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

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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
. r% g* w# h& @1 T( E" x: O# UØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.

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1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
8 b$ x& z1 B! a* m! _I'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
In phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
& `, v1 h9 E# GEngagement Training.

1 x* ~+ g* r- Q2 G# c+ HWe can accept a few people to join us this Friday (3~6 p.m.)and Saturday,
% I2 U. J1 v/ w4 t0 \(9~3 p.m. ) to improve skills in building multicultural neighbourhood
7 F1 }! l" F1 ]  d) f/ D* Pgroups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
together across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
Communities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
8 K, p: x9 b, S3 t+ i0 JYou can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
6 J5 m2 q- m5 L0 R2 h: m* `1 r! \. Nve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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2 b  J. q* U. [The process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
. ~, V* ?9 {! @" Zs two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.

! ?" D4 D7 q4 wEnrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
Edmonton,
Suzana, ph 944-4687,
  z% U0 F& I5 }/ A) R" |! NEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

6 ^; {* M: a- Z0 i" y7 H2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
5 n7 L+ U2 W, [7 l+ ]2 AIn March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
' e0 d: \% z$ E1 YWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
; b8 R2 u) z9 y( oand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.
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3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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  [; @5 j4 \7 s2 c3 EPlease join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
6 q/ T* z3 O) s6 i  L75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
" x3 Z  @9 \& w+ Z5 q5 E4 r# }4 bStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)

Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

; U4 }6 j9 k9 e3 g. \# v& sSynopsis:
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Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
4 c9 d8 r. o! Mof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
conflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
% x. {, ^& @) N5 uinternational community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
- p; ^- z8 ~: l1 i) r: D" qthey come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
9 O  y$ K  l2 z( nIain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
island and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
international peacekeeping operation.
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This beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
- G0 J( X# U% W( L3 K% U4 _6 h& nown story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
who 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
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and music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!
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- |* x; x2 N, zAccording to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
success of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
( v! n( v+ S) k2 Q" S% Zprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
3 g" N) p: m" {* bhands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
+ _& `( `( d1 E" \Also, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
so we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."
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Presented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
6 ^6 h9 m, w* Q7 J4 @9 d" IEdmonton Public Library.
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5 q( {+ e' W3 n4 o7 C+ O4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
" I$ f9 u; }' c9 lIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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