 iown story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
/ P8 o5 M- m/ H8 ^+ t" L+ v' Mwho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
screens are filled with images from the interventions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
improbable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
6 F9 X' ~% j" c7 K% {* {$ \# _+ oand music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!

' U9 F0 ~. T8 Z. IAccording to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
: d$ `6 l/ d' r8 r4 c4 w" T6 p$ dsuccess of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
3 \& Q0 F6 q, A, S1 k6 xprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
  a8 k  M# Z1 k. ?3 iAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
- ^3 T* W# t- u9 ^so we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."

3 {( E6 ^' C/ m- V  ?+ {0 N' NPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
. D- m$ U$ l2 L/ N  c9 J1 dEdmonton Public Library.

4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
In support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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