Hi Everyone,

I like to invite everyone to join us in creating a big Flash Mob project happening in Downtown Vancouver on 08 August 2010.

The event is call HUG ME @ 2:33

The idea is to have a large group of people hug each other at exactly 2:33pm on 08 August 2010.

You can hug as long as you want and hug anyone. You can bring your teddy bear, family, friends, pets, etc...as long as you hug someone or something. Hug a tree and give your love to the earth!

I will be documenting the whole event with video and photos and posting it up on Facebook, YouTube, My Kindness Blog.

Read on for information about this free event put on by our colleagues at UBC:

The Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program invites applicants from artists, inventors, educators, health care professionals, non-profit organizations or academic/research institutions to submit a proposal for a digital media-based project to deliver a product that promotes a philanthropic cause or positive social change initiative. The project can include one or more of the following elements: dynamic web content, game development, 3D content, interactive sites, learning tools, and online community development.

ICASC is pleased to support the launch of Art & the Public Purpose: A New Framework.  Read on for a message from Arlene Goldbard, promoting this exciting initiative: 

Dear Friends,

• Goldbard_ Art & Public Purpose Framework.pdf

Vancouver Moving Theatre and Jumblies Theatre in co-operation with the Community Arts Council of Vancouver are pleased to present the Downtown Eastside ARTS 4 ALL INSTITUTE--a creative laboratory and practicum for art that engages and celebrates community.

This week-­long intensive course will focus on the principles, practices and underpinnings of “community arts practice”, the tremendous value it has for communities and the things you need to know to launch your own project.  See the attached PDF for full event details.

• art4all e flyer.pdf

ICASC is pleased to promote this great event. Click heading to see more information.
Resilient Cities: Urban Strategies for Transition Times Oct 20-22

• Resilient_Cities_Conference_Brief.pdf

This 28 week course in Entrepreneurship is held each Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 at the MarS Centre, and is taught from the dual perspectives of traditional for-profit and social entrepreneurial models. For more information, please visit http://www.marsdd.com/mars/Events/Event-Calendar/Ent101.html
All classes are video-recorded and the course may also be completed on-line.

Hi, I hope to see you there.

Join ArtCorps and volunteer your creative talents to strengthen sustainable development in Central America in 2010. Through community arts projects, artists educate and inspire people to participate actively in improving the environmental, health, and social conditions in their communities. Every ArtCorps artist works directly with a local non-governmental organization that is an expert in its field. Artists strengthen dialogue between community members and the organization, improve community education and empower local leadership.

Artists will:

The actors appearing in the poster are Sdumo Mtshali and S'thandwa Nzuza. They are both graduates of DUT: Drama Studies Programme, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

Greetings! I am an artist and educator working in North Carolina, USA. I am interested in networking with other activist artists to find ways to expand what we are doing to make the world a better place through our art. I maintain a blog at http://makeartlikeyoucare.blogspot.com and invite artists to join a Facebook group forming with the same goals of networking and mutual help.

Two weeks ago, I was the only Artistic Director invited to be a speaker at “The Jonathan Levy Child Drama Symposium: Ethics and the Representation of Childhood in Performance, Pedagogy and Popular Culture” to be held on the Arizona State University at the Tempe campus March 5-7, 2009. I am really looking forward to discussing the ethics of our work with academics, artists and producers of pop culture. If you have any input into this topic, please feel free to comment.

Hello
I am not too sure where this is going and how this is working and whether there is anybody out (in?) there, but I do want to say "hello" and express my interest in this site and its potential to get good discussion going. First, I'd like to find other people on this site but am not sure how. Secondly, I would like to join in the dialogue but am not sure if there is one!
Over to you.
Elizabeth Kidd

Dear Community,

It was amazing to see how many arts organizations and individuals came together during the November 3rd ICASC event at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. One of our conversation streams was focused on how ICASC could support the local arts and social change communities, and what ideas people had in the room. We didn't have enough time to have a comprehensive group discussion and we missed out on gleaning from the invaluable pool of knowledge in the room.

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