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
Ø Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.

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1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
2 Z/ ]( B1 d$ x& y" Z/ Y" EI'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
5 i3 w5 u3 ^5 i: WIn phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
Engagement Training.
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  r! m: W0 J9 t2 }, H: rWe 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
1 `1 s! i% S' Utogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
' e' N5 J; I2 UCommunities 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'
+ V; c1 }3 u/ g5 n+ i# _1 pve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.

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.
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5 [0 d. t( b1 @9 D- u# l8 YEnrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
Edmonton,
# m, {6 k  e5 V  M3 E2 ZSuzana, ph 944-4687,
7 W4 W' J3 }# OEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
( C4 ]% k& o8 A3 eIn March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
& D  W5 D* ^: |( D* V/ m3 n# gWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
1 x1 U- t: I  \  B: zand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.


; b5 J# C) w  T$ A3)  Edmonton Small Press Event

% @+ r5 l5 y! c$ oPlease join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:

"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
6 [) J6 i8 m% {: g! a! qMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
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Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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' V& P; {! b9 d& ?Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith
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Synopsis:
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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
of fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
conflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
& I% z7 D" l8 [' {9 kinternational community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
9 m. u2 {+ ~& y' n+ R' uthey come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
island and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
6 }6 R2 h7 F: Cinternational peacekeeping operation.

This beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
own story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
" J* a3 M7 \$ B8 J% `- ~) j# C2 qwho 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 q7 M0 f& Mand music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!

According to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
& w& _6 f  m: Z+ }& Hsuccess of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
$ O; S/ |/ G) @% @9 S7 Xprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
* Q* b- p, @. p/ q) \: bhands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
! G) A; s3 x* B  L( ^/ E: }- u5 U( XAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
so we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."

5 Q/ j3 ]& A% @, q0 _$ u; jPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
( U" U# V5 _5 H6 Y+ S1 }Edmonton 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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