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

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# t& H3 i& U1 v& m; \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
# s0 J  s! u. E) Z3 RØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.


/ }6 P% B& [4 e: A/ p9 v1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
I'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
. n/ P4 D& ]8 t2 e$ p( I2 L) BIn 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
2 ?) [( `- P0 O4 X1 Rgroups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
3 T: w( ]0 ~- J- Y2 ftogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
Communities 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'
; u: v5 e/ H, }1 ~ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.

# h5 ^( T! n$ u2 P# [( K0 C! kThe 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,
& L1 ?# @+ @0 v+ x+ ?+ c& v; ySuzana, ph 944-4687,
Email; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

2) 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
$ @$ R  [$ A" u: v3 Q* h0 @& [6 s9 Jand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
" e5 `3 s8 ?3 h( Z, hfor these exciting local events.
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: G3 u1 X6 L+ d" N' G: I6 [9 C3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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  i6 v9 A9 G/ C) S$ i9 }Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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& t6 z% i1 X* r/ ^& w8 K' Z/ O"Bougainville Sky"
! k- Z* u7 s" @6 b2 FDirected by Nick Agafonoff
$ A) D% i& `& e* q1 `) U75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
% J) C( Z5 J( Y0 A(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

7 Z( T3 u0 t! w% o8 }; \$ xSynopsis:
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0 q- Z, b9 \: P( u$ C2 ?Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
4 x4 t& {9 W; {$ N. ?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
$ u. w; H" K2 N1 H5 K$ qinternational community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
; G6 G5 q) H9 a. ^6 O# Hthey 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
& H5 @& c/ k, ?) z+ \4 Winternational peacekeeping operation.

/ x( w8 T# T( n' E0 cThis beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
8 h9 F1 g9 l! y; q7 [" Fown 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
+ u8 D& u3 ?, T, d& vAfghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
" h5 Z/ O' N6 w0 ?6 A" b& F- Iimprobable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
and music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!
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$ U. u3 J+ [0 ?% p9 I0 V, IAccording 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
& l' K6 w& @: v9 h( i! q( R# Cprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
2 A1 ^8 |, N4 Z! z8 x3 ?% l' i% Uhands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
Also, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
2 \( b5 v% O- x7 `5 mso we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."
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1 [4 q! m' i7 f6 GPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
1 m/ [) c  T) z& Y+ ]* iEdmonton Public Library.
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3 W  i1 z6 S0 ~5 P1 t% ^& M. r4) 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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